Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3173

Chapter 3173 Clear Motive (Part 1)

3173 Clear Motive (Part 1)

"And what happened to Solus? We agreed on resuming her lessons once she returned from a smash-and-grab job but it's been three days since I've heard from her." Dawn said.

"It wasn't a smash and grab!" Baba Yaga in her Maiden form came out of the hut right after the Horseman. "That's something Lith would do, not Elphyn. Anyway, where is she? Her rune is still active but hasn't been available for days now."

"Thank the gods you are here!" Kamila kissed Elysia again, considering the baby a lucky charm for summoning her unexpected but most welcome guests. "I wanted to ask your help from the day I lost contact with them, Malyshka, but I don't have your contact rune."

"Mama!" Elysia pouted while pointing behind Kamila. "Dya! Dya!"

Her mother couldn't possibly miss the mystical blot of darkness just because it was invisible to everyone else on Mogar.

"Sorry, little one. I'm not your father." Dawn was coincidentally in front of Elysia's finger, angering her further.

"Don't worry, child." Noticing everyone's distress, Baba Yaga shapeshifted into her Mother form, spreading a soothing aura. "Now calm down and explain everything to me from the beginning."

"Dya." Elysia couldn't have been clearer. "Dya! Dya!"

"Shush, child. Let the grown-ups talk." The Mother put her forefinger on the baby's lips. "I know you miss your father and I promise you we'll do our best to find him."

Elysia slouched her shoulders and shapeshifted back into her human form. Keeping the Abomination form for too long made her hungry and altered her perceptions in a way she didn't like.

After a while, everyone smelled like food.

"I think she's hungry." Baba Yaga said, garnering herself the dirtiest look a toddler could give.

"Baba." Elysia grumbled, angry at the nice woman for getting the hunger part right at first glance and yet being clueless about everything else.

"How cute! She has already learned my name." The Mother said, drawing hilarious glances from Kamila and the Guardian. "I guess it's too early for her to say Yaga."

"Sure." Kamila didn't have the heart to tell Malyshka that Baba was the baby speak for "very bad person" so she cut to the chase and told her everything that had been discovered up to that point.

"This is the personnel file of Strider the Zouwu and these are the fragments of a Darwen armor found on both sites where Lith was attacked."

Baba Yaga had just taken Kamila's amulet to examine the holographic documents when sunlight reflected on one of the fragments, highlighting a specific rune.

"By the Great Mother. Hold that thought for a second." The Red Mother tried and failed to study the armor shards with her breathing technique, Sun and Moon, just like everyone else before her.

Then she cast her best Forgemastering spells, including Creation Magic, on the fragment to uncover its secrets but the result was the same.

Darwen was impervious to all forms of mana and world energy. It was one of the reasons the crafting techniques for Darwen artifacts were among the most closely guarded.

An armor made from the dull black stone would make its wearer invisible to mystical senses while a weapon would escape detection and ignore energy-based defenses. On top of that, Darwen artifacts required no cloaking runes.