The Long Night Ended

4:00 am

Western Gate

Battlefield.

I recuperated for a few minutes before moving again.

I observed the Hermes Familia for a while making sure they could handle it, Based on what I observed, the Hermes Familia was fine so I decided to leave them alone.

The Adventures from Orario was on another level altogether

they are more dangerous than the adventurers outside, the only adventurers who could rival them are the adventurers stationed in the Uncharted Areas like the Nameless Forest.

I sighed and shook my head.

I spread my magic sense throughout the battlefield and checked the status of the battlefield.

Nearly all of the Ambists were eliminated and only the Ambist lord and a few strong ones were left, they are now down to the last hundred.

After a few minutes.

One by one the Ambist were being killed and the last one died in the hands of Hermes Familia, Only the Ambist Lord was alive.

"There's only one left," I said while scratching my head.

"Do I help them now or wait," I muttered Quietly while watching the situation happening in the far distance of 30 km, with my magic sense,

In my Magic Sense perception, I watch the Ambist Lord battling a party of adventurers.

The way the party talks and moves, they certainly belong to the same Familia, and their coordination was good.

The Ambist Lord was dominating the battle, while the party was desperately avoiding and defending against the onslaught of attack from the Ambist Lord.

The party is in a bad state, they are exhausted and badly injured. Their chance of killing the Ambist Lord is already gone, no that is not it, in the first place the party doesn't have any chance at all, the Ambist lord is just toying with them in the very beginning.

"Alright, I'll help them," I stood up and was about to head there, but before I could move, an explosion akin to a nuclear bomb erupted.

A mushroom cloud rose in the sky while everything was being flattened by the shockwave.

A strong wind pushed me away, making me stumble several times on the ground, I only stopped when my face was planted on the earth.

Soon I regained my bearings and started to spit out the dirt that stuck in my mouth.

"What the heck was that," I spread my magic sense and investigated what happened.

There I saw a huge mushroom cloud in the place where the Ambist lord and party of adventurers were fighting.

The Mushroom cloud grew reaching a height of 10,000 meters.

The party of adventurers is alright, they are teleported away from that place, but it was bad luck for the Ambist lord, he doesn't have the speed or teleportation magic to avoid that and has now become ashes.

"Who cast that magic?" I searched for the person who cast that magic sense and found the one in the blink of an eye.

On the rampart 5 km away from my location, I found a beautiful woman possessing a great amount of mana, her wavy silver hair flew gently in the wind, and her eyes were closed but I could see her heterochromatic eyes of emerald green and blue, her skin as white as snow and her voluptuous and curvy body was clad in a black gothic dress.

Seeing the beautiful woman's appearance, I subconsciously blurted out her identity.

"Monster of Calamitous Talent, Alfia."

Why she is still alive, ah idiot, this confirms it, this is an alternate world, did the original timeline still exist, I think so, and I'll visit that timeline in the future.

While I was thinking some pointless things, I walked towards the city, of course, I didn't forget to remove my pumpkin costume, I was now wearing a black t-shirt, baggy brown pants, and boots.

Further away, Asfi who was resting turned her head in my way, she felt my present which is expected because I didn't hide it anyway.

Our gazes met.

Asfi nodded her as a greeting, while I also responded with a thumbs up.

After our brief exchange, she continued what she was doing while I continued mine.

John's figure is getting further and further until he disappears leaving the place.

At this time, Asfi was constantly scanning the area verifying that John left them, after doing so, she turned her head to her Vice-captain who was busy dealing with the aftermath.

"Falgar did you see that boy earlier?" Asfi.

"That black hair man, yes I saw him," Falgar.

"What do you think? Asfi.

"Let me think a bit, nothing comes to mind, he is too plain and has no special characteristics, why are you asking this Miss Asfi?" Falgar.

"That man is a bit weird, I can not put a finger on it, but I feel something was not right about that man" Asfi.

After Asfi said that, Lulune who was just passing by, butted in.

"Hey Captain, vice-captain, what's up," Lulune.

"Hello Lulune, did you see the man earlier?"

"No not really," Lulune continue to speak but her nose suddenly twitch and she smells something.

Asfi and Falgar see this scene and wait.

"I smell, money!" Lulune's eyes change to gold coins and run to who knows where.

Asfi and Falgar watch this scene dumbfounded.

"Never mind," Asfi said while putting John the man he saw on the back of her mind.

By the way, Asfi called John a man instead of a boy because she assumed that he was a Pallum, not a human, if she knew that John was a human she would mistakenly call him a boy because of his height.

While the Hermes Familia was cleaning up their battlefield.

John drags his now aching body to the city, heading towards the Medical Camp.

Daytime.

Early in the Morning.

Medical Camp

An elegant and beautiful girl with brown hair and a voluptuous figure constantly moving here and there healing many people who were injured on the battlefield, This brown hair beauty was Princess Luciada, the crown princess of a strong galactic Empire.

"Sir, I recommend you, do not go to the battlefield for a month to heal that arm," Luciada said with a smile while rapping up a bandage on the injured man's broken arm after she fixed it. Even though Luciada was a princess, she had some knowledge and a vast mastery of skills and techniques from different fields, and it happened that the medical field was one of them.

"Miss Luciada, we need help, there is a knight in critical condition, we tried to heal him with a magic potion, and even tried the Elixir but also failed, there is a curse that nullifies the potion," A nurse said in a panic.

Immediately Luciada stood up and headed to another tent where the said knight was.

