Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 1 | Day 15
None of the Class A magicians look too pleased with my actions. Especially the poison affinity magician from the Republic, seeing as the Class A magician I killed was also from the Republic.
Which is all to be expected. Seeing as I did just kill a one in a million magician.
Only a couple magicians ever reach Class A every year within the entire continent at most. So losing even a single one is a rather brutal blow to any nation.
The fire magician shouts something that the enhancement magician responds to by enhancing his body and speeding forwards straight at me. Following which I counter his sword with my own blades that I draw in an instant. Then we repeatedly clash over and over again as the other magicians begin casting another big spell.
Except that this time around I don’t feel anything from it.
No sense of danger like I got from the last one.
They’re also not ignoring Incendia either as the fire magician is making sure to send his own attacks at her. And while she is blocking them, she doesn’t really have to.
She’s a bird practically made out of death flames after all. So fire magic won’t really do much for her.
I get the feeling she’s just pretending like they do so as to get him to focus on her and not me. What with how he was draining my fire mana before.
And that works quite well for me as I toss both of my swords up into the air before jumping up with my hands pointed downwards and activating a quick Tier IV spell to blast away everything beneath me. Then I grab both of my blades the instant before the blast hits me and sends me flying into the air.
Far away from the spell they were forming.
The enhancement magician quickly enhances his body and jumps straight through the air after me, landing right as his blades clash against my own. All while glaring at me rather hatefully, yet with a sharp grin on his face at the same time.
Which is odd to see, if I’m being honest. Almost like he’s both hateful of me and excited about what capturing me can mean.
He should probably make up his mind.
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I frown a little when he cuts me in half, clearly showing off better skills with the sword than me. But I just continue parrying his attacks as my lower body and upper body reconnect to each other.
Of course, he does it numerous times, cutting my body apart over and over again. And only one thought comes to mind as I repeatedly parry or take his blows while avoiding the others who keep trying to prepare large-scale spells to capture me and keep failing.
The thought that I’m glad I don’t have to change clothes just from his slicing and dicing me up.
Or at least not as often.
Also the thought that this guy must get off on cutting people open, considering the fact that he’s not really doing anything besides making it hard to focus on my own spells.
It isn’t until a few seconds later that I realize he’s been herding me. Pushing me off towards a single cape that is currently surrounded by a bunch of ships.
Ships filled with thousands of magician soldiers.
All of whom have spell circles around them and activating.
Oh. So they’re playing a numbers game now?
Maybe I really did scare them by killing one of them…
A second later I find the place growing very bright as numerous large spell circles appear. Both from the Class A magicians and the other magicians on the ships.
But amidst all of that, I find myself glancing once at my terminal to check the time. At which point a faint smile spreads across my face.
Both because of what I see left of the countdown, and the fact that I can smell the nobles getting close.
They wasted too much of their precious time slicing me and dicing me just to herd me here.
I focus on the six Class A magicians as their spell circles begin to glow. Clearly activating. Then darkness immediately sweeps over the cove, followed by a wave of flames, poison, and wind. Only for a rush of thousands upon thousands of other spells to all crash into the darkness along with it all.
But I quickly find everything fading from my mind before even a tiny number of the attacks hit me. Because my body is completely erased almost instantaneously.
And when I come to?
I find myself sitting on the cove once again without any clothes as I blink at the sight of four of the six Class A magicians majorly wounded and fighting with the Class A magicians of the Kingdom of the Fallen. Meanwhile only two of them continue to focus on me.
Oh, and the ships behind me are destroyed.
I purse my lips for a second and tilt my head.
Okay, I’m a little disappointed.
Just what the heck happened? I wanted to see their ambush myself, but instead I’m delegated to punching bag and only return to consciousness after the ambush already happened?
Also, they were supposed to be killed.
Why aren’t they killed?
Amongst the magicians, the enhancement affinity magician is missing both of his arms and is running around like crazy dodging attacks from Class B magician nobles. Meanwhile the dark affinity magicians are both missing an arm and a leg and are hobbling around everywhere while still throwing spells to fight against two of the Class A magicians.
Lastly the wind affinity Class A magician is literally flying around without any legs while fighting the third of the Kingdom of the Fallen’s Class A magicians.
Leaving the fire Class A magician and the poison Class A magician to continue facing me while Class B magician’s spells bombard them from the other nobles.
Seriously.
What happened while I was unconscious?