The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 25
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
I silently watch from my spot rather far away as the curse magician continues peppering the beast with curses one after another. Rapidly weakening it in the process.
But the problem is that the curse magician is too weak. Specifically in her defensive measures.
Because while she can hurt the dragon quite a bit, the dragon’s attacks still very nearly shatter her barrier in just a single hit. Which makes things incredibly dangerous for her thanks to the toxic ice that’s also battering that very barrier.
So after watching her fail miserably for half an hour, with her rushing in, attacking, then backing away when her barrier very nearly shatters, repairing her barrier every time, she eventually flees. Apparently abandoning the beast in the end.
Hmm…
I silently watch her fly away with her little recorder drone following along behind her. The one broadcasting her to the rest of the world.
And the drone isn’t the only thing following her, because I see a certain corrupted former Class S Magician following her too.
Well that just happened.
I glance at the beast. Then I look around me as I realize there isn’t a drone near me anymore.
So I’m not being broadcast anymore.
Hmm…
Not that it really matters, but it does make things simpler for the future. Since I doubt that curse magician or the nation that sound magician came from would be happy about this.
Who cares what they’d be happy about though.
With that in mind, I turn my focus towards the beast. Only to find a large sphere of corruption already flying straight at me.
Oh.
The sphere slams into me and the plateau around me. Destroying the plateau and making an intense amount of pain flare through me as I black out.
Then I regain consciousness again in a large crater crushed into the edge of the plateau. With the last remnants of the corruption reversing already.
Hmm.
Well then.
That wasn’t expected, but it’s not surprising.
Anyway, I climb to my feet while stretching a little. Then I draw my swords while filling both blades in fire mana.
I tested my fire mana out on the beasts corrupted by the toxic ice and snow and learned something about them. Something that actually feels rather obvious when I consider they’re corrupted by ice and snow.
The beasts have a weakness to fire.
These new blades are made from advanced technology found in the outside world. Outside of the abandoned continents.
And they’re a lot more durable than the Arcadian Metal. Which was already strong enough to easily endure Class S magician spells.
So when I see another sphere flying my way, I jump straight at it before slicing both of my blades through the sphere.
Only to find myself being blasted backwards to form another crater in the plateau.
Alright, that didn’t go as planned. But my blades are still undamaged. So there’s that.
Just how powerful are these blades, anyways?
I frown as I climb to my feet again. Then I jump down from the plateau and begin rushing straight at the raging and badly damaged and cursed beast. All while forming numerous spell circles all around me that soon blast flames straight at the enormous dragon.
But the dragon knocks all of the attacks back with a pulse of corrupt mana. Sending the flames all over the place.
I even get hit by my own flames. But I ignore them as I rush at the beast.
Wait a second. How did the dragon even find me earlier?
I blink at that before noticing some curse mana on my gear.
Wait a second…
My eyes widen before I quickly use fire mana to burn away the curse mana at a gradual pace. At which point the dragon suddenly seems to lose track of me.
That damn asshole. She seriously left a mark on me to make the dragon focus on me instead of her.
That’s messed up.
It’s kind of understandable since she knows I can’t die, and she probably felt it was necessary for her survival, but it’s still messed up.
I put the curse magician out of my mind as I rush straight up to the dragon before swinging both of my blades down to cut right into the dragon’s foot.
Where my blades barely cut three inches into its ice.
Uh…
Although the fire mana coating my blades is at least melting the ice around them. So there’s that.
Okay then.
The dragon swings its leg, slamming into me and sending me flying. Then it turns its head towards me and sends a powerful beam of corrupt mana straight at me.
Not a sphere, but an entire beam.
And mere seconds before it slams into me, I realize I’ve been marked again. Except that this time it’s the corrupt mana that marked me and not curse mana.
Is it because the dragon hit me with its leg?
Before I can think further on it, my mind blacks out from the beam attacking me. Then I find my consciousness returning again in the middle of another crater.
Something tells me this place is going to have a lot of craters soon.
When I focus on the dragon again, I see it already preparing another attack. So I quickly jump out of the way with both my supernatural strength and a large explosion of fire to boost me. All while using my fire mana to burn the mark the beast put on me.
And after the dragon’s beam slams into the crater where I was just at, I rush at the dragon with my blades raised again. At which point I slash both of the blades at the very same spot I hit before. Making the blades sink even deeper into its leg while melting more of the ice.
After hitting it, I make sure to jump backwards to avoid its own counter attack.
Then I rush at it again to repeat the cycle.
Let’s see if I can cut off its leg before anything else.
