Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1701

The soldiers obeyed the order, using a mix of fire and darkness magic to make all but the load-bearing walls crumble.

The nobles could finally get out of the reinforcement's way while the Doppelgangers had to choose between holding their ground and being killed or escaping by blending in with the crowd.

Unfortunately for them, the choice was quickly taken out of their hands.

Phloria had arrived for a while, but all she could do was to keep watch from the outside with Life Vision while filling Reaver to the brim with spells.

Rushing in meant revealing a power capable of ignoring the city arrays. She had been forced to wait and hope that nothing bad would happen until a reasonable time to justify her arrival had passed.

As for Friya, she had spent the time before the destruction of the walls trying to figure out Lith's weapon.

'I wish that cheapskate had allowed me to practice with the Fixed Tracks Metal Barrel, but he said that if I did, it would consume charges that he wasn't willing to pay for.' She thought.

'On top of that, Salaark forbid me to use it in the Desert and when I asked Faluel to test it in her cave she freaked out. Let's hope that I understood enough from Lith's explanation to make it work.'

The weapon looked like a stringless crossbow ending in a giant tuning fork longer than her arms. Friya inserted a cylinder with a blue crystal at the base of the weapon and heard a humming sound as electric arcs built up between the fork's extremities.

'Unlike artifacts, alchemical tools don't suffer from the sealing arrays since the spells they use have already been cast and their elemental energy stored inside by their crafter.

'They would be great, if not for being limited to tier three spells and the impossibility to imbue them with willpower since user and caster don't match. That's why only magicless people want alchemical tools while mages only want artifacts.' She inwardly sighed.

After a few seconds, the blue gemstone blinked and Friya inserted an odd rectangular-shaped metal box right below the tuning fork, like Lith had instructed her to.

'I wonder why he put two handles yet he nagged at me not to grab the removable one while firing the Fixed Tracks Metal Barrel. It would make aiming easier.' Almost in reply to her question, a click followed.

A small piece of metal moved from the box and into the middle of the fork where it floated in mid-air, completing the circuit.

Now the current traveled from the power source up one of the forks, through the metal which acted as a connecting wire, and back down the other fork. The electric arcs disappeared as the electricity coming from the power source could flow freely and create a powerful magnetic field.

'Okay, I'm done with this nonsense. Let's see how it wor-' Friya aimed at one of the giants that were walking through the collapsed walls and pressed the trigger.

The electricity in the fork surged, but instead of producing a bolt of lightning like she expected, it pushed the enchanted metal forward and out of the fork.

The projectile moved at supersonic speed, enveloped in a golden light caused by the air magic that reduced the air resistance and kept the friction from pulverizing the bullet.

'That moron! Not everyone weighs a few tons. He should have warned me.' Lith actually had, recommending her to always have a solid footing and a strong grip, but Friya had thought that he was being anal retentive as usual.

'Oh, shit!' She thought while looking at the crater that had replaced one of the rooms on the first floor of the mansion.

'Okay. The good news is that now I have the time to think about how to properly aim the next shot. The even better news is that once I get back to the Desert, I'm going to kick Lith's ass big time.' Friya took a series of deep breaths and as soon as the blue gem blinked again, she made her move.