- June 6th, 2047 –

- Operation Raze -

- Sahara Desert, Ma’tan Al Jafr, 29°49'57.5"N 19°46'17.8"E, 1150hrs –

Over the horizon of the encampment of the rebels, the 10 men of the Delta forces were sitting down and chatting lowly below their deployable camouflage net that cover up their dug-up temporary entrenchment, enough to accommodate the whole squad. Meanwhile, each of their squad leaders monitors the situation with their binoculars outside in the heat of the desert. Their intel was right, as it was oddly enough there are no activities during daytime, and not even a single air patrol is present. “Maybe they didn’t have any gunships?” the second in command of the squad thought to himself. Agung then looked at his wristwatch, pulling the sleeve of his uniform. looking at the time, He then nods to his subordinate that is also monitoring the situation with him. The man then went inside the netting, gaining the attention of his men.

“10 minutes till operation initiation, have all of checked your gears again??” he said while closing the scope of his DMR and also putting back his binoculars. “All good, Sir!” one of the members replied while checking back

“Good, we’re going to move through the dry oasis while taking some slight detour to the west as the hill there could be used as a cover in two minutes” as they were hastily packing up the camouflage net, agung went inside the trench with a grim face.

“Bad news, I just spotted a couple of BTRs and 3 squads of 8 infantry members on patrol on our northwest”

“Damnit! Should’ve known there was a patrol, there’s no way a very convenient base located in the middle of a landmark in this scorching hot desert without covers has no patrols, so what’s our plan Major?” Logan asked, his hunch was right as he said the same opinion about there should've been a patrol roaming around near their rest point an hour ago before they arrived at their trench spot earlier.

“Proceed as planned, there’s no other option”

“What?! You’re telling us to engage a couple of armoured vehicles without any AT weapons, along with nearly 24 infantries out in an open area?!”

“No, engaging them would be idiotic to do. All we need to do is just to avoid detection and engagement until we reached the designated area. All units, on me! Get moving!” Agung sternly exclaimed. the whole team doesn’t have any choices left, either abort the mission or let the rebels that can have several WMDs at their disposal, launch a surprise attack on a densely populated area in the future. ‘Do or die’ most likely this mission is to them. without further questions, they follow their daring leader, moving slowly through the desert heat.

9 minutes have passed, and luckily enough they weren’t spotted as the new tech they were supplied with was surprisingly effective to cover their movement. The tech is simple, as it was just basically a deployable screen with a camera on the back of the frame. The built-in AI would automatically align the feed from the camera to be displayed upfront to the viewer’s eyes, the downside is that the gadget isn’t very effective in a CQB environment as it would confuse the alignment process. The team went through an exposed exhaust port they accidentally find when they were trying to pass the hill of the dried oasis and coincidentally, it was big enough for them to fit, even while standing. The Vent weren’t even dark, Neon lights covered in thick glasses were present up on the ceilings of the metal walls, and there was a cold air flowing through the exhaust port.

“This doesn’t look like an exhaust port… plus, this damn tunnel has this creepy vibe for some reason,” remarked one of the members that have his rifle up in combat position while walking slowly within the formation.

“Probably this is an escape route or somethin’, but still, I’m hella amazed at how they could even build this without getting detected by sat imagery. Arabic magic perhaps?” the other member replied while gazing at the luminescent metal ceiling above him. The others chuckled at his little joke.

“Cut the chatter gents, we’re one minute away from our appointed time, turn on your comms to the main frequency. Be ready to give an update to HQ” interrupted the squad leader that’s holding his position at the junction in front of them. without any warning, the ear protection that is connected to their radio has a sudden banging loud static that rings their ears, causing them to forcibly plug out the cable that’s connected to the ear protection.

“what the hell was that! Arrgh! Damnit, my ears!”

“I don’t know! It may be some sort of radio jamming!”

“Shit! how do we contact HQ now!?”

