Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 1 | Day 15

  I take the last seconds of their little warning to observe the enemy magicians. To look at their mana, their emblems, and their weapons. And it doesn’t take me long to peg which one is from what nation and what affinities they have.

  Amongst the Class A magicians, there are two of them from the Republic of Arcania, and one of them from each of the other nations. Meanwhile the ones from the Republic are a nature affinity magician and a poison affinity magician.

  Then there’s the Class A magician from the Kingdom of Hardlight, who is an enhancement affinity magician. Who could be a problem for me since it counters my naturally higher physical capabilities as a vampire at least a little bit.

  The Class A magician from the White Kingdom is a wind affinity magician just like their Class S magician leader.

  Following the White Kingdom, the Class A magicians from both the Collective Kingdoms and Entaria are dark affinity magicians. Which makes sense for Entaria, seeing as Entaria’s Class S magician is a dark affinity magician, but not really for the Collective Kingdoms, whose Class S magicians are a poison affinity magician and an enhancement affinity one.

  Then again, there’s no hard rule saying that the Class A magicians of a nation have to follow their Class S magicians.

  Other than their affinities, all of the magicians have two weapons on them. One being a blade of some kind and the other a ranged weapon. The usual setup back in the Republic from what I learned.

  The Republic magicians have rifles, but neither of them are using them since they’re so close up right now. The Hardlight magician has a bow and arrow, which is probably one of the few ranged weapons an enhancement magician can use. And the White Kingdom magician has a simple assault rifle on him.

  Meanwhile the last three, the Collective Kingdoms, Entaria, and Natra, all have the same type of weapon. With their weapons being regular pistols.

  Two of them actually.

  “You’ve already had your last warning, now we will be bringing you in by force,” the Natran Class A magician declares before raising his hand and making dozens of spell circles appear around himself. All of which immediately summon forth large meteors that fly straight at me.

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  And the soldiers outside of the crater they made before that haven’t managed to flee just yet.

  Rest in peace to those soldiers.

  My mind blanks when the meteors all strike, slamming into the ground all around me and incinerating me in an instant. With me not even bothering to make any sort of barrier to defend against it.

  Once I reform again, I don’t even get the chance to put on any clothes before the next Class A magician bombards me with their own attack. This one being the poison affinity magician who sends a massive wave of poisonous gas. And while I at first wonder what their plan is, I quickly come to understand it when the poison reaches me.

  And melts me alive, proving to be acidic in nature.

  After that, the Class A magicians all take turns blasting me into oblivion or just plain trying to kill me the moment I reform again afterwards. With the dark affinity magicians creating undead that eat me alive, the enhancement affinity magician ripping my head off with his bare hands, and so on.

  But after they ‘kill’ me over three dozen times, they begin to do it back to back without even giving me the chance to look at them. And I keep letting them.

  Because this is probably the best way to waste their mana and stall them.

  At least, I let them until I hear a quick message from Incendia telling me that two of them are preparing some sort of large-scale spell to capture me while the others keep me from returning alive. Then I finally send out a wave of miasma the next time my body and mind are restored. And Incendia does the same while attacking the Class A magicians from behind, surprising them since I had her fly away when they started bombarding me.

  Thanks to these little surprises, I manage to make it out of under the two massive spell circles I can finally see appearing high in the sky.

  I narrow my eyes at the Class A magicians, only to find them all stopping their attacks all at once. No doubt deciding to change tactics.

  Now that they’re no longer bombarding me, I finally take the time to look at our surroundings.

  And more specifically, at the completely destroyed shores around us that don’t have a single living soul on them. Including their own soldiers.

  Everyone and everything has been blasted to oblivion.

  I turn a frown towards the Class A magicians.

  It’s really disgusting how easily they slaughter their own forces. Although I get the feeling only a few of them are responsible for that particular part.

  Specifically the fire magician from Natra.

  I glance at my terminal to see how long it’s been since this battle started. And what I find leaves me feeling… a little surprised.

  Because it’s been over forty minutes since the start of the battle.

  Just… how long did they spend beating me up like a punching bag? Did they just expect me to become unable to recover or something after enough hits?

  My eyes widen as I look at the expressions on their faces. Expressions that look impressed and excited. Almost like they just proved a theory or something.

  They were testing me after all. Trying to see if my immortality has a limit or something.

  And now they know that they can’t kill me no matter what.

  Actually, they probably realized it when they started that other big spell. Whatever it was supposed to do.

  As for why they stopped attacking… was it because they realized they’re just wasting mana?

  In that case, it’s time to see what they try next.

  Just eighteen more minutes left.

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