Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 29
At this point I’ve made some progress in my mana manipulation training. Not much, but some.
Enough that I at least have a very vague idea of how to proceed. Even if I haven’t been able to do much of anything with that idea yet.
On another note, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of higher Class enemy magicians as of late in my training routes. Almost like the enemies are avoiding putting their higher quality officers in areas that I’m currently at.
Which is amusing if nothing else.
Then something unexpected happens.
I get a report through my terminal that two of the enemy Class S magicians have shown themselves on the opposite side of the continent, with another two appearing halfway between there and here on the other end of the continent. All at once.
So Adalwolf heads towards the two on the other end of the continent while Juan leaves my training here to head to the other two.
But just half an hour after he leaves, I find a woman suddenly appearing in front of me.
A woman I recognize from the news.
Shit.
Emma Sonnen. The wind affinity Class S magician ruling over the military of the White Kingdom and a known-military fanatic.
The woman has short gray hair and green eyes, and is wearing a relatively tight military suit of gray armor. Meanwhile she should be in her late sixties if I remember correctly, and she has a rather stern look on her face.
And more importantly, she shouldn’t even be here. Since she’s one of the ones that was reported to be on the other side of the continent right now.
Unless… illusion or light magic?
“Come with me,” the Class S magician orders. “Willingly or not.”
She doesn’t bother waiting for an answer as her eyes flare with a gray-green light and the wind all around me suddenly begins to speed up before forming a large cage. One that doesn’t break even when I shoot out death flames at it.
I quickly send out an SOS to both Adalwolf and Juan, but I know there’s no way they’ll make it here quickly enough.
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The enemy planned this out to capture me. Using the other Class S magicians as a distraction to make Juan and the skeleton too busy to help me while one of their Class S magicians captures me.
Without hesitation, I use a self-destruct spell to blow myself up along with the cage. Only to find the cage perfectly fine even after I reform.
“Give it up child, my cage won’t be broken by some minor sparks,” Emma states as she begins to bring me along with her inside of the wind cage. But she doesn’t bother to say anything else. Even as I try to attack the cage over and over again with numerous different spells.
Not a single thing works though. Not even erasing my entire body and trying to reform outside of the cage after the cage has already passed where I was.
All that does is make her expand the cage before shrinking it again with me at the center.
All without using even a single spell, making it so I have no idea when or where she’s using her magic.
I grit my teeth as my desire to learn direct mana manipulation grows ever stronger from this sight.
Eventually I give up on trying to get out of the cage and instead just watch as we fly over the ocean. But I don’t give up on escaping entirely.
Not at all.
In fact, Emma made one massive mistake in her plan.
I glance off to where I sense Incendia following us with a tracker in her mouth. One that will send my location straight to Juan and Adalwolf.
So even if they manage to make it back to their lab and begin experimenting on me, it won’t take long for me to be freed by those two.
The skeleton said before that he would save me only if a Class S magician captured me, which is exactly what happened. And Juan is most likely rather pissed off at the idea of someone interrupting my training.
It’ll be interesting to see how they react.
Actually, it may even lead to a rather interesting clash.
With that in mind, I just wait around as Emma carries me off to some random lab in the White Kingdom. Not even bothering to hide our travels as she carries me over some cities in the process.
Unfortunately, a wind affinity magician is a lot faster than a fire or death affinity magician. So I probably can’t expect them to arrive too quickly. Especially since they were fighting other Class S magicians at the time.
If I had to guess, I’ll probably be here for a couple days at least.
When Emma tries to transfer me to some other holding facility inside of the lab, I don’t just let her do it. Instead I cause quite the number of problems and blow up more than a few areas of the laboratory. One area after another.
All the way until I am finally sealed up inside of some fancy magi-tech cage that I find rather hard to break out of.
Although I’m not particularly worried about it. I could probably break out of it if I damaged it enough. After all, it can’t have enough energy to survive a nonstop barrage of attacks over the course of multiple weeks.
So I turn that into my next form of training. Just trying to break out of the thing while also training my mana manipulation.
Meanwhile Incendia flies very high over the lab with the tracker on her in order to bring Adalwolf and Juan straight here.
Alrighty. Time to see how long it takes for me to get out of here.
And to see if I break out on my own first or if they free me.
Most likely the latter, considering that I can still see Emma in the laboratory.
I guess she’s going to join in on the experiments.
Well, whatever. I doubt the experiments will even bother me now that my pain tolerance is off the charts.
Time to train while I wait.
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