Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2243

"Because as Baba Yaga kindly pointed out to Kalla, now everyone knows that my mother has the Eyes and unlike you, she has no Guardian covering her bony ass. Can you imagine how dejected she was?" The Vampire burst into a belly laugh.

"That's mean of you, Nyka." Solus said.

"Egotistical? Yes. Mean? No. I don't want Mom to become a Lich and what she calls progress is the stuff of my nightmares. Long story short, she gave me the Eyes because she knew that if she came here, she wouldn't resist the temptation." Nyka said.

"Fair enough." Lith nodded and asked her to activate the synchronization between the two sets of Eyes.

Nyka tapped the left, up, and down side of the left lens of her artifact, making the golden pince-nez emit a light glow.

"Excellent. My hope is that with a mana geyser supporting the tower, we can copy the database of the original." Lith said. "In the meantime, I'd like to perform a few experiments."

"Like what?" Faluel asked. "We already tried and failed to activate the synch between the Hands and Mouths of Menadion."

"Indeed, but that was before we had a complete version of the Eyes with a working database." Solus pointed the Eyes and the Hydra to Nyka who nodded in reply.

"I see. You want to check if the Eyes contains clues about the rest of the set, but why me? You could have done it yourself." Faluel wore the artifact that changed its size to fit her to perfection.

"Because you are the only one who can make a decent comparison between Kalla's and Solus' Eyes. I need your seven heads, please." Lith handed her another pair of glasses and activated the Armory, sharing with everyone present the effects of the Sage Staff.

Thanks to the Yggdrasill wood, their minds reached a degree of clarity and focus that bordered on genius. The Staff wiped away any stray thoughts and pushed their brains to their limits.

"Gods if I hate you." The Hydra grumbled and the others nodded. "Data not found."

"What do you mean?" Lith asked.

"Look for yourself." Faluel looked at the Hands and the Mouths, obtaining "Data not found" for both and the scan started from 0%.

"How is this possible?" Lith blurted out in surprise. "How could Menadion know squat about her own stuff?"

"If I may." Tyris politely raised her hand and Solus nodded for her to continue. "The tower had its memory wiped clean while the artifacts, despite their name, never belonged to Ripha.

"She gifted them to her apprentices and took care they never used them to uncover her secrets."

"Fuck me sideways. You are right!" No matter how long Lith stared at the artifacts, the scan was stuck at 0%. "Menadion must have implanted safeguards. Faluel?"

"You bet she did. My mother was a damn genius, not a moron." Solus puffed her chest out with pride.

"Confirmed." The Hydra had shapeshifted into her seven-headed hybrid form to share the burden of the tower's Eyes with her seven brains. "The new scan started at 0% as well but it's progressing."

"Excellent." Lith split the Eyes in Monocles so that between his brain and the tower core, the artifact could split the work into two more shares.