Supreme Magus novel Chapter 641

Those words made Lith almost slap his own forehead, but luckily he remembered in time about the Orichalcum still covering his hands.

"Those are water creatures, but there can’t be a big enough water body around here to sustain such a big colony. If that was the case, we should hear the underground water stream or at least smell a lot of humidity in the air. Does any of you perceive any of that?" He asked.

The group started to sniff the air like a pack of hounds.

"No. The air is drier than many places we crossed on our way here." Said Professor Gaakhu.

"Exactly. So where the heck did they come from? Why we didn’t hear them coming despite the ever-present echo?"

"Those are good questions, but I can at least answer one of them." Professor Yondra said. "Teks manipulate earth. They must have made the ground softer to avoid making noise."

"That doesn’t explain why they were so focused on us. If they were starving, they would have eaten their fallen first. Instead, they kept attacking like their lives were on the line even though we did nothing to provoke them." Lith looked at the tunnels.

They were empty again. There was no trace of scouts or survivors fleeing from the scene.

’It doesn’t make sense. My paranoia sense keeps tingling.’ He thought.

"I think he is right." Professor Syndra said.

"Either the Odi’s longevity is a hard truth rather than a myth, or we must have activated some automated defense mechanism. No matter the answer, both of them mean that we are in front of the discovery of a lifetime. Half of us will..."

"With all due respect, I give the orders here, Professor." Phloria cut him short.

"Before resuming our search, the Wardens must strengthen the barrier while my soldiers and the Rangers rest. In the meantime, all those that didn’t do anything will guard the tunnels."

"Sir, yes, sir!" Morok said spitting a bit of Tek meat from the arm he was chewing.

"How certain are you that they didn’t just come here following our noise?" She asked Lith with a whisper.

"Remember this?" Lith tapped the side of his eyes, resuming to speak as soon as she nodded him to continue.

"I’m 100% sure that those corridors were empty. Then there were ten Teks and after we started killing them others popped up. I mean it. I didn’t see anyone walking."

"Then please rest and help us to find a way to open that door. This place is already giving me the creeps."

Lith used Accumulation while he looked around the cave. He remembered that both the White Griffon academy and his tower had surveillance mirrors, so the idea that someone was actually looking at them from a distance was quite likely.

Life Vision scanned every centimeter of the cave, searching for the transmitting device. Divination didn’t exist, to spy on someone it was needed a transmitter that would capture the reflected light like a camera would and Warp the images to the mirror.

It could have been anything, but its magical aura was supposed to be visible.