The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 47
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 23
I somehow manage to make it through the rest of the first hour without losing the crown. Even with the damn beacon shining above my head for five minutes of that.
But when the arena begins to change, I find myself losing some of my prior confidence. Specifically due to the new look of the arena.
Because there’s nowhere to hide in this damned place.
I grit my teeth as I find myself just standing in the middle of a massive frozen wasteland. One that’s completely flat and made entirely of ice.
There aren’t any caves or mountains or anything on it.
It’s just one massive, flat plain of ice.
Although I guess there is one benefit to this environment. With that being how I can see all of the mutants with ease.
And there sure are a lot of them.
I can’t help but frown at the sight of tens of thousands of mutants spread across the frozen plain.
Yeah, that’s going to be a pain.
To top it off, I can see all three of the magicians far in the distance.
As for whether they can see me or not? I’m not sure.
My vision is better than a normal human’s, and it’s currently night in this arena setting. Which makes it even harder for them to see.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to matter regardless. Not when all of the mutants in sight of me begin rushing my way.
Even if they can’t see me, they can at least see that and follow them.
I let out a sigh before glancing down at the ground and pursing my lips. Then I just shrug and decide that there’s no reason not to at least try.
So I place an explosive on the ground, walk a little away from it, and set it off.
Blowing up the ice and making a large crater. Just to see how deep the ice goes.
And what I find has me grinning.
Because it’s just water underneath around half a dozen feet of ice.
I look around at the mutants before jumping into the ice cold water without hesitation. Following which I swim through the icy water until I’m beneath the rest of the ice.
Of course, I can’t really hide right now. After all, it’s been half an hour since the last beacon showed. So there’s a beacon shining over my head right now and through the ice.
But that doesn’t change the fact that it’ll be very hard for them to get to me.
After all, not only do they have to break through the ice, but they have to jump down into this ice cold water to chase after me.
The water in the lake from the last biome was alright because it was lukewarm. But this water is very much not warm at all.
In fact, it’s cold enough to cause hypothermia rather quickly upon entry. So if those magicians want to come down here, then they are going to need to put up barriers to protect themselves from the cold.
And that’ll drain away their mana in and of itself.
So I leisurely continue to swim through the icy water without a care in the world about the water itself.
After all, my body is affected by my understanding of fire mana. Which makes it naturally warmer than a normal human.
And even though that doesn’t make me anywhere near warm enough to tolerate this, my immortality makes it so the ice doesn’t do shit to me.
So I just continue swimming while occasionally glancing up to see them breaking open the ice.
Unfortunately for them, though, the ice is thicker in some locations than others.
A lot thicker.
Thanks to that, I just continue swimming past them when they try to break the ice. Building some distance already by the time they break into it.
And just like that, the beacon period ends, and I continue my swimming. Eventually making it far away from the last place the beacon broadcast my location from.
Then I keep swimming for rest of the first half of this biome until the beacon returns again.
Surprisingly enough, I don’t find any mutants attacking me.
Probably because most of the aquatic mutants were already killed with the lake before.
That and they may not be able to survive the extreme cold down here.
Either way, I continue swimming for four of the five minutes without noticing anything. Which is kind of weird as I assumed they would at least try to break into the ice again. Like last time.
But nope. Nothing happens.
I don’t even see them during that four minutes.
Then another half a minute goes by and still nothing happens.
By now I’ve already completely let my guard down. Which turns out to be a very bad idea when I suddenly sense something approaching at an incredibly fast speed. So fast that by the time I turn towards it, whatever it is arrives right in front of my face.
Then it passes through my scalp, tearing through my hair and the top of my head while grabbing the crown and continuing past me.
Ouch.
I frown without showing much regard for the pain beyond that as I turn to look in the direction that whatever just flew past me went. At which point I find a penguin with the crown held in its beak. Along with some of my flesh that’s already returning to my head.
Uh… what just happened?
Sure, I understand this is a mutant penguin and that it’s probably faster than a regular one by a lot. But this fast?
I turn to look in the direction the penguin came from and is currently swimming around me to go towards. Only to spot a bizarre area in the water very far away – so far I can barely see it from here – that has no water. It just has a barrier of anti-matter mana blocking the water.
And standing on a platform of enhancement mana floating in the middle of that barrier is Reflata, with her posture implying that she just threw something.
Wait, did all three of them work together to get the crown off my head?
That’s certainly something.
