Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1518

Chapter 1518 Final Test Part 2

"Guilty as charged!" Inxialot yelled at the screen while preparing the sensors and a new serving of popcorn. "Now move that ass and let me go home."

Yet the group advanced with caution, taking their time to search their surroundings and finding some small tags marked "Placeholder Trap".

"Cut that part from the footage." Inxialot said to Zolgrish. "If the Council finds out I half-assed my job, I'll be in big trouble."

"On it, boss." The other Lich couldn't remember which button was which and forwarded a copy of the footage to everyone involved instead.

Much to Inxialot's dismay, when the youths reached the end of the corridor, they became even more cautious. The room in front of them was a perfect cube with a side of over 30 meters (100 feet) that was empty except for a stone altar at its center.

"I don't like this one bit." Temania said while pointing at the huge pile of purified Adamant that rested on the altar. The flow of world energy through the metal was so powerful that it almost blinded Life Vision.

"By the gods." Henya said in disbelief. "It's true what they say. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

The billboard-sized tag marked "Huge Ass Trap" in ancient language coming out of the Adamant made them advance even more slowly.

"Zolgrish, I told you to remove the tag after we placed the Adamant!" Inxialot said.

"Ratpack, I told you to remove the tag after we placed the Adamant!" Zolgrish said.

"No, you didn't." The small undead replied while showing them the recording of the Liches sending lesser undead to place the Adamant and ignoring Ratpack's pleas to remove the tag.

That day, they had been so busy discussing a groundbreaking magical theory that several apprentices had almost died in a trap that the Liches had failed to deactivate in time. Ratpack had tried to enter the corridor to do it himself, but the protective arrays had almost destroyed him.

Meanwhile, Athung's group searched far and wide for the alleged "Huge ass Trap", but to no avail. Athung's Earth vision, Henya's Absolute Guard, an Awakened version of Full Guard, and Temania's frost spells couldn't find anything.

"I'd like to think that, just like the placeholder traps, the guy who built this place didn't put the huge ass trap either, but that Adamant is purified. No one, not even a Lich, would be so stupid as to leave it unprotected." The two Liches deeply resented Temania's words.

"Agreed." Athung nodded. "Let's go all out. Get ready to Warp to the city plaza. Once you are done preparing your spell, Temania will seal the entire room and Henya will seal the corridors with her shields."

The two Awakened followed her orders, respectively by covering the entire room with a mix of ice and earth magic that would serve as a protective barrier and by conjuring six shields big enough to cover the tunnels' entrances.

Henya's tier five spell, Spinning Death, created round constructs that spun at high speed. That together with their sharp edges and the spikes in front of the shields made them into omnidirectional buzzsaws. _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

"Are you ready?" Athung asked, obtaining a nod in reply.

She then released the array on her left hand, placing it on the Adamant. The Warping array was linked to the one she had previously left outside, moving the magic metal to a secure position without the risk of even getting close to the altar.