Nathan


    Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 2


    To my complete and utter surprise, the moment my team members arrive, I find myself pulled up in a large group hug. With each one of them practically jumping at me and hugging me. At which point they start crying.


    Of course, I find myself incredibly awkward as I have no idea what to do in a situation like this. And the skeleton isn’t much help as he just looks slightly amused – which is impressive in an of itself seeing as he has no face to look amused with – before leaving without a word.


    So I’m left awkwardly standing in the middle of the five teammates without knowing what to do. And I can’t even move my arms or anything because they’re literally pinning me here in the middle of them, arms and all.


    What’s worse is that my bloodlust makes me feel slightly hungry due to their incredibly close proximity bringing the smell of their blood way too close to me for comfort. Although I reign that in rather easily at least.


    More importantly, the soldiers outside of the Undying Caverns watching us look stunned as hell. Like their entire world view is falling apart.


    So I guess there goes the stoic image I had with them.


    It ends up taking a few more minutes before the lot of them finally let me go. Then I bring them through the Undying Caverns while completely ignoring the looks from my soldiers as they kneel to me during my passing. Looks that are clearly asking something along the lines of, “You have friends?!”


    Which I find rather insulting. Even if it’s an understandable question to have.


    Fortunately for me, I don’t hear a single person ask the question out loud. Even with my supernatural hearing.


    Although that’s probably because of my supernatural hearing. Since it’s not exactly a secret that I can hear damn near everything in the caverns.


    I continue giving them the tour while settling in the parents and family of anyone who actually brought their family along before we eventually end up in the command center of the Undying Caverns. Which has changed drastically from before.


    The command center now is a rather large room with one chair closer to the entrance of the room looking out over numerous chairs and terminals across the walls on a lower level of the room. All with several more seats that stand out a bit more on a middle level between the lower and top levels.


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    Honestly, it looks rather similar to some spaceship bridges on science fiction tv shows.


    And standing behind the seat reserved for me are my other top officers.


    “Let me introduce everyone,” I state while putting one hand in a pocket and motioning towards the first one of my top officers standing on the right. Claire, who is currently wearing a more military uniform than she usually has on. “This is Claire Taylor, and she’s my second in command here at the Undying Caverns.”


    After her, I move on to the one standing in the center. Benjamin. Who is wearing the same enforcer military uniform he always wears.


    “This is Benjamin Anderson, the leader of the Undying Caverns’ enforcers,” I tell them before glancing at them and adding, “who are pretty much the military here.”


    Then I focus on the last of the three and finish, “And this is Ryan Haris, the head of logistics here.”


    The old man is still wearing his kevlar armor, just like always. So there’s not much different about him than the last time I saw him.


    I proceed to introduce all of my friends to my top ranking officers, along with any other officer who happens to be in the room and overhears us. Then I go ahead and sit down on my seat which is pretty much just a throne as I watch them and work on the programming of my spells at the same time. Just to see how they get along.


    Since my team will be joining them as top officers in the Undying Caverns.


    Specifically I’m planning on having Aidan and Cyria work right under Benjamin in the enforcers, with Amelia being in charge of diplomacy between other nations and nobles since she’s was raised in one of the leading families of the Republic, and the other two being under her command. Which I think should work well for now.


    If there are any problems then I can always address them when they come about.


    Fortunately, it looks like they’re all getting along rather well. So that’s good.


    Although Claire is the type who can get along with anyone. And Ryan is like an old, stern grandpa to his subordinates. Treating them like they’re family when they’re on his good side and beating the shit out of them if they’re not. If they’re his enemies or if they’re traitors.


    As for Benjamin? Well, he’s just staying silent and nodding his head every now and then. But I didn’t really expect anything else from him if I’m being honest.


    Benjamin is known in the caverns as being even quieter and more stoic than I am after all.


    I continue watching them as they move on to discuss how the Undying Caverns is currently performing. Both some of their operations along with their logistics. Including the number of people living here, the number of soldiers, and so on.


    Which actually surprises me a bit since I didn’t realize we had that many soldiers.


    I knew we had a lot of new citizens living inside of the Undying Caverns, but I didn’t realize there were so many new soldiers too.


    Then again, I’ve seen quite a few soldiers around the place. Far more than I used to.


    I guess I just don’t really pay much attention to that stuff.


    That aside, it looks like things are going well. So I finally stand up and leave the command center to head towards my lab.


    Time to go back to experimenting again.