The team were slightly frustrated as the unexpected situation is worse than they thought, if they can’t contact their Command back at their base, they can’t update any information that might be useful for the top brass to sort out another approach for the accomplishment of the mission. Amid disarray, their team leader inexplicably kept his stoic attitude, connecting the cable of the radio that he plugs out, back in, and ordered his men to keep moving as planned, splitting into two groups. The team agrees as it will reduce the chances of the mission getting compromised, and thus, the Alpha team will go left while the Bravo goes right. The ones within the Alpha team include Achilles and Logan as its members roster among the 6, led by the main team lead Agung himself. their main mission is the primary objective; sabotage the ICBM launch platforms. While the Bravo team has Agung 2nd in command lead it, their mission is to obtain any valuable information in the facility they accidentally found. Seems highly unlikely they would have trouble, but … it was not the case.

- Back to the current time –

“so what happened after you split up with the second team??” Aurora asked, she has her eyes slightly worried as she was very immersed in Jaeger’s story. She could follow much as Jaeger did explain the term that was out of her world like firearms, Helicopters, etc since he played some holographic footage about the things mentioned earlier.

“After we split up, we maintained radio silence, meaning we’re not allowed to use radio communication until we’re ordered to. The mission didn’t have flaws yet as we moved cautiously throughout the facility, but during that time, I was pretty suspicious about Agung” he said, having himself looking at the skies, slightly sullen on remembering it.

“is it because he’s acting strangely?”

“no, he somehow could figure out the way to the vehicle depot that is located at the ground level, the place where the Missile trucks are stored. The facility itself is a maze, without proper information, we would’ve been lost at that time and might end up getting captured… well eventually we- I mean, I got captured...”

“oh my, how did that happen?”

“it was a setup, you know… the classic story of desertion?”

- Back to the flashback–

“Alright, Charges are in their place and the warheads have been neutralized, on your mark, sir” reported one of the soldiers behind cover, along with the other members of the Alpha team.

“lit it”

BOOM!

The explosives created a huge amount of munitions and vehicles ablaze due to the chain reaction of the explosions, some of the debris flung through the side of their covers and even the turrets of the tanks went sky high as it was coincidentally loaded. The explosions settled down several seconds later, and the alarm went blaring because as of now, the rebels knew their base has an intruder that already caused chaos among them. as the Alpha team move out of cover, one of them saw a dismembered torso lying in the middle of the area, probably one of the maintenance crew that was still present. He held his urge to vomit as the condition was very indescribable. Truthfully, the current Delta team were very green, they never saw real warfare as the world was very peaceful for two in a half-decade as the last war was the Russo-Ukrainian war.

“Well shit, we’re fucked. They know we’re here now. Where the hell is the Bravo team?!” one of the members of the Alpha team fret about the Bravo team as they were late to the schedule.

“No response from their comms, we should investigate the facility before they did something rash. Logan, contact our air asset, we need them to cover our escape. The other two, go secure the perimeter, make sure nobody left alive.” Logan quickly switched the channel of his radio to the frequency that was designated for the fighter jets roaming around above the Egyptian airspace. But the other two were baffled as the order from Agung gave a shiver to their spine as the order was very cold-hearted, although they were troubled by it. nevertheless, they did what they were ordered to do.

“Python 1 – 1, this is Delta 1-2, requesting airstrike on the area of the objective around…” Logan looks at his Superior with a questioning stare.

“10 minutes”

“Around 10 minutes from now, over” there’s a static pause after Logan said his request, although it didn’t take long for a response from one of the pilots, the female he mentioned to Achilles before the mission.

“This is Python 1-1, I read you Delta 1-2. Say, what happened earlier? I heard that HQ somewhat can’t contact your squad, are you okay down there?” she said worriedly, hearing her thick Irish accent made Logan smile slightly. But even so, He chuckles nervously as he also doesn’t know what happened earlier either. But he didn’t want her to be concerned about him, “I’m not gonna lie to you, but somehow, we managed to find an underground facility. The information will be disclosed later so right now, don’t worry about me. I’ll see you back at base”

“Affirmative, good luck out there, Logan. Air Support will arrive as you stated.”

