The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Intermission 4
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Within the First Magic Tower
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 17
Reflata Cordou keeps her eyes closed as she sits at the very top of the Magic Tower with her legs dangling over the edge. Just feeling the wind as it passes by her, making her long white hair blow with it behind her. But after several minutes of this, she eventually opens her eyes, revealing the glowing white light coming from them.
If there’s one thing Reflata has always enjoyed, that would be the peaceful atmosphere created by the wind. It’s something she’s loved since she was young despite not being a wind affinity magician.
And that’s not all. She also loves spending time at the ocean, hearing the waves crash against each other or even against rocks on the beach. She loves spending time in forests, listening to nature make its natural sounds.
There are very few natural things she genuinely dislikes.
Except dealing with other people.
That’s part of why she entered these trials in the first place. To make her own Magic Tower that she can seclude herself in.
A place to avoid the annoying people of the world.
And now that she’s gotten this far, she refuses to give up. Even if it means taking on the Undying Magician in a round of fisticuffs.
She knows her plan is risky. But she also knows it’s the only possible plan that could actually work against him.
If she uses a long ranged affinity, all she’ll be doing is delaying the inevitable before he eventually comes up and cuts her head off. Assuming he doesn’t rip it off with his bare hands and drink her blood instead.
So going all in on physical prowess is the only way to go.
And she has very little doubt about that.
What she’s more curious about is what the other two will do.
Reflata continues looking out over the city and mountains below the clouds for a few minutes before eventually letting out a sigh and lying flat on her back to stare up at the sky.
It’s almost over…
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On a ship flying right outside of the First Magic Tower
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 17
“This is so fucking annoying,” Richard de Folde mutters as he crosses his arms in his ship’s lab and glares at the recordings he’s collected of the Undying Magician. All of whom show any damage he receives near instantly reverting. Clearly involving both time and space magic in the process, since it always reverts no matter how the injury is caused. “So very fucking annoying.”
When he first heard about the Undying Magician, Nathan Fox, he laughed. He didn’t believe an immortal like that could exist.
It didn’t even cross his mind that the king of the Dark Kingdom could’ve been serious when he warned him about the man.
So when he first realized the king was genuinely serious? After he saw the man in action?
He wanted to punch something.
And so he did. Which required the repair crew to repair his lab.
To make matters worse, now he’s expected to go up against a monster like that? Someone who can’t die, can freely use two different affinities, and has the strength of a vampire?
If it were for just a few hours, Richard is sure he could easily hold the man in place. All he would have to do is create a sphere of pure anti-matter that would erase anything that tries to enter it.
He could then just sit back as the Undying Magician constantly reforms inside of the sphere until the end of the trial.
But this trial is twelve hours.
And he isn’t even sure if the Undying Magician is capable of breaking out of a sphere like that, as it could theoretically be possible.
Not that it would matter since there are two other magicians he has to deal with as well. Neither of whom would be willing to just sit there while he goes in to grab the crown from the Undying Magician.
And that’s even assuming the Undying Magician has the crown at that point, as if he doesn’t, then how would he go to grab it while holding him in place?
He wouldn’t be able to with the other two magicians going to it.
Richard slams his fist into the table in front of him again as his temper gets the best of him.
“Damnit,” he mutters without taking his eyes off of the screen. “There has to be some way to handle all of this and come out on top…”
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Within a lab inside of the First Magic Tower
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 17
The sound of screams echoes from Aritonia Glace’s lab as she stares blankly at a rat currently coated in purple energy. With the rat itself gradually transforming into a large abomination.
“Good,” she mutters to herself with a nod. “This’ll do.”
The rat’s screams gradually grow hoarser and hoarser until it stops entirely as the rat grows to an entire meter in height with its limbs twisted a little and sharp claws on its paws. But the creature is built well enough to move around even if it’s in constant pain as it does so.
That isn’t an issue for Aritonia right now though. She can add in a function to the spell to make them unable to feel pain later.
For now, she just brings the creature over to the rest. Putting it into a cage with several other mutated rats and other animals.
Then she walks over to another cave with hundreds of regular animals with a sharp gleam in her eyes. One that turns even sharper when she turns her gaze towards a screen showing the Undying Magician’s feats in a corner of her lab.
She watches the screen for several seconds, only to focus on the animals again as she reaches inside of the cage to grab a small rabbit that immediately begins to tremble at her touch.
Showing pure terror at the mere touch of the woman holding it.
“Whatever it takes,” she mutters amidst the terrified cries of the animals in her lab.
