Nathan

Year 2850 | Month 12 | Day 30

I feel absolutely nothing as I snap the neck of that annoying noble in front of his entire entourage of people. In front of the entire group of refugees lined up in front of my base’s entrance. Shocking them all in the process.

Now, whether they’re shocked that I killed someone so easily, and with my bare hands no less, or whether they’re shocked at the fact that I killed a noble, I’m not sure. Either way, I’ve got their attention now.

So I casually toss the noble’s corpse aside before stepping up onto the guy’s podium and turning to face the other refugees without caring about the subordinates of the noble who are all staring at me and their late leader with more than a little shock on their faces. Not to mention their guns and swords raised.

They’re too shocked to attack me though, and even if they did attack me, all it would mean is that I’d need to get another set of armor. Which isn’t anything new.

“I’ll keep this short and simple,” I state as Incendia just stares at everyone from her place on my shoulder. “If you follow my rules and live peacefully in my Caverns, I won’t bother you and we’ll be fine. You simply need to live your lives without crossing me and mine.” My glowing red eyes narrow as they light up the dark of the night. “But if you cross me, I don’t care if you’re a noble or some random farmer. I’ll take care of the problem in the shortest way possible.”

Everyone looks at the dead noble at that before looking back to me and nodding.

Meanwhile the noble’s little entourage finally mentally recover from what happened, following which I feel a sword stabbing me through my back and heart before going out my chest.

I just sigh as I move faster than they can react to, snapping the sword while it’s still in me to grab the man by his jaw and lift him into the air. Then I incinerate the sword while it’s still being pushed out by my body’s reversion before moving him around in front of me and frowning at him.

“What part of what I just said didn’t register in your head?” I ask, my frown growing a bit deeper at the shock and fear written all over his face. But that shock and fear turns to anger as the man makes numerous spell circles appear around us before golden spears form and pierce into me from all over.

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Not that they do anything as they all fade after piercing me, and any damage done to my body is restored as always.

I let out another sigh before snapping his neck as well and tossing his body on top of the nobles. Then I focus on the refugees in general and ask, “Any questions?”

Silence fills the space in front of the Undying Cavern’s entrance.

“Good,” I state with a nod of my head. “So long as you don’t make trouble, you can live peacefully here. But if you cause me problems, then I’ll cause you problems in return. A fair trade, I’d say.”

And without even waiting for a response, I begin to head back into the Undying Caverns. With my ‘bodyguards’ following closely behind me. Even though they are kind of useless other than looking important.

But Claire insisted on having people with me to make me look more intimidating.

Not that I really need much help in that department. What with me having glowing red eyes, black veins running through my face, and superhuman strength. All while it’s dark out.

Anyways, when I get back into the Undying Caverns, I find Claire smiling and nodding at me from a little bit further into the entrance. So I nod back and ask, “Anything else that needs addressing?”

She shakes her head and answers, “No, that’s it. Thank you for dealing with that for me.”

I just give her a nod before heading over towards my lab. Because I want to experiment with my spell using some of the tools I have here. And I can’t exactly do that when I’m on a battlefield.

At least, not all of the tools.

Some of them I can actually take with me. But not the most important ones. Seeing as those are way too large, and many of them are practically tied down to my lab.

As for test subjects… I don’t actually need any for the experiments I’m planning while here. So that won’t be an issue.

Although I do want to see what will happen if I try using a mental offensive spell against an undead.

So without any hesitation, I go ahead and spend the rest of my day off experimenting. And in the process getting a good amount of work done on the spell.

Eventually though I have to leave, at which point I make my way back to the battlefield.

And immediately resume experiments there instead. Because that’s what this war is about at this point.

I honestly couldn’t care less about how many of these nobles are defeated after all. And the main point of the war isn’t even the battle between us minions.

It’s the battle between the Class S magicians.

A battle that is still raging on rather strongly from what I’ve heard in our monthly meeting between nobles.

Which kind of makes me wonder just how long they can spend fighting without a break. But Class S magicians are all special, seeing as they don’t need magic circles to fight.

The skeleton makes perfect sense though. Seeing as he’s undead.

And undead like us don’t really have stamina issues.

Not that I’d have those issues even if I wasn’t an undead, considering my immortality.

Putting that aside, I spend days upon days experimenting with my new spell.

All the way until I finally complete the thing, officially raising my Class into Class B.