“You too, Emmy. And don’t burn us when dropping your bombs.” She chuckled at the small joke behind the mic.

“Gosh, I won't... silly”

As he ended his talk with the pilot, he gave thumbs up, confirming that the airstrike will be arriving as ordered. But to Logan’s surprise, most of his teammates have a teasing look in their eyes.

“I won’t… silly. what are you two? kids??” one of them said with some giggle while trying to mimic Emmy’s voice

“Oh, shut up, at least I’m winning in life” the guy stopped his laugh and clicked his tongue, the retort stabbed him right on the spot. Achilles shook his head with a sigh, “Seriously sir, those words could kill any friends of yours that are still single if they hear it”

“All of you, cut your chatter! We need to find the Bravo team in 9 minutes or we all gonna became some crisp steak out in the desert” Agung sternly interrupted their casual conversation while he slightly took a peek at the door where they came out from the underground bunker, making sure the corridor is still clear from hostiles. The team then stacked up behind him after the others has ascertain that there are no survivors of the explosion. Rapidly tapping Agung’s shoulders, Logan pointed at a door that has the sand on top of it blown out, slightly intrigued as no one noticed it until now

“Hey, should we check that door first? It might lead us to valuable info down there” Agung paused briefly, but he agreed at Logan’s suggestion.

“Alright, change of plans. The search for the Bravo team is up to you three. Master Sergeant Logan and Sergeant Achilles, on me. We're going to investigate the unknown entrance” all of them moved according to his order. the other 3 members of the team swiftly sweep the aforementioned exit to search for any survivors of the bravo team while Agung, Logan and Achilles forced the unknown door laying on the ground open with explosives. As the smoke clears out, the three of them activate their Night vision goggles and their laser sights and head inside, guns in their ready position. it has a stairwell that leads deep to the underground, just like the bunker they found, but Logan assumes that it wasn’t connected to the bunker as it weren’t any electricity around since the concrete ceilings are opened and the damaged wiring was exposed, moreover, most of the hanging neon lightbulbs for the lighting were destroyed.

It didn’t take long as they reached the end of the stairwell and encountered a junction in the corridor, Agung decided to search on the right while Logan & Achilles were ordered to search together. Although it was reasonable as it would decrease their time on gathering information about the unknown bunker they found, Achilles felt conflicted as Agung’s suggestion could lead them to be more vulnerable to an indoor ambush or traps if they’re split into two groups. Agung, with his hard head, sternly insisted that he’ll be fine, and proceeded to walk alone to the passageway on the right.

“Damnit! That hard-headed character is what I hate about him!”

“Hey, chill out, I know we’re in the middle of a mission and his actions are somewhat a bit off from our training but from my experience, I know he has good reasons for it.” Logan tries to reassure Achilles. But it didn’t affect him and instead burn more of the flames in his eyes.

“This is why I say he’s acting odd from his usual self! I knew him since my childhood days, and since his father went missing in action, his view of the world changed drastically as he actually hates peace! I still can’t believe he could raise our team’s morale with that half-assed cheesy patriotic speech back on the Helo and-”

“Sergeant… don’t you dare talk shit about your superior behind his backs” Achiles was caught by surprise as Logan cut his sentence with a stern tone, looking onto his eyes with something that says ‘If you continue, I’ll be sure you’ll be discharged from the military when this is all over. He then sighed and took a deep breath, calming his emotions down.

“Sorry… it’s just…his ignorance of my presence back when I enlisted myself got onto my nerves. until now, he didn’t even talk to me normally, even as a superior” Logan patted Achilles’ shoulder having a slight sympathy in his eyes.

