The Undying Magician - Book 2 - Chapter 46.2 - Battle with Darkin Part II (Patreon)

                                                                 Nathan
                                          Year 2849 | Month 12 | Day 5

I wait about a minute, simply watching the battle – both the one between the soldiers and the one between the magicians – for a while until I feel my rifle’s barrel having cooled down enough to fire again. So I focus on the commanders I was able to spot during the battle and begin sniping them, with only a little mana in each shot this time, basically causing the heads of whoever I shoot to burst into flames as they fall to the ground, everyone around them shocked beyond words at the sight of it.

This continues on till I kill all of the important looking people shouting commands. Then I put my rifle away in my storage spell before drawing my sword and jumping down from the tree.

I swing the blade back and forth a couple of times while walking out of the tree line, just to stretch my arms a bit. Not that that really does much of anything with my body as it is, but still. More of a mental preparation than anything else.

Then I begin running straight towards the soldiers who are mostly fighting on the wall by now, none of them appearing to have any actual siege weapons meant to break down walls. Which if I had to guess is because they probably want to take the city. And repairing stuff isn’t likely to be easy in a continent like this.

After making it to the wall, I jump a quarter of the way up one of the siege machines leaning against it before jumping again and again till I reach the top where I cut down the first soldier I see – the one manning the machine. And I feel an intense urge to drain him dry immediately after smelling his blood.

But for the first time in a while, I don’t hold myself back. Because I know it’ll just be limiting my strength if I don’t feed, as feeding makes me stronger even if only temporarily.

Not to mention that the unlocking of my immortality only happens when I want it to now, so I can control that well enough just by keeping the miasma in my body away from my bones with my mana.

It does surprise me a little that – beyond being simply gross – the act of drinking another human’s blood doesn’t bother me. Nor does killing them anymore, even if I would still rather avoid it when I can. Since there’s no reason to kill without cause.

After draining the guy, I toss his body aside and rush onto the walls, simply cutting down the enemy soldiers I find and apparently frightening any ally soldier into aiming their weapons at me. But they’re at least smart enough to not fire.

The enemies do fire though, and it makes me all the happier that I found the repair crystal on my armor, since I can finally repair the thing instead of having to go around in hole riddled armor. And even after the enemy soldiers find their guns not really doing much beyond serving as annoying, since the bullets keep pushing me back, they still continue to fire until they waste the entire magazine they had loaded. Then I cut off their heads with my blade.

Still no soldiers here with swords. Is it really too much to ask for a single one here to have a sword to fight me with?

I continue to cut down soldiers as I run through the walls in the direction of the magicians, only to suddenly stop and jump back a meter before a large ball of darkness smashes into the ground where I was just standing. Then I turn my head to find the dark magician glaring at me with a look of hatred on his face. One that grows even worse at the sight of the black veins running through my face and my crimson eyes.

“Did you hire a fucking vampire to help you?!” he shouts, clearly at Xavier despite him not taking his eyes off of me while raising his arms and making a large spell circle appear above them. “God fucking damnit! This was not according to plan!”

Well, duh.

I have my doubts that any of the cities here except for the few ones with Class B magicians in them can capture me at this point. Not without working together.

And I can’t really see that happening any time soon.

“Mister Fox! I’m glad to see you came!” Xavier shouts while using some sort of large scale spell that quickly makes some sort of dome shoot up from the ground, enclosing us all into it.

My eyes narrow for a second before I give a mental shrug and raise both my sword in my right hand and my open left hand, a spell circle being created in front of my hand in the process. And the dark magician just looks between both me and Xavier for a second before apparently deciding that I’m the more important target and focusing whatever spell he’s currently casting in my direction. Then a fireball shoots out of my spell circle, followed by a large hand of darkness that comes out of his. The two then clash in the air, with his winning out in the clash as the hand continues in my direction. But it was weakened enough by the clash that I just jump up and slash straight through it with my sword, the Arcadian Metal in it being enough to deal with the mana remaining in the spell.

The man – who was initially relieved upon seeing his spell win out over mine in pure power – looks shocked when he sees me flying through the air up towards him. Not shocked enough to remain in place when I land with a swipe of my blade right past where his neck was though, instead backing up to avoid the blow.

“Is that…” he mutters, only to notice my armor finally, which had actually been cleaned up a little of the mud and grime I used to cover my insignia by the blood sprayed everywhere during my killing of the soldiers on the way here. “You’re from Arcadia?!”

Hmm. Guess the cat’s out of the bag. Not like I was trying to hide it though. Much.

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