Supreme Magus novel Chapter 401

There was no time to seal the opening with a third wall. From outside the temple, Treius grinned as his spell invaded the small space between the pillar and the conjured walls.

’It’s too late to Blink away. With the walls around him and the incoming attack, he can’t visualize an exit point. Checkmate!’

His smug expression disappeared when he noticed that the Ranger was taking to damage. Wave after wave, the lightning ring surrounding the main temple faded away, yet Lith was unscathed.

’After the orc shaman used the crystal to unleash real lightning against me, I knew I had to come out with a solution. Luckily, a Faraday’s cage is as cheap as effective.’ Lith thought while inside a bell shaped copper mesh large enough to give him some person space.

’This doesn’t make sense. How can metal protect from lightning?’ Treius couldn’t believe his own eyes. The flimsy grate had withstood all of his attacks.

Lith put the cage back inside his pocket dimension before flying out of the window that was in the opposite direction of his opponent. With the Gatekeeper in his hand, he circled around the castle walls while preparing a new set of spells.

Treius was outraged. Even after witnessing his power, the Ranger wasn’t running away. He had the gall of thinking he could actually win. Treius opened a Warp Steps leading right behind Lith. Each finger of his left hand crackled with the energy of a different spell ready to be released.

The moment Lith saw the Warp Steps forming on the other side of the building, he turned around and spotted the exit point. On the other side, there was a young man about twenty years old.

He was dressed in a white long wool robe and what reminded Lith of a tagelmust, the turban symbol of the Tuareg people. They emphasized his dark bronze skin and the colourful makeup around his eyes.

Lith had never met someone that didn’t look Caucasian on Mogar. A part of his mind wondered if the young man came from the Blood Desert, but his survival instinct was focused on the fact that he had yet to see the enemy perform a single hand sign.

’I knew it! The sucker is an Awakened too, but he hasn’t realized this a fair fight. Or better, it was.’ Lith thought while unleashing all the spells he had ready through the portal.

Treius gasped in surprise when six fireballs exploded around him from every direction. Ice spears the size of a small tree had invaded all of the surrounding space, waiting for their master’s order to strike.

Just like Lith a few seconds before, Treius couldn’t Blink. Both the explosion and the ice spears covered an area bigger of the dimensional spell’s measly ten meters (66’) range.

’I could exceed the limit, but it would cost me a lot of mana. It’s not a luxury I can afford, not against another Awakened one. The only way he could spot the Warp Steps despite the castle blocking his visual is with Life Vision!’ Treius thought.

He was surprised, but not scared. One of his bracelets generated a powerful barrier made of pure mana that blocked the heat, the shockwaves, and the spears at the same time. The enchanted item wasn’t devised to block such a powerful combined attack.

The barrier cracked at several points. The pseudo core fueling the protection was quickly depleting its energy reserves. The mana crystals embedded on the silver bracelet turned dull one after the other.

During the split second Treius was blinded by the explosions, Lith Blinked through the enemy’s Warp Steps, lunging with all the strength he had. The Gatekeeper crashed the magical protection only to be stopped by a second one.