"Evan! Why didn't you save us?!"

"Evan! Why did you alive?!"

"Evan! You supposed to be dead!"

"You're a monster!"

"Undead!"

"Sinners!"

Evan woke up with cold sweat around his body. Another nightmare, this time the villagers are the one who haunted him. There is no single time to have peaceful sleep.

Looking through the window, it's already night. Evan walks to the door and opens it.

"Ah-"

A girl shocked, she was standing in front of the door wearing a maid outfit.

"Ah umm.... sir Evan, young master and master wished you to join them for dinner." Said the maid after calming herself. She has a normal appearance, a bit older than Evan. Her hair is brown just like her eyes.

"Okay, but I'm just a commoner so don't add 'sir'. My name is Evan, sir Noel's bodyguard. Nice to meet you." Evan introduced himself with a smile. The maid blushed and looks away.

"I'm Ariana, a maid. Nice to meet you too." She smiled.

"Please follow me to the dining room." She said. Evan nodded and follows her from behind. He is feeling nervous to have dinner with Noel and his father. Aside with someone he just recently knows, he is having dinner with nobles. He needs to use noble's table manner but since this is his first time for a long time, it's fine to act like a commoner.

"I've brought Evan." The maid said once they arrived at the dining room.

"Come sit with us." Noel's father said. He still looks very tired.

Evan went to the table and sit beside Noel. The table is long and fits for fifteen people. But only three people here. The loneliness is clear around here.

"Don't be nervous Evan. Just eat like you what you did every day." Noel patted his back.

"That's right Evan. We're not those hateful noble." Braid laughed really hard but then coughed. The dishes then coming with the maid brought them.

"........." Evan never ate this luxury before. A rice with vegetable soup. The soup is filled with mixed vegetables. Evan glanced at Noel and Count Braid. They use the spoon to split the rice and take just enough then put it into the soup then eat it with the vegetables. Why don't you just put all the rice in the soup?

Evan imitating how Noel eating, he is eating quite slow and careful.

"Hahaha. I told you, Evan, you don't have to be that nervous!" Noel laughed. He noticed that Evan imitating him while eating which is giving him a good laugh.

"Anyway, after this. Let's go to the library. We're going to check your mana capacity."

Evan nodded and eat his food. After dinner, Braid returned his office and Evan follows Noel to the library.

"This is mana measure. Touch it." Noel showing a white thick ball. Evan touched the ball without hesitation and slowly the ball reacting by showing a bright light. The light becoming brighter till illuminated the library.

"Wow, you're must be really blessed." Noel rubbing his eyes because of the light. Evan didn't expect this either. He knew he had great mana capacity but seems like it got stronger than what he thought.

"Alright, what magic do you wish to learn. Just for information, I'm using fire. I could teach you fire if you choose fire, but it's up to you." Yet, his eyes showing an expectation for Evan to choose fire too.

"I choose ice."

"Already? Don't need to time to think?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Not even considering fire?" Noel almost looks like a puppy begging to be picked.

"Uhh.... yes." Yet, Evan is resolute to his own decision which makes Noel looks sad.

"Well.... I guess I couldn't teach you then. Do you wish to have a teacher for a magic lesson?" He asked while still sad.

"No need, I'll learn it by myself."

Noel blinked three times.

"Really? But don't push yourself too hard. If you get a hard time, just tell me." Noel said.

"Okay, thank you, Noel." Evan bowed.

"Hahaha, no worries. I'll be back with the book. Just wait here." Noel walks somewhere around the library.

Ice magic is his specialty amongst the others. His past title isn't an empty title at all.

"Here is the books." Noel gives Evan the books. Ice magic beginner, Ice magic amateur, and Ice magic Expert. To be the truth, he just needs Ice magic beginner book if needed. It's because the amateur and expert ice magics coming from the beginner. But people in this world tend to stick with chants and didn't improve their magic ability by imagining the process of magic.

"Thank you, Noel, I'll be leaving first."

"Sure...."

Evan went back to his room and put the books on the table. Evan straightens his body and extend his hand to the front then gathering his mana.

"Ice shard." He muttered. A cold sensation gathered on Evan's hand then formed an ice shard.

"Sword." The ice shard turned into a sword shape. Just by imagining things with detail, the magic will be deployed quicker.

"Shatter." The sword ice shattered and then disappear. Even after 1000 years, his magic still good.

"Now then.... white ice." A white ice formed with ball shape. Evan, hold it and channeling his mana through it. The white ice giving chilling sensation and shine.

Evan using the white ice to track the other white ice.

"Hm? Twelve?"

There are twelve signals coming from different places. Four of them are together, two are moving to the same destination while two again moving somewhere else.

But Evan felt something weird. The white ice giving another signal.

"Undead king...." he muttered. He was an Undead king but in the human flesh. He was expecting for the white ice to show the signal of the Undead king in his location but it's on a different place.

"Another Undead king. So, I am disqualified as an Undead king?" Evan somewhat rather happy. Becoming human makes him disqualified as an Undead king and he won't be hunted down anymore. He could live like a human and won't worry about underworld things.

But Evan is curious who is the new Undead king. Will this king bring another terror or not, is the king stronger than him or not? He afraid if the new Undead king will do the same thing he did 1000 years ago. If the new Undead king did that, Evan doesn't have a choice but to kill this new king. If not, his life and the others will be threatened. Or maybe there is another choice?

"They wouldn't know the new Undead king's place. Are they looking for him right now?"

The other white ice which splits into twelve couldn't track Undead king's whereabouts, it's just giving a notice of revival or return.

The white ice disappears and he lying down on the bed. This time, he hoped there won't be a nightmare again.