Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1729

The creatures that had invaded Faluel mines were divided in three groups and judging from their angry faces they didn't get along very well.

The first group was comprised of huge wolf-like creatures that greatly resembled lycanthropes from Earth's horror movies. At a first glance, they looked like the hybrid form of an Emperor Beast, yet their form was unstable.

Their silver-furred bodies kept shrinking and expanding, growing new tails or limbs that lasted barely a few seconds before being assimilated again.

Right beside the hairy giants stood several humanoids of exceptional beauty with six arms whose skin shifted non-stop between pale white and pitch-black.

Their leader was an androgynous man with elegant features that Lith was certain to have never met before and yet looked familiar.

The members of the second group wore fancy clothes as if they were going to attend a party rather than work in a mine. Some of them had turned part of their bodies into a living liquid while others had their skin glistening like precious stones and a few of them emitted a black steam from their exposed limbs.

Only a faint red light in their eyes along with their bared fangs and stretched claws betrayed them as different unknown species of undead. Even though it was morning, none of them showed signs of being weakened and emitted a powerful aura.

Their leader was a woman, clearly a Vampire, in her Chiropteran form.

It was supposed to be a giant hybrid between a human and a bat.

The woman was 2.5 meters (8'2") tall, towering her much shorter competition. Membranous wings connected her hips to her hands, where ten centimeters long razor-sharp talons replaced her nails.

Yet the creature lacked the giant ears and the thick fur of a bat, having her body covered in small scales and her head deformed in a long snout, making her almost look like a Wyvern.

Only the members of the third group were males and females of the same species as their leader.

They were all over 2.3 meters (7'7") tall, with hair of the six colors of the elements. Lith would have thought of them as humans, if not for their unusual height and the perfection of their bodies.

Each one of them looked like the masterpiece of a sculptor obsessed with fitness. Their toned muscles looked like they had been chiseled rather than trained. They wore comfortable silk pants and loose vests that left most of their backs exposed.

Their leader was a man slightly taller than the others, with a beard and several odd deep expression lines on his face that ruined his otherwise handsome features.

All the members of the three factions wore a Harmonizer and only the presence of their respective leaders in the middle of the corridor kept them from jumping at each other's throat.

They pointed fingers while talking at the same time, making it impossible even for Protector's fine ears to understand a word they were saying.

'Relatives of yours?' Morok asked Friya while pointing at the third faction and in particular at the women, shaping an hourglass with his hands.

'No, but you got a point. Even if those guys really are human, how can there be so many Awakened with six elemental streaks gathered in one place? I'm supposed to be a unique case.' She inwardly cursed at the geyser blocking her Life Vision.

'I'm more troubled by the undead.' Nalrond said. 'I know that we are deep underground and that some of them can move during the day, but that's something that takes centuries of experience.

'On top of that, how can they manifest the elements like that and how can they emit an aura? Isn't that supposed to be something that only Awakened can do without a spell?'

'Yours are all excellent points, but we'll never learn anything if we stay here. Friya, can you open a Scope near them so that we can overhear what they are quarreling about?' Lith asked.

'Too much light and too many people. We have no idea of what we are against and the dimensional fissure works both ways. The wolf creatures might smell us, the undead might perceive our heartbeats, and the tall guys might… I don't know, anything!' She replied.

'I often used to say that a real spy can walk through the shadows to remain unseen, but it was just an expression. I never expected that one day I would be capable of doing it for real.' He thought while adjusting his shape as he moved from a dark space of the cave to the next.