Supreme Magus novel Chapter 476

Kilian cast the tier five Warden spell Disarray. His will overrode the commands programmed in the magical formations, twisting the energies coursing through them into chaos and turning their mana flow against itself until their structure collapsed.

When he was finished, the Gate’s edges had already started flickering. The team managed to cross it before it disappeared, while the Captain used his Third Eye to scan their surroundings for more traps.

Lith noticed that Kilian’s spell was able to reveal all kinds of enchantments. Under his gaze, the equipment of his teammates glowed, even Solus, and so did the doors along the stone corridor.

"No more arrays in sight and Manohar is not here. Let’s move before our Mad Queen sends her thralls to kill us." Jirni signaled Kilian to take point, following him closely. There was a wall right behind the Gate’s exit point, so they could only move forward.

Lith immediately understood what she meant. To be able to pull the giant hologram stunt, the Professor must had escaped from his captor. There was no trace of battle along the corridor and the doors were intact.

Thrud Griffon knew of the incoming attack, she wouldn’t waste time repairing her base. She would either run away or prepare for battle, and since her arrays were still functional, the latter was the most likely scenario.

No one would be so foolish to leave behind the rare and expensive mana crystals needed to fuel them.

’I don’t like this place.’ Solus thought. ’It’s built over a mana geyser. If our enemy knows how to harness its power, there’s no limit to the mana at her disposal. Even most of the furniture inside the rooms is enchanted.’

’What do you see?’ Lith moved to the rear guard, to be able to use Life Vision without the others noticing his glowing eyes.

’The first part of the corridor was a storehouse, while all these doors lead to labs for different specializations. This woman must be an eclectic genius.’

’Or maybe she just had a lot of time to learn. What about Manohar?’

’Sorry, I have no idea. Between the arrays, the labs, and whatever there is on the other floors, it’s like looking into the Sun.’ Lith tried to use Life Vision, only to be blinded by the sensory overload.

The silver lining was that among all that white, he had caught a glimpse of red wind living beings emitted coming from below and a sea of it coming from above. His problem was how to share the information with the others.

"I was glad to hear you found someone after joining the army." Vastor blabbered again, making Lith inwardly gripe.

"You know, he brooded for a whole year after your daughter broke up with him."

"Really?" Jirni was really interested in the matter.

"Yeah. It took some effort to convince him to get back in the game. Him getting turned down multiple times didn’t make things easier. He kept hitting on the staff instead of the students and..." Luckily for Lith, the corridor wasn’t that long.

They found a flight of stairs leading to the upper and the lower floors.

"I think we should go down." Lith was eager to change the topic. "Prisons are usually built on the lowest level, to make it harder to break out."

Jirni inwardly laughed at his efforts. Knowing Vastor, it wouldn’t take him long to start talking again on his own, giving her plausible deniability.

"Oh gods!" Kilian cursed as he saw that there were arrays on the floor, the ceiling, and the walls.

"I’ll exhaust my mana way before we reach the next floor if I’m forced to disable every trap we met."