The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 50
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
Just as expected, I don’t manage to claim the crown for more than a few minutes during the entire hour in this damned void environment. With the others claiming it most of the time, splitting it between each other.
Even Richard gets it from time to time. Mostly because the others have to actually block and dodge his attacks. Otherwise they’ll just die.
After all, anti-matter is dangerous for non-immortals.
The only bright side of this environment is that I use it to wipe out the rest of Aritonia’s mutants. What with them all being sitting ducks on those platforms.
In fact, at some point, I even give up on the crown to hunt all of her mutants. Just to get rid of them for future environments.
I’m still by far in the lead after all.
I glance up at the score while jumping in the direction of where the current crown holder, Reflata, is. Only to smile a little at the sight of the gap between us.
Nathan Fox - 12,419 Points
Reflata Cordou - 3,880 Points
Aritonia Glace – 3,300 Points
Richard de Folde - 2,001 Points
Let’s see… at the rate we’re going, I may be able to reach a point where no one but me can win. I’ll just have too large a lead for anyone to overtake it.
But that’s still a ways away.
I look around at the new environment I find myself in. Which is a large desert.
A much better environment than the last place.
I quickly begin charging straight towards the golden beacon I see shooting up into the sky as I do some quick math.
Right, as long as I get at least over 6,530 points of the remaining points, then I’m good. I should win this no matter what at that point.
Which means holding the crown for that many seconds. Almost two hours of the six hours. A little under an hour and fifty minutes.
If I manage that, then it’ll make my lead too high for anyone to catch up with. Even if Reflata somehow managed to capture the crown for the entirety of the rest of the time left in the trial other than that.
Eventually I manage to find Reflata, who is currently running away from Aritonia. Not even bothering to fight her and instead just defending against all of her attacks with barriers.
Enhancement mana isn’t the most versatile after all.
Of course, I don’t get close. Instead I pull out my sniper rifle and keep a large distance between us while lying down on top of a large dune. At which point I take aim and fire at the crown on Reflata’s head.
I don’t stop there though, even after knocking the crown off of her head.
Instead, I proceed to take a few more shots. Both at Reflata and at Aritonia.
And, to my surprise, a single shot of mine actually manages to shatter Aritonia’s barrier of curse mana. Following which it penetrates her shoulder. Pretty much disabling it in the process as she lets out a cry of pain.
Reflata tries to rush over to the crown while dodging my shots though. So I just shoot the crown again when she’s about to grab it. Then I begin running over as well.
I frown when I see Reflata very nearly reaching the crown despite my attempts to stop her. But at least this wasn’t a waste regardless. Since I badly injured Aritonia.
It only take a few moments thought for my line of thought to come grinding to a halt.
Because it isn’t Reflata who grabs the crown, but Richard, who appears out of nowhere.
My eyes widen as I see the man materialize from thin air. At which point I finally realize that he was using his anti-matter mana to erase sound around him. With his smell being blown in the other direction from me by the wind and sand.
Normally I would’ve noticed the void in sound, but I didn’t because of the raging sand blowing all over the place along with my prior focus on sniping.
The bright side is that he has a lot fewer points than the rest of us. So it isn’t a massive deal for him to get the crown.
Or at least, those are my thoughts before the man seems to lose his mind.
Instead of running, he turns right in the direction of Aritonia, who fell behind to deal with her wound. Then he begins firing off powerful blasts of anti-matter mana at her. Forcing her to put up barriers instead of slowly healing her injury.
Wait a second, is it possible that…
My suspicion is confirmed when Richard begins sending a massive wave of anti-matter mana all around the arena. Specifically at the two around him.
He seems to be completely ignoring me.
Why is he ignoring me?
His current short-term plan is clear. He’s trying to kill both Aritonia and Reflata to knock them out of the running.
But that’ll still leave a large gap in points between us. And he’s burning through his mana right now.
Unless he has a backup?
Some sort of way to recover mana in a rush?
Even if he does that, items and other things that recover mana like that are dangerous to use. Not only does the mana become unstable on the magician’s body, but it often just blows up if not handled correctly. Making it unusable by the magician and a potential death sentence.
I don’t even use those items myself because they’d be useless unless I’m trying to blow myself up.
I can’t control the unstable mana, so it just blows up without my being able to do anything with it.
To my surprise, Richard sends a powerful force of anti-matter mana right at Reflata in a manner that doesn’t actually seem to be trying to kill her.
It’s more like he’s pushing her away.
My eyes widen when I see him turning his attention towards Aritonia after pushing Reflata away.
He’s really trying to kill her… to take advantage of the wound I dealt her.
This is… unexpected.
