The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 22
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
After three more days of travel, I find quite a few Class S magicians fighting along the way. And I take a moment to study their spells whenever I see them.
I even find a fire magician and manage to steal quite a few spells from them in the process. Or some of the spells.
There’s one annoying thing about watching Class S magicians fight.
Since they’re using direct mana manipulation and not spell circles, it’s a lot harder to figure out the exact scripts they’re using for their spells. Leaving me just figuring out the spell’s basic idea and a very brief glimpse of the script.
I grit my teeth at that, only to shake my head as I continue walking through the Toxic Frosts. Deciding that any help is still help.
It doesn’t take long before my thoughts are interrupted though.
The moment I reach a ledge looking out over a massive valley of pure ice that stretches for as far as the eye can see, I stop moving. Just to look on in awe.
It’s… beautiful.
I’m guessing this is the inner region of the Toxic Frosts, which is supposed to be a lot more dangerous than the outer region I’ve been going through. But it’s just beautiful.
There’s no more snow. Instead it’s ice.
Toxic ice is falling from the sky in the form of hail. Meanwhile instead of a snow-covered field, it’s an ice covered bunch of plateaus.
As for the toxic ice itself? Instead of the glowing purple color the snow was, this ice is a lot darker in color. To the point that, while it is still purple, it’s closer to black with a deep purple tint to it than regular purple.
So I’m just looking out over purple tinted black ice plateaus. With numerous corrupted creatures wandering around it and not a single human in sight.
No matter how far I look – which isn’t far considering the hail blocking my sight – I can’t find any human magicians.
Well, except for a couple corrupted humans.
They look like humans with pale white skin and glowing veins of deep purple tinted black energy. All with those hardened, solidified eyes.
As for whether these corrupted humans are from the Class S magicians? I have no idea.
Either way, I decide to ignore those. Since they don’t seem as powerful as the beasts in the plateaus.
That said, this place really is very beautiful. Albeit also very dark, since the light of the sun barely makes it through the clouds enough to make it so that it’s not completely pitch black down here. With said light reflecting off of the ice in a blackish purple color, mixing with the already present glow of the mana.
It’s just plain beautiful.
And dangerous for regular humans, but still beautiful.
Then again, everyone always says beauty is danger.
And the scenery isn’t the only beautiful thing in my opinion.
The mana is also beautiful.
It’s the most mana I have ever seen in one location in my entire life. Even more than the skeleton’s home.
I blink at that thought.
Wait a second, would the skeleton’s home… be considered a mana infested region?
I think it might actually be one.
It’s flooded with death mana and countless undead. So what else could it be but a mana infested region?
The only difference is the amount of mana. Since his mana infested region only has a fraction of the mana I see here.
And this isn’t even the center of the Toxic Frosts.
So even just the inner region has over twice the mana that the skeleton’s home has.
It makes me wonder just how much mana is in the central region.
And what type of creature lives there.
Apparently no one has been to the central region in a very long time. Simply because the corrupted mana there has grown so intense that no one but Crimson could survive there.
And that’s simply because he uses blood affinity magic. Which lets him significantly delay any corruption that spreads through his blood from the mana.
Even he doesn’t have a strong enough barrier to block all of the mana. That’s just how intense it is there.
So that’s my destination.
While everyone else is hunting in the inner region – probably – I’ll be investigating the central region.
That thought has me faintly smiling. Only for the smile to stiffen when I see something… unexpected.
A massive draconic creature made of black purple tinted ice just stepping out of a massive ice cave. Then stretching to its full height of at least three dozen meters while its wings spread to its sides before returning to its body.
Meanwhile all the other beasts near it flee in terror.
Huh.
That looks dangerous.
And its body is so flooded with mana that it’s almost blinding to my magical senses.
Honestly, that would probably be enough to secure my place in passing the trial.
But I stiffen when I feel a loud screeching roar echoing out through the entire area. And while I first think it’s from the dragon, I quickly realize that’s not the case when even the dragon stiffens and looks in the direction of the central region.
Then the dragon hides back in its cave in a hurry.
Holy shit… what could be powerful enough to make even that dragon flee in terror?
That’s kind of terrifying.
Or it would be if I wasn’t immortal.
I look at the cave for several seconds, but right when I’m about to finally jump down into the inner region, I see a Class S magician approaching the cave where the dragon is hiding.
Huh? Someone’s actually going to try taking that behemoth on?
I stare at the magician for a few seconds, just watching them, before finally nodding my head and jumping down into the inner region.
It wouldn’t hurt to get a preview of a powerful beast here before going on my own hunt.
I give a firm nod of my head at that thought as I begin making my way towards the cave.
