Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1097

Chapter 1097 Well-Laid Plans Part 1

Due to their small size, arrows and bullets couldn’t bear mana crystals. Enchanting them cost dozens of gold coins and they would last only a few hours before they imploded under the pressure generated by the spells they were imbued with.

To make matters worse, making a bullet out of Davross or Adamant was not only incredibly expensive, but also pointless.

Even the simplest set of runes scaled down to the smallest size that would still allow them to work required an extensive surface to be drawn. The arrow Lith had intercepted was covered in runes from the tip to its feathers just to achieve the armor piercing spell.

Lith put Kamila over his left shoulder as if she was just a sack of potatoes and started to run while his mind spun at top gear.

’There are only two ways out of here. Either I throw Kamila outside the array so that she can call for help and I can fight freely, or I fight while protecting her. Both strategies are very risky.

’If I’m not the target, getting Kamila away from me means to fall into my opponents’ trap while keeping her with me is a huge handicap. I have no choice but to fuse the two plans into one.’

Striking first had given Lith the opportunity to cast Full Guard and ran away before his enemies could realize how badly their strategy had failed. The blue aura filling the space for 10 meters (33 feet) around Lith gave him perfect awareness of the battlefield and made up for Solus’s absence.

He chose the direction with fewer blood cores to more quickly escape the dimensional sealing array before the enemies could surround them completely. Only true undead could worry Lith, he had no fear of facing even a small army of thralls.

He moved like the wind, each one of his steps quick and powerful, sending his shoulder against Kamila’s stomach that was full of delicacies they had just eaten. She needed sheer willpower to not puke her guts outs.

Two thralls disguised as a couple stepped in front of Lith, brandishing short swords that emitted a now familiar pungent smell. He noticed that the woman’s nails had an odd color that she had tried to hide with nail polish, but the subtle stench gave it away.

’Fuck me sideways! The undead know that I’m an Awakened so using poison against me doesn’t make sense nor does a woman trying to "casually" scratch me. My skin is so hard that it’s more likely that she would break her nails and poison herself.

’These guys are out for Kamila.’ He thought while swinging War in a wide arc.

The Thralls sneered and attempted to dodge, just to see the bastard sword suddenly speed up beyond what their eyes could follow. Lith’s perfect body refining and Fusion Magic made the swing so fast that the Thralls couldn’t react in time and so powerful that it cut them in half along with their weapons.

Their sacrifice, however, had given a handsome man enough time to get close to Lith. He kept his tier five magic holding ring at eye level, ready to fire a Final Sunset the moment the enemy made his move.

Yet the man was a Banshee. He didn’t need to get close nor his attack could be blocked by the black flames. The undead screamed with all the anguish typical of its race, creating a powerful shockwave that cracked the pavement and uprooted the street lamps.