The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 55
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
“The Frost Bird is in a relatively stable situation right now, so he won’t ever be taken over by the corruption,” Incendia explains. “However, at the same time, the Frost Bird is barely able to move out of its home in the volcano’s crater because of how much effort it’s taking him to manage the corruption in his body. So he won’t ever recover on his own either. He will be stuck there forever unless he gets help.”
“And that’s where I come in?” I ask while tilting my head a little. “I’m guessing I can do something to get rid of the corruption?”
“Not now,” Incendia answers with a shake of her head. “You aren’t strong enough to help the Frost Bird right now. It may even be thousands of years before you are strong enough to help him.”
Oh.
“There are two ways that you will be able to help the Frost Bird in the future, but both will require a lot of time for you to be able to manage them,” Incendia continues without missing a beat. “The first way is to use fire and death mana in conjunction to slowly burn away all of the corruption in the Frost Bird’s body through death flames. But that alone would take thousands of years of you simply sitting right next to the Frost Bird in the crater constantly working on him. And any breaks you take will just lead the corruption to grow stronger. You also wouldn’t be able to start for thousands of years since you’re too weak right now to make any progress.”
Yeah, that sounds like a waste of time.
“What’s the other method?” I ask while beginning to prep my lab for my experiments on more explosives.
“The other method to cure the Frost Bird will be an instant one, but it will likely take even longer for you to be able to do,” Incendia says, catching my interest a little. “It will require you to fully take control of the time mana in your body, then to master that time mana and learn to cast complete time reversal spells. By the time you learn to do all of this, your mana capacity should be far greater and capable of casting Tier X or Tier XI spells, and you may even be able to revert time on the entire crater or more. Bringing the area and the Frost Bird back in time to before the area became the Toxic Frosts.”
“That option sounds better,” I state with a nod.
Incendia nods her own head and replies, “I thought as much. I told the Frost Bird you would likely go this route as well, and the Frost Bird has responded that he will wait patiently for you. Even should you take tens of thousands of years.”
Something tells me the Frost Bird doesn’t have much confidence in me mastering time magic fast enough to reverse time in an area anytime soon.
Not that I blame him. That’s pretty advanced magic.
On that note, I pause in setting up my experiments to look at the space-time mana in my bones.
I noticed it when experiencing the doctor’s space magic, and when near the Chrono’s time magic, but the reality mana in my bones seems to react to sensing its own mana outside of my body. I wasn’t strong enough the last time to actually get any out, but maybe the next time I run into the doctor, I might be.
And if that’s the case, I may be able to separate out even a tiny sliver of space mana from my bones to put into a mana arc and give me space mana.
Which would be incredibly useful.
Space mana is one of the greatest affinities for utility in magic. And on top of that, it’s incredibly good for combat as well.
It lets the user teleport, create portals, travel the planes, and even create dimensional pockets for storage spaces. The only reason none of that is common is because there’s only one currently alive space magician.
And that’s the doctor. Someone from the abandoned continents who is stingy and greedy as hell.
Not to mention desperate for a few more years to live.
Time magic would also be incredibly useful, but I’ll probably get that at some point after I go to the Chrono’s island. Seeing as he’s apparently waiting for me to arrive.
After I reach Class S, that is. Which is mostly just a matter of time at this point.
I already know how to manipulate mana to a great degree without spell circles now.
So the main thing I’m missing is the mana arcs for it.
I need to train my mana arcs more.
Right now, I’m getting close to the point where I’m about a third of the way there. But I should be able to speed up my training quite a bit from here on out. Seeing as I don’t have anything pressing to deal with.
Other than the doctor, that is.
Since I don’t have any more trials, I can just focus entirely on increasing my mana arcs. Especially since I’ve already gotten my mana manipulation down well enough to be considered Class S level.
It’s obviously not perfect, but it’s good enough for now.
My mana arcs are what’s lacking.
I let out a sigh at that thought before suddenly changing my plans and stopping the process of setting up for experiments. Because I need to focus on my mana arcs for now.
So without hesitation, I set up the training device before beginning to focus my all on training my mana arcs for the next few days. All the way until we leave for the abandoned continents.
Which, in all honesty, isn’t that much time to train mana arcs. But it’s uninterrupted thanks to Crimson blocking all of the reporters outside and the politicians trying to meet the new Tower Master.
So it’s a lot more relaxing than past training sessions have been.
And that’s what matters most.