“I know that feeling, but the past is the past and right now we need to finish this mission quickly before Emmy bombed us into hot barbeque”

“Yeah, and barbeque is only good served with cold drinks”

“Hell yeah, that’s the spirit! Let’s get moving then” they then proceeded to walk through the left passageway, clearing every room they encountered on their left and right and to the point they could reach the end of the passageway feeling the area is secured. At that time, there was only one room left, as it was locked tightly and can’t be forcefully opened with human force like kicking it down or using a crowbar they found inside one of the rooms they cleared. Logan whipped out one last C4 explosive charge that he has inside his backpack and slid it between the door and its handle as he ran out of adhesive for it. Both of them went inside a nearby room, taking cover from the door that’s been planted with an explosive. they made sure that they were braced for it and nodded to each other, Logan pressed the detonator button. The C4 blasted the door, although the door didn’t get sent flying as it was a thick metal door, the latching mechanism was severely damaged as the part on the was bent to the point it broke the frame of the doorway. Both of them then stand across each other in front of the doorway of the metal door as the smoke clears out, Achilles then swiftly threw a flashbang grenade inside just like how they would do before clearing that room that’s deemed by them to be more suspicious than the other rooms. The grenade’s flashes and banging sounds resided several seconds later, Logan then quickly move to a position where he could kick the door and force his way inside the right side of the room, followed by Achilles behind him going to the left side.

The room is dark, just like the others, but since they use Night vision goggles, the room could be seen by them. they look around the room as it was different from the other room. The room itself contains a lot of lockers for files and samples, and each one of them started to deteriorate as it was locked only God knows how long that room was locked. Logan then started to look around the room for any information or data that they could get a hand on while Achilles guard the doorway. But as he searched a table, he found a file inside the drawer, written in a foreign language that he didn’t understand.

“Hey, Achilles, come here for a sec,” he said while looking back, having his rifle on his sling and gesturing to come to the table’s position

“What is it??” Achilles, still having his eyes warily guarding the doorway went reluctantly to the table where Logan is, standing beside him and looking at the file that was handed to him.

“How do you read this word?” Achilles hummed at the question, he then deactivates his NV goggles and brought up a small flashlight. He then read the file thoroughly and was surprised by it. “Holy crap… who in the sane mind made this experiment!?”

“Tell me what is it,” Achilles stared at his curious Superior as he was hesitant to tell him. “The file is written in German, A project named Dísir, and it stated here that the project’s main point is to modify a female body that can create a descendant that has superhuman capabilities.”

“well, that doesn’t sound that bad right? It only sounds someone just wanted to make a better version of us humans. Evolution am I right??” Logan slightly chucked to lighten the mood up, but it didn’t work.

“Well, although it sounded fine at first when you only hear the concept, the death count is high when they started experimenting. The serum that they made contained multiple animal DNA that was intended to make the subject itself have superhuman strength, but the side effects were fatal, either their brains suddenly stopped, vomiting their intestines, or their skin and body suddenly changed into something so grotesque that it can’t be explained by words alone. From their 12 years of experiments, only one subject survived it and the project was cancelled since they lack funds and the experiment site was dangerously close to a nearby city, fearing the danger if there would be a catastrophic incident that the subject would run wild and expose whatever the hell they’re doing here to the world. Do I need to continue? Here’s one of the pic of the subject that went to a deceased state.” Achilles handed the opened file with the exact page of the picture that was attached to the page with a paperclip to his current CO. Logan was so disturbed he couldn't fathom any witty remarks. The image shows the subject having her eyes gouged out as if they exploded, her pores on her limbs expanded to the point that the bones were exposed, and her chest also went swollen as if her heart received air that expanded it to the point it could explode anytime, along with other parts that expanded, worst one is that her skull seems to be corroded that the brain’s shape was printed at the skin of her head that has no hair. Logan covers his mouth trying to hold his nausea because of the image.

“what the hell did we just discover…”

“some fucked up shit alright…”

As they were reading more of the other files, some footsteps were heard on the passageway outside the room. Achilles and his instincts tell him to head to the other side of the room to get into his ready position just like in his training, along with turning his NV goggles on. At the same time, Logan notices his comrade’s sudden action, turns around and readied his rifle in the aiming position. Both of them aimed at the doorway, having some cold sweat running down. The footsteps are getting closer, but it was countable as it was only one person that was approaching them.

