Supreme Magus - Chapter 508

Chapter 508






Living Legacy was just the name Abominations had for cursed objects, since for them they were more of a blessing than a curse .

An Abomination had no body that the living relic could corrupt, nor could their minds be swayed with promises of power . Abominations were power made flesh . They would actively seek cursed objects and enslave them to their will .

Lith smelled like an Abomination to Tezka, his gauntlet was clearly alive so he did the math . Or so he believed .

Living Legacies would never help their masters . They would only wait for their captor's destruction to regain their freedom and find a victim they could subdue . Abominations and cursed objects were like minded, they sought slaves, not companions .

Tezka's biggest mistake had been misunderstanding the relationship between his opponents and he was now paying the price for it . Solus's spell was now injecting darkness magic into his body, sapping his strength by the second .

Tezka tried to shapeshift into tendrils to escape the spikes' deadly grasp, but his body was still that of a hybrid . Cursing the weakness of his own flesh, Tezka had to employ an expensive Chaos magic spell to break free before it was too late .

While Solus kept him busy, Lith had cast his tier four dimensional spell Collapsed space to forcefully shut down Nightmaze and kill Tezka in result . Abominations were sturdy, but not even they could survive being ripped to shreds .





The hybrid could feel the space around him distorting and managed to escape from the jaws of death just in the nick of time . Lith welcomed him with a barrage of tier four spells that would have finished Tezka off if not for Endless Night's second ability, Night's End .

The enchanted blade cut the space around him and created a dimensional sphere that Warped the incoming attack in random directions .

"You are much better than I expected, brother . " Tezka said, trying to buy enough time to mend his wounds while under the protection of the dimensional shield . He had more holes in his body than swiss cheese, making it impossible for him to even stand .

"We shouldn't fight, but join our forces . We are both incomplete . I can teach you Chaos magic and you can help me against my enemy . Once I train you, he will not be a match for us . What do you say?"

Lith didn't reply . He cast cantrips at the barrier's every side, making sure it had no gaps he could exploit . He didn't need Solus to notice Night's End weakness .

'As long as he stays in there, he is invulnerable but he is also completely blind . ' They thought in unison as they used dimensional magic to empower Night's End more than it was necessary .

Barrier or prison, it was only a matter of balancing the elemental energies in play . A prolonged dimensional spell like those Endless Night unleashed, would already put the surrounding space under a heavy stress .

Lith and Solus boosted the defensive spell until cracks appeared in mid air, distorting the air like a kaleidoscope . Then, they twisted and turned the spatial cracks before darting away from the cave at breakneck speed .

The sudden silence scared Tezka more than any explosion could .

'He could be casting an array to negate dimensional magic . It would make Endless Night useless, but at least neither of us could use Blink . It would take away the advantage he gets from Live Vision . ' The hybrid thought .

As soon as he was able to move again, Tezka dispelled the barrier .

"Round two, brother . I…" He chocked on his own words as Night's End disappearance triggered a chain reaction . The whole underground cave exploded with such strength to make the ground within several hundred meters tremble .

***

Free country of Lamarth . Near the Master's hideout .

The real Tezka suddenly fell to his knees, feeling like a part of his soul was being torn to pieces . Endless Night wasn't just an artifact, it was part of his own life force . Pain ravaged his body as he realized that whoever had stolen his weapon had managed to destroy it, probably for good .





***

From outside the cave, Life Vision, mana sense, and the tracker agreed about the eradication of the Abomination fragments . Even when Lith stood at the base of the hill, the magical device was unable to pick up any residual signature .

Normally, Lith would have grumbled about losing his loot due to the explosion or rejoiced at the destruction of his enemies . Yet this time victory felt sour . The satisfaction from killing the hybrid wasn't enough to make them forget about the rest .

Solus was still shocked by the carnage she had witnessed, while Lith was trying to find a way to cope with his actions . The desperation in the wargs' eyes when they had chosen to die rather than submit to their fate had opened old wounds .

It was the first time he empathized with his victims . The Abomination was their cancer and just like Lith back on Earth had used a gun, they had used him . He didn't feel what he had done was wrong, yet it upset him in a way he couldn't put into words .

'Are you alright, Solus?' He asked the only question that really mattered .

'No . ' Her tone was sad . Giving in to her anger didn't make her feel better, it had just been a temporary respite before having to face her doubts and fears again .

'Are you?'

'No . Let's return to Maekosh . If your hypothesis is correct, the death of the warg pack will trigger their accomplices within the city . ' He replied .

'Honestly, I don't care about the mission anymore . I just want to get out of here . I want to be alone for a while . ' Solus meant it . This time each one of them was facing a personal crisis, making them unable to support the other .

At their arrival, the tracker revealed one weak signal coming from a house in the farmers' district . Pazeol's obsession led his creations to be so precise that now that the tracker was locked on, there was no escape from it .

Life Vision showed only one faint life force inside and it was slowly getting weaker . Lith prepared his spells nonetheless and readied himself for the worst . Unfortunately, it wasn't enough .

Inside the small and messy home that painfully reminded him of his own, there was a deadly pale man sitting on a chair . He looked so ordinary that Lith might have crossed paths with him several times during the past few days and not even registered his existence once .

The farmer's eyes were dimmer than his life force . He was still alive, but already dead inside . Lith recognized that gaze . He had seen it every day while looking at himself in the mirror after Carl's death .

Near the man, there was another chair where another woman was sitting with a small baby held in her arms . They both seemed to be peacefully asleep, but Lith knew they were actually dead .

"Do you feel proud of yourself?" The man wheezed while looking at Lith with a deep seated hatred he knew all too well . The farmer was able to recognize the Ranger from the memories of his fallen friends .

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