Nathan

Year 2851 | Month 1 | Day 15

I warily watch the Class A magicians as they all begin to fan out around me, slowly forming a large circle with me at the center. But I make especially sure to always keep the enhancement magician in my sights, along with the wind magician. Because those two are the ones who can move by far the fastest out of all the others.

In doing that though I find myself surprised by the fact that the enhancement magician actually doesn’t join the others in the encirclement. Instead he steps behind them all, making me narrow my eyes as I begin to suspect that he’s just going to enhance whatever spell they’re planning on casting together.

‘I feel it’s a bad idea to let them cast whatever they’re about to cast,’ Incendia’s voice echoes in my head, making me nod in agreement.

Then I use one of my first spells of this entire battle to send a pyre of flames bursting out from beneath me as I jump dozens of meters into the air. Startling all of the Class A magicians with my sudden movement.

Which was one of the reasons I haven’t been fighting back or trying to move far away, other than breaking out of their previous attacks and spells.

To get them used to my limited movements, and to save up on mana for the battle while they’re all wasting their significantly larger mana pools.

Of course, they don’t just sit there and let me pass them. All of the magicians begin sending attacks my way while setting up a massive wall all around us that I just barely don’t make it over. And they do still begin working on a massive spell that appears in the form of an enormous spell circle covering the entire expanse of the area within the walls they made.

But the spell’s formation feels slower than it should normally be, so my distraction is working. Even if it’s only the nature affinity magician that I’m distracting, seeing as they’re the one building the wall.

I narrow my eyes at the spell circle beneath me as I land back on the ground. And I can sense all of their mana within the circle.

When the spell actually begins though, I feel a chill run down my spine for the first time in my life.

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It doesn’t feel like the spell is dangerous, but it does feel like it’ll be a major problem for me.

I raise my hand towards the closest of the Class A magicians – the wind affinity magician – but when I try to activate a fire spell, the fire is instead absorbed by the spell circle below me. Making my eyes widen in shock.

Shit.

Meanwhile a large barrier made out of wind appears above the walls blocking anyone from escaping through the top. Over the walls made out of trees and roots enhanced by the nature magician.

After finding my fire magic countered, I move on to using my death magic. But when I try that, nature mana comes from the spell circle below and tries to interfere with my death mana spell circles. Making it incredibly difficult to actually form a death magic spell through them.

I grit my teeth and push through anyways. Because unlike the fire affinity magician who can counter my fire mana with his own, nature mana isn’t even the opposite of death mana.

That would be life mana.

And there isn’t a single living mage with life mana right now.

On top of that, they aren’t countering me with the same element either. So they can’t completely counter me.

So I enhance my body with as much death mana as possible, which serves to drastically increase the hunger in my body even if that increase repeatedly gets reset back to the default by my body. Then I turn into a blur and appear right in front of the nature affinity magician as the spell circle beneath us begins to spin and grow larger. No doubt nearing completion.

And before the nature affinity magician can even respond, I grab their neck, raise them into the air, and tear out their throat. Shocking the other Class A magicians before the wall around us begins to crumble. Letting me out of the encirclement right on time.

Because just seconds later, a dark fog completely covers the area above the circle. One filled with dark mana that for some reason makes me feel like it could affect the death mana coursing through my body.

That it could suppress my body’s vampiric side somehow in conjunction with the poison mana in it.

On top of that, there is also fire mana in it that seems to be drawing in any fire mana around it, and I’m sure there would be nature mana too trying to counter death mana.

I narrow my eyes as I watch it run its course from outside of the encirclement, ignoring the glares of the six remaining Class A magicians as I do so.

This spell was set up to suppress my vampiric strength, remove my use of fire magic within it, suppress my death magic, and bind me in place. All so that I wouldn’t be able to move a muscle and wouldn’t be able to ‘kill’ myself or break out of it using my magic.

And I get the feeling it would’ve worked.

Which in and of itself is terrifying.

I glance up at the sky to find Incendia having already left the spell’s range as well. So I look back at the Class A magicians who are all moving around the spell to face me again.

Well, whatever.

Their spell failed in the end because I killed the magician handling the wall. The one forcing me to stay in the range of the spell.

And now it’s just six Class A magicians.

With a total of twelve minutes remaining on the clock.

Let’s see if I can’t kill off another of these Class A magicians before my backup arrives.