Arthur

Slowly landing myself on the floor, I deactivated realmheart. All the people present in the academy are now looking at me with mixed emotions.

Looking around I saw Tessia hugging my bond, Sylvie. I slowly tried to approach the two when I noticed Lucas's body still intact inside the ice only missing an arm. It seems like I didn't hit it accurately with black lightning as I am cautious about hitting Sylvie and Tessia as well.

Not even thinking twice I raised my arm pointing at the ice coffin.

"Because of how dense and rich the mana in the ice because of realmheart, it's possible that this bastard is still alive."

I gathered fire mana on my hands and controlled it to stick on the icy surface. This spell is the same spell Lucas last used before I froze him. Almost finishing the spell I readied myself to detonate it.

"Lucas Wykes a piece of shit like you doesn't deserve to be alive, let alone stay in the same world as I live in. Yes, that's right, a lowly noble dare to hurt what belongs to me? a king? "

Grinning and detonating the spell Ember Eclipse to finally punish this bastard.

Confusion appeared on my face as the spell didn't detonate. So I tried doing it again but it still didn't work."Huh? Why isn't it working?"

Trying to give an explanation on what is happening, I sensed a foreign mana signature enter the academy. Focusing to pinpoint the mana signature to find its exact whereabouts.

"Where are you? huh? above! "

Looking up, I saw 4 Lances flying towards me, leading them is Varay Aurae.

"It's that huh? I didn't do the spell wrong nor did someone cancelled it. That woman froze the fire mana to stop me from firing it. "

The next thing I know is that I'm surrounded by four of the Lances and it seems like they see me as hostile to them. All of them are pointing their weapons at me.

I saw Bairon Wykes glance towards his brother's body incased in ice. He immediately put his spear an inch away from my neck.

"You, what did you do to my brother?"

He said, his voice is cold with no tinge of emotion. Or so I thought if I'm someone ordinary that is, but being a king for multiple decades makes such things a child's play. The human lance here is throwing a facade to not show any emotions in front of his colleagues.

"Quite admirable, I thought he's just another strong arrogant noble. Seems like the quote "Don't judge a book by it's cover still applies to the lances. "

"Arthur Leywin, by the order of the 6 council members you are deemed to be apprehended and will go through interrogation and questioning about the things that happened this evening.
Mass Killing, Act of Terrorism, Fraud, these are few of the things the council thinks you're guilty. You will be accompanied by us to the council for their judgement."

The ice lance said in a chilly voice and then glancing at Bairon Wykes who immediately dropped his weapon that's about to cut my neck.

Having no intention to flee I just raised my arm suggesting I mean no harm. I may be a king but I'm not that arrogant to take on multiple lances. Even one will definitely just toss me like a ragdoll if they fight me seriously.

"It's good that you know your place commoner, Just surrender and I'll make you pay after the council is dne with you."

"Seriously? I take back what I said earlier, this guy's a jerk. "

I thought, as Lance Aya incased my core with mana restricting cuffs and threw me a wink?

"Bairon, you are in no place to decide whatever happens to the boy."

Varay said finally silencing the arrogant Bairon. Walking toward the entrance of the academy. I got surprised when something appeared below me and carried me to its back.

"Oh seems like you're quite shocked. Well kinda makes sense since you can't sense mana now. That's one of the golems I created. "

Lance Olfred, the dwarf lance seeing my confused face explained to me. As we approached the gate I then saw my former family, Alice, Reynolds and Ellie. Seeing me both of their faces turned to horror.

"Y-you, what did you do again! Did you really have to kill all those kids!?"

Alice shouted at me, while Reynolds is hugging her from the side while Ellie is hugging her from the front crying and doing what seems like stopping here from speaking any further.

Hearing what just she said my mind just went blank again. All the noise in my surroundings just became a muffled sound.

"--n't wo--y, ev-n -ough -m not in p-ace -o say so--th-ng but -veryth-n- will b- ok-y"

Lance Olfred said to me, even though I can't understand a thing it seems like he's comforting me.

Memories started to race through my head, the cliff incident, my time with Grandma Sylvie, my stay in Elenoir, me in Xyrus, my adventures, going to this academy and finally the events that happened this day.

I started to ventilate heavily, my lungs
expending and shrinking at a very fast pace, heart pumping blood quicker than it has ever been, my vision started to blur then everything turned black.

The next thing I know is I'm now in front of some kind of shop. The shop is shabby and obviously so old, a storm will probably just destroy this shop. Well storms don't really appear here in Xyrus that much as the storms get blocked by the mountain ranges and forest in the Beast glades.

"Oh my my, young man it seems like you're hurt. Here take this."

A bald old man suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gave me some balls (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)? It looks like some kind of crystal, pearly white shining with different colors. I am about to ask the old man about it when he interrupted me.

"Since I gave you that really expensive thing I think I at least deserve to take this wallet right? "

The old man throwing it up and catching my wallet back, repeating it a few times, he threw me a playful smile.

