Roughly at the same time when the group was in the laboratory fighting for their lives...

Eden was rampaging in his Dragon form.

In the air, he was sending down rains of magical attacks of all sorts each with the power to blow up an entire building in one shot. It had been a few days since the battle started and Eden turned to his Dragon form to destroy the enemy.

The only problem was...the enemies seemed endless.

Eden checked his mana levels. Usually without any buffs of any sorts, his mana would be around the 500K point. However with 'Dragonic Overload' active it would double to 1 Million mana to use. Right now his his was only a third of that amount.

'The toll of fighting for so long in this form is showing...' he thought.

Due to begin an existence that literally depended on his mana to survive, he had stocked up a couple dozen skills that increased his mana regeneration and reduced mana consumption on all levels.

However using this amount of magic attacks over so many days slowly wore him down.

[Dragon Breath!]

He made another sweep down at the King who looked extremely battered right now. Things would end quickly if not for his endless supply of Ghost Knights to protect him but now his army was approaching it's limits.

Eden prepared for his final attack on the King to end it now.

Gathering a massive amount of mana from the air around him, his black wings turned golden filled with energy. The golden marking on his body that were otherwise hidden with the black on black colour scheme appeared.

Even without 'Magic King Drive' he could do this.

He remembered using this power once before when he was taught by another dragon of this supreme move that only Dragon Kings cans use due to the power consumption.

[Annihilation Breaker!]

His voice echoed in the area as the surrounding area bent to his will and everything started to be destroyed around him. It was a special move that reduced everything with no exceptions, even Gods into nothing.

Once used by the 'Destroyer of Dragons' it was ironically stolen by the Dragons and altered for them to use. For Eden who was both a 'Destroyer' and 'Dragon' this was one of the few perfect moves for him.

It rated in the top 5 most powerful moves he had.

CUT!

Eden felt extreme pain as one of his wings was cut off.

[Wah...?]

His body in the air fell down and the power that he had gathered for the move scattered as well. The power exploded outwards causing some damage but it was minor compared to the amount that would have happened if Eden was not attacked.

Another wave of...something flew to him and cut off his other wing as well. Feeling the danger he immediately turned back to his human form and dropped to the ground.

“Mana Shields!” he shouted creating a make shift defence just in case. He took a glance at the 'person' that cut him down in his dragon form and frowned.

He was of Asian descend with black hair but had noticeably red eyes that glowed brightly even compared to the red eyes vampires had. Wearing what Eden believed to be a black kimono for males and holding a long black Katana he knew that this person as an individual was more dangerous than the King with his army.

He was not good with dealing with these kinds of enemies.

“Ah Eden funny to see you here~”

Next to him, a certain wife of his had to appear as well.

“Alexandra don't tell me, me being cut down from the air was your fault” Eden glared at her.

Alexandra pouted and with hands on her hips said, “How is it my fault if he” she pointed at the man, “Was the one who attacked you.”

“The it was really your fault” Eden sighed. He expanded his senses to search for more enemies that he didn't know of and found...one more.

“Damn...three at once...Alexandra do you think you can take out that one quickly?” he had to at least ask right?

“No can do, he's better at the sword than me. And a lot better as well” she showed that her armour which was suppose to be of the highest grade cracked at multiple places and at parts falling off.

“....”

Eden considered things and circumstances and then decided, “We're retreating”, he grabbed Alexandra and immediately teleported away from the upcoming battle that would result in their lost.

xXx

Back in reality, Peter and the others got out of the game and got dressed in their new uniform which they only started to wear right now. The clothes were of the standard uniform code and were a patterned red and black style.

“These clothes are so stiff to move in” Maria complained.

“That's your fault for not wearing them before” Hina said sighing. At these times, she would rather save her energy for later since she would need to deal with school again. She had no spare energy to complain at Maria at the moment.

“Grace, your uniform is too big for you” Ian commented looking at Grace with her body looking several years younger than it actually was, to the taste of certain people. Grace hearing this pouted and hit Ian several times on the legs though there was no real damage done.

“Mark, are you done changing?” Peter asked knocking on the door to his room.

The door opened and Mark in all his glory, with his hair up appeared. Usually he used his long bangs to hide his eyes as they were an eye catcher for better or worse but not everyone else could see his clear blue eyes.

With this, the group started walking to gymnasium where other new students would got to and where they would finally be introduced to the school.

