Supreme Magus - Chapter 323

Chapter 323






Vastor and Rudd were deemed too old for the role, plus their love for ancient magical bloodlines was well known . It made them even more undesirable than they already were, even as simple Professors .

Their ties with many of the families implicated with the scandal made their positions precarious at best .

Manohar was considered a visionary in the healing hearts, a true genius, or, to put it in less kind words, a complete nutjob . He was fickle and unreliable, not to mention his biography was full of social blunders to the point of being universally considered an etiquette book about how not to behave .

He resented the Crown judgment, but only until his first visit to Marth's new office . Just seeing how busy his schedule was and the amount of paperwork being Headmaster involved, Manohar was tempted to taking another "vacation . "

The Crown had no time to waste with him, so the literally chained Manohar to the academy, just to stay safe .

Professor Wanemyre was among the mentally and physically scarred . Regrowing her arm was easy, but the memories of all Nalear had made her do almost destroyed her . She was forced to take a sabbatical, receiving the best care and counseling the Griffon Kingdom could offer .

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Lith moved with his whole family to the Ernas Household again . Even Rena and her husband were forced to relocate . Lith wouldn't let his sister and niece be further than his arm's reach .

Yurial's loss wasn't devastating for him as losing Protector was . They had known each other for barely a year and their relationship had been shallow until the fourth year's second exam .

Still, Yurial was the first man Lith was almost ready to call a friend, someone he went through thick and thin together . Lith wasn't responsible in any way for his death and not being present when it happened made it easier for him to feel detached .

At least until Archmage Deirus went to visit him . Lith's first impulse was to kick the man in the groin and beat him to death . An impulse he quickly suppressed . Velan Deirus was guilty of being an uncaring father, but nothing more .

Lith knew that just like after Protector's disappearance, his first instinct was to find someone to put the blame on . The visit was very brief . Lith could control his violent impulses, but his eyes were filled with scorn and reproach .

Archmage Deirus couldn't stand those eyes . They were identical to those that pierced his soul every time he was in front of a mirror . He remained only the time necessary to give Lith a small package .

It was full of notebooks filled with Yurial's handwriting . They contained all the knowledge he had acquired about the impossible arrays, the results of his experiments, and his suggestions about how to further the research .

Deirus knew who to give them because on the first page of each of them was written in big letters: "For Lith" . He had found them once he opened his son's dimensional amulet after recovering his body .


Velan had also found Yurial's diaries, discovering how painful his existence had been, how neglected he had felt . How despite having found a better family within the academy walls rather than inside his own Household, Yurial was still ready to perform his duty .

Yurial's love for his father and his people was greater than everything life had put him through . Velan Deirus cried a lot reading his son's most private thoughts, finding himself more monstrous than any of those involved in Yurial's death .

He had nurtured a future leader, a great mage, but at the same time, he had shown no care for the man destined to bear those pompous titles . Velan realized to have killed his own son multiple times over the years, always putting his own interests over Yurial's well being .

After Velan left, Lith made one of the biggest mistakes in his life . He put the notebooks inside Soluspedia, accessing at all of them at once . In between of his research notes, Yurial had also written all the things that he wanted to share with Lith .

All the thoughts they never had the time to talk about because of the academy . Reading how Yurial had always considered him like a big brother and a true friend, ripped Lith's soul to shreds . It made him understand how precious was their bond .





He had moved to the Ernas household only because he knew that to overcome the grief before the academy started again, he needed all the help his family could give him . A noble household was the safest and most comfortable place for his purpose .

Also, Phloria needed him . Lith would never leave her alone while she was facing something even worse than Carl's death . At least Carl had died by the hand of a stranger, when Lith was already a grown, bitter, cold hearted man .

Phloria was ridden by the guilt of having indirectly caused Yurial's death, of having killed mind controlled students to defend her family . Friya was in an almost identical situation . The blood on Phloria's hands was the same that was on hers .

She had mindlessly obeyed to ease her own conscience . It was because of her incompetence that saving Jirni took so long, causing Yurial's demise as well as that of many others .

She had seen Lith healing much worse wounds in much less time . During Balkor's attack, he even treated Yurial and Phloria at the same time .

'How could I bear my second place so proudly? Yurial was right, we are a fraud . I don't deserve my ranking just like I don't deserve my friends . I'm an utter failure, I should have been the one dying . ' Were the thoughts haunting her .

Actually, her second place was fully deserved . Friya's talent for healing magic was on par with Lith's . She just wasn't an Awakened .

Quylla's life was still hanging on a thread . She was unable to eat, puking almost as soon as she ingested any kind of food . Someone had always to be by her side, to make sure she didn't harm herself .

She would cry until exhaustion made her faint, unable to speak a word most of the time . Potions and the sharing of life force were the only things keeping her alive . At night, she would sleep with Orion and Jirni by her side .

It was the only moment she managed to truly rest, free from fits of hysteria .

At his arrival, Lith thought nothing of them . To him, they were just Phloria's accessories, something he would worry about in his spare time . Yurial's words changed his mind .

Maybe they were nothing to him, but the opposite wasn't necessarily true . Lith had already lost an opportunity because, after the second exam, he had simply promoted his companions from strangers to fish in a tank .

He never treated them as persons, only as something to feed and watch from time to time . A living screensaver, less than pets . As much as Lith found it unbelievable, there were actually people that really cared for him outside of his family .

Yet he would never be able to recognize them if he didn't give them at least a chance before discarding them like trash .

Yurial's death showed him that life was too short to worry about outliving those who would die of old age . They were the lucky ones .

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