When Luciada saw the current condition of the knight, a grim expression showed on her face.

The said knight doesn't have any wounds or any visible injury.

"Yoko, who is she?" The doctor asks.

"This is Luciada, she is an excellent doctor, she might save Sir Knight," Nurse.

The doctor shook his head and said, "He is already dead, there is a curse put on him, no magic potion nor elixir could help him, and he already stopped breathing."

Hearing this news, a sad face crept up on the nurse's face.

Luciada on the other hand ignored the two's conversation and immediately went to run a diagnosis on the knight.

"Did you not hear what I said, he is already dead," Doctor

Luciada ignored the doctor and continued her diagnosis while muttering to herself.

"Pulse is still active, every bone in his body is intact, his internal organs are alright except for his lungs, and his heart stops," Luciada.

The doctor frowned with an irritated expression, he tried to grab Luciada's petit shoulder but midway a dark shadowy hand grabbed the doctor's hands stopping him.

When the dark shadowy hand appears, the doctor's entire body stiffens, and a great horror creeps up his kin till to his bones, his entire body starts to tremble, and the same case was happening to the nurse.

The doctor slowly turned his head to the owner of the hand.

In doctor's eyes reflected a dark and shadowy humanoid figure with a golden tattoo all over his shadow-like body, the golden eyes that glow with power look back at the doctor making eye contact.

An overwhelming pressure coming from the very presence of the shadowy figure falls on the doctor's entire body and soul making him collapse and lose consciousness.

The shadowy figure controlled his presence to only affect the doctor.

This shadowy figure was the shadow creature that John made from his shadow with his shadow magic to protect Luciada from any harm.

The shadowy figure turned his head to the nurse and made a gesture of silence.

The nurse nodded her head vigorously.

Seeing this, the shadowy figure showed a distorted smile that made the nurse scared, and then he dived back into Luciada's shadows.

The nurse breathed a sigh of relief while her knees gave out making her sit painfully on the floor.

While this is happening, Luciada has no clue at all, her full attention is on her diagnosis making her enter a state that ignores everything in her surroundings and focuses everything on her task.

In Luciada's perspective her diagnosis lasted for 30 minutes however, in reality, her diagnosis only lasted for 60 seconds thanks to her brain implantable chips, or what they called in her country Nanomachine Communicators, this technology helps to enhance their brain capabilities, data processing, learning speed, interfacing with technology and more depending on the models or design.

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Luciada Nanomachine Communicator Specs according to the people in her universe.

Name: Crown Series Nanomachine Communicator.

Model: Dirog B-43 Micro Chip

Quality- High

Characteristics: Indestructible, the highest specs in Nanomachine Communicator.

Functions:

1. All Brain enhancers.

2. All language Analysis and Translation

3. Technology interfacing.

4. Infinite Memory Recovery, Expansion, and Processing.

5. Technology Manipulation.

This kind of chip was only used by the Royalty of their empire while the noble and commoner had a downgraded version. With this, the Royal Family was like a God in their territory.

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Luciada took out her medical equipment inside her Storage Space Device, put her equipment on the table, and started to sanitize it using a Bacterial Eliminator device that looked like a sci-fi pistol

When all her equipment is sanitized, she checks what kind of Nanomachine Medical Treatment she has at the moment, and of course, the device looks like a sci-fi pistol.

"I only have an NMTVE, this is not suitable, I need to improvise," Luciada.

NMTVE- stands for Nanomachine Medical Treatment Virus Eliminator.

Luciada started her operation, she reprogrammed her NMTVE from eliminating viruses to healing wounds and repairing cells.

She used the reprogrammed NMTVE on the Knight, and at the rate visible to the naked eye, all the wounds and injuries on the knight healed.

The knight's body was fully healed, but the blood inside his lungs remained and his heart still not beating.

Luciada with great precision manipulated the nanomachine/nanobots in the knight's body to remove the blood that blocked his lungs afterward pick up a medical blade and cut open the right side of his chest on the side, Luciada inserted her hands in the open wound grab his heart and started to pump the hearth using her bare hand.

After a few seconds, the knight coughed up blood and started to breathe again.

Luciada breathed a sigh of relief, she manipulated the Nanomachine inside the knight's body to eliminate all the potential factors that could threaten the knight's life before activating the self-destruct function of the Nanomachine to completely remove it from his body.

Luciada sighed and cleaned all of her equipment before putting it back.

"Studying medicine became handy, I understand now why Father insisted me to study all kinds of knowledge and specialties," Luciada.

Luciada continued to heal patients until midday before sitting down and resting.

She comfortably sat on a chair provided by the nurse and enjoyed her lunch with a green tea.

"I hope John was alright," Luciada after saying that, she remembered all the massive explosions and earthquakes that they endured last night while healing their patients.

She shakes her head to suppress all of her negative thoughts and just enjoys her lunch while waiting for John.

Her lunch was peaceful when suddenly she noticed a commotion.

She curiously stood up and headed there to look.

A crowd was gathering in a certain place in the middle camp, Luciada approached this crowd and asked the nearest person to her.

"What's going on," Luciada.

A knight wearing blue armor responded without turning his head if he did, he would kneel there and express his gratitude to Luciada, this knight was one among the many people that Luciada saved in her duty as a doctor in this temporary medical camp.

"There is a guy who just arrived here, he walked for a bit around the camp before he collapsed, resulting in this crowd," Blue Armored Knight.

"Thank you," Luciada.