Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2389

"And you dare say I'm the perverted lizard." Lith chuckled, noticing that alongside the regular uniform, there was another with a mini skirt instead of pants and whose buttonless blouse had a deep neckline. "Where did you even get those?"

"Zinya gave me a couple of her spare student outfits. Do I need to say more?" She pouted at the prolonged pause in their effusions.

"Gods no." Lith shook his head while shuddering to shrug off any thought about what Vastor might do in his bedroom. "Where were we?"

"You had just refused to forgive me for my defiance and-"

"I remember now." Lith grabbed her by the waist and picked up from he left off a few seconds ago.

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Jiera continent, at the same time.

Thanks to the Gala broadcasted throughout the Kingdom to celebrate the victory of the Royals, the fires of the War of the Griffons were now dying out in Garlen. All the Royals had left to do was deal with the embers of Thrud's rebellion.

The Blood Desert and the Gorgon Empire could finally sigh in relief, their borders safe from the Mad Queen and her cursed academy.

As for Jiera, it was rotting away.

Both figuratively and literally.

After the plague spread from the Torin Kingdom had brought the human race on that side of the ocean to the brink of extinction, things seemed to have found a new balance for a while.

Plants and beasts had moved together, forming the first new megalopolises of Jiera. Once they were connected to each other thanks to a Warping Array network, the single cities had joined their resources and formed a central governing body, establishing the Wild Empire.

Aside from the Liches, the members of the undead race had lost their only reliable source of nourishment and had migrated to the other continents. Some had found asylum. Others a new home.

Most of them had found eternal death by the hand of the living or their fellow undead who didn't want to share the resources and safety they had worked hard for centuries to secure.

The humans of the entire continent, instead, had joined their forces and scoured the land as quickly as they could in search of survivors. Capable healers, Awakened, and people who were lucky enough to be naturally immune to the disease were still alive.

Some of them had even managed to save their own families and their friends as well. _{freēwebnovel.com}

Yet even an Awakened wouldn't survive for long alone. It wasn't a matter of not knowing how to grow food or butcher animals now that money had become irrelevant. Nor how to get clothes and shoes.

Or rather, those were huge problems, but they rarely were also deadly.

The same couldn't be said about the Abominations and Eldritches who now had no need to hide and nothing to fear. They could now attack the houses of powerful mages who had died to the plague in order to steal their secrets and best equipment before moving on to Awakened.

In a similar fashion, now that beasts and plant folks had formed their cities, there was no one keeping the monster population in check. The corpses of hundreds of millions of humans were an endless source of food for such creatures.