Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3419

Chapter 3419 Who I Am (Part 2)

"Of course I know you." Alinor answered to buy time and not anger his assailant. "Everyone knows the Supreme Magus Lith Verhen."

"No, you don't know me. Very few do." Lith chuckled, sending a chill down Alinor's spine. "You know my name and face like everyone else but that's it. If you knew who I am and what I do, you would have never approached my mother in my presence."

As Lith stood up, his shadow spread to the rest of the room as if he had turned into a black sun. The room disappeared, leaving Alinor stranded in an endless void. There was only him, Lith, and countless white stars.

Chittering stars that turned out to be eyes and teeth. The darkness was but a thin veil and countless invisible hands prickled at it in the attempt to pass through. Alinor felt their finger grasping at him, their claws scratching his skin.

"What do you want from me?" He managed to ask as the shadows vanished as quickly as they had appeared.

Lith wanted the man scared, not mad with terror.

"A good question." He nodded. "I want what you sell. Information. Now it's your turn to answer. Who hired you to spy on me? I want the names of your clients."

"I can't tell you that." Alinor swallowed hard. "They would kill me."

"You would be so lucky" Lith smiled. "I've already shown you who I am. This is what I do. Brezza.

Alinor watched Lith's finger trace the same rune all kids learned from a tender age. Yet instead of a gust of air to clean the dirt, several streams of lightning bolts emerged. They struck at Alinor's feet, away from his vitals. The current moved up his body while avoiding the heart and the brain. An air cushion filled his screaming mouth, ensuring that he wouldn't bite off his tongue during the seizure.

When Lith was done, the room was filled with the smell of ozone and cooked meat. "The names." Lith repeated as Alinor was still frozen in shock.

He found his own smell delicious and the realization nauseated him. Alinor started heaving, emitting retching sounds when Lith said:

"No? I still have five elements. Infiro"

Another rune, another wave of blinding pain. Literal blinding pain.

Alinor shielded his eyes with his hands as the chore spell heated the vitreous humor within. At first it was like having needles stinging at his cornea, then everything went white with pain.

One second later everything went black. A thick liquid ran down Alinor's cheeks and he thought they were tears that his body produced in the attempt to cool down his eyes.

Until his eyelids became flabby under his fingers because there was nothing stretching them anymore.

Alinor's eyes had burst like punctured yolk and now streamed down on in his face like running eggs.

"Vinire." Alinor didn't see the rune but he felt it.

The pain stopped and before he could realize what it truly meant he was looking at Lith again. His eyes were back in place and no wound remained on his body.

"Three more elements." Lith's tone was still calm, like they were discussing the weather. "After that, I can always start over. I'm a Healer, Alinor of Vinea. I know exactly how much pain I can inflict on you without killing you.