Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2520

Alas, it took Lith until the 4% to gain a sufficient understanding of the seamless rune strings that comprised the countless overlapping arrays in front of them. Luckily for him, after a while another portion of the sensory load disappeared, bringing Lith and Nalrond a short relief that brought the latter's complaints to a halt.

'Solus?' Lith asked, feeling a familiar yet silent presence in his mind.

The static returned as suddenly as it had disappeared bringing the burden back. Both Nalrond and Lith lost their breathing rhythm from the surprise and the sudden flaring up of their brains.

This time they bled not only from their noses, but also from their eyes.

'What the fuck did you do?' The Rezar managed to keep the mud funnel and prevent the loss of the collected air by the skin of his teeth.

'Nothing. I just tried to-' The static cleared again and Solus' mind processed her share of the information, stopping the bleeding. 'Contact Solus.'

Instead of making another attempt, Lith waited for her to start the communication yet nothing happened.

'Why isn't she talking or at least using Soluspedia to… Fuck me sideways. Neither of us can use it to drop messages since I'm underground now.' The answer dawned on Lith's mind. 'Probably she can feel my presence as well but for some reason, she can't use the mind link.

'The only possible explanation for what happened earlier is that she forcefully cut off the communication to not blow her cover.'

'I don't care why Solus did it.' Nalrond snarled. 'Another stunt like that and we are as dead as doornails.'

Lith wanted to check his theory, but he could feel how the combination of the Eyes, mud funnel, and sharing the air with him had brought Nalrond near his breaking point so Lith decided against it.

As soon as the scan progression reached 4%, the flow of information became much more bearable and the meter's progression sped up at an astounding rate.

'How is this possible? The flow of world energy is still the same. Did the tower recover another floor right now?' Nalrond asked. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

'I wish.' Lith inwardly sighed. 'It's just that until a while ago, I had to study the magical formations as a whole. I need to have a clear understanding of the various arrays and how they interact with each other if I want a chance at cracking at least one.

'Once the scan covered an area wide enough to ensure me that there's a limit to how a single array influences its surroundings, I could restrict the scan to the magical formations in front of us and cut off the rest.

'The Eyes are still the same. Our load is lighter and the progression is faster simply because there's much less to decipher now.'

Soon they could discern six types of different arrays whose runes were interwoven in order to share their effects with each other and create a defensive system with no gaps.

There were sensory, dimensional sealing, cloaking, defensive, offensive, and world-energy-focusing arrays. They were arranged in a honeycomb structure with their fringes overlapping in order to share their respective mana flow and area of effect.

Any tampering of a single array would trigger a chain reaction in those surrounding it that would instantly spread to the whole complex. It would not only unleash a devastating barrage of spells created by weaponizing the accumulated world energy, but also alert the complex's populace.

Lith waited for the scan to reach 100% before uttering a single word.

'Let's go back to the surface. We can use a break and the help of Faluel and Ajatar to crack this thing.' Lith said while putting the Eyes away and making Nalrond almost cry for the sudden lack of pain.