Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3017

Chapter 3017 Not a Hero (Part 1)

3017 Not a Hero (Part 1)

"I get your point but you also have to get mine." Vastor replied. "You are the one who refuses treatments that require Forbidden Magic. If you die, none of what you've just mentioned will matter and Jirni will have to face everything by herself.

"Is this what you want?"

"I don't want to but I have to." Orion trembled form head to toe, feeling his stomach churn as he spoke. "That's why I brought you a gift. I had Kigan carry it here under the cover of darkness."

"A gift?" Vastor was puzzled.

"Criminals that I officially failed to capture. Scum of society that if convicted by a tribunal would be sentenced to death." Orion spat the next words like they were poison on his tongue. "Specimens for your experiments."

According to the law of the Griffon Kingdom, death row inmates were dead men walking without any civil rights. They could be used for magical experimentation, tortured, or anything that the judge thought would give their victims relief or make them useful for society.

It was supposed to ease Orion's guilty conscience but it didn't work. His prisoners had not undergone due process. No judge had pondered the issue and no law was involved.

No matter how Orion painted it, he was still going to sacrifice human lives for his own sake. His honor and loyalty to his Kingdom would never allow him to do that if it wasn't for the threat on the lives of Jirni and their unborn daughter.

The Myrok were likely to take the baby girl away and Orion would rather die in shame than lose his wife and another daughter.

"More like food for your life force." Vastor tapped on his desk with his forefinger. "I have no idea what you think I do, but I can assure you that I have no use for a ragtag bunch of criminals.

"And neither have you."

"What do you mean?" Orion asked.

"I mean that you can kill them, arrest them, do with them whatever eases your conscience. We don't need them for the procedure. After our last discussion, I searched for a way to accommodate your request and I found it."

"Really?" Orion sighed in relief, a huge burden was lifted from his shoulders. "Can we start now? How does it work?"

"Yes, yes, and it's easier to show than explain." The Master steepled his fingers. "Yet I can't compromise the position of my facility. We are allies today but tomorrow you might change your mind. Sleep."

"Are you kidding me?" Orion was outraged. "How can you think I would betray you after everything you are putting on the line for-"

He fell to the ground with a thud as his consciousness slipped away.

There was no such thing as sleeping spells but Vastor had been a great healer long before turning himself into a hybrid. His white eye had spotted the stress points in Orion's life force and fixed them for him.

Under normal circumstances, it would have been no different from rejuvenation but there was nothing normal in Orion's condition. His mana core pushed against the impurities surrounding it in an attempt to Awaken.

Yet Vastor and Zoreth had anchored them, making the impurities like large trees with roots that ran deeply in Orion's body and weathered the storm. The process still drained his stamina and his constant training in the use of fusion and true magic made things even worse.