Supreme Magus novel Chapter 549

Ragged clothes appeared on Zolgrish’s skeleton as well as flesh and muscles, restoring part of his original appearance. Dann’Kah started to panic, his willpower was consumed on too many fronts.

He had to keep at bay the voices in his head, prevent the amplifier from shutting down or lose any chance to control it, and fight the undead energies within him which were trying to return to their rightful vessel.

’How the heck does Yozmogh control them so effortlessly? I’m a natural Awakened, whereas lichs use fake magic, and Balors are limited to tier three magic. Why am I losing against a pile of bones?’ He thought.

The answer was actually simple. In his arrogance, Dann’Kah had spread his resources too thin. As for Zolgrish, he had prepared plenty of spells on his way to the lab. Until he lost his focus or run out of spells, he was as powerful as an Awakened.

To add insult to injury, he only needed to beckon to call back his energies and the closer he got to Dann’Kah, the harder it was for the orc to keep them in check.

Zolgrish was solely focused on the shaman, so Yozmogh could afford to let the undead energies escape from his body just to capture them again with his black wing.

Dann’Kah called upon his ancestors to conjure the ancient elven tier five spell, Lighthouse. It trapped the lich inside a hard light construct shaped like a cube that contained a small tornado.

Zolgrish wasn’t afraid of being ripped to shreds by the violent air currents, so much as he was surprised by the offensive light spell. He had never seen one before.

"Not bad, but let’s see if this thing is as strong as it looks." The lich snapped his fingers to release the tier five spell Raging Sun. It filled the cube with a blast of purple flames that dispersed the air currents forming the tornado, adding the orc’s spell power to its own.

The resulting explosion made the sides of the cube crack as the lich took control of the shockwaves it generated with air magic and sent them back and forth against the weak points the two colliding spells had created.

It was an impossible strategy for any creature, living or not. Zolgrish could ignore the damage he received only because he had no vitals.

"You fool!" He laughed as his bones kept cracking and healing.

"You should have let the device shut down. It would have taken me hours instead of seconds to regain my strength. The closer I get to it, the stronger I become. It’s like being next to my phylactery to me."

"Thanks for the information, old man." Dann’Kah replied. He sent the cube rolling to the opposite side of the room, following it closely to not lose control of his spell. If darkness magic’s weakness was its speed, for light magic it was its range.

"But I need the amplifier to take everything from you, just like you took everything away from me. My dignity, my honor, even my life. I’ll use your life’s work to escape from this cage and torture you until the end of time."

"What a coincidence! It’s the end of time o’clock for you. Right, Ratpack?" At those words, Dann’Kah realized to have brought the lich in the spot he had seen the small maggot disappear.

Ratpack emerged from the shadows, stabbing Dann’Kah with his Coward’s Knife multiple times before the shaman could even turn around. The enchanted blade was a long dagger for a man but it was a short sword to Ratpack.

Zolgrish had infused it with light and darkness magic. The darkness spell acted as a venom against living beings and as an acid against everything else. The light element closed the wounds the moment they were opened. _{frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓}

The forced healing would sap its victim’s stamina and accelerate the spreading of the venom through their body by enhancing their metabolism. Dann’Kah managed to stop the darkness spell with one of his own, but he was helpless against the light magic which broke both his focus and his spell.