“Cobras eye,” the approaching man said. The two of them then sighed in relief as they know the word to identify an ally during their mission.

“Major, how’s your end? Did you get any valuable data??” he asked, having himself gone out of the room with his rifle lowered followed by Achilles behind him. “oh, not much, it was a dead end and there’s only the electrical room and some sort of a research area. I didn’t find anything good as most of it was either destroyed or deteriorated due to its age. So, what did you find here? That explosive isn’t for nothing right?”

“right, Sergeant, tell him the full detail of that file we found”

Achilles then led Agung inside and grabbed the file, describing its content in detail. Agung’s face looked grim as he was also speechless. Achilles also added some detail from other files that were connected to it, stating that the project intended to create a super soldier that is a pure weapon of war that’s merciless.

“so, what should we do with these files??” Achilles asks Agung currently still thinking. “should we just take a photo and burn it or…”

“We need the real thing back to be analysed, so gather up all the files that are connected to Project Dísir. We’re done here, Airstrike will arrive around 4 minutes, pack up.”

“Yes Sir!” Both Achilles and Logan then quickly grabbed the files that they read earlier, fitting them inside their backpack that’s filled with consumables and other things like riflescopes, camo net, etc. it didn’t take long for them to finish up and they walked to Agung that’s waiting at the stairs. They confirmed to him that they had already picked up what they need. Logan then said he was going to go up first to check the condition. But as Achilles followed Logan, Agung halted him,

“Hey, sergeant, what do you think about Master Sergeant logan?”

“huh? Oh, he’s an interesting guy, even though he kept his funny attitude with the team, but he’s still a great superior.”

“I see, what’s his reaction when he read the file?”

“He held his nausea, but he didn’t read it by himself since he didn’t know German, I told him everything I read in that file”

“I see…” Achilles tilted his head slightly as Agung’s question is odd at the current situation. “guess, he’s still one of the loose ends then”

“Huh?”

Bang

A gunshot was heard from the top of the stairway and Achilles looked in horror as he looks back up the top, Logan’s silhouette that was walking up the stairs fell and rolled down the stairway. Achilles instinctively tried to aim at Agung, but his rifle was slapped away from him, Agung quickly pulled some heavy punches toward him that were still caught in surprise. Achilles tried to counter him with punches but to no avail as it seemed that Agung wasn’t even flinched by it and the betraying officer is thrice more powerful than him. They both fight in close quarters, pulling punches against one another, and even trying to stab each other. But then Achilles made a mistake, he fell for Agung’s faint and was caught in a lock.

“heh, this kid is not so mighty after all eh?”

“Major!! What the fuck is this! Why did you kill your own teammate!? So that speech just some bullshit is it?!” Agung grinned below his balaclava, and he accidentally let out his laughter slightly.

“whoops, I guess I’m busted, but those guys aren’t the rebels, they’re another organization. They set up everything here, just to capture you and take the remaining data of Disir away. But hey! You’re just one easy prey for me that’s 10 times better than you in any aspect of this kind of job” He spoke with an arrogant tone

“What do you mean another organization?!” Agung then grabs a syringe out from his chest rig pocket and stabbed it into Achille’s neck, he then injects the serum slowly into Achilles that’s currently bleeding since Agung pierced the wrong spot.

“Ah damn, that’s the wrong spot. but anyway, sleep tight, spoiled brat”

“damnit you….”

