Two sets of membranous wings came out of Solus’s back, one golden while the other was black and upside-down like Lith’s. She also had two sets of arms with the same color pattern as the wings and all fingers ended with razor-sharp claws.
A golden tail as thick as a leg and almost twice as long came out from the small of her back, furiously whipping the air in outrage. Long horns that resembled thick tree branches rested on the sides of her head.
The creature also had seven eyes, six of which formed a perfect circle centered around the seventh that was right above the bridge of her nose and each one of them burned with a different element.
"What in Mogar’s name did you do, Epphy?" Silverwing had a hard time believing what Life Vision showed to her eyes.
The creature had one life force, two mana cores, respectively deep purple and bright cyan, and one power core. They all worked in synch, generating a mana flow much greater than the sum of its parts.
"We told you that our name is Solus and we are one!" Unlike Lith, the creature was lipless and had no scales covering the fangs-filled mouth that gave them a savage appearance.
The simple act of speaking generated shockwaves that pushed the First Magus against the wall while white flames seeped among their fangs with each word.
"I’m not going to fight you anymore, Solus. I yield." Silverwing let her white aura fade away and raised her hands in the universal gesture of peace.
’As long as they are fused, any damage I inflict upon Lith would affect Elphyn as well. Killing him means killing her and I’m not going to lose my goddaughter again. I severely underestimated Ripha’s grief after losing Threin.
’She must have researched a way to not just bind someone to an artifact so much as to create a nigh-immortal being.
’I don’t know if she planned to use it on herself or just kept it as a contingency plan in the case the worst happened, but if not for Elphyn’s cracked core, Ripha would have created the perfect life form.
’The cunning of a human, the mass of a titan among Emperor Beasts, and the ability to tap into Mogar’s world energy at will of a mage tower. Yet due to the heavy damage sustained by her core at the moment of the fusion, when Lith imprinted the tower, he imprinted Elphyn as well!
’It’s the only possible explanation to them having the same energy signature and their ability to merge into a single being. I can’t free her from her shackles until I find a way to break their bond.’ Lochra thought.
"Then get the fuck out!" Solus roared and punched the First Magus in the face, sending her flying through a Warp Steps.
It brought Silverwing dozens of kilometers away and from there the strength of the hit kept her in the air until she reached the ocean. The First Magus bounced off the ocean’s waves like a smooth pebble thrown on the surface of a lake, crossing a couple of nautical miles before managing to stop.
’This could have gone much better.’ Lochra spat out a mouthful of blood as her jaw regenerated and her teeth regrew. ’I underestimated both the severity of her memory loss and the power she gets from the tower, but it’s nothing I can’t handle.
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