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The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 9

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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 1

I spend a couple days in the city just adjusting to the world outside of the abandoned continents. All while training my mana manipulation and mana arcs along the way. But the hosts here seem to grow rather awkward since I don’t ask them for a single thing while here.

Not that how they feel matters to me at all.

And I don’t exactly make much progress in my training after that large breakthrough where I realized I was doing things wrong.

Mostly because it just takes way too much focus and mana to keep the magic going. Which is rather annoying.

Eventually we finally leave the city on large ships that seem to just hover in the air.

I can’t help but admire the ship from the inside as I walk around it.

The ship seems to be using gravity magic to fly. Unlike the planes from the abandoned continents.

Throughout the entire flight, I find myself just studying all the magic used in the ship. And the people there don’t do anything to stop me.

I go all over the flying ship – which is angular in shape kind of like an arrow with a tail behind it and a fin on top – just studying everything I can about it. The material making up its structure that is even stronger than Arcadian Metal, the spells interlaced into the frame that are somehow locked in place through what I believe to be spatial magic, and even the technology used alongside the magic.

Every last detail about the ship I take in as much as possible.

Because it’s all just so interesting.

I’m used to everything from the abandoned continents. The materials, the technology, and the magic.

It’s all so different.

Every last thing.

Superior in every way.

And while I’m out here I absolutely have to absorb every last piece of knowledge I can. To make certain no one can bother me again.

If I come back to the abandoned continents with this improved technology, materials, and especially the improved magic, I’ll have a much better chance at dealing with the doctor.

Of course, the people in the ship just watch me move around. Without any of them showing dissatisfaction with my actions.

Actually, some of them look amused. But I ignore them to focus on the ship.

At least, I ignore them until their armor and weapons catch my eye. At which point I ask Arsen if I can study some of their gear.

Honestly, I wouldn’t normally ask something like this. Since I normally wouldn’t expect them to just say yes.

But considering how open he’s been to helping me as much as possible, it just seems like it’s likely for him to say yes.

And just as expected, he wordlessly nods to a soldier nearby who hands me their gun along with some spare armor.

Ignoring just how accommodating they are being, I go ahead and begin studying the armor and weapons without hesitation. Studying the magic in them, the way they’re structured differently from the guns I recognize, especially the sniper rifles, and even the fact that they’re made of different materials than the ship.

It looks like the armor and weapons are made of worse materials than the ship itself. Which makes sense in a way since ships and transportation are generally made of tougher materials than armor and weapons.

They’re larger and can carry more weight after all. And stronger materials often weigh more.

I continue studying the armor, weapons, and the ship around me throughout the entire trip. All the way until we arrive at what the people in the ship call the Mountains of Ash. Which are just large mountains covered in ash.

And at the tallest mountain amongst them all I find a massive tower, with what look to be millions of people moving around all throughout the base of the tower. A base that happens to be a large city.

I can’t help but blink at the sight of it all.

The city is full of large skyscrapers surrounding the tower. Which looks really weird since the tower itself is a bit more medieval in style, albeit with magic clearly running through it. And there are numerous large buildings built into the mountains that look kind of like high tech hangars.

Places for the ships to land.

My gaze just focuses on the large tower though. Since the tower reaches all the way past the clouds, with mana coursing through its exterior the form of blue energy arcing on and off of its structure.

On top of that, there seems to be some sort of massive core at the very top of the tower that I can occasionally see beyond the clouds.

Wow… that’s quite a sight.

I look at the city and the tower for several minutes, just studying everything I can see as we get closer. But the vast majority of the people I see down there are all magicians. With little to no normal people at all.

This is the most magicians I’ve seen in one place in my entire life.

It’s literally like a city of magicians.

Actually, it may just be a city of nothing but magicians.

And there may be more magicians in this one city than in an entire nation back in the abandoned continents…

That’s kind of a disturbing thought.

What’s even more disturbing though is the fact that the magicians here are far higher Class on average on top of their number. With most of them being Class C or B magicians. With the occasional Class A magician auras that I can sense from here, and a couple dozen Class S magicians that I can sense in the tower itself.

“Most of the Class S magicians of the world are currently gathering here,” Arsen says, having approached me at some point while I’ve been studying the city and tower.

“Hmm,” I hum in response without taking my gaze from the sights below.

It’s like the center of magic in the world.

A smile spreads across my face.

And I’m excited to see it from up close.