Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1499

Chapter 1499 Mistakes were Made Part 1

As more and more Golems swarmed near their position, it was only a matter of time before Lith and Phloria had to fight again.

"I can’t use Origin Flames like that again. Also, I think it would be a waste of time anyway. Look!" Lith couldn’t believe his own eyes.

The black pools that looked like tar were bubbling and writhing in the attempt to regain their shape. The Origin Flames seemed to have temporarily cut them off their power source, but they weren’t enough to destroy the Gargoyles for good.

"Stay behind me. I want to try something." Phloria said while activating her tier five Mage Knight spell, Frostmourne.

The temperature in an area of twenty meters (66 feet) around her plummeted as snow fell from the sky and ice covered the ground. Only the eye of the storm, where she and Lith stood was safe.

The black pools stopped moving while the Gargoyles that dived on them from the sky froze in mid-air. The ice covering them made the constructs miss their targets and, once shattered, they couldn’t reconstitute their bodies.

"Nice trick. Is this the advanced version of Frozen Guard?" Lith asked while helping Solus to recover and searching for the golems’ power source amid their fragments.

"No, it’s one of my original spells and it’s much better than that. Look." Phloria released short bursts of darkness that the ice absorbed and focused into its victims without weakening the water magic component of her spell.

After a while, the frozen pools turned into dust as darkness destroyed the magic that had animated the constructs.

"Can you keep this up for an hour or so?" Lith asked while his brain spun at full gear to solve that mystery.

"I’m sorry. I can hold it for a few minutes at best. And that’s solely if I run out of Invigoration and no one disturbs my spell." She replied.

’I think I know what’s going on. We’ll keep in contact via Solus’s mind link. Watch my back.’ He said while Blinking out of the area of effect of Frostmourne and forcing Solus to activate the Eyes again.

’Please, no.’ She whined as pain invaded her stone form again.

’I’m sorry, but we can’t run away without humiliating Faluel and we have no chance to win on our own. The silver lining is that I want you to search solely for this energy signature and ignore everything else.’ Lith shared with her the data about the Gargoyles, using the Eyes of Menadion to locate the real enemy.

’That I can do.’ Solus replied.

The energy source that fueled the constructs managed to reach them throughout Urgamakka. To do that, however, it had to spawn tendrils of energy every time a Gargoyle was broken.

The tendrils stretched out from the same point in the ground, making it easy to triangulate the source’s position.

Lith ran through the city, Blinking whenever he was cornered rather than wasting his energy with pointless fights. As soon as he reached the place directly above the power source, he used an earth spell to make the ground collapse.

He found himself in an underground tunnel filled with elemental blocking arrays that sealed his magic. To make matters worse, the Gargoyles swarmed from the hole in the ground and from every side as well, seeping through the cracks in the walls in their liquid form and leaving him no way out.

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"Cheeky little bastard. This will teach you a lesson." Inxialot said while making the Gargoyles converge on Lith’s position.

"What has that woman done to you?" Zolgrish pointed at Lith’s human form while losing another hand of Mogar’s equivalent of poker against Inxialot’s cat.