Chapter 3 - Spectators

Few minutes after Carl's arrival.

'Aaron? The MA is quicker to respond than I expected, but I didn't know they would be sending one of their Captains personally~'

While watching Carl awaken from a blind spot, the figure of Aaron in his black suit suddenly appeared on the corner of Corelia's eyes. The presence he emitted as a mage also did not hide itself. Corelia snorted seeing this as she knew that the military was also watching.

'Corelia, huh? I didn't expect one of the queens to show up.'

Aaron did not fail to similarly notice their presence. Once he noticed the pair of eyes glaring at him, he then turned his eyes toward their direction and bowed with a smile.

"Aaron of the monitoring division? Why is he here?" Cath also was there, and was shocked to see the rare presence.

Cath could not help but look towards Aaron with an annoyed expression, when the fat boy from the distance who was on the verge of death finally heaved his last breath.

"..."

Once the boy died. Everyone instantly increased their guard, and removed their presence. The otherworlder was coming!

Otherwordlers were not a new thing in Earth. But the government, military, and other private-managed companies do their best to hide the truth of their existence from the general public. They were treated as urban legends in layman's terms.

Corelia, Cath, and Aaron. No one in the distance took a chance to approach the body, and dared to show themselves easily to the incoming otherworlder.

Surrounded by a pool of blood, the fat immobile corpse of a young boy was sprawled across the ground, and was filled with bruises and wounds. His head was covered with the crimson hue of blood, and his limbs were broken onto different directions. The biggest injury he had was a gaping hole on his chest area where most of the pool of blood had come out from.

"Still, who is this boy?"

Corelia couldn't help but asked as she was curious on what led to the marred state of the corpse. She could just imagine that the boy had hanged on to his life, as he was beaten to death. Corelia looked at the wounds and even she could not save someone with those injuries.

His bones was almost shattered. He had lost a lot of blood. And the hole on his chest was irreversible.

These injuries made Corelia question if the otherworlder was going to be all right transmigrating onto the body. But sure enough, everyone there was shocked when they saw the injuries in the boy's body began to heal by themselves.

In that moment, Aaron slowly grew a smile on his face, while Corelia and Cath put on a serious one. This drastic healing meant that the otherworlder was not ordinary.

"Lady Corelia…"

Cath had already captured the boy's face from the distance a while and had received the information from their headquarters so she was able to pull out their profile, and show it to her boss through a holographic screen.

Corelia began to check the corresponding file, and understood where could have those serious injuries originated from.

The boy was a 15 year old student--mage in training, an acolyte per say. However, he hardly developed his talents for magic, and had no ability until now. He should have no living relatives either. And clear enough, he was beaten to death. This was a common problem in society especially after special powers came into existence. It was not hard to tell that the boy had lived a hard life.

For a little, Corelia felt sad, as she was reminded of the sad reality they live in. The injuries in the body had mostly healed at this moment to the point that no one would actually believe he was injured so badly.

He only needed several days of rest.

'Hopefully, this guy don't turn out to be a jerk.' Corelia simply thought, as Carl's eyelids started to flutter.

At this time, the rat had also gone closer to the body and its mouth was salivating. Its furry nose was twisting in anticipation and its tiny eyes were roaming at the possible organs and juices from the body's head area.

Tenths of corpses end up in Undergound City years, and from what it can instinctively remember, the head was the most delicious part.

_Squeak. Squeak_

The beast slowly revealed it fangs to take a bit, when the pair of eyes suddenly opened, glaring at it! Everyone there knew what was coming and they were able to witness the next scene.

_Squeak-

The head moved too fast for the rat to react and before it realized, the whole body was gone from its sight. It was behind! Crack! The body sat on the ground and snapped the rat's neck.

Immediately after this, the spectators saw that the otherwordler seemed confused. He lifted his arms and looked at the different areas of his body as if in shock of his situation.

Seeing this, everyone could not help but feel confused.

It wasn't their first time seeing an otherworlder emerge into another body, but it was the first time they saw someone so confused. All this time, they believed everything about the body was the same with the otherworlders' identities in their world.

Apparently, some things were different with this one.

'The Divine Punishment must be arriving soon!'

Everyone who was watching thought in unison, as they concentrated on the boy in the distance.

'Will he live or will he die?'

This was the important question they had to see for their eyes before asking anything else. Even though they transmigrated, it did not mean they will survive.

And in the next second, the sky had turned completely black and eerie, and a belt of lightning suddenly snapped itself from above, striking the boy head-on!

_BANG!_

Sparks of electricity flew around.

Everyone watched carefully, and soon enough, a human figure emerged out of the small crater and the diminishing.

'He's alive!'

Everyone was amazed at his resilience, but they did not expect what happened next.

Their eyes widened in surprise. For some reason, almost all of the mana in the boy's body was seeping out like a leaking tank of oil.

"This…" Cath gasped, opening her mouth in surprise.

"His new body could not handle it. His centers of power is rejecting everything," Corelia observed Carl and spoke her thoughts.

"I see. It had to react that way. Otherwise, the body might explode." Aaron was the same and silent for a while. Like everyone could see, it indeed look like the mana inside the boy was leaking out…

'I don't recall many cases like this. From what I remember, this usually means the original pool of mana was just so vast a normal body could not take it. Either that or the pool of mana wasn't suitable with the new body, which is unlikely for an otherworlder.'

Carl began to feel weak slowly falling onto the ground.

Seeing this, the spectators had also started to approach him.

Carl tried to stay awake, but his consciousness was slipping out of his control. At that time, he then sensed the faint presence of other mages in the area, but he was too weak so he inevitably lost his control, and passed out.