Supreme Magus - Chapter 398

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'I'm so proud of you . ' Lith could almost see sparkles in Solus's eyes while she thought those words .

'You are willing to help these people for good instead of taking the easy way out . '

Truth to be told, Lith empathized with the Kadurians . Their situation, pain, and struggle were similar yet much worse than his own . Yet he didn't care that much . Lith had just got carried away with his act while pointing out the clerics' stupidity .

'Helping them also means helping us . ' Lith replied . 'While I listen to their explanation, you look into the blueprints for clues about the body and soul preservation process . '

Solus was too happy about his sudden change of heart to notice how quickly he changed the topic .

After Lith finished learning and practicing the spells necessary to disable the Black Star, Solus reported her findings .

'The Black Star is indeed a masterpiece . It can draw power from the mana geyser and use it to empower all the arrays that run through the city . Just like the academy, any damage the building takes can be repaired this way .

'It also possesses an amazing number of skills, but nothing out of the ordinary . Even after reading five out of eight blueprints, I have yet to find a single rune pattern that's not about a combat spell . '





"I have a question . " Lith had no time to beat around the bush . He needed some answers and he needed them before it was too late .

"Who came up with the idea of granting the High Lord the ability to restore your bodies? I'm a Healer and with such a spell I could save countless lives . "

"No one did . " The clerics replied in unison .

"If we could do something like that, there's no way we would lose a war . The High Lord purpose was to destroy our enemies and supply our mages with the mana coming from the mana geyser that is underneath Kaduria . " Ruka said .

"That's not entirely true . " The high cleric Meru said while caressing his chin .

"We were outnumbered, so we gave the High Lord the ability to cast tier four light magic . That way it could both heal our troops and replenish their life force . The idea was to make our army unstoppable as long as they were within the city . "

'There's something amiss . I can do everything they just mentioned yet I can't even fix a single damaged mana core, let alone recreate a whole body from scratch . ' Lith thought .

'Yeah . Based on what they said, the Black Star would simply allow them to use Invigoration . ' Solus pondered . 'Do you think it's possible that somehow they forgemastered something that's greater than the sum of its parts?'





'No way . We have forgemastered countless items, seen incredible artifacts being crafted by Professor Wanemyre while we were at the academy . Yet not once the final product diverged from the specifics . What we have seen so far is an unprecedented anomaly . '

Despite the situation was still dire, Lith burned with curiosity . There was a thought scratching at the back of his mind . He couldn't put his finger on it, but he believed that the answer was getting closer with every possibility they discarded .


Lith cast Ruka's Invisibility spell . The cleric's creation clouded the artifact's perception, making Lith able to get close to it without risking his life .

The clerics accompanied him downstairs to the main temple . They formed a circle around the Black Star, pretending to pray out loud while they actually covered the artifact's line of sight .

Lith used their cover to sneak in undetected . Invisibility blocked the Black Star's magical senses and the clerics blocked the physical ones . For once, Lith wasn't happy for being so tall .

He had to crouch all his way in until he was close enough to start chanting the Freeze spell . Lith chose not to float or use the Hush spell because he had no idea what was the range of Ruka's spell and wasn't willing to take risks .

Once again, paranoia saved his life . Invisibility made his life force and mana flow undetectable, but the Black Star was still able to perceive the spell coming out from Lith's body while he was so close .





It wiped out the clerics with an energy blast, leaving eight black puddles as the only trace of their previous existence .

"You! How did you get here?" The Black Star said . It had no reason to keep pretending of being inactive . It tried to emit a second focused beam of pure mana, but it was already too late .

The Freeze spell was completed . It shut down all of the artifact's abilities but its mind . Lith kept a Warp Steps and a Blink ready at hand, just to be safe . He reached the artifact and used Invigoration on it .

"Keep your hands off me, you filthy human! What did you do to me?" The Black Star screamed . There was a tinge of emotion in its voice . It resembled panic .

"You don't know?" Lith asked with a grin .

'The cursed item is paralyzed and it doesn't seem able to assimilate the people's memories . So far so good . ' He thought while analyzing with Solus the results of his breathing technique .

At first glance, the Black Star was almost identical to Solus . It had a life force and a mana core instead of a pseudo core . A bright purple core at that . The star shaped crystal that was the artifact's body had a purity level like Lith had never seen before .

It breathed like a living being, but instead of air it sucked in world energy and expelled something else . It was a dense gas, similar to mana yet now that Lith was close enough, he could feel his skin prickle, a nauseating sensation spread through his body .

Lith checked his surroundings with Life Vision, making sure he had no witnesses . Redan was waiting for him on top of the stairs, nervously shifting his body weight from one foot to the other .

'Good, he wouldn't like what I have to say . '

"Now listen carefully, because I'm not going to repeat myself . " Lith said with his usual stone cold business tone .

"I want to know how you are able to bring back the Kadurians, how you can replicate mana cores and bodies . "

The artifact laugh was devoid of emotion . It didn't express amusement, only mockery .

"Or what? Even if I'm paralyzed you are not strong enough to harm me, fleshling . Your witchcraft is fading by the second . You'd be wise to run away . "

Lith's reply was the last spell Ruka had devised, Repentance . It was a forgemastering spell . Lith spread the special ink onto the ground, leaving to Solus the duty to form a magic circle by manipulating the droplets with water magic .

The runes shone and took life, floating around the Black Star before sinking into it one by one . When the first rune crashed against its body, the artifact found itself unable to breathe anymore .

The second rune made the mana coursing through its crystal lattice go turn into poison . Its transparent surface revealed green spots that branched into slim veins that spread along the chiseled lines shaping the artifact like a disease .

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