Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2670

2670 No Regret (Part 2)

"Wait, please." Feeling that the tower was killing him faster than the blue flames, M'Rael took out another wooden box from his dimensional amulet and threw it at Lith with the only hand he had left.

He had brought another in case the living legacy proved to be capable of poisoning his mind after a prolonged exposure. It was the ancient technique that the elves had devised to use cursed objects while minimizing the risks of getting used by them.

Lith imprinted the Removal Unit and activated it on the fly. Blue strings of energy captured the stone ring from M'Rael's finger, they sealed it inside the box and then brought it to Lith's hand.

He immediately restored the imprint, feeling his strength and mana being drained by the broken tower faster than even the Abomination Touch of the Void Demon Dragon could restore it.

Yet Solus' light was back, the void in his mind was filled, and he felt whole again. The happiness that was flooding his being was worth all the pain and weakness that were ravaging his body.

"Welcome back, Solus. He said with a huge smile as he gulped nutrients and used his breathing technique just not to collapse. '1 would have never left you with this-Solus?"

There was something wrong with her. Her light was dimmer and her voice was sealed. Lith's joy turned into abject terror, thinking that his attempts to rescue her had inflicted permanent damage upon her.

"Solus, what's wrong? Please, talk to me!" He had no idea that she was just following orders, incapable of moving, acting, and even thinking unless spoken to.

"Please, free me, Lith!" She replied, bawling her mind out as his question temporarily lifted the restrictions on her mind.

'Free from-'Lith's eyes blazed with mana and his whole body twisted in fury the moment his tired brain connected the dots lain by M'Rael's earlier screams. 'You can do whatever you want whenever you want. You are my other half!'

The new orders overrode the old ones, making Solus' light strong and allowing her to share the pain and humiliation she had suffered.

"See? You have her back. There's no need to kill me." M'Rael mistook Lith's outraged silence for calm. "I can help you. I can convince the Parliament to do whatever you want. I can share with you the knowledge of the World Tree."

Through the mind fusion, Lith experienced Solus' agony in becoming just a thing.

Every order she had been forced to follow had defiled her mind and taken away a piece of her. She had hurt Lith against her will and was riddled with guilt for every wound she had inflicted on him.

Her body had been dispelled, her mind trapped, and even her thoughts swatted like an annoying fly.

Even though she knew to be a person, Solus wasn't so sure about it anymore. Everything that she had fought so hard to achieve had been ripped off from her with but a word and it could happen again at any time.

She was terrified of everything and everyone, even of Lith.

"With your Forgemastering arts and all the Yggdrasill wood you need, we can-" An inhuman roar cut off M'Rael's pitch.

All the stone fragments and dust belonging to the tower that had been scattered throughout the Fringe formed a vortex around Lith, seeping inside his body instead of covering it.

Horns burst out of his head, eight wings popped out of his back, and a second jaw appeared right under the first.

His seven eyes rearranged themselves in a circle, making space for two golden ones more. Thick scales covered his body, but this time they were entirely black, their edges white from the heat that burned within his body.