Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3696

Chapter 3696: Up Close and Personal (Part 1)

To make matters worse, due to the Doom Tide, there was no world energy and no way for Lith to use Invigoration.

The only silver lining was that Valeron the Second was unscathed. Despite everything the Awakened had thrown at the baby boy, Lith had managed to keep him safe.

Yet that didn’t make Valeron feel any less scared or tormented by the truth he had just learned.

The baby boy had discovered the concept of death after Valtak’s passing. The loss of the Father of Fire had stung hard, but it was nothing compared to what ravaged Valeron’s heart today.

His father was dead, his mother was dead, and the man who Valeron had proudly called dad until two minutes ago was responsible for that. The pain from the grief and the betrayal Valeron felt struggled for supremacy.

Yet, akin to two lions fighting among them while tumbling down the edge of a cliff, victory was pointless. Valeron suffered anyway, and despite the desire to reunite with his parents, the baby boy was terrified of death.

He didn’t want to lose Elysia. He didn’t want to lose Surin, Kamila, Solus, Raaz, and all those people he loved and could only hope were unaware of Lith’s murders just like he had been.

Valeron had lived for little more than two years. He had yet to learn how to speak properly, to run, and to fly. He didn’t want to die before he could do all those things. Before he could taste all the delicious food the grown-ups ate.

Before he could play the games of the older children of the house. Before he could express with his own words how much he loved his family. Valeron was safe, but he was terrified of death.

And so, he cried.

He cried for his parents, but no matter how hard and loud he called, no one answered. It was then that he finally understood what the emptiness that had plagued his heart for almost a year now meant.

It was then that he understood that Jormun and Thrud were dead and he would never see them again.

‘I’d tell Valeron to be quiet, but what’s the point?’ Lith felt the baby’s desperation through the Dragon Scales, but he couldn’t afford the luxury of feeling guilty. ‘He has every right to cry, and it’s not like the noise is the issue here.’

As soon as he escaped the elemental void created by the Doom Tide, Lith took Trouble and Raptor out of the pocket dimension and cast the Forgemastering spell, Restore. It boosted the Golems’ self-repair abilities and supplied them with world energy, so as not to deplete their power cores further.

Raptor bore several deep wounds left by the Titania’s blades, and the Doom Tide had made them worse. The moment Restore fixed most of the damage, Lith stored the Golems again to keep them as a wild card.

‘My opponents know of my pocket dimension, but that only keeps them on their toes. Dimensional sealing arrays don’t work on it. Only space-compressing arrays do. Unfortunately for them, I’m not going to give them the time to set the array or stay still while they set up a suitable energy source for it.’

‘Two of us have already died, and Verhen is still on the run.’ Uryn Felt, the Awakened man, said via the mind link. ‘That’s not a Divine Beast. That’s a monster.’

‘Monster or not, we can’t allow him to escape.’ Lelira Thern, the Awakened woman, replied. ‘If attacking him in the sky doesn’t work, then we need to bring Verhen down to the ground.’