Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1510

Chapter 1510 Learning from the Past Part 2

'The Eyes of Menadion are an amazing tool.' Lith thought as Solus's new form revealed to him a well-hidden dormant array.

Usually, an inactive magical formation was impossible to detect without wasting the mana necessary to cast an array detecting spell and the time to study its findings.

On top of that, the Eyes also showed him the focus points of the magical formation, making it a child's play for Lith to destroy them and deactivate the array with minimal effort.

The Adamant cylinder and its runes were no trap. Lith and many members of the expedition had found quite a lot of them already.

Back when the city had been built, there was no such thing as dimensional amulets so that the Urgamakkans needed the cylinders to safely store important documents and preserve them from the passage of time.

'What's in it?' Solus asked.

'A tier five Spirit Magic spell.' Lith replied after translating the ancient language with the help of a book that every member of the expedition had received and that he had stored inside Soluspedia.

'It's a bit rough around the edges and some parts are abstruse, but with Faluel's help we might turn it into a fine addition to our grimoire.'

Every time they discovered something new, they would take a break to contact the Hydra, ask her for guidance, and get some rest from the Eyes.

Unbeknownst to them, they also gained merits in the form of plus signs that piled up beside Lith's and Phloria's holograms.

Not everyone shared the same deep bond of trust with their mentor, however. Many young Awakened would keep anything they found for themselves, sharing it solely with their companions.

"This is the best mission that the old fart has ever assigned to me." A Sprite said to his fellow Fae. "So far, we've found Spirit Spells that will allow us to crack the secret of true Spirit Magic and artifacts that despite their age are still quite good."

"Shouldn't we call our respective masters and show them our loot?" A Dream Lotus, a humanoid Fae that looked like a brown-skinned youth with petals for hair, asked.

"Why should we do that?" A Titania replied and the others nodded with a sneer. "They didn't teach us how to get a violet core nor true Spirit Magic. All of our masters have worked our assess off and yet they gave us artifacts so crappy that they are barely better than millennia-old junk."

"Agreed." A Wisp of Will said.

He was actually a firefly that after Awakening had gained a shiny humanoid body that closely resembled Solus's energy form. Due to the fact that insects would rarely get along with Beasts, he had chosen to group up with the Fae.

"I say that we keep this stuff for ourselves. None of us has been chosen as an heir so rather than gifting the fruits of our hard work to those ungrateful assholes of our masters, I say that we should take our time studying them until the end of the expedition.

"This way, if we fail to decipher them, we lose nothing by sharing our findings. If we manage to crack their secrets, instead, we can pretend that we came up with such spells and artifacts on our own. It will raise our status in the Council!"

The group agreed unanimously, gaining several minus marks each and greatly embarrassing their masters. The youths had covered themselves with a Hush spell, but even that couldn't keep their words hidden from the surveillance arrays.

"These people were amazing!" A bright blue-cored Nue said while reading a scroll that described a breathing technique that was supposed to lead to the violet core.

"Indeed." A Behemoth in her human form said. Claws were terrible for handling delicate objects, let alone paper.

"Some of the stuff we've found is actually superior to the techniques our masters taught us. Once we update them with modern runes, we will be unstoppable."