The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 27
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The Peak of the First Magic Tower
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
Crimson feels amused as he watches the Undying Magician making his way towards the central region of the Toxic Frosts. A place that has never been explored before thanks to the sheer density of corrupt mana infesting it.
Even Crimson has never been there. Albeit more because he has no reason to go there than any inability to go there.
What amuses Crimson though isn’t Nathan’s action of heading towards the central region. It’s not even the sight of the chat in the livestream talking as if Nathan is already guaranteed to pass the second trial. Which Crimson actually agrees with based on the prey shown so far by the other trial takers.
The dragon is the most powerful beast outside of the central region. And the other trial takers won’t be getting anywhere near the central region.
So the dragon makes for an instant pass if a trial taker manages to slay it.
No. What amuses Crimson is Nathan’s attitude towards it all. How he just sat back and watched before claiming the dragon as his own after the other two magicians failed to slay it. And how he just nonchalantly heads to the central region out of pure curiosity.
He’s already got the perfect prey to win and could easily leave the entire Toxic Frosts with it right now. But instead of doing that, he’s entering the most dangerous location in all of the Toxic Frosts.
Just because he’s curious about what’s in there.
Crimson can’t help but find the kid interesting. Especially since he’s so similar to Crimson himself.
The First Tower Master was always the curious sort. He’s done whatever he felt like doing whenever.
And his talent in magic has always carried him through everything. So he’s barely faced any consequences for his actions.
Not that he’s ever done anything considered evil. After all, if he did, then he wouldn’t be so popular.
Crimson rubs his chin for a few seconds as he watches Nathan head towards the central region. Then he glances at the other livestreams to see the other magicians continuing their hunt. With a few of them deciding to team up to try and take down other corrupt dragons.
They even sign a magical contract bound by blood to make sure they follow through and hunt one for each of those participating. A product of Crimson’s own making that makes quite a bit of money and forces people to act according to the terms of the contract lest their blood gets ripped out of their bodies.
There are other products out on the market similar to Crimson’s blood contract, but none of them are as effective. Since there are no other blood affinity magicians in the world right now, and there are no magicians as powerful as Crimson.
Crimson doesn’t feel any confidence in the other Class S magicians working towards hunting dragon beasts though. Because the sound magician who died to the first dragon beast was one of the strongest magicians of the trial takers. So only one of the groups working towards hunting dragon beasts actually has a large chance at succeeding.
And that’s the group made up of the curse magician, the reflect magician, and the gravity magician.
Three of the strongest magicians in the trial other than the anti-matter magician and the sound magician.
Crimson continues watching them for a little while before focusing on Nathan again as the Undying Magician finally gets in sight of the central region. Which is in the form of a single strange mountain.
One in the form of a volcano.
Except one made of ice.
That’s a curious formation.
The chat thinks the same as it goes wild. Especially when the ice volcano spews out cold water that freezes the instant it touches the ground, along with massive chunks of ice and frigid mist.
But the chat goes even more wild when a loud cawing sound echoes out from the direction of the volcano.
Similar to the sound a hawk makes.
Crimson taps his chin as he watches the livestream. Feeling his curiosity growing.
He has gone into numerous mana infested locations over his years to gather materials. So he doesn’t really care about seeing a new beast.
But he is curious about how Nathan will handle the situation than the beast.
How an immortal will handle the situation.
Will he be able to kill the creature? Or will he flee after failing to kill it?
Crimson can even see the situation of the Undying Magician ending up frozen solid by the creature, leading to him being stuck there for a while and potentially even missing the deadline for submitting his prey.
The chat continues going wild as Nathan enters the central region, which is flooded with so much corrupt mana that the boy is constantly flooded with corrupt mana running throughout his entire body. So much that his pale skin is mostly covered in purplish black veins of corrupt mana to the point that Crimson can barely even see his skin.
And his eyes are partially solidifying even as they noticeably revert at the same time.
Making for a constant cycle of reversion and corruption.
Almost like a tug-of-war match.
But Nathan just ignores it all as he continues walking into the central region, which doesn’t appear to have any other beasts in sight of the drone.
They were all probably killed by the ruler of the mana infested region.
Crimson crosses his arms as he looks out over the city beneath the balcony he’s standing on while watching the livestream. Just seeing the massive amounts of people down in the city that gathered for the trials.
Then he focuses on the livestream again while wondering just what he should do with the situation in the abandoned continents.
Perhaps I can assist the boy with that problem of his for giving me this entertainment. Just a little bit.
