Nathan


    Year 2851 | Month 3 | Day 23


    A couple days later I find myself on a flight to the Republic of Arcania for the first time in quite a while. But I don’t pay attention to my surroundings as I go. I just make sure to review everything I’ve learned about the Chairman up until now.


    First off, the Chairman is the first anti-magic specialized magician in centuries. In fact, he may very well be the only anti-magic magician to have ever existed on the abandoned continents. Which is how he managed to rise to where he is now as the Chairman of the Republic.


    The man specializes in bladed weapons with very little if any use of guns outside of sniper rifles back in his earlier days. When he used to snipe enemy officers with his anti-magic bullets.


    Now he just generally specializes in using his blades in direct combat while enhancing his body directly with anti-magic mana. But not by literally strengthening his body but rather through controlling his body with anti-magic mana like a puppet to throw out stronger attacks than his human body should be able to perform.


    He also uses his anti-magic mana to fly around and to just avoid attacks in general, or to protect against attacks and break other magicians’ spells. Which is one of the biggest uses of anti-magic mana in the first place.


    And now on top of all of that he is also immune to magic entirely. So no magic can harm him whatsoever.


    But thanks to his barriers around himself that he always keeps up, a normal mortal weapon cannot make its way to his skin to harm him. And if someone tries to enhance their body with enhancement magic or some other magic, his anti-magic will cancel out the enhancement entirely.


    Making it so that nothing can harm him right now.


    Nothing except a person who is just supernaturally strong like me. Someone who doesn’t need magic to enhance their body and can break his barrier with an Arcadian Metal sword through my own brute force strength.


    To make matters worse, Edgar, the enhancement Class S magician, fled the moment he heard about Lilith rushing to the Kingdom of the Fallen. So he isn’t even helping hold the chairman at bay anymore.


    And more importantly, the Class S magician is now perfectly capable of attacking the Kingdom of the Fallen while we’re gone. Or Natra at that.


    Which means we can’t even rely on the skeleton or Juan’s help as they need to focus on protecting their territories lest one of the other Class S magicians arrive and start a massacre.


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    And our forces don’t number enough to be able to survive a massacre like that for long before we drop beneath the casualties mark for losing the war.


    On another note though, I will have the help of some Class A magicians along with the Class S magician of Hardlight and the Class S magician currently still attacking the Chairman. Mostly because the Class S magician of Hardlight only left the battle because of the Class S magician from the Collective Kingdoms. But they left the battlefield, so there’s no reason for her to avoid it anymore.


    As for the Class S magician currently still attacking the Chairman? He is actually a relative of Sophia. So there’s that. Not a close relative, but a relative, nonetheless.


    The only thing I had to make absolutely sure to do before leaving on this mission though was to discuss it with Rebecca.


    Because I know that the Chairman is Rebecca’s relative as well.


    But as it turns out, she doesn’t care about her uncle. In fact, she doesn’t like him. So she is perfectly happy with him being killed.


    In fact, most of their family isn’t particularly happy with what he’s been doing. Even the current head of the Hunter family.


    I’m rather relieved at that. Because while Rebecca wasn’t too close to me, she was still someone I worked with.


    I continue my flight over towards the Republic for another couple hours before we finally get within sight of the battlefield where the Chairman is fighting Winters. And what a battlefield it is.


    The entire battlefield is covered in ice, with a massive base that is completely frozen solid despite cracks repeatedly forming and ice just dissipating around said cracks. Like the mana in them is just vanishing or something.


    But Winters just replaces the ice again instantly, making sure the base stays frozen solid.


    And the man inside of it stays inside.


    Looks like he’s been struggling a lot with this…


    We continue flying until we’re right outside of the base, with Katherine letting me down off of the floating chunk of ice she was using to carry us both. Mostly because using my own mana to fly would have wasted some of my reserves. Reserves that I need quite a bit for this battle.


    And after we touch the ground, I find Archibald Winters approaching the two of us while still making sure to keep an eye on the base.


    The man has brown hair and glowing blue eyes that look almost like water. Both because he’s currently using ice and water magic to keep the Chairman at bay and because of his attunement to the water affinity. Just like how Juan’s eyes glow red thanks to his understanding of the fire affinity.


    He’s also wearing a strong looking set of aqua blue armor. Armor that looks like it’s made entirely of Arcadian Metal, albeit died blue.


    So that’s interesting.


    What’s more interesting though is that he doesn’t have any weapons on his person. Not even a single one.


    “So this is him?” Archibald asks while glancing between Lilith – who came with me and Katherine – and myself. “The Undying Magician?” When Lilith nods her head, he focuses on me and states, “Please kill him for the sake of the Republic. I will aid you in any way I can.”


    Huh. He’s rather straight to the point.


    It’s nice in a way.


    I nod my head and turn to look at the frozen base.


    Time to fight to the death with my first Class S magician.


    Or to their death, I guess. Seeing as I can’t die.


    Anyways, I just hope my plan works.