Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2880

Chapter 2880 Pulling the Strings (Part 2)

2880 Pulling the Strings (Part 2)

"This is why I hate smart enemies." One Warg was nothing to an undead.

Even a whole tribe was just an annoyance. A Firstborn like Ilthin could take care of a monster horde of Warg by herself without breaking a sweat.

The Black Tide, however, was comprised of millions of them and the Warg in front of her carried their collective power, mass, and magical power. Despite its size was nothing much, the creature was a force to reckon with.

There was a limit to the power a regular Warg could amass, but those that had attacked Ilthin all had fur the color of charcoal and eyes red like embers, the sign of a mutated species of Wargs that had overcome such limits.

That along with the hive mind allowed them to pass their power to the closest Warg to the prey and use their shared senses to follow Ilthin's high-speed movements. Yet it wasn't enough.

Ilthin had now an idea of the enemy's capabilities and dodged the incoming fist with the minimum movement necessary while delivering a counter at the same time. Even with the mutation, the difference in battle experience made monsters easy to read.

The Warg snarled, his strength disappearing and his body bursting like a balloon under the heavy mace. Instead of fighting a losing battle, he had passed on his abilities.

When the Firstborn Banshee struck with all of her might, the lack of resistance made her lose her balance and created an opening for the next Warg. She turned her fumble into a roll and the ground where the monster landed into a sinkhole that swallowed him.

Breaking free of dozens of tons of solid rock would have drained the tide's stamina so the Warg accepted his death and passed the power on to the next vessel.

"Two down, two million to go." Ilthin sighed as another mutated Warg stepped forward.

Only mutants dared face her while the rest kept their distance. They, or rather, the one pulling their strings knew that stalling was the best strategy against an undead. Sunrise was an enemy that not even a Firstborn could defeat.

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"I'm not going down there stark naked." Tista said while she and Lith studied the situation from above.

Turning into a Hekate had given her great physical prowess and increased her mass but had also made her old equipment useless. She lacked the means to craft an armor her size so her red scales were all she had.

The only silver lining was that Sunder, the enchanted claws, now fit her like a glove without the need to reduce their weight with gravity magic.

"I don't think it's a wise idea." Lith nodded, noticing the willingness of the monsters to sacrifice themselves to kill the enemy and their perfect teamwork. "We have just to buy time for the Wayfinder.

"Instead of getting swarmed like the others, we better create a diversion." He used Void Magic to collect the dust and debris released by the fight below in the air to conjure round rocks the size of a small apartment.

Then, Lith combined them with fire and gravity magic to unleash the tier five spell, Burning Comet. The fire element amplified the friction with the air, setting the rocks ablaze while gravity magic increased both their weight and speed.

Lith aimed the spell so that it would hit away from his allies but close enough to the frontlines to disrupt the monsters' formations. Each impact generated a mushroom cloud that rose for dozens of meters in the air, creating localized sandstorms.

The Tiamat took control of the air currents filled with dust with Void Magic, turning them into solid walls that trapped the monsters and isolated them from the rest of the tide.