Supreme Magus - Chapter 320

Chapter 320






Never before someone had fought his battles . In all his three lives, Derek McCoy AKA Lith had always been on the frontlines, be it to protect his brother Carl from his father or working his a*s off to give his sisters some meat and bread .

Sitting limply in a corner was a new experience for him . It moved something inside the rotten heart of his . In a way, the Ernas where the family he had always dreamed to have when he was a little child .

Super powered beings that fought the bad guys together, no matter the odds . Spectating their battle almost made him feel like he had found somewhere he belonged .

Almost .

What really amazed him was how quickly everything was happening . He and Solus barely had the time to appreciate Orion's strategic prowess, Jirni's amazing reaction speed, or Phloria's swordsmanship that the combat had already shifted from one side to another .

'F*ck . In those damn action movies, the actors dance with bad guys for minutes, while I only got four breaths worth of energy since the fighting started . ' Lith knew that in such a short time frame Nalear couldn't have lost much of her strength .

She was an Awakened with a lot of mana and a deranged mind . He knew all too well what kind of nightmare she could unleash if she was given the slightest chance . Lith knew because he was one as well .

"Why don't you just die?"





Nalear's scream was his cue . That and the blue aura that enveloped her body like a blazing flame . Lith quickly stood up, weaving several spells at once while imbuing the Gatekeeper with part of his strength .

He was ready, yet he didn't move . Orion had reminded him of the importance of timing and precision against a superior opponent . Instead of charging blindly like a bull, Lith choose to wait for his opportunity to appear .

They had the situation under control, so he kept chanting while using Solus's senses to not miss a single detail . The information she could get by spending her mana was overwhelming .

The slight alteration in the room temperature, the mana density, and even things like neural pathways flaring up whenever someone was about to do something . Lith had no idea what most of it meant and neither did Solus .

The only thing he was certain of, was that if they weren't one, with Solus acting both as a source and as a filter, all that information would have burned his brain .

Nalear tried to snap Jirni's neck with spirit magic, but the mana running through her veins thanks to the potion reduced the pressure to an itch . Cursing Constable Ernas once again, Nalear unleashed a spirit magic blast by making her aura detonate .

It didn't inflict damage . It was just a very strong push, yet being invisible it took Jirni and Phloria by surprise, giving Nalear a moment to catch her breath .

Or at least so she hoped . Lith was already in front of her, releasing five different tier three spells, each one aimed at a different body part . Nalear was still weaving her next spell while drawing a deep breath . She had no time to move nor hidden card to play .

She used spirit magic on herself, moving her body as a puppet and raising her left arm in the nick of time . The iron glove emitted another series of shockwaves, blasting away Lith's spells before proceeding to do the same with him .

Nalear realized too late that a similar thing had happened earlier . Lith falling for the same trick twice was unlikely .

Indeed it was .

Lith released his sixth spell, conjuring a concave ice wall in front of himself . It was just a regular ice wall with a different shape, but Lith hoped it would be enough . Orion had shown him how the shockwaves were just sound .

Lith's plan was to weaken them with the five spells first and then bounce them back to the sender with the thick ice wall reinforced by Solus's spirit magic . It was an improvised spell born out of sudden inspiration, so even when it only partially succeeded, Lith still considered it a success .

The wall reflected only half of the shockwaves' strength while the other half struck Lith . Both the Awakened ones were sent flying, but only one of them had allies . The hit broke Nalear's focus disrupting her spell and breathing technique alike .

Phloria didn't miss the opportunity . She activated Blast Guard, a Mage Knight tier four spell that burned Nalear's back, bouncing her toward Jirni like a pinball . Jirni took out her Gatekeeper short sword, imbuing it with air magic to enhance its edge .





Even while moving at high speed, Nalear managed to alter her trajectory with spirit magic enough to avoid Jirni chopping off her head . Lady Ernas reacted in time, adjusting the angle of her slash, opening a deep cut in Nalear's side as consolation prize .

Nalear gritted her teeth, holding back tears of desperation .

'If I'm really going to die, I will take you all down with me . ' She thought .

***

"When is he going to transform?" Milea asked .

"Transform?" The Guardians asked as one .

"Didn't you all come here to understand what he is? If there isn't going to be a world tribulation, what's the point of staying here?"

"Kid, if every time someone fights for their life a world tribulation started, there would be only Guardians left alive on Mogar . " Salaark guffawed .

"We can study him from this distance even without a tribulation . " Leegaain offered her his hand, which Milea took without hesitation . Thanks to that contact, she was able to share the Guardian's Soul Vision .

It showed her the real nature of things . The Guardians appeared in their true forms, humongous mass of power in the form of a Griffon, a Phoenix, and a Dragon . Each one of them was so big their heads seemed to reach the sky and their feet Mogar's core .

The White Griffon academy looked like a kneeling white knight, wounded all over . Their pristine armor was tainted by the red of blood and the black of death .

Lith was fully transformed in her eyes and so was Nalear . He was now over two meters tall (7 feet) and covered by black scales the tip of which was bright red from the scorching heat that coursed through them .

Two curved horns resided on his featureless head, together with seven yellow eyes and a maw opened in a cruel smile that revealed the fire burning within . Two pairs of upside down membranous wings came out of his back, as well as a long tail ending in several bone blades .

Nalear looked like herself, but she was wearing a long white tunic dirty with blood and mud . Her hair moved like she was in the middle of a storm, her eye sockets were empty black holes, shedding tears of blood while her mouth was wide open in an eternal silent scream .

"Teacher, he really looks like one of your humanoid forms, but her… Isn't that a banshee? Is she going to evolve into an undead Guardian?" Milea had no other explanation to such a vision .

Orion and Phloria appeared no different from their human form, while Jirni's skin appeared grey . Blood was constantly dripping from her hands .

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