The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 53
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
Something tells me that this little trial is starting to wind down. Despite it only being a couple hours past halfway over.
My score is quite a bit further ahead than either of theirs, and the only real way they can catch up to me – especially with only two of them now instead of three – is by killing the other. Which is exactly what they’ve been trying to do for a while now.
All the way through the entirety of the ocean environment. They just spend the whole time trying to off each other, completely ignoring me in the process.
Which feels odd, but whatever. I’ll take the free points.
I think they’ve realized that the only way for them to win is to take the other’s points and then go at me with the rest of their mana to seal me in place for as long as possible. Hoping that they can do it.
Of course, there’s a couple really easy ways for me to shatter their plan entirely.
For one, I could just kill one of them myself right when the other is about to finish them off. Swiping the points for my own benefit and securing my victory.
But I don’t want to make extra enemies just to win a trial. And while the people outside of the abandoned continents are far more reasonable and less greedy than those on the abandoned continents, it’s still best not to go out of my way to stir the pot.
Plus I don’t have any grudge against either of these two. So there’s no reason to kill them.
Even Aritonia, the only reason I stood by without really caring about her death was that she used me as bait. So I had a rather bad impression of her compared to the others.
Plus she kept making me smell rot throughout this trial thanks to her mutants. And that’s just gross.
Reflata hasn’t done anything to me and she’s been pretty respectful of me as well. Meanwhile Richard is… uh… well, he has a foul mouth sometimes, but he hasn’t done anything to me either.
So there’s no reason to go out of my way to kill them. Especially when I can easily win at this point without resorting to that.
More importantly, there’s another way to handle them.
And it comes rather quickly too. Right when Richard is about to take advantage of Reflata’s weakness, using several powerful beams of pure anti-matter, I pull out my sniper and shoot him in the hand. Making his spells all fail miserably and misfire.
Both he and Reflata turn their gazes towards me, briefly making me wonder if they forgot about me. And while Richard looks pissed, Reflata does not.
Richard also somehow begins to heal his wound with a spell. Which is interesting.
Not sure how anti-matter could possibly heal something, but whatever.
On another note, Reflata takes advantage of the opening I gave her to rush in and strike at Richard. Only for Richard to block her and fight back. Without any extra damage happening.
Nice.
Richard was clearly trying to save on mana by only putting barriers up around his vitals and in the direction of Reflata. Both not expecting me to attack since I’ve been sitting patiently over here, and even preparing for vital shots in case I did attack.
He likely didn’t expect me to go for a non-fatal blow.
After my intervention, both of them begin to keep an eye on me. With Reflata looking thankful while Richard not so much.
But when Reflata looks like she’s about to get a major hit on Richard, potentially a fatal one, I snipe her too. Making her rush backwards to avoid the snipe. Losing her shot at him in the process but not getting hit by me since she was paying attention unlike him.
And now she looks not so pleased while he looks pleased.
At least, until he realizes what I’m doing. Then he looks disgruntled.
Reflata does as well.
They’ve realized that I’m purposefully trying to stop the two from killing each other. Making it impossible for either of them to steal the other’s points.
And thanks to that, neither of them have a chance at winning.
None.
At all.
If they had tried to keep the crown from me during the past two hours they spent fighting, then they may have had a chance so long as they took it for the rest of the time.
But now that they’ve wasted two hours for nothing, giving me more points in the process?
It’s pretty much impossible for me to lose now.
And they seem to realize that just as well as I do.
Even doing the math, it is straight up impossible for them to catch up to me. Even if they took the crown for the entire rest of the trial, they still wouldn’t have enough points.
Not with the gap I’ve built.
They would’ve had enough if they managed to steal the other’s points and then go all out keeping me locked in place for the rest of the trial. But without the other’s points, even if they keep me locked in place, that won’t work anymore.
I feel a grin spreading across my face. One that seems to irritate both of them.
But at the same time, they seem to resign themselves to losing.
Honestly, I find myself very surprised when they both just straight up surrender. Leaving me as the winner without any further battle.
Mostly because of how hard Richard has been trying to win.
Then again, he’s also no doubt made sacrifices for this already. And to push himself even further after those sacrifices, just for a slight chance he could win if he managed to go as hard as possible to kill Reflata before continuing to push himself to keep me in place?
It wouldn’t matter if he won by then.
He’d probably die.
Or become crippled at the very least.
And that would no doubt waste the entire reason he’s fighting to become a Tower Master.
You can’t exactly expect to do much as a Tower Master if you’re crippled after all.
So with that ending, I find the arena around us vanishing and returning to its basic form with the screens all around the stadium becoming opaque and allowing me to see the audience.
And audience that is roaring applause so loud it actually hurts.
“And here we have it!” Crimson’s voice echoes out over the audience. “Our Thirty-Sixth Tower Master has finally been crowned! Welcome the Thirty-Sixth Tower Master, Nathan Fox! The Undying Magician, Tower Master of the Eternal Tower!”
