The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 41
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 17
The next day after the announcement of the trial, I immediately begin preparing by doing as much research as I can about the three Class S magicians I’ll be facing.
In the previous trials, I didn’t really care about them at all. So I never bothered to do much of any research beyond the basics of their affinities.
But now that I’m directly battling against them? And for twelve hours straight in this trial?
I need to know more about them.
And what I learn about them is very interesting. And if it weren’t for the battle format we’re going to be undergoing, it would be a little frightening.
Reflata Cordou, the reflect special affinity magician, is a magician known very well on her continent as a neutral magician who dislikes getting into conflicts with other nations and magicians. She fights on her own without any help, but she has a large list of friends who she generally uses to copy affinities from. Making her arsenal of different affinities she can change to before this trial vast.
Even more vast than I first expected.
She is a pure martial artist who does not use any sort of weapon, most likely on account of her affinity. Since she can’t make an actual quality weapon that works for all affinities.
And using a subpar weapon is just bad. It would break before she got any use out of it.
Making for her bare fists to be the best weapon she can use.
Which also means that I won’t have to worry about her using many long range attacks beyond spells.
Her personality, on the other hand, is cold and calculative. And she never loses her temper.
Very much unlike Richard de Folde, the anti-matter special affinity magician, who is known to have a very large temper that he loses on a frequent basis. He is not very social and has a much smaller friend circle.
On top of that, he likes to pick fights with others.
So not many people like him.
As for any allies? He is part of a lesser nation known as the Dark Kingdom, located somewhere in the Continent of Melrian.
The only reason the empire isn’t wiping him and his nation out are that his nation is so tiny that it isn’t a threat. Not without him at least.
He’s the only reason his nation is winning wars.
Because the anti-matter affinity is a very powerful combat affinity.
It’s very similar to the destruction affinity that hasn’t been seen in a long time, in fact. Which is known as the most powerful purely offensive affinity in the world.
The man is also quite simple in his line of thought, and he doesn’t use any sort of firearms or ranged weapons at all. Focusing solely on a single sword.
And the sword itself is one of those thinner blades that is sharper on one end than the other and isn’t necessarily meant for stabbing.
I personally don’t understand the use of a blade like that, but from what I’ve heard, they’re quite good still.
And last out of the three, Aritonia Glace, the curse special affinity magician who used me as bait.
She is a bit of a survivalist.
She doesn’t seem to hold any grudges, will do almost anything to survive, just like with what she did to me, and she has only the number of friends she wants to have.
Which is saying something.
Her affinity made her this way to some degree as well. Since the curse affinity doesn’t have quite as many directly offensive attacks as other affinities might have.
At most she can use a direct shot of compressed curse energy.
But other than that, almost all of her potential spells are made to curse others. And while that is incredibly useful for the long run, it isn’t quite as good in a direct battle.
So she tends to take the long route when dealing with her enemies.
She curses them from a distance and slowly bleeds them dry with one curse after another. All without letting them get near her.
And to top that off, she uses a sniper rifle as her main weapon, and is proficient with numerous other weapons as secondaries that she keeps with her in her storage device at all times.
She’s paranoid and extremely cautious, so she will only ever act when she has an escape plan she believe should work.
Like with what she did to escape from the dragon. Using me as bait.
At the end of the day, she’ll be annoying.
But at the same time, she’s the weakest of the three in terms of threat level. Especially since curses won’t stay on me for more than a couple seconds at most.
Whereas her main fighting style is to build up curses on her foes until she can finish them off or they die from the curses.
The only thing she can really do to me is spam the same curse over and over again on me, or curse my clothes and gear. But even that I can erase with enough fire or death mana.
I can even try to take the curses into my own body to get them erased.
Unfortunately, I can already see the magicians going for my gear first.
After all, the best thing they can do is try to destroy or steal my weapons to limit me. Since my mana isn’t going to be a problem for them.
The only bright side is that they shouldn’t be able to destroy my weapons. Not at their strength.
From what I understand, it takes far more mana than they can muster to do that.
Or at least, far more than they can muster for this trial.
It would probably take about three quarters of their mana used in a single attack to destroy my weapons. But that would leave them weak to both each other and my own pure physical strength.
After all, even if they destroy my weapons, that doesn’t change the fact that I can charge in and just grab them by the throat with my bare hands.
Plus I have spare weapons.
And I’m sure they know that.
I tap my finger in my lab while watching recordings of their past battles.
Regardless of what happens though, this is going to be an interesting trial.
