Back in the Republic owned Territory

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 24

  “Is everyone here?” Amelia asks with a grim look on her face. One that is mirrored on Cyria’s face but not on the others. Not on the faces of those who don’t know the purpose of the meeting.

  When she sees everyone in the room nod, including Aidan, Sofia, Cyria, Rebecca, and Nathan’s old teachers, Leonidas de Ashford and Dawn Suess, she continues, “Then let’s begin.”

  And without wasting a second, she presses the button on the remote for the projector. Making a screen appear at the front of the room showing dozens of pictures taken from the frontlines on the Kingdom of the Fallen.

  Amelia’s eyes narrow a little at the sight of the pictures despite her having seen them before. And she’s not the only one who reacts to them, as the others in the room all show their own reactions as well.

  Aidan, Sofia, Cyria, and Rebecca all display shock clearly on their faces at the sight of the man in the pictures. Meanwhile the two instructors both show barely visible relief. But no surprise.

  Amelia marks that down to ask them about later.

  For now she says, “These pictures were all taken over the past couple months on the frontlines of the Continental War in various locations across the Kingdom of the Fallen. And they have all been verified to prove legitimacy.”

  Everyone just continues staring at the pictures.

  The pictures of a man with dark brown hair, glowing crimson eyes, black veins running across his face from his eyes, and a face that everyone recognizes. Or at least, they recognize with the exception of the glowing eyes and black veins.

  In the pictures, the man is throwing around spells one after another almost like he’s testing them. All while completely ignoring any attacks other people make against him. With any damage caused by said attacks being regenerated immediately in a way everyone there remembers.

  Just like the ‘fire regeneration spell’ Nathan Fox was known to use in the academy. Except far stronger than any healing spell any of the people in the room have ever seen.

  “This man, known to each of the nations as the Undying Magician and Crown Prince of the Kingdom of the Fallen, has been going around the battlefields experimenting and training his own mana while fighting,” Amelia continues while carefully watching everyone in the room for any unusual reactions. Or to be more specific, carefully watching the two instructors in the room. “He is known to be completely unkillable no matter how much damage is dealt to him. All the way to the point of being able to reform completely after his body was erased by over half a dozen Class A magicians attacking him at once.”

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  Amelia’s narrowed gaze turns into a glare when she sees the complete lack of surprise on the two instructors’ faces. Confirming that they already knew about this beforehand.

  Whether they knew about him from the news or from before he disappeared, she isn’t sure yet. But they knew about this and didn’t say anything at the very least.

  “W-what’s his name?” Aidan asks, making Amelia turn a much softer gaze towards her old friend.

  Amelia takes in a deep breath before slowly answering, “The Undying Magician’s name was confirmed nearly a month ago to be Nathan Fox.”

  Gasps come from her friends before silence fills the room. Meanwhile the instructors just share a glance.

  At this point Amelia turns to look at said instructors and asks, “Instructor Leonidas, did you already know about this?”

  The man stays silent for a few seconds before eventually answering, “Yes. I knew about it.”

  Amelia’s eyes narrow once again as she continues, “Did you know before Nathan ‘died’?”

  Everyone in the room except for Instructor Dawn turns to look at Instructor Leonidas. But Amelia doesn’t care. She just keeps her eyes glued on him without taking them away for even a moment.

  “Yes, I did,” Instructor Leonidas finally confirms. “I’ve know about his immortality since he first entered the academy.”

  Silence fills the meeting hall.

  But the silence doesn’t last long before Amelia feels her anger growing to a point where she can’t hold herself back anymore. As she casts several dark spells, making the room grow dim as lances of pure darkness form around the instructor.

  All while said instructor ignores the attacks that barely manage to scratch a barrier he had apparently cast since before entering the room.

  He knew what would happen from the moment he came in.

  “The secret was the boy’s and his doctor’s, not my own,” Instructor Leo states with a cold look to his eyes. “If you have a problem with it, take it up with the doctor and our own society.”

  His words completely deflate Amelia’s anger, meanwhile the others just sit in shock at the news.

  And despite the specific words Instructor Leo said, Amelia almost immediately understands who he means when he says ‘doctor’.

  She remembers the many times this ‘doctor’ has been brought up in relation to Nathan back from their old conversations. And the fear he seemed to feel towards the man that she could never understand.

  But now that she knows all of this, there’s only a single face that comes to mind.

  “This doctor you speak of,” Amelia says, her voice beginning to tremble a little bit. “Was it Doctor Leodmir Archeron?”

  The room grows eerily silent after she speaks the name of the Class S space affinity magician.

  And after a short pause, the instructor nods his head and says, “Yes. He was Nathan’s doctor.”

  Amelia clenches her fists at her sides and glares down at the table in front of her. Feeling both sadness that her friend couldn’t confide in her, and anguish at the thought of everything he’s had to deal with on his own.

  And at the thought of how she was happily going through her life without knowing any of it.

  Eventually she raises her head and opens her mouth to speak, only for Aidan to beat her to it as he stares at the instructor and says, “Tell us everything.”

  Instructor Leonidas and Instructor Dawn share a glance before nodding. Then Instructor Leonidas turns to them and says, “Very well.”

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