Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1706

'I have to accept that she will always lie and manipulate those around her, even her family, if it means keeping them safe.' Orion' s thoughts were interrupted by the sound of her stirring.

"Are you alright? How are the girls?" Jirni said the moment she opened her eyes.

"I'm fine, dummy, and so are our baby girls. It's you who are in a hospital bed." He said, forcing her to lie down.

"Thank the gods." Jirni felt weak and tired, yet she couldn't afford to sleep.

"Look, I've thought a lot about our situation." Orion said. "If you stay at the Myrok household, you will have to worry about Thrud as well now. The moment that madwoman learns how you ruined all of her plans, you'd become her main target and-"

Jirni chuckled at how stiff and funny he was while trying to act cold and logical.

"Scratch that. The Kingdom will deal with Thrud and if the copycat dares to come near you, I'll kill them on the spot. What I'm trying to say is that I'm willing to give us a second chance."

"Thank you." Jirni took his hand, letting her emotions go for the first time in her life.

Orion lifted her from the bed enough to embrace her. Despite her weakened state, Jirni mustered the strength to hold him while crying tears of joy on his shoulder until exhaustion made her lose consciousness again.

***

Over a mana geyser at the borders of the Nestrar Region, Golden Griffon academy

Thrud looked at her communication amulet, where all the runes of the Doppelgangers in Ruham had disappeared but one. That single rune was now blinking, pulling at her mind until she would accept the incoming call.

"Sevenus, jam the signal and start the academy. It's unlikely that the Royals have already pinpointed our location, but I'm not taking any risk." The Mad Queen said while crushing the mystical amulet between her fingers.

"What do you mean?" The Headmaster of the Golden Griffon asked.

"Reffa has been captured. Otherwise they would have called me right after the slaughter of their brethren." Thrud replied. "I don't know how much the Royals have discovered about my plan, but now that my Doppelgangers are burned, there's no time to waste.

"We need to move swiftly before the presence of my Skinwalkers is exposed as well. Alert all my loyal followers that the war has just begun."

***

Griffon Kingdom, Village of Lutia, a few days later.

"I'm glad to hear that everything is solved between your parents." Lith said while offering the girls some more tea. "By the way, how did my weapon perform?"

"Pretty well, but the bullets are too fast and too brittle. You can't redirect them even with dimensional magic in the case you miss your target nor can they pierce through their first target." Friya said.

"Well, that was to be expected." Lith replied. "If they were slow, an Awakened would dodge them even without Full Guard. To make the bullets more resilient, instead, I would need to increase their size.

'There is also the problem that my notions of aerodynamics are too shallow and that the random amount of Adamant in the Orichalcum makes it almost impossible to have two bullets behave the same way, but that's beyond the point.' He actually thought.