Supreme Magus novel Chapter 536

’Undead life force?’ Solus was flabbergasted. ’Could he have evolved after absorbing the darkness magic animating your wolves?’

Lith had no explanation for the phenomenon, yet he noticed that the orc’s clothes were too big for him. They were sized for a regular orc, which meant that either his transformation really had just happened or the creature didn’t care about having them fixed.

After a throughout body scan of the fainted elf-orc, Lith and Solus had no idea what events could be unfolding in the underground lab. The creature’s anatomy was almost identical to its corrupted counterpart.

The only anomalies were the slightly different shape of his organs and his mana core resonating with the world energy, making him recover his mana faster than a human would.

After waking the orc up, Lith discovered that all the means of interrogation at his disposal were useless.

The creature would cut off his pain receptors at the first opportunity he got, and even if Lith could easily undo it, the orc proved to be resistant to pain beyond reason. Since more monsters were approaching, Lith killed to orc while he still had some time left before being discovered.

Just as he expected, death reverted the monster to his original form. Life Vision revealed the undead life force leaving the body, but unluckily it moved as fast as lightning and passed through the ground.

Lith had no opportunity to follow it before it disappeared from his sight.

’It was definitely not from your wolves.’ Solus pointed out. ’Otherwise it would have just faded.’

Lith nodded and hid around a corner to avoid the next patrol. It was composed of five ogres. They were all very tall, above 2 meters (6’7\") with muscular bodies that could have passed for humans if not for their greenish skin, their spiky red hair and the long, pointy fangs protruding out of their lower lip.

Once again, one of them was very different from the others. He had no fangs and his hair seemed to be made of red autumn leaves. There was a calm, solemn light of intelligence reflected in his eyes, that deeply contrasted with the brutish appearance of his peers.

’Is it me, or does this guy resemble the dryads we met years ago?’ After meeting the wargs, Lith had started to wonder if even plants and magical beasts were part of the Fallen races. The reverted ogre’s appearance seemed to confirm his suspects. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}

\"What happened to Caliel’s unit?\" Said one of the ogres. He stuttered every word with a pained expression, as if using human language poisoned his tongue.

\"There is no sign of struggle.\" The dryad-ogre calmly observed. \"And none of us would have wasted so much meat. Either Yozmogh himself or one of his elite units must have breached the barricade.\"

\"We need to split into two teams. One will bring the corpses to the kitchen and give the alarm while the other will try to slow them down. I’ll do the tracking.\"

The ogre started chanting in an unknown language as two of his soldiers picked up the bodies and stored them inside huge sacks.

’A barricade? Then the monsters are infighting, which would explain why they eat their own. How did they survive so long, though? To spawn fast they need to eat so much that they should have died of starvation long ago...’

Lith’s musing was interrupted the moment the ogre-dryad finished his chanting. Based on its length, it had to be a tier one spell. Lith cursed when he noticed red marks appearing on the floor, the ceiling, and wherever the bodies of the fallen orcs had touched the walls during the previous fight.