Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3538

The Royal Army had no intention of taking prisoners.

The Emperor Beasts died without understanding what had just happened. A similar scene took place in the adjacent rooms of the military compound, where one or two Emperor Beasts at most had been Warped.

While the aerial scouts were rounded up and executed, dozens of mages walked out of Warp Steps at the street level. They sealed the earth and air elements, making it impossible to escape with dimensional magic, flight, or by burrowing through the ground.

Lith and the other assault teams had already Warped on the scene while exploiting Princess Peonia’s dramatic entrance. The strike teams charged inside the building the moment the army mages finished setting their magical formations and examining the enemy’s.

Lith took point and kicked down the door, setting off the alarms and activating the emergency Warps. The former were pointless since the Knight Guard wasn’t trying to be discreet while the latter failed to tap into the world energy and shorted out.

Half the guards died while still trying to call for reinforcements via their communication amulets or take their equipment out of their dimensional amulet. Not many could afford a Skinwalker armor and there was no point cluttering the place with weapons when one could always carry them on their finger.

The other half of the guards died of pride. They were all mighty Emperor Beasts and thought nothing of mere humans. Empowered by fusion magic, their thick hide was sturdier than most armor and their razor-sharp claws were deadlier than any non-enchanted weapon.

Or so they thought, until Lith and his Demons cut them down like ripe wheat. Even without Ragnarök, he was still a bright violet-cored Divine Beast wielding an Adamant blade.

He needed but one swing of his sword to kill an Emperor Beast in human form. His seven-eyed Demons lacked his mass, but the power gap between them and blue cores with no body refining was just too wide.

On top of that, all Demons had energy bodies, giving them perfect eye-hand coordination. They aimed for the enemy’s vitals with such speed and precision that the still-confused Emperor Beasts had no time to react.

As for Solus, she shapeshifted the Sage Staff into a war mace. Unless an Emperor Beast succeeded in dodging her attack, they would explode in a gory firework of broken bones and gushing blood.

Blocking her mace was the same as being hit by a train. To make matters worse, the dead Emperor Beasts reverted to their true form, filling the rooms with their remains and limiting the movements of their still-living comrades.

Even with Hatorne’s tattoo potions further boosting their fusion magic, the Emperor Beasts facing the Knight Guards soon found themselves outnumbered and outmatched.

Each room was large for humans but too small for more than one Emperor Beast to revert to their true form at a time. Panic and confusion made the beasts ignore such obvious problem and the colossal creatures ended up slamming into each other and just offering the soldiers’ spells huge fixed targets.

Pressed on by their enemies and hindered by their allies the helpless Emperor Beasts fell under a barrage of unavoidable darkness spells like lambs to the slaughter. To make the work of the Knight Guard even easier, Lith and the others marked the few Awakened Emperor beasts with dazzling lights.

The soldiers of the Knight Guard avoided the most dangerous enemies and let the forces of the Supreme Magus deal with them. In less than five minutes, the ground and first floors had been cleared of the enemy forces.

"Casualties?" Lith asked while waiting for a full sweep of the conquered floors.

"None." Trion and the other leaders of the assault teams reported one by one. "We encountered minimal resistance. Most beasts wore no armor and had no weapon. By the time they managed to band together, we had already surrounded them."

"The real danger starts now." Locrias pointed at a hidden staircase in the floor that was highlighted by an array. "The advantage of surprise is lost and we have no idea what the enemy has prepared for us."