The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 44
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
Unfortunately for me, flames don’t move very quickly underwater since the flames are fighting against the water to evaporate it. So I quickly switch to death magic and fire off miasma straight at the piranha instead. And that actually works as it catches the piranha and starts to devour it.
Which, while doesn’t kill the thing right away, manages to slow it down enough for me to reach the thing and stab it with my sword. Skewering it and letting me bring its mouth over towards me to grab the crown again.
I place the crown on my head and keep it there with my hand on the crown. Just in case there are any other pesky piranhas around here.
And when I look behind me, I find that anti-matter magician swimming in place several dozen meters away with his eyes narrowed. Seemingly deep in thought, trying to figure out how to take the crown from me.
Not that I care about him. Because there’s one other thing that is far more important right now.
Specifically the fact that I see more and more mutated fish appearing in the water around us by the seconds.
Just how many creatures did that lady mutate and bring with her anyways?!
And all of these marine animals are far faster and more maneuverable in the water than me…
So much for my ‘stay underwater’ plan.
With that in mind, I pull out some explosives. Then I set all five of the ones I pulled out to explode in a few seconds. Just letting the marine creatures get closer to me.
One thing I’ve noticed is that she seems to be able to control them. But only to a degree.
And when she tries to control more than one, her control slips and they begin to act more wild. Like regular animals. Albeit rabid ones trying to bite and scratch everything.
Well, just bite in the case of these marine ones that have no claws to scratch with.
I can’t help but notice the anti-matter magician’s eyes widening in fear when he sees the explosives around me. At which point he turns around and begins rapidly swimming away.
But I ignore him as when the mutants get within a few meters of me, the explosives all go off. Making everything go dark in an instant. Only for my consciousness to return to the sight of me being in the middle of a rather large crater.
To my surprise, the lake still has some water. With said water flowing in from the sides that were outside of the explosives’ direct range.
Even with that, though, there isn’t much water left.
And, more importantly, the mutants were wiped out.
I see a grimace showing on the face of the curse magician, Aritonia, who I can now see at the edge of the lake looking down into the crater. Meanwhile the reflect magician, Reflata, just has a faint smile on her face.
As for Richard?
Yeah, he doesn’t look happy from his place at the edge of the lake, still partially in the water with a barrier of anti-matter mana around him.
I glance at the numbers high in the sky before smiling when my total points finally pass Richard’s. Then I turn my attention to Reflata when she finally jumps down into the crater to land in the water that’s now spread out across the crater to end up at about waist-depth.
Overall, I’d say those explosives went over pretty well. And I’ve got plenty more of them in my storage in case I need them.
On that note, I glance at my outfit before nodding my head in satisfaction at the sight of my clothes still being without a single scratch.
It looks like the modifications I made with the help of the other creators of the outfit are working out quite well.
Specifically my adding explosion resistance and absorption.
I added the absorption, they added material with resistance.
Thankfully, explosion absorption is very easy to make for a fire magician. All it requires is to make the outfit have fire spells in it that absorb exposed fire mana in the air that is directly touching it.
Doing that makes the outfit absorb fire mana from explosions, decreasing the intensity of the explosion hitting the outfit.
That on top of the explosion resistant material the creators added makes the outfit very explosion resistant.
I’m liking this outfit more and more every day.
A smile stretches across my face at that thought before I focus on the approaching reflect magician. Who is currently enhancing her body with enhancement mana to make it easy for her to wade through the water.
To my surprise, she actually begins talking when she gets close to me.
“Not a bad idea,” she says while clenching and unclenching her fists without a weapon in sight. “Getting rid of the marine mutants this early.”
I raise a brow at her attempt at a conversation. Mostly because she’s never really struck me as the most talkative out of the magicians here.
Not that it really matters. The longer she talks, the longer I’ll be holding the crown without anyone trying to-
My thoughts draw to a halt when she suddenly rushes me with her fist raised. To which I counter with my own arm.
Only for said arm to snap in two from her mana-enhanced physical strength.
“Rude,” I comment with a slight frown.
She just shrugs while slamming her other fist into my other arm and retorting, “Anything to win.”
I draw out the claws on my left arm – the first one she shattered – before swiping them at her now that my arm is already restored. Only for her to back away immediately, barely getting cut by my claws in the process.
And even that is only her armor. Not her actual arm.
“Touché,” I state back with a raised brow.
She just chuckles at that while glancing at the visible cuts on her armor.
