Somewhere in the Barren Pass


    Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 3


    Doctor Leodmir Archeron feels incredible irritation as he proceeds to teleport from one location to another, not having enough mana to teleport very far away. And only recovering just enough mana to teleport shorter distances between each teleportation. All while fleeing from his pursuers.


    After leaving the battle with the other Class S magicians and making it back to his base in the Barren Pass, he was ambushed by even more Class S magicians. Including Class S magicians who used to be his own allies against the Chairman of the Republic.


    Dorothy Umbra and Afvalder von Schr?der, two Class S magicians from the Republic and a poison and light affinity magicians respectively. Along with Violet Fox, a Collective Kingdoms Class S poison affinity magician.


    And when he asked why they were trying to kill him instead of the Chairman, since every single one of the Class S magicians have problems with the Chairman for one reason or another, they answered that there was also an ambush on him at the same time. Completely shutting down any potential for him to get out of the situation in an easy manner.


    The doctor grits his teeth in a rare visible showing of irritation. Because he was supposed to go in and snatch up the subject during the conflict between the Class S magicians earlier before going back to his research and leaving the entire conflict behind him.


    But he wasn’t expecting the Chairman to be there. The one man who can easily block any teleportation right away nearby himself.


    Not even the skeleton can stop him from teleporting in and teleporting out with the boy if he knew exactly where the boy was and could go in and out with ease. The only reason he’s never been able to capture him before was the barrier the skeleton constantly had on him to block out Leodmir’s perception of him.


    A barrier that the wind affinity Class S magician had shattered during her own mission to capture him while he was fighting her army.


    In the end, he didn’t get a single thing from the battle against the other Class S magicians. Other than wounding the Chairman. And he had to leave empty-handed.


    Leodmir tilts his head to one side to avoid a fist coated in radiation that flies straight past his head where it was previously at. Then he manages to teleport away once more, appearing in a frigid cave underground. One of the many he took note of while scouting the land in the Barren Pass.


    Right now he’s stuck in a stalemate against the three Class S magicians. Since none of them have been able to capture him for over an entire day now, and he’s not able to escape them either.


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    All because the two poison magicians coated the entire surface in a thick fog of poison while the light magician travels with his entire body turned into light so that he can pass through the ice without worrying about the poison. Completely limiting where Leodmir can go as he travels from one underground cave to another.


    He barely even has the mana to put up any sort of barrier when he arrives, much less fully protect himself from the poison.


    But even if Afvalder is as fast as light physically, he still has to spend several seconds with every teleportation to figure out where Leodmir teleported to exactly.


    The most infuriating part of all this to Leodmir though is that he can’t even wait them out for them to run out of mana. Because they have three people amongst them while he is all alone. So every time one of them starts to run low, the others just stall him out to keep him here.


    Completely blocking any manner of escape Leodmir can think of.


    And the thought of being trapped in an endless chase by inferior magicians of basic affinities is absolutely intolerable to Leodmir.


    But he can’t do anything about it but continue fleeing.


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    Somewhere in the Republic


    Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 3


    It is right about now that the Chairman of the Republic strongly regrets a great many things he’s done in the recent years. Not out of remorse or any feeling like that, but because of the situation he now finds himself stuck in.


    As he holds off three Class S magicians all at once.


    One of which is a former subordinate of his at that. The water Class S magician, Archibald Winters. Meanwhile the other two are enemies. The enhancement Class S magician, Edgar Brodnax, and the ice specialized water Class S magician, Katherine Nash.


    And they’re all fighting against him with full tanks of mana, making the only reason he isn’t being annihilated right away being that he is in his own base. One he’s lined up with defenses all over the place.


    Because, unlike what many people assume, Artorius Hunter is incredibly paranoid. So paranoid that he has placed more traps and other defenses in his personal base than he believes are in the entire Republic.


    So the three Class S magicians are struggling to break inside of the defenses around the base.


    But struggling and not getting anywhere are different things. And even Artorius can tell that they’re very slowly making progress.


    Which leaves him stuck with hoping that the defenses last long enough for him to recover his mana.


    Only then will he stand a chance against all three of them. With the use of anti-magic mana to cancel out all of their own mana and turn it into a fight without magic.


    When the Chairman first heard about the Undying Magician, his first thought was to capture him to try to figure out how he became immortal. Just like all of the other Class S magicians out there. All the other magicians out there in general on the abandoned continents.


    But when he realized that the anti-magic mana running through his body would likely ruin any chance at immortality for himself, he decided to instead capture the boy so that no one else would be able to use him. Then decide what to do with him after that.


    And the White Kingdom’s capture of the boy gave him a perfect chance to make a move.


    Or at least, that’s what Artorius believed.


    Now he understands that this kidnapping may end up being the main turning point in the war.


    And not a good turning point for Artorius.


    For now, he has no choice but to try to hold out against the Class S magicians and free himself before the death and fire magicians manage to recover from the battle to take advantage of his situation.


    So Artorius simply sits down in his meditation chamber and begins to focus on recovering his mana while his defenses protect him.