Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1374

Chapter 1374 - Lightkeep (Part 2)

Vladion looked at the Butcher and at the Council’s lapdog with mixed feelings for a while until Haug tipped the scale for good.

"I vouch for them both on my life. They are Nyka’s family and the best manhunters of the Kingdom. Scarlett even tracked Balkor down to the middle of the Blood Desert with no clues but one of his thralls.

"They are our best shot to get to the bottom of this. If not for us, do it for the children."

"Fine, but I doubt that they will succeed where everyone else failed and you two will be held responsible for their actions." Vladion said to Kalla and Haug.

"Succeed where everyone else failed is my legal middle name, pal." Scarlett said with a snort.

Vladion raised his arms and a sphere of earth enveloped them as they started to move through the ground like a bathysphere plunging underwater.

"Don’t waste your time trying to track our movements. It’s impossible." He said while compensating the increasing pressure on their eardrums with air magic.

"Fascinating." Scarlett said as both the Eyes of Menadion and Solus’s mana sense proved to be incapable of seeing through the conjured sphere. It was comprised of so much mana that it blinded the mystical sense of both artifacts.

Lith took his communication amulets out of his pocket dimension along with everything he thought that he might need during their stay among the undead.

’If Kalla is right and they block all kinds of dimensional magic, I’d better not give out the existence of my omni pocket.’ He thought.

"Welcome to Lightkeep." Vladion said, making Lith’s mouth fall to the ground. They had left the forest less than one minute ago yet they had already reached their destination.

Lith had been expecting something like an old castle filled with dust and cobwebs, something straight out of Earth’s horror movies, not a metropolis that rivaled in beauty with the forbidden city of Kolga.

The cold, dark, and damp cave from his imagination crumbled in front of a city as bright as day that smelled like flowers. The ceiling was several hundreds of meters high, allowing the inhabitants of Lightkeep to decide whether to build their homes on the ground or on the ceiling.

All the undead were capable of flight and of walking on walls like a spider, making it possible for them to expand the city from both above and below. Unlike Kolga, Lightkeep looked less like a modern city and more like an open-air museum.

Every building had its own garden with perennial plants pruned with such mastery that the topiary creatures looked more like statues than plants.

Every building had its windowless sides painted so that by looking at them from afar, one would see a landscape rather than the dull grey typical of stone cities. The buildings on the ceiling, instead, were painted to resemble a blue sky with a few fluffy clouds.

"Isn’t it cruel towards undead to constantly remind them of what they have lost forever?" Scarlett asked.

The Scorpicore was amazed by the beauty of the undead city, mostly because the Eyes of Menadion revealed to her that the living far surpassed the undead, yet none of them looked afraid.

She could see humans, beasts, and even plants walking freely along the streets on their own with no supervision. Scarlett had a hard time believing how pacific Lightkeep was.

"You misunderstand our city, Scorpicore." Vladion said while shaking his head. "The frescos don’t remind them of what’s lost so much as of what all of them have to strive for. The final prize for achieving the full red blood core.