Supreme Magus - Chapter 139

Chapter 139: 139
The few seconds Lith spent in that blazing inferno felt like hours, constantly wishing for the pain to stop, while his lungs were desperate for air .




When it finally ended, he crashed on the ground, tumbling multiple times before coming to a halt .
The first breath of fresh air he took, was the best he had ever had . His normal vision was blurry, but Life Vision showed him clearly that there was still no trace of his enemies .
Playing dead had no sense, they had discovered him once, they could do it twice .
Lith immediately started healing himself, using Invigoration at the same time . Thanks to the world energy, his wounds healed much faster than normal, the bones mended and the burns disappeared without leaving any scar .
- "Solus, any sign of those b*astards?"
"You travelled several hundred metres because of the explosion, but they are catching up fast . They'll Blink here before you are finished healing . "
"Damn Blink! I can't get close, while they can escape anytime . Also, from range they can dodge or block everything I throw at them . It's only a matter of time before they kill me for good . I'm almost out of tricks . " –
Determined not to die, Lith stood up, waiting for the enemies while racking his brain for a solution .
"By the gods! He is still alive!" Beruit and the three survivors were all that remained of the Talons .
"That's impossible!" Lieutenant Calant couldn't believe his own eyes .
"That was a f*cking War Mage spell! It's supposed to blow open castles and can't even kill a kid?"
"That's no kid, Lieutenant, that's a monster . I'll cast Raging Sun again, you three prevent him to interrupt me or run away, at any cost! We owe it to our fallen comrades . "




The three Talons assumed a triangle formation, but didn't dare to approach . If four had failed, there was no reason for three to succeed .
- "Damn! At this distance, I'm powerless . Think, Lith, think . How can we save ourselves? There must be something we can do . Something only us can do, that will take them by surprise…"
A cruel smile appeared on his lips, there was still hope .
He dashed toward the chanting woman with air fusion, using Full Guard again to not miss any movement . The three performed a Blink, planning on using hit and run tactics to not fall prey of the tentacles .
But thanks to the combination of Life Vision and his enhanced speed, Lith was able to see where the Gates would open, and react accordingly . He changed direction, aiming for the nearest Gate, punching with his full force before the enemy appeared .
The hit crushed the Talon's trachea, even severely damaging the spine in the process . Lith kept moving forward, while the corpse still stood up, with a shocked expression on the face .
The two remaining Talons reacted by instinct, thinking their teammate had simply missed, letting the target slip away .
They Blinked together, one in front of the target, the other at his back, only to discover he was ready for them . Lith grabbed them by the throat, his hands were strong like a vise, snapping their necks with a twist of his wrists .

Thanks to the distance, Beruit was barely able to distinguish what had happened . Just like the Queen years ago, Lith's movements appeared only as a blur, but years of training told her to run away .
Lith's smile grew wider, while his spirit magic was coiling around the last enemy . He twisted her hands behind her back, to prevent her to cast spells or use magic rings, choking her at the same time .
Even if Beruit had been able to talk, Lith wasn't willing to listen . He knew that if not for the fact of being an Awakened one, he would have already died many times . He feared her and what she was able to do .

Letting her live was too big of a risk, blocking her hands and mouth wouldn't stop her from using first magic, nor he had any idea what kind of artifact she could use against him if given the chance .
By clenching his fist, Lith lifted Beruit in the air before crushing her head .
After checking there was no enemy still alive, Lith gave out a victory laughter .
- "I can't believe I'm still alive! It's the first time I had to gamble so much . These guys' strength and teamwork was insane . Who the heck where they?"
"I don't know, and I don't care!" Solus was brimming with joy .
"The only important thing is that you are well and all in one piece . Well almost . "
"What do you mean with 'almost'?"
"Your hair . " –
Lith's hand ran over his head, discovering that he was almost bald . With Invigoration, he assessed that his hair had almost been burned down to the root .
- "How did I get them back the last time?"
"Manohar . " Solus said, like it explained it all . " –
Looking at himself, Lith discovered that most of his uniform was gone . Between the cuts and the burns, he was as good as naked . After a quick change in farmer's clothes, he realized he had another problem .




- "Solus, do you have any idea where we are?"
"No . What about you?"
"Well, I know that moss grows on the north side of the trees . "
"Yeah, too bad this is a grassland . " She sneered .
"And I was being sarcastic! Without a landmark, maps are useless . We could be anywhere between the academy and Kandria . "
"Yeah, I think we should… run for our life!" –
Lith didn't knew what Solus had noticed, but didn't stop for asking . He moved as fast as he could, casting a flight spell to get the higher ground .
The corpses of the Talons exploded, leaving nothing behind .
"My loot!" Lith screamed .
- "As soon as you killed that woman, I noticed something had changed in the mana surrounding their equipment .
At first, I thought it was some kind of protection that was being depowered by the user's death, but then I noticed that instead of decreasing, the energy was actually overloading . They sure were a careful lot . "
"Who cares about that? All this work for nothing!"
"Did you just dare to call your life 'nothing'?" Solus sounded really angry .
"Yes… I mean, no . Damn, where the heck are we?" Lith decided to change topic . –
After thinking a bit about their predicament, they decided the first thing to do was to get away from the fighting scene . Lith would have a hard time to justify how a team of six experts had died, while a simple student had survived .
The simplest explanation was to say he had no idea what had happened to the corps after they had helped him escape from unknown assailants . The self-destruction mechanism had undoubtedly hurt his pockets, but at least helped covering what had really happened .
In a battle involving the corps, the fact that so many of the dead bodies had broken necks and exploded heads, instead of weapon marks, would have stuck out like a sore thumb .
- "If you think about it, it's a blessing in disguise . " Solus pointed out . "If the equipment remained along with the bodies and you looted it, there was no possible way to justify how a naked unit could fight on par with the corps . " –
Lith didn't reply, but only because he understood she was trying to cheer him up .
It would have been quite easy for him to make the best equipped members of the Talons disappear and stage a more balanced clash .
After flying for a while in the direction he supposed was south-southeast, getting even more lost, Lith landed near a group of trees . There, he took out his uniform, hoping for its self-repair magic to make it less tattered .
At that point, all he had to do was waiting for someone to notice he had disappeared . First, he ate a lot of food from his reserve, to made up for the body mass lost after healing such extensive wounds, then Lith spent the following hours using Accumulation .
While refining his mana core, Lith reflected on the battle, analysing all he had discovered about tier five magic, searching for a way to reproduced it, but most importantly how to defend from it .

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