A Magical World Revealed: A New Era

Day Eleven, Chapter Twenty Four, Downtime

Pendragon Household, Woodrow, Northern Territory, Australia

Sunday, 11/2/2024

11:43

Nathan Pendragon was confused. He was called a monster, a rogue, a villain. The entirety of Magicae society wanted him dead. And how he had over eight thousand unread messages.

Industrial Control/Technogeist

Mechanisation

Overanalyse

He used the Duopower, Mechanisation, to directly intake all the messages stored on the JT-Phone. He then sifted through it with Overanalyse. Half of the messages were from people he had never met. The other half was mostly made up of former Commission members he had met and fought in the three day long battle. And then the remaining amount was made up of those he had during the earlier days of his ten day torture, like Brenner, Isadora or the Morticaya sisters. The content of these messages was baffling. Congratulatory messages, dinner invitations, meeting requests and so on. It was as if the past ten days had never happened. Nathan was having a hard time containing Simula's anger. As a matter of fact, he was having a hard time containing his own anger as well. He had seen the news reports and the things people said on social media. According to them, Nathan was the Arbiter, the sixteen year old who went up against the entire world and won. The sixteen year old who then forced reforms on the tyrannical organisations, saving the lives of many both present and future. It was an exaggeration, but that's how people saw him. And now all of these Magicae who didn't know or care about Nathan now wanted to use his power and reputation. Half of them had tried to kill him, had wanted him dead and were willing to risk their lives to achieve this. And now they were acting as if they were old friends. Perhaps Nathan should have let Simula- no, no, don't think that way. He skimmed through the messages again, paying attention to those from people he recognised.. A training session with Miranda Deimos; a movie night with Isadora Velein, Alyssa Evadale, Freya Clostro, Ivar Archer and Angelo Jagger; a matchmaking party with Tenson Graevel, Aiden Winterway, Dean Endofor and some unspecified females; dinner with Talia Morticaya. One caught his eye. An invitation. It was similar to the many other invitations he had received, however he decided to go.

Three hours later, Nathan entered a small yet luxurious bar. Called the Glittering Diamond Hotel & Bar, it was a very atmospheric location. It had soft blue lighting, dark blue carpeting and upholstery and attractive walnut panelling. And, most importantly for Nathan, it allowed minors. Two people sat around a small table close to the bar counter. Dan Ronin and Alonzo Relvar. It was Ronin who had invited him and, seeing as he actually liked Ronin, he had decided to go. On the other hand, Nathan didn't know too much about Alonzo. Alonzo was broadly built and powerful in stature. He had soft lavender coloured eyes and shiny black hair which stood out against his pale skin. He had a reputation for being noble, heroic and kind. Nathan had fought him twice now, once during the ambush and once during the final battle. Alonzo was a masterful user of his power Shadow Control and was well deserving of his title, Dark Champion. But they hadn't ever actually spoken. But, Nathan thought, if Ronin said he was a good person then Nathan would take his word for it. Nathan sat down with them.

'Sorry for making you wait.'

'Don't apologise, you're still five minutes early.'

Alonzo welcomed him with a wide, handsome smile.

'So,' Ronin began, 'how many people have started trying to suck up to you?'

'If I discount your message, then I have received precisely eight thousand, four hundred and sixty five messages.'

Ronin and Alonzo burst out laughing.

'Mayura and I had something similar happen when we ousted SEA and founded the HUI. You know, one of the best things about JT-Phones is that they share the numbers of every other owner. You want to try to call or message someone you only met once, you can do it. You want to secretly send and receive communications from someone from another organisation, you can do it. But this also means that any random Joe Schmoe Magicae can call up the biggest names in the magical world on a whim.'