Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1719

"You are not a dirt poor Wyrmling anymore, whereas I'm a mere Emperor Beast who not only can rely solely on her bloodline legacy, but also was abandoned by a certain ungrateful apprentice without him doing anything nice for me." Faluel said.

Lith had to admit that she was right.

Sure, he had gifted the Hands of Menadion to the Hydra and had purified her stockpile of magical metals, but the former had been a gesture of friendship while the latter had been part of his training.

'Without Faluel giving me plenty of materials to practice my mastery over the purifying ability of the Origin Flames and her input whenever I made a mistake, Xenagrosh would have been forced to teach me from the basics.

'The time we spent together would have not been enough to refine my skills and I would have never learned how to use the Void Flames on my own. Both the missions in Jiera and Urgamakka Faluel assigned me were for my sake. I never really did anything for her as an apprentice.' He thought.

"Fine. This is blackmail bordering on sexual harassment, but I'll play along. Faluel, would you like to go out with me?" Lith took a red rose out of his dimensional pocket, offering it to the Hydra and doubling down on the teasing.

"What?" The girls said in unison.

Solus was too stunned to even think while to Phloria those words felt like a punch in the guts. Yet they hurt way less than what they would have done before that morning.

"I meant that I want half of the Dragon's organs and you to do something for me." Faluel had an unamused look, but she took the rose nonetheless.

"What about taking you to dinner? I promise that I'll pay for it. No excuses to share the tab." He kept playing dumb.

"No. Yes. We'll see. As I said before, someone has messed up with my turf during my absence. There is so much to do that I even had to call in a few favors, just like now."

"Really, half? Isn't half a Dragon a lot of stuff for someone who just told me how the Awakened community doesn't like exploiting a corpse?" Lith replied.

"I'll just take half the organs." Faluel said. "There's not enough skin and scales for the both of us anyway and I want to keep my reputation. By the way, I suggest you to keep the ribcage to reinforce the breastplate and to turn the skull into a helm."

"Half?" Lith liked the suggestions, yet kept repeating himself like a broken record.

"Yes, half. You can have Salaark recycle your share if you fail something whereas mine is lost forever no matter the outcome of my experiments. Be thankful that I don't ask more." Faluel poked at his nose with the flower.

"Okay." Lith slumped. "What about the rest? Do I have a deadline or what?"

"It's a date, not a job interview. We'll set the details once I catch up on the backlog. I want to enjoy my night without having to worry about work. As for you, come with a full wallet because I'm going to eat to my heart's content." Faluel shrugged.

"I meant the mission." Lith felt a bit awkward at the idea, but he didn't want to be the one to blink first in that game of chicken.

"Oh, that." She nodded. "I'm too tired to keep teaching you today so the spell will have to wait for tomorrow. Which gives you two days to put your business in order before you go."

'Are you really taking her out on a date?' She asked via their mind link. 'She's over ten times your age and she had children.'

'It's more like going out with a friend.' Lith couldn't see it any other way. 'We both went through a lot recently and as you always say, I could use spending some time with my friends outside of work.'

'Yeah, except that I meant me, Nalrond, Protector, or even Morok, not our teacher.' Solus grumbled.