Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1880

Chapter 1880 Only Idiots Never Share (Part 2)

"As you already know, the current magic holding rings have terrible limitations. They cannot store a spell of a different tier from their own and they cannot be used by anyone who isn't their owner." Balkor said.

"On paper, there's nothing wrong with it, but look at the issue from another perspective. Every mage has something they excel at and something they suck at. For example, I can't match Orion's defense as a Mage Knight just like he can't match the destructive power of my spells.

"If I could charge his rings and him mine, we would cover our respective weaknesses. We would also always have at the ready spells that we are only able to cast slowly and with sub-par effects."

"On top of that, it would allow even a non-mage to use powerful spells." Vastor chimed in. "This research started because Jirni wanted to get rid of Deirus, but after Manohar got ahold of the Spell Hoarding Cube, he saw a fix to all of our problems.

"Jirni and I arranged this lab because her wits can only bring her so far against overwhelming power. The purpose of our proto cubes is to store each at least one spell of any tier and make them accessible to anyone who imprints them."

"Tier one to five?" Solus asked.

"No. Any tier." Orion shook his head. "Our current problem is that we have failed to find a way to avoid the conflict between the willpower of the owner of the spell and that of the owner of the cube."

"You- no, we are indeed very lucky." Lith smiled as another piece of the puzzle fell into place. "I think I have exactly what you need and you have what I've been missing all along."

Lith took the flask for the Origin Flames and the Orc Shaman's crystal out of his pocket dimension. Everyone was shocked at the sight of the gemstone, but Vastor more than the others.

The violet crystal had become much bigger than he remembered and had turned into a pristine white. It now held more power than any of the Archmages in the room.

"Professor, do we have your permission to share the spell for the tracking device?" Solus had always dreamed of attending an academy and acted no different from one of Vastor's students.

"Sure, lass." He found himself patting her head as if she was a first year who had given a correct answer.

Solus squirmed in joy and passed along two spells. One to study the memory function of the shaman's crystal and the other to study the flask's ability to hold two imprints at the same time.

Knowing that they would work with fake mages and with no desire to use Invigoration in front of people like Balkor, they had prepared a fake spell that would give them the same information but only about the flask.

"Good gods." Orion said after trying them both. "I had the answer, no, dozens of answers in my very lab and I never noticed."

Then, the god of Forgemastery turned towards the god of the battlefield.

"If this is the Orc Crystal that Lith stole and it contains your tracking device, then it means that you planned to steal it as well. Even worse, you threw an entire tribe of powerful monsters against a bunch of kids!" His voice was full of reproach, but Vastor just shrugged.

"The Kingdom taught me how to dirty my hands and never feel guilty about it. I don't see why I should use my skills only to benefit a bunch of ungrateful bastards. Mark my words, if it wasn't for Manohar, I would've sat out of this war.

"I'm tired of being used and then forgotten once my services are no longer required."

Orion opened his mouth to reply but Balkor stopped him.