Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3554

"Welcome back home, Lith. That was-" Kamila tried to hug him after he rushed through the door but he sidestepped her with a spin and moved forward. "Fast."

"Thank the gods you’re alright, Mom." Lith crossed the kitchen in the blink of an eye and wrapped Elina in an embrace. "I missed you so much."

"I missed you too, baby." Lith coming to her first flattered Elina but she could tell something was wrong with him. "Are you…"

She didn’t realize how bad it was until she returned the embrace and his wings popped out of his back, forming a protective cocoon around her.

"Alright?" Elina had been examined with Invigoration enough times to recognize the feeling of foreign mana flowing through her body just like she could sense the slight tremble in Lith’s fingers as he held her shoulders.

His breathing technique confirmed that she was alive and well. Elina’s smell filled Lith’s nose and the steady sound of her heartbeat was the most amazing music he had ever heard.

Slowly, the image of Chyrsha’s dead body stopped overlapping with Elina. Reality reaffirmed itself so strongly that not even Lith’s paranoia could deny it anymore. After almost two days of internal agony, he could finally relax.

"I’m very happy you’ve embraced me with your wings for the first time, sweetie, but you are making me worry." Lith wasn’t one for long hugs yet he had still to loosen his hold. "What happened in Kophar?"

Elina gently caressed his hair and back, holding him tight.

"Where are Aran and Leria?" He asked while stepping back slowly.

"At school." Elina replied. "The triplets are with Zekell to watch him work at the forge while Elysia and Valeron are sleeping in the other room."

"Good." Lith nodded, moving to embrace Kamila and then Raaz. "I’m not in the mood to come up with a fairy tale and I need to take this off my chest."

"You better have a good explanation, you jerk." Kamila’s voice was filled with worry and didn’t match her words. "Dodging me like that was rude."

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She was just trying to act like everything was normal. Lith’s wings wrapped around her as usual, allaying her worst fears.

"First Kami, then Elysia, and now your mother." Raaz sighed when no wings welcomed him. "I guess your old man is not beautiful enough to be a member of your exclusive club."

"It’s not a club, Dad." Lith couldn’t help but smile.

"And it’s not based on beauty or I’d be part of it." Rena grunted, receiving no wings as well. "Either that or I’ll kick your ass, Lil Bro."

"Please, sit down and listen." Lith took a hot camomile tea with clover honey out of his pocket dimension along with oven-fresh pastries from Kophar’s bakery.

He emptied his cup in one gulp and filled it again before recounting the events of the final days of his mission.

The various fights against the Emperor Beasts would have been the climax in a bard’s tale but it was the most unimpressive part of the story to Lith’s family. The potential return of Hatorne’s toxins and parasites scared them much more than any claw or spell could.

Yet none of the tension the Verhens felt as Lith recounted how he had located the Emperor Beasts’ base held a candle to the horror they experienced when he described the scene of the parasites’ breeding grounds.

Lith used no holograms but their imagination painted an accurate portrait of the events on the canvas of their minds.