Loser's redo: Transmigration in a novel

Sitting within the carriage, Zick rested his head upon the back of his palm. He thought of the recent battle with the assassins and cyclops.

Zick moved selfishly till the very end. There were many opportunities for him to save the knights and the demihuman but he never took it. The thought of saving them didn't even appear in his head.

The two year Zick spent in the battlefield affected his way of thinking without him noticing.

In the battlefield death is a natural thing, it happens everywhere in it. The concept of death in Zick's head was already twisted, until he stayed alive nothing else mattered to him.

Zick moved just like how he did on the battlefield. He didn't care about the people around him and just focused on what he had decided to do.

But his aim was only partially accomplished, Zick was able to use only a few self buff types and other magics. He had no experience fighting using magic but he was still able to do well because of [Thought acceleration].

Zick could have just taken care of the scythe assassin quickly and helped the others. But he cared only about checking out his new magic in practical use.

Zick felt a little pity for the dead knights but that's it. He didn't feel any remorse or regret. As long as Butler Von and the two dragon eggs were safe it didn't matter to him who died.

'I am sure the me from earth would be surprised looking at how I am now.'

Even though Zick was broken in the past he still felt remorseful killing anyone. But the current Zick had gotten used to seeing people killed to a large extent. The word guilt didn't exist for him, he just did whatever he felt like doing.

''sigh...." Zick could only heave a sigh thinking of how fast a person changes.

Throwing this train of thought in the back of his head, Zick thought of what Anelete said.

'The other person who will be riding along with her must be Anastasia. She will become a future archmage but now it doesn't matter anymore. I will become an archmage myself in a few years.'

Zick had thought of somehow recruiting Anastasia in the future, but he discarded this idea the very next moment.

Its not that the idea of recruiting talented people never crossed by his mind, Zick just found it too troublesome. It was better to recruit someone who already had the strength of a grandmaster rather than raising one.

Zick's trust in other people was just too shallow. The chances of making Anastasia take an oath of never harming him was also impossible in his eyes and troublesome in his eyes.

'It is better if I just take the mythical cat and biological golem. They are more than enough to keep the small fry occupied while I finish off the demon lord.'

Zick was already making plans of how to defeat the demon lord already. He was little aware of his strength and even some trump cards.

The demon lord in the novel was never alone, there were always his subordinates guarding him.

But for some reason Zick always felt that his winning chances were very low. In the novel, the demon lord had never gotten serious till the very end.

There was a line that Zick remembers from the Novel.

[ The rank above Grandmaster is God.

And the demon lord had already become half a god a long time ago. The only thing holding him back were the giants.]

Zick didn't know anything about these giants mentioned in the novel and it did not appear till the very end too. What matters is that it clearly stated that the demon lord was half a god, in other words a demigod.

Gods were already a transcended creature in Zick's eyes because of their miraculous power.

'I don't even know the first thing on how to become a god.....'

Zick didn't know how the divinity was formed....No he didn't even know the real strength of divinity currently.

"Sigh..."

Another sigh left his mouth feeling helpless.

'Well it's a waste of my time to think about it now so I should just focus on growing to my limit.' This was all Zick could do for now.

It turned noon quickly.

In this time, Zick checked out the loot he got from the assassins. Almost everything was useless to him.

'I should sell everything after reaching the academic city...no I can just sell it to Anelete.'

Then Zick continued absorbing the mana in the air and strengthened his aura.

KNOCK.

Someone knocked at the carriage's door.

"You can open it."

CLICK~

Vertel stood in front of the door fully recovered. He had heard what had happened and was immensely confused and surprised, his pride was also hurt losing his consciousness but he still didn't ask anything. He just continued doing his work.

Vertel was able to recover quickly as he did not let any of his innards get damaged using aura.

"Young master Zick, We are ready to depart and have you agreed on travelling along with the Mendert merchant group?"

The bodies of the people who were dead were collected by them. They would be sent to their family's later on.

The bodies of the cyclops were divided equally among the two groups and 30℅ of it was given to Zick.

''Yeah, I agreed to travel with them."

Nodding his Head, Vertel went away getting know everything he needed.

Feeling the presence of Analete and Anastasia heading towards him, Zick picked up the leather bag in which the dragon eggs were and put it beside him. Luckily the carriage was big so he was able to sit comfortably even when he put the big bag beside him.

Walking in front of the carriage, Analete bowed her head to Zick slightly.

"Excuse us, for our impudence." Anelete's posture didn't lose to any nobles, it was even better than some.

"Get in."

Zick didn't care much about courtesy. He hadn't even said anything when Anelete had said that there would be another person who would be riding in his carriage.

Following basic courtesy, Anelete had to introduce this person but she didn't.

Zick was able to sense everyone near him so he was clearly able to sense Anastasia's presence. He knew that she was throwing up seeing the people die all around her.

Zick didn't find her action weird at all, he knew about how she lived only within a palace through the novel.

Anelete entered the carriage and sat opposite to Zick, she still wore her black gown. Anastasia's figure was exposed after she entered.

Nothing much had changed from before leaving that Anastasia wore a different purple gown now. She didn't say anything and entered the carriage and sat beside Analete.

One of the knights closed the carriage door.

Zick took a glance at Anastasia who had an cold expression on her face and then ignored her existence.

'That's a future Archmage without a doubt.'

Zick was able to see people's talent after becoming a dragonoid human. If he compared Anastasia to the other mages here then. She was like an ocean and on the other hand the other mages were like ponds.

The carriage started moving with all the mages, knights and demihuman surrounding it in a formation.

Looking out of the window, Zick thought back upon the first time he took the life of a human.

"....."

Zick couldn't help but become speechless, he had gone around killing hundreds of knights in the battlefield laughing the whole time.

The total opposite of how Anastasia was seeing people dying.