Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  The next one to make their exit from the battlefield is the Chairman of the Republic. No doubt because he’s running low on mana.

  But unlike Emma, he doesn’t make a grand exit. He just turns around and begins flying away.

  The only special thing he does while fleeing is send a single powerful wave of anti-magic mana at the other magicians. Undoing any magic they’re currently in the middle of casting, along with any magic they already have concurrently cast.

  Like the magic keeping them flying in the air for example.

  I blankly watch as the other three all just kinda fall out of the air before managing to catch themselves again just barely before they manage to force the anti-magic mana wave away from them mere meters above the ground. Which would’ve proven fatal to Juan and the doctor.

  Although the skeleton would’ve been fine even if he went splat. Because he’s an immortal.

  Plus he wouldn’t have gone splat anyways, seeing as he’s just bones. So there’s no flesh to go splat anyways.

  Putting the logistics aside for a moment, the doctor seems to change his plans now that it’s become a one versus two for him. Seeing as he immediately teleports over to me and tries to capture me again.

  I’m sure the Chairman’s absence has something to do with his change of plans too, actually. Since he was the biggest factor behind his inability to capture me.

  But even with the Chairman being gone, he still fails. Mostly because the skeleton wrapped me in a large bubble of death mana and miasma.

  A place that surprisingly feels rather nice to be in. Probably because I’m a vampire.

  Or sort of a vampire.

  Anyways, the doctor tries to teleport the entire bubble of death mana and miasma, only to fail when he keeps getting attacked by the other two while trying. And while he’s doing that, I can’t help but notice something inside of my body.

  Something strange.

  Every time his space magic gets anywhere near me, I notice a tiny little fluctuation in the space mana locked inside of my body. The very same space mana that I can’t separate from myself no matter how hard I try to move some of it to my mana arcs.

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  Is this… huh.

  I stop paying attention to what’s happening in the battle and begin focusing solely inside of myself. On the spatial mana that’s merged with the time mana in my body.

  And to my surprise, I find that it has a little bit more give than it had before. With that give growing stronger the closer the doctor’s spatial mana is to me.

  Very interesting.

  I can tell there’s no way to fully separate all of the mana from me, and if someone tried, it would just replace itself. But I think I might be able to separate out a tiny sliver if I really tried hard.

  So I try just that. I pull on the spatial mana while trying to unravel it from the time mana. But just a tiny sliver of it.

  Any more and all I’d be doing is something akin to trying to separate two random spots on an Arcadian Metal sword with my bare fingers and no damage already on it. Or something like that.

  Meaning it’s impossible.

  I continue trying to do it, to separate even just a single tiny arc of space mana from the space mana flowing through my body, only to fail in the end when I sense the space mana around me vanishing in an instant. Making me open my eyes to find that the doctor must have fled.

  Damn. And I was so close…

  I finally turn my attention to the skeleton and Juan, only to surprisingly find both of them to be rather injured. With Juan having an arm almost cut off and the skeleton literally having two arms cut off.

  Although the skeleton’s skeletal arms regrow in a few seconds, so it’s not a problem for him. And Juan is currently at work healing himself.

  He’ll probably have his wound healed soon enough.

  As for the rest of our surroundings? There seem to be a bunch of cuts all over the place that have traces of space mana all over them.

  Out of curiosity, I move up to one of the cuts. But it isn’t enough to even budge the space mana inside of me.

  Which is a pity.

  I let out a sigh as I realize that I’ll probably have to be directly hit with the doctor’s mana to free even a single arc of space mana. And that’s only with me focusing on freeing the arc with everything I’ve got.

  Meaning I wouldn’t be able to pay any attention to the doctor while doing it.

  Which isn’t exactly smart to do when the guy is attacking me. Considering that he could just teleport me away and I’d be captured again.

  I purse my lips as I try to figure out some way to free even a single arc of mana, but nothing’s coming to mind right now.

  All I need is that one arc. Then I could convert one of the death or fire mana arcs I have to space, and I could train that arc to split it. Pretty much giving me a third affinity entirely.

  Assuming my mana arcs will even let me convert them to space mana, that is.

  Death mana is running purely throughout my entire body, but space mana isn’t purely running through it. It’s mixed with time mana to form a sort of space-time mana instead in the form of a natural wonder of sorts.

  So it may not even work.

  I sigh again at that thought before the skeleton asks, “What has you sighing so much?”

  “Nothing important right now,” I answer with a shake of my head. “Anyways, I started making some progress on my mana manipulation. Not much though.”

  Both the Class S magicians just stare blankly at me. Almost like I’m some sort of strange creature they’ve never seen before.

  “What?” I ask while tilting my head.

  Did I say something strange?

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