Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  The Class S magicians surprisingly don’t spare even a moment to chat, instead getting straight down to business. Which means fighting. And the shockwaves from their battle are destroying this laboratory even more.

  Not that there was much left of the laboratory that wasn’t already destroyed.

  Anyways, I watch them fight for a little bit before realizing that my stuff – specifically my terminal, sword, and storage unit – are all still somewhere hidden in the lab. So I should go find those.

  Of course, I make sure to keep an eye on the battle and continue taking notes even as I search the ruined lab for my things. And once I finally find said things, I go ahead and put them on my person while still watching their battle.

  After keeping a close eye on their battle for several minutes, I begin to understand several things about the Class S magicians. Some of which I already knew, in the case of Juan and the skeleton, and some of which I didn’t.

  The skeleton likes to coat everything in his miasma to both whittle away at his opponents and to obscure their view as he uses attacks that ignore their armor to directly target their bodies. Meanwhile Juan uses a lot of explosives, both in his offense and defense. Blowing up anything that gets close to him automatically and manually while also trying to blow up his enemies.

  But that’s not all, since I know Juan from our training sessions. I know that he also likes to sneak in attacks as well.

  Ones that his enemies don’t know about.

  Like subtlety raising the temperature around the battle more and more in a way that can’t really be blocked. Which causes discomfort and a lack of focus in his enemies at first before turning downright harmful to them when it gets hot enough.

  As for the skeleton? When it comes to subtle attacks like that, he also has his own. Like trying to sneak in death mana into his enemies’ bodies to turn them into undead during the battle.

  Although Class S magicians know how to counter that. So it’s pretty much a nuisance that they have to keep their eye on and be careful for.

  After those two are the Class S magicians I am not being trained by. Starting with the doctor, who I have actually seen battle before.

  One of the doctor’s biggest points in his fighting style seems to be always keeping on the move. Since he keeps teleporting all over the place, never staying in one spot and always making sure to counter every attack that’s sent his way by sending the attack back if possible.

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  Or rather, back at a different Class S magician. Seeing as most of the Class S magicians here are almost immune to their own affinities by this point.

  So sending their own attacks back at them would be rather pointless.

  But that doesn’t stop him from using his spatial magic to adjust their attacks trajectories to hit other Class S magicians here.

  Then there’s the wind magician who kidnapped me. She seems to like enhancing her body with the wind. Using it to move faster and stronger, and to fly.

  It’s almost like she’s an enhancement magician with how she fights.

  But she also uses the wind for protective purposes, creating wind walls and the like. And she creates blades of wind that cut through steel like butter.

  Not to mention me, since I’ve been cut by them before quite a bit as well.

  They’re very sharp.

  Then there’s the anti-magician.

  His fighting style is rather… unique.

  He mostly just sits there with a field of anti-magic mana around him. Mana that completely unravel every spell that gets near him. Meanwhile he occasionally shoots out anti-magic bullets at his enemies.

  But other than that, the only things he really uses his magic for are to fly and to coat his weapons. Pretty much making his weapons anti-magic weapons.

  And thanks to that he flies around with two anti-magic swords in hand and a field of anti-magic mana around him.

  So his fighting style is very different from the others, not to mention incredibly simplistic.

  At the end of the day though, it works.

  The doctor just avoids him though, repeatedly teleporting out of the way. Seeing as the doctor seems to be his main target out of all of the Class S magicians here.

  Then again, the two have had bad blood for a while now. What with the whole war thing going on between them that was happening long before this large scale war broke out.

  On another note, he’s also the youngest out of all the Class S magicians here. And not by a small margin either.

  He’s by far the youngest here.

  From what I remember, Artorius Hunter is just 38 years old. The youngest Class S magician in the history of the continents.

  Meanwhile the doctor should at least be 65 or 66 years old, Juan is in his 70s, and Emma is in her late 60s.

  Then there’s Adalwolf, the skeleton.

  He’s an immortal skeleton from a fallen kingdom and probably the oldest human alive. Assuming he can even be considered human.

  I continue watching them battle for hours upon hours, with the entire area around the laboratory having turned into naught but a wasteland at this point. Meanwhile there are large gaping holes in reality itself around us, with the laboratory having been torn to shreds as well. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that there aren’t any living creatures left around here other than the Class S magicians and me. With everything and everyone else having been killed in the wake of their battle.

  But despite all of the damage, I just continue watching the battle and taking notes.

  My note taking quickly focuses on their mana manipulation though. Not their spells.

  Partially because I’m trying to learn mana manipulation, and partially because they’re not using scripted spells that I can steal in the first place. At most I’d be able to copy the basic ideas behind what their spells do. But nothing more.

  Either way, this battle is going to help me a lot.

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