Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1977

Chapter 1977: Becoming a Magus (Part 3)

"Silverwing's legacy isn't faulty, just incomplete. Light and darkness are not the only two elements that are two sides of the same coin. All six of them are."

"Can you give us a demonstration?" Sylpha had countless objections to such a statement but magic wasn't about opinions.

If Lith really could do as he claimed, he just had to prove it. On top of that, the Queen doubted that he would try to con two expert mages like the Royals.

"I know that you are fake Awakened so feel free to use Life Vision. This way, you can make sure that I'm not using some trick." Lith said and his eyes lit up with mana, quickly followed by the Royals'.

"As a kid, I was amazed by Silverwing's teachings, and my surprise only grew once I met Scarlett the Scorpicore, the previous ruler of the White Griffon's Forest. She could freely switch the light element into darkness and later I witnessed even Professor Manohar do it."

While Lith spoke, a small spark of light energy appeared between his hands. It started to spin clockwise, turning darker with every cycle. The Royals could see with Life Vision that Lith wasn't casting a second spell.

The very same energy of the original spark had turned from light into darkness. It reinforced their wish to get Lith back on their side, but it was far from amazing. The late Manohar had achieved much more.

"That's because even though we perceive them as different elements, they are actually one and the same. Together, they represent the control over life." The spark of light nurtured the flowers in the room, making them more vibrant, while the darkness half made them wither.

"Without light, darkness turns into Chaos, and without darkness, light turns into Decay." With a little help from his eyes, Lith created a spark of both Cursed elements, breaking the balance.

Half the flowers rot while the other half simply disappeared.

"This is common knowledge." The King said. "Aside from showing off your mastery over the elements, you added nothing to Silverwing's legacy."

"I needed to establish a common ground or you wouldn't be able to follow my reasoning." Lith replied with a shrug. "You see, even though my natural affinities as a Divine Beast are fire and darkness, the first pair of elements I've mastered are air and earth.

"That's because in my line of work dimensional magic saved my life countless times. Even though dimensional magic requires more than two elements, it's air and earth that together represent the mastery over space."

"What?" The Royals said in disbelief while a small rock floated between Lith's hands and half of it slowly turned into dust.

Once again, it wasn't a second spell nor was Lith simply altering the rock's density. The dust turned into a fine powder, then into a yellow mist, and finally into a small thunderstorm.

Explaining with words to people with no knowledge of physics would have been impossible, but what he was doing was using air magic's control over the electrical charges to break the bonds in the rock and earth magic to keep the polarized matter split.

"You heard me." Lith said. "Air and earth allow the mage to control the distance between things. Enhance the attractive forces and you get solid objects. Enhance the repulsive forces and you get gas instead."

He stretched the cloud, turning the entire rock into the electromagnetic powder before condensing it again.

"Fire and water can't influence the density of solid matter, yet fire can liquefy and evaporate anything, while ice can turn the strongest object into a brittle piece of glass. Have you ever wondered why?" _{ƒгeewebnovёl.com}