You are Jared and you are a powerful mage. You were 53 years old however you look like you were in your late 20s. Wizards don't age as regular folks do, the more powerful the wizard the less their age shows. In your case you were actually quite powerful. While you were officially part of the White Council you rarely attended any of the tedious politically oriented council meetings. Instead you focused on your art, you were a master of magic because that is what you chose to bend your considerable intellect towards.
You often pondered if you could match one of the Senior Council in terms of magical skill and power. Their powers were impressive and you did not know the full extent of them. However you have yet to meet your match in the battles you have fought. You snicker as you remember the half dozen Red Court vampires who thought they could defeat you, a lone wizard far from any Wardens or other member's of the council. You had disabused them of that notion quite effectively. You had also used some of the new tricks you had devised.
Most combat wizards like to manipulate external energies, they throw blasts of flame, lighting or force at their foes. Evocations were something you enjoyed using and were quite good with them. But that was so... limiting in certain situations. The greatest weakness wizards had was that their bodies were frail. Yes they could recover from wounds that would have crippled someone but that could take months or even years depending on the type of wound. Physical weakness such as a vampire moving twice as fast and then literally knocking your head off with sheer strength.
To that end you explored your own body. (LOL stop thinking nasty thoughts). You enchanted your very flesh with wards that would stop blows - by no means were you indestructible but you could take several dangerous hits that would kill a normal wizard before you suffered injury. Bullets too because the ward was based on speed and force of enemy strikes. Keeping your body safe was one thing but given a half dozen deadly blows would exhaust your flesh wards you also enchanted your clothing. Now there was a long arduous process. Week after week of layering enchantment before you were finished but now that you were finished it would stop nearly all piercing and cutting implements. While it would not stop the *force* of the blow it would keep you safe. An example is if a werewolf bit your arm it could not go through the cloth, however your bone may still be crushed from the supernatural power of its bite. Well that was true for most wizards, in your case it would activate a ward on your flesh itself that would stop it in its tracks.
The defense wasn't perfect - after all the wards on your flesh were finite, several bites would tear them down and leave just as vulnerable as the rest of the magical community.
Again you sought a better way to defend yourself. There was a branch of magic called Kinectomancy that was rarely used by the White Council. Essentially it involved speeding up your own body to make you more deadly. This was right up your alley so you perfected it quickly - again not a perfect defense because it did not permanently give you more speed only gave you short sharp bursts of speed. You also decided to learn a variety of martial arts disciplines to enhance your natural reflexes. So prepared the 6 Red Court vampires had stood little chance of defeating you.
**Authors note - I am reserving both chapters. Option 2 is describing the fight with the Red Court Vampires. It doesn't have much relevance to the plot other then a cool action sequence (when I finish it). It will also dead end as well. The other chapter will be the continuation of the plot.**
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