The mission board showed three active Storm-type contracts in D-Rank zones.
He read all three before choosing. The first required material from zone six, which ran a longer transit from the entry station and had a reputation on the board's notes section for irregular zone activity—unstable boundary conditions, elevated creature density near the centre. The second was a multi-target contract in zone eleven requiring four Storm-type cores across two different creature species, which meant longer time in the zone and more exposure. The third was a single-target hunt in zone eight: one Rift Gale Wolf, Refined-grade Storm core, standard D-Rank permit required.
Zone eight. Where the Thornback Boar had been.
He knew the terrain there now.
He took the third contract.
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