Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2632

"It's the only reason they can have so easily gifted what they rarely gifted before."

Lith and the others knew enough about white cores to recognize the truth in M'Rael's words. _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}

"Fine, I believe you." Lith took a deep breath and the Void slowly crawled back into the roiling black sea above his head. "Let me be clear, though. We came here in peace and yet you treated us poorly.

"I understand that now that we have to outbid the World Tree you think to be in a position of superiority, but you are dead wrong. What the Yggdrasil is offering you is just to replace your current prison with a more gilded one, but you would still be trapped.

"Trapped by duty, your new powers will be bound to a never-ending task that would force your people to spend their lives serving an absent master. What we've come to offer you, instead, is freedom.

"Freedom to roam Mogar again and do whatever you want like in the old days. If you accept our deal, your people will join the other races and pursue their individual goals instead of those of the World Tree.

"Sure, there is a price to pay, but nothing worth having comes easy. Also, I don't believe you to be na?ve enough to think we would put our lives at risk by coming here just to make you a gift."

Lith took a pause, letting his words sink and listening to the whispers of the elf lords that were weighing their options. They venerated the World Tree from the day the elves had learned how to record their history, but what they had longed for ever since the War of the Races was to roam Mogar again.

Joining the Yggdrasill's cause was a high calling, but it would keep them isolated as they had always been.

M'Rael opened his mouth but Lith cut him off, his eyes ablaze with red and black mana.

"One last warning before you decide what to do with us. The Council knows we are here. The Overlord knows we are here. Maybe they can't get inside the Fringe, but once its location is exposed, they can make damn sure that nothing comes out.

"Raise your hand against us and whatever your beloved World Tree has in mind they will have to find a way to do it without you." Lith was lying through his teeth, but his poker face was impeccable.

The Council had no idea where they were while Salaark was unlikely to care if Lith died because his plan failed but the High Chancellor had no way to know the terms of Lith's dealing with the various powers in play.

On top of that, something else was crawling out of his back. A red-scaled black-feathered Dragon appeared as a Soul Projection, leaving only the Abomination visible to the Chancellor's Soul Vision.

'What the fuck? How can mere projections tag in and out like in some sort of sick game?' M'Rael inner turmoil went from bad to worse when blue six-pointed magic circles of unknown origin started to fill the space around the Voidfeather Dragon starting from his flaming unfolded wings.

"He stands corrected, that was his final warning, elf. He doesn't speak for us." The Dragon's voice rumbled like the grating of stone against stone during a quake. "This is the final warning you'll receive, elf, so listen well because I'm not going to repeat myself.

"*We* don't trust you. *We* don't like you. And *we* seldom agree. Yet when we do agree on something, bad things happen. Make sure that bad things don't happen to you, elf. This is *our* final warning and this…"