The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 21
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 8
I spend the first day of the trial walking in the direction of the Toxic Frosts’ center. Where the mana gradually gets thicker and thicker. With more dangerous beasts appearing as I go.
But I mostly just focus on my experiments while also training my mana arcs as I walk.
I study the beasts, the mana, and everything the mana does in the area and even inside of the beasts bodies.
Even inside my own body.
All while still training my mana arcs to gradually build my way up to the typical mana arc count of a Class S magician.
Nothing about the mana here or the beasts stands out as particularly interesting to me though. And none of it makes for good study for my own spells either.
Considering that the mana here was made through distortions in reality. Just like my own immortality state.
So it’s not something I can do myself.
None of it can be done by me, which makes studying it further rather pointless.
If I were risking my lift to fight them like the other trial takers, then I would continue studying them. Just to learn any weaknesses they may have.
But I just have to sit back and continue attacking until they fall down dead.
So after realizing all of this, I stop bothering with studying the beasts and the snow. Instead I focus on making my spells and training my mana arcs as I walk towards the center of the Toxic Frosts.
Just completely ignoring the beasts attacking me and the corruption spreading and then reverting across my body.
But around a day and a half into the trial, I find something rather curious.
Specifically, I find a Class S magician clashing with a large horde of beasts.
The Class S magician is fighting with massive clouds of lightning all around them that are striking at the horde of hundreds of beasts. But every time they kill a beast, that beast ends up being replaced by more beasts that are traveling to the noise of the battle.
Noise that is quite loud.
I stop on a snowy cliff looking out over the battle before just sitting at the edge of the cliff and watching. Just to spectate and study the Class S magician’s spells.
Of course, there aren’t all that many techniques I can steal from him. What with the Class S magician being a lightning specialized wind affinity magician. But it’s fine since any techniques can theoretically be useful at some point. Even if it’s for an entirely different affinity.
Who knows after all? I could figure out some way to merge them into one of my affinities.
And on top of that, I might get some inspiration for new spells from watching.
Mostly though I just want to see how strong Class S magicians from the rest of the world are in comparison to Class S magicians from the abandoned continents.
So I sit back and watch as he sends lightning crashing down over and over again.
Sometimes he makes large nets that capture and slowly kill off the beasts, other times he just has lightning strike them from the clouds above them, and sometimes he just straight up sends bolts of lightning from his hands.
But when he sees that the beasts are just increasing in number over time instead of decreasing? He gathers a massive amount of electricity into his own body, drawing it down from the clouds and even the air itself. Building up the charge more and more by the second.
All the way until he lets out a massive blast of electricity that shoots out all across the area.
Electrocuting everything in sight while also blinding me and every one of the beasts.
Even I feel pain from the electricity striking me despite how far away I am. But I ignore it until the bright light fades, letting me see again.
Fortunately, the electricity seems to have ignored my armor and gone straight to me. So I’m still fully clothed.
Which is good, considering how that annoying camera has been following me for a while now.
I’d rather not have everyone watching seeing me like that after all. Even if I’m absolutely certain they would censor it.
Anyway, when the light fades, I find the entire snowy field now desolate of any beasts. With the beasts themselves all lying twitching on the ground.
Well that’s a sight.
Hundreds of different creatures each corrupted by that snow lying twitching on the ground with the Class S magician at the center of them all.
And speaking of the Class S magician, said Class S magician is just looking at me with intrigue in his eyes. Not to mention an impressed look.
But all he does after a few seconds is nod his head at me before beginning to make his way in the direction of the center of the Toxic Frosts without a word.
I’m still not used to powerful magicians just not bothering me.
Well, ignoring the fact that his Tier VIII spell just hit me without even targeting me.
But that’s typical of Tier VIII spells. They’re city-wide spells for a reason after all.
Anyway, I jump down from the cliff before walking over to the still-sparking bodies. Where I begin to study the bodies for a few seconds.
After not finding anything interesting though, I just begin walking off in the same direction the Class S magician went.
Seeing as that’s where I was heading before stopping to check out this battle anyways.
The beasts seem to be getting physically stronger the closer I get to the center. Which implies the amount of toxic mana in their bodies also determines the strength of their bodies.
It makes me wonder if it has any affect on their bodies other than that. Like intelligence.
But at the same time, I’ll probably figure that out as I go.
And if I don’t, then it just wasn’t important.
So with that thought in mind, I continue making my way to the center of the Toxic Frosts.
