Supreme Magus - Chapter 374

Chapter 374






"This is really interesting . " Leegaain said while showing Milea the scene unfolding inside Scarlett's lab . The moment he had perceived the anomaly, he requested Tyris to share her vision .

"What does this mean?" Milea asked . "He's just going from cyan to blue, it's no big deal . Why the light pillar? It didn't happen to me . "

"That's because you are human while he is not . What baffles me is that silver light . You see, back when I refined my mana core from cyan to blue, evolving from a Salamander into a Drake, I produced a black pillar . Tyris generated a white one and Salaark a red one . "

The Dragon's words left her in a stupor .

"Are you saying that…"

"No, I'm not . " Leegaain cut her short . "A different colored pillar means nothing until all tribulations have been overcome . What I'm saying is that a human never achieved Guardianhood and if I'm right they never will . Because whatever he is, he's not human . "

From their respective viewpoints, Salaark and Tyris watched an enormous pillar of silver light descending from the sky above Lith's position . Until that moment, they had always dismissed his existence as an oddity . Now their interest was piqued .

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If Lith knew what was about to happen, he would be grateful for being unconscious . Every major breakthrough was always more excruciating than the previous ones . Luckily, his body was refined along with his mana core, making it more resistant to pain .

So, when his nails fell off like invisible pliers had pulled them out, he didn't wake up . Neither he did when his bones broke or his flesh was turned inside out . It had already happened in the past, Solus was more worried about Nyka than about Lith's condition .

'I don't know what could happen if the vampire attacks him during the core refinement process . Maybe I should go back keeping watch . ' Solus thought, yet found herself unable to move, just like everyone else in the room .

The magic lab that Scarlett the Scorpicore had borrowed Kalla was several meters underground, shielded from external influences by some of her best arrays . Nonetheless, the gigantic silver light pillar descending from the skies passed through them like they were thin air .

Solus had observed the evolution process of magical beasts several times and it always made her think of a giant finger of some god that came down to breathe new life in the evolving creature .

This time things went differently .

When the light pillar from the sky met the one originating from Lith, his heart withered at a speed visible at the naked eye until it resembled a giant dried plume . The blood flow stopped . The resulting agony was so intense that Lith woke up clenching his chest .

 Solus could see impurities flow out of it like an invisible hand was squeezing them out . Then, when Lith was an inch from death, his heart absorbed the blood surrounding it and mixed it with the silver light, returning to its original size .

Solus noticed with mana sense that the renewed heart pumped not only blood, but also mana . She also used Scanner, to check Lith's life force for anomalies . The result was just as amazing .

'After his heart has been restored, Lith's life force's started to flow . It's no more static, maybe that's the secret behind the ability to shapeshift . ' She thought .

Then, the same thing happened to the lungs . Lith opened his mouth to scream, it was like countless scorching daggers had pierced his flesh, but no voice came out . One by one, all of his internal organs underwent the refining process .

The flow of his mana and life force increased each time . When his brain shrunk to the size of an apple, Lith thought his life was over . He found himself wandering in a place where there was no light, no pain, nothing .

Only the quiet stillness he had experienced in death .

Everything was quiet, the time stood still . He had no idea how long it lasted, the only thing that gave him hope was the appearance of a small light representing his bond with Solus .

'If I can still feel her trying to reach me, then I'm not dead yet . ' He thought .





When his brain recovered, Lith had no time to feel relieved or thank Solus . He knew the refinement wasn't over yet . All the impurities were now stored in his skin .

'This is going to hurt . ' Lith clenched his teeth . He didn't know what would follow, but he was sure it wouldn't be nice . He took off the Skinwalker armor with a thought, to avoid it interfering with the process .

The impurities flooded Lith's skin until it turned black . They hardened on contact with air, making him resemble an obsidian statue . Cracks appeared all over its surface . He felt like every inch of his body was being dipped into burning oil .

Then, the black skin crumbled and fell . His flesh and muscles remained exposed for a long, agonizing second before a new one grew to cover him again before he could start screaming in pain .

"What the heck was that?" Solus yelled while checking Lith's condition . He was unconscious again . His physique was apparently the same, but the reality was quite different . The density of his body was on a new level, making it almost impossible to harm him with conventional means .

Solus could see him breathe mana and life force just like he normally did with air . Lith's mana core was now of a deep blue color . The amount of mana it stored hadn't changed much, but its quality had further improved .

With every breath he took, he would absorb a little amount of world energy, even without the use of Invigoration . His life force flowed freely through his every fiber, speeding up the recovery of his injuries .

"I have no clue . " Kalla replied . "Magical beasts just evolve . Their body is like a cocoon they have to get freed from to reach the next stage . In Lith's case, it seemed more like torture . Like someone was forcefully replacing defective parts . "

"Can't you help him?" Solus was the better Healer among the two, but she drew her strength from Lith and she didn't want to increase his burden .

"I never heard about this 'life force' Lith kept talking about and my children always shut me up . My body feels like is held together with leaves and spit . I'm afraid that if I use magic, I may fall apart . " Kalla shook her head .

"My studies are more oriented towards Necromancy rather than Healing, but light and darkness magic are two sides of the same coin . I'm also a fast learner, so if you could explain to me what he did, I may be able to find a way to help us both . "

Solus explained to Kalla the foundations of Body Sculpting and how to cast Scanner with true magic .

"Fascinating!" Kalla replied after a few hours of lecturing . "I have no idea what you have just said but sure sounds impressing . Maybe I have underestimated the importance of light magic in Necromancy .

"Seems I will have to start over from scratch . If my hypothesis is right, I failed because I have no control over my life force . I need to learn light magic before trying again . "

Kalla asked Solus several questions, to which she replied as well as she could .

Solus was trying to describe to her how to manipulate the mana to achieve the Scanner spell when Lith woke up .

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