Supreme Magus - Chapter 395

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"No need . There's still no one in the castle . " Lith grabbed Redan and cast a flight spell on both of them . The next second they soared through the sky . Lith chose to enter from the same window he had used the last time, since it led to the inner layer of the castle .

Redan laughed and screamed with joy the whole time, forcing Lith to use the Hush spell, just to be safe .

"I've never flown before! I swear, even if you are a demon, this is the best day of my life . "

"Hush!" Lith said with an angry voice . "We can't risk drawing attention and time is of the essence . "

"You are too paranoid, dear Linjos . " Redan shrugged . "No one patrols these corridors and even if they did, we just have to kill them . " Like anyone inside Kaduria, the farmer had a body count that would have made the worst serial killer pale in comparison .

For Kadurians killing was akin to picking your own nose . Nothing more than a disgusting hobby .

"It's not so simple . Whenever one of you dies, their body returns to the Black Star . Killing is not an option . If it's able to collect your minds too, we'll alert the enemy . "

"I'll take point then . Even if you are right, as long as no one sees you we're good . " Redan said while spinning and tossing a knife in the air like it was a toy . It danced from one hand to the other with a display of skill that creeped Lith out .





'It's the first time I meet someone as cold as I am . The good news is that his weapon isn't a threat to me . The bad news is that Redan is batshit crazy . I wonder how many skills he has picked up during all this time . '

Lith used Life Vision to scout ahead while keeping Warp Steps and a few other spells always at ready . It turned out to be a useless precaution . They reached Meru's quarters without meeting anyone and the door was wide open .

Redan entered the apartments like they were his own home . He walked through the hallway, ignored the library, and went straight for the bedroom . Redan pushed a hidden button on the nightstand, revealing a secret compartment inside the wall .

"I was really bored . " He replied to Lith's stupefied gaze .

The compartment held a magic safe, but like everything else it had been drained of its mana, making it nothing but a piece of metal . Lith opened the safe, flipping the pages of the stored grimoires until he found what he was looking for .

He copied the pages about the Black Star in both their original language and a translated version for himself . Explaining how he had learned ancient Kadurian would cause him too many troubles .

'Besides, I'd bet good money the army knows how to read it anyway . ' He thought .

'Solus, give me a hand . The castle crumbles at the end of the light cycle . It means that even these pages are a creation of the Black Star . Maybe it didn't expect someone to sneak in and learn about its secrets or maybe it has redacted them .

'If the artifact notices us, it could destroy them with a thought . We need to copy them as fast as possible . '






'I doubt they are redacted . ' Solus pondered .

'The cursed item has displayed the ability to replicate the whole city, but not to change it in any way . Otherwise it would have created many more mana crystals to speed up the siphoning of the mana geyser . I think it's stuck with what it has . '

'All the more reason to finish quickly!'

The moment the copy was completed, Lith added it to Soluspedia .

'This-this is…' They thought as one while assimilating the ancient Kadurian forgemastering method .

'This is beyond idiotic! Redan was right, there is no input or command to distinguish allies from foes . They didn't even add a failsafe in case something went wrong!' Solus was speechless from the recklessness of the design .

'Maybe, maybe not . ' Lith added . 'We know that the artifact is alive and that life cannot be created from thin air . These blueprints do not explain how or who was sacrificed to give it sentience . We need more information . '

"Redan, can you describe to me this Meru fellow? Without their help these notes are useless . "





"He is the eldest among the clerics . White robes, white long beard, and a face only a mother can love . " The farmer's eyes became cold as steel just by mentioning his name .

"He is the one that activates the High Lord every single day . My pals and I have killed him so many times we know his entrails like the back of our hands . "

'Gross and irrelevant . ' Solus thought . 'Ask him something more useful . '

"How tall is he? Where can we find him?"

"Not much . About 1 . 6 (5'3") meters, maybe less because of his hunched back . At this hour he is usually praying for guidance in the main temple . "

"Which is?" Lith asked .

'Right beside the Black Star . ' Solus answered . Her mana sense covered an area wide enough for her to recognize the energy signature of all the eight clerics they had seen during the last cycle . Only one had a hunched back .

"Two floors below us . " Redan said while pointing at the floor with his index finger .

'F*ck me sideways!' Lith cursed at his bad luck . The idea of tripping an inch away from the finish line was unbearable .

Lith racked his brain in search of a solution . Neither him or Solus could get that close to the artifact without risking to reignite its anger . He paced around the room until his gaze was drawn by Redan playing with his knife again .

"Didn't you say you and Meru have quite a history together?"

"Me and many others . " Redan shrugged . "Most Kadurians consider him responsible for what happened . There are so many who hate his guts that he doesn't attempt to run away anymore . "

"So, if you went to pick him up for a 'friendly chat' it wouldn't be anything unusual, right?"

"I guess . "

"I'd say it's time you two remind of the good times together . Bring him here . "

"It should be fun . " Redan tossed his knife in mid air, making it spin like a pinwheel and catching it by the handle when it was in front of his face

"In one piece . " Lith clarified .

"Not so fun, then . " Redan sighed .

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