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The Undying Magician - Book 1 - Chapter 47 - Situation

Added 2022-07-19 05:45:57 +0000 UTC

                                                                  Nathan
                                     Year 2849 | Month 6 | Day 17 | Sunday
                                                      Seventeen days later

A grin splits my face as soon as the familiar pulsating sensation begins to flow through the mana arc I’ve been training.

Finally! Time to get my fourth arc!

With excitement probably clear on my face despite my closed eyes, I hurry and begin the splitting process, causing the two freshly split arcs to stabilize after separating from each other. I then open my eyes again to find Instructor Dawn staring at me with a frown.

I almost wince at the sight but I hold myself back from doing so as she says, “Cadet Fox, you’re free to go.”

With a slight nod of my head, I quickly gather my things and see myself out of the room.

Ever since I defeated that first cadet in the duel, she’s been quite a bit less friendly with me. Because, apparently, that was her son.

Which is quite unfair towards me, considering that I had no idea who he was, and he was the one who challenged me in the first place. But our world isn’t exactly fair, so there’s nothing I can do there.

At least she doesn’t seem to be taking it out on my grades or anything. So there’s that.

As I’m walking down the hallway, I spot Leo suddenly leaving a classroom that I’m not familiar with. He then notices me almost immediately and approaches.

“Nathan, come to the Magical Warfare classroom,” he says in a rather serious sounding voice before adding rather sternly, “now.”

My eyebrows raise in surprise, but I follow after him anyways.

For him to be like this, something has to have happened.

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It doesn’t take long before I find myself sitting down on a chair near the board in the Magical Warfare classroom, with the instructor standing next to it in front of me.

“I’m sorry,” is the first thing he says, shocking me so badly that I almost fall out of my seat. “News of the ‘spell’ has reached my uncle, and he wants to see it in action.”

My eyes widen with a mixture of shock and fear at this declaration.

His… uncle?

“If you don’t mind me asking…” I begin, but he answers my question before I can even ask it.

“My uncle is the chairperson for our family,” he says with a grimace, “Marcus Ashford.”

I stare at the man for several seconds before muttering, “Shit.”

Leo simply nods with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

We can’t trick a Class A magician into thinking that it’s just a spell.

Which likely means I’m dead, but maybe…

“Do you know when he will be arriving to see it?” I ask him with a frown.

Surprisingly, the man’s frown is actually replaced by a faint smile as he nods and answers, “Yes, actually. He’s currently busy with the war, and the recent problems arising from the Class S magician situation of which I’m sure you’ve heard about, so he won’t be able to come till the end of the school year.”

My eyes widen in surprise.

That’s a long time.

Which makes me wonder if he can’t come in that time, or if he’s just not willing to make time to come just yet due to the other things going on.

I narrow my eyes at the man for a moment, only to shake my head a second later.

It doesn’t matter. What matters is that I have to take as many classes as I can fit during the next semester to take full advantage of the academy’s teachings before things turn sour.

“You’re probably already thinking this, but you need to take as many classes as you can next semester,” Leo says, repeating my thoughts out loud. He then takes out his phone and begins messing with it.

I furrow my brows for a few seconds before deciding to go ahead and ask.

“Can you tell me about the current situation with the Class S magicians?” I ask despite knowing that he probably won’t answer.

However, unlike my expectations, he simply looks up from his phone at me and raises a brow instead of immediately shooting it down. He then puts his phone away and says, “Sure.”

My eyes widen slightly before returning to normal.

While Amelia might know a lot more than most people about what’s going on, she’s still not told everything by her parents. So it’s a lot better to get the information straight from a major.

Although the only reason he’s even willing to tell me at all is probably due to the current situation.

“As you probably already know, the current Chairman of the council, Artorias Hunter, is willing to do practically anything in order to benefit the Republic,” he begins, pausing only to continue after seeing me nod my head, “and that the Class S magicians are all rather seclusive, with a dislike for following orders. Especially from people weaker than themselves.”

I once again nod my head to show that I understand.

“Well,” he says while tapping on the board, making it change from a plain black screen to show a battlefield, “ever since the incident at the Forgotten Pass, the Class S magicians from both our nation and the Collective Kingdoms have been even more against joining the battle than normal. And this hasn’t sat well with the leaders of either nation.”

“And knowing the Chairman, he’s probably extremely against them sitting out when they could be benefiting the nation,” I add for him before asking, “am I right?”

The instructor nods his head and changes the screen again from the battlefield to some sort of interview with Archibald, only to pause the interview right away.

“At this point, the situation is devolving into barely hidden threats from some of the council members towards the Class S magicians,” he continues as I look at the very-pissed-off looking face of the Class S water magician. “Or at least the ones they can find.”

Oh yeah, the space magician’s whereabouts are unknown.

Actually…

“How does the space magician get the magi-tech to the Republic if he never approaches them?” I ask out of curiosity.

Leo grimaces for some reason as he says, “The man simply tosses the equipment through his portals without entering them himself before closing them.”

My mouth forms an o at his answer as I also take note of the fact that the magician is a male.

I doubt I’ll ever try to figure out who the magician is, but it wouldn’t hurt to know more about him in case I need the information.

“Bringing us back to the question at hand,” he says, “Class S magicians are extremely powerful and can even damage reality itself, but they can still be taken down by a group the size and power of the entire council. Which is also one of the reasons the council was formed in the first place, but you’re history teacher has probably already covered that at this point.”

I nod my head at that.

“The issue right now is that the council is wanting the Class S magicians to fight for them, so if they were to attack them, then all they’d be doing is weakening themselves,” he continues before tapping the screen again, causing it to show a large bank. “Which has lead to the current situation, with the council attempting to threaten the Class S magicians economically and socially instead.”

“Which probably isn’t helping the situation,” I dryly state with a frown.

The instructor just nods before clapping his hands, causing the screen to go black. He then pulls out his phone again while saying, “That’s all for today. Go have lunch, and we’ll talk more after classes today.”

I nod my head and turn to walk towards the door.

At least this situation is helping me.

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