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Return of The 8th Class Mage (Web Novel) - Chapter 135: Suddenly (2)
Chapter 135: Suddenly (2)
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“Enough with the nonsense.”
However, the words that came out of Ian’s mouth and what were to come out would not be so kind. The father and son relationship, linked by blood was not important, at all. Nor were there any intention of rebuking as to why he has just shown up, as all blood relatives might do, in such a situation.
“What do you want?”
That entity was this kind of being to Ian. The name of the first sorcerer? It was acceptable. The golden dragon? That too, was acceptable. Fran? It did not matter whether that name was used or not. However, the final and the fourth name, ‘father’. At least that name could not be easily accepted.
“I’m sad. As I am still your father.”
“The one who was my father has died a long time ago.”
There was an aura of coldness in Ian’s voice. It was as if some magic has been initiated.
“Not too long before I was born.”
“That couldn’t be helped.”
Fran, who has overtaken the body of the servant girl Emily, said, waving his hands in extremely dismissing gesture.
“It was the choice I had made to protect you and your mother. Had I stayed there any longer, those bastards would have discovered me. The lizard bastards, that was.”
Fran explained the reasons behind his decision as he saw it. However, it had no effect on Ian.
“I am not questioning as to why you have deserted us, why you’ve just shown up, or playing such infantile familial games. You should already know it well? The reason for deceiving my mother, so that she could give birth to me. I’m only interested in knowing the reasons behind that deed.”
A being that has lived more than one thousand years, such a being could not have innocently and simply fallen in love. There must have been an intentional reason behind doing so.
“Intention……”
Fran bobbed his head, hearing Ian. Of course, his façade was still Emily’s.
“You probably have a good idea, already?”
“Certainly.”
Ian’s guess was simple. A ‘tool’ to be used in reclaiming the physical body. It was the ‘process’ of creating that tool. Here, the tool would imply Ian Page. And the process implied none other than Ian’s mother.
“That guess was probably accurate.”
Fran admitted without any hesitation. Ian’s eyes trembled slightly.
“I see.”
Ian thought for a moment. Then he spoke. He spoke with a dry voice.
“I’ll ask again. What do you want?”
“I thought I’d play a little gamble.”
“A gamble?”
“The hand that I had saved has become rather stimulating.”
Fran’s voice continued.
“It is a gamble that has been prepared for a long time, but the success rate was rather low, until now. It was because I expected uncooperative behaviors, for sure. Even lacking in skills or desperation. By the way, I’m talking about you.”
It was the first time that he has heard about having insufficient skills since he was born. It was same with respect to desperation. Ian has lived fiercer than anyone else, so far. However, to the eyes of that being, it did not seem to be that way, at all.
“But you have the tendency to become easily provoked, such that you would at least mobilize even with a small tap. It would have been better if I could have aged you a bit longer. Well, that is in the past.”
He mobilizes with a small tap. Hence, that’s how he used to appear to Ian.
Those taps were, saying not to trust the dragon by appearing through magic, or saying to be careful with the time, after appearing in the form for a dragon, and such.
“Of course, it wasn’t easy for me to approach, either. That was because there were separate lizard posse bastards who were after my spiritual entities. And I didn’t have sufficient time to explain it as I have now, they weren’t tired of it, I suppose? Those bastards.”
Fran who has made idle remarks.
He began to discuss the real subject matter at hand.
“To cut to the chase, you will soon die.”
“…What?”
“Soon, the lizard bastards will come. Although I had bought some time, I think the time is running out. They are such a suspicious bunch of races……”
“Explain it in simple terms.”
“Hmm, it is difficult to explain it, now that I’m trying.”
Crossing his arms, Fran said. He even cringed as if he was agonizing over it.
“First of all, you’ve seen the space in which my true body was being kept, right?”
“If you are referring to the purple space……”
“That’s right, there. As you might have seen already, most of the lizard bastards are in that space. However, they are not all of them. A very tiny part, the posses that I’ve just mentioned belong to that race. Most of them are young.”
It was the posse that was organized in order to come after Fran’s spiritual body. It implied that a tiny group of ‘young dragons’ were active in the world. It was just that their movements were so discreet that no one was able to recognize it.
“The mercenary dragon army which had been sent to you, and the true dragon. They were all part of the posse. Most likely, they found out something in the process of locating my spiritual body.”
Ian listened to Fran’s story carefully. He thought he was beginning to understand, little by little. Including the reason why the dragon, which was in the purple space, didn’t recognize him, and the statement, implying that he would soon die, as well.
“I expected that you would somehow defeat those skeleton bastards. So, instead, I stopped the posse. It was necessary to delay their reporting. As a result, I’ve lost most of my spiritual bodies, but now it is more beneficial for me to be protecting you.”
That was it. The dragons, which lived in the purple space, did not get the report of the existence of Ian Page, the ‘secret weapon’ that the first sorcerer has discretely prepared and that of his relationship by blood.
“They will slowly mobilize. The regular report that they were supposed to receive has been cut off, so a few members of the race will most likely be sent out to the world. There isn’t really much to be investigated, either? The city was attacked by two skull headed monsters, and that crisis had been resolved by an incredibly skilled, high level human sorcerer?”
A mercenary dragon army has attacked the human city. Furthermore, if it was a dragon investigating, he would have felt the traces of the true dragon, as well. And that a human blooded sorcerer had destroyed them all, all by himself. That was, the sorcerer with light brown hair. This would cast a suspicion that would be almost certain.
“They would kill immediately. No one, around you, will survive most likely? That would be the only way to eliminate any potential, future troubles. That is the way of the lizard bastards.”
