Chapter 756: 756
"Tell those idiots that if they stay out of my hair, I'll stay out of theirs . If they really want to meet me, we'll do it at my conditions, and only after I received proper compensation for all the troubles their incompetence caused me . "
Lith let her go since killing was pointless . The Council might always send someone else and the woman was nothing more than a messenger . He had made his point, any more would only anger the power backing her .
Someone capable of making a blue cored Awakened move at their whims was a force to be reckoned with . It was better to speak softly and let them play by his rules . As long as Lith could prepare the field in advance, he was certain to have the upper hand .
Athung recovered her strength the moment she was capable of breathing again . She stepped back slowly, using Life Vision to confirm that Lith wasn't conjuring more mana for some sick cat and mouse game .
Athung got out of Silverwing's array and Blinked away, eager to tell Raagu that she had done her part and that she wanted nothing more to do with Lith Verhen .
'I don't believe he had no master . His abilities don't make sense . Someone must have helped him along the way . That or he Awakened in the crib . ' She thought .
It was just an idiom that the Awakened community used to describe an unbelievable event, except this time it was an actually precise description of the truth .
Lith cast the Life Detection array, to make sure that no one, not even the members of the Queen corps were near enough to have bore witness to the events .
Spending his first night out in a month with his family was already bad . Being forced to kill the very same people who had loyally protected his beloved ones would have been the icing on the crap .
For once luck was by his side . Or to be more precise, it was Athung's doing . To be able to freely speak with Lith, she had organized a small distraction that had actually worked against her .
"Thanks for your help, Reaper . " Lith said turning towards a secular oak . Back when Kamila had confirmed Lith that Athung wasn't their guest, he had used air magic to alert his allies with the magical equivalent of an ultrasonic whistle .
"Please, we just answered your call, Scourge . " Reaper the Manticore, the king in the south of the Trawn woods stepped out of the shadows . He had the body and the head of a lion, with quills like those of a porcupine protruding from most of his body .
Reaper also had black feathered wings on his back, horns like an ibex on his head, and the tip of his tail was a mass of spikes . Each one was infused with a different element and ready to be thrown at the enemy .
"Who was that puny female?" The Manticore was so tall that he needed to slightly tilt his head up to look into Lith's eyes .
"Troubles . Is Lifebringer with you?" Lith asked while checking on Reaper's equipment .
The cloaking ring on his tail reduced his signature to that of a big animal to anyone who wasn't Lith while the metal claws he had made for the Manticore made the creature even more lethal .
"Yes, and so is Sentinel . Without them, I wouldn't have been able to set the Hexagram up so fast . " The other two Emperor Beasts, respectively a Kirin and a Garmr, joined them as soon as they were certain that the coast was clear .
They each wore equipment similar to Reaper's that Lith had crafted for them before leaving for Kulah .
"Why didn't you let us simply turn her into our dinner?" Sentinel asked . She once was the Ry that had taken Protector's place as pack leader and king .
"Because with an unknown enemy, one has to be careful . The cloaking rings coupled with your stealth abilities make you invisible even to Awakened ones .
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