The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 60

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Nathan
Year 2852 | Month 1 | Day 9

This has been a long time coming. And yet, it feels… a little different from how I always imagined.

The doctor himself is still in terrible shape. While he has cleared out the radiation in his wounds, the wounds are still there. Healed over to the point of not bleeding, but clearly still there.

He is missing one entire arm, and he’s missing a hand on his other arm. Making him completely handless now.

Even if he had a weapon on his person, it wouldn’t be of any use.

And while he may still be a Class S magician, I’m still on my way towards becoming one. I’ve also fought with multiple Class S magicians myself and have experience with it now thanks to the trials.

The man known by all in the Eternal Continents as the Doctor, the Great Spatial Mage, and even the moniker of the most powerful magician of the former abandoned continents. And yet, now he’s floating there in this pitiful state.

He clearly hasn’t been doing very well, and the radiation likely had a large hand in causing that.

From what I understand, he’s always hated the idea of dying. Of losing to anything.

It’s part of why he’s treated me as an experiment. Why he was treating me worse and worse over time, willing to do anything to get that immortality.

And now his problem has only been accelerated thanks to the radiation clearly aging him further.

The doctor looks resigned as he sees me. As if he knows he’ll probably die.

But he still flares his eyes as spell circles appear all around him. One after another, with numerous areas of mana that aren’t even controlled by spell circles.

And immediately after that, I find myself bombarded by spells one after another.

Fortunately for me and the city, he fled a little bit before stopping. So we’re far away from the city now. Making it so that the spells that miss me don’t actually hit the city or anyone down below on the ground.

The doctor has a lot more mana than any of the other Class S magicians I’ve faced have had. Both in the trial and outside of it.

Which makes this battle a bit more difficult than those battles even if he has no weapon and I only have to worry about magic.

That said, the main issue with spatial magic comes when bolts appear out of nowhere and parts of reality around me are completely slashed. Making reality mana flood the area.

I grit my teeth while feeling extremely relieved that he took the battle very far away from the city and not just outside of it.

Spatial magic is one of the most dangerous magics to face simply because of this very reason.

It is capable of slicing apart reality without even having to use Tier X spells.

Because space mana is part of what makes the binding of reality around us.

I’ve heard no space magician ever dares to do it himself because it’s too dangerous. And there’s a good chance it’ll kill the space magician as well and not just the magician or magicians they’re fighting.

But it’s clear the doctor doesn’t think he’ll live through this.

He’s desperate and on his last legs.

The reality mana begins to pour out of the different cuts in reality, altering the area in random ways. But I keep pushing through, trying to get closer and closer to the doctor. All while keeping an eye on my own body.

Specifically, on the time-space mana in my bones.

Because the closer I get to him, the more give I feel when I tug on the space mana.

Bit by bit, the more he uses space mana as well, I manage to wiggle the space mana in my own bones out. Ever so slowly.

And when I finally get within five meters of him, and he cuts open space all around the two of us, sealing us inside of some sort of massive dome, I finally get an arc of space mana free. At which point I immediately convert one of my own arcs.

Creating my very own arc of space mana at last and opening up a new affinity for me.

Unfortunately the time mana in the time-space mana still won’t budge no matter how loose the space mana gets.

Still. It’s about time.

A grin spreads across my face, making the doctor frown in return. But his frown soon clears and is replaced by a rather unreadable expression. One I don’t quite understand.

Especially when Incendia – who has been hiding nearby this entire time and was caught in the dome as well – swoops in and rips out a part of his leg. Crippling him further as he loses his foot thanks to the rest of the part of his leg connecting it to his foot burns with death flames.

I find myself feeling very surprised at his complete lack of any barrier on his person to protect himself from Incendia’s attack.

Until I realize what he’s doing.

It becomes obvious when I see the five massive spell circles all around us. With each one being the size of the spherical dome around us in the air. With the top circle being smaller than the one below it, which is smaller than the one below it. And the two circles below that being the same sizes as the ones above it.

Shit.

Without hesitation, Incendia and I both rush straight at the doctor as he casts whatever enormous spell he’s casting. One I can tell is at the very least Tier X in scale. Probably higher.

Despite casting such a large spell, though, he continues casting other attacks. Proceeding to delay us for several minutes.

Long enough that even after I finally arrive in front of him and skewer him straight through the heart with my sword, and Incendia takes a chunk out of his shoulder, he just stares at me, and the spell continues activating.

“If I’m to die, then you will wander the void for eternity,” the doctor’s words echo throughout the spherical dome. Following which everything begins to glow with a bright purple light.

Before I can feel any pain, though, or even lose my vision from whatever he’s casting, I find that I’ve gotten enough spatial mana built up from converting more and more arcs of mana to space mana that I can do exactly what I’ve been prepared to do for a long time.

Ever since I first took the exact spells the doctor had from his old devices he carelessly let me see during his experiments on me, simply because he knew there were no other magicians with spatial mana in existence.

Including his very first teleportation spell.

Blink.

“Farewell, and good riddance,” I tell the doctor with a grin that has him frowning in confusion.

Until he senses me using spatial mana, making his eyes widen with horror filling his gaze.

The very first real emotion I’ve ever seen in him before directed at me. Not one of those mock emotions he sometimes puts on, or that mild irritation that he used to show sometimes as if dealing with a bug.

But a real, genuine emotion.

Right at the end, as I activate the blink spell I stole from him, the last I see of him is him helplessly reaching for me with his handless arm and that expression of horror and pain on his face before I teleport right outside of the dome. Following which the dome itself lights up with a bright purple glow before warping in on itself and vanishing. Leaving a hole of absolutely nothing in its wake.

No gravity. No air. No mana.

Nothing.

Then the device on my arm shatters, indicating that the doctor, whose blood it’s attached to, is no more.