Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1408

Chapter 1408 - Two as One (Part 2)

The three Awakened even used array detecting spells to spot inactive magical formations that even mystical senses wouldn’t pick up, but to no avail.

’What the f.u.c.k?’ Lith voiced everyone’s thoughts via the mind link. ’What point did it have sending those four guys against us just to leave us a clean path?’

’They did it to make us overthink!’ Vladion was amazed by the brilliant ingenuity of their enemy. ’We saw guards so we expect guards. We know there is a geyser so we expect arrays. Our paranoia is our own enemy, making us waste precious time for nothing.’

’That or to make us think that the road is clean and lure us into a trap.’ Lith replied.

’What trap? I can’t smell anyone but us. What do your Eyes see?’ Vladion said with a scoff.

’Several energy signatures, but none is moving and only three of them are powerful. The rest are either newborn undead or living beings close to death. Both of them haven’t much time left.’ Scarlett replied.

Vladion activated Life Vision and darted forward, ignoring his centuries of experiences screaming at him to be cautious.

’I’ve played this trick in the past too. The more cunning the opponent, the more they will plan and think ahead. No defense is the best defense since they will not stop looking around until they realize there’s nothing!’ He said while the others followed him from a safe distance.

Vladion was the strongest of the group and he could instantly heal without affecting his strength, whereas Lith and Scarlett couldn’t afford to be injured before the fight even started.

Lith cursed at Vladion’s stupidity for half a kilometer before realizing that the Firstborn was right. Life Vision, mana sense, array detecting spells, they kept coming negative and the group covered in seconds the space that his paranoia would have made him waste hours searching for traps.

’Maybe the traps are in the second half.’ He thought, slowing down further to let Vladion take the full brunt of whatever lay ahead.

Yet nothing happened. The Firstborn arrived at their destination unscathed, yet the vision that appeared in front of his eyes surpassed most of the horrors he had seen during his long life.

A huge glass tank, over thirty meters (100 feet) high and 20 meters (66 feet) wide had been built right in the middle of the mana geyser. Around the tank, members of different species of lesser Dragons had been arranged into three concentric circles.

Countless tubes drained their blood, extracting and purifying Leegaain’s residual essence before feeding it to the person whose gigantic body floated in the tank. Two smaller tanks, one at each side of the geyser, had been filled with newborn undead and their nourishment.

They were constantly fed yet their black cores couldn’t stabilize into blood cores because the life force they assumed was instantly drained from them and fed to the main tank.

Just like Kalla had explained Lith during their lessons, newborn undead and Abominations were both born with a black core that allowed them to feed on anything, making them universal donors of life force.

The only difference between them was that Baba Yaga’s children would stabilize and turn their black core into a blood one thanks to the absorbed life force becoming a counterpart to Chaos, whereas Abomination wouldn’t.

"You came here faster than I expected." A silvery feminine voice said. "It’s amazing how you managed to arrive early and yet it’s already too late. My dear friend Xedros has already turned into a mighty Dragon, all that’s left to do is stabilize his condition."

Thrud Griffon stood in front of them, wearing Arthan’s armor and with the Sword of Arthan hung to her hip. The enchanted protection had changed its shape to easily accommodate and support her swollen belly from the mid-term pregnancy.

’F.u.c.k me sideways!’ Lith, Scarlett, and Solus thought in unison.

’I feel like crap just saying it, but there’s still hope if we aim our attacks to her belly. Even that crazy woman must have feelings for her child, making her pregnancy a weak point that we can exploit.’ Lith said the others via the mind link.