Supreme Magus novel Chapter 446

"This is much worse than I expected." Jirni paced around Dorian’s office while assessing the gravity of Othre’s predicament in the light of the most recent developments.

"Royal Constables don’t deal with mages. It’s the duty of the Mage Association to prevent idiots with more power than brain from endangering the Kingdom and its subjects. My problem is that if I call in the Knight’s Guard without a proper cover story, panic will spread."

Even if she wasn’t referring to him, Dorian felt the need to justify himself anyway.

"I assure you that there has been no early sign of a conspiracy of this magnitude. I performed background checks on every mage that entered the city during the last months.

"Also, the materials necessary to build a lab need special permission to be bought. There’s no record of someone applying for one in years."

"It’s not your fault. Necromancer or not, we are dealing with someone smart enough to cover their tracks. We don’t even know what is their real agenda. Based on what Lith said, made mages and blue pillars victims might be failed experiments.

"Even though I don’t see what they could possibly achieve by giving powers to random people. But if Manohar is right and we are dealing with the making of a cursed artifact, then only the missing people are relevant and the rest it’s just a diversion.

"Think about it. Small time nobles dying in the middle of the day are bound to draw attention and so are rogue mages bent on destruction. We need more information and we need them fast. We don’t know how close the mastermind is to bring their plan to fruition. Any ideas?"

"We could require a copy of Brigadier General Vorgh’s report for the Kaduria events." Kamila proposed. "Lith said that the aftereffects of the Black Star and of the blue pillar are similar.

"Kaduria’s world energy was sealed by the arrays. Maybe after disabling them, the General noticed something that could help us understand what’s happening here."

Lith considered it a waste of time, but said nothing.

’I’ve never seen blue pillars before, not even after Abominations absorbed small villages’ worth of world energy. The phenomenon must be related to the kind of Forbidden magic employed. Since we are clutching at straws though, we might as well give it a try.’ He thought. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

Then, after pondering Jirni’s and Dorian’s words, Kamila took out her communication amulet and started browsing through her notes. Her hands moved on the holographic interface with the grace of a pianist during a solo.

Her expression was so focused that Jirni stopped pacing to not disturb her work.

"I knew it!" She said with a warm smile that reminded Lith the reason he had asked her out the first time they had met, right after she had finished reproaching him. There was something in her disposition that made her more than sunny, almost radiant.

"So far we have considered the nobles involved with the blue pillars as victims, but if we consider them part of a bigger scheme, then I think this could give us a lead." Kamila handed her communication amulet to Jirni.

The data collected showed that every victim had renovated a part of their mansions during the previous months. Some had set new arrays, others had bought new magical commodities.

Taken individually, each order was inconspicuous, but once put them all together, there were more than enough magical resources to build a decent lab.