Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2951

Chapter 2951 Present Struggles (Part 1)

Friya hugged Nalrond tightly, losing herself in his warmth.

She ran her hand through his hair, appreciating its soft thickness. Then, she caressed his back, following the line of his muscles. Friya took deep breaths, taking in Nalrond's natural smell and that of his cologne.

She clung to him, trying to trap all those feelings and engrave them in her memory as strongly as she could. It was the only thing she could do to fight the fear that it was the last time she would hold him.

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Trawn Woods, Lith's tower, a few minutes later.

"What do you mean, almost die? Are you insane?" Lith said, his words matching Friya's.

Nalrond, Friya, and Quylla had Warped to the Verhen House and from there the Rezar had asked Lith to move to the tower to talk in private.

"Do you realize what you are asking me to do?" Lith's outrage after Nalrond finished explaining to him the procedure to merge the Rezar life force with the human had taken everyone by surprise.

They had expected a shrug. A cold risk/benefit analysis. A friendship hug since Lith knew all too well how having your life forces engaged in an eternal conflict felt. Anything but this.

"This isn't a life-saving procedure but an elective procedure. And dumb one at that." Lith snarled.

"No more than Quylla's attempt to Awaken herself." Nalrond shook his head.

"Hey!" Quylla said, not liking the comparison one bit. Mostly because it was true.

"Please!" Lith brushed the objection off with a wave of his hand. "That wasn't stupid. That was suicidal. I classify it as a life-saving procedure because without me Quylla had fewer chances of survival than a biscuit in Solus' room."

"Hey!" Both women said in unison, liking the comparison even less than the prior.

"This time, instead, I can stop this madness simply by refusing to take part in it. If I accept and something goes wrong, it is going to weigh on Solus' conscience for the rest of her life. Friya might resent me and I'd lose one of the few friends I have.

"I don't see any reason to help you. I have nothing to gain and everything to lose from this shit."

"Wait, you don't even see me as a friend?" Nalrond asked in shock.

"A friend?" Lith furrowed his brows in greater shock. "You tried to kill me at first sight. You betrayed Solus' secret after she spared your life. You taught me Light Mastery only to make up for the mess you made.

"We are acquaintances and business partners in the silver mines, but that's it."

"Thank the gods you haven't changed." Nalrond said with a laugh, finding Lith still being Lith oddly reassuring. "For a moment I feared that fatherhood had made you soft."

"Why in the gods' names are you happy that Lith's acting like a jerk?" Friya asked, outraged enough for them both.