Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3567

"I believe you." Marth sighed. "And if you knew Krisha Manohar like I did, the idea of him sleeping with a woman and walking away would sound as ridiculous as it does to me. He had countless suitors and ignored them all.

"If a woman were capable of catching his attention, he would have been obvious about it, like he did with Elina." Lith grimaced at the memory while his mother blushed. "On top of that, he was too scared of his mother to hide the existence of a grandchild from her."

"Manohar was an insane genius obsessed with himself and his research, but he was a good friend. He would have never backstabbed me and even if he had, he would have rubbed it in my face.

"Manohar never lied and had no care for the feelings of other people. He did everything he wanted and laughed in your face about it."

"That’s so true." Lith and Jirni said.

"We even performed a Blood Resonance spell." Ryssa said. "Multiple times, actually. The result is always the same. Duke and I are Dhiral’s parents."

"Lith, you are an expert in life forces." Marth said. "What is your opinion on this?"

"Expert is a strong word." Lith pondered the situation. "Wait here a minute, I’ll bring you a real expert."

He walked away and soon returned with a beautiful woman with flaming red hair and emerald green eyes.

"Ryssa, Duke, this is Baba Yaga, the Red Mother." Lith said and Baba Yaga gave them a curtsy. "Baba Yaga, these are Duke and Ryssa Marth, my friends and Dhiral’s parents."

The couple’s jaws hit the floor and stayed there while the Mother walked to examine the baby boy and then returned to study the parents’ life forces as well.

"Baba Yaga?" Marth tensed up when she took his hand and checked his life force and energy signature. "That Baba Yaga? The Mother of all Undead?"

"The white core of immortality?" Ryssa too snapped out of her reverie only when the Mother touched her, afraid of being turned into an undead.

"In the flesh, my dear." Baba Yaga replied. "In my line of work, I’m always interested in hybrids. I befriended Lith after Elysia was born."

Explaining her relationship with Solus was too long and complicated, so Baba Yaga opted for a simpler lie.

"Well, what’s the response?" Lith asked.

"The baby is definitely yours." The Mother said while looking at Ryssa and Marth. There is no doubt that his life force is born from a combination of your own. Yet that doesn’t mean that the late Manohar didn’t pull a fast one."

"How?" Marth was still shocked but seeing a light at the end of the tunnel gave him the strength to overcome it.

"If it were me, I’d tamper with the life force of the parents." Baba Yaga replied. "Modify it to resemble mine. It’s an almost impossible task but Manohar performed the impossible as a hobby."

"How would it work, exactly?" Ryssa asked.

"If Manohar had identified the part of his life force that gave him his genius, he might have stimulated it in you two." The Mother said. "You are too old for your brain to change but your children would have no such problem.

"The procedure would be long and hard, though. The more differences between Manohar and his subject, the longer it would take him. The ideal candidate should be a blood relative."

"Manohar was an only child and 100% asshole, I mean human." Marth said. "Are you telling me he did something to me?"

"I kept away from him as you instructed." Ryssa shrugged. "I never drank or ate anything he offered me and you know he wasn’t big on physical contact."