I’m immortal but my girlfriend is OP

Chapter 1

I woke up from the darkness, my eyes closed tightly from the bright light. I felt like crying for no reason. I was bewildered and couldn’t think properly until I felt someone held me closer and whispered into my ear,

“It’s all right my boy, everything is fine. I shall name you… Aurum”[???]

After I heard those words I could only stifle my tears back and snuggle more tightly against the women who held me. I remember now, where I am and who I am. I was sent back from the future, I was sent back to reset our mistakes.

~ several years later~

I was around 12 years old and lived in a spacious underground castle cave. I have black hair and dark brown eyes along with it I was wearing a plain white shirt and light brown shorts. I walked on the white marble ground which gleamed while the spirits floated around cleaning the pillar, stairs, chandeliers and such. While going down the hall I was thinking about how I’m going to deal with my future plans. I thought to myself,

(I remember my girlfriend, Llya, saying goodbye to me when I left to return to the past and I still remember why I came back from the future, it seems my memory is still intact despite losing my immortality.)[Aurum]

As I entered into my mother’s room, she was writing on some documents. She sensed me coming inside the room and looked back and smiled.

“Oh my sweet little boy, what brings you here to my room?”[mom]

My mother is a chimera, Zaqia, but she kept it a secret from me because she wanted to hide from me the truth. Except that she doesn't know that I reincarnated which made a lot of her effort to hide from me in vain. In her human form, she had long red air that seemed to puff out which hid her horn and her eye was orange with a tinge of red and perhaps scarlet. I also knew that I was abandoned by a noble because I wasn’t their legitimate son and there was no use to keeping me. My mother actual mother even sold me to the noble, but I shouldn’t know that and I was planning to use the excuse of finding my ‘real mother’ to leave. Despite the only mother I loved was Zaqia.

“Mother, sorry for intruding but, I want to start exploring the outside world.”[Aurum]

She placed her hand on her temple and thought about it. She was thinking and I was planning to interrupt her thinking and gain the advantage, but…

“I’m planning to send you to outside school too, so I believe our thoughts line up quite well. I was hesitant because I thought you’ll want to stay but I was worried for nothing.”[Zaqia]

I was slightly shocked, last life she didn’t allow me to be let off so easily. Sending me to school she said… perhaps it’s because I had knowledge of magic ever since I was young. I did improve on my magic making it better than average just so I can keep up with Llya when I meet her. She must have thought sending me to school would benefit me more than staying. It would mean that my action changed the future. That being said, this is an opportunity, if I can go to school now, I can meet Llya faster than before but...

“I want to depart more sooner than that.”[Aurum]

“Really? Then that’s worrisome, I’-”[Zaquia]

“I know that you’ll assign me to a school of your choosing, but I want to at least choose my own school and also meet some people to talk to.”[me]

“...’’[Zaqia]

(I gave her some puppy eye)

“Fine, I shall allow you to leave, but you must carry some self-defense devices and must come back in a week since I still need to hear your opinion on the school you want to attend to.”[Zaqia]

“Yes! Thank you, mother!”[Aurum]

I kissed my mother on the cheek and ran back to my room. I went and took some treasures to protect myself. They are all minor ones except one, the crown of the mind. It was a ring that floated on top of your head like a halo and had barbed wire enwrapped on the east, south, and west. The north side had a gap instead and the crown would always rotate so it faces that direction. The crown protects me from all mental affliction, even good ones that help your mind such as {mind calmer} which is its only drawback. It can also conceal itself so it won’t attract attention since it’s a big chunk of bronze floating on top of someone’s head. I also prepared the necessary supply to feed myself during the adventure with my storage but I can easily find my own food on my own. Then after saying goodbye to my mother, I left the castle to the outside world.

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I was traveling down the dirt road on my way to the location. I was traveling using the flying board artifact because I didn’t want anyone following with me so closely since I was going to a pretty hidden location. Bringing a carriage with me will give me a hard time doing my business silently, but it seems my mother still worried about me and still brought some spirits to tail me.

