The Laboratory

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  Emma Sonnen feels more than a little upset. Both at the Undying Magician, who she went to great lengths to kidnap believing that she’d be able to figure out at least a hint to his immortality in the short time it would take for his protectors to come and save him, and at her own incompetent researchers.

  For not being able to catch a single rat lurking around their laboratory.

  She grits her teeth as she looks up at the true ruler of Natra as he floats over the ruins of her laboratory with his fire magic. Then her gaze turns to the north, where she can see the undead king heading their way as well.

  But what’s worse than that are the other magician she can sense heading their way.

  The Chairman of the Republic.

  All because she had a spy in her midst who reported her actions to him along with news of the Undying Magician’s existence.

  And even worse is that, despite all of this trouble, the only thing she’s learned about the Undying Magician so far is that it is unlikely to be able to take, copy, or remove his immortality in any way. At least with the knowledge she has.

  Which infuriates her to no end.

  In the corner of her eye, she sees Juan briefly turning his gaze in the direction of the Chairman, only to turn it back towards her again a second later. Then he snaps his fingers, making more explosions ring out across the laboratory.

  Destroying every last bit of the place, starting with the cage holding his student.

  How did they even find this lab so quickly?

  Emma’s eyes narrow as she looks around, trying to find how the undead king and fire overlord found the lab so much sooner than she expected they would. Since it should’ve taken them an extra day or more to find where she took him.

  They shouldn’t have come to the lab immediately after dealing with their battle.

  Emma even made sure to check every piece of equipment the Undying Magician had on him when she captured him. But she didn’t find anything that could be used for tracking purposes other than his terminal, which she took and jammed.

  She knows that the Chairman is here due to a traitor, but now she has to wonder if there’s another traitor.

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  That is, until she notices the black bird of flames flying straight down towards Nathan before landing on his shoulder. At which point her eyes widen in shock.

  Because the bird has a device inside of the black flames that it simply drops onto Nathan’s hands.

  A tracking device.

  How… could I miss such a thing?

  Before she can wonder about it any further, the other Class S magicians all arrive. Starting with the undead king, followed by the Chairman.

  Leading to a faceoff between five Class S magicians in the same place.

  But right as she’s about to open her mouth to speak, ignoring how the Chairman is ignoring her and staring at the Undying Magician, a purple flash of light shines in the area. With the psychopathic doctor appearing an instant later with his own eyes latched onto the Undying Magician as well.

  Another one?!

  At this point she begins to wonder if she needs to clear out her entire staff and replace them just to check for traitors.

  Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  Well this is unexpected.

  I knew the skeleton and Juan were coming, but I wasn’t expecting the doctor and the Chairman to come.

  And on that note, I guess the Chairman seems to know about my secret now. Judging by his gaze.

  Up until now, the skeleton has been covering for me by saying that I’m only immortal because of my death magic affinity. But I guess he’s probably got a spy or something in this lab and knows otherwise now.

  Or he just learned from the reports on the battlefield. Which is entirely possible.

  Either way, this is going to be an interesting series of events.

  ‘Thanks, by the way,’ I tell Incendia with a smile while quickly beating a hasty retreat away from the direct area of the soon-to-be battlefield.

  “Of course, any time,” Incendia immediately replies with a stoic sounding voice in my head.

  Before I can get away from the other Class S magicians, however, a purple mana begins to cover me. Only for it to be shattered by a black and crimson mana almost immediately, making me blink when the two forces fade away.

  Then the process repeats again two more times, giving me ample time to figure out what’s going on. Both from the colors of their mana, along with the sight of Class S of the magicians above the ruins of the laboratory.

  It’s the doctor and the Chairman.

  The doctor keeps trying to teleport me away from here or something, meanwhile the Chairman keeps blocking him from doing so by canceling out his magic with his anti-magic.

  So I guess it’s a good thing the Chairman is here. Since I don’t know how quickly the skeleton or Juan could stop the doctor from teleporting me away.

  The skeleton and Juan share glances before they both glance at the two magicians who are glaring at each other. The doctor and the Chairman.

  Then they both begin attacking the doctor right away, clearly deciding that he’s the worse threat right now.

  And, of course, the Chairman takes full advantage of that and begins attacking the doctor as well. Leading to a bit of a three-on-one.

  But the Chairman does occasionally send some attacks towards the other two, and the Class S magician of the White Kingdom doesn’t just sit back and let them do what they please as she attacks all four of them.

  Meanwhile I just begin sneaking away to find a nice spot to watch this battle.

  Because it’ll probably help me a lot with my studies.

  Although I need to make sure that I stay far enough away. Because a battle of this scale will no doubt have affects on reality itself. Just like the battle that caused the warping of time and space that made me immortal.

  Even with that knowledge, I won’t just leave.

  After all, this will be the most interesting battle I’ve ever seen.

  And I’m not missing it.

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