Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2227

Zinya had waist-long black hair and a sweet smile. She was a bit shorter than Kamila but she had always been prettier than her younger sister.

"I beg your pardon? Why should I be angry with the Kingdom?" The sight of her beauty and of the love in her eyes never failed to surprise Vastor.

"I know that no one worked harder than you to recapture Belius. That without you they would have failed." She projected from her amulet the images of the short armored warrior carrying a wooden staff that she knew was her husband.

"Yet once again someone else younger and allegedly more talented hogged all the glory and solely Phloria Ernas' name has been recorded in the Royal Chronicles. I understand that you are sad, but feeling you so distant even on the rare occasions you are home hurts."

"That's not the problem." He shook his head. "I'm already an Archmage. Even if everything I did became public, I would still not become a Magus. That requires sharing knowledge that I don't possess.

"Believe me, I'm not envious of the Ernas sisters. Quite the contrary, I'm proud of them. They are my students and they are finally getting the recognition they deserve."

"Then why are you here instead of in our room with me, Zogar?" Zinya asked.

"It's complicated." He sighed, hoping that she would drop the matter.

"Then make it simple." She closed the door and dragged a chair near his desk to sit in front of him. "I want to be a part of your life, not a side project."

"I can't. I don't want to hurt you." The Master averted his eyes, knowing that if he didn't, he would fall apart.

No torture would make him talk, but his wife would succeed. Her love was real and her questions were reasonable. Yet Vastor was afraid of driving Zinya away were she to discover the truth, and even more scared if she decided to stay anyway.

It would make her his accomplice and taint her with a guilt that she didn't deserve.

"Is this because I can't have children?" Zinya took his hand, her voice pained but steady. "Is it because you have another woman that you can't even look me in the eyes?"

"What?" Vastor turned around in outrage. "How can you even think that? What kind of man do you think I a-" Then he remembered about his crimes and he lacked the strength to finish the word.

"Then why do you act like this and why do you hate yourself so much?" She cupped his face in her hands, forcing the Master to look up. "I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong with you."

"Believe me. You don't want to know and you wouldn't understand." He replied, breaking free from her touch.

"What I don't want to know? That you are a Highmaster who killed thousands whenever the Crown wanted to clean up without getting dirty?" Zinya took out a conspiracy theory book about the secret specializations.

There were pictures of black armors that closely resembled the one Vastor wore in the few frames of his fights available to the public. Frames that Zinya's amulet was now projecting.

"What I wouldn't understand? That your 'children' are actually old monsters from the past?" She took more tomes out of her dimensional amulet.

One was a lore book depicting the infamous Tezka the Suneater while the other was a Forgemastery book where Bytra's face was portrayed along with her title as the Rune Magus.

Yet while the Raiju still looked the same, Tezka's current form was adorable compared to the monster depicted in the book. He was portrayed as a colossal creature whose presence darkened the sun and whose shadow killed everyone on its path.

"Where did you find those?" Vastor turned pale in shock. pan(da-n0vel.c)om