Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1522

Chapter 1522 Spreading the Plague Part 2

"I thought you dragged me here because they forced you to supervise the test and because you wanted to impress Sauce." Zolgrish said.

"Master, why lights blink?" Ratpack asked.

"What lights, you silly creature? We can perfectly see in the dark. There are no lights in the control room." Zolgrish hated it when his assistant disturbed him in the middle of an important experiment.

"Those lights." Ratpack pointed at the holographic console where the integrity indicators of Urgamakka now looked like a Christmas tree.

"Oh, that." Inxialot said. "It means that someone is breaching the city and that the lives of the apprentices are at risk."

"Alarm?" Ratpack pointed at the emergency lever.

"And lose precious data?" Both Liches said in horror. "People die every day, that's why we all have phylacteries. We'll contact the Council as soon as the fight ends."

"But apprentices have no phylacteries!" Ratpack said in frustration but the Liches had already stopped listening to him.

Tired of being treated worse than a slave, the small undead pulled the lever, discovering that the array it was linked to had already been destroyed.

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'I can't believe we've become so powerful in a little over a week.' Lith thought while changing his form.

Being covered in Origin Flames put a toll on his life force, but he had a way to recover. By transforming into the lesser Abomination whenever the Hordes swarmed him, Lith sucked the spores dry with his Draining Touch and managed to escape.

The Abomination form was much smaller and nimbler than the Fire Dragon, making it easy for him to escape from any encirclement. On top of that, while in that form, his darkness spells contained just enough Chaos to make them faster and more painful than normal.

'Well, duh.' Solus replied. 'The Yggdrasill staff works akin to training wheels and by analyzing the data collected in my Monocle form, we managed to learn at an unprecedented rate.'

'Agreed. Too bad that this mission is almost o- Oh, shit!'

The Hordes had just finished sweeping Urgamakka and now they had all converged around the Awakened fortress. The apprentices had managed to keep three of them in check, slowly gaining an advantage thanks to their teamwork, but now they had to fight nine Hordes at the same time.

They were approaching the building while spreading their spores wide. Their advance looked like a multi-colored mist that hid the entire city from sight as they moved closer.

The less space they had to cover, the stronger and more compact they became until the mist turned into a sandstorm.

The darkness infused spores suddenly swarmed the fortress from every side, keeping anyone from escaping with dimensional magic. A hail of emerald spells destroyed the arrays while a few clouds turned into giants that engaged the Emperor Beasts and the Tiamat in physical combat.

Lith's Voidfeather Dragon form had no problem blocking the attacks, but a Horde could grow as many limbs as they wanted.

Two hands weren't enough to defend against a flurry of dozens of fists and the Origin Flames covering his body had been smothered by another Horde that now was wrapped around him like a blanket.