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"It is ready, headmaster."
In some corner of this world, a part of a certain scorched land wass revitalised under the unique magic and care of some special individuals who had long mastered their craft.
"The invitations have been sent, the dates have been decided, there is not much time left for the conference, so... we shall now finish the preparation from our side as well."
The lands surrounding this unique space divided from the original space it belonged to were still bright in pulsating.
There was enough heat radiating from each crack on the ground to kill any normal human in a matter of minutes.
The unique energies in the atmosphere were also as dense as they had been before any of this was created.
There was a dorm covering this unique area from the above and inside of this dorm, the upper ground had been turned into something that could produce good enough natural life.
It was thanks to the combined efforts of the headmaster, and people like him who were on the committee that was in charge of the Conference this time around.
These people, though masters of their craft, were not as famous as the people who would be attending the conference itself.
Many of them were only known by a few of the people who would be attending and many of them would be unknown people that most of them had not even heard about.
Not anyone could be in this community since it was composed of people who did not have any particular faction that they belonged to or were extreme neutralists that had no interest in worldly affairs.
"Good work, Lady Topaz. You can continue with your duties."
"Please take some rest when you get the chance to be headmaster."
The lady endowed in unique clothing that covered her completely from the top of her head to her toes, bowed to the headmaster before flying down to the ground.
They were floating in the air as they observed the area below them.
The protective dorm was a creation of the combined efforts of the best barrier masters, people proficient with Runes, people who were masters of Magic engineering and people who knew how to create things.
They worked alongside the headmaster to make the dorm so impeccably unique that not even the headmaster himself would be able to breach it or detect it in any manner.
Not many people knew the location of this place, and those who knew it were bound by not an oath but by an established 'truth' that restricted sharing of any kind of information that was related to this event or the people related to this event.
And even if they somehow did find this place, they were confident they would not get past the dorm, much less somehow enter the area that was created underground– an area that was practically surrounding a pool of lava from all sides.
Not even the demons would survive the atmosphere that was present under the ground so this was just the right kind of environment that they needed given the seriousness of this conference.
"Haaa..."
Headmaster had worked tirelessly for the creation of this place, for the establishment of new rules that the participants of the conference would have to follow, and this time around, he had made sure that every single person that somehow could impact this world was present for the conference.
The topics that would be discussed this time around were all very serious. Not even he himself will have any kind of absolute control of the flow that this conference would go to.
Age surely did not matter, surely, but when he first met him, when he first met the being that he was accompanying, when he first felt the same kind of energy as the being that had caused hundreds of deaths and was one of the strongest creatures he had ever fought with his complete powers... he wanted to capture both of them on the spot.
Had they not met in the house of atraxia surrounded by a blessed individual, two King ranked knights, and someone who might change the elder council for good in the near future, he would surely have captured both of them and had quested them under the effect of his spells.
The existence of that energy alone was a threat to human lives and the fact that there was someone who possessed those energies clearly meant they were a threat to this world and the smooth functioning of this world.
He did not know what that power was back then and he did not know it to this day. But, he at least knew it was nothing as simple as Arcana or his Aether.
It was something else, and it was much closer to its origin than any other energy he had come across.
'Thankfully...'
As time passed and he understood this unique Boy, he came to know there were still some things that he had not witnessed even after living so many centuries.
That boy changed his perception regarding many things in this short time they had been together, and... he trusted him.
He trusted him enough to let him present something so crucial to the hundreds of influential people who practically were responsible for the world equilibrium.
He was still a boy, he understood that much. Facing the kind of people that would be attending this time around would not be easy for him. But, he knew he would do it.
He was not weak, and he for sure knew much more than he himself did.
'Rules are meant to be broken... as She says.'
Age, background, limitations... all of that was merely subjective.
He might be living his second life but he had suffered much more than most of the Humans in this conference might have gone through in the time he was in his world.
He was born here, so he was a part of this world ultimately.
He wasn't some outsider or some foreigner.
In this grand nature, he was the same simple element as him. And yet, he knew truths, he could do things that he had believed to be impossible, he knew things that no one should, things that were forgotten by the present and things that even he did not know about.
"Headmaster, would you please take a look at this list."
"Yes."
There was not much time left for the conference anymore. But, he knew they were going to have a little more time together.
And he wanted that time to be as meaningful as possible.
"Alright."
There were still many things that he needed to learn from that Boy, there were still many things that he needed to learn as a Headmaster, and there were still many things he needed to learn as a Mortal.
The world was going to move towards a dark era... but he knew his role in this dark age was not going to be any less crucial than that boy, the Guiding Lantern who will raise those who will save this world when the True evil truly rises from their dark den.
Their time together will be limited in the future. But until they were together... he wanted to make as much of it as anyone possibly could.