Not just Ian, but those who are around him. In close proximity, it meant the family members, and more widely, the entire city. He felt certainty from Fran’s tone.
“That tragedy, don’t you want to avoid it?”
“……”
Certainly he wanted to avoid it. He wanted to avoid it in any way possible. That was Ian’s true feeling. However, he did not respond readily.
‘Can’t just trust him blindly, ether.’
He had more than a couple of suspicions. He had a temperament of not even trusting ordinary humans, yet, how can he trust a one thousand year old slimy snake? No matter how hard he was thinking about it, he couldn’t help, but have reservations. After all, he was just the being who considers Ian, himself, as only a tool. It meant that he was no ordinary blood relative.
‘However.’
If he was to just put aside those suspicions. His words were convincing. He had to believe it even if he didn’t want to believe it.
“What is it? The way to avoid that tragedy.”
“It’s simple. I’ll bring you up to my level.”
“Your level……?”
Fran Page. The level that which the first sorcerer has reached. It was not a simple matter. It was the beginning and the end of all magic and power. And so, he began to be suspicious, again. It was because it sounded impossible.
“I also thought that it was impossible until just recently. My thoughts have changed. Looking at you, it seems that you’ve been injured by a forbidden power……”
“Forbidden power?”
Fran stretched out his right arm in response to the question. Then amazing thing took place.
‘Mana……’
Ian had been slightly tapped by the dragon’s finger nail. All that Fran did was to stretch out the palm of his hand. Yet, the result was incredibly amazing.
‘Has it returned…?’
The missing mana. He felt the responsive power of it.
“Perhaps, because you’ve lost the power that you’ve always took for granted? The pressure and the urgency has become fundamentally unbearable. It is the perfect condition to have understanding in the past life.”
With those words Fran retrieved his hand. Then the responsiveness of mana was gone also.
“……”
The overwhelming difference in the powers. Furthermore, his counterpart was only a spiritual being. That was, it wasn’t even the power of a true being. Yet, how could it be this strong?
“Ian, you do not have a choice. The longer you hesitate, the higher the probability grows. That is, the probability that your mother will perish in the hands of the lizards. She was a good woman. We can’t let that be her fate, now can we?”
In response, Ian’s eyes twitched. Along with the dragons’, the tone of that Fran Page did not sit well with Ian, either.
“Was it only Vanessa? Fairly good friendships have been forged in this life, this time around, with the likes of the princess, the alchemist father and son team, the crowned price, and that knight. Who else was there? At any rate, quite a large number of good friends may perish.”
The second life of Ian. The lives of those who he thought were special to him in this life were flashing by one after another.
“If you want to avoid that tragic future, listen and do as I say. Then I’ll teach you everything. And with that power, destroy all the members of that dragon race. That’s the only way you and your acquaintances will survive. And you may enjoy more things after that, if you want to. It is powerful enough to achieve that?”
He would be taught everything by the first sorcerer. Then, annihilate the dragon race. And thus, save the lives of those who were around him, and himself. How sensible and sweet a whisper it was. As he said, there was no room for any other choices, either. He was already at the end of the road, it seemed.
“If the dragon race was to be annihilated.”
Ian quietly regurgitated Fran’s words. He recited in a quiet voice.
“You, too, would be freed.”
“It just might as well be so, right?”
“That must be the purpose.”
“Think as you please.”
Fran responded as if it was nothing. He then, again, urged for Ian to make his decision.
“Let me remind you again, the quicker the decision, the better.”
“……”
No matter how hard he had struggled with it, the final decision seemed to be the same. There was no better choice. It reminded him of the expression, ‘irresistible force.’ Although the deliberation has been brief, the thought was very deep.
“… Your method, I’ll go with it.”
To Ian’s decision.
“It is a prudent decision.”
Fran welcomed the decision with satisfaction. He wobbled momentarily.
“Gosh, I guess it’s already depleted.”
“What?”
“A piece of the spiritual body, which was placed on her, I’ve only used one the size of a finger nail in attempts to conserve and conserve again. Even not much of the spiritual body is remaining. There is way too much to lose unless it is used conservatively.”
Fran was in a situation where he was borrowing Emily’s body. It meant that Emily, herself, was not the spiritual body.
Ian’s expression has darkened upon hearing those words.
“That expression, perhaps, concerned for your father……”
“Not you, Emily.”
“Ah, you do not need to worry about this, child. I only borrowed her body.”
Ian felt relieved when he heard that. She was a girl that his mother thought of as her younger sister. Of course, Fran knew that fact, too.
“Then I’ll return soon. I need to get prepared.”
“Get prepared? How long will it take?”
“Shouldn’t take … Long……”
It was from right at that moment. Fran’s voice eventually became smaller. The piece of the spiritual form that had been placed over Emily… It was because its power was nearly depleted.
“A few days… Sufficient…”
That was the end. Fran Page’s voice was cut off. In addition, Emily’s body fell to the ground like a leaf. Ian quickly helped her. He only hoped that Fran saying that a good night’s sleep would fix her was true.
“……same class as you.”
Ian murmured as he was looking at Emily, who was fallen. Then he saw the eyes, nose, and the mouth which have relayed Fran Page’s message, as Fran Page.
“No, I……”
Ian’s tone was more determined than ever. He continued to speak to himself.
“Will need to stand higher.”
He had to do so. Ian was sure. His instincts and experiences whispered to him. Do not be fooled by a slimy face. Do not be fooled by the name, father. The being that was more dangerous than the dragons. None other than Fran Page, that was.
“Over you.”
* * *
Several days after since then. A quite a ‘different being’ has appeared before Ian’s eyes. It was the being who was the ‘most fit’ to pass down the power.
