Magic Never Exits

The other kids all turned around only to see Eren standing alone and staring back at them.

"Kid, you are the only one keeping us waiting," Ryker called out to his attention. "Don't keep us waiting, we have to start immediately."

But that didn't concern Eren, he was not like others who chose to be deceived.

"I... I am not interested in any of this," he said, much to everyone's hearing. "Unlike you all that are feeling resentful toward the monsters for destroying your cities and killing people, I harbor no such feeling. They did nothing to me so why should I suffer for something that concerns me not?"

Ryker and the other kids stared at Eren in disbelief. They could believe that he would be saying something like this.

Nevertheless, Eren was not bothered and continued.

"Ryker, you think I don't know your plans? You are looking for sheeps for sacrifices, sorry but I am not like these nonchalant fools. Count me out!" Eren folded his hands while staring nonchalantly at the students sbd Ryker.

Ryker was stunned for the fact that Eren was not scared of voicing out his opinion. It showed that Eren was special and if he could be trained, he might have some great potential within him.

"Who do you think you are insulting?" The first boy to step out asked Eren. Among the other kids, he felt more angered because he was the one that made the first decision and each word spoken by Eren was thrown directly to him.

Eren simply glanced at the boy and then looked away, uninterested.

"You —" the boy said but paused the moment Ryker intervened.

"Hey, kid, listen to me," he said to Eren. "You may feel that you have no connection with whatever is happening now because none of your family or friends were caught up in the destruction but what about the future?" He asked and Eren glanced at him. "What if a friend or family is about to die in the hands of an enemy and you just happened to be there but then unfortunately, you don't have the power to protect them. What would you do? Will you watch that person die right in front of you?"

'I don't have any family member or friends that could be in trouble so I have nothing to worry about. The only possibility is me getting attacked by either the gods or these monsters. If I don't have the power to protect myself, I will end up dying and if that happens, I won't be able to get revenge for my mother... It will make my death a wasteful one. I can't die until I have gotten revenge for mother'.

Ryker and the other students watched as Eren was deeply thinking. Ryker hoped that the boy would see the reason to join them because he needed every one of the kids for his sole mission. Every kid there was important to him while some were really special to him.

The moment he saw Eren, he had this feeling that Eren was going to become the best of his students that is why he was bent on making him join them... But if eventually he failed, he would have no choice but to kill him. The most important thing at the moment is to make him accept the offer.

"Look here..."

"I agree to train with you," Eren said. "But not because I care about your war. I need to get stronger, for my own reasons."

Ryker narrowed this eyes but he nodded. "Very well, come join us."

Other kids began to murmur and disperse but Eren ignored them and went to stand next to Ryker like someone in second command.

'The audacity though.'

Ryker thought as he glanced over at Eren. He had never seen a bold kid like that before, not like there aren't kids like him but this one is just unnecessary stubborn and this makes him wonder why.

"When is the training going to start?" Eren asked.

"Oh, it will start right away but first, you have to forgive me once more," Ryker said and immediately threw something into the air. The thing turned into a cloud of fogs and once inhaled, the students began to fall.

'Not this again'.

Eren lamented as he also fell down, unconscious.

"Even with all your stubborness, you are vulnerable to this drowsy's sleep," Ryker mumbled while gazing at Eren.

After all the students had fallen asleep, Ryker opened the door and some men dressed in white robes walked in carrying a small tray filled with syringes. There were different colors of liquid substances in them.

"Are you certain that this will work, Doc James?" Ryker asked the leader, the man behind them.

The man was average height, with a bald head and white mustache. He looked like someone in his late fifties.

"It has no reason not to work," the man replied. "My experiment will work but it depends on your students to come out alive."

Ryker's brows squeezed in a deep frown. He didn't like Doc James' reply for once but it seems that there was nothing either of them would be able to do to help.

Mages... What mages?

They weren't any mages; magic never exists to start with so when there was no magic, would there be mages? Of course, No!

This was a name they came up with after searching through fantasy books, they did so to entice the naive humans. And they did so because of the invasion of monsters.

"We should start already," Doc James said to Ryker who was still battling with his thoughts.

"Yes, I guess."

Ryker sighed. This was not supposed to happen in the first place but because of the sake of the peace of the world and the safety of the people, sacrifices were bound to be made, whether inhuman ones or not. Whether it was against humanity or not, they were ready to do it.