The Ruins of the Laboratory after the battle

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  Adalwolf Giese is used to a lot of strange things in his life.

  He’s a walking skeleton after all. One that uses death magic and is therefore immune to death itself so long as he has mana remaining.

  Not only that, but he’s also a Class S magician. And the only Class S death magician in the entire world, even including the other continents.

  If he ignores his adopted son, that is. But even he wasn’t born a death magician.

  Despite all of that weirdness, Adalwolf never expected he would ever see someone ignore being experimented on as he just practiced his mana manipulation. But now he’s seen it.

  And he genuinely has to question if his adopted son is mentally stable or not.

  Because he seems to have lost a large part of himself by now.

  Can he even feel pain anymore?

  Adalwolf is a skeleton and can’t feel pain at all, but even if Nathan is immortal and is a vampire, he still has nerves. So he should still be able to feel pain.

  Yet the number of times Adalwolf has seen Nathan’s limbs completely eviscerated, or even his entire body getting annihilated to the point of nothing being left is more than Adalwolf can remember. All without the boy expressing any pain.

  Not anymore at least.

  Nathan used to express pain to some extent. But Adalwolf doesn’t remember the last time he’s seen him with an expression that looks like he’s feeling anything.

  If Adalwolf is being honest with himself, a part of him is growing afraid of Nathan. Afraid of what he’ll become in the future.

  After all, Nathan is immortal in the truest sense.

  He can’t die in any way imaginable.

  It’s just impossible.

  And he’s already reached this far in his brief two or so decades of life.

  So how strong will he become in three thousand years?

  Part of Adalwolf is terrified at the thought, while another part if excited.

  But for now, he’s just someone who needs protection lest he become a test subject for a long time.

  Adalwolf glances at the fire overlord, Juan Sequani. Only to find the man looking happy with this rather than fearful.

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  Part of that might be because Juan only has a couple decades left to live at the longest, so he won’t be alive in thousands of years. But Adalwolf believes most of it is because all Juan cares about is making the ultimate fire magician.

  And Nathan’s outlook and immortality are perfect towards reaching that end.

  Regardless, Adalwolf turns his attention towards the direction that Emma fled in. Then, after sharing a glance with Juan once the man calms down enough, both he and Juan rush off in that direction.

  Having already healed their wounds and decided to take some blood in exchange for their lost time.

  Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  So… why are they flying off without me? Is this part of my training or something?

  My answer comes to me rather quickly in the form of a message from both of them. One that pretty much comes down to them going after Emma to get revenge for this entire affair.

  Huh.

  Well, rest in peace Emma.

  Anyways, their message said to just wait here for them. So I do just that and sit down on a random piece of rubble while focusing inside of myself to continue my mana manipulation training.

  Although I don’t really get much progress, even over the course of the next few hours.

  And eventually I’m interrupted when I feel a bullet entering and leaving my skull. Which makes me black out for a brief moment before I turn to look at where the bullet came from with a slight frown on my face.

  That was rude.

  Who shoots first and asks questions never when they’re at the ruins of a laboratory?

  My question is answered at the sight of some sort of sniper kneeling far away from the ruins of the laboratory. One wearing Republic armor.

  As for why my question is answered?

  It’s because said soldier is waving at me with a smile on their face.

  Huh?

  Who the heck shoots someone in the head and then waves hello at them afterwards…?

  I climb to my feet out of curiosity before jumping straight over towards them while using flames to accelerate myself. All the way until I reach them, landing right in front of the man.

  And I can smell and hear the other people in the area. Four others to be exact.

  “I knew it!” the man who shot me shouts. “You’re really the Undying Magician! Nathan!”

  I blink at that before frowning. But the man just lowers his sniper rifle without giving me a chance to say anything. Then he walks up to me and reaches out a hand for a handshake.

  “You probably don’t remember me, but I was a student at the academy!” the man says, surprising me yet again. “My name is Felix Rolander!”

  I stare at him for several seconds, occasionally glancing between his face and his hand while doing so. And after thinking for a bit, I eventually ask, “Who?”

  The man stumbles in place while his teammates begin laughing so hard one of them falls over. Proving this group to not be a very disciplined group of soldiers.

  Or, considering that they’re magicians, I guess they should be officers.

  The person named Felix reaches back with the hand he was offering to shake mine with before scratching the back of his head as he says, “Yeah, yeah, go ahead and laugh. I didn’t expect him to remember me anyways.”

  I stare blankly at him for several seconds while patting the pommel of my sword that’s still in its sheath.

  Honestly, I don’t remember many of the people from the academy. So I don’t know if he’s telling the truth or not.

  The only ones I strongly remember are my team, Amelia, and the instructors.

  I didn’t sense that he was lying though.

  “If you’re from the academy and know about me, that must mean…” I ask with my eyes narrowed.

  Felix meets my eyes again – which is surprising since most people I’ve met nowadays avoid my eyes, although that could be because those people are enemy soldiers – and nods his head. Then he grins at me while tapping away on his terminal before holding the arm with the terminal on it out in front of him.

  “Everyone from the academy already knows about you,” he says with his grin growing wider the moment a screen appears as a hologram above the terminal.

  One with a very familiar face on it.

  I blink before feeling the corners of my lips quirking ever so slightly upwards as I plainly state, “Amelia.”

  She smiles back at me and says, “Nathan.”

  Now this is certainly an unexpected surprise.

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