Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3497

The Brood didn’t care much about its members, especially if one of them put himself into trouble like Xedros or Syrook did. Attacking a Dragon would incur revenge only if it was a gratuitous and malicious act, and only if the Dragon died.

There was only one exception to the rule: Hatchlings.

Attacking a Dragon whelp was always punished by death. When the footage of the Awakened trying to kill Shargein spread like wildfire among the Brood, so did the Origin Flames among the ruins of their associates’ secret labs.

One by one, those who had helped Garvi and Janya were captured and brought to the Blood Desert where Leegaain’s interrogation techniques and Salaark’s mind-reading abilities pulled out the names of more Awakened to add to the list.

In less than a day the entire conspiracy was exposed and uprooted but there was no telling if more were brewing. On top of that, with Shargein’s identity exposed, now no one would attack while the Wyrmling was around.

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Blood Desert, Heavenly Plume tribe, Salaark’s Palace.

Elina refused to delay her plans and while Lith went to fetch the missing ingredients, she started cooking a late dinner for everyone.

"Cooking helps me relax as much as eating should do for you." She said with a chuckle. "I bet that everyone skipped dinner. Am I right?"

A choir of grumbling stomachs answered her question.

After learning about the kidnapping attempt, their appetite was gone and their bellies remained twisted into a knot until they were certain that Elina was fine, both physically and mentally. _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

Rena helped Elina with the preparations the old-fashioned way while Aran and Leira used their magic. The cooking skills of the rest of the family would have made Elina’s job harder so they were careful to stay out of Elina’s hair while trying to act as normal as possible.

Raaz and Solus were the ones who had taken it worse.

"Are you alright, Dad?" Trion offered Raaz a strong liquor that he gulped down like medicine.

"No, son, but thank you for asking." Raaz smiled and chatted whenever Elina looked in his direction, but the moment she turned around, his expression turned grim and his hands started to shake. "Seeing your mother like that stirred bad memories that I believed to have overcome. I was wrong."

Solus was pale and remained silent unless spoken to, holding Menadion’s hand under the table in despair as if her mother could disappear the moment Solus loosened her grip.

’What’s wrong, sweetie? Everything is fine.’ Ripha said via a mind link. ’Elina is fine. There’s no need to be so tense.’

’Nothing’s fine, Mom.’ Solus replied. ’I’ve already lost everything once. When I saw Elina lying in bed, I feared it was going to happen again. Please, don’t take this the wrong way but for years she has been the only mother I knew.

’Even when I was still trapped in the ring, she taught me everything about love and how to care for others. After Lith introduced me to his family, Elina was the one who took me in first.

’It’s only thanks to her if as I regained my memories about us, I understood what a terrible person I was, and how much you’ve loved me from the shadows. I can’t stand losing her no more than losing you again, Mom.’ Stay tuned for updates on freewebnovel.com

’I know, sweetie.’ Menadion gently returned the hold. ’I was there.’

Lith had taken it worse than anyone else. Not only did he feel responsible for putting Elina’s life at risk but, for a moment, he had relieved the pain of seeing Carl’s dead body on the metal stretcher of the morgue.

It was the reason he had volunteered to go and buy the rest of the ingredients.

’I can’t let them see me like this.’ He thought. ’Most of all, I don’t want to add my trauma to Solus’.’

By the time he returned to the Desert, his emotions were back under control and he acted like everything was fine.