Nathan


    Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 5


    Several days pass after the arrival of my former team, and surprisingly enough, they end up fitting in very well. Better than I fit in, actually. Which is… bizarre. But not at the same time, seeing as I’m an immortal vampire.


    Just as I planned, Aidan and Cyria have been working under Benjamin in the enforcers while Amelia has been leading diplomacy in the base with Sofia and Rebecca under her supervision. And while I was honestly expecting Aidan’s damn near immediate adapting to the changes and getting along with the other enforcers, I wasn’t expecting Cyria to get along with them all so well right away too.


    Cyria was never the most social of people after all. So I was expecting her to take a while to adapt to the changes.


    But nope. All the enforcers took to her right away, welcoming her along with Aidan in with warm welcomes. And she turned out to be a lot more social than I remember her being.


    On top of that, Aidan surprised me with how strong he’s become. Since I don’t remember him being all that strong from when I last saw him.


    Yet now he’s strong enough to impress some of the enforcers. Which is impressive in its own right.


    Although his personality hasn’t really changed much. Except that I have noticed that he isn’t as laidback as before.


    At least not when battling.


    But I get the feeling some of that is because of me. Since all of them seem to have gone through some tough times since my disappearance.


    Which I do feel a bit sorry for.


    I’d feel more sorry for it if I was actually the one responsible for that. But I wasn’t. So it’s not really my fault.


    The only reason I feel a little sorry for it is because I didn’t tell them about my being immortal beforehand. And even that is a bit of a stretch.


    As for Amelia and her team? There isn’t much diplomacy going on right now since we’re at war, and a lot of the nobles don’t particularly like me. So they go out of their way to avoid me.


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    But there are also several nobles who are allies. Which has led to some negotiations.


    We’re not absolutely required to aid in the war. Even if we are counted amongst the Kingdom of the Fallen’s forces for the whole ‘must defeat a certain percentage of the forces of a nation to win’ thing.


    And since we’re not required to help, we have room to negotiate benefits for helping them. Which has led to Amelia working together with the enforcers to send some reinforcements to some of the nobles who are in trouble. All for a generous amount of compensation, both in material form and in the form of magical knowledge.


    I actually find myself feeling more than a little impressed by how much she’s managed to do in just a few days. To the point of no longer worrying about them at all.


    She’s even working efficiently together with Claire, who finally has a lot more free time herself now that some of her responsibilities have been passed off to other people. Specifically to Amelia.


    After all, Claire was the one handling any diplomacy we had before. Along with a myriad of other things, including but not limited to running the base, managing team meetings between the top officers, assigning duties to those outside of the structure of the top officers departments, deciding on the layout of the base and city within the Caverns, and so on.


    In all honesty, she was probably a little overworked. I just never realized until now since I pay so little attention to the Undying Caverns as it is.


    There are so many things I’m starting to notice after meeting with my friends again… but it’s time to go back to the battlefield now. To go back to experimenting and improving myself.


    I’ve been working on training my mana arcs this entire time, along with messing with learning mana manipulation, so I haven’t just been sitting here doing nothing. Even if I’m on a bit of a vacation right now.


    Despite that, I need to go back to the frontlines. And I don’t feel anything about what I’ll be doing there regardless of these new things I’m feeling after reuniting with them.


    I tap my armrest as I sit on the throne in my rather grand looking throne room – a place created for me by Claire during my absence on the battlefield.


    After thinking for a bit longer on all the new developments, I go ahead and let out a sigh before standing up from my throne. Then I put my hands in my pockets and begin leaving the throne room. All while sending out messages to the top officers and my friends about my departure back to the battlefield.


    I haven’t heard from the skeleton since he dropped the others off here, so I’m not sure what’s going on with him. But Juan sounds like he wants to get back to training me again. And I want to reach Class S as soon as I can.


    It certainly doesn’t hurt that my experimentation to improve my spells has the side effect of helping with the war effort. Which means more favors from the other nobles that Amelia can use for the Undying Caverns.


    As I’m stepping out of the throne room with some soldiers closing the door behind me and continuing to stand guard there, I get some messages on my terminal. All of whom are from the top officers and friends I just messaged myself. And all of them are well wishes or affirmatives, varying depending on who they’re from.


    So with that, I finally leave the Undying Caverns again to head back to the battlefield. While making sure to send a message to Juan as I do so.


    Time to continue the experiments.