Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!

"Good day, Teacher. I'm not sure if the materials I sent you earlier reached your hands."

As one of the earliest apprentices to embrace the concept of being a War Mage, he was vastly different from the other apprentices.

Unlike his opportunistic companion, and different from those first batch of apprentices who visibly had little potential for growth in magic and could only drift along with arrangements from the Duchy of England.

Anderson still remembered what Kael had said during a lecture:

"Do not lose your composure when you're downhearted."

That sentence, at that time, completely changed his own decadent and confused state.

It was the first time he intensely felt that a true teacher was not only about education but also about conveying the correct principles and ideas.

A true teacher should not trample on the dignity of students under the guise of 'educating and cultivating' them.

In that lecturing session in the classroom, Anderson's face was nearly overwhelmed by desolation.

Looking back at his state back then, in that classroom, he had almost unreasonably intruded into Teacher Kael's teaching space.

But back then, he really couldn't control his emotions, as the flesh of the Evil God, under the control of some Evil God Believers, was silently spreading in the Royal Capital.

Although the elite Lion Heart Battle Group in the Royal Capital had detected something amiss and launched emergency support immediately after the first case of someone infected by the Evil God's flesh manifested divine powers, they still couldn't save the life of his deeply infected relative.

However, in that classroom, he wasn't punished, but instead heard a gentle voice say:

"Do not lose your composure when you're downhearted."

The teacher's voice was soft, and had he just read those words on paper, he might have mistaken the teacher for mocking him.

Not until he looked into those azure eyes, which though brilliant like stars, conveyed a sentiment that steadied the heart.

At that moment, Anderson understood what Kael wanted to say to him: Do not expose your weaknesses to others.

No one will give you dignity, so you must always have a way out for yourself, for your own sake, and for the future.

In that moment, realizing this principle, while trying to contain his grief, Anderson couldn't help but turn his gaze towards Kael.

This was Anderson's first encounter with the profession of War Mage, and it was also the reason he later chose to follow Kael to the remote land of Lancaster, to study with Kael.

How to use minimal energy to cast spells that dealt massive damage quickly, or use specifically targeted spells to balance the battlefield when facing enemies, were novel concepts to Anderson.

But that's not what mattered,

What's important is that Teacher Kael is indeed a teacher worth his continual learning, whether it was the analysis of shaping ability magic of that time, or the chain reactions of skills like 'manipulating corpses,' 'summoning the dead,' 'corpse explosion,' and 'resurrecting the dead' from Necromancy, all demonstrated Teacher Kael's profound expertise in various factions of magic.

For some reason, back then, he felt as if Teacher Kael's research on Necromancy seemed superior to that of many other old mages discussing Necromancy in the academy.

Then, because of the peaceful death of his relative, he subconsciously denied their death and asked Teacher Kael:

"If confronted with a lower-level curse of Evil God contamination, leading to soul distortion and physical decay, like the Necromancy you mentioned, is there a chance to revive them?"

At that time, Teacher Kael had almost given him the most standard answer regarding the dangers of the Evil God's flesh and how to deal with it.

That moment, Anderson genuinely realized that his relatives, infected by the Evil God's flesh, really couldn't be brought back, and he was overwhelmed by grief.

What made him grieve was not only the departure of his relatives but also his own sense of powerlessness.

If he had met Teacher Kael earlier...

No, if only he could have strived harder, searched for clues in more magic books, and discovered his mother's infection with the Evil God's flesh sooner, wouldn't his future have held more smiles?

The contamination of livestock by the Evil God's flesh was now clearly distinguishable to him.

Even if he hadn't detected the issue with the meat immediately, had he realized earlier that his mother was not just normally ill but starting to show signs of minor contamination by the Evil God's flesh, he would not have lost his means of subsistence in his relatives.

As a genius student at the Secret Scrolls Mage Academy, he could have at least immediately called upon a Transcendent senior teacher from the academy, pleading for him to specifically alleviate his mother from the Evil God's flesh.

As long as the erosion was alleviated immediately, then knowing the treatment approach by the Duchy of England back then, it really might have been possible to directly send a group from the Holy Land to perform a spiritual adjudication on those more severely infected.

If...

The meaning of 'if' is that there aren't so many ifs, and if one really had to say, all that remained were regrets.