Back and questions.
In the academy, third year zone, personalized training room.
From the very emptiness of the room, a crack of reality suddenly appeared, a crack that gradually grew bigger and bigger…
After a few seconds, the crack finally became a big hole, a hole that, if you stared at it, anyone would realize that the hole
was of absolute darkness; it had no bottom.
After that, the hole just sat there, motionless, floating in the air, until…
Suddenly, three figures came out of that hole, a beautiful green-eyed woman riding a shadow eagle, a woman with black hair and intimidating dark armor, and a man with eyes of different colors, the left one a shade of crimson and the right one black.
Camila, Luna, and Theos.
“Finally, we’re back,” sighed Luna wearily.
Theos nodded. In truth, he didn’t want to spend much more time there… ‘Wait, time… In that place, didn’t it move faster in time?’, Theos recalled, having a bad feeling in his mind.
“Camilla, in the forest of treasures, is there a difference in time compared to this Realm?”, Theos asked.
Hearing Theos’ question, Camila replied calmly. “Yes, although I don’t know the difference exactly, it is certain here that 2 days have already passed,” she stated.
Such a statement made Luna’s eyes widen in surprise. Instead, Theos could only shake his head.
“Well, it is what it is, I just can’t remember everything in luxurious detail sometimes,” he muttered to himself.
Fixating on Luna, Theos put a hand on her shoulder. “You missed about 3 days of school, I hope you don’t get expelled,” he chuckled.
Luna could only stand there, wanting to cry but with no tears to shed.
Theos could only comfort her for a while,
after all, he is the heir of the most powerful
family in the world. On these occasions, he could help Luna so that the Academy
wouldn’t give her such a severe
punishment or directly she wouldn’t be
expelled.
Upon learning this, Luna visibly calmed
down, now being more relaxed.
The next moment, though, her calmness
was gone, replaced by alertness when Camila spoke:
“Luna, can I borrow Theos for a few
minutes? I need to talk to him about
something,” she commented, her
expression as cold and indifferent as ever.
“What do you want to talk to him about?”
asked Luna immediately.
Camila didn’t respond for several seconds,
silence settling in.
It wasn’t until after several dozen seconds
that Camila answered, “I want to know about certain things he did and also, propose something to him.”
Hearing such words, Luna wanted to
refuse, however, Theos subtly beckoned
her to agree.
For a few seconds, she was conflicted
about whether to heed Theos or her
instinct not to leave him alone with Camilla. In the end, she could only click her
tongue.
“Tsk, okay, but I’ll take that,” Luna replied,
pointing to the shadow eagle that slowly
shrank under her command.
Camila hopped gracefully away from the animal made of shadows.
“Oh, so there was my Mana, turns out you gave everything to this eagle,” Theos commented, erasing a few of his worries.
When he went to look for Luna, for some
reason he couldn’t feel his negative Mana. He had a theory that maybe it was because he was too far away; there was a greater distance between them.
But it was all from placing negative mana to a shadow summoning, and in fact, there was such a large amount of shadow mana
that the small amount of negative mana was overshadowed.
After the eagle shrunk appropriately, it was
placed right on Luna’s right shoulder.
Such an image made Theos unconsciously smile, reminding him of the pirate cartoons he sometimes watched as a child.
Only when he approached a window of a house, could he see those cartoons… “By the way, where am I going?” asked
Luna.
As far as she remembered, she was only
allowed to go through Theos. If she went out two days after she came in, wouldn’t that be suspicious enough? She would undoubtedly be questioned. Thinking about this, Theos also concluded
that she might be questioned. But, after remembering the plot, he shook his head. “Our kind should have already come here
because of their advantage, so they won’t question you, they will think you came in
with your kind because of the advantage and that you only stayed for X thing. As long as you don’t look too nervous, they shouldn’t question you.”
After thinking more deeply, he continued,
“You can also use your shadow skills to
escape from here. Just be very stealthy,” he recommended.
After that, Luna came up with a plan to get
out of there. Though she would first try the easy way out, go to the main exit, and leave like it was nothing, if that didn’t work, she would escape.
Just like that, she left, not before Camila
gave her the potion, and after that, Luna kissed Theos.
After the two were left alone, an awkward
silence reigned. After all, this whole scenario happened very suddenly. ‘What exactly will she want to talk about? If anything is for sure, it’s about how I escaped from that dragon,’ Theos thought,
finding this the most likely thing she was going to ask.
And so it was. “First I want to ask you how you escaped from that Supreme Rank Holy Dragon,” she said with a frown.
Theos was quiet, he had already anticipated this question, so he quickly
replied, “My abilities are a great weakness
to him. For I am a user of Death Mana, being a very problematic Mana for Holy dragons, as you may know.”
Camilla nodded. She had done quite a bit of
research on the topic of Mana and how
some are stronger or weaker against certain Mana or opponents. However… ‘He has two special Mana?’ she wondered, totally surprised and inwardly shocked.
It should be known that already having a unique Mana is pretty good, very few in the world have it. However, Theos has two unique mana, one from himself and one from the Death Dragon race. The most amazing thing is that this type of
Mana, Death Mana, in history, has only been achieved by Death Dragons; never before has a mortal, let alone a human, ever achieved it.
Camila did not know if this was due to his
great luck or if he was a genius beyond all expectations and imagination. Inwardly she was in shock, but outwardly, she was as calm as ever.
“Well, however, you do know that they saw us, don’t you? They’re possibly looking for us now and especially if they know we took
some of their most prized potions and a weapon from there.”
Camila’s words caught Theos’ attention.
That ending of ‘we took some of their most precious potions and a weapon from there’, left a lot of doubts in him, as well as curiosity.
“They took a weapon from there? Not even
in the original novel did Camila take a
weapon
recalled.
from there so quickly…’, Theos
At this point, he decided to ask the questions.
“What gun exactly did you get?” he asked.
Camila narrowed her eyes more. “I’ll show
it to you, but first answer what I had told you earlier,” she replied.
Theos thought carefully, this question could be answered honestly or with a myriad of lies. No one, or at least almost no
one, knew about his Path of Oblivion. Only Luna had seen him only once. Theos sighed. “Yes, I know very well that
they saw us, but they won’t look for them.
“Oh, and why are you so sure of that?” she asked suspiciously. With a smile, Theos replied. “That’s for
several reasons, first, the holy dragon doesn’t remember me at all, just like it doesn’t remember you and Luna, so you can rest assured,” after a brief pause, he continued.
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“And secondly, the other dragons, although they saw me, I killed a few, or rather, they
killed themselves as they couldn’t control their traumas and memories. Those who remained alive could not see me clearly for
several reasons: the main one is that I escaped with an explosion, flying at high speed, and another reason is so because of the wounds I had; my whole body was burned and serious wounds, being almost unrecognizable.”
At this explanation, Camila could only nod. ‘Actually, it’s quite a lengthy explanation, with logic, minus the first thing he said.
‘How come that the holy dragon doesn’t remember us,’ Camila wondered mentally. But she didn’t keep asking, she already
knew that if Theos didn’t explain more about that topic, it was because he didn’t want to reveal it.
And she wasn’t so much stronger than Theos that she could force him.
If Theos survived against that Sacred Dragon and killed several lesser Dragons, she couldn’t know who would win a battle between the two.
Even though she is at the rank of Grand
Master, Theos also proves to be at that
level of strength even though he is officially a Master.
‘No doubt someone with many mysteries,’ she concluded.
With all this said, she proceeded to draw
the sword she had gotten from the Godria.
Unaware of the sword, by simply sensing Theos’ presence, she did something
unimaginable.
