Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2479

2479 Turf War (Part 1)

"As for the news about Friya's engagement, you should pick your damn amulet sometimes and ask her yourself!" Quylla said.

White Griffon Academy, at the same time.

After Lith had abruptly interrupted the Void Magic class, Professor Zogar Vastor had gone back to his office to catch up with the paperwork. With his tenure, his role as head of the Light Department, and vice Headmaster of the White Griffon, something or another always required his attention.

His new physique allowed him to work faster and for a longer period of time before feeling tired, yet there was a reason he had chosen the isolation of his office instead of bringing the work back home.

The tedious monotony of examining and signing documents helped him to keep his mind off the hunger that plagued him for a few weeks. Eating kept it at bay for a while but the amount of food he needed would arise suspicion in his colleagues and worry Zinya.

His Abomination half was growing faster than his human side, without giving it the time to adapt and contain the Chaos. The Master needed sheer willpower and his Grimbark Staff to keep the black core from consuming him.

His experiments and short rests inside the Madness helped, but he still craved the sweet taste of life force.. Vastor felt the hunger tempting him every time he visited or healed a patient, begging him to take just a little taste.

Yet the Master ignored that siren, knowing from the experience of his Eldritch associates that it was a blatant lie.

The moment I give in to the hunger, I'll become addicted to feeding off living beings. Vastor thought, focusing on the technical jargon of the research paper he was reading to beat the hunger and the constant headache it caused into submission.

I wish I could just make an excuse, disappear for a few months, and take my turn inside the Madness to stabilize my two halves. Sadly, my Abominations need it more than I do. The battle with Thrud has proven how reliant they are on Nandi,

If our enemies seal space like the Golden Griffon did and get rid of his ore ability to control world energy, the lack of Spirit Magic and breathing techniques of the monster-Eldritch hybrids becomes a fatal weakness against Awakened.

When the moment comes, we can't afford the Council standing in our path. Our involvement in the War of the Griffons proved our strength and valor, but it also forced us to reveal most of our strategies and weak points.

T'd be an old fool to think that the Council Elders aren't revising the footage frame by frame and use it to develop the means to put us down the moment our interests are not aligned anymore.

Abominations are not really Awakened and my Organization is still a probatory member of the Council. We have no seats nor representatives. They tolerate our presence simply because the alternative is a bloody fight.

I need to remove our current weaknesses or at least alter the known variables so that whatever countermeasures the Council has developed after watching us fight Thrud will be useless On top of that, to develop a treatment for myself I need more data. My Abomination half is a hybrid of the essence of all the six Eldritch descendants of the original Guardians. To fix my black core I first need to fix theirs Vastor inwardly sighed.