The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 37
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 16
The next three months pass by rather peacefully. Albeit with a lot of explosions coming from my lab thanks to my experiments. But I manage to improve all of my magitech explosive devices over my time here.
Especially with the help of both studying other explosive magitech devices here and getting some tutoring from Juan’s family.
A family that is suspiciously more supportive after my accomplishments in the trials thus far.
Not that I particularly mind.
Anyway, my explosives are now at least three times stronger than before. And they’re still not nuclear. Which means they’re still safe for me to use near cities.
As for my mana arc training?
I’ve managed to raise my mana arcs all the way to six hundred. Both thanks to the lovely training device they have, and the fact that I don’t care about accidentally ripping my mana arcs as they just recover immediately.
So I can be a lot more reckless than others when training them and not have to worry.
For my mana manipulation?
I’m actually nearing the bare minimum for mana manipulation. I can cast a lot of basic spells without needing spell circles anymore.
And that should help a lot in combat.
I finally leave my lab a couple days before the end of the third trial. Mostly because the trial is pretty much over already.
Just a couple hours ago I got word about the eighth Class S magician completing their trial with a couple days to spare.
Which means this trial is effectively done.
It was rather interesting to see how the other magicians completed their own trials though. Since I’ve had the broadcast on in a corner of my lab to glance at during my experiments.
And all of them did different things to get to their goal of wiping out their targets.
But at the same time, they all used their own forces to do it. They brought magicians, soldiers, and firepower from their own nations.
One of them was on a siege for the entire time we’ve been on this trial. With that being the one who just finished the trial.
They were sieging their target’s fortress base in some supposedly backwater desert country.
Then there was one who was scouring the ocean because their target organization was known to have their main base set up somewhere in the waters. And they fortunately had a relatively decent tracker, albeit not a perfectly accurate one.
So they eventually found the organization after a month of searching before wiping them out without much trouble.
Other than them, there’s a magician who just straight up walked into their target’s headquarters and wiped them out on their own. Both through the use of assassin techniques and some sort of reflect magitech item made by their own reflect affinity. One that reflects spells back at the caster.
Because, as it turns out, the reflect affinity magician is also an assassin.
Which was interesting to find out.
There’s also a hired killer amongst the trial takers who is the complete opposite of the Blacklight Group. They’re a hired killer that only targets these ‘evil organizations’ and no one else.
They just acted as if it was a normal job and successfully cleared the trial within a month apparently.
Overall, it was interesting to see the many different ways for the magicians to clear the trial. Both with their own forces, some using an entire army to clear it, and some with just themselves. Like the assassin.
I make my way through the First Magic Tower in the direction of the meeting place. Where the other trial takers are gathering.
From what I understand, this fourth trial should be another elimination one. Except that it’ll eliminate four trial takers instead of two.
Then the fifth trial will determine who amongst the four remaining trial takers will pass the trials and become a Tower Master.
And I have no clue what the remaining trials will be like because all of the trials have been so drastically different from any past years’ trials.
Regardless though, I don’t really care. I just want to finish up with these trials and head back to deal with the war.
At this rate they’ll finish the war without me.
And that would be a shame.
I purse my lips at that thought before eventually shrugging.
Well, whatever.
As long as they don’t kill the doctor without me.
I don’t particularly have any grudges against the Collective Kingdoms after all.
With that thought in mind, I continue making my way through the Magic Tower until I arrive at the meeting point. And when I do, I immediately find Crimson appearing floating in the air over the balcony that is said meeting point. Then he begins clapping and announces, “Congratulations on passing the third trial! But the next trial won’t be so easy!”
All eight of us look up at Crimson as he smiles down at us with numerous drones scattered in the air above us.
“The fourth trial will be a very simple one! But at the same time, it will be difficult for some of you!” Crimson continues before snapping his fingers, making a few words appear above himself in blood. “It’s an exam!”
I blink at that.
An… exam?
The words above him state, ‘Magic Tower Entry Exam’.
Seriously?
“This exam will ask you various questions about yourself and we will decide if you are worthy of becoming a Tower Master based on your answers!” Crimson declares with a faint grin spreading across his face. The man clearly enjoying this. “If your personality traits are determined to have potential benefit towards the Magic Towers, or if you might be a detriment based solely on your selfish and destructive nature. We will soon see where you all stand.”
Something tells me I won’t have to worry about this exam.
Simply because I highly doubt they’ll fail me considering how they literally changed the first trial so that I can participate.
Also, I have a very normal personality. And very much not destructive.
So things should be fine.
