Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1697

The Doppelganger tried to slip from under the door and windows, but Manohar's constructs sealed every way out of the room.

Then it tried to reform its body, but the cold had frozen the smaller bits of the creature and the two mages focused their darkness magic on the fragments big enough to keep moving.

It took Manohar and Phloria great caution to keep their respective spells from hurting their partner. By the time the Doppelganger was dead, half of Manohar's uniform was back to be white and Reaver had run out of spells.

The gelatinous lumps left in the room quickly evaporated, revealing a communication amulet that lost its imprint along with all the runes etched on its surface.

"This was a disaster." The Mad Professor cried over the spilled specimen. "Such a unique life form and not one fragment left to examine!"

"Who cares about that?" Phloria exploited her rage painting her eyes blue with mana to use Life Vision, making sure that the creature was dead down to the last bit. "Don't you remember what my mother said?

"There are at least three Doppelgangers at the Marquis's house and even more at the service of the Countess. The moment those creatures take a look at their own amulets and realize that their partner is dead, they might go on a rampage.

"The two of us had this much trouble dealing with one of them. None of the mages at the party is a Light Master and my mother is not even a mage. You alert the army while I inform my parents of the danger."

"You are a genius!" Manohar said while jumping with joy. "There is still hope. I just need to capture one of the other Doppelgangers!"

He rushed out of the City Lord's office, ignoring Phloria's words.

The guards mistook him for an intruder and tried to arrest him. The Mad Professor used the fighting skills that Orion had taught him to break their bones and several laws of the Kingdom while saving the mana he had left to recharge the magic holding array that covered his vest.

By the time Phloria reached the door after collecting the Doppelganger's amulet, he was nowhere to be seen.

"That man is not crazy, he's a raving lunatic." She called Quylla and Friya, giving them an exhaustive report of the Doppelganger's abilities before opening a Spirit Warp to the Marquis' house.

'Without Manohar, Phloria can't deal with so many monsters alone. She needs my help.' Friya said via the mind link. 'Explain the situation to the mages of the Association and the soldiers while I go help Mom and Dad.'

Quylla didn't like being left behind, but if both leaders of the mission disappeared, it would hurt Orion's reputation since he was the one that had put them in charge. On top of that, Quylla still couldn't use Spirit Dimensional magic.

Despite all of her efforts, she was stuck at tier three Spirit Magic whereas Friya was both a dimensional mage and an Awakened. At that moment, Quylla didn't care about her pride as a mage, only about saving her parents.

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Marquis Beilin's home, at the same time.

"Your wife sincerely regrets what she has done." Beilin said with a brotherly, caring tone as if he and Orion were old friends. "Jirni has done all she could to obtain your forgiveness. As a man, you can't tear your family apart like this."