Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3552

Kugoh and Shasa needed to die by Lith’s hand or getting rid of the fury possessing him would take too long.

"Shasa!" Kugoh needed more Life Maelstrom and the Hippogriff was happy to oblige.

Solus didn’t even try to stop him when a large silvery bolt of lightning sparked out of Shasa’s palm and slithered past her wall of hard-light shields.

All bloodline abilities could be infused with willpower if one knew how to do it and Shasa had long mastered Life Maelstrom. Unfortunately for him, he had never met someone capable of using Domination.

Shasa infused inside the silver lightning bolt just enough willpower to control it from a distance and make it dodge the obstacles separating the two Emperor Beasts.

Lith’s emerald eye lit up, overpowering the Hippogriff’s will and replacing it with his own. The Life Maelstrom took a sharp turn and plunged into Lith’s body, forming electric arches from horns to tail.

"Oh, shit!" Kugoh’s heart skipped a few beats as he felt death encroaching.

An adult bright violet-cored Divine Beast was much stronger than an adult bright blue-cored Emperor Beast, and that without taking the sheer body mass into account. Thanks to the Hippogriff’s Life Maelstrom, Lith was ten times stronger than that.

"This is just the beginning." Lith sent a spark of electricity through his black eye and released it in the form of a stream of Black Lightning.

It was a bloodline ability only Jotunn were supposed to possess and it was a mage’s worst nightmare. Under the disruptive power of the Black Lightning, Kugoh’s fusion magic was gone, and all the spells he had prepared disappeared from his mind.

Only those with a violet core could cast spells during a fight. The Behemoth had solely his martial arts left whereas Lith still had his magic and the Mouth of Menadion.

On top of that, as soon as the Black Lightning struck, the aftereffects of the toxin-contaminated potions kicked in.

Kugoh had pushed himself way past his limits and Life Maelstrom had pushed him ten times further. His muscles were torn and his bones cracked by the abuse of a physical and magical strength his body was too weak to handle.

Without darkness fusion keeping the pain away and light fusion mending the self-inflicted damage, Kugoh fell onto his knees, bleeding from all his orifices. He tried to use Invigoration, but blood filled his lungs and sent him into a coughing fit that painted the ground red.

"Now we’re even." Lith’s step dug a meters-deep crater in the floor and covered the distance separating him from the Behemoth.

Frozen Flames shrouded Ragnarök as it severed Kugoh’s left arm at the shoulder and froze the limb, shattering it into countless bloody crystals. True Flames accompanied the amputation of the right arm, burning it to cinders and cauterizing the wound.

Nether Flames devoured the Behemoth’s right leg and dissolved it into a pool of flesh. Noxious Flames corroded the left leg like acid, spreading like poison through the blood vessels but stopping right before Kugoh’s groin.

"What you feel now is but a fraction of what you inflicted on those people." Lith hissed with fury. "On my mother!"

"I didn’t-" Ragnarök sundered what was left of the Behemoth’s body and Dread Flames consumed it into nothingness.

"As for you…" Lith moved toward the terrified Shasa as Solus and Menadion made way for him. "Let me guess. Kidnapping people wasn’t your idea. This was just business to you. You only did it for the money and power, am I right?"