Supreme Magus - Chapter 406

Chapter 406






'Solus, do you have any idea about what are those black orbs?' Lith thought .

'Incoming at 12 o'clock!' She shouted when Treius opened his mouth once again .

'Leave the idiot to me . I need an edge to win this fight and you are my only hope . ' A snap of Lith's fingers made another of the six points of Yurial's Hexagram light up with a red light as the yellow one faded away .

The tier five Raging Sun that Treius was about to unleash died out like a lighter out of gas . Even with the Black Star's support, only a few sparks came out .

The array was a variation of Silverwing's Hexagram that Yurial had theorized after gaining a deeper understanding of the impossible array . His take on the spell was weaker, yet in exchange it caused much less strain on the caster .

It had taken Lith years to turn his old friend's theories into reality . Just looking at Treius shocked expression repaid him of all his hard work .

'First, he took away my flight spell and now this? What's happening?' The moment the ant started retaliating to brute force with technique, the dragon lost his spunk .





'You are still under the array, you idiot . ' The Black Star's thoughts were filled with contempt . 'I have no idea what it does, but I'm pretty sure that if you get out of its area of effect it will stop working . '

Lith saw Treius muscles contract and with a thought released Yurial's Hexagram's full force . The array didn't simply negate one element at the time, it absorbed the mana composing the nullified spells and stored it for later use .

All the six points of the star lit up . The magical formation was now employing the stolen energy and the array's to generate a powerful gravity field that made Treius collapse under his own weight .

The Shadows exploited the situation to attack their enemy with all their might .

'It will not hold for long . The array drained only two spells, one of which was a cantrip . ' Lith thought .

'Okay, okay . ' Solus replied with a frustrated tone while scanning the floating orbs with all of her senses and making her brain spin at top gear to get at least a hypothesis about their nature .

'Done . We know that when a Shadow touches its victim, it saps their life force and mana . Also, after killing the Shadow, you recover your life force, right? Each of these spheres has its own energy signature, like a proper living being .

'I think that by attacking the Black Star, the Shadows are retrieving their own life force that the cursed item stole in the first place . They are still here after the Shadows' defeat because they have nowhere to go until the Black Star absorbs them again . '





Lith nodded in understatement . Even in death, the Kadurians were fighting against their oppressor . They were clinging on the retrieved life force with all their might .

'Then maybe…' Lith grabbed the nearest sphere . 'If I can absorb them, then I might be able to get as big as he is and regain the upper hand . '


Yet nothing happened . Lith could feel the residual mental energy recognizing him a friend, but nothing more . Like a mother that had just found her lost child, it refused to let the energy go .

'So much for all that "share your power with me" bullshit . ' Lith inwardly cursed . 'Useless humans . We are fighting the same battle yet they can only think about themselves . Every man for himself then . '

Lith cast the tier five healing spells Scanner and Scalpel .

'Haven't those poor souls suffered enough?' Solus said . 'Is this really necessary?'

'Heck, yes . ' Lith replied butchering the spheres near to him at once . 'Life is for the living, not for the dead . Their lives ended the day the Black Star was born . If we lose this fight and that bastard walks out of the barrier, all cities will become like Kaduria . '





Solus had seen their memories, she knew their suffering . Yet she was glad to have raised her objection . She couldn't have lived with herself if she just stood there doing nothing . Also, it allowed her to take a peek at a hidden side of Lith's mind .

Breaking the oath he had taken the day he had become a professional Healer meant nothing to him . Pretty words couldn't save lives nor stop monsters . He didn't base his actions on concepts like innocence or guilt, Lith only thought in terms of survival .

Yet he considered the Kadurians like brothers in arms . They knew pain even better than he did . Lith could not only relate to them, but they also had his respect . It was the reason why he could butcher their life force without a second thought .

He knew that in their place he would do anything to get free from his oppressor . Pain would be momentary, freedom would be everlasting .

 Lith darted across the battlefield, maiming all the spheres outside the array that was quickly running out of juice . That day his Scalpels turned into Cleavers . One strike was all it took to inflict a damage that would take him hours to heal .

Yurial's Hexagram disappeared and Treius stood up in outrage . He stomped the Shadows swarming him and unleashed an endless barrage of spells against Lith . He managed to dodge most of them, block some, and was forced to tank the rest .

There were countless spheres at Treius's feet, some almost the size of a person . An ice spike ripped one of Lith's wings off . Inside it there were pain receptors he didn't even knew he possessed, so they were still active .

The agony of the mutilation almost made him stumble .

Almost .

He never stopped moving and neither did his Cleavers . A burst of flames from a dodged fireball ripped off the scales from his left arm, leaving the bloody flesh underneath exposed .

Lith kept waving his hands like an orchestra director in the exploding inferno around him . Solus used her own mana to generate more Cleavers to help him finish the job . Just a few seconds had passed since Treius was back on his feet, yet all the Shadows were already gone .

He was free to focus on the last pest . Treius infused himself with all the air, fire, and earth fusion prowess the Black Star could bestow upon him . He became a god of speed, a god of destruction .

A single stomp of his made the earth tremble as it was afraid of the titan ravaging its surface . The impact generated a subsonic shockwave that sent debris flying for kilometers until they struck the barrier surrounding Kaduria .

Lith flew backward and conjured a series of massive earth walls to protect himself . They took the brunt of the impact, buying him precious fractions of second that let him escape from the epicenter of the strike .

The walls crumbled one after the other . The shockwave was still strong enough to make Lith tumble and fall on the ground . He got back on his feet with a kip-up, never letting his eyes wander off his opponent .

"I told you, no matter what trick you employ, you can't beat overwhelming power . " Treius guffawed at his opponent's still defiant eyes despite his battered body . He bolted forward for the finishing blow as he spoke .

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