I checked my {detection} once again and there is 3 spirit following me, shaking them off will be a pain. The first one is a wind spirit that is concealing itself as a gust of wind and is following pretty close to me. He must be confident in his ability. The second one is an earth spirit moving underground right under me, which is ballsy of it to be so close, and the third one is a water spirit right in my water bottle.

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(He flew quite a distance from the castle in one go without a spec of mana used.)[earth spirit]

(Now that I realize we weren't able to sense his mana at all when he was about 4-5 years old.)[water spirit]

The spirits were using {hidden communication} to keep in touch with each other so when a problem occurred they would be able to react. Albeit it’s slower than {telepathy}, {hidden communication} is harder to detect.

(He probably got his hand on a book that taught him to conceal one’s mana.)[wind spirit]

In truth Aurum didn’t even need the book of concealment, he already knew the method of hiding his own mana, he simply waited till he pretended to read from the book to start hiding his mana.

Suddenly he stopped and landed on the ground, taking out a water bottle. In fact, it was the water bottle where the water spirit was hiding.

(He must be taking a break from his long flight, but it’s incredible he’s able to keep up such a speed for a long time)[wind spirit]

(Wait is he gonna drinking straight from me!? What am I supposed to do, there is no body of water close by!)[water spirit]

(Welp I believe you'll have to start using mana to create water for him to drink)[earth spirit]

(What if he notices the magic reaction inside his bottle!? What if he tried to drink the whole thing since he used so much of his magic power!? I’ll have to abandon this physical body and return back to the castle and I don’t want to be scolded by Miss Zaqia!)[water spirit]

(Well goodbye, I hope to see you back to the spirit world, your sacrifice will not be in vain.)[earth spirit]

(youuuuu-)[water spirit]

(Well now, pls get out of my water bottle. The one in the ground, get out of there you are uncomfortably close and the one who is basically hiding in plain sight show yourself)[Aurum}

(!?!?!!)[three spirits]

(How can you access {hidden communication}?)[earth spirit]

(Well {hidden communication} has a built-in concealment system, but you still actually have to try hiding it)[Aurum]

(I thought we were well hidden from you.)[wind spirit]

(you simply underestimated me)[Aurum]

The spirit revealed himself. They didn’t have a human form but the wind spirit formed itself into a small tornado, the water spirit into a floating sphere and the earth spirit into a golem.

“Now that you’ve found us, what do you want us to do Mr. Aurum”[wind spirit]

“I want all of you to return back to the castle and stop following me. If you’re scared of Miss Zaqia murdering you just tell her my message, ‘Miss Zaqia if I can’t properly travel the world without protection then I can’t survive in the real world and I don’t want that to happen, so please can you leave me to my own adventure?’ alright?”[Aurum]

“Yes.”[spirit in unison]

Then the spirit departed to return the message back to the castle.

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After I couldn’t sense the spirit, I disconnected from {hidden communication} and flew up and accelerated to full speed, faster than the previous flight in a different direction.

(Since I already know which school I want to attend to I don’t need to waste time searching for one. I can’t do much right now but I still have one thing that takes the most priority, reclaiming my immortality.)[Aurum]

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I finally arrived at a suspiciously hidden cave that was located somewhere close to the sea and under a cliff was a forest that seemed to grow under the cliff.

(This is the cave. The cave where I received my immortality and the start of my suffering.)[Aurum]

As I was floating there staring directly at the entrance a voice in my head reached me.

(Who is there, I need help! Can someone save me!)[???]

There was the voice, the one who entrapped me and used me as a slave to free herself. The one tried to rob my future and yet coincidentally turn the wheel of fate. As I was thinking nostalgia hit me on the event of past life.

