Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2323

Rayne disappeared in a burst of black flames and War returned to Lith's hand right when he was walking in front of Ufyl.

"No last stand? No quips or insults?" The Tiamat asked.

"Why should I?" Ufyl never stopped looking at the shroud and the body it contained. "I'm loyal to the True Queen but I'm no zealot. Today she betrayed our trust. Phloria's and mine.

"Today I have no reason to fight against you. Just get over with it."

Lith nodded, decapitating Ufyl's seven heads and piercing his heart in one seamless move.

Unlike the others, he made sure the Dragon wouldn't feel fear or pain. Ufyl was bound to feel plenty of that on his own the moment he came out of the rebirth chamber.

Best case scenario, Thrud would demote him for his betrayal and he would become a pariah among her Divine Beasts. Worst case scenario, she would strip Ufyl of his free will and turn him into a puppet. His fate was already sealed.

Lith respected the Dragon's grief and how he had chosen defiance to protest against orders he deemed unfair.

The moment he was alone, the Tiamat fell onto the ground, panting. His body trembled from exertion, his muscles strained from wielding for so long a power that didn't belong to him. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}

Not only had he been fighting non-stop, but his mana organs were under great stress due to the use of so many foreign bloodline abilities at the same time.

'The silvery flames are incredibly powerful but also unstable. Without my Voidfeather Dragon form and Life Maelstrom, I would've never managed to conjure them. Even worse, without Mana Aura, I would have taken part of the damage.

'I need to rest and recover. Not even Invigoration can fix such a mess.' He thought as his eyes fell onto Phloria's corpse.

The Void was standing right beside her with his eyes closed.

'Phloria Ernas, you've been the first one to accept me. You had every reason to be afraid of me and instead, you gave me a home. I'll never forget that.' He said.

'What would you do in my shoes?' Lith asked amid pants.

'The same thing I've done once that bastard took Carl away from me. I'd hunt the one responsible until my last breath.' The Void replied.

'I couldn't have said it better.' Lith turned into his Abomination form, using the energy he had stolen, Life Maelstrom, and Invigoration to fix his energy body so that the changes would be passed onto his flesh and blood once he shapeshifted again.

'That's because you are me. Yet I'm not the one we need now.' The Void pointed at the blue dot in the Mindspace where the Voidfeather Dragon was bawling his eyes out. 'He's a crybaby but unlike me, he's true to his emotions.

'Let him grieve. Let him share his pain with the rest of Mogar.'

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A few kilometers from there, on the battlefield for the Golden Griffon, things were slowly but steadily taking a turn for the worse.

Attacking the lost academy from a distance was possible, but it meant giving Hystar the time to conjure his countermeasures and fix the damage he had sustained from the opening salvo during the ambush.

Getting close, however, had turned out to be suicidal even for Divine Beasts.

The Static Field array sealed even Spirit Dimensional Magic, cutting off every quick retreat path. The Golden Griffon shot Tower Tier spells like they were confetti and even being grazed by them caused crippling wounds.

To make matters even worse, the closer one got to the lost academy, the thinner the world energy and the strongest the boosting effect of the Golden Griffon over its students.