Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1857

Chapter 1857: Empty Shell (Part 1)

There would be no judgement until the final tribulation really started.

No success or failure until all conditions were met.

"Are you telling me that not only is my brother a powerful Divine Beast but also a potential Guardian?"

Orpal gritted his teeth until his gums bled and clenched his fists until his claws pierced his skin.

Baba Yaga truly was cruel. Everything that Night said only spread salt on Orpal's open wounds, making him cry in frustration.

During their long history, the Hogums had strengthened the arrays surrounding their house with each generation, turning it into a fortress. Yet even a fortress would fall under a siege if its walls were left unprotected.

The Hogums had invested most of their wealth on the defensive arrays, certain that an intruder would be either kept out until reinforcements arrived or crushed by the magical formations if they managed to sneak inside the house.

The storm of arrays, spells, and Flames attacked the mansion in waves, each one draining the mana crystals that fueled the multi-layered magical barrier. The Demons and the blackness prevented the servants from switching them with fresh ones, and soon the barrier fell.

One final burst of Void, Frozen, and True Flames destroyed the runes that formed the defensive arrays. Now even new crystals would do nothing. The magical formations were gone forever, centuries of hard work went down the drain.

The Tiamat roared as he ripped off the ceiling of the mansion, tearing apart the upper floors to reach the room from where his father's energy signature came. A faint trace that was growing weaker by the second.

"Dad! Hold on. As long as there's a spark of life I-"

It was then that Lith/Derek McCoy saw him.

The body of Raaz Verhen, lay on an oakwood table. It was covered in his own blood and with no limbs, yet such a dreadful sight wasn't the reason Lith froze. His shock was so great that the Call of the Void in the mansion disappeared, allowing Tista to see as well.

In Lith's/Derek's head, the oakwood table was the hospital bed. The missing limbs were Carl's broken corpse that had been cobbled together to make it decent for his brother during the identification.

He was back on Earth, during the worst day of his life.

The Tiamat's knees buckled, his fall onto the ground followed by a weak quake as the scene became more similar to the one that had taken place almost twenty years ago.

His gigantic hand slowly moved toward Raaz, until Lith realized that he was trembling so much that a wrong move would cut his father asunder.

He didn't notice the black clouds assembling over his head nor the slow rumble that shook the ground below him. Tista was blind and deaf as well, her body frozen in shock as the hate that coursed through the body of every Demon drove her insane.

All that Lith could hear was Derek's voice.

'You tried to change, but it was pointless.' His old voice said, full of scorn and spite. 'You know it in your soul that this place is no different from Earth.'

In a place similar to the Mindscape, Lith faced Derek while in the real world, Tiamat was frozen.