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The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 53 - Base

Added 2022-08-10 03:30:04 +0000 UTC

Nathan
Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 24 | Wednesday

“Open up,” Leo shouts to the magician officers standing guard outside of the base.

We ended up searching for several more hours for other soldiers, only to end up finding and dealing with three squads, with only one of them having even a single magician before we turned to head back towards the base.

So it was a very boring mission. But at the same time, it was also the first and supposedly easiest day of the trip.

The officers simply take one look at our teacher before bringing up their military id cards and speaking into them. Soon after that, the gate at the front of the base begins to open, revealing an officer waiting on the inside of the base.

We all step through it under the light of the moon as the waiting officer says to our instructor, “You look happy.”

And he does. The instructor has a bright smile on his face unlike his usual serious look as he responds, “Because my group defeated more enemy soldiers than any of the other groups going out tonight from this base.”

My eyes widen at that.

Seriously?

Why didn’t the actual groups-

“That’s because your other brats slowed down the groups that were out searching today,” the officer says with a glare, interrupting my thoughts, “if it weren’t for our own officers being too worried about their safety, they wouldn’t have called in each of the soldier groups that had more than ten soldiers in them and instead would have just dealt with them on their own.”

Oh. That’s why.

Wait, I thought the instructor said that they weren’t going to protect us at all?

I glance at the man in question, but he’s still grinning from ear to ear as he waves off the officer’s complaints and says, “Yeah, well I said not to baby the students. So, if they did, then it’s their own fault.”

“You know just as well as I do that the council is wanting as many magicians as it can get right now,” the officer says with a glare directed straight at the instructor before he sighs and looks at me and the others in my group. “Go ahead and head to the mess hall.”

The man then points to a soldier who happened to be walking by an says, “He will take you there.”

The soldier in question’s eyes widen in surprise, but he quickly recovers and nods towards us before dropping whatever he was doing and signaling for us to follow him.

I glance at Leo, only to find him in a whispered conversation with the officer while waving his hand at us to follow the soldier. So I turn around and begin following him with the others.

Although I can’t help but raise an eyebrow at how casually the soldier shifted his priorities from whatever he was doing to following the officer’s orders. But I guess it’s normal in the military for the soldiers.

“So how long have you been working here?” Aidan suddenly asks the soldier escorting us. “And what’s your name?”

I turn my raised eyebrow to Aidan at his overly friendly attitude before deciding to not say anything.

Meanwhile, the soldier in question sends Aidan a very surprised look – likely not used to magicians being so friendly in the military – before recovering and answering in a very chipped tone, “Two years, and my name is Jorge Korte sir!”

I look around the base in an attempt to find the old man from before again, only to not even spot a single hint of him as Aidan says, “Two years? How long is your draft period if you don’t mind me asking?”

The soldier quickly answers back, “It’s three years, sir!”

“Drop the sir,” Aidan says with a wave of his hand, making a couple of the nearby soldiers look at him with surprise as they overhear us while passing by. “Have you been in any major battles before? Maybe seen some higher Class magicians in action?”

I watch the soldier fidget with some very obvious discomfort at the attention the other nearby soldiers are giving him before he answers, “I was at the Barren Battle.”

My eyebrows raise at that, and I notice Cyria’s doing the same as Rebecca and Sophia all finally begin to pay attention to the soldier.

If I remember correctly, the Barren Battle was one fought in The Barren Lands located in between the White Kingdom and Entaria. Our forces crossed the Barren trench between our nation and the lands and began a large-scale battle with the White Kingdom’s army as it was traversing the snow and ice ridden lands to reach Entaria. However, in the middle of the battle, Entaria ended up joining it with several of their higher Class magicians, making it one of the more well-known battles between us and those two nations.

“Hoh, really?” Aidan says with surprise obvious in his voice. “What about the magicians there? I think I heard that each side had a Class S magician attending the battle, even if they weren’t directly participating.”

The soldier continues fidgeting for a moment while looking at the other soldiers around us and saying, “Yes, I did see the Class S magician, Afvalder von Schröder.”

I let out a sigh at that before Aidan immediately starts exclaiming, “The radiation specialized light magician?! Please tell me how you saw the wandering general!”

You should have already known which Class S magician was there, so why do you seem so surprised to hear it?

I just shake my head as the soldier nervously says, “The man appeared in a bright flash of red and orange light before marching straight through the main camp, towards the command tent. He then took command of the entire battle away from the Warrior General and sent him straight to the front lines without a care for the General’s attitude.”

Huh. I heard that the S Class magicians just didn’t give a damn about formalities, but that’s a pretty blunt way of doing things.

Then again, that’s part of the reason the council is currently in a fuss with the S Class magicians.

I watch the soldier and Aidan chat for a few minutes as we walk into the second largest building and through some of the hallways, with the soldier slowly becoming more and more relaxed despite his situation, before we eventually end up stopping at the entrance to what is obviously the mess hall.

Time to eat.

I glance between Aidan and the soldier for a moment, only to turn my attention towards the cafeteria part of the mess hall.

Please have mint ice cream.

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