Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1269

Chapter 1269 - Solus’s True Power (Part 1)

"I’d like to see the white crystal as well. Even though my household is rich, Dad isn’t allowed to bring them home or to use them for anything outside his Royal Forgemastering lab." Phloria said, not adding a single word about accepting so easily Lith being an Abomination, no matter how long he stared at her.

He brought them to the second underground floor where the crystal mines were located. The Eye of Kolga had taken deep roots that spread throughout the tower walls, connecting it to all the other crystals.

"What the heck is it doing?" Nalrond asked after noticing that wherever the white veins touched, the color of the lesser crystals turned brighter.

"My guess is that since there’s nothing past white and that, due to the crystal being already cut, it cannot grow further, the Eye of Kolga uses the energy from the tower to overcome its natural limits." Solus replied.

"Can you please dumb it down for me?" Nalrond said.

"It’s rearranging the crystal lattice of lesser gemstones to match its own." Solus replied.

"Okay, now pretend I’m ten years old and explain it again." Nalrond scratched his head in embarrassment.

"It’s giving a special embrace to the other crystals that accelerates their growth and helps them to absorb the world energy more easily." Solus chuckled.

"It’s beautiful." Phloria placed her hand on the crystal and used Invigoration to study it. "Did you try adding the Adamant we received from Xoth? Based on what Tista learned, the process that makes crystal grow applies to enchanted metals as well."

The Eye of Kolga didn’t look to Invigoration like a piece of stone with a mana core, but as an Awakened mana core the size of an a.d.u.l.t man. It rhythmically drew in the world energy as if it breathed, splitting it into the six elements before reassembling it again and sending it through the white veins.

Phloria could almost feel the crystal wailing as it searched for a suitable body.

"I did, but if the tower has a metal mine as well, it’s on another floor." Lith sighed.

"Is it alive?" Phloria pulled her hand away with surprise.

"No. It doesn’t have any life force or consciousness. What you felt are just the echoes of the souls trapped in Kolga, but they are fading away." Lith replied.

"Then why does it look like a mana core?"

"It doesn’t, you’re just blinded by its brilliance. Ignore the wails and look deeper."

Phloria followed his instructions and made another attempt. The white crystal was just filled to the brim with world energy that the cutting process had compressed to its utmost limit.

She had mistaken it for a mana core because Phloria had never seen such dense energy in an inanimated object and because the nature of the white crystal focused the world energy, giving it a spherical form.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Friya and Quylla didn’t know what to do.

"An Abomination. I’m already having trouble dating an Emperor Beast and Kamila didn’t even flinch in front of an Abomination!" Quylla said.