The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 55 - Threat
Added 2022-08-28 05:33:48 +0000 UTC Nathan
Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 26 | Friday
The various officers that acted as guides, or in the other groups cases chaperones, continue to call out the kills and earnings of each student that came on the trip. Meanwhile, I ignore them all to continue typing away on the screen of my id card.
Right… so I need to make the fire burn as fast as possible to make it use up the most oxygen…
My eyebrows furrow at the thought, but I continue to type away. It isn’t until I hear my name, along with the names of the other members of our group called out by Leo that I finally raise my head.
“-and Nathan Fox have managed to take down a total of one hundred and forty-one soldiers during the past three days, earning them fourteen thousand one hundred credits, along with exactly thirteen officers, earning them an additional thirteen thousand credits.” The instructor states, shocking both the students and officers around us with the numbers before continuing, “After splitting this five ways, the grand total earned by each of the cadets in this group amounts to five thousand four hundred and twenty credits.”
My eyes widen slightly at the amount, but that only lasts for a second until I smile slightly and turn my attention back to the screen in front of me.
That amount of credits isn’t as much as I would’ve expected. Although considering that it’s after splitting the amount, and it’s being given to a student…
I shake my head at the thought before glancing up to see and hear the glances and whispered conversations coming from the various soldiers, officers, and students around us.
Yeah, we do stand out a little bit.
At that thought, I notice the old man from when I first arrived looking at me with a curious expression on his face at the other side of the clearing in the center of the base.
Hmm… I still wonder about that man. It’s not normal for a soldier to be allowed to wear whatever they want in a warzone, so he’s most likely an officer of some sort. But even they almost always wear uniforms if for no other reason than to show the soldiers around them their rank.
And that’s assuming their own superior officers don’t just force them to wear one in the first place.
I narrow my eyes on the man’s face to see if I recognize it from the news, but nothing comes to mind and I’m soon distracted by the sight of the old man waving at me, still with a cigarette in his mouth.
Guess he remembers me as well.
I nod my head at him before glancing at instructor Leo, who had started talking again to close out the trip. After just a second of listening, I turn back to the screen. My eyes then widen as I notice something in the code, and I immediately go back to typing.
How did I miss that?!
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Falrock Street – Nathan’s house
A grim silence fills the house – one that perfectly matches the grim atmosphere that’s been there since Nathan left to go to the Arcane Academy. However, that very silence is broken in an instant when a strange warping sound comes from within the room that both of Nathan’s parents – Julia and Jason Fox – are currently sitting in.
They immediately turn to look towards the noise, only to find a large, blue and purple portal opening up in the middle of their hallway.
“Damn it,” Jason mutters at the same time as his wife jumps to her feet and takes a step towards the portal, just to pause again.
Not even a second later, a man wearing a black and white lab coat over a black and purple suit walks through the portal with both of his hands in his coat pocket. The portal then closes right behind him, and he stops to look around the room for a second with his usual emotionless stare before focusing on Nathan’s parents in front of him.
“Doctor Leodmir Archeron,” Jason states in a matter-of-fact manner, “is there any news about Nathan?”
The man stares back at Jason for a few seconds before slowly answering, “I’ll be stopping his time at the academy by the end of his first year.”
Both of the parents’ eyes widen in shock at his words, but the doctor continues almost immediately, “You two are to keep this to yourselves. Otherwise, I will have you dealt with.”
Jason’s eyes narrow at the words while Julia practically shouts, “You want us to be silent?! And what-”
“To be perfectly clear,” the doctor cuts her off, “the only reason why I’m telling you this is so that you don’t look into his disappearance once his time at the academy reaches an end.”
Leodmir narrows his eyes slightly as light blue and purple particles begin to fly around the room at a leisurely pace before he continues, “Furthermore, you two are of no importance to me beyond keeping the test subject sane enough to perform my experiments without any objections.”
He pauses again while the particles expand into small shards that start floating around the room seemingly at random, yet still avoiding the parents.
“But if you get in the way, then I will not hesitate to remove you from the table,” the doctor states right as one of the shards zips straight through the leg of one of the tables in the room, bisecting it without any chips of wood and making the table fall over. “If the test subject objects to working with me after that, then I’ll just lock him up and leave the country. And if someone tries to stop me?”
Leodmir glances at the table, then the shards around the room, and finally focusing on Nathan’s parents again without explaining further.
Julia grits her teeth but manages to keep quiet, meanwhile Jason just scowls at the man.
The doctor stares at them for a few seconds before turning around and walking through a portal that opens up just as quickly as it closes, leaving the house in silence once again.
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