Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1774

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Chapter 1774 - Strange Partners (Part 2)

"This is great news." Feela said. "Tower or not, now we can destroy Night as soon as we face her in battle."

"Beware, though. Time is of the essence. I've reason to suspect that the longer we wait, the less these weak points will help us defeat her. It's the reason I need your help. If we don't act swiftly, by the time we find Night she might have removed them." Baba Yaga said.

"What do you mean removed?" Inxialot said, impressed by how much the Horseman's crystal resembled his own phylactery. "Artifacts don't change after being Forgemastered."

"That's what I thought as well, but that may not be the case anymore." The Red Mother replied, snapping her fingers.

Zepho Acala walked through the door as well, sitting beside Dawn and holding her hand. The ex-Ranger was a man in his mid-thirties, yet after Awakening, he looked ten years younger.

He was 1.78 meters (5'10") tall, with chestnut hair and a beard of a brown so light to look almost red. His bond with the Horseman had turned his grey hair into silver and the violet aura surrounding him proved his strength.

"What the heck?" All the Council members jumped from their chairs, Leegaain included. "This is impossible."

"Correction. This was supposed to be impossible." Baba Yaga sighed. "Allow me to introduce you to my daughter's host, husband, and the living proof of my worries."

"The what?" Inxialot was the most scared, fearing that his phylactery might walk out of its cave and ask Raagu out before he did

The Mother hated the idea of revealing even one shred of her secrets, but she had no choice.

"The method people use to turn themselves into Liches is a perversion of my Horseman technology." She said. "The mana core was never supposed to be split into two. On the contrary, it was supposed to become one with the power core of the artifact.

"I created my Horsemen so that by bonding with a host, they could have a full life and the ability to evolve like living beings without being limited by their nature of artifacts.

"I gave them the mission to overcome the limitations of the undead not by performing crazy experiments like they ended up doing…" Baba Yaga glared at Dawn and Dusk, who blushed in embarrassment.

"But by bonding with an undead, Awakening them and then growing through their bond. My idea was that it would have allowed my Horsemen to alter their host and fix the imperfections in their blood core.

"Yet I never imagined that they would bond with living beings. It had the unforeseen consequences that you see. Since there was nothing wrong to fix with Acala's core, it was Dawn's that started to change.

"I am happy for Dawn and Acala, but I'm terrified by what might happen if Orpal and Night manage to do the same. You have seen the fight, she doesn't just ride him like she did with her previous hosts, she rides along with him.

"Orpal had full control during the fight with Manohar, something that has never happened before. It makes her potential limitless."

While Baba Yaga's kitchen erupted in yells and battle plans, Dusk pondered what he had just learned. His red crystal lay atop one of the tallest buildings of the slums of the city of Gima.

After stripping him of his host and powers, Baba Yaga had dropped the Horseman in the Gorgon Empire where he still resided.

'My plan is even more perfect than I thought. I need to take a leaf from whatever has bonded with Verhen and bond with a young host who carries a dormant bloodline.' Dusk knew about Solus from his sister Dawn, but he had no idea she was the daughter of Menadion.

He looked below at the ruthless beating that was taking place in a dirty back alley. A kid dressed in rags was fighting to protect their most prized treasure. A loaf of fresh bread that they had managed to steal after two days of starvation.