CHAPTER 367: CHAPTER 194: TEACHER, PLEASE KEEP WATCHING (DOUBLE LENGTH) (PART 2)

Therefore, expecting Shiayar to do what Hathaway does is somewhat unrealistic.

After completing the three calls, Shiayar did not speak immediately but remained silent for a moment.

However—

Shiayar did not experience the pull and summon from the depths of the Astral Realm as he had anticipated.

Instead, what appeared was a ripple slowly spreading like waves in the void.

A moment later.

Shiayar sensed a phantom and hazy skeletal figure, carrying an aura of death, breaking through the barrier of the Eternal Slumber Plane and the Astral Realm.

Then, it descended in front of Shiayar.

"Your Excellency Shiayar."

The phantom Bone Demon slightly bowed.

Then, it spoke in a voice that was dead and hoarse.

"I apologize for my late arrival."

"Because the ruler of this Eternal Slumber Plane is the ’Gray-Silver Witch’ who has crossed the Throne realm boundary, infiltrating this plane took considerable effort."

"Little Death, you’re overthinking."

Looking at the Grand Skeletal Demon before him, Shiayar couldn’t help but smile.

"For a Legendary Peak to elude the sight of a Throne, it takes more than a little thought."

"Silvia had long since detected your presence."

"It’s just because you once participated in that campaign against Guderian Borgia in the Astral Realm, and since you were summoned by me, Silvia marked you as an ally, so she didn’t interfere."

"Otherwise, at the moment you crossed from the Astral Realm to the Eternal Slumber Plane, what would have awaited you was an instant death magic word."

Shiayar removed his gaze from the telescope, looking at the skeletal figure ahead.

"Even for a Grand Skeletal Demon at the Legendary rank, standing at the pinnacle of Immortal creatures."

"Facing Silvia Babe’s magic word isn’t something you can avoid by pushing an innate resistance to death to the max."

After hearing Shiayar’s words, despite being a fleshless skeleton, it seemed two drops of cold sweat trickled down from the Bone Demon’s forehead.

Shiayar felt a rare trace of pleasure in his heart.

He was not unfamiliar with the Legendary rank Grand Skeletal Demon before him.

Strictly speaking, it was not exactly Hathaway’s pet beast, but more like a simple contract creature, similar to a familiar.

It was said that it was once the youngest ’Singer’ of the Black Tower Necromancy School.

After unexpectedly dying in some accident, according to its wish, it used the forbidden spell "Immortal Transformation" to transform from a human girl into a "Bone Demon."

While Shiayar and Enola were young, studying the Arcane Arts under Hathaway in Knowledge City Lokiya, this Grand Skeletal Demon often served as a sparring partner for Shiayar and Enola, helping him with practicing magical battles and spell combat training.

Having a Grand Skeletal Demon at the Legendary rank as a sparring partner for magic battles...

One can imagine how Shiayar and Enola, who had just completed their Arcane Enlightenment and were only at the First Circle Beastmaster rank, were relentlessly driven to the brink of madness.

Growing rapidly amidst the pain.

But now, as time has passed.

The Grand Skeletal Demon is still stuck at the peak of Legendary, while Shiayar has already crossed the Throne’s boundary.

The difference in strength between them now could be described as worlds apart.

For example, the nickname "Little Death" was exclusively Hathaway’s in the past, and Shiayar never dared to use it.

He had to call it "Your Excellency Deathwing Song."

And now, the titles have changed to "Your Excellency Shiayar" and "Little Death."

"But... since it’s you, Little Death."

Looking at the Bone Demon in front of him, Shiayar’s sense of joy gradually faded.

"It means—"

"My teacher’s current situation prevents her from personally responding, right?"

"Yes."

The phantom Bone Demon nodded: "About three months ago, Hathaway’s coordinates drifted to the boundary of the explored Astral Realm dimensions, it was also the last time she contacted me."

"Since then, I’ve received no messages from her, nor sensed her presence in the Main Material Plane."

"I see."

Shiayar nodded.

This was within his expectations.

In fact, ever since he saw her once in the Garden of Eden, and he and Enola returned to the Main Material Plane afterward...

Then Shiayar encountered the Mercury Serpent, and formally began preparing to enter the Echo of the 1st Page Eternity of the First Era... he had tried to contact his master many times, to no avail.

Based on Shiayar’s deductions and corroborated by evidence from various sources,

The body of that Golden Elf "Eternal One Page" seems to have never returned to the Main Material Plane since the end of the First Era.

She has long been exiled to the depths of the Astral Realm and Dimensional Void, wandering at the limits of the multiverse.

Sometimes, the dimensions she drifts to are close to the Main Material Plane, allowing her to use the Astral Realm as a medium, to appear in Lokiya previously, take Shiayar as a disciple... or like at the end of the Third Era, come forth to help Shiayar slay the Crimson Red Moon, descending as an avatar or projection in the Western Continent.

But those are mere exceptions.

From the end of the First Era until now—

Thousands of years of passage.

Most of the time, she wanders alone in the endless, featureless void.

Drifting in a cold and lonely, lightless world.

Hoping that, at some moment, the goddess of fortune will visit, allowing her coordinates in the Dimensional Void to shift a little closer to the Main Material Plane.