After Skyler left the area, a figure in a deep-purple shirt printed with two golden words 'Starlight Academy' on the front stepped out from the pine trees.
"Where is he?"
The 20-year-old man with short dark hair and silver eyes scanned his surroundings, clearly looking for someone. A gray screen, flashed before his eyes, and it didn't belong to the system that everyone who had entered the preliminary test received.
#Keeper of Time: He should be here. He wasn't eligible, but I forcefully made him.
Zack knitted his brows deeply. He was searching for none other than Skyler.
He had asked the Keeper of Time to teleport that youth near him. He can track the other two side characters he selected for his team using the academy's tracker, as they all belong to the same academy.
However, he can't locate that Light Elementist. Skyler is crucial for his team because he will be the healer. After all, Light is the only element renowned for its healing properties, so those who awaken an affinity with it typically choose to become healers.
Not finding anyone in the vicinity, he inwardly blamed the Keeper of Time, who was also his master in name, for failing to perform even such a simple task properly, and another screen flashed before him.
#Keeper of Time: I did what you asked. I even went so far as to interfere personally, which cost me a lot. Don't you think you're altering fate too much? The three of them are fated to die: two in this testing ground and the last one in the outside world.
Zack chuckled and waved his hand to dispel the transparent gray screen.
"I am not interfering with the protagonist and his team. I am just choosing good side characters who had no role in the story you made me read before bringing me here to take over this body, which died after being beaten up by the protagonist for trying to flirt with one of the female leads."
He hissed at the memory of that jerk punching him in the face in front of the entire class. The original owner of the body was dead, and that was what he endured when he arrived in this world to occupy this body. Transmigration is truly hard.
"I was brought here to make sure the protagonist doesn't repeat what he did last time to save his world and reverse time. Let me handle it my way; if not, then just send me back to my world. I don't like that Max guy. I am sure I will break his nose if he shows up in front of me."
He punched Max in his mind and walked forward to search for his team's healer. The silence in the air was broken when another screen flashed in front of his eyes.
#Keeper of Time: You really want to go back? You were an orphan to begin with, a nobody, and everything finally ended when you were killed by the man your girlfriend was cheating on you with.
Zack didn't show any emotion and simply showed the screen his middle finger. It had been a few months since he arrived in this world, but he had no lingering regrets. After all, before his death, he made sure he killed that witch and the man who took his life.
"Who wants to go back? I am just saying that if you won't let me do things my way, I can always choose not to do it. Now help me find Skyler. Or just fuck off."
He stopped when he saw an ugly frog monster in front of him and manipulated the light green Evol to form a sharp wind blade for an attack. However, the frog fled when it sensed his strength.
"Just where the hell did Skyler go? Don't tell me he's already dead. I didn't ask you to bring him here just for him to die!"
#Keeper of Time: He is nearby.
Zack hurriedly followed the direction indicated by the screen. Honestly, both he and the Keeper of Time do not know much about Skyler, aside from his name and the fact that he's the younger brother of one of the protagonist's harem members.
Skyler was mentioned only once in the storyline that the Keeper of Time gathered after expending ninety percent of his power and breaking many rules of nature to learn everything about the initial timeline, which was reversed by the protagonist.
He compiled everything into a book and titled it 'Fate of Eldoria,' which Zack read as a novel before his death in his past life. It mentioned in one of the paragraphs:
So, Skyler Ironhart died at the age of 20 when an Epic-tier red crystal materialized out of thin air near his house and shattered, unleashing countless powerful beasts into the outside world to wreak havoc. A person who was destined to be the greatest Light Elementist in this universe perished. Why? Because he jumped into danger to save others and those he loved, and his sister couldn't arrive in time to provide help.
Zack shook his head as he recalled this.
Skyler Ironhart was mentioned only once in the novel to indicate that he had died. What impact did his death have? It served as one of the catalysts that brought his older sister more closer to the male protagonist.
His fate was even more pitiful than Zack's past life. However, now that Zack was here, he would allow Skyler to join his team and improve the life of that pitiful and miserable side character, who wasn't even considered canon fodder in his sister's love story.
Unfortunately, for some reason, even after an entire day of roaming around, he wasn't able to find his future personal healer.