Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2888

Chapter 2888 Cruel Star (Part 2)

2888 Cruel Star (Part 2)

'Inform me as soon as you are done weaving your part!' Friya knew that keeping the group together also meant offering a single, juicy target.

She kept Blinking away to keep Cruel Star at a distance, each time collapsing their entry point to force the enemy's spell to slow down to restore the containment field and buying her priceless time.

'Gods if I hate Faluel.' Raagu was amazed by Friya's ability to hold the makeshift Mass Blink together while also saving the residual mana from each jump to save strength for the next.

Friya was casting one-seventh of the Bastion while moving, using for the escape solely the mana she had stolen from Thaymos and that was contained within the Hands.

'Ready.' Each member of the group said at a different time and Friya stopped solely when the sixth voice echoed inside her head.

Then, she took a deep breath and conjured the anti-Guardian spell, Silverwing's Bastion. It required seven violet-cored Awakened and they had barely enough power for that.

Raagu, Inxialot, Lith, and Ilthin held each a mana above the spell's requirements while Bodya with his violet core was subpar. Tista and Friya only had a deep violet core and they barely qualified.

Solus was left out of the magical formation since with her blue mana core she was too weak.

She could have made up for it with the Hands of Menadion, the Sage Staff, and the Life Maelstrom she had received from Lith, but that would have aroused questions she couldn't afford to answer.

'By my Mom, I promise that I won't mock Lith for his paranoia ever again.' Solus thought as she passed her mana to him who in turn used it to compensate for Tista and Friya's weak cores.

No one had expected trouble but since there was a lot of downtime while traveling on the Wayfinder and waiting for the Warp Gate to be finished, Lith had insisted that everyone practice Silverwing's spells together, just in case.

The case slammed against the still-forming emerald barrier, but it held.

Each member of the group produced a different elemental sphere that the array-spell hybrid connected in a circuit, making their collective strength greater than the sum of the single parts.

The Bastion formed a six-pointed star that converged on Friya who acted as the final and seventh star in charge of producing the seventh element, Spirit Magic. She drew as much world energy as she could with her Hands to make up for her lacking core, but there was only so much the artifact could do.

The quantity of world energy was limited and she had to share it with both Solus and Thaymos. The lost city had the innate ability common to powerful artifacts of absorbing the world energy and unbeknownst to everyone, the Black Tide further tipped the scales in Thaymos' favor.

Tista tried every function of the Mouth of Menadion, but there was nothing among its enchantments that she had recently deciphered that could help. Ilthin felt the Bastion's imbalance as Cruel Star crashed against the barrier so she helped the others by fueling all the elements but light.

'It would cost me too much for its worth whereas between my core and the Life Maelstrom I have left- What the fuck is this?'

The seven-pointed star of the Bastion had fully formed, connecting the mana cores of the mages that took part in the formation. Lith's darkness element came enveloped in the yellow light of his eye.