Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1778

Chapter 1778 - The War Begins (Part 2)

"Laugh all you want, you bitch." Orpal stood up unscathed but furious.

He had been once again rejected by a woman beautiful enough to be worthy of his attention and bullied by a scaly monster like his brother. Yet what angered him the most was Valeron's giggle that reminded him of Lith's as a baby.

"It will only make it more fun when I watch you drown in your own blood, just like Manohar."

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City of Belius, the following morning.

Upon waking up, Lith had the worst morning of his three lives.

He immediately recognized his bedroom, but it looked like a battlefield. His claws were still out and not seeing Kamila, he feared to have injured her badly. Lith sniffed and searched for blood to understand what had happened and only once he found none did he calm down.

Then, he remembered the events of the last night.

The grief for Manohar's death, the unbridled fury, and then the shame for forcing Kamila to come and stop his tantrum. Lith sat down on the bed, looking at the results of his lack of self-control with growing embarrassment.

"Orpal." He muttered planning countless ways to prolong the suffering of his estranged sibling beyond what nature deemed right or possible.

Once he found the strength to face Kamila and entered the living room, he found the three most important women of his life sleeping near each other in some kind of slumber party.

The kettle was cold, there were no more cookies, and Solus had gone back into her ring form once she had depleted her energies. The stone ring lay on the couch between Kamila and Phloria, where Solus' scent still lingered.

"I'm so sorry for bothering you all." Lith woke them gently, putting Solus back onto his finger. "There was no need to babysit me together, but I really appreciate the gesture."

He started to make breakfast for everyone and to clean the house out of habit.

"Solus and I came to check on your life force, but we didn't stay here for you." Phloria rubbed the sleep off her eyes. "You have missed a lot."

"Define a lot." Lith feared the three of them being in the same room more than everything. There were countless embarrassing anecdotes about him that he didn't want them to share. Anything was better than that.

Or so he thought until Phloria answered.

"We couldn't leave because the city was under total lockdown. Tonight, the Griffon Kingdom went to war and we lost."

"What do you mean?"

Phloria told him everything that had happened after Manohar's death and how the three of them had spent the night awake, listening to the reports coming from all over the country.

"Fuck me sideways." Lith couldn't find better words to describe how he felt.

"Indeed." Said Solus from her ring.

"What happens now?" Lith asked.