The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 38
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 16
Unlike the other trials, this particular trial isn’t actually broadcast. Probably because they don’t want any form of cheating being possible.
They simply bring all eight of us to different rooms and begin the quiz right away.
As for the questions in the quit? They’re rather simple.
The first question is simply asking me what I would do if the abandoned continents were attacked by some type of force, whether another country or even a beast from a mana infested region.
And my answer is just as simple.
I’d defend it and return to my lab after finishing.
The second question is also a simple one. And it’s asking how I would handle trade on the abandoned continents with the Magic Towers.
Which is also a simple answer as I just answer that I’d let them do what they wish.
I don’t really care what they do as long as they’re not breaking the law or trying to kill each other.
So the questions continue one after another, with a lot of them being questions aimed more at trying to parse my morals, and the remaining questions being about plans I may have and actions I might take as a Tower Master.
Overall, it’s a big waste of time for me as I don’t really care about any of it.
The only reason I’m becoming a Tower Master in the first place is because it expands our abandoned continents into the wider world. And for some additional resources for my training and research.
That’s all.
The actual power, influence, and status as a Tower Master don’t matter to me whatsoever.
All I care about are my experiments and growing stronger while protecting my territory. Which is pretty much just the Undying Caverns. Even if I’m technically the leader for the Kingdom of the Fallen right now. Other than the skeleton.
As for the possibility of lying in the quiz section?
I don’t bother.
Not only do I rather doubt it would work, since there are probably ways for a blood magician to tell if someone is lying or not, but I just for some reason feel it’s a bad idea.
I’m not sure why though.
It’s like my instinct is just telling me to be honest.
So I’m gonna be honest.
And after finishing every answer and being let out of the room, I find rather quickly that I’m the first trial taker finished with the trial. Which gives me time to go back to my lab and continue my research. This time on that feather.
I was distracted before, but now is a good time to focus on the feather.
Especially when Incendia flies through my open balcony and lands on my outstretched arm.
“So, did you figure anything?” I ask with a slight frown as I take out the icy feather with my other hand.
Incendia nods before stating, “It is a feather of the Frost Bird. But the feather has somehow become corrupted over time and isn’t the same.”
“Probably a result of it living in a mana infested region,” I mutter while examining the feather.
That does clear things up though.
The ruler of that mana infested region really is a mythical creature just like Incendia.
Just one that has been corrupted a bit.
Not entirely, considering the purity of this feather, but a bit.
That would also explain why the hawk didn’t try to attack me when it saw me.
I’m kind of curious what it would do if it saw Incendia. But I specifically didn’t want to bring her to the central region of the mana infested region because it would likely be too dangerous for her.
And it really was. So that was a good idea.
Anyway, when I try to experiment with the feather, I find quite a few things interesting about it.
For one, when I try to pluck any tiny parts of the feather, I can’t. I literally cannot damage it at all.
The feather is as solid as ice despite being soft to the touch and lightweight.
Then there’s the fact that it freezes everything it touches besides me.
If I poke the wall with the feather? I get a frozen wall.
If I poke a test subject animal with the feather? I get a frozen test subject. One that isn’t even dead but more like in a frozen hibernation.
And if I poke some sort of metal object like a set of armor with it?
Frozen armor.
Everything the feather touches but me turns into a popsicle.
“It must mean the frost bird has acknowledged you as worthy,” Incendia says, surprising me for a moment. “As it should.”
The faintest hint of a smile spreads across my face at that before it fades again as I continue a few more experiments.
But everything comes out with the same result.
The feather cannot be damaged, melted, or altered in any way. And anything I try just ends up freezing whatever I try to use.
So I give up on that endeavor and put the feather back into my storage device. Which works perfectly well since I’m simply putting it through a portal into my little closed off section of the mana plane of fire.
Although I can’t help but notice the fire mana in the plane avoiding the hell out of the feather.
Which is interesting. How fire mana seems to avoid the feather at all costs.
That’s something else to experiment later on, for sure.
Anyway, with all that done, I send Incendia out again to keep an eye on the people of the city below when I get word that the quiz trial is over. And that they’re calling us all back to that same balcony as before for the results.
I’m kind of curious how the people will react to this.
And about how well I did.
So with that thought in mind, I clean up my lab and begin making my way up to the balcony again.
