The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want A Fourth Time: Rise Of The Demon Knight

As I awoke my entire body hurt my muscles screamed and I wished to simply drop dead

"Urgh the hell I can´t move even a finger," I said as I tried to stand up only to see my result

With my eyes I looked around as go as possible and I was alone Neria wasn´t here and since I can´t move I had absolutely no Ideas of how to spend time so I simply let my thoughts run wild a little bit

After Ricklent knows how long finally Neria came in with a bag

"Oh Val you´re awake," she said a little bit fl.u.s.tered and I needed a moment to realize why she got fl.u.s.tered

'Ok how do I start talking about that...' I thought but Neria already began

"About... what happened... during the battle..." she began and it took her a felt eternity to bring out an understandable sentence but since I couldn´t move I did her try

"I should treat it as if it never happened?" I guessed but I was faced with hostility the moment I said that

"You...You..." she said with a wave of anger in her eyes or was it embarrassment?

"You want to talk about it?" I asked her but she couldn´t answer it herself so we let the topic stay as a necessary medical measure in the battle for that given situation 'And here I thought she would give up her restrains' I thought as we came to this conclusion

"By the way are you not moving?" Neria asked changing the topic

"It´s simple I can´t" I answered

"You can´t," Neria asked again

"I can´t" I repeated myself

"And why can´t you move?" Neria asked trying to figure something out

"Eventually I am growing," I said with a guess of mine

"And because you are growing you can´t move a finger," Neria asked and slowly I felt like an idiot explaining it to her

"Yes, I can´t move a finger because I´m growing so I will have to stay like this till it ends and in the meanwhile, I obviously can´t go hunting monsters," I said a bit out of patience

"What do you intend to do in the meanwhile," Neria asked

"Since my options are strongly limited... Nothing" I said with a serious voice before Neria could answer anything a boy came to our room

"The Guild Master wishes to see you two" he said and in the end, it had to be the two of us so Neria would have to carry me

"Hello, you... what are you doing?" The guild master, a man with blue hair and an unshaven face, asked after looking at the current situation since I was unable to walk Neria had to carry me but she did it using wind magic and it looked more like a mage transporting a statue via magic if I hadn't talked

"I can´t move a bit so this is the current solution," I said while Neria levitated me to the sofa and sat right next to me

"Interesting... well anyways I called you over here to talk about your new ranking..." The Guild master began

"If it´s about the interview could you make it short?" Neria asked and if I could I would facepalm myself 'It´s an Interview please show a bit patience and stay friendly' I shouted in my mind

"Ahaha, no it´s not about that... both of you will be promoted to B-Class right now" he laughed

"Eh? I mean I can understand you would give the next highest ranking but isn´t Val´s deed far greater than B-Class" she said in confusion

"Neria just listen and don´t interrupt him please," I said while I wished to somehow shut her up

"You two certainly fit for each other... Well you are right young lady his deeds are worthy of being called A-Class and I am sure someday he will be an S-Class Hero but I possess a magic eye that reveals his status to me" he said while pointing at his eyes ignoring his former statement

"So you mean my status is lacking?" I asked him straight in the face to see his reaction but he didn´t waver

"Currently yes but since you will soon change your job and you have this growing pain I believe your status will explode in the next time," he said as if he already experienced this

"What does his growing pain have to do with his promotion?" Neria asked in doubt perhaps her thoughts were centered around my status will rise soon yet I won´t be promoted further

"Well you know young lady dhampirs like him who fight and have already acquired many jobs in their young days, which is the case here, will have a growth stop at some point in their development and when they overcome it the status will show an extreme rising of power but his status isn´t the only problem we have promoting him," the guild master said looking down as if to apologize

"The Nobles and other influential persons are trying to prevent a dhampir hero correct?" I asked while he only nodded

"Theoretically the guild is independent of any other organization or person but this is just theory, in reality, they have a lot of influence at this moment so they will prevent it to slow you down," he said and before Neria could say anything he continued

"We are currently getting rid of the corruption within our ranks but this will take it´s time also the incident with the demon king´s fragment is confidential and the official version is you defeated a rank 9 vampire viscount and because of this you are promoted," he said and a person entered the room

"Thehe you guys did it" Talior entered the room with his creepy smile on his face

"Yo, creep smiling elf, what do you want this is an interview," the guild master said

"I know but I just couldn´t wait to congratulate my friends," Talior said while coming to us

"Especially a sub-guild master should know that no external person is allowed during an interview" he retaliated but seemed to only mind it as a breach of etiquette

"I know yet since their promotion is already decided I thought I could just waltz in and congratulate them first," Talior said and congratulated us

"What are you doing here anyway," Neria asked him and I stared at him

"You two can´t know about this but before you killed that dammed vampire his fellows tried to overtake the guild and enforce their policy in order to do this they wanted to gather all guild masters and somehow convince them" the blue-haired man answered and Talior nodded and we talked about many things afterward while our promotion was made official

And though I was totally happy about it I couldn´t really feel it since all I felt was my pain after Neria let me fall on the hallway as a group of adventurers gave us suspicious looks and let out funny comments about how hard one must be in the bed to leave their partner totally unable to move

The next two weeks I mostly spend my time thinking or praying for my own death already especially when Talior came to visit me and simply smiled at me while I talked in our conversations 'Man being unable to move in his presence along with this smile is even worse than a horror film' I thought during one of our conversations

During the talks I had with him I also came to a conclusion of what I had to do when I am back in track and could finally do something ... it was so boring...

『The level of the Parallel Thought Procession and High-speed Thought Procession skills have increased!』