- Back to the current time –

“I lost consciousness due to that injection, it’s probably some sort of anaesthetic that’s quite powerful since after a few hours later when I woke up, I had nausea and headache, along with tension around some of my…” Jaeger coughed before continuing his sentence with his fingers that gestured a quotation mark “body parts…”

“Oh… Umm… I won’t question what part it is then” Aurora has a slight blush, realizing what he meant while gazing away from him. “Although... did Logan die at that time? You did say that your world has this body armour that could resist ‘bullets’ that’s faster than arrows”

“He… after I woke up, I realized I was still at that same facility, but the room’s location was deeper than we were before since I remember the wall texture. Logan’s corpse was hanged with a chain in the next room, I could see his condition since our room was only separated by a thick layer of glass, looking at his injuries, I think he was tortured to death…” Jaeger’s voice is shaking, gripping the grass nearby hardly, holding his anger, “and that bastard that betrayed us… fucking sneered at me through the glass window across me… showing the footage of his compatriots getting killed in the trap he set with his collaborator”

Another holographic footage was shown from Jaeger’s perspective looking at the recorded footage of his teammate slaughtered in a room full of either automated miniature turrets or they were surrounded by hostiles. Each shout of “contact!!” and desperation screech in pain hit him like a freight train, one by one he saw his teammate downed, the Jaeger in the footage was cursing at Agung in rage and frustration. And the footage was cut when another explosion happened suddenly, knocking him unconscious.

Jaeger breathed in and out, calming his anger down, and continuing his flashback, “during that time, my only regret was… If I have acted sooner… we wouldn’t lose two hundred thousand lives, along with the whole squad in a single day…” he then ordered Ofnir to open his memories after he escaped the facility. Walking by weeks before reaching the destroyed base he was in back then.

“I dragged my wounded body back to HQ, hoping someone is still there, but it was in vain… it was the first ground zero of the nuke they obtained… and the fact that there’s still a warehouse standing is a miracle. I then changed my course, heading north to the port city nearby. although it took several days to arrive as I was also walking with minimal supplies, I arrived safely and stayed for 2 weeks before contacting someone from my Nation.” Jaeger mournfully looks at the skies again. “I cried nonstop at the inn I was in, most of them have families back home, unlike me, that’s technically live alone… when I arrived back at my nation, I was despised by their families for coming back alive, and even command questioned how I could survive literal days of precision bombings…” he sighed again, as it was still unbearable for him to verbalise what he saw that day on the TV inside the inn. The news stated that the eastern side of Manchester that was already been struck by the nuclear attack and the government was desperate to search for any survivors, and as he saw the date when he saw the news, it was already 4 days since he was inserted to the mission area.

“After that, I was dismissed from the military several months after getting promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for my achievement getting the file of Project Disir to HQ and my father took me into his company. Not long, I was transferred to a research lab as a volunteer for their experiment subject. I won’t tell the details about it, but that research is very disturbing to say and that’s what made me what I am today, a living weapon with free will. That’s the story I guess…” he said to Aurora, still in his gloomy tone and noticed that the grass he was gripping earlier was torn out from the ground. The grass itself felt different from the ones on Earth where it felt vegetative. At Verdia, the grass feels fluffy and has a unique texture on its upper epidermis. Although Jaeger’s statement earlier left Aurora speechless, all of the footage she saw are too painful for even her to imagine if she were at his place and made her shed some tears.

“Uhh… hey? Are you okay?” she wiped her tears with her hands, although she still sobs. She looked at him while trying to comfort Jaeger instead of herself, “No, it’s just… you’ve been through a lot, didn’t you? I want to say that you could tell me anything if you’re troubled with something since this matter isn’t that trivial… it’s a trauma that caused you a lot of pain, isn’t it? So… just…” Aurora then embraced him once more and he didn’t say a word, she patted his back and soothingly whispers, “just let it out again… It’s fine…” Jaeger has his emotions start flowing slowly again for the second time. He did get treatment for his trauma back then, it kept returning to the point where it was used in the research, he was in to trigger the mindless weapon he was brainwashed as. His tears start flowing again and he cried aloud again just like back in the days when he lost his comrades.

In the meantime, Christina was watching the two from afar at the side of the mansion. She was on ears on what were they conversing about while she was preparing the teleportation sigil. “August needs to explain to me about this later, but I’m glad that he has grown stronger than I imagined he would be" she muttered with a smile, but then her motherly smile was shattered when she hears the continuation of their conversation.

