Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3540

’Alchemy arrays may be volatile, but dear old traps don’t mess with magic. Using Light Mastery to trigger them was a brilliant move.’ Lith said.

’It’s nothing much.’ Menadion shrugged. ’I too used a lot of mechanical traps back when I had my old lab, before the tower.’

The Demons yelled instead of using the mind link to lure any enemy still lying in ambush in the open and dispose of them before the living members of the strike team came down the hatch.

After a few minutes and no reaction, the Demons checked the ramifications of the entry tunnel and waited for reinforcements.

"The coast is clear." Lith put on his plague doctor mask and the soldiers followed suit. "Solus, with me. Demons, lead one assault unit each. Communications are cut off so use the black chains to call for reinforcements.

"Knight Guard, if you lose your mask or get infected, retreat immediately and seek first aid."

Half of the first underground floor turned out to be the residential area of the guards and a storage facility. Alchemical ingredients, vessels, and all kinds of spare parts were neatly organized and tagged on countless shelves.

The Emperor Beasts defending the various rooms were well-equipped and trained to fight as a unit. Also, by using Hatorne’s potions, their physical abilities exceeded those of regular blue-cored Emperor Beasts, bringing them almost to Awakened levels.

Almost.

The humans had body-enhancing potions as well and with Lith and the Demons leading the charge into the enemy formation, the fight was well-balanced. Each soldier had a small light inside their helm that signaled them the brief moments when the mages outside deactivated the air-sealing arrays.

It allowed the Knight Guard’s members to unleash streams of lightning that took the Emperor Beasts by surprise and wasted their time. Whether the beasts tried to shoot lightning bolts back or open Warp Steps, nothing happened.

The arrays never became inactive for longer than one second and the soldiers used solely the air magic spells imbued in their equipment. The mages were careful not to leave enough time to cast and use any air magic spell.

Sure, the Emperor Beasts could keep them at the ready but it drained their focus and by the time they reacted to the soldiers’ air magic, the array turned active again and dissipated the beasts’ mana.

’Lith, come here. Quick.’ Trion sent his coordinates and the quickest route to reach him to his brother via the black chains.

With the corridors cleared and secured as the assault teams infiltrated deeper into the facility, Lith could safely fly to his destination.

"Make one move and everyone dies." A humanoid canine said while holding a razor-sharp knife against the throat of a little girl, barely older than four.

The second half of the first underground floor was where the humans were kept until it was their turn to become part of the experimentation.

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Behind the Emperor Beast, there was a room full of terrified people held at spell-point by more Emperor Beasts in their hybrid form. When the canine said "everyone", she referred to the hostages, not the soldiers.

"Children?" Lith narrowed his eyes as Elysia’s figure overlapped with the crying little girl. "What use do you have for children? They can’t use magic and don’t survive long after being infested by the parasites."

"You have no need to know that." The canine scoffed. "What’s important here is that if you want to save these people, you have to let us go. Deactivate the dimensional sealing array and the humans are all yours.