Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3647

"You Fire Dragons have an entire clan behind you. She is alone and doesn't want to involve her brother in a conflict with the Council or the Kingdom."

"You have a point." Erghak sighed. "I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, accompany Lith in delivering the Eyes. I have something that might help Tista in the short term. Erghak out."

Silence fell into the room, interrupted solely by the rhythmical heavy breathing of the Wight.

"I have a question." Nyka said. "I know that the owner of one of the pieces of Menadion Set can authorize other people to use it, but how are the Fire Dragons supposed to get the authorization? Mom is unreliable at best, and I can't move during the day."

"Do you trust Lith, child?" Menadion asked.

"With my life. Why?"

"Then give me the Eyes." The First Ruler of the Flames extended her hand.

Nyka took the artifact off Kalla's snout and handed it to Menadion.

"Wait." Solus stopped them. "Isn't your mother going to get angry when she wakes up?"

"Not until she remembers about the deal, no." The Vampire chuckled. "Also, she was due to a break from her experiments and long-overdue physical training. This is actually a blessing in disguise. Nok and I can have Mom all to ourselves for six months straight!"

"Do it before she wakes up!" Solus jumped with joy for her friend.

Menadion removed the imprint on the Eyes with Creation Magic, and Lith replaced it with his own.

"Do you want to come with us, Ripha?" Lith accessed the tower's Warping Mirror to move to the mana geyser closer to the coordinates of Erghak's lair.

"With pleasure." She nodded. "I always loved Fire Dragons. They are great artisans. They purify enchanted metals like few others and craft many masterpieces each generation. Yet I doubt the feeling would be mutual were they to know about my Thievery."

"What's a Thievery?" Nyka asked.

"Nothing. You better stay here, child." Menadion replied too quickly not to sound suspicious. "Let's go."

The tower Warped away, leaving the flabbergasted vampire and the sleeping Wight behind.

"The Empire again and the Valley of Life at that." Lith sighed.

"I'm sorry for your friend, child." Menadion needed to float to pat Lith's shoulder. "Dragons are born from Leegaain, and this is his turf. It's only natural they live here."

"Mom is right." Solus hadn't spent much time with the late Father of Fire, but she knew how much he meant to Lith. "I bet Erghak lives in a volcano as well. You heard his talk about seizing mines."

She tried to change the topic, hoping it would take Lith's mind off his dead friend.

"I don't take losing bets. Look there." The Watchtower floor had spotted another mana geyser in the distance whose coordinates matched those of Erghak's lair.

The recovery of the Ears and Solus regaining the deep violet core had greatly enhanced the range of the Watchtower, but that wasn't the only reason Lith had found two mana geysers so close to each other.