The Undying Magician - Book 6 - Chapter 29 (Patreon)

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Nathan
Year 2853 | Month 7 | Day 10

The moment the battle begins, light radiates from the enhancement magician’s body and both he and Ignitus vanish from their spots. Moving so fast that my eyes can barely keep track of them. Then they clash in the middle of the arena, sending shockwaves out to slam into the barrier around the arena.

Gray spells pop up all over the place enhancing various things about the enhancement magician. Whether it’s his entire body, specific parts of his body, his armor, or even his weapons. And various different spells enhance different things.

Some of them enhance his strength, others enhance his durability, and others enhance his speed.

One aspect of him after another until his entire body is enhanced in both the general sense – enhancing everything at once – and specialized sense – enhancing everything one by one. But despite all of the enhancements, I can tell that the Seventh Stage Warrior is still stronger than the enhancement magician. Considering that he’s being pushed back a bit.

Not much, but it’s still a bit.

The two continue to clash over and over again, sending shockwave after shockwave to crash into the arena and the barriers around it. All while the audience roars in excitement at the rapid clash of blades.

Ignitus repeatedly changes weapons to throw off the enhancement magician, but the enhancement magician manages to handle it by altering his speed and strength with his enhancement spells. Constantly keeping Ignitus on his toes as to just how strong and fast the magician is.

Of course, it only works to a degree. After all, the enhancement affinity magician only has a certain amount of strength, with Ignitus being stronger than him regardless of how strong he makes himself.

Or at least, that’s the case until a massive Tier X spell circle appears above the stadium. One that rapidly begins to shrink and compress, making a bright glowing grey light shine from the circle until it reaches the magician. The circle then begins to spin faster and faster until it shrinks further into his body.

I narrow my eyes when the enhancement magician suddenly begins to move far faster and with more strength than before. Enough that he finally perfectly matches the Seventh Stage Warrior in strength.

Still. Something bothers me about this Tier X spell.

Tier X spells are considered Tier X spells because they can damage reality itself. But this Tier X spell doesn’t seem capable of doing that.

Or can it?

I frown as I watch the enhancement affinity magician fight with his Tier X spell. Since it just feels off.

Is this really all it can do?

As if to answer my internal question, while the two are clashing over and over again, the enhancement magician suddenly spikes in power out of nowhere as a flare of grey mana rushes out from his body. The mana then forms a large swarm of blades that begin to fly at Ignitus.

Ignitus rushes to strike at the blades one after another with his various weapons, parrying and shattering them in the process. But my gaze focuses more on the cuts in reality caused by the blades.

There it is. The spell can damage reality, after all.

That said, I can feel the mana in the Tier X spell decreasing at a significantly faster pace than before. Clearly building up a bit of a time limit on how long the magician can use the spell.

Which makes sense. It’s a Tier X spell, after all.

No magician can just use a Tier X spell endlessly.

The battle continues raging on amidst the audience’s thunderous applause and excitement. But despite the explosive effect of the Tier X enhancement affinity spell, Ignitus barely gives up only a few hits. And he deals out quite a few more hits than he takes.

Finally, when the enhancement affinity magician runs out of mana in the Tier X spell and begins to cast another Tier X spell to replace it, Ignitus takes advantage of his sudden drastic decrease in strength to finally cut him down. Sending the magician straight out of the arena at last.

The cheers grow even louder, but Ignitus simply steps out of the stadium without a word. Meanwhile I cross my arms and narrow my eyes at the recording that replays on the screen of the battle.

Both at the Tier X spell to see exactly how he compressed the spell circle like that, and at the combat techniques both he and Ignitus are using.

The magician seems to know quite the number of techniques based on different balances of power in his body. And he would adjust the techniques with every change in his body’s strength and speed so that the techniques would match his body’s physique.

It’s rather impressive just how many different battle styles and techniques he knows. Which makes me wonder just how long he’s been training to learn all of them.

Since he was a child, maybe?

Probably.

It does make sense that he would have to learn so many techniques and battle styles to fight with that method of battle, though. Considering that a warrior’s method of fighting in close combat is highly dependent on their physical capabilities. Making any change to their constitution significant when it comes to their fighting styles.

I purse my lips in thought for a few seconds before shaking my head, deciding that it would be pointless for me to learn more fighting styles like that.

It’s not like I will ever be able to enhance or decrease my strength like that, so it would be a waste of time.

I should just focus on my spells and learning the swordsmanship style Ignitus is currently teaching me.

With that thought in mind, I refocus my attention onto the screen as the next two competitors arrive. Then I begin to watch their battle just like the previous battles.

Time to see just how much I can learn from watching this tournament.