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The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 49 - Call

Added 2022-07-26 19:59:51 +0000 UTC

Nathan
Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 17 | Sunday

The rest of my classes aren’t much different than usual, and I manage to succeed rather easily in convincing the others to leave Sophia and Aidan alone for dinner, so I end up going directly to my dorm room after the last class of the day.

As I’m walking through the halls of the dorm building, I ignore the constant glances being sent my way by the other cadets as I look over the printed out spell script in my hands.

The script is for the spell that I’ve been working on ever since finishing up the last of the three spells Leo required our class to learn. It’s a sort of acceleration spell, using my fire mana to cause a strictly controlled explosion in a set location on my body dependent on the inputted value. This explosion is supposed to work in a way that it won’t hurt me and will instead send all of its head and force away from my body, allowing me to accelerate in any particular direction.

But… it’s not going too well so far.

Maybe it’s because I don’t have the pseudo code that I had for the other spells… actually, scratch that. It’s probably mostly because I don’t have the pseudo code for it, but also a little because it’s just a more difficult spell than the others.

With the mana bullet and the mana blast, the spells originate away from my body, making it so I only have to direct them in a certain direction. But with this spell, I have to have it originate while touching my skin in order for it to give my body the force needed to accelerate.

But every time I’ve tried it so far, it’s ended up… rather painful. With a lot of instances of me torching my arms or legs.

“Just what is wrong?” I mutter to myself while rereading through the script again, only for my gaze to pause on a certain function.

As I’m walking, my id card suddenly begins to vibrate within my pocket.

I take one hand off of the script to pull it out.

A call? Who could be calling right now?

The instructors never bother, and the others seemed pretty busy right now…

Once the screen appears above the card showing the caller id of the caller, I pause in my step.

Dad?

I continue walking the rest of the way to my and Aidan’s dorm room while accepting the call and realizing that it’s a video call as dad’s face appears in the middle of his office within our home.

He opens his mouth to speak, only to close it again as he realizes that I’m still in the middle of a hallway.

Once I reach our small little suite of rooms and then enter my own room, I state, “Alright, It’s safe to talk.”

I’ve already checked before, and there aren’t any cameras of any sort in the bedrooms. No surveillance spells either, according to Leo and Anabel.

“How have you been?” he immediately asks with a frown on his face.

I walk over to the bed while taking my shoes off and answering, “Meh. Things could’ve gone better, but they also could have gone much worse.”

“Oh?” he asks, his frown deepening further, “Explain.”

And I do. Over the next hour or two, instead of working on my spell like I had planned, I go over everything that’s happened since I first entered the academy. Albeit, leaving out the specific degree of pain I’ve been through.

Because all that’ll do is make mom even more worried.

In fact, I think she was relieved that I was going here, because I wouldn’t have to go through the doctor’s experiments anymore. Or at least not for a long time.

When I finish explaining everything that’s happened, dad just lets out a grunt and looks down in contemplation.

Nearly an entire minute passes without him saying anything, so I place the id card on my bed before grabbing the printed script and going over it some more.

The only thing I can pin down right now is that the problem is most likely in the function that controls the temporary fire mana barrier meant to protect my body from the blast caused by the spell… but just where is it in the function?

Since it’s a fire mana barrier and not a neutral mana one, it’s not exactly like the one I’ve already designed before. Not to mention that this one is only temporary and should also be able to work while I already have another neutral mana barrier up.

My eyes narrow slightly as I continue reading through the script, only for dad’s voice to break me out of my concentration.

“I know we can’t do anything to help you,” dad says, and when I look up at him, I find a sad look on his face as he continues, “but know that we will always support you no matter what happens.”

I stare at the screen for several seconds before nodding my head without a word.

He nods back, his face turning serious again as he says, “I’ll be getting into contact with the doctor soon, so I might be able to get you some more information on the man’s identity.”

My eyebrows raise slightly at this before I say, “Make sure you don’t push him.”

Because if the man is really powerful enough to frighten Anabel and Leo, then he really isn’t someone I’d want as an enemy.

Dad nods his head again and says, “I understand. Talk to you later.” He then hangs up the call, leaving me in the quiet of my room.

I stare at my id card for a few minutes before eventually shaking my head and turning my attention back to my script.

My first movement spell. And yet, it’s still so dangerous just to test out…

Then again, most fire mana spells are rather dangerous.

With that thought in mind, I quickly get back to work looking through the script for errors.

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