Nathan

Year 2849 | Month 9 | Day 7

Surprisingly, we’re all given a shared suite for our rooms, with two rooms in the suite. One for the boys, and one for the girls. Both of them have six different beds, with a pretty large amount of space – enough to fit six people relatively comfortably.

From what Maria explained, the suites are meant for magician teams, since most teams are all five or six people. But almost immediately after she explained that, she left, leaving behind nothing but a “Get yourselves settled and I’ll be back in an hour,” before vanishing out the door.

I stare at said door for a few seconds before making my way towards the room with a blue door frame with my few personal items. And once I get inside, it doesn’t take me long to put everything away next to the first bed closest to the door.

Just a few seconds after I finish, I hear the door opening again to reveal Aidan as he walks in, likely having just finished chatting with Sophia.

“Guess you already picked your bed then,” he says before looking around and deciding on the bed directly across from mine, which is also next to the door. He then begins to put his stuff away – which consists of a single bag for spare uniforms and his weapon maintenance equipment – while saying, “Didn’t expect to see Maria here.”

I close my eyes and sit down on the bed to focus on training my mana arcs as he continues to speak.

“When was the last time we saw her?” he asks, seemingly more to himself than to me, “A year ago, maybe?”

The sound of shuffling items can be heard from his bed for a few seconds before stopping when Aidan says, “Finished.” I then hear his footsteps approaching me as he asks, “Do you think the internship will be anything like the trips your teacher had us going on?”

“Probably,” I answer him while opening my eyes and getting off of the bed. It’s only been a few weeks since I got my tenth arc, and generally it takes about ten to eleven days for the newly split arcs to develop enough to be trained again.

So there hasn’t been as much progress on the next arc as I’d like, but it’s moving forwards nonetheless.

“Let’s go check on the others,” I tell Aidan while walking around him towards the door.

One bright side about having four sixths of our group being girls is this rooming situation. Having one large room big enough to fit six people all just for two is quite nice.

Although the idea of sleeping in the same room as Aidan who I know for a fact snores isn’t a pleasant one.

Not to mention that I can’t do as much in regard to testing dangerous spells while he’s sleeping in the same room as me…

I shake my head at that thought before opening the door and walking in to the common room to find the girls already out there and watching tv.

“As of yesterday, at ten AM in the morning, the Class S magicians from the nations of Arcania, the Collective Kingdoms, Entaria, and the White Kingdom have all officially rebelled from their nation’s leadership!” is the first thing I hear once I step into the room, making me do a double take towards the tv with my mouth parting slightly in shock. However, I close it again at the second part, “What’s more is that all of them have also kidnapped Juan Sequani, the only Class S magician of the Natra nation, and sealed him in a separate dimension!”

“Holy shit…” Aidan mutters as I stare at the tv screen showing a woman seemingly in her thirties pointing at a picture of what must’ve been some sort of natural disaster. The picture has scorch marks everywhere – likely from Juan, since if I remember correctly, he should be a fire magician – burning everything within several kilometers to ash.

But what’s even more shocking than that is the sight of space distorting slightly everywhere, making it difficult to judge the distance depending on what you’re looking at. And at the center of the area is some sort of purple and blue box, which is likely where the entrance to the separate dimension is, stopping anyone from freeing him until the man manages to free himself.

Which’ll likely happen eventually, but not for the duration of this rebellion of theirs.

“Archibald Winters – the man acting as the public figurehead of the rebellion – released a statement about the kidnapping, explaining that it was done to ‘keep the patriotic sovereign of Natra out of matters that don’t concern him’,” the woman continues while showing a picture of the man himself, who I have a lot of difficulty seeing as the real leader of this rebellion. Which is probably why the news reporter said public figurehead instead of leader when addressing him.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the leader was the doctor. But at the same time, I guess I would.

If I remember correctly, he is supposedly the most powerful magician in the world right now, with the only possible exception being the Chairman who only just now advanced. And that’s only due to the natural advantage of an anti-magic user over exterior magic users.

But even then, the doctor should just be able to overwhelm him with mana to deal with him.

Anyways, he also doesn’t seem like he would want to lead them.

Unless…

Wait… could this really be just a distraction? Or is he actually mad at the nations?

If he were just doing all of this to distract them from his little ‘experiment’, aka me, then that would make sense. Although it would be rather sad for the rest of the world to be dragged into it.

I shake my head at the thought.

The man is too mysterious. I don’t understand much about him outside of his psychopathic nature and his obsession with immortality and his experiments.

“But,” the news reporter suddenly continues with a severe look on her face, “unlike what the populous expected, the nations themselves are all increasing their wartime expenses and rushing further into war between each other instead of working together to deal with the threat.”

My eyebrows raise slightly in surprise.

That’s not a very smart move. But then again, Hardlight still has their healer Class S magician, while Arcania now has the Chairman as another Class S magician. So it’s possible that the Chairman is just using this as a way to push forwards through the other nations while he can since he can at least defend himself from the other Class S magicians a little bit.

I look down at the floor while scratching my chin in thought.

Such a dilemma. I just hope this doesn’t affect us too badly.