Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1170

Chapter 1170 Shattered Dreams Part 2

Arthan Griffon had been a monster, but also a genius who had reached an understanding of the healing arts that still baffled even modern mages.

Vastor believed that once he mastered the Madness, he would be able to set the foundations for new branches of Light magic and become a Magus just like Menadion did after improving Silverwing’s work.

Alas, there was only so much that he could understand with the few fragments and blueprints of the Madness still available. On top of that, his ignorance about the Forbidden Arts made everything even harder.

To devote all the time that he could to Arthan’s Madness, Vastor became a Professor at the White Griffon academy. Improving the teaching textbooks was child’s play to him and gave him the perfect cover to look for people who might make up for his shortcomings.

Then, Vastor knew Duke Marth. Even as a youth, the future Headmaster of the White Griffon showed a talent and ingenuity like Vastor didn’t have even during his heyday.

On paper, with just the Healer specialization, Marth was an average student. The truth, however, was that he not only aced every single class, but he also created and shared groundbreaking spells even during his fourth year.

Since their magical strength was similar, Vastor thought to have found a kindred spirit and waited for history to repeat itself. Yet even though Marth’s bright blue core limited him, his brain made up for it by never running dry of new ideas.

He invented the Blood Resonance discipline that allowed to identify corpses on the battlefield and to recognize someone’s bloodline. He perfected the regenerating arts and created new spells that made newly formed limbs able of adapting to their body.

Unlike Vastor, Marth’s rise never stopped, allowing him to become an Archmage at twenty and a Professor soon after. To make matters worse, in the short time after his graduation, Marth had also learned Forgemastery and become a Royal Forgemaster with an ease that left everyone flabbergasted.

A few years later, when Manohar arrived at the White Griffon, Vastor knew he was facing a monster in human guise. Unlike everyone else before him, Manohar started the fourth year of the academy while barely twelve years old and gave lessons to his Professors more often than he received them.

He took the Battle Mage specialization only because it sounded cool and even though he soon got bored of it, Manohar still aced every one of his classes by barely skimming the books and with no practice.

After his graduation, he revealed to have also learned Forgemastery on his own. As a hobby, he said, because the academy’s tools were too primitive for his taste and he couldn’t trust idiots to do things properly.

Manohar’s endless talent was only matched by his rudeness, yet despite the countless humiliations Vastor had to endure as Manohar dwarfed him on a daily basis, the two became friends.

Being a true genius, Manohar become engrossed by the mystery of the Madness and managed to fill many of the gaps in the blueprints. Unbeknownst to Vastor, Manohar discovered Light Mastery thanks to their work together.

Unbeknownst to Manohar, even though Vastor’s understanding of the light element wasn’t as deep, he still managed to improve each of Manohar’s discoveries beyond what the easily bored genius could think, becoming the leading figure of the Body Sculpting field and even learning how to Shapeshift.

The Abomination’s enthusiasm only lasted until the memory reached the part where it discovered that Manohar didn’t mention such techniques solely because he had learned them on his own as a student by reading Vastor’s books.

Then, the creature fell into desperation at the memories of how Vastor had been forced to become a Highmaster.