"There's three gold coins there! you're saying these balls(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠) is 1 gold each!? "

I thought when suddenly one of the balls (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠) flew right inside my stomach? No, it flew inside my core.
Looking back at my core it's now in light yellow with cracks!?

"Huh? What the hell did that old man just gave me?"

Looking around for the old man to ask him what he did. Then I found nothing, nothing at all. There's no old man nor the old shabby shop all here is just an empty alley with a trashcan full of trash in the middle.

I stood up, it seems that I'm here because of my beast will stopping the time and me escaping. But why? Is it instincts? It probably is, knowing that the council ordered it and the Eraliths are part of the council they probably want to get rid of the threat known as me after what happened this morning and knowing what I'm really capable of doing.

"Those traitors. No, it's not just the Eraliths. Everyone who abandoned me is a traitor. I trusted them but all I received is this."

Clenching my fist, I stood up because of the stone that raised my core levels.
The mana fluctuations seem to be sensed by the lances and nearing my location second by second.

As I'm about to run away, someone grabbed the back side of my clothes and in an instant I'm now inside a cave. I now think I recognize where I am, this is the dungeon called widow's crypt where we're supposed to be going for a field trip with professor Glory. The dungeon where Jasmine and the Twinhorns first encountered each other and after the raid, joining them. Jasmine my mentor when I am adventuring, who told me all the adventures she did and I enjoyed it. She didn't hate me when I said the truth. She just stood there in shock while everyone was throwing rants at me.

"She really was a big sister to me"

I got interrupted with my thoughts as a demon looking creature lifted me up by the collar. Grinning crazily he said

"So this is what you looks like huh? Wonder boy. "

"This bastard's voice fits his demonic face"

The demon then dropped me to the floor and stood still looking down at me.

"I don't really understand why Scythe Dragoth ordered me to get you personally and advance the attack on the academy but who cares bout that."

He mumbled under his breath.

"Scythe? Dragoth? what in the world is he talking about? So they're the one who attacked the academy? "

I stood up pointing a finger on the demon.

"You! are you the one who's behind the attack? "

"Oh? wonder boy, you're up! Yes yes it's me who's responsible for that shit. So now what? "

"Then die"

I conjured multiple wind blades blasting it towards the demon and pulled Dawn's ballad from my ring and rushed over to the demon.

The demon easily parries off the wind blades as I expected and also rushing towards me at a fast pace.

The demon ran towards me so fast that he's almost crawling, with his insane reach, tried to hold me but I evaded it and jumped to the side and conjured a small blue fire spell near his face to hopefully blind him for at least a few seconds.

Blasting myself away with a wind spell to create some distance. I conjured multiple earthen walls around the demon who I miraculously blinded for a few seconds.

I activated realmheart and bombarded the earthen walls with lots of lots of combined spells.

Panting heavenly after the barrage of spells I just launched. I backed down even more to make more distance away from the demon. And then suddenly I felt a hold on my wrist as I saw the demon already in front of me.

I tried to use static void to escape but before I can even do anything

boom!

A horrendous sound echoed through the cave.

Cough! cough!

Looking down at my stomach I saw an arm almost digging through my stomach. Blood started going out of my body. Mouth, nose, ears, even eyes blood is escaping throughout my body, just because of a single punch?

The fist didn't go through my body but its shear power made me like this? Just how powerful is this demon?
Am I gonna die here? No! I don't want that.

"kukukukuku"

I chuckled

If I'm gonna die then why not at least take something with me? As a king I won't accept being in this position dying slowly without doing something? Unacceptable.

I grinned and the almost turning off realmheart suddenly feels alive again. I grabbed the demon's arm and absorbed every mana from it.

"Huh? the fuck are you doi- AAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGHHHH!!!!"

"GET OOOOOOOFFFFFF!!!"

A battle of strength began as the demon tried to withdraw his arm as I fought him trying to grip his arm more. Sucking the mana in it his right arm is slowly disintegrating and now the mana from his core starts to also get drained.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGHHHH"

Grinning crazily now, face to face with a demon shrieking in pain his eyes are full of rage. I'm about to absorb some of his mana core out, then the weight of his arm that I'm holding suddenly vanished.

I looked down and saw that all I'm holding on now is an arm, a right arm that has been cut off.

Slowly looking forward I saw the demon only having a left arm, his eyes full of rage he raised his left arm and

splat!

Blood splattered around me as I realized that something pierced my stomach, a metal like spike coming out from the shadows.

I saw the demon slowly walk towards me. I simply closed my eyes and accepted my fate.

"It seems like my second life is finally going to an end but my death won't go to waste. I at least damaged that monster didn't I? heh no need to fear death, I already experienced it once.
Yeah yeah I don't fear death but I at least want to have someone to love me for who I really am. If I'm given another chance, just another chance I'll definitely.

I-I don't want to die. I don't want to die alone. "

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Hello new chap again. I decided to upload one chap everyday and seems like i can't upload 5 chaps tomorrow. byebye

10-18-23