You’ve got to be kidding me. Why are they like this? Surely they should realise that we’ve all got work to do and can’t be sitting here all day.

The speaker eventually went silent, and when they did, a group of people got up and left the room.

Seeing how long that took, he sent a message to Zara explaining why he was gone for so long, as well as to tell her that he wouldn’t be at the office for a while.

One by one, the speaker read out the results for each group. Each group was in charge of anywhere from ten to thirty people, depending on their ability and level of experience.

Some of the groups had similar results to the first group, with only a few people that didn’t get hired. Some groups did worse, and a few did even better.

One group in particular only had less than half of their interns pass. It was a new group that was in charge of only ten people, and they were very nervous.

Ed had picked them out of the crowd even before their results were read out, that’s how visibly nervous they were. Ed was kind of surprised to see people like that in the company. He wondered what could make anyone who had worked in this company feel like that.

But when their results were announced, the entire room went silent.

“Group H, you were in charge of ten interns for the sales department.” The speaker paused, and sighed. There was a clear change in their voice at this point. It was a lot colder and more intense. It seeped out of their voice and infected the rest of the room, turning the atmosphere cold and unwelcoming.

Ed felt a cold gust of wind sweep through the room, and started to shiver.

“Out of the ten interns you were in charge of, only two have passed. And even then, they only just barely passed. They had made a lot of mistakes as well.”

The wind grew colder and more intense. Somehow, a terrifyingly strong gust of wind swept through the room, threatening to lift everything off the ground.

But at the same time, Ed felt that he was only bearing a small portion of it. The wind was being controlled, and the majority of its strength was used to lift the nervous group into the air. Ed and the others were just being affected by the leftover bits of power.

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How strong... Ed dug his threads into the ground to anchor himself in place. He was thankful that the ground was made out of something normal that he could actually dig through, otherwise he would have had to think of something else.

He really didn’t want to be up in the air with that group, in case he had to bore the brunt of the punishment as well.

Blinking rapidly, the strings came into view, and he focused his attention to the seat next to him. Since he couldn’t see the healer next to him normally, this was the only way he could see that they were okay.

A tight bundle of strings were floating in place above the chair, and after quickly looking at what happened, Ed could see that the healer was desperately holding onto the chair.

His threads shot out and wrapped around them before pulling them back to the seat and strapping them in.

“Thank you.”

Ed nodded before turning his attention to the rest of the people in the room.

He noticed now that everyone looked pretty human, or at least had a mostly human form. It’s probably so that no one dies from fear when they see them. He knew that there would be some humans that wouldn’t be able to withstand the sight of some of the more monstrous people working here.

The majority of people had there own ways to stay on the ground, but he could see that there were a few people in trouble.

Some were grabbing onto their chair desperately like the healer was previously, while a few unlucky ones were currently flying into the air.

Eh, might as well help. His threads spread out across the room, plucking everyone out from the air and anchoring them to the ground.

He was stretched thin across the room, but he was able to get everyone just fine with the amount of thread that he had while still maintaining his normal human form.

Seeing that everyone was safe, he turned his attention back to the person on stage.

“Your punishment will be determined later. For now, go and inform them of their fate then wait for yours.”

Before the group could protest, the wind from all around the room converged on them like sharp blades. The wind ripped through their skin, drawing blood and splattering it across the entire room.

Thousands of cuts appeared on their bodies in a matter of seconds. A few seconds later, and their bodies were cut into hundreds of thousands of pieces and thrown around the room like a tornado had passed through the room.

The wind disappeared as the room returned to normal.

Ed let go of everyone after making sure they were okay and brought his threads back inside.

The wriggling bits of flesh and body were picked up by a small gust of wind and thrown out of the room.

The speaker cleared their throat, bringing everyone’s attention back to them. “Now that we’ve sorted that out, let’s continue onto the next group. Group I, you were in charge of fifteen people, thirteen of which passed...”

Seeing everything to return back to normal so easily, Ed sunk back into his chair. About half of the groups have already left by now, so as long as there weren’t any delays, he wouldn’t be here for too much longer.

Then again, he didn’t know which group he was. Knowing Buddie, he would have made him the last group just so that he would have to wait here for even longer.