Peter noticed while walking with the others, that there were many other students of all ages here as well. Most of them looked normal but there was a higher than normal percentage of weird looking ones mixed in than usual.

He wondered about how school life would work while he pulled his eyes from staring at them too much.

After asking about for the location and how to get to the gymnasium since everyone else did not want to talk to other people as usual besides Maria which he would not dare trust with these kinds of things anymore, the group got seated and waited for the time to pass.

It was currently 8.30 am and they had another half an hour to wait before the orientation would start.

“Ahh...why did we come so early? We could have played for another 2 hours in game if not for Peter here wanting to come early” Ian said with scorn.

Peter shook his head and said, “Trust me on this, it's better to go here early than to be slightly late and have no seats. Besides there are six of us and finding so many in a row later on would be a pain.”

“True enough” Maria agreed and so did Hina for the most part.

“Bah” Ian said seeing that the two girls mostly agreed with Peter even in game...though he was guilty of that as well. He was...usually agreeable on all things like he knew you as much as you knew yourself.

Besides, Ian thought that Peter was kinds enough that there would be no problems in following him. The only problem was that everyone else thought of this as well which mean Peter had complete control over them.

“All yeah, speaking of the game, I want us to set a time period where we have to reach level 150” Peter said suddenly.

“Why are we talking about that now?” Hina asked.

“Because we have half an hour to spare of course!” Ian replied instead of Peter, “Plus it was his fault we're here early.”

“Right” Peter nodded to Ian's words, “Since we will be spending less time in game...plus Alena is pushing us quite hard on several accounts, I say 6 months would be a good point to get to that level?”

Right now, the total amount of time in which they spent since they started the game was 1 year and 5 months. It this estimate was correct they would be near the 2 years mark when they were level 150.

“Agreed” All five of them except for Peter would asked said at the same time.

The six of them even Mark who usually didn't speak much to begin with started talking about what they were going to do and set goals when they have to the time in between of Alena bossing them around.

Ian commented that Alena was similar to Peter in some ways. Peter and naturally the girls asked why to which Ian said that both of them had their ways on making others agree with them and to follow their orders.

Peter gave a wry smile to that and said that Alena was on a completely different level on manipulating people. Ever since that incident, all of the guards were under her thumbs now.

“I wonder what her husband and sister would look like?” Maria asked no one in particular.

“Didn't he describe them before?” Peter asked.

“Not at all” Maria replied.

“Hmm...I guess we can find out when they come back from that dangerous mission.”

The group continued on having their conversation which led to Mark saying he wanted to take up blacksmithing when his repair skill reached the Intermediate level. Even Hina said that she would like to take up tailoring when she didn't feel like practising magic.

Ian on the other hand said that he wanted to get into alchemy since his master Anna mentioned it and ever since then he never had the chance to. Lyndis said that she would practise her swordsmanship in her spare time which drew comments from Hina and Ian of her hobby choices.

Finally Serena said that she would like to read in her spare time to which everyone had no problems with. Sain was the only one who hadn't had a clear goal but in the end he said he would like to train his skills a bit more when he had the chance.

Eventually the half an hour passed quite quickly. The entire place was filled with students of all kinds, of all nationalities and personalities. Several times some of the students near them pointed out certain people who were famous in certain areas.

However at the end, everyone was silent as the chairman of the school came to speak to the entire school.

That person was a thin looking person with a slim waist and long legs. With long black hair and such a pretty face, one could mistake him easily for a woman. In fact 99% of people did.

All six of the group were jaw dropped seeing that person here.

“Hello” that person said, “I am the founder and chairman of his school.”

The group could see that person smiling and looking at them all but trying to laugh at their shocked expressions.

“I am Eden and I welcome to my school!”

The group had to look a bit away from Eden and found that a certain blonde woman by the name of Alexandra and a short boy by the name of Viv was here as well.

'You got to be kidding me!' they all thought at the same time.

All thoughts of a peaceful school life vanished.

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Author's Notes:

- This chapter was suppose to be the epilogue of the volume but at the same time since with pacing and such, and because I decided not to spend another 5 chapters to cover boring events at the end of the last chapter, this 'Intermission' chapter was born!

- With this, I can cover the school life stuff earlier than I thought and not take up space in the next volume. I have realised that fitting in 20 years of in game time in 15 volumes was impossible and settled for only 16 in game years or perhaps it may be even less in the end. Either way I need to speed things up especially since 5 and a half volumes in and I am not even at the year 2 mark.