Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1886

Chapter 1886 Returned to Sender (Part 2)

"What about this one?" Kamila asked while a song written by Wild Gardens about a really, extremely, crazily love started.

"The one when you proposed to me. Do you want to dance to it?"

"I would love to." Kamila put down the dish, the Tuner, and turned the volume to the maximum.

The guests were still busy eating the delicacies of the Desert and the wide selection of Lith's sweets so the couple had the ballroom all for themselves.

As the song played, they danced alone and the world around them seemed to disappear until there were only the two of them left. They remained silent, the sweet love song already saying with its lyrics what they felt for each other.

***

Griffon Kingdom, city of Valeron, War Room.

Even in the middle of the night, the high command of the army and the Association had been assembled to discuss the developments of the War of the Griffons and decide the next strategic line of action.

The King and the Queen frowned in an expression of great focus as they studied the holographic map in front of them. The entire floor of the War Room was an enchanted item that depicted the situation of the Kingdom and the position of the troops in real-time.

"The north and the south front are holding, Your Majesty." General Vorgh said. "The presence of heavily defended cities and many lost cities makes the north easy to guard.

"The south, instead, has so far avoided the attentions of the Mad Queen. My hypothesis is that due to her deal with the Dead King, Thrud steered clear of Verhen. That, or she doesn't want to give him a good reason to come back to the Golden Griffon."

At that name, the Royals bit their lower lip in anger and frustration, barely containing an angry bellow.

"That Morn idiot!" Sylpha's visage twisted into a grimace of disgust. "His stupid move managed to damage the Kingdom on multiple levels. We already lost Manohar, and with Verhen gone, we are down two Archmages who were our main attack force."

"Not only that." Meron held his wife's shoulder to calm her down while he took a deep breath. Losing their temper in front of witnesses would have been an act of weakness that would further demoralize their troops.

"The Council is still willing to help us, but the negotiations had to be redone from scratch. They say that if we attack one of them just because of their secrets and strip them of everything they have, then others like Verhen have no guarantee that they won't receive the same treatment.

"My reckless cousin managed to anger both the human and the beast faction in a single move. I wish we tortured him longer. The more the war goes on, the more I'm certain that Morn got away too easily." _{freeweɓnovēl.coɱ}

Feela and Faluel had been enraged by the death warrant on Lith's head and that of his family. The beasts all had several relatives and they stole from the Kingdom on a regular basis so attacking one of their own like that was perceived as a precedent.

Also, Emperor Beasts looked after their own and demanded compensation and assurance that such events wouldn't happen again before moving a muscle.

Raagu and the Human Council were enraged as well.

At first, the representative had intended to punish Athung for pretending to be her and involving a mere human like Jirni in the parlay. Then, after meeting the Archon in person and the Gernoff Household having vouched for her, Raagu had let Athung's transgression slide.