The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 19
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 4
The trial starts at noon on the dot. With all of us trial takers entering the Toxic Frosts at the same time.
But I’m the only one who enters without any barriers up. With everyone else entering with some sort of magical barrier up to protect themselves from the toxic snow.
Of course, I still take it slow and only reach out to touch some of the toxic snow to test out what it does to me. Only to find it to immediately begin spreading purple across my skin. With that very purple immediately reverting back to normal again.
All within a single second.
Half a second in fact.
It spreads for about a quarter of a second before reverting back in another quarter of a second.
And this is from multiple snowflakes landing on my hand.
It doesn’t hurt either. No doubt from that numbing effect.
So I go ahead and move my entire arm into the snow. Just to see how more snow landing on me affects me. And it rapidly begins to corrupt my arm only for the corruption to revert immediately.
Over and over and over again with every single snowflake.
Looks like I’m fine.
With that thought, I finally take a step into the snow. Bringing my entire body into the snowfall range. At which point I feel the snow rapidly corrupting every part of my body only to revert instantly every time it does.
And since every instance of corruption activates my time reversion, the snow doesn’t build up.
After stepping into the snow and stretching a bit, finding this place to actually be rather nice since I like the cold despite my fire magic, I notice every one of the other Class S magicians staring at me with their teeth gritted. As if they’re all upset about this development.
Probably because this is going to give me a massive advantage over them.
Seeing as all of the other magicians will have to constantly have a barrier up around them to protect themselves from the snow. Which will gradually drain away their mana.
They will have to find safer locations in the Toxic Frosts where they can hide from the snow and recover their mana. And they’ll have to manage their mana to make sure they don’t run out.
Because if they run out, they’re as good as dead.
Or as a monster, I guess.
Since they’ll become a beast from the Toxic Frosts if their barriers vanish.
But I don’t have to deal with any of this. And that’s a massive advantage over them in this trial.
Honestly, I highly doubt I’ll have any trouble with this trial.
I just have to go find a powerful beast and hunt it, then continue searching to see if I can find a stronger one. All the way until the trial ends.
Right before which I will leave the trial.
No real rush for me.
I smile at that thought. Then I put my hands in my pockets and move through the Toxic Frosts without a care in the world.
Seemingly irritating the Class S magicians in the area with my nonchalance while they’re stuck feeling tense.
But I ignore them as I focus on the surroundings. And on the toxic beasts – that’s what I’ll call them from now on – that are turning to look at me.
A toxic beast bear in particular begins lumbering towards me while growling and groaning like a zombie. And I just watch it.
All the way until the thing reaches me and tries to bite me.
The other Class S magicians also watch, seemingly curious about what a bite from the monster will do. Just to study it themselves.
Because, even if they have all heard and done research on the Toxic Frosts, most of them probably haven’t ever been here in person to see themselves. So now is a good chance to see.
I find it rather awkward though when the bear reaches me and I instinctively raise my hand to grab it by the neck. Stopping it in place as it tries to reach its paws to hit and scratch me.
Uh, this thing is weaker than I thought.
Probably because it’s only a beast from the outer edge of the Toxic Frosts.
The central region has more mana so the toxic beasts there must be a lot stronger.
Anyway, I lift the bear up into the air through my vampiric strength before crushing its throat after seeing it claw at my arm. With its claws infecting me with that corruption. Even if said corruption reverts immediately, just like the snow.
To my surprise though, the bear continues moving even after I crush its throat.
Maybe it’s undead in a way?
I reach up and begin crushing its skull instead. Destroying its brain.
But it still continues moving.
Huh. Not undead then.
An undead would stop moving with the destruction of its head, where most of the mana in its body revolves around. Like a central point.
Or a heart. For its mana.
The mana is pumped throughout the rest of the body through the brain.
This is only for semi-living undead though. The undead I make are just reanimated corpses moved by mana.
And they don’t care about what is destroyed since it’s just mana moving a body. Not an actual creature.
Hmm…
There are two other possibilities that come to mind for ways to kill it.
One is to destroy its entire body, which is obvious, and the other is its heart.
So I draw my sword and stab it right into the toxic beast to pierce its heart. Immediately making it drop limp in the process.
There we go. Their weakness really is their hearts.
I kneel down and begin dissecting the corpse right here to get a look at its heart. Only to find most of the corruption in its body being centered around that one organ.
And inside it.
Very interesting.
I need more samples.
So I toss the corpse into my storage before moving off towards the next beast.
