Supreme Magus novel Chapter 498

"Clearly the attack on the watchtowers was a diversion. The wargs wanted to get rid of the sentinels before opening the doors and sneaking inside the city undetected." Lith pondered.

"My thoughts exactly. We have traitors in our midst." Said the Baroness.

"Yes, but you are lucky, your Ladyship."

"Winter has barely started and my city is cornered by enemies from outside and within. How dare you call me lucky?" She was seconds away from punching the Ranger in the nose.

"Idiots are the best kind of enemies one can ask for." Lith replied before examining the bodies on the stretchers. Some had been killed by a bite to the neck, others had been disemboweled by claws.

Each attack had been executed with deadly precision and then followed by a sloppy attempt at covering the wounds with fire or air magic.

"Does this look like the work of a warg to you?" Asked the Baroness.

"Yes, but it doesn’t make sense. First magic can easily kill and so will blades. Using their bodies to attack was really stupid of them unless they didn’t expect me to foil their plan. More importantly, how could something like this go unnoticed?"

Lith cleared off a slab before taking out the warg’s corpse from his pocket dimension. Baroness Enja nodded as a disgusted expression appeared on her face.

"It shouldn’t have, yet it did. The west gate remained closed the whole time, yet the people guarding it had been slaughtered. No matter how absurd it sounds, it must have been an inside job."

"Agreed, but something tall, dark, and hairy like a warg couldn’t have hidden in plain sight." Lith replied as he cut open the creature’s chest with an air blade. Even though he couldn’t share the information Kamila had provided him, he could still find evidence of mutation on his own.

The army’s bestiary had included a complete anatomical description of the creatures, allowing Lith to perform a necropsy. Unfortunately, the body’s poor condition due to the extensive wounds sustained at the moment of death gave him a single clue.

’The internal organs appear to be slightly shifted from where they are supposed to be, leaving extra space near the creature’s mana core. Yet I can’t tell if it’s because of a mutation or just because the remains more closely resemble a jigsaw puzzle than a carcass.’ He thought.

’Solus, do you think the wargs could have infiltrated the city by shapeshifting?’

’That would be almost impossible.’ She replied. ’Not even all Evolved Monsters learn how to shapeshift, like Kalla or Phillard. Even if the wargs could do it, in a city like Maekosh the slightest blunder would blow their cover.

’The people here are far from welcoming and the creatures who attacked the guards are clearly dumb. Maybe the army can offer us some insight.’

Lith used his army communicator to give a full report to his handler. He stressed the creature’s ability to speak, fly, and its temporary invulnerability. Then he explained the city’s current predicament.

"Your situation is abnormal." Kamila said.

"Both the warg warrior’s resilience and its death cannot be explained by their innate abilities. Even a large pack can only share part of the wounds one of its members sustains and not as fast as you described.

"I’ll consult the archives and get back to you as soon as possible."

"What if it’s a new species entirely? A single Ranger might not be enough! Send reinforcements immediately." The Baroness ordered.

Lith recovered the warg corpse and left the morgue for the prison below the city’s courthouse. The flight wasn’t long, yet it reminded Lith why he didn’t like Maekosh. _{ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom}