Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2455

The angry blade screamed in pain, forced to redirect part of its energy to repair the dent.

Unlike cracks, deformations in the metal would alter the position of the mystical runes engraved on their surface and compromise the stability of every spell imbued in an artifact with potentially disastrous consequences.

Lith was still shocked by the inexplicable turn of events when the huge barbarian holding the shield attacked him with the jagged ax in his other hand.

The blow came down harder than Lith had ever experienced. Not even Thrud's Divine Beasts had been this strong which like the rest of the fight made no sense to him.

'What the fuck is going on? I can see with Life Vision that this guy is actually a shapeshifted Emperor Beast, but even though his bright violet core is more powerful than my violet, I should still beat him in raw strength.'

Lith had conjured the Eyes of Menadion from the tower but aside from a headache, he hadn't gotten much.

The only thing he had noticed with them was that the Eyes considered the jagged ax, the shield, and the barbarian Emperor Beast as three different subjects, each requiring a separate scan.

'Screw this. I have the mass advantage and the tower. I can do this.' The Tiamat weaved Nova Eclipse from his body, but only a weakened tier five Final Eclipse came out.

Flabbergasted, he tried to conjure a new wave of Demons as a distraction, yet so few of them appeared and so weak that Stargazer ignored them.

It was then that Lith noticed it.

The closer he got to Solus, the more the energy flow reversed, draining his mana and life force to feed them to her. Menadion's failsafe to keep her daughter alive was doing its work yet also sabotaging Lith's efforts to rescue his other half.

'Forget Tower Spells, I can't even use Call of the Void anymore!' Even though Lith had just joined the fight, his breath was already ragged. 'Solus is so weak that our bond has turned into a handicap.

'For the first time since we bonded, our sum is weaker than the single parts. If I don't get her to safety, we'll both die.'

The pressure from the fight coupled with the tower sucking Lith's vitality by the second was putting such a heavy strain on his cracked life force that Lith could sense the wounds opening without the need for a diagnostic spell.

Alas, Knightfall didn't care for the reason his opponent's strength dwindled, he just exploited the phenomenon with a smile.

The Tiamat deflected the following attacks of the ax but he failed to find an opportunity to counter. The shield seemed to be magnetized to War and always found its way to intercept the blade whenever Lith moved to the offensive.

The dent had yet to self-repair and Lith was afraid that if his blades suffered too much damage while their enchantments were turned off, they would break. Double Edge was nothing that he could easily reforge after recycling the materials with Salaark's Creation Magic but War was unique.

Not even Orion was certain of how he had managed to give the angry blade its semi-sentience and even if he did, creating another blade would also give it a different personality. If the blade broke, the metal could be reforged but War as Lith knew it would die.