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Supreme Magus - Chapter 104




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The wounded vines spurted a purple liquid . Lith kept his distance, dodging the unknown substance with minimal movements, to not lose his advantage .




- "There was no sizzle when it hit the ground, so it's not an acid . Could be venomous, thought . " –
Lith extended his arms, releasing two jets of fire from the palms . The appendages reacted quickly, enveloping the creature's towering mass, and turning to a grey colour . The flames had no effect, leaving only a black mark, like they had hit stone .
Lith had never met a plant monster before, so he was particularly cautious . He kept several spells ready to use, weaving a new one as soon another was consumed .
- "Whatever this is, it doesn't seem to be able to move from that spot, running away shouldn't be an issue . The problem is deciding if it's worth my time or not . With my luck, if I kill, it the flower will wither instantly . –
Sending and invisible tendril of pure mana, Lith used spirit magic to tug hard at the red lotus, aiming to grab it and run . He had no desire to fight useless battles . The flower's stem bent diagonally under the strain, but refused to move .
The plant monster screeched again, this time with fury .
- "Look out!" Solus yelled . "It's coming from below!" –
Lith scoffed at the creature's naivety, activating again his flight spell . But when he tried to lift from the ground, he discovered that the grass was tightly binding his feet, preventing him from moving .
Observing it with Life Vision once more, he discovered that the patch of grass below him had become blue coloured too . Somehow it was part of the monster's body .
Before he could recover, several vines erupted from the ground, with their greyed stone-like extremities trying to stab Lith's vital organs . Knowing an attack was incoming, Lith used earth fusion to the extreme, hardening his body and using the arms to take off the brunt of the impact .
Despite his iron bracers and magical protections, the vines managed to pierce his skin, digging right into his flesh . Lith screamed in pain, while the tendrils kept digging in his own flesh, without missing a single drop of blood .
Without allowing himself to panic, Lith used his Frozen Hearth spell, turning everything around him into ice . Be them grey or green, fire hadn't done much damage to the tendrils, so he had changed element .
Having become brittle from the sudden cold, Lith managed to break free from both the vines and the grass, flying backwards trying to understand what was happening .




His wounds were covered in a purple sticky goo, he could feel his arms going numb, a tingling sensation was invading his body . After what had happened with the Clackers, he always kept a detoxifying spell ready, using it together with a healing spell to close the wounds .
- "What the heck is happening? How does it control the grass? It makes no sense . " –
Lith's and Solus' minds were spinning at top gear, trying to make head or tails of the creature . While he was still in a daze, both the grass and the tendrils thawed in the blink of an eye . Like fire, water magic seemed to have little effect .

Without stopping, Lith activated Life Vision again, seeing a blue streak moving like a flash through the ground vegetation, following him closely .
- "Solus, what colour is its core? I don't like this at all!"
"That thing has no core at all . It's just a random mass of energy, I have never seen anything like that . I don't remember reading about something that even resembles this thing . It's too monstrous to forget . " –
A cold shiver ran down Lith's spine . His first plant monster didn't seem to follow any of the magic rules he had learned so far . No core, resistant to ice and fire and capable of controlling the vegetation . The only words that could describe his feelings were: fear of the unknown .
He had spent years learning magic, looking out for stronger cores, but now everything he knew had just went down the gutter .
Even flying backwards in a zig-zag pattern was useless, the blue streak kept tailing him . Lith couldn't risk running into a tree, so he moved up and away from the ground .
From a higher ground, he could see that there was actually more than one streak moving, while the mass of vines the red lotus was attached to had turned grey . According to Life Vision, only the flower remained coloured .
Lith's head was spinning in shock .
- "So now the 'main body' is dead and the ground seems a disco ball? But that would mean that more than its mana, somehow Life Vision actually perceives its consciousness . That thing must be capable of switching bodies at will .



