Chapter 124: 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 from there so quickly...', Theos recalled.
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.
"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.
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