Supreme Magus - Chapter 704

Chapter 704
"There's no point in denying it . " Morok said . "Between your fancy glove and all of your trinkets, I would have bought your act if it wasn't for your smell, brother . You need to fix that . "



"How did you kill the Golem?" Lith repeated his question . He preferred to avoid explaining that he could do nothing about it . Unlike Morok, he didn't just shapeshift, he had two different life forces with a unique smell .

"My old man refused to Awaken me, but at least he gave me a nice gift . " Morok juggled with his weapons before sheathing them . "They can absorb and enhance the power of my eyes, giving me plenty of tricks .

"Balors are losers compared to Tyrants, we evolved correctly and it's only a matter of time before we outmatch them in every aspect . " His smile was full of spite, pronouncing the name of their rival species as if it was poison .

"Don't get startled, I'm not a Balor . " Lith said while assuming his hybrid form .

"What the fuck?" Even though he had been forewarned, Morok jumped back, unsheathing his blades . "Was your father a Dragon who mated with a Balor or was it the other way around?"

"I don't know what I am . " Lith replied . His blue eye remained open for a few seconds before closing shut .

"You got abandoned, huh? Is that why you have the hots for human women?"

"What?" Lith snarled, a puff of black smoke came out from his mouth .

"It's nothing to be ashamed of . " Morok raised his hands in a sign of apology . "My mom kicked out both me and my old man when she discovered the truth . I've got mommy issues too . Why do you think I became a Ranger?"



"For fun?" Lith replied .

"Nailed it in one . Emperor Beasts are so boring, always blabbering about duty and balance . In the army, I get to kill stuff, see stuff, date hotties, and the best part is that I get paid for it . By the way, are your eyes for decoration or what?

"They should be pretty powerful if you descend from a Balor and you have seven of them . Odd, even us Tyrants develop six tops . I am still stuck at four, sadly . "

"I can only see how people will die, if they do, in the immediate future . Nothing else . " Lith said .

"Seven worthless eyes? That's harsh, brother . Maybe rather than from a Balor, you descend from a Peeping Dragon . " Morok gave Lith a wink .

"Whatever . We need to find Phloria and get out of this place . The longer we remain here, the higher the risk of more Golems finding us . "

"Dating so many women at once is not cool . Also, she's not that cute . We can find much better girls outside and…"

"First, she's just my friend . " Lith was seconds away from strangling the Tyrant and his face was a few millimeters from Morok's .

"Second, I don't know how to operate dimensional runes . Without her, we're stuck in here . Is that clear?" Each word was a snarl, accompanied by a puff of smoke .



"You need to literally chill, brother . " Lith's scales had turned red hot from his anger . "You definitely have Dragon blood . The brimstone breath is a killer . Mint?"

Morok offered him a dew fresh leaf from his dimensional amulet, which turned into ashes the moment Lith touched it .

"Can you find the girls with your sense of smell?" Lith asked while scanning their surroundings with Life Vision, finding several mana signatures but no life form .

Morok sniffed the air like a hound before shaking his head .

"All the spells cast during the fight have destroyed any trace I could find . Plus, the fact that they likely used dimensional magic doesn't help . I think we should work on the assumption that they've been captured . Humans have no chances against Golems . "

After checking on Professor Neshal, Lith was forced to admit that the Tyrant was probably right . Bits of the Professor's corpse were mixed with the Golem's remains . Neshal had detonated all of her magical items to bring her enemy down with her .

Only a suicide attack of that magnitude was enough to destroy constructs . With their arrays sealing dimensional magic and uncanny bodies, there was nothing that Phloria could do against them .

'When I get out of here, I must warn Friya . Dimensional mages like her are basically powerless against constructs . ' Lith thought .



He told Morok about the dying words of the two humans grafted to the Golems he had killed, hoping that the Tyrant's eyes could help him to find his target .

"So you don't just see people dying, you also somehow commune with them . Seriously, who the fuck were your parents?" Even though they were alone, they had both reverted to their human form to keep the element of surprise .

"Focus, dammit . Can you find something like the Mana Reactor or the so-called green array? The former we have to find and destroy, the latter we have to avoid . " Lith asked .

"I can only sense great amounts of mana belonging to the elements associated with my four eyes . " Morok said while moving around the corridor . The red, yellow, black, and orange eyes on his body moved independently, searching for energy traces .

"Something like what you just described should be visible from a distance, yet I can't find anything . Either it's too far from here or it's cloaked . "

Both mana sense and Life Vision revealed nothing but the usual set of locks and arrays on the nearby doors, making Lith grit his teeth .

"Fine . Let's backtrack our steps . If Phloria or Quylla managed to escape, they'll be waiting for us . If we don't find them, we have to assume the worst and destroy the Mana Rector . " Lith checked on Solus's condition before moving .

She was using her own Invigoration to recover, but she had yet to return to her full strength . Lith quickly opened a small Warp Steps, leading to the farthest point to the camp he had access to, closing it the moment the noxious gas started to seep through the dimensional window .

"I tried that too, otherwise I wouldn't have come back for you . " Morok sighed . "Without one of the Royal Forgemasters, we're as good as dead . "

***

Professor Gaakhu reached the Warehouse in a matter of minutes, the problem was that she had no idea how to safely open its door .

"Stay back! We've already thrown caution to the wind, there's no point in using finesse . " After her chant was over, a pillar of black flames struck one of the Warehouse's sidewalls .

Darkness lowered the metal's melting point while the fire was just fire . A hole the size of a door slowly opened and the pillar made its way inside the room, destroying the crates and their content until Gaakhu was able to see in front of herself .

Her actions triggered several alarms, but she didn't care . The soldier assumed a defensive formation around her while Gaakhu cooled the wall and scanned the arrays inside the room .

It was then that three Flesh Golems appeared from as many Warp Steps, surrounding them from every side . They blocked fire, ice, and darkness magic before unleashing their thunderbolts against the floor, hitting all their prey at once .

The soldiers weren't aware of that trick and Gaakhu had never bothered warning them . She had already fought the Golems, so she knew that the soldiers were only good to buy her time .

'Five soldiers and only three constructs . I can still escape while they capture them again . ' She smiled while using the Disarray spell to deactivated the only dangerous magical formation in the room .