Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3541

From the moment Lith had stepped inside the room, he and his Demons had released his Tiamat Fear, injecting his will and power into the world energy. The Demons and the Tiamat were bright violet Awakened while the Beasts were bright blue-cored and only one of them was Awakened.

As the conversation went on, the world energy had seeped inside the bodies of the Emperor Beasts and carried the Tiamat Fear straight into their mana cores. Lith had kept talking until there was enough to stop the mana flow inside the Beasts’ bodies.

Without the protection of fusion magic, they had no defense against the invisible tendrils of mana that Lith used to control them.

"You really want to know who I am and what is happening, don’t you?" Lith voiced the thoughts he read in the canine’s eyes. "Too bad."

A snap of his fingers snapped the Emperor Beasts’ neck and signaled his Demons to release streams of compressed darkness magic. With no life force or mana to fight the Plague Storms, the corpses of the beasts turned into piles of ashes before they had the time to revert to their original size.

"Not a word." Lith raised his hand, stopping the cheers and questions of the soldiers. "We might encounter more situations like this and these people are still alive only because the enemy has no idea who I am. Let’s keep it that way."

"I just wanted to say thank you." A man with the sergeant’s insignia on his shoulder said, and the rest of the soldiers nodded.

All the training and discipline on Mogar couldn’t drive away the thought that their own families might one day find themselves on the other side of such an impossible situation and come out alive thanks to Lith.

"Don’t mention it." Lith shook his head. "Someone bring these people outside. Keep them quarantined until they are declared clear from parasites. The rest of us, with me. Let’s resume the s-"

"Please, mister soldier, save my mom!" A young boy, barely six years old rushed to Lith the moment the tendrils of Spirit Magic blocking him disappeared.

"I’ll do everything I can, kid." Lith nodded. "If she’s on this floor, we’ll find her."

"She’s not here!" Lith read worry and frustration in the boy’s eyes, a weird mix that stopped Lith from dismissing the boy’s words as a tantrum. "The beasts have taken her away. They don’t care about me. They don’t care about any of us.

"They keep me here to force her to stay alive! She’s still alive. I’m sure of it because otherwise I’d be dead."

The boy’s words made no sense to Lith and there was not one person in the room calm enough to explain what the boy meant. Most of the hostages were as panicked as the boy and some too stricken with guilt to help.

"It’s my fault. It’s only my fault." They sobbed.

Even after being rescued by the Knight Guard, there wasn’t an inkling of hope in the room, only despair.

"Please, find my mom!" The boy bawled his eyes out. "Save her. I don’t want her to suffer anymore!"

"What’s her name?" Lith asked, receiving a confused look in reply. "I need to know your mother’s name or I won’t recognize her when I find her."

"Chyrsha." The boy sobbed. "Her name is Chyrsha."

"And you are?" Lith said. "I need to tell her you are safe, no?"

"Rolam." The boy said amid sniffs, relaxing just so slightly under Lith’s protective aura. "My name is Rolam from Zeska. Mom brought me here during the war. She promised me we would be safe here. She…"

The glimpse of hope only made the boy’s fears grow. Until a moment ago, he was trapped in despair and resigned to die in that room. Now Rolam knew he would live, but the thought of never seeing Chyrsha again, of being left alone in Kophar, was no consolation at all.