Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2877

Chapter 2877 Fallen Further (Part 1)

2877 Fallen Further (Part 1)

The monsters flooded Raagu's arrays in such numbers that the mana that was supposed to last minutes was quickly drained in order to kill them before they escaped the magical circle's boundaries.

Unlike the Lich King, Raagu had come prepared for the fight. Yet even with many arrays at the ready forming a wide trench of light between her and the enemies, only a fraction of them were forced to step into the magical formations.

The rest of them just ran around the arrays since not even someone as skilled as Raagu could cover a battlefront that extended as far as her enhanced eye could see.

She had killed hundreds of monsters in the first seconds of the conflict and kept killing more, but the Black Tide swallowed her light without suffering significant losses.

'Now I understand why even the whole Jiera Council failed to vanquish a single monster tide. Anything but long-range attacks is useless and I can't stop for a second to catch my breath.' Raagu thought.

'And I'm still currently fighting the dregs of the tide. They are just mindless brutes whereas their leaders are bound to know magic. Even with a rudimentary mastery over the elements, they can make up for quality with quant-'

A burst of light from the Black Tide snapped her out of her plans for the future and forced her to focus on the present.

Raagu hoped that it was one of her allies but Life Vision failed to recognize any magical rune or energy signature that she knew. A Clarity Field array showed her what was too far for her Awakened eyes to see.

Lanky creatures she had never seen before stood taller than the rest of the tide, their bodies covered by a white chitinous shell while their limbs ended with three-fingered claws.

The source of the light was their heads which were supported by a neck as long as half of the rest of their bodies. They were Wormlings, a fallen race of Jiera born from a failed attempt of a now-extinct Lesser Dragon species to attain the full power of Leegaain's pure bloodline.

'What are those things?' Raagu noticed that the "heads" had no visible sensory organ, just a wide mouth filled with fangs that opened on a cavity as large as the neck.

The light came out of the open mouths in the form of a highly compressed projectile comprised of mana mixed with world energy. A single energy burst was nothing to Raagu's tempered body that was further protected by multiple layers of enchanted artifacts.

Hundreds of them firing at the same time, however, produced a power above a tier five spell and covered an area several times wider. She Blinked to safety just to find a second volley of light rushing toward her.

A quick barrier blocked the threat but it also offered a luminous target that was soon reached by a third and a fourth barrage. Raagu used the Spirit Barrier of her cloak to endure the attack while studying the situation.

'Son of a bastard!' She thought as her detection arrays analyzed the battlefront. 'The waves of tall creatures aren't positioned at random. They have been arranged so that no matter where I go, I can't escape their fire.'

The nearest monsters were just food for the Wormlings who feed upon their comrades to restore their strength. A monster's accelerated metabolism shortened their lives but it also made them recover from fatigue and replenished their mana reserves just as quickly.

The arrays released their fury on the meat shields, killing them in droves. Yet once Raagu's mana was spent, the Wormlings stood up unscathed. The mangled bodies became food for the monster tide, allowing the most powerful of them to recover from the strain of the march. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}