Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3268

Kigan left Zinya's shadow and stood 33 meters (108') tall, using his armored wings and tail feathers to deflect the incoming spells and physical attacks.

"Griffons?" He said in amazement while looking at the eight violet-cored Divine Beasts surrounding him. "What kind of grudge can Griffons have with a puny human to put so much effort into killing her?"

"Kigan the Bloodstained?" Zastaf the Blue Griffon said in amazement while spreading a cold aura that lowered the temperature by two hundred degrees. "What kind of debt of gratitude can lead someone like you to protect humans instead of bathing in their blood?"

The air surrounding the area of the ambush became so cold that it was impossible for a human to breathe, no matter if Awakened or not. If not for their enchanted armors Kamila and Zinya would have already lost consciousness.

"As for your question, you wouldn't understand even if I answered you!" Zastaf infused himself and his mace, Frostbringer, with another bolt of silver lightning and so did the other Griffons.

Their attack was as well-coordinated as it was sudden, taking the Dark Phoenix by surprise. If not for Bytra's Adamant Bloodkin armor and the Maw, Kigan would have already been beaten to a pulp.

Phoenixes were among the best Divine Beasts fighters, but their most effective tactics required them to take advantage of their superior agility and aerial maneuverability. As a bodyguard, Kigan couldn't dodge or take one step back without Zinya getting killed.

The Griffons didn't even attack him, all their blows were aimed at the women behind the Dark Phoenix and he had to put himself in harm's way to protect them.

'Gods, Jirni was right.' Kamila thought while conjuring the Spirit Barrier of her Voidfeather armor and all the air magic she could muster just to weaken the shockwaves produced by the clashes and not be blown away. 'It really was Griffons. But why?'

To be precise, Jirni's list contained several bloodlines as potential instigators. From the ruthless and reproductively aggressive Fae to a few of Baba Yaga's Firstborns like Ilthin.

She had taken into account anyone who'd benefit from mixing their bloodline with Lith's and also had the connections and resources to kill Kamila covertly. Griffons were near the top of the list but not at the top due to Lith's amicable relationship with Tyris.

'Seven hundred years!' Just the number drove Zastaf mad with rage. 'For over seven hundred years the Griffon bloodline has declined while all the other Divine Beasts prospered! Ever since the accursed Valeron the First died, Mother refused to take another companion.

'Almost no new species of Griffons have been born since her marriage with that idiot. Our numbers dwindle, our influence falters, yet Mother still clings to the memory of a dead man! This our first chance to change her mind and we are not going to miss it.'

Tyris had expressed interest in Lith since he was just a student at the White Griffon academy but back then those were just words and no one had taken them seriously. Over time, however, the First Guardian had met the young Awakened more often than the Royals.

More often than her own children.

Griffons had started to pay attention to Lith out of curiosity without expecting much from him.

After the three Guardians vowed to protect his offspring, however, after the powers of the Tiamat had been confirmed as the first perfect fusion between Guardian bloodlines, some of the youngest and angriest among Tyris' direct offspring had decided to take action.

Verhen adopting Valeron the Second, a member of their own bloodline and another successful fusion, and Tyris babysitting Lith's children regularly had just steeled the Griffons' resolve.

The Dark Phoenix unleashed the tier five Chaos spell, Howling Hunger, that conjured a pillar of Chaos the size of a train wagon. It pierced through a Griffon's chest and absorbed her vitality, feeding it to Kigan. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}