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The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 1

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Within the Barren Pass
Year 2851 | Month 4 | Day 27

Leodmir finally snaps and decides that he’s had enough.

After being chased for months, he no longer has any intention of killing the Class S magicians chasing him. All he wants is to escape and return later on when he’s finally recovered.

Yet his very decision to do this grates on his nerves more than anything. Even more than the fact that he’s been led around for months by the magicians currently chasing him.

The other magicians chasing him, even the Undying Magician, all believe he is only using the bare minimum mana that he’s regenerating after each teleportation to keep fleeing. But in reality, he’s keeping some spare at all times.

Because the idea of being completely out of mana is heresy for him. The idea of being weak without any way to protect himself.

To be nothing more than a feeble old man with some immunity to spatial damage.

But now? The idea of being chased forever in a never-ending loop just waiting for something to tip the balance is even worse.

So the next time he teleports away from the radiation magician, he teleports to his last stronghold. A place that has a mana recovery device in it to increase the rate at which his mana recovers.

Then he waits on top of the device while his mana recovers a bit.

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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 4 | Day 27

“How many times is he going to teleport away?!” Afvalder shouts through the terminal group call the Class S magicians and I who are all chasing the doctor are using. “We need more backup at this rate to stop that damned cockroach!”

Over a month has passed since I first set off to kill the doctor. And yet, we haven’t managed to do much of anything in this time. Even with me being here to help, along with Juan and the two Class S magicians who were already here before us.

On top of that, Juan began completely erasing the Barren Pass at some point. Completely incinerating the place and melting the ice using his fire magic to reduce the amount of area the doctor can run around in.

Meanwhile I help him in melting the Barren Pass while also filling it with miasma to accompany the poison Class S magician’s poisonous fog.

But the doctor still refuses to budge and keeps teleporting around like a damned mole in those little mole mallet games. The ones where you try to hit the mole with the mallet only for it to pop back underground before reappearing from another hole.

At this rate we really will need another Class S magician to stop him.

Damned spatial magicians are tricky as hell. And what’s worse is that if we don’t kill him now while he’s empty on mana and running on nothing more than drops of it, we probably won’t ever be able to kill him.

After all, space magicians are the hardest to deal with thanks to how easy it is for them to escape.

If not for his lack of mana he’d probably be on the other side of the continent.

Or worse. In some mana plane where we’ll never be able to catch him.

And that’s note all as if he gets away he would be a major problem for us. Being able to teleport pretty much anywhere.

We’d have to set up defenses everywhere to stop him from teleporting. Which would be a major issue.

I continue burning away at the Barren Pass on the other side of the pass from Juan for several minutes while spreading miasma before Afvalder suddenly says, “He’s not fleeing this time!”

That gives me pause as the others all begin talking at the same time. Only for Afvalder to not respond for a few seconds.

Then Afvalder suddenly says, “Wait, he’s on a mana recovery device!”

“Don’t let him get away!” Juan shouts, speaking louder than I’ve ever heard him speak before. “We’re on our way!”

Without hesitation, I stop what I’m doing before flying straight through the poison and miasma flooded Barren Pass towards the direction of Afvalder’s signal on my terminal. And while I’m flying I hear and see a massive explosion in the direction of Afvalder’s signal.

Eventually, when I reach the explosion which is also where the signal is, I find a massive crater filled with radiation.

Where Afvalder is sitting alone while slamming his fist into the ground with pure anger radiating from his face.

Juan arrives a few seconds later using his fire mana to burn any radiation before it can reach him, along with the poison magician whose body is already flooded with poison that is fighting the radiation. But at this point we can all guess what happened just by Afvalder’s actions alone.

Afvalder waves his hand without bothering to speak, making a large screen appear from his terminal. One showing everything that happened here.

On the screen we see Afvalder arriving to see the doctor on a mana recovery device. Only for the man to not flee when he sees the radiation magician.

Then the doctor begins dodging some of Afvalder’s attacks while making sure to stay on the device. Even sacrificing an arm to do it. Along with a hand as well on his other arm.

And after seeing the doctor seemingly preparing a largescale spell, Afvalder begins his own. One that I’m sure caused this nuclear explosion.

But the doctor manages to escape the moment before Afvalder’s spell finishes. Making a gate appear right beneath his feet that takes him into it.

Draining what must be all of his mana in the process before the man disappears and a nuclear explosion rings out instead.

My eyes narrow as I clench my fists at my sides.

The doctor’s lost an arm and a hand. And judging by the fact that it was radiation that did it, it won’t be easy to heal those wounds. In fact, the radiation will probably spread a bit. So he’s not going to be doing very well right now.

But despite all of that, one thought rings out through my head. And no doubt the heads of the other magicians here.

The doctor, Leodmir Archeron, escaped.