The sudden death of so many of his minions due to the powerful Chaos spells had drawn the Plaguespreader's attention.
'This is really Urgamakka and those old bastards found the secret of the white core after I left. I don't need to read documents when I can just study the final product of our research.' He thought.
The Eldritch believed that Lith was a prisoner of the Awakened and that they had used him as a guinea pig for the breathing technique they had recovered before attempting it on themselves.
He had then Blinked at his minions' coordinates to retrieve the specimen.
"Don't worry, brother. You have nothing to fear from the humans anymore. I'm here to rescue you." Vareen said with a smile while offering Lith a hand that Life Vision revealed to be filled with tainted life force.
"All I ask in return is to know how you got your body back and for you to share the breathing technique for the white core with me. Do we have a deal?"
'I'll stall for as long as I can.' Lith said via the mind link, grateful that Abominations couldn't see them. 'Prepare your best spells. We've got only one shot at this. The moment this moron understands I have no idea what he's talking about, he'll kill us all.'
"Not at all." He actually said. "How do I know that as soon as I tell you the secret of the white core you won't just kill me along with the humans?"
"You can't." Fury twisted Vareen's face as the little patience that he had left ran out. "Look, I'm just trying to be polite. Either you tell me or I'll make you. I have no idea if my Contagion spell works on Abominations as well, but I'm willing to find out.
"You have no idea the amount of pain I can inflict upon-"
"Get out of here, Scrooge. I'll deal with this old fart!" Zolgrish shoved his golden staff inside of the Eldritch's mouth before unleashing a tier five darkness spell that made him explode like an overinflated balloon.
'I don't know whether to be more surprised by the fact that Zolgrish is here or that for once he remembered your name.' Solus said.
'Very funny.' Lith replied while the group darted away.
"Seriously? A Lich?" Vareen reformed his body while unleashing a barrage of low-tiered Chaos spells and conjuring his minions to help him.
The infected animals couldn't catch up with the escaping Awakened but they could easily take care of the undead in his stead.
"Not any Lich! My name is Inxialot." Zolgrish lied through his teeth.
"That son of a shitting asshole!" The real Inxialot jumped up in outrage.
While facing an immortal creature as powerful as Vareen, it was of paramount importance to hide one's owns identity. Otherwise in the case that either of them escaped, the Eldritch might look for him in search of revenge.
Zolgrish had revealed his mentor's name to both get even with Inxialot for throwing him against Vareen and to make sure that he wouldn't be the one who would have to watch his back even if the Council failed to kill the Eldritch.
"Master is crazy, not stupid." Ratpack said, proud of his creator for the first time ever.
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