That would explain how it could control even the grass, and why there is no wildlife at all…"
"F*ck us sideways!" Solus cut him short . "The trees! Look out for the trees!" –
Despite their mind link was instantaneous, when Solus warned him the attack was already inbound .
The bark of the nearest beech had peeled off, revealing to be a mass of vines wrapped around the real tree trunk, and now were darting toward the unsuspecting Lith . Before he could turn around, they wrapped around his arms and legs, slamming him against the trunk before starting to eat him alive .
Excruciating pain assaulted Lith from all sides, yet he managed to remain conscious with sheer willpower . His hands grabbed the nearest vines while he activated one of the spells he had created after learning tier four magic .
Vampiric Touch, a twisted version of the healing spells Vastor had taught him .
While normally such spells would enhance the recovery of a patient and give him energy to survive the procedure, Vampiric Touch would heal Lith instead, draining the victim of its energy in the process .
When the plant monster realized what was happening, it was too late . The tendrils had gone too deep, and by clenching his muscles with the help of earth fusion, Lith prevented them to escape .
The dark energy devoured the tendrils, sucking them dry while restoring Lith's flesh and vitality . The vines withered at a speed visible at the naked eye, until the fake bark collapsed on the ground, revealing that the beech underneath was long dead .
The creature's consciousness managed to ran away, going back to the main body .
Lith used Invigoration to recuperate, Vampiric Touch couldn't heal so many deep wounds with such a measly meal as a foundation . After that, he shot several Plague Arrows against the other trees .
As soon as they hit, the fake bark fell off . Lith understood that the luscious forest around the creature's main body was actually a plant graveyard . Two more Plague Arrows hit the ground, even the grass writhed and screeched before dying .
"I don't know what the heck you are, but you are too dangerous to let you live . Everything has become part of your body, and I have no desire to find out how far you control can go . "




Keeping Life Vision always active put a great strain on his body, but Lith understood that it was his only chance of making it alive .
Before going back to the ground, he released from his body a dark aura, the same he had used against the Wither in the Trawn woods . The darkness energy attacked indiscriminately everything in a ten-meter (33 feet) radius from him .
The grass withered, the vines hidden underground died, leaving only bare earth around him . Only then Lith started weaving his strongest darkness spell, Death Zone .
A black, thick mist appeared in front of him, resembling a small storm cloud, only twenty meters (66 feet) long and wide, around three meters (10 feet) high . After conjuring it, Lith needed only a thought to send it towards the creature's main body .
Like all darkness spells, Death Zone moved slowly, but its destructive power was unmatched . It was the perfect weapon against an enemy that could not run away .
The cloud destroyed everything on its path, while the creature's screeching turned from angry to scared, and from scared to terrified . It tried to attack Lith to stop the incoming attack, but between Life Vision and the dark aura, none of them came even close .
He could see every one of them in slow motion, not only because of his heightened senses, but also because dark magic would weaken and corrupt everything that entered its range .
When Death Zone reached its target, the creature recalled to itself all the dispersed consciousness, in a last desperate attempt for survival . Yet both Lith and his spell were unrelenting, foiling all its attacks the former, ignoring them the latter .
Whatever mass the monster managed to form, it would only become nourishment for the dark energy .
"Please, stop!" The creature spoke .
Lith remained unfazed, keeping his guard and letting Death Zone do its jobs .
"I'm just like you . "
"No, you are not . You are about to die . "
The main body was shrinking, without the necessary energy to sustain that huge form, it was reverting to a much smaller plant . An ivy .
- "Lith, now that all the energy is finally in one place, I can finally see its core . It's…
"
"Black . " Lith completed the thought for her .
"It's another Abomination . I understood it when I saw how every life form was dead . This one seems to have managed to stabilize itself . " –
"I just wanted to live . I…"
Lith didn't let it continue, shooting Plague Arrows like a machine-gun .
- "Two things I learned from horror movies . " He explained to Solus .
"First, never give a sh*t about a monster backstory . No matter how sobbing, it would not prevent it to eat you as soon as you turn your back to it . Second, the moment it's down, kill it until he is really, really dead . " –
With a last, roaring wail the plant Abomination died . Suddenly the whole space around Lith turned into a wasteland . The grass turned into ash, the fake bark decayed leaving only dead trees behind .
Everything in over a fifty-meter (164 feet) radius was identical to where he had fought the Wither in the Trawn woods, with only one exception .
The red lotus lied on the ground, shining bright like nothing had happened .

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