The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 56
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 26
“All of the supplies to build your Magic Tower have already been sent to the designated location,” Crimson says as we stand at the pier of the ship flying through the skies in the direction of the abandoned continents. “The work on the foundation should already have started, so when we arrive, all they’ll need to do is get your preferences for the Tower’s design. Including but not limited to the public sectors, private sectors, faction specific sectors, your lab, and more.”
I nod my head and state, “Understood.”
After that, he begins to go over several details of relative importance. Like the dos and don’ts of a Tower Master.
Which pretty much comes down to ‘don’t be an idiot’, and ‘don’t try to declare war for the Magic Towers as they will likely not get involved’, marking each Magic Tower as a separate entity in a way. Unless the conflict in question is of no fault at all to the Magic Tower and is entirely one-sided by another faction. Then the Magic Towers as a whole will get involved.
Like some other faction trying to take over the continent and kicking the Magic Towers out for example.
That would piss them off.
And no one wants to piss off Crimson.
Then again, he also says that I probably won’t have to worry about any of this because of who and what I am. Since no one wants to piss me off either.
He also probably realizes I’m likely to sit inside of my tower to months to years without ever stepping out in the middle of my experiments.
It’s something he does often apparently. What with him not aging and all, even if he isn’t immortal.
Then again, he might as well be. Considering how massively difficult it is to kill a blood mage who can separate his entire body out by its droplets of blood before reforming against from those droplets of blood if he has the mana.
And he has the mana.
Anyway, after that he goes ahead and fills me in on our relationship with the other powers of the world. Followed by expectations the Tower Masters have of me.
Which pretty much comes down to protecting my territory and running the Magic Tower’s market here, connecting the abandoned continents through trade with the rest of the world.
And I’m perfectly fine with that since it will be very economically beneficial for me.
It pretty much gives me a monopoly on trade in the abandoned continents.
Until other nations from the outside world make connections, that is. Then that monopoly will go away.
And I doubt it’ll take long for them to rush to make those connections.
We continue chatting for a while before Crimson ends things on a bit of advice for me. With the advice itself being quite useful.
Apparently a magician can actually increase their natural talent.
He won’t tell me how it’s done, but just knowing this is very beneficial to me.
Maybe I can try to figure that out while I train my mana arcs.
A magician’s talent that determines how long between mana arc splittings they can train each mana arc is important when it comes to training speed. Of course, the more mana arcs someone has, the less important it is. Simply because they end up focusing on training their other mana arcs while the previous ones they split are growing.
But it’s still important.
Even I have to wait a bit between trainings for the arcs to fully grow so that I can split them again.
And that wastes time. Making it take even longer to train my mana arcs than it would otherwise take
Which is annoying.
Anyway, things are all wrapping up by now in the abandoned continents as well. Since they finally confirmed the full surrender of the Collective Kingdoms. Pretty much winning the war for the Kingdom of the Fallen.
The only part that’s still left unfinished is the doctor, who is technically the leader of his own faction and must still be defeated for the war to officially be considered over.
But that’s fine. He’ll show up eventually. And when he does, I have the tracker to find him.
He’s too injured regardless to pose more of a threat to me than a weakened Class S magician. Despite his status as one of the strongest on the continent.
So I don’t even have to worry about him capturing me or running away.
Unless he runs to the mana planes. Then it might be an issue.
Or it would be, until Crimson casually comments about how the tracker also has another function. One to lock down space in an area and make it impossible to leave the plane.
He can still use space mana and magic in the plane, and can even teleport and use other spells. But he won’t be able to escape the plane.
Which solves my problem entirely.
I just have to find him and enter battle. Finally taking my revenge through my own hands.
On another note, the skeleton let my parents go free at some point as well, so I can see them when I get back without worry. Something about them not being needed as hostages anymore now that the war is over and there’s nothing he needs to rush or motivate me to do.
When I got that message I felt strongly about punching his skull and crushing it. Multiple times.
But I’m just glad that is over with.
So with the thought of fighting the doctor in mind, I bury myself in training my mana arcs.
All the way until we finally arrive at the abandoned continents once more. Where we find the current progress on the Eternal Tower – Crimson’s choice in name since he didn’t give me a choice, not that I mind it since it’s a good name – being further along than I thought.
They’ve completely transformed the cliff the Undying Magician was built into.
It now looks a lot more stable and partially man-made. Since it is partially man-made now.
Meanwhile there are numerous houses built all around the Undying Caverns. With all of them looking like they’ve been here for a while.
I guess they branched out of just being underground and are building a city above the Undying Caverns as well.
Not a bad idea.
I think they actually may have mentioned that to me in a report but I forgot.
Anyway, our ship begins to grow closer to the ground as it prepares for landing.
Time to see everyone for the first time in months.
