In the afternoon, I had gone to meet the emperor with all the girls. Currently, my three living weapons were in a dogeza while looking very sorry.

“It’s alright it’s alright. You know they wouldn’t be able to hurt me,” The emperor smiled, “After all, the only way to become the emperor is to be the strongest mage in the world.”

“Even so. If you send me the bills for the repairs, although it’s a bit late, I’ll reimburse everything.”

“Well, if you insist,” he waved forward one of his attendants who passed me a metallic card. Looking at the amount shown on the holographic screen, I sighed. A few million points wasn’t much to me but still, money leaving my wallet never sounded good, but not paying him back for the damages would leave a bad feeling.

I pulled out a black card and tapped it onto the machine, transferring a few million credits from my account to the royal treasury.

“And I was wondering,” I asked, “How are the residents from my other world doing?”

The attendant clicked several buttons on his glasses, “Currently, out of the nine hundred ninety three students we have taken in, all of them but one were given a worker class licence and are currently working and learning in various factories and stores in this city. The one exception is named Tamaki and had to be put in rehabilitation as he had broken down mentally. The others are currently a bit wary of their environment, but they are all displaying a decent level of satisfaction at their work place. We already have a plan set up in case some of them start getting anxious about not returning home.”

I nodded, “That’s good.”

The emperor looked like he wanted to say something but couldn’t seem to say it, “What is it your majesty? If there is anything you need?”

The emperor hesitated a bit more before speaking, “The thing is, many nobles have been pestering me about this, but do you think that you can spend a few years teaching at an academy?”

“Teaching? Me?” I asked confused.

“As one of the legendary Royal Magisters, you often go on highly dangerous missions.”

“Yes and?”

“Compared to any other mages or Royal Magisters, you have a wide variety of knowledge that no one else knows. They think that it would be a waste if it were to all disappear if you somehow met with an accident, like the last one where you disappeared for seven years.”

I thought for a moment, “I had all that knowledge for years, but no one is saying anything until now. Not to mention that any mages private research is considered to be classified,” I looked up at the emperor, “So what’s the real reason?”

The emperor leaned back on his throne, “The nobles from the night before spread out pictures of you. Many young girls took a fancy to your new young appearance, and well, you can probably figure out the rest.”

I face palmed myself, “My god. I already have a girl, maybe three. I don’t need any more.”

“One? Ah! Rina finally made you open your stubborn eyes,” The emperor gave a thumbs up to Rina who tried to keep a straight face, but she couldn't stop the corners of her lips from twitching upwards, “So about that teaching job. How about it?”

I was about to say no, but when I saw Mia and Nely, an idea formed.

“Alright. But on two conditions.”

“Hm?”

 “First, Mia is going to need a citizenship ID and is going to be allowed to attend the same academy along with Nely.”

The emperor frowned, “I was thinking of having you teach at the royal academy. That means she will be needing a noble’s ID and those aren’t something I can give so easily.”

“I’ll personally train her to pass the test, so I just need you to help bypass some paperwork.”

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“If she can pass the abilities test, I can waive all the paperworks required."

“Secondly, I only want to teach the mech piloting class. Don’t set me up for something like etiquettes.”

“. . .damn. Fine.”

“Then it’s a deal. I’ll be heading back then. Sooner I start Mia’s training, the better.”

An hour later, we were back at my headquarters. While we were gone, the construction company had already finished repairing the front door. Bonus credits really do motivate workers I guess.

The three living weapons girls immediately hopped onto the sofas and turned on the holographic screen and began searching for movies. Rina and Nely followed me and Mia to a spacious underground room that was empty with plain white padded walls and floor.

“Mia, can you try manipulating your mana like you did when we first came to this world?”

“I-I can try,” She nodded and held her hands out in front of her. After concentrating for a few moments, a small tornado made of mana formed, although it was a lot smaller than before.

“That’s good enough for now,” I nodded. It looked like my theory that mana having to do with Raia instincts might be true. Most likely, when she first came to world, mana had started to affect her and caused her to be more sensitive to mana at that moment. Right now, her body had almost completely adapted to the mana in the air, so her sensitivity had gone down a bit.

