Andar swallowed, not knowing what he was feeling at this moment. He had just partially resolved his lingering trauma with Rowan’s departure and now another bombshell might have just literally dropped into his life.
The last time he had seen or heard from his mother she had been on the tumultuous path to becoming an Arch mage, a position that was harder to enter than a camel walking through the eye of a needle. She had sent him to his grandfather who had quickly handed him over to his master.
He did not remember much about his grandfather, who did not even look him in the eyes the entire three hours he had spent with the man, but he did remember his mother.
lightsΝοvεl ƈοm She had spent even less time with him, according to his maids, when his mother understood his condition she had abandoned a newly born Andar, and he had been nursed entirely by maids.
Whether by accident or design, the head maids always insisted that Andar referred to them as Mother. So before he was six years old, he already had three different mothers.
He barely saw her growing up, only knowing she was a powerful Mage and a figure of great importance, leading the entire Black Federation was a vaunted position that only a few could ever manage.
The last thing he remembered about her was when she sent him out of their home when she finally decided to take the leap to become an Arch mage.New n0vel chapters are published on
She had talked for a few minutes about what was required to become an Arch mage, and at that time he had not been listening very clearly to her, he had just been afraid of leaving the only home that he had ever known.
Andar recalled she mostly told him that the quest to become an Arch mage mostly led to madness, death, and even worse outcomes, and 99 percent of Rank 9 Mages would fail, so the esteemed Rank of Arch mage was held only by the few.
She had shared with him that becoming an Arch mage was the most important purpose in the life of a mortal, as anyone who was not an Arch mage was nothing but a fleeting cloud. In the grand scheme of things, they did not matter, and would never matter.
"Do I not matter..." Andar had shakily asked her, he had never called her mother and he did not know if he should.
She cocked her head to the side as if in deep contemplation of his question before saying, "We don’t matter."
She turned away and left. This was the last time he had ever seen her.
"Understand what?!" Andar could not help himself and snapped, feeling a growing sense of irritation in his heart because he knew without Rowan he would have long turned to dust on Ikaron V, and his so-called mother would have filed away his death as a minor inconvenience, a mistake that nature had corrected.
She continued without even acknowledging his retort, "...
understand that, without power, you would not be standing here, and I would not take the time to be here with you. You are a Magus Andar, not a child, in our world, it is the survival of the fittest. Leave sentiments to the mortals, we are above all that."
Andar chuckled, "So this is the reason you are here, to tell me I’m finally worthy to become your son?"
"Well, you don’t pick up your calls. I have sent you many messages, and you have not even considered opening a single one."
"I have never read my messages or taken any calls for the last twenty years, except from my friends and teachers. You did not answer my question, but I should have realized that your deflection is everything I needed to know."
The figure of his mother shook her head and surprisingly she began to laugh, "Oh my dear child, you would think that by now you would understand. Your time inside the Body Farm has done nothing for you except give you power and not wisdom."
A sudden feeling of disquietness stole over Andar and he unconsciously took a step back,
"Why are you here with your true body Mother? You are nothing but a One Star Archmage, and you of all should know you are not invincible."
His mother laughed, "Now you are beginning to think like a True Mage my dear, why don’t you tell me the reason?"
She chuckled as she rose into the air and headed toward the Arch mages.
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