Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2886

Chapter 2886 Old Magic (Part 4)

2886 Old Magic (Part 4)

Her strike generated a deafening boom of thunder and created a one-

meter-deep crater in the solid rock, opening a way in for the Davross' flames. Alas, the cracks started to close immediately, snuffing out the flames, and when the dust settled the main keep had taken little damage.

The white stones were blackened from the heat but that was it.

["How dares a mere skeleton to disrespect me like this?"] That and the wound on Thaymos' ego.

He had been sealed before Liches were a thing and his mind conjured every slur against living legacies he knew in the attempt to decipher Inxialot's words.

He tried to squash the two insolent insects with his palms but they both Blinked away, leaving the Eternal Fortress shocked. He ended up slapping and damaging himself more than the two pests had.

["How? How can they open Warp Steps so quickly?"] He asked to no one in particular in amazement. ["Is everyone a genius these days or has magic changed this much while I was imprisoned?"]

Thaymos had fought against the Guardians and assumed that their amazing spells were possible solely thanks to their matchless power. During the skirmishes against mages of the Council, he had believed that they had sent against him the best of the best and brushed off the issue again.

After meeting the alleged Bright Day and this group of meddlers, however, Thaymos was starting to have doubts.

The disturbance was enough to weaken his hold on the Gate so that Raagu's dimensional sealing arrays encountered limited resistance.

She couldn't conjure enough of them to cover an area so wide but the distortions that her magical formations caused in the dimensional corridor ripped the front line of monsters that was walking through the Gate to shreds and destabilized the spell.

Friya capitalized on that, activating the golden sparks of her Dimensional Ruler spell in the fracture points of the Steps and following Raagu instructions about how to adjust her spell to Thaymos' alterations to the elemental balance.

The human representative let her arrays fade and conjured several Collapsed Space spells to help Friya. Dimensional openings required a perfect balance among their several components and were easy to destabilize.

The Warp Steps that the Eternal Fortress used, however, was comprised not of just mana, but also of the life force of his thralls. It made the spell different from all those that the Awakened had faced in the past and hard to influence with just pure mana.

It was the reason Inxialot and Ilthin kept stinging at the living legacy. Their purpose was to compromise his focus on the spell. Bodya dug deep into the ground, making it collapse under Thaymos' feet and the living legacy lose its balance.

'I wish I had still enough acid to make a decent trap but I consumed most of it against the Black Tide. I'd better save what I have left for something that can make a difference.' The Nidhogg thought.

'I can't believe it.' Friya inwardly grunted with effort, feeling the will of the Eternal Fortress resist her own and the corrupted life force of his forbidden magic stand like a wall against her Dimensional Ruler spell. 'All of this is not enough.