Nathan

Year 2850 | Month 9 | Day 18

The next two weeks pass by in a rush, with me barely getting any time to experiment throughout it. All because the Undying Caverns is being absolutely flooded with refugees. All people who were from the lands of the baron I killed along with his subordinate magicians lands.

Which is honestly rather annoying.

Apparently the barons have quite a bit more land outside of the ring than there is land inside of it. And when I killed the baron and those magicians under him, it left all of his lands practically barren of any sorts of real defenses and leadership.

Making the surrounding lands narrow in to attack, the other barons and baronesses attempting to claim his land for themselves.

Except five barons and baronesses, that is. Five that all seem eerily quiet from the intel I’ve been able to gather from the refugees who fled from the now-war-torn lands.

So the current situation most likely has the majority of the nobles busy with that turf war while five nobles in particular are planning on how to capture me. Which should take a while.

I can’t see anyone figuring out any sort of way to capture me using those affinities. At least not without making new spells to do so.

And it can take a while to make new custom spells.

Although, I have to admit, I am a little curious to see if they’ll actually manage to capture me. Because I can’t really see that happening when they can’t kill me, and I’m quite a bit stronger than them physically.

Not when they don’t have any sort of affinity for a magic to bind me.

They have fire, soul, illusion, poison, and metal.

The fire magician could prove a little bit of a problem depending on his understanding of fire. Simply because he could be partially immune to my spells.

Or rather he would be if I was using regular fire.

Death fire should be fine against him.

The soul magician isn’t a problem since that sort of magic doesn’t work on me.

After all, the doctor already tried that.

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I shiver as I remember those experiments in particular.

Doesn’t work, but still very much not pleasant.

All it does is cause pain. Because, according to the doctor, soul magic largely works by slowly stretching the soul until it rips. Then doing whatever they want in those rips whether that’s altering their soul or just tearing it apart more.

But my soul just instantly restores itself before it can even fully rip.

Meaning just a lot of pain with no actual progress.

The illusion magician might be the easiest of the bunch to deal with.

After all, as they say, the way through an illusion is pain.

I just have to cause a lot of pain to myself, and I’ll snap right out of an illusion so long as I realize I’m under the effects of one.

And for poison… well, I’m a vampire. So he’s gonna have to test his poisons on vampires instead of humans to get them to really work.

I’m not actually a human anymore after all. Human poisons won’t work on me in the way they were meant to.

The only real problem will be the metal affinity magician, who I’ve heard is the ring leader.

I let out a sigh as I walk through the halls of the base.

Such a pain.

There are, of course, ways to get out of any sort of restraints the metal affinity magician might try to put on me. Like chains or sealing me up in metal or handcuffs and the like. I just have to break my arms or hands to get out of handcuffs, burn my way out of being sealed away along with myself in the process most likely, or break my way out of chains.

But if there’s one thing I’ve learned just from all of this is that whatever happens, it’ll be painful. Very painful.

I let out another sigh before reaching the barrier at the entrance of the Undying Caverns. Only to hear some shouts on the other side, following which someone casually walks through my barrier. Someone I don’t recognize and am pretty sure shouldn’t be able to walk through it.

He’s also being shot at by the people on the other side but ignore them and not hurting anyone in the process as the bullets just incinerate upon getting too close to him.

Which is odd.

The man stops walking after making it through the barrier and looking at me. He is wearing a set of crimson metal and artificial fiber armor and has rather vivid red eyes. A sign of being pretty far in his understanding of fire.

His hair is also rather red, but that doesn’t have anything to do with a person’s understanding of fire. And the armor he has looks very fancy.

Lastly, I recognize the crest on his armor’s chest plate. That of one of the five barons that are planning on attacking me.

Baron Val Crimson. The fire affinity magician.

But… he isn’t killing my men even when they open-fired on him. He doesn’t look like he’s trying to capture me.

And he actually looks rather interested and friendly as he’s staring at me right now.

So… what’s going on?

We stare at each other for several seconds, just looking the other up and down, judging them. Then he meets my eyes and says, “Hello. I came here to speak with the Undying Magician, and I believe it’s safe to assume that would be you?”

I don’t say anything for a few seconds before eventually answering, “Yes, that would be me.”

“Good, then I have some details that I would like to discuss with you,” he says with a nod.

I meet his gaze for a bit until I decide that I don’t feel any sort of malice from him. Both through my vampiric instincts and his own gaze.

Which only makes things more confusing.

Then he says something that shocks me.

“I think we can work together to get rid of those other pesky barons, don’t you?”