Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2449

"Everything is in order." The Captain of the wall guards of Nestamaath said after checking the papers and the IDs to confirm the number and identity of the tourists that requested to leave the city by flight.

He was a man in his mid-fifties with thick mustaches and an otherwise clean-shaved face.

"It's just the two of you, right? Tista Verhen and Nyka Dragonborn."

"Yes." Tista gave him her best smile, instinctively hiding Solus' ring with her other hand. "Is anyone else leaving? You know, my brother has many enemies and I'm afraid that someone might try to ambush us the moment we leave the safety of your guard, Captain."

"Don't fret, milady." The man clicked his heels while puffing his chest out with pride as he checked the list of who would leave the city and when. "I can assure you that if anyone tries to follow you, I'll deny them permission to leave.

"If someone is so crazy to defy my authority, the control towers will make it their last mistake."

'Good move, Tista.' Solus used her ring form to save as much energy as he could while her breathing technique restored her strength to its peak, just to be safe. 'If push comes to shove, this will buy us time.'

'Keep telling yourself that.' Dawn snorted, not sharing their optimism one bit.

The Captain gave the silent signal to lower the arrays and tapped on the girls' shoulders so that no one could predict what was about to happen.

Tista used her Demon Eyes to grasp the dimensional coordinates of the farthest point she could see and opened a Warp Steps. The moment they crossed it, they activated their best flight spell and bolted away while the Captain restored the elemental sealing arrays.

"That was smart, but also na?ve wishful thinking. Let's go." Windfell gestured his two companions as he opened a Spirit Steps to the position where the girls would be.

Unlike them, he knew that region like the back of his hand and didn't need to see far away to open a dimensional corridor. Just by looking at the timing of their departure and the direction they had taken, Windfell could already guess their destination.

'Three people have Warped right after we left and they are following us!' Tista activated air Domination to make the Steps collapse, realizing its real nature when it was too late.

'Then let's Warp again!' Dawn took the wheel, grabbing Tista and moving as far as the Vampire's eyes could see.

'Dammit! If only I had let my life forces merge, I would have opened my sixth eye. According to Lith, a hybrid body can't handle more than five. Also, if I've mastered Spirit Magic enough, the seventh eye would have opened as well and those fuckers would be cut in h-'

Her train of grievances was interrupted when the guard towers of Nestamaath detected the unauthorized travelers. The Captain had marked everyone but the girls as hostile and the city's defensive system had a wide area of effect.

Three guard towers, one for each alleged invader, sent bursts of mana to the car-sized mana crystals at their upper and lower extremity. The power was stored in the crystals, focused, and then amplified by the arrays surrounding the city into beams of pure energy in barely a split second.

Windfell and his companions had just walked out of the Steps when they were blasted into oblivion. The energy beam vaporized their bodies and melted their equipment, yet it wasn't over.

The excess magic enveloped the targeted aura and then detonated with a strength on par with a Tower Tier spell. It was a safety measure in case a hostile managed to Blink away from the beam.