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The Undying Magician - Book 4 - Intermission 5

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Somewhere within the Barren Pass
Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 24

Leodmir Archeron feels something snap in his head the moment he gets the news about the Chairman’s death. Because he knows it means that the other Class S magicians will likely finish off the Collective Kingdoms before turning their attention towards him.

But that’s not the only reason he feels upset about the news.

He’s even more upset by the news about who killed the Chairman rather than the fact that the Chairman – a convenient decoy for him – is now dead.

That test subject killed a Class S magician? If I didn’t already know my source was reliable I would’ve questioned the news’s legitimacy. But he actually killed a Class S magician? And the Chairman at that?

A large part of him wants to deny the possibility of that. Simply because of his time experimenting on the test subject to figure out a way to use his immortality for himself. And how, throughout that process, the subject was always so weak and unable to do anything to stop him.

The idea of that same subject being able to kill the Chairman just won’t click in Leodmir’s mind. Even as he’s still teleporting from one cavern to another, fleeing from the two Class S magicians chasing him. With the third from before having fled thanks to the Collective Kingdom’s own trouble with the Republic.

But the one that fled was one of the two poison magicians. Meaning he is still fleeing from the light magician with the two of them using as little mana as they can possibly use during the chase.

So little mana that they’re regenerating it just as quickly as they’re using it up.

Leodmir grits his teeth as he continues fleeing, teleporting away every time Afvalder catches up with him. Both at the humiliation he’s feeling now and at the absolute waste of time this is causing.

One thing Leodmir hates more than anything in the world is wasting time. Especially since he has so little of it left at his age of sixty-six.

It’s the main reason he is so dead set on trying to figure out the test subject’s immortality. Even if he doesn’t genuinely believe he’ll be able to crack it.

After all, he’s the one who has seen the most about the subject’s body over the years. So he would know.

But Leodmir’s mind just won’t accept that fact.

It just can’t.

Because if that’s true then he’ll die of old age in the end, wasting everything he has managed to accomplish his entire life.

And that can’t happen.

Leodmir continues teleporting, only to suddenly see another message from his spy in the Republic. One about the Republic, along with a few other nations such as Hardlight and Natra, officially announcing that they have been annexed by the Kingdom of the Fallen. Albeit with Natra being self-governing still even after joining under the Kingdom’s banner.

The announcement makes Leodmir scoff, showing genuine emotion for the first time in a while outwardly. Even if there’s no one here to see it.

All because the one nation everyone believed to be absolutely screwed during this war is somehow coming out on top. With everything falling into their lap.

And what’s worse is that a small part of Leodmir realizes that the catalyst for all of this was the test subject.

His test subject.

It all started when the test subject entered the Kingdom of the Fallen and met and freed the Dead King. Making the skeleton reenter the politics of the abandoned continents around the same time as Leodmir’s rebellion from the Republic. All of which eventually led to the war for total control of the abandoned continents.

Yet it doesn’t stop there as the test subject then proceeded to win over the Fire Overlord and therefore Natra, becoming the man’s student and gaining a second Class S magician for the Kingdom of the Fallen. And thanks to the test subject’s rampage throughout Hardlight territory within the Kingdom of the Fallen, even Hardlight ended up surrendering to the Kingdom.

Then the last straw was the Republic, which surrendered after the test subject slayed the Chairman at their own request.

Leodmir grits his teeth harder and harder the more he thinks about it. The more he thinks about just how much his own test subject has done to cause him trouble.

To ruin everything Leodmir had planned.

And the worst thing about this is that Leodmir can’t do a single thing to him. Because now he has even more Class S magicians protecting him, and Leodmir is still stuck fleeing from the two Class S magicians chasing him.

On top of that, even if Leodmir could escape, it’s not like he can kill the test subject even if he didn’t want to use him as a test subject.

Everything couldn’t be worse for Leodmir.

Or at least, that’s what he believes until he sees a brief description of how the test subject killed the Chairman. Specifically, how he managed to return to full health even with his head and body in different planes of reality, and how he wasn’t affected even in the anti-magic mana plane.

At this rate the only thing Leodmir can realistically do to harm him is to send him into another plane and leave him there until he somehow manages to find a way out. Or break his own way out, since that will entirely become possible when the boy reaches Class S and manages to make strong enough spells.

For the first time in Leodmir’s life, he genuinely begins to regret his actions.

And to make matters worse, the light magician reappears within the cavern he’s in as he finishes looking at the message. Making Leodmir instantly teleport away once more.

A vein protrudes on the man’s forehead as he feels his irritation reach all-time highs.

So high he feels like his last sense of sanity may snap at any moment.