Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1039

Chapter 1039 Unbridled Power Part 3

’Okay, at least I’ve seen this happening before. Sort of. Normally, when a beast evolves, they release a golden light pillar, but Lith emits both a silver and a black one instead.

’It might depend on his hybrid nature, but I still wonder why it happened during his last world tribulation rather than just when his Wyrmling body undergoes body refining.’

Solus focused all the world energy the tower could muster inside the Heart, to make sure that Lith’s body had all the energy it needed the moment it needed it.

’If I had helped the process earlier, maybe his human body refining would have been smoother, or at least less scary. Oh, well. There’s no point crying over spilled milk. Now I know and I can act accordingly.’

Lith’s seven eyes, even those that were still closed shut, shed black tears while his scales merged with each other, becoming thicker, harder, and denser until they rivaled with steel.

The process had left half of his body exposed, revealing a fiery red skin lying underneath his hardened shell.

Together with the human impurities that had crawled back on Lith’s body, all the so-called defective parts gathered up on the side of his head, the end of his spine, and on his back before bursting into flames.

His small curved horns and short tail grew bigger, while a second set of atrophied wings popped out his back. New, thicker scales replaced the missing ones while three rays of pure elemental energy erupted from Lith’s opened eyes, flushing out more and more impurities.

Lith’s hybrid form was born from an already evolved body that possessed a powerful core, so it was perfect. What it lacked was the ability to channel the full power generated by the constant battle between his Emperor Beast, Abomination, and human life forces.

Lith’s hybrid body was too small and weak to withstand the full scope of such powerful conflicting energy. During a breakthrough, his human body would break down just to be reshaped into a more suitable host for Lith’s core, whereas his hybrid form was forced to grow so that the Wyrmling could unlock its true potential.

Thanks to the world energy stirring Lith’s life forces, not only did they evolve, but also their fight for dominance changed. The Abomination side, in the form of a hollow black sphere, grew in size and attempted to swallow the others.

Yet the human side suppressed it from the outside while the beast side, in the form of a burning star, struck at the Abomination from the inside. The human and beast life forces’ joined efforts allowed them to stop the Abomination side, reaching a new balance.

All three of them had grown not only stronger, but they had also seeped into each other, thinning once again the boundaries that separated the human life force from the hybrid and generating something that one day might become greater than the sum of its parts.

During the whole process, the conflict between life forces released a powerful energy that ignited the emerald flames of life. They burst out from Lith’s body, covering him from head to toe.

Yet instead of hurting him, the flames nurtured his Wyrmling form, making it grow larger and taller until the Wyrmling stood almost 4 meters (13’1") tall, before reverting to its normal height once the energy was spent due to the lack of mass necessary to support such huge build.

"No new eye opened, correct?" Lith said amid pants once he managed to gather enough air in his lungs to speak.

"Sorry, none. They must be linked to your mastery over the elements or catalyzed by your world tribulations. The Odi made you open the blue one and..."

Lith’s head hit the floor with a thud and his snoring cut her short.