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The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 54.5 - Mission Interruption Part 2

Added 2022-08-24 17:27:15 +0000 UTC

Nathan
Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 25 | Thursday

My eyes widen in awe as I watch the enormous orb of golden light spread out at an explosive pace towards the Class D magicians fighting out there. The orb immediately begins to envelope the magicians whose barriers are already damaged pretty badly, meanwhile it simply clashes with the magicians who have lightly damaged barriers, pushing them back in the process as their barrier flashes with their element.

Almost at the same time, I hear a burst of flames come from Leo’s direction, making me turn my head to see him increasing his speed at an explosive pace towards the enemy magician.

“Holy shit,” Aidan mutters.

I silently nod my head in response without taking my eyes off of them.

Leo arrives at the orb after half of the magicians are already fully enveloped by it before he immediately appears from the flames with a large, red spell circle floating in front of his outstretched hand. After a few seconds, a large burst of flames shoots out from the circle in the form of a pillar straight towards the orb. However, right as the flames touch it, hundreds more spell circles appear around the orb and various other flames begin to burn around the spell circles, causing soot to fall down around the orb, slowly absorbing the light within it.

My eyes widen in awe as the orb begins to shrink further and further as the soot absorbs the light from it until it reveals the ashes that remain of the Class D magicians.

I turn to look at the officer before stating, “That’s a Tier IV spell, right?”

The officer just glances at the mirror and says, “The enemies’ spell is Tier IV, but the major’s is just a massive amount of Tier II spells.” He then turns back to face forwards again without another word while increasing his speed.

Really?

I turn to look back at the soot falling from the sky and absorbing the last of the light, revealing the Class C magician in the center of where the orb was. The man is wearing the Natran orange and gray colors, with the two-point-filled-in star symbol of a Class C magician on his shoulder and another symbol on his other shoulder, likely showing his military rank.

Out of curiosity, I pull my rifle out and assemble it before looking through the scope at the battle and finding the man with a scowl on his face as he looks at Leo, who is slowing down in his approach. At the same time, the various magic circles around the area all begin to disappear and the two start talking.

My brows furrow at the sight, but they’re way too far away from me to hear anything they’re saying. However, I do notice the enemy officer occasionally glancing in our direction.

While they’re talking, I look around the area surrounding the two. If I understand correctly, the instructor purposely created several dozen fires around the orb of light so that the soot would be carried in the wind to surround and enter the orb completely, letting it absorb the light making up the enemy’s spell.

But…

I narrow my eyes at the soot completely coating the area.

Just being able to create that much soot must be extremely difficult, but to also clear the entire orb without even having the flames enter it?

Did he do that strictly to make sure he didn’t accidentally kill the Class D magicians on our side? Or was there another reason for it?

My inspection comes to a halt as several large explosions echo from the two magicians after they both send spells at each other. The spells consist of various bolts of light and arrows of flames, each managing to strike directly at each other without getting through to the other magician.

This continues for a few minutes before they begin to slow down and focus more on fighting sword-to-sword instead, likely after having started to run low on mana.

Something that draws my eye is that Leo doesn’t have his sniper rifle on him. Could he not have the rifle on him? Or maybe…

Wait! That orb of light!

He couldn’t deal with the orb of light through a sniper rifle since he most likely couldn’t see through it to shoot him. And now he’s too close to fight a magician with a rifle since a Class C magician’s barrier often has acceleration and strength boosting effects to them.

The two continue striking back and forth at each other with their blades for several minutes, but eventually Leo’s sword finally pierces straight through the enemy’s sword. Leo then kicks the man’s legs out from under him and stabs the sword straight through the last remnants of his barrier into his shoulder, disabling it from reaching for the gun at his waist.

“It looks like the instructor won,” I comment without taking my eyes away from the action.

I focus on the enemy’s bisected sword before looking at the instructor’s.

Interesting. The Arcadian Metal swords really are superior to normal metal ones.

The id card in my pocket suddenly begins to ring again, and as soon as I accept it, the instructor’s voice comes through, “The enemy magician has been subdued. Continue heading back to the base without me.”

I turn to look at the officer driving the jeep, but he just stops the spell beneath us, slowing the jeep down quite a bit without actually stopping it.

Guess he heard the instructor.

“Did you see the fight?” Aidan asks me while shaking my shoulder. “You did, right?”

I nod my head in response before looking back through the scope of my rifle at the instructor, who is far enough out now that even with my rifle I almost can’t see him.

That fight… may have just sparked some more spell ideas for me.

At that thought, I put my rifle down and immediately begin typing away on the screen above my id card.

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