Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1271

Chapter 1271 - Family and Gifts (Part 1)

"Moreover, until these matters aren’t resolved, I don’t plan on leaving Lutia unless it’s strictly necessary.

"In the meantime, feel free to get back to your respective homes. We all deserve some time to recover from our respective missions. I just need Friya’s help to prepare a present for my parents."

"What? They almost brought your childhood nemesis back into your home and you want to give them a present?" Phloria asked.

"Staying angry with them wouldn’t achieve anything but break my family apart. If I’m right about Orpal, that’s exactly what he wants. I’m not going to play by his rules. I’ll just act like always, as if he doesn’t exist." Lith replied.

"Okay, but why Friya?" Tista felt a bit offended by his choice. "She’s not an Awakened and she’s even the less skilled Forgemaster among us."

"Thank you, Tista. I love you too." Friya’s voice oozed sarcasm.

"Because among its many horrors, Kolga had a couple of decent ideas I would like to try out. I don’t like the fact that whenever one of us isn’t home our parents are stranded in the middle of nowhere.

"Regular people cannot fly or Warp, which makes them easy to capture. The moment Mom and Dad get out of the arrays surrounding our house, they are sitting ducks. Even the Queen’s Corps can do only so much since dimensional magic can be easily blocked."

"All the more reason why you shouldn’t pick Friya." Quylla pointed out.

"One more word and I’ll kick all of your asses!" Friya snorted.

"I’m sorry, Quylla, but I need the Master of Space if I want to craft a DoLorean."

***

Duchy of Essagor, Zogar Vastor’s home.

After successfully assimilating the Abomination core, the Master had plenty of reasons to rejoice. He was stronger than ever, he was now capable of using Chaos magic, and with each passing day he converted more of his spells into true magic.

His black core had given him the same abilities of a non-Awakened Emperor Beast and some more. Yet not even Xenagrosh reassuring him that aside from Invigoration nothing could discover his hybrid nature could quench Vastor’s worry and rage.

Worry because no matter what Xenagrosh said, Manohar couldn’t be underestimated. The god of healing had accomplished the impossible with ease so many times that the Master had lost count.

He couldn’t bear the thought that a casual brush with Manohar would expose his use of the Forbidden Arts and force him to set his plan into motion before all of his pieces on the board were in position.

Unfortunately for him, Vastor couldn’t avoid his esteemed colleague forever. The idea of Tyris piecing together the facts and ruining decades of hard work made his stomach twist into a knot, but even that was nothing compared to the fury that almost clouded his vision.

’I can’t believe that those parasites of the Befras dare to mess with both Lith and I. They may be Zinya’s parents, but if they think that I’ll let them ruin the happiness of the only person on this mudball that gives an honest shit about me, they are sorely mistaken.’ Vastor thought as black spots appeared on his skin whenever his emotions let the Chaos energy run rampant.

’I stayed out of Zinya’s life to keep her from being dragged down with me in the case something goes wrong with my plan, but I’ll be damned before I let the same vermin that almost got her killed in the past poison her life again.

’I wish I could just send Xenagrosh to set them up for an accident, but Lith would take the blame for it. Poor kid, he has to deal with both them and his insignificant brother. That one I can kill.

’I just need to give Lith plausible deniability and make sure to make Meln’s entire corpse disappear. The f.u.c.ker has no one and had already gone missing for years. I can either send Meln on a nice one-way trip or make him write a note before committing suicide.

’Scratch that. Lady Verhen has already suffered enough because of Trion. She deserves some peace.’ Vastor had a file on Meln of Cyrmu and it was too thin for his liking.