The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 33
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Blacklight Group Base of Operations
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 17
“Is he mocking us?” Blacklight, the leader of the Blacklight Group and the only Class S magician of the group, asks with a frown on his face. And he’s not the only one wondering this as every one of the Class A magicians standing on the roof of their base wonder the same thing.
They can’t help but wonder this thanks to what they see on the Undying Magician’s broadcast. Where they find the man just leaning against the raining of his ship as the broadcast shows him gradually making his way towards their base.
Not even bothering with hiding what he’s doing, and not showing any fear or nerves in the process.
He doesn’t even seem like he cares about the mission the Magic Tower had assigned him.
Blacklight was furious when he learned about the Magic Towers assigning them as a target for a damned trial.
It’s simply humiliating for them. But despite that, he still doesn’t have the confidence to go head to head with the Magic Towers.
The Magic Towers are too powerful to have as an enemy.
Blacklight grits his teeth as he continues watching the broadcast.
The Undying Magician is a strange Class A magician who cannot die. He is the only true immortal in existence. And he is someone Blacklight even considered trying to build ties with in the future.
And now the man is coming to kill him.
The very man he had already decided he would never antagonize even if the Undying Magician expressed no interest in working with him.
All because of the trials.
Blacklight wasn’t expecting the Magic Towers to involve others in their trials. And to make matters worse, they’re even advertising to the organizations they’re targeting that they’re doing so.
On purpose.
“Keep setting up defenses,” Blacklight declares with a grim expression on his face. “The only thing we can do is to defend against his attack for the entire three month period of the trial.”
The other magicians in his group show dissatisfaction and fear at his words. Because none of them signed up for this when they joined the group.
All of them assumed they would make an enemy of the nation, and that they may make an enemy of the local branch of the Magic Tower. But none of them ever thought the main branch would target them. Much less the Undying Magician.
Even if they express the desire to leave now, though, their names are all marked as part of the group.
So the Undying Magician will continue to target them regardless.
Because of that, none of them directly express their dissatisfaction towards their leader. They just focus on building up their defenses one after another. Filling the entire base with defensive spells of all kinds.
Their base is on top of a mountain, about two hours away from any cities. And the non-magicians working the building have already fled the moment they hears about the trial. With them all expressing joy at the situation.
But despite seeing that, Blacklight ignored them. Because they’re not important.
What’s important is surviving.
If they can survive for the three month period, the Undying Magician will no longer have a reason to attack them. And they can resume their previous operations.
It’s a good thing we finished that big job a few days ago…
Thanks to their last job, money won’t be an issue for the group for a while. But that doesn’t reduce Blacklight’s worry.
The main issue in Blacklight’s mind isn’t whether the Undying Magician will kill him or not. Although that’s a problem too considering his physical abilities.
The main issue is whether he’ll hold a grudge after the three month period. When they survive and are the reason for his failure in the trial.
Blacklight sighs at that thought before continuing to set up defenses as much as he can.
All the way until they see the Undying Magician’s ship entering their sight from the roof of their base. With it approaching at a very rapid pace.
So rapid that it has Blacklight furrowing his brows.
The ship’s going so fast that it’s almost flaming as it soars through the air straight at them. While the Undying Magician himself stands leaning against the railing at the front of the ship.
Showing the very same image that they’re seeing on the broadcast screen next to them.
“Wait for the ship to slow down before calling out to him,” Blacklight orders while clenching his fist. Hoping against hope that the Undying Magician will change his mind about attacking them.
Even if he knows that’s very unlikely to happen.
But against their expectations, the ship doesn’t slow down.
In fact, the ship begins to speed up even more. Eventually sending shockwaves through the air as it pierces the skies straight towards them.
“Boss?” Blacklight hears one of the Class A magicians mutter, but his focus remains on the ship.
“Attack,” Blacklight says for a moment, only to break out of his stupor and begin casting dark magic spells to form numerous bullets that he fires off at the ship. “Attack! Now!”
The Class A magicians all attack one after another, sending missiles, bullets, blades, and all sorts of other attacks flying at the ship.
But because their attacks were delayed in their shock and therefore rushed, and because over half of their attention is focused on their defensive spells around the base, their attacks are largely shrugged off by the Magic Tower Cruiser.
Even the attacks that land on the Undying Magician himself are shrugged off as he instantly recovers from them.
Blacklight immediately tries to leave the base, only to find himself trapped by his own defensive spells.
Spells that are designed to hold for three months.
He grits his teeth before quickly preparing as many defensive spells around himself as possible.
Then the ship crashes straight into the barriers around the base, following which it shatters one barrier after another and crashes into the base itself.
Only to explode, making Blacklight’s consciousness go dark in an instant.
Comments
Love it. Fastest ever clear of a trial?
Jake Rands
2025-10-02 01:59:43 +0000 UTC
