I could see the shock and surprise in the faces of the members the moment I announced the scenario.
I had already been prepared for it the day prior.
"Wait, Squad Leader… Isn't this scenario a little too low in terms of rank? All of us here have been trained for quite some time, and we've long reached the stage where we can do gates above the
"This isn't about the difficulty of the gate."
I cut off Joanna while shaking my head and looking at the other members present.
"This gate here is to better determine the skill of all of you present, and to get to know all of you better. The same goes for all of you with each other. Take this as a learning opportunity to build some synergy between each other."
I had been thinking about the perfect excuse to have them accept the scenario. In the end, I went with the most obvious excuse, and seeing how quiet everyone became, I could tell that this ended up being the correct choice.
I looked around in satisfaction.