“This is a basic spell that increases your physical ability. It’s one of the spells you’ll need to pass the test to get the royal citizenship ID,” I drew a simple spell in the air and activated it, causing my body to give off a faint blue glow, “Try to copy it.”

She tried several times but the mana kept dispersing in the air like mist as she tried to draw, “Keep practicing for now. Nely, can you help supply her with some mana if she runs outs?”

“Leave it to me,” Nely nodded.

I then brought Rina to another room next door that held multiple large machines.

“This has been peeving me out for a bit, so let’s spar. I want to see how much better you got at mech piloting,” I said as I got in one of the machines.

Rina chuckled before entering another one of the machine.

VR loading . . .

Login ID?

“Moonlight Magister.”

Password?

“Moonlight and stars.”

Password Accepted.

Voice Recognition Fail.

“Override ID, 151A9696ST22.”

Override Acknowledged.

VR system engaged.

The a bright light flashed and the next thing I knew, I was standing in the middle of a bustling city center.

“Selling basic AI! Only ten thousand credits!”

“Mech Armament blueprints! Starting from five thousand credits!”

The VR world was just as busy as I remembered it if not even busier. In this VR world, it was possible to buy anything you needed. You could even buy some less legal items as long as you knew where to go to order them.

“Hey! Virk!” Rina walked over. In the VR, all physical appearances were copied exactly to prevent fraud and identity theft.

“Let’s go,” she took my arm and began dragging me to a teleporter. These things were circular and all over the place. All you needed to do was stand on it and punch in the destination ID and it would immediately send you there.

After a few minutes, we were standing in a large hanger that housed multiple giant mechs.

“My Mooncrusher is exactly the way I left it,” I walked over to the large blue mech and felt the glossy paint covering it. These mechs specs were copied from the real world and pasted in the VR world. As long as you put in the right specs, they felt exactly the same as the one in the real world.

“Alright lets go!” I was getting excited as I thought that I would be able to pilot my mech again.

I sat in the spacious cockpit that was able to seat up to five people. To use the mech to its full potential had originally required five people, but I had developed the advanced AI that was able to fill in, and even do a much better job.

“Hey Lia! Wake up Lia! I’m back!” I pressed multiple buttons and pulled several levers to power up the mech.

“Zzzzz. Hmm? Someone’s operating the Mooncrusher? ID is . . . MOONLIGHT?! Master are you back?!” A female voice filled the cockpit.

“Yeah Lia. I’m back! Sorry for leaving you alone for so long.”

“I-I-It’s nothing master! OMG! It’s been seven years! Where have you been master?!”

“Long story short, I died, was reborn in another world, and was somehow summoned back here.”

“ . . . I did not understand one bit after you said you died, but simply put your back right?!”

“Yup! And I’m going to be sparring with Rina’s mech so power on everything and let’s go!” I was extremely happy to see Lia again. Although she was an AI, like the advanced AI’s used by my living weapons, she had her own personality, memories, likes and dislikes. By universal standards, she would be considered a sentient being,

“Alright! Engines powered on! Laser weapons powered on! Missiles loaded! Energy packs fully charged! We’re good to go!” Lia crowed.

She had always loved being able to move the mech, but that most likely had to do with how she didn’t have her own body yet. Speaking of, I would have to develop bodies for her and the living weapon’s AI’s. Although they didn’t mind too much, I know that they must feel uncomfortable time to time from being unable to move around as they wish.

“Mooncrusher! Take off!” I strapped myself in and ordered. The wall behind the mech fell open, showing that what laid outside was an empty void, and that the building they had been in was a space station.

Buying this property in VR had taken a good chunk of my credits, but it was all worth it.

As I remembered the feel of the mech, a red mech flew past, almost grazing me.

“Virk, Lia, let’s go!” Rina’s voice called out from the red mech.

I smiled and gripped the controls.

“You ready Lia?”

“Yup!”