The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 46
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Within the Stadium’s Commentator Booth
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
“And there you have it! The Curse Bearer’s excellent marksmanship in action!” Crimson exclaims with a grin on his face after seeing the bullet fly straight into the Undying Magician’s skull from behind, right into his brain, and back out through his forehead. “It’s not an easy feat to fire a sniper rifle through a forest while running, and to hit a moving target several hundred meters in front of you while you’re at it. Much less right on target.”
Of course, to Crimson’s complete lack of surprise, the damage from the bullet near instantly reverts itself. With the blood that flew out of his head flying back through the air to return to his head before he even finishes taking his next step. Leaving him continuing to run with nothing but a brief moment of pause.
But while Crimson isn’t surprised, the same can’t be said for the audience who shows immense surprise.
“Oh, looks like she’s not giving up,” Crimson says while leaning forwards in his booth as he and everyone else in the audience watch Aritonia continue firing her sniper at Nathan. Hitting him every third shot now that he knows she’s shooting at him and can avoid some of the shots. “And they are getting a little bit of an affect from the shots. She’s slowing him down by moments.”
Exactly as he says, Nathan slows down by half a moment to a moment every time he gets shot in the head. Making his consciousness go dark for that time until he recovers.
But the biggest factor is how Aritonia applies more curses to his clothes and weapons every time his consciousness goes dark.
“How long will it take before she catches up to him?” Crimson wonders out loud. “Oh, wait, the other two are finally making their approach again as well. It looks like those mutants…” he pauses when he changes the screen to show the crater that used to be a lake, where corpses of mutants can be seen flooding the entire thing. “Right, the mutants were dealt with. I wonder just how many Aritonia brought with her?”
To his surprise, when he turns back to focus on Nathan and Aritonia again, he sees Nathan having turned around to charge straight at Aritonia. Covering his face with his hands as he does so to block any bullets to his head.
And more importantly, to his crown. Because that appears to be what Aritonia is aiming for now that he’s approaching.
“Looks like Aritonia’s changed her focus from catching up to shooting off that crown from his head,” Crimson comments while leaning back in his seat. “It’s an interesting strategy, but I wouldn’t just sit there if I were her.”
Of course, that’s only if I was as weak as her.
Crimson taps his chin at that thought before seeing Aritonia switch gears when Nathan gets too close to her. And right when he draws both of his swords and begins to swing at her, she pulls up her rifle to block the blows. Clearly intending to redirect the strikes from her own body before cursing him again.
But then Nathan does something she wasn’t expecting.
Crimson feels a faint smile spread across his face as he sees Nathan adjusting his attack to directly focus on striking her rifle. He even infuses his blades with an immense amount of fire mana. So much that the very air around them starts to blister and spark.
And with that, the two blades sink directly into the rifle. Digging into the weapon’s body before Aritonia manages to curse the two swords and force a powerful blast of curse mana in front of her to push herself away. Barely saving the rifle from any further damage.
What’s most surprising though is how the rifle is still usable despite the attack.
The scope on the rifle is completely destroyed now, and the chamber on the specially made rifle beneath it is melted slightly. But when Aritonia brings it up to fire, it still fires.
However, it doesn’t fire as well. The bullet steers off in an odd direction, and without as much force as it had before.
Making the rifle a lot less useful.
Crimson feels vaguely amused by the sheer dread and anger on Aritonia’s face. Probably because the rifle was made out of incredibly expensive materials.
Albeit materials still quite a bit worse than the materials making up the Undying Magician’s gear that was given to him by Crimson himself.
And to make matters worse for her, the Undying Magician quickly turns around and begins running away again without even trying to finish her off.
“Now that he’s ruined her weapon, it looks like the Undying Magician is going back to the chase again,” Crimson says with a chuckle. Meanwhile the audience roars with enthusiasm.
Putting aside our getting Nathan as an ally, this set of trials has been making an immense amount of profit.
Crimson taps his chin while pursing his lips.
Maybe I should broadcast the trials again some year.
He watches the chase proceed for a while with the other two Class S magicians joining in before Nathan finally manages to lose all three of them. Somehow managing to find a place without any mutants on top of that to hide for now. Only for the beacon to suddenly shoot up into the sky upon the thirty minute mark since the start of the trial.
Broadcasting his location to the magicians and mutant creatures he just managed to lose.
“Damnit,” Nathan mutters, his voice echoing throughout the stadium for all to hear. Making quite a few chuckles ring out along with it from the audience.
Even from Crimson himself.
Then the chase resumes as Nathan goes back on the run again.
Except this time with a beacon shooting up above his head for five minutes straight, making it impossible for him to lose any of his pursuers.
