Using the portals to travel made things a lot easier. So of course, before the start of the third trimester in the academy, I had brought over everyone to the Kingdom of Sages. We still had a bit of time before attacking the final floor of Sanctuary, and could rest here for a bit.
The recent excursion was fairly long and the teachers had to get back to their duties, everyone else also wanted to rest a little and the four idiots I had to drag along were a huge pain.
The first thing I did after returning to the academy was to talk with Lushan about everything. He requested I do not walk around as a demon yet and let the change happen gradually, to which I agreed for now.
It was also natural that the demons would not be able to take the changing thought process of two whole realms all at once. But I did still make Asahi welcome the demons to the East and make sure that people didn't turn very religious, placing more power in the gods' hands was not going to be good.
There was no particular reason other than the fact that they were already plenty powerful. If there was any chance of things getting messed up, a balance was needed.
Now I sat relaxed in the room of the ALEN faction. Albert took the front of the table as always and Luka the other side while Noa rested her head on my shoulder. The three fairies had started playing around as crackles emerged from the fireplace.
"Things seem to be changing," Noa said. She slowly turned her head and buried herself in my chest.
"Do you dislike it?" I asked.
"Not really, its just a little uncomfortable."
"You guys did live another whole life, right?" Albert asked. "What are you worried about?"
Luka sighed at his words and picked up his wine. "I understand her here. Its because we lived a whole other life that this is easy to adjust too."
"We were too quick to die back then. When change happens that rapidly you cannot register it," Noa hummed, not letting go of me. "But this time we're in control."
I looked at Albert and tilted my head.
And he shook his back at me.
We were in control? How so? Everything was out of our hands.
In the end, I guess all of us moved that way. Thinking someone out there had it all figured when no one did.
Let alone a hundred, even those thousands of years old gods and demons were lost on their path. There was no adult here, just people that pretended to be one.
"I think its just going to get worse," said Albert. "With the gods on our side and this… raid of ours, we would be able to judge the extent of the threat and prepare accordingly. Half the battle is won before its fought after all. And the one in Luka's timeline was lost."
Most of the forces of the gods and the demons were shredded in the initial attack by the outer gods which gave the humans an upper hand in their alliance. This time, though, the alliance was being formed with everyone.
And at its center, I stood.
I slowly ran my hand through Noa's hair and leaned back.
"Two days huh?"
"Hey," Noa spoke up. "I want to go in the dungeon too."
"You should stay here, in case something else happens. That's why they are leaving most of the others too."
Noa hummed at my words and then sighed.
"Fine."
Luka suddenly got up and stretched his hands.
"Where you going?"
"Two days right? I'll train a bit more."
"I'll join you," Albert said. "We need whatever little chance we get."
The two of them walked away and Noa jumped off her seat as well.
"What about you," she asked.
I wanted to as well, but there was little I could do.
"I think I'll take the day off."
"Alright," she tussled my hair and then walked out of the room too.
Now with only Titania and I left in the room, the two of us splayed out on the couch and sighed.
"Why didn't you go too?"
"There's not much for me to do."
Two days of training wasn't going to change anything for me, unlike for them. The best I could do was to keep refining my mana and Ki, but I already did that at every waking and sleeping moment.
After the Dantalian incident, my daily training routine had only been kicked up multiple notches. And ever since I have become a demon, my daily two hours of sleep had been cut down to only half an hour, which was more than enough for my body that was many times stronger than that of a human
"So you're just gonna lie around?"
I sat up and sighed.
"I am going to go look for someone."
The spirits around started to tremble at my call.
They all gathered and hummed together. Laughs and giggles resounded in my ears as their voices merged into one.
"Go and find that man."
The spirits screeched and scratched before dancing away.
"Just so we're good, that guy doesn't know spirit magic, does he?"
"Ophelia uses Alfheim to help him, so I am thinking not."
"Alright."
Till then I could probably go out somewhere else.
***
A meeting was underway in the largest faction of the academy, other than student council.
Sitting at the front was the woman in a veil, in her hands multiple documents while people on the table briefed her on.
It was then, the window behind her slightly pulled up.
The woman in the veil turned back and then looked at her subordinates before standing up.
"Alright, you all handle this yourself."
"Leader?"
"Are you going to leave—Oh! It's Eugene Hall the show off!"
"Leader's boyfie! You can go then."
The leader sighed and jumped right out of the window, into Eugene's arms.
The two days flew by in the blink of an eye in her lover's arms.
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