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I was 14 at the time and was walking around the garden outside of the underground castle. The garden was there because the plant that needed for ingredients in alchemy and they needed sunlight. I was allowed to walk in the garden but because my magic aptitude was so low in my past life, my mother didn’t even want me to leave at all. There were guards in the garden but the garden itself was actually out of the range of the main barrier. The voice also gathered power and was able to reach much farther to call people. As a result, the voice was able to reach me.

(Is there anyone, I need help! Can someone save me!)[???]

(Who is it? Do you need help? How can I help you?)[Aurum]

Maybe because she chose me because she saw my desire to meet the outside world, maybe she chose me because my magic was so low she thought no one would notice. But she decided to choose me nevertheless.

(My name is Lidia. I’m trapped in a cave and I need help. I sensed you’re trustful and I decided that you will be the one to help me. You can’t bring anyone with you because you might attract people to you. You have so little mana that you can go undetected most way.)[Lidia]

(Sorry but I can’t, my mother kept a close look on me and I’m sure you’re far away because If you weren’t I’d have known about a cave apart from the one I’m in.)[Aurum]

(Please, I implore you, you’re the only one that can save me)[Lidia]

As I thought about it I decided on my choice. The naive choice that changed everything.

(I shall see what I can do to help, wait for me around dark and contact me.)[Aurum]

That night I ‘celebrated’ with my mother with rich wine for my ‘first’ ever a wine that I made alone. I already made multiple and wanted to try and present the perfect wine for my mother, but because of Lidia, I decided to make a special one filled with much more special plants the get my mother to sleep. I wasn’t proud but my desire to step out of the castle overshadowed it. When my mother was finally drunk she fell into a deep sleep. But before she did she talked to me a bit.

“You know, Aurum? You’re a beautiful boy that I love and I still love you, you are my greatest treasure and I will tear down mountains to find the ones who desire you”[Zaqia]

“Please don’t mother, I don’t want to see charred land when I finally walk out to the world.”[Aurum]

My mother laughed a bit and fell into a deep sleep. When I confirmed that my mother fell asleep, I departed back into my room. Since I didn’t have much magic I had many magic tools to help me. I got the flying board artifact, concealment cloth and many others that Lidia told me to prepare. Then I departed from the castle for the first time in my life.

When I reach the cave thanks to Lidia telling me the location. She was trapped in an urn and told me to sit on the circle in the middle of the cave. I couldn’t recognize the circle but she told me it was okay. I would sit on the magic circle and she would start the ceremony. It was then she would betray me.

(Naive.)[Lidia]

“Wha-”[Aurum]

She cast {bounded one} onto me and at the same time, turned me into something else. A different being that was a different existence. I wasn’t human anymore, I couldn’t die anymore and would live forever. I didn’t have a defined form as I was solid, liquid and gas of an unknown substance at the same time. I turned into an Immortal.

(Wow! It was a success! I knew that it can grant immortality! Those researchers are foolish to think that it was all a lie and wouldn’t even allow me to continue it. They told me it was ‘Dangerous’ and ‘cost the lives of others’ but they couldn’t see the opportunity. Now I have an undying soldier that shall serve me forever!)[Lidia]

As she talked the circle I bubbled on top of slowly started being absorbed into me.

(Huh, it seems once there’s someone that holds onto the power, it can be replicated again. It doesn't matter, I can always find another way, thanks for all the tools, they’ll be useful.)[Lidia]

I couldn’t answer, I was under the effect of {bounded one}. I could only just lie there with my hideous form awaiting an order. I can scream inside all I want but I couldn’t fight against it. I did not have enough mana to break free and immortality didn’t grant me any power apart from a different form. I simply laid there unable to think properly, asking myself, why?

(Well put yourself together now, turn yourself into a human or something.)[Lidia]

I pulled myself together. My gaseous form solidified and solid with liquid combined together to create something resembling human flesh. The black color faded and the color itself returned into my defining form. I created a perfect imitation of a human from the DNA of my past human form to the color of the blood. I felt everything moving in me, the blood speeding inside me, the stomach moving, everything. All the parts of my body were ‘me’.

