Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1659

Chapter 1659 - Rise Unto The Call (Part 1)

War needed to hit a Skeletal Knight once to disperse the darkness that animated it, but only if Solus managed to make the blade get past the protections and touch the corpse.

She already had trouble moving with her human body, let alone while being forced to puppeteer an oversized armor.

"I hate undead!" She roared as no matter how hard she hit them with the Sage Staff, the Skeletal Knight would keep getting up and fighting until all of their limbs had been destroyed.

"Fall back, Major!" Captain Eman was surprised by how feminine Lith's voice sounded from time to time. "You are already tired from the previous fight and need to rest. We'll cover your escape!"

The officer unleashed the tier five spell, Dark Star, generating a pillar of darkness that descended from above and engulfed the Skeletal Knights surrounding them. Darkness magic was the origin and the bane of the undead, quickly turning them into ashes.

"And leave you guys behind? Never!" Solus blocked Quaron's attempt to Blink past the Dark Star and inside her defenses by putting a shield of light right in front of his exit point.

He slammed his face hard against the construct and tumbled on the ground without even knowing what had gone wrong. The Ranger had tried to Blink behind her back, unaware that Solus's mana sense could see all around her.

She pointed at his position and the Captains opened fire with their wands but Quaron conjured an earth shield to defend himself before Blinking away to escape from the Demons that had encircled him.

'If only I could use Invigoration like a true Awakened, I would have impaled him on a tier five spirit spell!' Solus thought while the soldiers complimented "Lith" for his impeccable timing and leadership.

Usually, a deep blue mana core would have been capable of casting several powerful spells before needing rest but her case was different. Her cracked core leaked energy by the second and keeping her physical form caused Solus great pain.

Her life force was cracked as well and it crumbled faster with each move that she made. Even with the aid of the Sage Staff, focusing on a spell drained a lot of her focus.

To make matters worse, not only was she still unable to cast spells with her body due to the lack of auxiliary cores, but she also couldn't afford to go all out. If her body disappeared, leaving behind an empty suit of armor, Lith's cover would be blown.

The Skeletal Knights outnumbered the Demons ten to one and with each mage that fell, with each shadow that faded because Lith was too far away to infuse them with new strength, the situation grew direr.

A small unit of undead managed to flank Solus and strike at her constructs. They got past the shattered shields before she could reform them, separating Solus from the Captains by alternating feints and darkness spells.

'This doesn't make any sense. Skeletal Knights are supposed to be incapable of such clever thinking without- Oh shit!' Only then did she notice that Quaron had ceased his attack to direct the battle from a safe distance.

As Syrook's Harbinger, he had access to most of his bloodline abilities, including control over the undead conjured by Nether Gate.

Solus Blinked to blindside Ranger, but the moment Quaron saw the dimensional energy gather, he turned around and put all of his weight behind a lunge aimed at the heart of his hated enemy.

Metal clashed with metal and enchantment with enchantment until his glaive pierced through a wailing Skeletal Knight.

"What the fuck?"