The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 52 - Battle
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Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 24 | Wednesday
We watch the soldiers for over half an hour to get a feel for their actions before setting the plan in action.
I aim my rifle through the window of the jeep, at the soldiers’ leader before raising my hand in a fist. At the same time, the others begin to prepare themselves by casting spells, including both barrier spells and personal preparatory spells, such as Aidan’s wind spell to increase his speed and Rebecca’s gravity spell to reduce her weight.
After waiting for a minute, I move my hand back to the rifle and whisper a countdown from three. Once I reach zero, I immediately inject a little mana into the stone on my rifle before firing an enhanced shot that flies straight across the kilometer or so distance between us, past the other soldiers, and straight through the window of the jeep into the officer’s head.
At the same time, the others around me immediately activate their acceleration spells, causing them to instantly burst outwards with incredible speed towards the soldiers.
The soldiers freeze for a second in surprise before quickly gathering together and looking around, only finding us after several seconds due to the distance and the sand blowing in the wind. They immediately raise their guns to shoot, but don’t manage to do very much with SMGs at this distance. Meanwhile, I continue sniping one after another, slowly picking off their numbers as the others close in on them.
As soon as Rebecca gets in range, she pulls back her bow and draws an arrow from the quiver on her back before infusing the gem on the bow with her mana and letting loose a flaming arrow that immediately explodes once it strikes the ground near the enemies. This blows away the ones on the outskirts of the explosion with visible burns while making those that weren’t already under cover immediately move to find it so that they don’t end up like the soldier closest to the blast who isn’t even recognizable anymore.
I continue sniping away, but now that more of them are hiding, it’s become more difficult to do so. Fortunately, since they’re all too afraid to peek their heads out because of me, they can’t exactly shoot at the others as they finish their approach.
Once the others get close enough to the soldiers to begin attacking, I scroll my scope out a little to take note of the few cracks that are on their barriers before instantly focusing on a soldier who had popped his head out of behind a jeep. However, before I can shoot him, a purple bullet shoots straight through his head, making the area around the wound begin to grow pale with a faint purple tint to it.
Poison mana bullet?
Looks rather useful. At least for getting rid of an enemy that isn’t as well armed.
Suddenly, a flash of movement from the other jeep catches my eye, but right as I jerk my head to the right, a wave of pain flashes from my ear before going away again as my ear heals itself. I then quickly focus on a soldier armed with one of those rifles and put a bullet through his eye while he’s still surprised by likely seeing my ear heal itself.
Damn. Almost forgot about those two rifles since none of the soldiers were using them.
When I look back at the others again, I find them already in close combat with the several soldiers that are still alive, with the exception of Rebecca, who is still sending arrows flying at them from time to time.
Looks like they didn’t have a magician after all.
With that thought, I look through their forces again in search of the other rifle-toting soldier, only to find the other rifle laying on the ground next to a dead soldier who has his chest practically melted with smoke coming off of it.
Did Aidan do that? I haven’t actually seen the result of his lightning strike spell on a human being, so that…
Without finishing the thought, I turn back to the others before aiming at the two soldiers who are trying to shoot at Rebecca from behind their jeep. The instant one of them looks out to fire, I take a shot at his head, making him fall back to the ground while startling his teammate.
“They really should’ve had more long range shooters,” I mutter to myself before turning my aim onto the other, only to find that he isn’t coming out of hiding.
Guess my worries earlier really were just paranoia.
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After the battle is over, I find myself – along with the rest of the group – sitting on the enemy soldiers’ jeep listening to Leo’s conversation with the officers from the base.
“-and there are a total of twenty soldiers, with one of them being a low level officer,” Leo states as his eyes finish surveying the carnage, “along with two jeeps.”
I hear the person on the other side say something but can’t tell what exactly they’re saying before Leo nods his head and hangs up the call. He then turns to look at us and says, “A group from the base will be coming by to pick this up in an hour, so take that time as a break.”
A look of relief spreads across everyone’s faces at that before he continues, “Once they get here to look through this for anything useful, we can continue onwards.”
We all nod in understanding.
The instructor nods back before leaning back against the jeep and messing with his phone.
After seeing him relax, I move to look at the rifles the Natran soldiers were using. Because they were quite a bit different from mine.
When I pick it up, the first thing I notice is that it’s both lighter and doesn’t have either of the gems mine does. Which makes sense considering that it’s meant for a normal soldier and not a magician. Additionally, the scope isn’t as accurate as mine, nor can it see as far. Although that might also be because it’s more of a hunting rifle and not a sniper rifle.
In conclusion though, it’s not anywhere near as good as my current sniper rifle. So I put it back before sitting on the back of the jeep.
Aside from that battle, this ‘field trip’ has been rather boring.
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