Supreme Magus novel Chapter 499

"These people are crazy. I would never stop in a shithole like this if it weren’t for the wargs. Our destination was Shaku. Do you know if my goods are safe?" Asked a scrawny middle aged woman with more wrinkles than a crumpled paper.

"How did you escape the wargs?" Lith couldn’t care less about their cargo.

"We didn’t escape. They ignored us." Said a lean man in his late fifties, with grizzled hair and beard. "They were too focused praying to pay us any attention."

"Praying?" Lith was even more incredulous than he sounded.

"Well, they were kneeling on the ground, doing nothing but chanting some gibberish." The man shrugged.

"It wasn’t gibberish, master Dihel, but magic." Said a young man about Lith’s age who looked more like an artist than a wannabe merchant. He had handsome features and arms so thin Lith doubted he had ever lifted something heavier than a toothpick.

"How can you be so sure?" Lith asked.

"I was the one standing guard. I noticed the wargs because of the light they emitted. They were divided into groups of six. Each group was engulfed in a magnificent golden light that formed a circle."

"Golden light?" Lith echoed as his stomach churned.

’Six points inscribed inside a circle?’ Solus’s stomach was nonexistant, but she felt like puking nonetheless.

"By chance did it look like this?" Lith opened his right hand, making a Silverwing’s Hexagram the size of a towel appear.

"Yes! It was exactly like that, at least as far as I remember. What does it mean?"

’That we are royally fucked.’ Lith thought.

"Nothing, don’t worry." He actually said.

"You have helped me a lot. Just a few more questions. Did the monsters have something unusual about them? Anything at all?"

They shook their heads, making Lith inwardly curse.

’I hoped they had seen the wargs shapeshift, or at least in the company of humans. That way at least I would know where to start looking. My usual bad luck.’ He griped.

"Where did you spot them, exactly?" Lith took out a map from his pocket dimension and had the merchants point out the location to him.

Before he left, he gave them enough food and water to last for a couple of days. Lith also barred the door and took all the keys with him. Then he called the Baroness.

"I’m leaving Maekosh, so I need you to stand guard and call me if anything happens. Trust no one but me. No one can know of my absence."

"What? That is unacceptable! Your duty is to defend the city, how can you leave?" Fear and outrage fought in her voice, but fear prevailed lowering it by one octave.

"The merchants saw the wargs practicing arrays." Lith lied.

"If we allow them to increase their numbers, they will be able to destroy the city from the outside. They need to be culled."