Supreme Magus - Chapter 554

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"Pointy ears, shining skin . Were you really an elf when you were alive?" Lith asked . Less than twenty minutes remained before the army brought down the house, yet while dealing with a deranged immortal, he needed tact and opportunity to break the bad news .





That or a timely escape pretending to not know anything about what was happening . Lith had to play it by ear .

"What? Gods, no . It would make me a self righteous jerk . This is just a side effect of draining so many pseudo elves . It will fade in due time . I am, or better, I was human . " Zolgrish walked to the device, dispelling the barrier which enveloped it with a wave of his hand .

Then, he needed a short chant to turn it off and a longer one to make the spells imbued inside the adamant ring go haywire and destroy the artifact . Once a forgemastering process was complete, it couldn't be redone .

Yozmogh and Dann'Kah had corrupted the amplifier forever, Zolgrish had no way to amend their tampering . The artifact's destruction freed the souls trapped inside the spheres of smoke which were orbiting around it, waiting to be provided with new bodies .

Each one of them released a small pillar of light that shot toward the sky, filling the lab's stale air with a feeling of joy . Lith instinctively released Death Vision to watch at the scene unfolding in front of him .

In his eyes, the space occupied by the amplifier looked like a black hole collapsing on itself . Without its constant pull, the souls of the creatures imprisoned within the underground complex were released .

At first, only a few managed to leave, but as the black hole disappeared, more and more souls escaped its grasp until a hail of shooting starts almost blinded Lith . Yet he had no time to appreciate the light show, nor to wonder why he could feel the souls' fleeting emotions whereas Solus couldn't .

His eyes were fixated on Zolgrish, who under the effect of Death Vision died several times in the space of a few seconds, but always in the same way . His body would revert into a cracked skeleton before it turned to dust .

Just like the Duchess back at Jirni's birthday party .





'Fuck me sideways! That woman was a lich too . That must be what happens when you break their phylactery . The only question remaining is if the Royals are aware of the Duchess' real identity and if so, how they deal with the undead nobles under their rule . ' Lith thought .

"This is a disaster . " Zolgrish sighed .

"Without Dann'Kah and Yozmogh I can't make another amplifier . I wasted years to build this place, more years to equip it with all the instruments I needed, and decades to make that goddamn thing!

"It's the biggest failure of my career . " His rage was almost tangible and the mana currents he was emitting were so violent that Death Vision stopped showing his demise .

"To make matters even worse, those horny monkeys and their raids have given away the lab's position . Even if they didn't, only someone dumb, blind, and deaf could miss all those fireworks . I need to get out of here . "


Zolgrish restored his lab's power, making Life Vision and mana sense useless once again .

"About my payment…" Lith didn't like the sudden turns of events . The lich was in a hurry, turning lots of levers and pressing even more buttons on the various holographic panels which appeared above the various Forges .

The amount of mana in the air was getting thicker by the second, making Lith's skin crawl .





"Yes, yes . I haven't forgotten . Usually I would give you a tour of my treasury and let you pick a reward of your choice within reason . Unfortunately, I don't have much time . You are a Ranger, right?" Zolgrish asked .

Lith nodded in reply . If even Ratpack recognized his uniform, deranged or not, Zolgrish was bound to be able to do the math .

"That means the whole army knows about this place . They will raid this place in hours whereas I would need months to take everything away with me .

"I'm weakened and almost out of mana . A few hits would be enough to destroy my physical form, and after being away from my phylactery for so long, I don't know how much time it would take me to be back at full strength .

"Rather than being robbed blind, I prefer destroying everything myself!" The determination in his voice didn't leave space for debate .

"What about me?" Lith refused to change the topic .

"Oh, yes . " Zolgrish pushed another button and the holographic interface turned from bright blue to a blinking deep red .

"You can keep whatever you took on your way to save me, plus I want you to have this . " A clap of his hands made a mint condition Forge appear in the middle of the room .

"It's the only unspoiled one left and after collecting my most precious belongings I have no space left inside my dimensional items to store something so bulky . It would be a waste to destroy it . "





"It's pure adamant . " Lith put his hand on the massive silvery table, feeling his mana flow through it without encountering any resistance .

"Yes, it is, dear Feron . Now give me the artifacts Yozmogh had on himself . They are the last batch I made with my treacherous assistants and they are priceless . They should be…"

Zolgrish listed them with uncanny memory for someone incapable of getting Lith's name right even once .

'At least Solus got some time to study them . The problem is that aside from the mirror, I have no idea what they do . ' Lith thought .

"He also had this . " Lith handed the lich the silver sphere . He still considered Clean Slate trash compared to Invigoration .

"My Eraser! That bastard even dared to steal my office supplies . You can keep it . I produce and lose them in bulks . Those little buggers disappear like they have a mind of their own . Now you better go . The whole place will blow up in less than a minute . "

Lith stored the adamant Forge and Warped away . Only then did he allow himself to smile . He had given Zolgrish all of the artifacts he had listed, but Yozmogh had actually more .

'I would have returned the mirror and the sphere anyway . Ratpack witnessed Yozmogh using them . I couldn't afford being ratted out and then living watching my back from Zolgrish .

'Now I have a purple crystal, a lot of ingredients the dryads gifted me, and an adamant forge! I have all the necessary to craft a masterpiece!' Lith thought .

'Yeah, too bad we have no idea what to create . ' Solus pointed out . 'Either we get the blueprints for something worth using such treasures, or you need to stop for a few years to devise one of our own and do some tests . We have only one block of adamant, after all . '

Lith was about to rebuke something about an improved version of the Gatekeeper when his military communication amulet drew his attention .

"Ranger Verhen, do you copy?" The hologram of Brigadier General Vorgh appeared .

"Sir, what are you doing here?" Lith asked .

"We lost your signal about half an hour ago, so your handler sent the Wardens to check the situation . "

'The timing matches with the ambush . Probably the lab's shields blocked the external interferences . ' Lith thought .

"They found a small army waiting for them and almost got killed . Where are you right now?"

"Outside the complex, why?" Lith said .

Vorgh's answer was covered by the rumbling sound of an earthquake which made part of the Broken Spine sink several hundred meters below the ground level .

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