“Can you NOT get aroused when I’m trying to comfort you?!”

“I’m sorry okay! It’s not like I intended to do so!” The two then have a small quarrel while they’re hugging, shattering the emotional moment they have and that made Christina pinch her forehead, “this idiot couple” she muttered solemnly. their quarrel did take a while until it reached a climax where they hilariously mock each other, causing Christina to let her laughter out. The two stopped their quarrel as they see the laughing Archmage beside the mansion corner.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking right now?” He said while letting Aurora go.

“I do may have an opinion that differs slightly, but surely indeed” in their irritation of having their conversation getting eavesdropped on, both of them headed towards Christina that’s holding her abdomen trying to suppress her laughter. “Ah, hey you two, what’s with the scary face?” she said, trying to stop her chuckle while having the two stare at her with arms crossed.

“So, Aurora, how do we deal with eavesdroppers in your country?”

“Oh, we usually either do some thrashing or forcibly make them forget, you know how…”

“Interesting…” with the information he got from her, his evil grin grew. “Eh…” is the only word Christina say before she was given some Punishment by the two. Not long, they then went to the room with the teleportation sigil and knocked. Conrad, that have finished the preparation by charging the sigil with mana as Christina taught him, opened the door and was caught by surprise at the condition Christina is in.

“What in the world happened? Wait… Lehrerin… you did something mischievous again huh?” It was inevitable as he might know what did happen by looking at the face of both Jaeger and his sister that’s still slightly irritated as they were trying to suppress it.

“Ahaha…ha… it’s just… I only eav-“

“It’s not just Only eavesdropping on us, Miss Archmage…” Jaeger didn’t say a word and just walked past Conrad that is listening yet petrified as Aurora’s reprimanding towards his mentor continued since she is still vexed. “should we go now? The portal is ready and all” suggested Conrad to his sister either to calm her down or since the teleporter needs to be hurriedly activated. All of them then stand inside the huge sigil inside the room, and Christina then started chanting the spell to activate it. The teleportation sigil then slowly shone like before they were transferred to the mansion and glowed in a bright blue colour.

“you know, wild talisman sure does have a nice ring on it,” Jaeger said out of the blue just to crack the ice between them with a chuckle following it.

“Who are you calling wild talisman huuuhh..????”

“Of course, you, mom”

“Yeah sure, pervy-ford sure sounds good too”

“Oi, I ain’t-” They were transferred somewhere else as Jaeger tried to continue his sentence, worst of all, got separated again just like last time and ended up teleported outside of the Capital walls. The city guards that were inspecting a Caravan convoy were taken aback as a man just appeared out of thin air behind one of the Merchants’ wagons. The appearance of a man with a unique outfit, equipment and weapon makes him stare at Jaeger for several seconds until his fellow city guard points his spear at Jaeger who sighed in annoyance at the situation.

“Who are you?! Identify yourself!” the guard said

“Ah, crap… why I always got into these kinds of situations when it’s involving magic bullshit…” Jaeger annoyingly thought. He raised both of his hands up, yielding himself so there would not be any useless bloody fight occur. “Apologies for my sudden appearance out of the blue, I was teleporting with Archmage Talisman to a certain place, but somehow the teleportation magic went wrong, and I ended up here” he explained, with a small smile etched on his face as a façade to hide his annoyance for every teleportation incident he had experienced up to this day. Unfortunately, The guards weren’t easily convinced by his honest reasoning and let out some laughter.

“Nonsense, the Archmage would not have some stranger with her teleporting around lavishly.”

“even though with her son??” that statement from Jaeger made them burst out laughing even more as they knew the story of the Archmage’s Husband and child were teleported back to the other world. “That was a great joke buddy, tell that to the interrogator later, chances are you’re either going to get laughed at and get beaten up to the face”.

“AH GODDAMNIT!!”

That day, the whole residents of the gate area were rather shocked by the roaring echo of someone cursing aloud. As for Jaeger, he was detained by the city guards and was escorted to a nearby Knight’s office.