Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2744

Chapter 2744 Not a Father (Part 2)

She instantly shut up and lowered her gaze, doing her best to hold back the tears.

"I don't know what the matter is but that was wrong. Do you think we should go ch-" When Kamila turned to Lith, she found herself talking to empty air.

"I said look at me when I'm talking to you, you ungrateful runt!" The man yelled in the kid's face who instead kept her eyes low. "I said look at-"

The man had already raised his hand again when a whisper from behind covered him in a cold sweat.

"I am looking." Lith said, standing right behind the man and locking his wrist in an iron grip. "And I don't like what I see."

Before becoming a father, it would take a young boy or two brothers being victims of abuse to trigger Lith. Now, however, any little girl would do as well.

"What's the matter here?" Lith asked.

"Nothing, Magus Verhen, I was just-"

"I'm not talking to you." A bright violet light blazed from his eyes and drained whatever vitality the man had left, bringing him to his knees.

"Dad!" The little girl found her voice back and ran to his side. "Please, don't hurt my Dad. It's my fault. I made him angry."

check-up with Invigoration.

He found several old and new bruises under her baggy clothes and Hearing the same words that once Lith/Derek had told himself turned the violet light blue but he took a deep breath and wished it was just a misunderstanding.

"I see." Lith nodded, patting the girl's back and giving her a full check-up with Invigoration.

He found several old and new bruises under her baggy clothes and even a few now-mended broken bones.

"Are you hurting your daughter?" Lith straightened up the man with the same ease the man had earlier done with the girl, dusting off his clothes with a touch that held no kindness.

"No, I was just disciplining her." The man half stuttered and half spoke, feeling something wrong in the blue flames coming from the Magus' eyes. "You are a father yourself. You know how kids can be."

That was his last mistake.

With Elysia on Lith's chest, drawing a comparison between them broke the dam of Lith's willpower for good.

Black veins appeared all over his face as his mouth turned into a lipless maw and his hair burst into a blazing crown.

"What did you say?" The blackness spread along his body until tongues of blue fire came out of his hands.

A small roar came from the baby carrier where a spitting, scaled-down version of the angry mage tried to rip at the man's chest with her flaming claws.

"What did you say?" Lith repeated to the man who was now even more scared than his own daughter as he felt death staring at him in the eyes.

"Lith Tiamat Verhen!" A voice making her way through the crowd snapped him out of his frenzy before he snapped the man's neck. "Don't you see you're terrorizing that poor girl?"

Only then did Lith lowered his gaze, noticing that the kid was clinging to her father's leg, more scared of the mage than of her long-time tormentor.

<nulli>'I get you are angry, but I'm not going to let you turn our daughter into a murderer. Look what you are doing to her!' Kamila quickly cast a mind link to not divulge private matters to strangers.

Lith could see his fury reflected in Elysia, twisting her as much as it did him.