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The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 6

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Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 1

I go ahead and sneak onto the dock amongst the soldiers, only briefly wondering why there are so many people gathered at said dock. But I put that out of my mind as I head further inland with nothing but a word from Arsen to meet him at a hotel. One pointed to by a GPS device he gave me before I left.

And what I find in the city after leaving the dock is rather incredible.

The buildings, as I noticed before, are enormous. But they feel even larger when I’m this close to them.

Meanwhile all of the buildings have electronic billboards on the sides of them showing various different ads and news reports. And the streets are filled with vehicles moving in different directions.

There are even flying cars above the ones on the ground.

Which is something I’ve never seen before.

More importantly though are the electronic billboards. Quite a few of which mention the Tower Trials.

And the fact that the immortal magician known as the ‘Undying Magician’ is going to be participating in them soon.

I find myself staring at the billboards with my jaw dropped open.

Excuse me, what?

Why exactly is this public knowledge? Not even the people on the abandoned continents know much about me. Other than the Kingdom of the Fallen.

Or at least, they didn’t. They do now because of the war wrapping up.

Then I see some news reports about people waiting at the docks of every port city on the eastern side of the continent. All in the hopes that I show up at one of the docks.

I stare blankly at that for a bit before muttering, “This is just weird…”

Just what do these people think I am?

After staring for a few more seconds, I eventually decide to ignore the news reports about me to focus on news reports about other things. In order to get a better understanding of the continent.

And what I find is both surprising and not surprising at the same time.

There’s very little war going on across the continents. That much is clear. And what little war that exists is all put into a couple different forms.

One of the forms are simple border skirmishes to expand and decrease the size of the nations. Whereas the other form is a direct duel between the Class S magicians representing the two nations in dispute.

Arsen mentioned a lot of this to me before, but it’s better to see it for myself rather than to go solely based off of information told to me by a potential threat.

But if he’s right, the reason for this lack of large scale conflict is the ever present threat of the Ruling Alliance.

A power too big for the smaller nations to just ignore. Limiting them from growing too strong by consuming other nations.

It’s a pretty good method to keep them all in check without committing mass slaughter and world conquest, if I’m being honest.

Even if it’s not necessarily fair for the other nations.

As for the Magic Towers? They don’t care.

They just want wealth for themselves and nothing more. And their power isn’t limited to nations. So they don’t care what nations start and end where.

On another note, apparently there is something called the Grand Magician Games as well. Which is pretty much a reality TV show of sorts where magicians fight for the global country rankings in terms of magician strength.

The show is obviously hosted by the money-happy Magic Towers. And it’s incredibly popular.

The magicians all fight to the death in little competitions in virtual reality. Where they come back to normal reality if they die in the competition.

Anyway, after looking at the news and seeing a lot of it not even having anything to do with me or the nations’ current developments, including stuff like news about idols and actors and movies, I begin to check out some stores. Ranging from clothing stores to restaurants.

Using the currency Arsen handed me, of course. Since I obviously don’t have any of the currency from these continents myself. That currency being called Alliance Credits. Which is obviously named after the Ruling Alliance.

It’s also called AC.

Although Juan mentioned something about his family preparing to meet me at the Opening Ceremony of the Tower Trials with a large amount of Alliance Credits for me.

The clothing they have here is quite a bit higher quality than the clothing in the abandoned continents, just like everything else. And the food is delivered through some sort of teleportation magic. It just appears on the tables after ordering through a hologram.

But after going around the city for a while, I realize a couple things about civilization here.

For one, the biggest difference between the technology here and the tech on the abandoned continents is that the regular, non-magical technology here is far superior. Which leads to easier magi-tech enhancements using their already superior magical knowledge.

On top of that, it’s clear that a lot of their Class S magicians have contributed to the technology here. Unlike in the abandoned continents where most of the Class S magicians don’t actually spread their research out to others or try to help others.

And the people here are nicer too from what I can tell so far. Which is a plus.

It really does paint a picture of the abandoned continents being a place for outlaws.

Which is kind of sad but not at the same time.

Oh, and there seems to be more magicians here too. Quite a lot more in fact.

I even pass by several Class B magicians just chatting on the street without a care in the world as I walk.

Another major difference between the continents.

With that thought in mind, I begin to head over towards the meeting place. A grand ten star hotel that I’m pretty sure must be the largest building in the city, where I find Arsen along with quite a few people waiting at me.

Let’s see what else these people have in store for me.