Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2812

Chapter 2812 Not my Son (Part 4)

They were both small and scrawny, but more differences between them had now become evident. The skin of the one on the left had become a dark shade of grey to the point that it was hard to spot his features.

Only his eyes were clear. Eyes filled with fear, pain, and sadness.

The one on the right, instead, had pink skin and a cold stare. Whenever he looked around, he seemed to gauge his enemies. Whenever he moved, the blue flame followed him.

<nulli>'Flames aside, the one on the right is Lith.' Raaz sighed in relief. <nulli>'I'll never forget his glare or how confident he was even from a young age. Whoever the other one is, he can't be my son.

<nulli>'No matter what life threw at him, Lith has never been scared. I've seen him sad and hurting, but even then, there was strength in his eyes. I've never seen him desperate or broken. Who is he and why is Leegaain showing him to me?'

Time shifted, moving faster for the boy on the left and making him grow older while the one on the right remained a boy. Raaz flinched and almost turned his head more than once when he finally understood what was happening to the child on the left.

<nulli>'By the gods! The blackness wasn't just shadows. It was bruises that instead of healing and disappearing turned into indelible marks. Who can be so cruel to a child?'

Grey had already turned into pitch black and the eyes of the now teen boy were dull and lifeless. The pupil was gone, leaving only white holes on his face. Tears as thick and pristine as milk streamed down his face as he hugged his knees, crying.

The vision had no sound, but Raaz could see the small and scrawny body quivering with each sob. Raaz felt pity for the boy and thanked the gods for sparing his children from suffering such a cruel fate.

He had yet to finish his prayer that something happened.

The boy on the left stood up, the pain was still there but despair was being replaced by anger. Teeth turned into fangs, nails into claws, and a blue flame crept through the blackness of his skin.

Once the metamorphosis was complete, it was impossible to miss that despite their different size, the eyes of the two boys were the same. Cold, indifferent, cruel.

Raaz feared that the two might become one, that all of his fears might come true but as time kept moving forward, he was proven wrong time and time again.

The boy on the left grew into something less than a man, developing bestial features as the blue flames burned higher. Raaz witnessed the moment when Lith had found Solus' stone and the blue flames subsided as his eyes became kinder.

Raaz watched Lith take care of the young and ill Tista, holding her to his chest gently and the flames subsided even more.

The man on the left, now a monster, had blood dripping from his hands and the crimson line dripping from his face was the only clue to where his mouth was. Everything else was a black slate.