Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1380

Chapter 1380 - Ancestral Powers (Part 4)

"Your newfound abilities may make you a threat to someone with a blue core, but to me, you’re nothing but a chump. You should have done like your Harpy friend and saved your energy.

"You wasted half of your Life Maelstrom for nothing and what’s left can’t bring you to my level. Surrender now and I’ll give you a clean death."

The Sphinx roared at her arrogance and charged forward, using the silver energy he had left to boost his body and increase the effects of elemental fusion by tenfold. Unfortunately for him, Scarlett didn’t boast her strength so much as state hard facts.

She had a bright violet core, a perfectly refined body, and over three hundred years of battle experience whereas her opponent was a non-Awakened bright blue cored individual greener than grass.

She flew back, dodging all of his attacks as she gauged the enemy’s timing. Just like the Harpy, the Sphinx had only recently acquired the ability to produce Life Maelstrom. He wasn’t used to moving at such speed nor did he know how to exploit his newfound strength at its fullest.

Each attack was met with a perfectly timed counter. Scarlett’s claws deflected the opponent’s and left a huge gash into his armor. Also, her tail struck every time the Sphinx left himself open.

Which happened often. The scorpion tail released acid with each hit, corroding the armor and covering the Sphinx in chemical burns that sapped his strength.

’Moron.’ She thought. ’Life Maelstrom is powerful but not omnipotent. The energy he has left isn’t enough to fill the gap between a non-Awakened bright blue and an Awakened bright violet.

’Had he used it all for boosting his physique and aimed only for close-quarters combat, he might have stood half a chance.’

The Sphinx charged again, focusing the strength he had left for a deadly bite to the throat that would have pierced through the Scorpicore’s Adamant armor. Too bad that going head-first against a Light Master was akin to beg for a wall.

The Emperor Beast crashed against a golden barrier, finding himself sealed inside a perfect cube with each side one meter (3.3 feet) thick.

"Come on, pal. Your Collapsed Space spell makes it impossible to use Dimensional Magic so you’ve got no way out of there. Surrender now and stop wasting my time." Scarlett said.

"Where there’s a will, there’s a way!" Life Maelstrom made the Sphinx so strong that each slash of his paws cracked the construct faster than the Scorpicore could repair it.

By focusing on one side of the cube, he compromised its integrity and then charged at it with the full weight of his massive body.

A snap of Scarlett’s fingers made the cube of light turn into a mass of darkness that offered no resistance to the Sphinx who ended up hitting the nearby wall with such strength that both the cave and his brain quaked.

The concussion left him in a daze and allowed the dark energy to seep inside his body, eating at it from the inside. At the same time, Scarlett attacked him from the outside with her tier five Light Mastery spell, Spirit Pillar.

A golden pillar of light streaked emerald all over came out of her opened mouth, hitting the Sphinx’s c.h.e.s.t with the energy of a collapsing mountain.

’Okay, now let’s see how the kids are faring- Oh, shit!’