Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3233

Chapter 3233 Trade Off (Part 2)

"I truly had underestimated your relationship with Solus. Is there anything I should know about the two of you? Anything that could escape from the lips of our prisoner during the interrogation?" Jirni asked.

"No. Also, there's going to be no interrogation." Lith gave her a brief summary of his plan to find the Fringe.

"It's a good strategy and I think I can help you with it. I know nothing about elven physiology but if you can give me a few minutes to study the prisoner with Invigoration, I should learn everything I need for the job. I accept your terms." Jirni nodded.

"The plan won't start until we've rallied all the allies we can. Until that moment, make yourself comfortable. I'll have a room assigned to you." Lith said.

"Not so fast." Jirni raised her hand with her palm out to stop him. "Even though the meeting with Jiza put me in this situation, that day I learned a lot. I've never stopped investigating who is behind Kamila's attempted murders."

Kamila's eyes went wide in surprise while Lith's narrowed. She had done everything she could to forget about it and live a normal life whereas he had never forgotten about it.

Yet without a lead to follow or a prisoner to interrogate, there was nothing he could do.

"Jiza's words offered me insight into the thought process of the Awakened community and helped me better understand the motive for such an act." Jirni took a folder out of her dimensional amulet and handed it to him.

"It's not very thick because it's mostly guesswork. You can't expect powerful individuals to respect my Archon's badge and answer the questions of a puny woman. Even if I met them in person, they would have either ignored of killed me."

Lith took the folder and instinctively tried to put it inside Soluspedia.

'Fuck me sideways! I have to actually read this thing and waste a lot of time I could better employ dealing with the preparations.' It wasn't the reading per se that upset him.

The lack of Soluspedia was another reminder of Solus' absence. During the past sixteen years, Lith had become so used to the tower's abilities to consider them a part of himself like his hands and feet.

Now, instead, only his thoughts filled his mind and he was back to being no different from any other Awakened. It made him feel empty and incomplete. His anger flared, the pain from the destruction of his bond with Solus struck him like the day Strider had betrayed him.

Kamila's care and the joy of reconnecting with his family had helped him take his mind off of it, but to Lith, mere minutes had passed since the Yggdrasill's emissary had taken Solus away from him and to the Fringe.

His wounds were still fresh and every reminder of his current condition tore them open and cut him deeper.

Lith wanted to scream and shout. To take the Chronicler out of Tezka's bag and beat him hard enough for the World Tree to experience one iota of his grief. Yet it would serve nothing but waste time and ruin his plans.

Lith gritted his teeth for a second before his expression relaxed and he opened the folder.

Jirni noticed everything but didn't comment on it while Kamila moved her chair next to him to read the documents together.