Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2156

Kamila kept staring at him without saying a word until she slowly managed to stand up again despite her shaky knees.

"I'm sorry." Her face was like her voice, cold and emotionless.

She sounded and moved like a broken automaton as she wobbled toward the door, slamming it behind her without ever looking back. The vibrations traveled from the door frame through the pavement, hitting Lith with the strength of a quake.

He was already kneeling so his legs couldn't buckle up and fall.

What remained of his human side, however, shattered like glass. Lith was aware that his happiness had been built upon lies. Now that the truth had been exposed, only the Abomination and the Void that his life was remained.

After several minutes, when it was clear that Lith had no intention of standing up and Kamila of returning, Solus activated their mind link again. It took her a second to discover how much he had shared with Kamila and understand the gravity of the situation.

'I'm sorry.' Even though she had used the exact same words as Kamila, their meaning couldn't have been more different.

Her thoughts and face were filled with compassion, knowing that with each layer of deception that Lith had lifted he had also been forced to cut open old wounds that had never truly healed.

Even with all of Solus' efforts over the years, the best she had achieved was to not make them fester.

She was now crying no less than Kamila, but her tears were caused by the pain and sadness they had shared since the day they had met.

Solus kneeled in front of Lith, hugging him tight to let him know that no matter what came next, he would never be truly alone. The Void and the Chaos inhabiting him stirred, stinging at her just like they had done to the Voidwalker armor.

Yet instead of harming Solus, they triggered the golden radiance of her body, making her glow despite being flesh and blood. Light and darkness fought for a few seconds until they seeped into each other.

The emptiness of the Void became filled with stars while Solus' radiance became shrouded by darkness, making her look like a dawning sun.

'Why did you lash out like that back at Valeron?' She asked the Void instead of Lith, glad to have the opportunity to finally face him after all those years.

'I did it for you.' He replied, flabbergasting her.

'What do you mean? The Royals and the Council are no friends of ours but they are trustworthy allies. You could have just refused the mission.'

'They are our allies only because they aren't aware of your existence. Otherwise they wouldn't hesitate one second to kill me in order to get their hands on the tower.' His thoughts became cold, sounding like a low snarl.

'As for the mission, what excuse could I've possibly come up with that wouldn't have led the Royals to use our deal as a leash and force me to do it? Nothing I said would have mattered to them. This way, instead, I exploited their fear of a wild Abomination.

'They expected me to lose control and that's exactly what I gave them.'

'Are you telling me that you've planned for this ever since the Royals came to visit us in the Desert?' Solus felt touched by his care for her as much as Lith was shocked by the Void's deviousness.