(Well, now you’ll have to serve me. Take me and depart to a much safer location from Zaquia, then we’ll start immediately a search for a reincarnation process so that I can return.)[Lidia]

I walked up to her and grabbed the handle of the urn. Then my form started changing again, I felt myself opening from inside out as I turned into something else. I was a cloud that flew at high speed like a turbulent tornado out of the cave, flapping my wing-like cloud made of a part of me the only solid part was my hand holding the urn and all the tools I bought as we flew over the ocean.

It was only until 7 years later where I would meet Llya. I was gathering ‘souls’ from small villages and I had caught the attention of the guild. I was apparently a C class quest and wasn’t any lower because I simply wouldn’t ‘die’, but I wasn’t any higher because I only targeted ‘peasants’ and not small nobles and such. Llya practically just started adventuring. She was kind of late at the start of her career because she encountered many problems with her ‘family’ and such. She was surprisingly quick at her job and ‘killed’ me before I could gather any soul. Whenever I met and the unbeatable opponent I would pretend to ‘die’ by crumbling into dust and sweep myself away and wait for another opportunity. But since she was practically already OP, she saw who I ‘was’. She was able to see the shackles that entrapped and controlled me. For the first time in hunting for 7 years, I had to give up after 2 days of waiting for her to tire out but she was still there and her magic still covered the entire village. It should’ve have been impossible with the amount of mana she used, but since when did logic properly applied to her? After I saw no end to her mana I had to give up. I slowly started dispersing myself and left the village.

I returned to the new hideout. Lidia was still finding a way to reincarnate and was testing souls to experiment. I was about to make a report until the unexpected happened.

“So this is where you hide”[???]

I turned to identify the voice, it was none other than Llya. It was impossible, I split myself into many pieces, some of myself is still even floating even out there.

“I have to admit that was pretty good control of yourself out there I couldn’t follow all of you so I simply cast {pursuit} on every single one of you and waited until one of you landed in a hidden place.”[Llya]

(Aurum, remove her!)[Lidia]

Lidia knew at the moment she said those words, she was a threat. I pounced at Llya in the form of a panther on both sides with the rest of myself arriving. But I didn’t even faze her, in fact, there was simply a burst as her mana simply exploded. There wasn’t a cave anymore but a crater where there were once was. I couldn’t approach her as her emanating mana simply blew me apart like I was a clump of sand. She held the urn that contained Lidia, but she didn’t need to do anything. Lidia was the closest to the source of the burst and she just slowly disappeared unable to utter a single word, and along with it, my enslavement.

“Huh, no last word then.”[Llya]

She then tossed the urn aside as if it was nothing and turned down her mana output and floated down to me. I was bewildered. I couldn’t understand how my enslavement just ended so abruptly, but I knew she was my hero.

“Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…”[Aurum]

“Oh stop whining for chrissake”[Llya]

She hit me on top of my bowing head and I silenced, but I still cried. She saw my state and decided to comfort me until I was okay. When I finally calmed down she asked,

“So now that I’ve practically murdered that thing in front of you, what are you gonna do now?”[Llya]

“What Is your *sob* your name *hiccup*”[Aurum]

She smiled softly and patted my head.

“My name is Llya, I’m an adventurer that is traveling around doing jobs for other people.”[Llya]

“*Sniffle* I‘m finally free, but I have nowhere to go, *hiccup* can I follow you?”[Aurum]

“Sure.”[Llya]

And that's how I met her. We would go on so many and yet gather so much regret throughout the whole life, but it was bearable simply because I was with her.

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As I finally finish recalling the past life I looked back at the cave entrance. And answered Lidia’s plea.

“Frankly, Miss Lidia, I believe to have come to hate you for no reason and come to kill you and steal your research on immortality.”[Aurum]