The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 30
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
I feel genuinely tense and frightened as I climb up the side of the volcano. Trying as hard as I can to remain silent and to not catch the hawk’s attention.
All in the hopes that I make it out of this central region without being frozen alive.
Because, while being frozen alive for ages isn’t torturous like the spiders eating me alive, it would still make me miss my trial deadline. Meaning I’d fail the trial if I get frozen here.
Most likely.
I still have about two or so weeks left of the trial. But I doubt that will be enough time to escape if I’m caught.
So I quietly climb up the side of the crater. Slowly moving so as to avoid any chunks of ice that blast out from the liquid ice. All the way until I find myself slipping about halfway up the side of the crater thanks to a chunk of ice flying straight at me.
Even then, though, I manage to stay on the side of the crater. And I don’t feel any danger from behind me, so I’m probably-
My thoughts come to a grinding halt when I glance behind me at the hawk to find the beast staring straight at me with its incredibly creepy eyes.
Then a brief moment of silence passes as the two of us just stare at each other. But, to my surprise, the beast eventually turns away and begins to take a nap in the liquid ice.
Completely ignoring my existence despite clearly knowing I’m here.
Holy shit…
I feel myself relaxing a little before I quickly begin to make my way up the rest of the volcano’s mouth. Eventually jumping out over the edge of the crater and running for my life down the volcano’s side. Only occasionally pausing from time to time when I get frozen by the splashing liquid ice of the volcano’s eruptions.
And after spending over an entire day just to get out of the central region, I finally find myself making it back to the inner region.
That was probably a bad idea, but I did get some stuff out of it. I still remember everything I saw in the crater. How the mana was formed to create those chunks of ice. How the hawk’s body was made.
And to top it all off, when I was at the top of the crater, a feather shot to slam into the ice next to me. Even though the hawk itself didn’t show any interest in me.
So I took the feather with me before running.
A smile spreads across my face as I begin heading out of the inner region with a massive feather made partially of flesh and partially of ice held with both my hands. Simply because the thing is too big for even me to hold with just one hand despite my strength.
Although mostly because it weighs a lot more than it looks.
What I find most interesting about it though is that it seems to still be generating ice mana even as I hold it. And it’s not the toxic, corrupt mana that is infesting this entire region.
No.
It’s generating pure, regular ice mana.
As if the creature was just a regular human.
Not a beast.
I glance in the direction Incendia left in to explore a while back before eventually deciding to just ask Incendia about this feather later. Because something tells me that beast in the volcano isn’t a beast at all.
That it’s a mythical creature just like Incendia.
It’s the only reason I can think of for why it didn’t attack me, and why it doesn’t have corrupt mana despite living in the center of a mana infested region.
Although… it’s eyes were still very clearly corrupt. So maybe it is a corrupt beast, but not fully corrupt?
A corrupt mythical creature, perhaps?
Whatever it is, the creature didn’t try to harm me at all. It seems to have even given me a gift in the form of this feather.
I purse my lips before nodding my head. Then I try to put the feather in my storage, only to find the thing suddenly trembling before flying right out of my storage again when the storage portal is about to shut.
That makes me blink in surprise.
Huh?
And to make matters even more confusing, the feather continues to tremble while floating in front of me before it shrinks down to the size of a hand, following which it just sticks itself into a pocket of my armor. Armor that is currently brand new as I’ve already exchanged my previous damaged armor with fresh armor.
Is this feather… alive?
That’s weird.
I need access to lab tools to study it.
On another note, I look up when I see a new drone approaching for broadcast purposes.
Hmm. That broadcast missed most of the important stuff, but it did end up helping me out with the drone being taken by the spiders…
Whatever.
I begin to head through the inner region until I eventually reach the outer region. Then I leave the outer region as well to find the edge of the Toxic Frosts.
And, of course, I find people from the Magic Towers waiting for me. What with me being broadcast live.
So I dump the dragon beast’s corpse on the ground for them to claim as my trial submission. With them pretty much confirming that I pass the trial since only two other dragons have been captured. And the other magicians that were targeting the dragons have all given up on them.
Not because their teams couldn’t kill them, but because the teams couldn’t find any more dragon beasts.
It seems the dragons aren’t exactly common.
Which makes sense at the end of the day. They’re too powerful to be common after all.
Anyway, I ignore everyone after they finish their explanation – pretty much saying that I need to wait for the rest of the trial takers to finish – as I head to my ship to rest.
Or, to be more specific, to rest for an hour or two before heading to the lab.
Because I’ve got a feather to study.
