The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 49
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
It doesn’t take me long before I find the lovely perks of the maze.
For one, none of the three I’m facing are particularly good at tracking other than the curse magician. Who can find me through her mutants, not to mention can put curse marks on me. Even if those marks aren’t hard to erase.
Reflata can’t do anything since she’s currently using enhancement mana. Which has no tracking capabilities.
And the same goes for Richard and his anti-matter mana.
Anti-matter mana may be one of the strongest for pure destruction, but it can’t really do much of anything when it comes to, well, anything else.
Meanwhile I can track them with ease. Both through my hearing and my smell.
The only problem with that is how Richard can use his anti-matter mana to erase his scent and the soundwaves he makes. And how Aritonia can use her curses to create or absorb scents and soundwaves along with the stench of some of her mutants.
But those can be easily handled just by listening for and searching for areas completely barren of sounds and scents.
And, more importantly, I highly doubt they’d be willing to burn through that much mana just to hide their presences.
Plus I don’t think these magicians even know just how strong my senses are. They just know they’re beyond human capabilities.
Reflata can’t do anything though regardless. So I don’t have to worry about her at all.
Not unless she decides to change her affinity in here. But, if I’m being honest, her current strategy of using enhancement affinity is probably her best bet to beat me.
After all, she’s the one who is currently in second place in terms of points, meaning her strategy is working out so far.
Probably not as well as she no doubt hoped when she came up with it though. What with her barely having any more points than Aritonia has. Just a few minutes longer of holding the crown.
And, of course, she isn’t first. Which I’m sure she would prefer to be.
Anyway, I proceed to avoid all three of them throughout the entirety of this hour. All the way until the next environment change arrives.
As for what the next environment, the sixth environment, is?
I find myself rather shocked when I appear on top of some floating platform in a void of darkness.
The platform itself is made out of some sort of deep red metal, and it smells strongly of blood. Making me realize it’s made out of Crimson’s blood metal.
Meanwhile there are hundreds of other platforms all across the arena. And the other three are all clearly visible on other corners of the arena.
Well this… is not good.
There’s nowhere to hide. And no environment to take advantage of.
On top of that, there are just a bunch of platforms to fight on. Which doesn’t bode all that well for my main advantage of physical strength.
That said, there is one benefit to this arena.
A lot of mana is going to be used to make sure we don’t fall off of the platforms.
Now, the main question is what happens if we do fall off of the platforms into the dark void below.
I’m clearly not the only one wondering that as the other three look down at the void below while ignoring the beacon above my head. Since the beacon is kind of useless in this arena.
After a few seconds, Aritonia orders one of the many mutants scattered across the many platforms, making the thing just waltz right off the platform into the void below.
And what happens next has the three magicians frowning. Because the mutant gradually finds its blood being ripped out of its body the further down it gets.
All the way until the mutant dies.
Interesting.
I purse my lips for a moment before just shrugging. Then I decide to just go ahead and go for it.
At which point I step right off the platform into the void below.
But, to my surprise, while I do fall for a while, and my blood is repeatedly ripped out and drawn back in, when I get nearly a hundred meters down, I find myself just being stopped before a spout of blood suddenly appears beneath me. With said spout hitting me with an incredible amount of pressure that quickly has me flying through the air above the platforms again.
The three magicians, who looked rather upset, suddenly show surprise when they see me flying out above them. Only for them to quickly act with haste as they all rush straight towards me.
I grit my teeth as I begin setting up barriers around me while activating my flight spell. But I can’t take advantage of my physical strength while up here, or my speed. So the three magicians quickly catch up to me before Reflata grabs the crown from my head.
Damnit!
At the same time, though, I manage to swing my blade and cut into her arm. Piercing her armor in the process.
No doubt because of a curse Aritonia threw onto Reflata in haste.
But despite cutting into her arm, I don’t manage to do much damage. All because of her enhancement mana enhancing her physical defenses as well.
I narrow my eyes as I see her grinning while flying past me. With her landing on a platform made of enhancement mana midair.
Then she jumps far away with the crown on her head and a glowing beacon shining high into the void around us.
Both Aritonia and Richard change targets, rushing in her direction as I finish activating my flight spell and join them. But unlike me, who only has fire and death mana to work with, both of which aren’t very solid in form, Reflata is using enhancement mana. Which can be used to form very solid platforms of mana.
Platforms she can jump off of with her enhanced body.
If I tried doing the same thing, I’d only end up shattering my own barriers with the force of my jumps.
I grit my teeth while flying after her.
This doesn’t bode well.
