The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 26
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
My little ‘battle’ with the dragon continues in a repeated pattern for a while. With me rushing over to it, slamming my swords into its foot, getting sent flying, getting shot at by the beam or spheres, removing the little mark it leaves on me, and then doing everything over again. For hours. Nonstop.
But I eventually cut the stupid dragon’s foot off. Leaving it stumbling down and losing its footing. Literally.
Thanks to that, I get a lot more openings to slash my swords into its other foot. Since it can’t balance itself anywhere near as well now.
And after chopping away at its other foot for a while, I manage to cut it off. Leaving just the dragon’s forelimbs left.
The creature isn’t built to balance on just its forelimbs though, so it’s constantly tripping. And since it has to hit me to get that mark off on me, it’s attacking me less and less as the battle goes on.
To the point that the only times it manages to get a mark off on me are when its tail hits me.
Eventually, after I cut off another foot, the beast goes absolutely ballistic. Attacking in every possible direction and destroying anything it can.
I watch it go on its rampage as I jump onto a cliff nearby, just briefly wondering how much corrupt mana this thing even has for it to still be sending those beams and spheres out like that. But after a few seconds, I just head back down to finish the thing off.
Which becomes a simple matter of climbing up its body onto its back before chipping away at its neck.
The beast seems to realize what I’m doing as it starts doing nothing but large bursts of corrupt mana that send me flying away from its body every time.
If this creature wasn’t already cursed by the curse magician, and crippled by the sound magician before he, I probably wouldn’t be able to get close to it. At least, not until it runs out of mana.
Based on how it was moving earlier, those curses seem to have weakened its physical strength by at least eighty percent, and its magical strength by ninety percent.
I continue chipping away at its neck for a while longer before I finally manage to cut off its head. Finishing off the dragon in the process.
Nice. This makes for a rather nice submission for the trial.
Of course, I’m still going to head to the center of the Toxic Frosts to find something better. But this is probably still good enough to pass the trial.
Actually, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t.
So with that in mind, I pull out my storage device. Only for the corpse to suddenly begin radiating a bright pale blue light before sending a massive explosion of corrupt mana all over the place.
Blinding me for an instant, following which my consciousness goes dark.
Who knows how long later I find my consciousness returning. At which point I wake up to the sight of everything nearby destroyed. Including my armor.
The plateaus around me are all just leveled to the ground. My blades are both destroyed, and my armor is almost nonexistent.
Clearly proving just how powerful that attack was.
The only thing left in the flattened inner region around me are some plateaus in the distance, a few Class S magicians looking at me in shock from those plateaus, and the massive corpse of the dragon. One that is now empty of mana.
Hmm.
There are a lot of cameras over there. And the replacement camera for the one that was destroyed is here too.
I glance down at my ruined armor. Then I shrug.
Meh. It’s still covering what needs to be covered.
With the thought of my armor already forgotten, I climb to my feet, pull out my spare swords – since they prepared four of them for me just in case without thinking I’d need the spares – and put them in my sheaths. Then I walk over to the corpse and put it into my storage.
There we go. I’ve got my target.
On another note, I can’t help but notice a few things about my surroundings.
For one, other than the fact that everything’s been leveled for several hundred meters, the area is also coated so much in corrupt mana that it’s like the radiation left behind by a nuclear explosion. To the point that it’s just soaked into everything. Making the environment here more like what I’m guessing the central region must be like in terms of corrupt mana density.
Which also explains why none of those magicians there tried to enter this area and steal the corpse of my prey.
Because they’re not safe in this area thanks to the dragon’s last hurrah.
Anyway, now that I have a good target for the trial, I can make my way to the central region to check it out. And if there isn’t anything I can hunt there, then I can just call it a good experience for my experiments and research before leaving and using the dragon as my prey.
I ignore the camera as I start making my way in the direction of the central region. Where the corrupt mana is the thickest by far.
All while the other Class S magicians stare at me with who knows what on their minds.
But after several minutes pass, the magicians all seem to lose interest and head away from the destroyed region. No doubt returning to their own hunts.
One thing I did notice though is that no one seemed upset about me taking the leftovers of other magicians hunt. Even the curse magician who I noticed was at the edge of the region as well didn’t seem upset.
She just seemed resigned.
Like she was already expecting it.
Then again, she can’t say anything even if she was upset since she used me as bait.
At least I won’t have to deal with that.
I try to put my hands back in my pockets as I walk towards the central region, only to frown when I realize my pockets were destroyed.
Damnit.
I let out a sigh as I continue walking without a word to the camera following me.
