Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2053

Chapter 2053 Best Laid Plans (Part 1)

'I lack Friya's dimensional awareness but thanks to the staff's enchantments I can still conjure a few enchantments she taught me.' Solus said.

'What the heck are you two talking about and why do I feel left out of this conversation entirely? I'm working my ass for you here.' Crank was really cranky from blocking one bolt of lightning after another and receiving no recognition for his hard work.

'Sorry!' Solus said, suddenly remembering that he was there too. 'How are you doing?'

'Peachy.' He replied. 'Between my armor and earth magic, the lightning barely stings. What was all that stuff about my air mastery about?'

'It was about this!' Solus bolted from Lith's shoulder and into a thundercloud as she took the very same conductive metals that the Hyperion had purified from the soil out of her pocket dimension.

She used them to form a thin mist around her that worked like a lightning rod and drew the full power of the brewing storm against her. The mother of all bolts of lightning erupted from the blackness of the cloud, illuminating the surroundings with the intensity of a second sun.

The stream of electricity was longer and wider than any Divine Beast Lith had ever seen, yet when it enveloped Solus, he felt no fear. The yellow streak in her wings lit up as she used Domination to take control of the natural lightning and make it spin in the form of a ring around her.

'Is she insane?' Crank said. 'Between my affinity toward the earth element and my bloodline abilities I'm confident to survive even something like that, but your friend there is a pipsqueak.

'If she gets so much as grazed by a lightning that strong, the only thing left of her will be her memory.'

'She may not have your raw strength, but she's much smarter.' Lith replied. 'On top of that, being small has its perks, you know?'

The Hyperion was right. Even a veteran Divine Beast like him would have been severely, if not deadly wounded by such a majestic force of nature. Yet Solus had volunteered to go first because she had something better than bloodline abilities by her side.

She had science and Lith's Faraday cage.

Even with Domination and the Sage Staff, controlling the volatile energy of the storm from so close was dangerous, but thanks to the copper mesh she suffered no damage even when she made a mistake.

Solus had placed the ferromagnetic metals outside the cage, using them to both draw more bolts of lightning to her and to form a path where to safely channel the electrical current.

This way, she could bide her time and focus solely to infuse the air element with her willpower until it obeyed her every command.

'Take it, amplify it as much as you can, and then pass it to Lith!' Solu said once the bolt of lightning had assumed a stable and compact form that anyone could safely control before throwing it at the Hyperion.

Due to the limited mana of her blue core, she couldn't empower it anymore by herself. The ring of lightning had already grown so big that it blinded all of her senses, making it hard for her to keep her focus.