Supreme Magus - Chapter 375

Chapter 375






"How long was I out cold?" He asked while clenching and releasing his fists several times . There was something off with his body .

"Almost three hours . " Solus replied . "Which is odd, I expected you to need at least eight hours to recuperate . How do you feel?"

"Like there's an itch I cannot scratch . A needle in the back of my skull . " Lith noticed Nok lying on the floor, still unconscious . He had so many things to ask but so little time .

First, he healed the young Byk, then proceeded to fix the mess Kalla's body was .

'Wish I could speak and treat her at the same time . My day leave is almost over, I must make use of every single second I… What the f*ck?'

To Lith's surprise, he could not only perceive Kalla's life force with much more clarity than before, but also understand where he or she had messed up . It was more about listening rather than seeing .

Life force was like a song performed by a living being and every defect was a sour note . Lith listened to the melody played by the Wight's body, guiding its flow along its intended path instead of trying to force it .

The patchwork covering Kalla's mana core soon became a smooth surface, even leaving a few energies to spare that Lith redirected to the butchered left paw to hasten its recovery . The procedure required over an hour but neither Lith nor Kalla noticed the passing of time .





Lith was engrossed by his new ability and used it to heal his friend while deepening his understanding of Body Sculpting at the same time . Tier five Healing magic hadn't become easier all of a sudden . Scanner was the same spell as before .

Yet the blue core allowed him to obtain a whole new set of information that made it possible for him to understand the breath of life rather than discovering it with a trial and error process .

Kalla instead focused on herself, trying to put into practice what Solus had explained to her . Lith's touch made it easier for her to sense her life force . It was like a gentle massage over her soul that was easing her pain .

When Lith was done, Kalla felt exhausted but relieved . Somehow, she knew her life wasn't in danger anymore and her paw, albeit was still limp, had stopped hurting .

"There . " Lith said . "Everything should be all right . Take a few days to rest . No magic allowed . You core has yet to settle in the new life force . If I were you, I'd wait until your paw works again . A few weeks should suffice . "

"A few weeks?" Kalla grumbled . She had never taken such a long break from her research . A few hours at most . She wanted to object and bargain her way out, but after looking at her children's condition she decided to comply .

"I understand you are in a rush . What do you need my help for?"

Lith sighed, hoping she would believe him, before explaining to her both his reincarnation problem and the need to get Solus a body . If Kalla was surprised, she didn't show it . Nok and Nyka were another story .






Their mouths almost fell onto the ground hearing Lith's words . To them, lizards becoming dragons was something plausible . They were used to Scarlett stories, where she slaughtered princesses and rescued kidnapped trolls .

Reincarnation and a girl in a stone were too far fetched to believe though .

"Coming to me was the right move . " Kalla replied after pondering for a while . "I just don't get why you have submitted to the humans' army . "

"I didn't submit . " Lith scoffed . "My problem can't be solved with a single spell or a generic artifact . If I had to find a solution all by myself, not even the extended life of an Awakened one would be enough . I have only one attempt at achieving my goal .

I must make it count . "

"True . " Kalla admitted while tapping her chin with a single claw . "Scarlett has amassed centuries worth of knowledge, yet even something 'common' like Lichhood is a huge gamble . Without her books, I wouldn't even know where to start . "

"That's my problem . I have no starting point . That's why I had to make the humans think they need me more than I need them . Between the Mage Association and the Army, I have now access to countless tomes but it's still not enough .





"They don't trust me enough to let me read the books I need . I need to play my cards right and use my status to access otherwise forbidden areas . " There were countless ruins in the Griffon Kingdom .

Some were just piles of dust and debris, others were places of power . Such areas were still protected by powerful barriers and only the army mages knew how to disable them . Why waste years to open a door when you could just borrow a key?

Lith showed Kalla a map, pointing to her the regions he could choose for his assignment as a ranger .

"My plan is to pick one of the less populated areas with the greatest number of ruins . The others have already been thoroughly explored . Hoping to stumble into a secret relic that no one but me is able to find would be nothing but wishful thinking .

"Joining the army gives me access to the list of the ruins and to the methods to access them . The problem is that there are too many of them . Can you at least point me in the right direction?"

Kalla limped to one of the libraries, pointing to Lith a thick book with a deep green cover .

"I would pick it myself, but without spirit magic I have only claws . Doctor's orders . " She smirked . Lith took the book and started to flip through it .

"Can you really understand this gibberish?" The tome was filled with odd runes he had never seen before .

"Of course not . Who has the time to learn a dead and buried language? Put some mana into it . " Kalla replied .

Lith did as requested and observed the runes rearrange themselves in the common language the three Great Countries shared .

"This is amazing!" Lith blurted out in envy . "How did Scarlett managed to do this?"

"She didn't . She, uhm, liberated most of these books from a mad Lich, but this is a story for another time . Read from page 290 . "

The chapter told the story of a forgotten race, the Odi . Millenia ago, their magical and scientific knowledge had allowed them to defeat all illnesses . Their empire grew in wisdom and power, until time was the only enemy they had left .

The Odi became arrogant and attempted to find a way to achieve eternal life . According to the book, they started experimenting on the lesser races to develop a method to transplant the conscience from an old body to a young one .

Thousands of lives were lost during the experiments, but in the end they succeeded . It marked the beginning of their end . Until that moment, the Odi had believed that everyone would benefit from the research .

That they would use the lesser races as a source of spare bodies . Their upper echelons had different plans . They considered such an idea revolting and aimed to preserve the purity of their bloodline .

While commoners would receive a lesser body, the nobles started to buy children from the less fortunate among the Odi to use them as vessels . It didn't take long for a civil war to break out, nor for the so called lesser races to exploit it to exterminate the Odi for good .

"The Odi laid the foundations to Lichhood . " Kalla explained . "Maybe in one of their ruins you can find some clues to follow in their footsteps . Even if it doesn't work for you, it could always prove useful to your ring fairy to escape from her cage . "

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