The Undying Magician - Book 6 - Chapter 27 (Patreon)

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Nathan
Year 2853 | Month 7 | Day 7

I frown when I make a mistake again and Ignitus manages to cut off my arm for the umpteenth time. And as if that wasn’t enough, he spins around and cuts my leg off with his other blade.

Of course, both wounds instantly revert, and the blades pass through my clothes without damaging them, so nothing comes of it. But I wasn’t quite expecting how far this guy was planning on going with his training.

He’s been slicing me up over and over again throughout this entire battle. All without so much as batting an eye.

“Keep your focus-” Ignitus begins before tearing straight through my shoulder and almost cutting off my entire arm when I leave another opening. “-on the battle!”

I immediately reach forward to bite him now that he’s close enough, only for him to pull his shoulder away. Which gives me an opening to swing one of my blades directly into his side.

Now, he’s wearing armor and a medallion, so my blade doesn’t cause any genuine damage to his body. But that doesn’t matter.

All that matters is that my attack hit.

His eyes widen a little as he mutters, “Feigned distraction to get a strike in? Impressive.”

I parry both of his incoming blade strikes before spinning and striking back. Only to be parried in return.

Hmm. Yeah, no, that wasn’t feigned distraction. I was actually distracted.

He is right that I used it to my advantage, though.

I find it harder to focus during battles nowadays since there aren’t any real consequences to doing so. Especially when I see something interesting, or something sparks my inspiration for new spells.

In the middle of my thoughts, I accidentally let another blow through. But this time I don’t manage to hit him back in return.

“Sacrificing hits like that will give you openings, but if you do it too frequently, it will fail,” Ignitus states, clearly assuming I did that on purpose too.

I nod my head as if in understanding with his words. Deciding that it would be better for my pride if he doesn’t know that I was just spacing out.

To be fair, I do understand his words. So it’s not like it’s deceiving him.

Anyway, we continue exchanging blows over and over as I gradually find myself being guided into fixing a lot of the bad habits I’ve built up over time since first learning how to fight with swords. All the way until night falls. And yet, even then, neither of us feel tired.

Me because it’s not possible for me to feel tired, and him because he is a Seventh Stage Warrior.

It would probably take several days or even a couple weeks of constant fighting for him to feel tired.

“Return here tomorrow if you wish to continue training,” Ignitus states, leaving me nodding my head in agreement before leaving.

In all honesty, this training won’t do much when it comes to genuinely serious battles. But it will help me a lot in this tournament, at the very least.

After all, in normal battles, I can just keep fighting until the opponent is defeated or dead. Unlike in the tournament where I have to seriously manage my ‘condition’ to make sure I don’t get disqualified from taking too much damage.

Once I get out of the dream realm, I go ahead and make my way back to my room. At which point I return to my experiments. All the way through the night and to the next morning.

Then I go back to get more training throughout the entire day. And the day after that as well.

We continue to train up until the final bracket begins.

The Class S magician and Stage Seven Warrior bracket.

Although, technically, a couple Stage Six Warriors are also competing. But no one really expects them to have much chance at getting very far.

These are Class S magicians they’re facing, after all.

Once the first match is about to begin, I make my way over to the VIP area to watch. And while I’m here, I can’t help but notice a certain topic making its way around the VIP area.

Apparently the Temple of Sin is trying to spread out their sin energy into the neighboring temple regions.

The Temple of Sin…

I’ve heard of them before. They’re a temple that all of the other temples hate, simply because they always cause major issues for them.

The Pope of the Temple of Sin and its religion is a Class S magician with the sin special affinity. A very powerful affinity that is also rather unusual in a lot of ways.

And it’s not just in how sin magic works that makes it unusual, but also the way it can grow stronger.

Sin mana is not a common mana. It usually forms in areas filled with those sins to an extreme degree. So the Temple of Sin loves to stir up enormous trouble by promoting crimes and wars.

Then they just sit back in the middle of it to train and worship the sin mana.

The fact that they’re spreading the sin energy of their region out to other regions means bad news. Simply because of how hard it is for it to form in the first place.

Them spreading the mana means that they’re growing more and more sinister and twisted, and they’re doing something incredibly evil.

I listen for a bit longer before focusing entirely on the screen showing the stage, where two Class S magicians are appearing in their own ways. One through forming from flames, and the other forming through light.

The Temple of Sin isn’t a matter for me to handle. The temples surrounding the Temple of Sin are already moving to handle the matter.

With that in mind, I sit back and watch the battle as it commences.

Ready to finally enjoy this tournament to a degree.