Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2129

Chapter 2129 Close but Far (Part 1)

Cyntra and the other elders had been chosen by Night as her teachers because of their power and skill so they considered themselves more than dignified baggage for the Hushed King's group.

Yet their pride gave way to humility the moment Kigan rushed at the enemy lines.

The Cursed element made the temperature in the room drop by dozens of degrees yet it was nothing compared to what happened to anything that came in contact with it. The bodies of the undead were frozen to the bone, their bodily fluid increasing in volume and making their flesh and bones shatter from the sheer pressure.

In less than one second, anyone grazed by the living Zero turned into a pile of red crystals and then into ashes.

Enchanted protections failed, enchanted metal became as brittle as glass, and even the solid stone of the golems melted into ice shards when Phoenix's Cursed body clawed at them.

Such a bloodline ability would have killed its user in a handful of seconds if it wasn't for Kigan's Balor half. Balors had no mana core due to the elemental energy being evenly spread throughout their bodies and mixed with their life force.

It gave them uncanny physical prowess and resistance to magic. On the other hand, however, it made it impossible for them to Awaken and conjure spells.

The power of their eyes to control the elemental energies partly compensated for that, but in their Fallen state, they could only have up to three eyes whereas even fake mages could use all six elements.

Vastor had fused Kigan with a Balor hoping that the lack of a core would have solved the duality that affected the other hybrids. He had expected that the mana spread throughout the Balor half would be sucked by the black core like anything else and become one with it.

What had actually happened was that the elemental energies had resisted the pull, forming an insulating layer around the black core. The black eye constantly absorbed the darkness element, making it resistant to the Chaos.

Also, the light element that the Balor half produced kept the Chaos from spreading by reverting the Cursed element into darkness that the black eye could control. Kigan was the hybrid with its body closest to perfect balance and the core farthest from it.

While the other Abominations had their cores at least partially overlapping, his own were still apart.

By studying the phenomenon, Kigan had learned how to replace the Chaos coursing through his being with another Cursed element, but just like a Balor, his abilities were limited by his eyes.

The Chosen recognized the threat at hand thanks to Orpal's precise instructions. The Dead King had learned how to deal with all kinds of Cursed elements during his fight with Tezka and had trained his soldiers accordingly.

The undead unleashed waves of fire magic meant to turn the Zero into regular water and then freeze it. Turning into a mass of Cursed ice bestowed upon Kigan their destructive power but also burdened him with their weakness.

Once his physical form was gone so would his life.

The yellow eye shone in response to the attack while the red one drained the fire element in the Dark Phoenix's surroundings, returning him into his natural state. The Zero turned into flesh and blood and then into Choke, smothering the spells that were supposed to kill him.