Supreme Magus novel Chapter 570

Even though their thirst for knowledge burned bright, Lith and Solus knew better than meaninglessly rush forward. Lith expanded the silence zone to not be interrupted by the city guards and unleashed a volley of lightning bolts.

Even Full Guard was useless if its user wasn’t fast enough to react to the information it provided. Kieran cursed as his body went into a seizure. The blade stuck in his body was a perfect conductor, allowing the lighting to bypass the armor’s defensive barrier.

Darkness fusion prevented him from feeling pain, but the electrical current still triggered his active motor neurons. Having the opponent lost his mobility, Lith pushed the Reaver through Kieran’s body until its hilt struck his chest.

With a pierced lung and the venom flooding the assassin’s blood system, Lith was almost sure to have absolute control over his enemy.

’Too bad that almost is never enough.’ He thought.

’At least now he can’t use Invigoration. I could question him, but if the scimitar guy is around, he will have all the time he needs to cast his best spells, if not even an array. Time to find out if we are alone or not.’

"Time to die, human. You shouldn’t have messed with my turf." Lith’s voice in his hybrid form was a low grumble, as if the words were half spoken and half roared, making it unrecognizable.

The rapier went straight for Kieran’s heart, forcing Deraniel’s hand. The man from the Blood Desert had no choice but to open the Warp Steps he had at the ready while unsheathing his sword.

It cost him the array he had been preparing from the moment the ambush started.

Another of the strong points of the surveillance mirror was the possibility to project arrays from a greater distance than it was normally possible, making it a perfect tool for Awakened working as a team.

’That idiot! Not only did he get his ass handed to him before I could finish my spell, but he also managed to anger an Emperor Beast. Fucking animals, they are almost as annoying as Keiran.’ Deraniel thought.

’Behind you!’ Solus warned Lith as her mana sense detected the opening of the dimensional corridor. It was too far for Lith to stab the opponent before he could react, so Lith feigned ignorance until the last moment.

Only then did he dodge the attack by rolling to the side while using spirit magic to toss the helpless assassin against his companion. _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

"Fuck!" Deraniel said, unable to express how frustrated he was. He had only two choices: to Blink away and be at the enemy’s mercy or kill Kieran with his own hands.

Dimensional magic was the only way he had to alter the path of his blade, but Lith took the choice out of his hands by hurling a stream of Origin Flames against the two Awakened who were about to collide.

Deraniel cursed again, Blinking both him and his companion in opposite directions. He didn’t do it to protect Kieran, so much as to create two exit points at once. He gambled on his luck, hoping the Emperor Beast would follow the wrong Blink.

Lith activated the spirit magic variation he had learned while in Zolgrish’s lab.

"Demons of Darkness!" He shouted despite being deeply ashamed of his current persona. Talking like an evil overlord made him cringe to the bone.

He injected his pure mana inside his shadow and then he expanded it like a black sun. Blink had an area of effect much smaller than spirit magic so both Awakened were still within his grasp.

Kieran was too busy spitting blood to not drown in his own fluids to notice his shadow coming to life, whereas Deraniel activated fusion magic as soon as he realized an invisible force was constricting his movements.

’What the?’ Not only the grip he felt all over his body was getting stronger instead of fading, but his life force was being sucked as well. It took him just a moment to notice that his own shadow now had yellow eyes and was wrapped around his limbs.