Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3445

Chapter 3445 Trust but Failsafe (Part 2)

"It would be perfect." Cyrra nodded, handing the control crystals to her.

One was for the Golems and the other for the fortress.

"Not so fast. I need the right ingredients first." Menadion wrote down a short list of magical resources. The problem was the staggering amount she needed.

"Fuck!" Bhaz said. "Don't worry. The Dawn and Dusk Court will cover your share, but you have to pay us back, Cyrra."

"No problem." She shrugged. "If we survive, we have eternity to settle our debt."

Lith's wallet bled at the idea of spending so many Crimson Thorns and Wind Lilies for someone else's spells, no matter if the magical resources didn't belong to him. The Forgemasters, instead, looked at Menadion as if she was going to fall on one knee and propose to each one of them any second now.

"Lith, I might need more mana than this body possesses so be ready." Menadion started from the Fortress's crystal.

The moment she took it in her hand, the layers upon layers of magical formations became visible to the naked eye. Once she confirmed there was no discrepancy between the arrays and the blueprints, Menadion activated her tier five Creation Magic spell, Second Chance.

She unraveled the magical formations, removing a few circles and letting several blue spheres of energy fade into nothingness. Once she was done, she extracted the magical essence of the Wind Lilies and weaved it into pseudo cores.

Menadion also added her personal cloaking runes to keep her work from being stolen and a control array that would answer solely to her energy signature. Since she shared Lith's, he was granted control over the Fortress as well.

Once she was done, the arrays of the Fortress had been changed to the point the new blueprints had little in common with the old ones.

Then, it was the Golems' turn and the time to use the Crimson Thorns.

Much to Bahz's dismay, the Awakened Forgemasters focused solely on observing the Creation Magic spell. They didn't try to understand how the various spells were being rearranged or how to regain control of their own work.

"That's it?" Barham asked as the magical runes became invisible again. "Is it already over?"

"It lasted over fifteen minutes." Despite her undead state, Menadion panted heavily. "To you, it was a pretty light show but to me, it was no easy feat. If not for Lith and the mana geyser below the Fortress, I would have needed to use Invigoration so many times that it would have no effect anymore."

She only had two eyes left but they were rapidly opening again as Lith gave her new

mana.

"These are the new blueprints." A wave of her hand manipulated the ink with water magic and drew a series of complex schematics on multiple pieces of paper. "You'll need it in case something gets damaged beyond its ability to self-repair."

"Marvelous!" Barham praised.

"Amazing!" Adria gasped.

"Genius!" Pharo and the others passed the papers among each other while commenting on Menadion's work.

"Let me guess, you have no idea what you are looking at." Cyrra scoffed.

"Not a clue." The Forgemasters nodded. "But if we take our time to study this, there's no telling how much we might learn."

"That's a big if." A flick of Bhaz's wrist collected the pieces of paper and brought them to his hands. "These schematics belong to the Undead Courts. We paid for them twice now and have no reason to share them with you.