Supreme Magus - Chapter 499

Chapter 499






"These people are crazy . I would never stop in a shithole like this if it weren't for the wargs . Our destination was Shaku . Do you know if my goods are safe?" Asked a scrawny middle aged woman with more wrinkles than a crumpled paper .

"How did you escape the wargs?" Lith couldn't care less about their cargo .

"We didn't escape . They ignored us . " Said a lean man in his late fifties, with grizzled hair and beard . "They were too focused praying to pay us any attention . "

"Praying?" Lith was even more incredulous than he sounded .

"Well, they were kneeling on the ground, doing nothing but chanting some gibberish . " The man shrugged .

"It wasn't gibberish, master Dihel, but magic . " Said a young man about Lith's age who looked more like an artist than a wannabe merchant . He had handsome features and arms so thin Lith doubted he had ever lifted something heavier than a toothpick .

"How can you be so sure?" Lith asked .

"I was the one standing guard . I noticed the wargs because of the light they emitted . They were divided into groups of six . Each group was engulfed in a magnificent golden light that formed a circle . "

"Golden light?" Lith echoed as his stomach churned .





'Six points inscribed inside a circle?' Solus's stomach was nonexistant, but she felt like puking nonetheless .

"By chance did it look like this?" Lith opened his right hand, making a Silverwing's Hexagram the size of a towel appear .

"Yes! It was exactly like that, at least as far as I remember . What does it mean?"

'That we are royally fucked . ' Lith thought .

"Nothing, don't worry . " He actually said .

"You have helped me a lot . Just a few more questions . Did the monsters have something unusual about them? Anything at all?"

They shook their heads, making Lith inwardly curse .

'I hoped they had seen the wargs shapeshift, or at least in the company of humans . That way at least I would know where to start looking . My usual bad luck . ' He griped .

"Where did you spot them, exactly?" Lith took out a map from his pocket dimension and had the merchants point out the location to him .

Before he left, he gave them enough food and water to last for a couple of days . Lith also barred the door and took all the keys with him . Then he called the Baroness .





"I'm leaving Maekosh, so I need you to stand guard and call me if anything happens . Trust no one but me . No one can know of my absence . "

"What? That is unacceptable! Your duty is to defend the city, how can you leave?" Fear and outrage fought in her voice, but fear prevailed lowering it by one octave .

"The merchants saw the wargs practicing arrays . " Lith lied .

"If we allow them to increase their numbers, they will be able to destroy the city from the outside . They need to be culled . "

'It's actually much worse than that . ' Solus quivered in anxiety .

'Someone has taught them the impossible array we used to practice true magic . can share the experience they gain by practicing individually, they could master it even with their limited intelligence . '


'Even worse, they are learning how to use every element instead of just two . Can you imagine the threat a tribe of Awakened that spawns as fast as monsters do could pose to our lives? On Earth there was traffic because anyone could drive a car .

'Magic is rare and Awakening is even rarer . Yet those things are breaking all of Mogar's rules we've learned so far . '

Lith Warped to the same spot he had fought the warg warrior, checking his surroundings for enemies . Neither Life Vision nor mana sense perceived anything so he flew at full speed toward the place the merchants had pointed out to him .





'I know where they trained and where they were going . If they didn't fly, I can hunt them down by following their smell!' Lith enhanced senses allowed him to even track a person's scent .

It was useless inside a city . Too many people and too many strong odors coming from every direction would easily mess with his senses . After all, Lith wasn't a trained dog, he had neither the instinct nor the skill to isolate a single smell among many .

In the wilds, though, especially during winter, there weren't many odors . Lith took out a piece of the warg to sniff it . It smelled like a wet dog after rolling in a pile of dirty sportswear and sweaty socks .

The stench made his eye water, but it also gave him a scent to follow strong enough that only an open sewer could mask it . The fair weather of the last few days also helped him greatly .

The snow preserved most of the tracks the warg left since they didn't bother to hide them in any way .

'I know how those poor bastards must feel . Practicing magic, hunting to eat, sleep, rinse and repeat . That's how I became strong . If we can, we need to capture one of the wargs alive .

'I want to learn the secret behind their mutation and kill the idiot responsible for this abomination!' Lith inwardly snarled .

He was unaware that if the Master knew about the magnitude of their failure, they would be the first to kick their own ass to the moon and back .

Lith could have reached the monsters' den in a few minutes of flight, but his paranoia slowed him down . He couldn't know that the wargs were still at odds with their newfound intelligence . They continued acting as predators, not prey .

Hence they had no caution while moving unless they were planning an ambush .

Lith was forced to keep his best spells ready and check his surroundings whenever he entered a good spot for an ambush . Nothing happened, but the tension of the hunt weighed on his nerves .

While facing an unknown enemy on their own turf, the line between hunter and game was paper thin .

'Their warrior didn't hesitate to commit suicide to hide its pack's location, yet they did nothing to cover their tracks . My enemies go from smart to plain dumb like they suffer from split personality . ' He had no idea how close to the truth he was .

'I counted at least 30 adults and a dozen kids . What are we going to do about them?' It wasn't the first time they dealt with younglings, but Solus had never come to terms with what had to be done .

'Kill them . Or would you like me to wait a couple of days so they turn into adults? I can spare them, but are you willing to take responsibility for every life they will take?'

Solus didn't reply . It was an old unsolved argument of theirs . To her heart, giving the cubs a second chance was the right thing to do . Unfortunately, her common sense found it simply idiotic to let them go just to kill them a few days and many victims later .

That was one of the rare moments she was happy to not have a body, so the choice was out of her hands . Lith followed the smell until he found a well camouflaged cave at the base of a small hill a few kilometers from Maekosh .

He had used the Hush spell to cancel the noise and darkness magic to hide his smell the moment Life Vision had picked up a faint signal . The cave went deep into the ground and the surface of its walls was too smooth to be natural .

'Fuck, they have already grasped earth magic . Worst case scenario, they used it to be aware of my arrival and they will negate my spells with the Hexagram . Let's hope I'm not stepping into a frigging trap . '

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