Not even a mont after I repeated those words did the answer co, in an emotionless and cold tone.
"I know."
With those two words, it was over.
I was done dreaming.
Dreaming that I could be friends or even talk to her normally.
It was ti for to awaken to the inevitable reality of our situation.
No matter how much I attempted to change the plot, the inevitable remained.
We were enemies.
No matter how much we interacted now or at Glaive, one day, we would stand on opposite sides of the warzone.
I could make other friends and talk to other people, so there was no point in being stuck on her...is what I tried to tell myself.
Perhaps my words had worked, or perhaps she had seen right through them.
No matter her interpretation, she must dislike in so way now.
Pausing, I shifted my gaze upward, staring at the pure orange sky above, devoid of any clouds.
I couldn’t exactly go to the warp gate as Evangel was blocking the way forward, so I simply had to wait for her.
At that mont, the sun erged from behind the mountain range, casting a soft and bright yellow hue onto the sky.
New beginnings...maybe I had taken that phrase too seriously.
Just a few days ago, I was an average high school student, and now I was going to Glaive, a magic academy for high schoolers.
As always, when I looked downward, a part of wished Evangel was still standing there, waiting for to follow after her with her usual cold expression.
Though from the lack of a sll, I already knew the answer.
Chuckling to myself, I walked forward into the empty street ahead, feeling the sun’s rays illuminate my figure and cast a shadow of on the street.
It was quite unfair.
Out of the billions of people in this world, why had I transmigrated as one of the few destined to die?
If I were simply a soldier or a knight, I could easily change my fate, as my death wasn’t specifically ntioned in the book.
Feeling unusually cold without my cloak, I walked forward, finally seeing the massive arc-shaped mana gate in the distance.
Up the steps and past the marketplace, the arc stood, surrounded on both sides by two security guards.
Currently, the massive gate was empty without any destination inputted, so I could look straight through it at the other part of the city behind it..
However, since I hadn’t yet climbed the stairs up to the gate, all I could see when I looked through the empty arc was the orange sky above.
It almost looked like the gateway to heaven...though, ironically, I would consider the capital city the opposite.
Waiting montarily, I glanced to the right, where hundreds of empty carts stood, not a person in sight.
All the people who had co for the fireworks festival had probably left to head to the nearby towns by now, leaving Ezria empty and dull,
As I walked up the long staircase to the warp gate ahead, a surge of dread and exhaustion overwheld .
I guess...I was going back to school.
As I climbed up the last stair, one of the two security guards, dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a blue jacket, approached .
"Where to?"
Pulling out my remaining coins, I handed them over to the guard, curtly nodded, and answered.
"To Athen."
A couple of monts later, the other security pulled out a wooden wand before pointing it at the side of the warp gate.
*WHOOSH*
Then, in the next second, the entire arc, like a bathtub filling up with water, beca colored a dark-purple.
Although I could still see the other side of the town through the arc, the view was simply distorted and colored a violet-purple.
After a mont of hesitation, I walked toward the portal; however, just before my body fully entered, I reached my hand out.
As my hand touched the dark-purple mana within the warp gate, it flickered in and out of existence briefly before disappearing completely.
I could still feel it and control it...but I couldn’t see it.
Taking a deep breath in, I entered the portal, feeling a breeze rush against my face as my body instantly beca lighter.
Everything around folded into squares and deconstructed before vanishing from sight, leaving alone in a pitch-black void.
I was rely floating in a void, surrounded by nothing but silence and my own thoughts.
Even the sky had disappeared...all I could see pure darkness.
Then, a second later, colorless, random shapes seed to pop out of nowhere in the void before growing and expanding until they finally resembled buildings...and even human bodies.
Finally, color returned to the world as the orange sky reappeared above , casting light down on the area and coloring the various shapes around .
Suddenly, I felt my entire body move forward as soone seed to push , causing to inadvertently close my eye.
And, when I reopened my left eye...I was in the capital city.
Standing above a staircase with a warp gate behind , I stared as massive buildings, the size of skyscrapers, appeared before .
Unlike Ezria, the streets were crowded with people, all wearing briefcases and suits while travelling to work.
Carriages filled the streets, and blocks of buildings seed to run on forever.
However, so of the buildings didn’t even have doors.
Instead, people simply walked onto blue magic circles that stood outside the buildings before shortly disappearing.
In the distance, I could even see the faint outline of the mana train, which ran on railroad tracks that surrounded the entire city.
It was like...dieval New York City.
Snapping out of my head, a sudden voice sounded from my right.
"Hey, move it; other people are teleporting."
Walking down the staircase and into the capital city, I sighed and used the sleeves of my blazer to clench my nose, not allowing the terrible sll from outside to leak in.
Athens, the most populated and developed city in the empire, was hell for .
Without any hesitation, I imdiately began speed-walking north, weaving through the carriages and taking shortcuts through alleyways.
This place...really was unberable.
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