Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3620

It was a small piece of knowledge that had cost Faluel countless tries and extensive agony to learn, but she was now sure that waiting past the three-minute mark would bring no new development, only prolong her suffering.

She cut off the extra mana flow, and the pain abated instantly. Faluel waited to feel the now familiar itch behind her eyes again before sending the mana to the secondary sunspots.

'Gods, yes!' The itching spread to the rest of her brains and then down her necks. 'Wait, why my necks? Of course! The spinal cord and the cerebellum must also play a role-'

Her eyes shed blood tears while her throats tightened, making every breath a wheezing gasp. Bone spikes erupted from her spines, piercing her flesh open with wounds.

'Gods, no!' Faluel lost her proto-Dragon Eyes and felt an immense bloodlust rise in her gut. The newfound insights about the arrays' runes faded at the edges of her consciousness, replaced by a violent hunger.

'No, no, no!' Then, her own lab became a scary and unknown place as every form of magic above tier three became a blurred mess she could no longer understand.

Anger clouded her vision, followed by the desire to escape from that underground prison and hunt until her stomach burst.

While she still retained her sanity, Faluel cut off the flow of the Hands and activated the safety protocols. The arrays drained the world energy from her body and readied to send a distress signal to Lith, Solus, Friya, Ajatar, and Fyrwal.

The signal contained all the information they would need to find her, access her lab, and fix her life force.

Luckily for Faluel, it wasn't necessary.

The changes in her life force were only due to the vigorous flow of mana, not due to the stable alterations caused by a Body Sculpting spell. The moment the arrays grounded Faluel and established a Sealed Space around her, the bubbles and the sunspots started to fade.

The bone spikes left gashes in her flesh, but she welcomed the pain as her mental faculties became as keen as usual. The itch disappeared, and with it her nascent form of Dragon Eyes.

Faluel first used the Life Sculpture to ensure her latest failure had inflicted no permanent damage on her life force. After that, she used light fusion to heal her wounds.

Her body was on the verge of collapse, and she didn't want to increase its burden further. Lifestream wasn't an option either. It would erase the effects of her experiment before the arrays could record them in their entirety.

"Good gods. I went this close to being the first fallen Hydra on Mogar." She panted heavily, feeling her stomach grumbling as if she hadn't eaten in days instead of hours. "Just my luck. The thing I chose as my last try was the right one. Next time-

"What is it now?" A small alarm pulled at her consciousness, alerting Faluel that someone was at her door.

A tendril of mana connected her with the enchantments comprising the security system of her secret lab, which gave her access to those of her home despite the distance separating them.

"Ajatar?" The holographic camera showed Faluel a colossal sapphire-blue lizard standing in front of her doorstep.

The horn on his snout took up most of the hologram due to perspective, but left enough space for her to recognize her friend.

"Why is he here? More importantly, why am I talking to myself out loud like a crazy person? How long has this been going on? How long have I been holed up in here?" After waiting a while, Ajatar pressed the rune again, pulling at her consciousness.