Supreme Magus novel Chapter 647

’I can’t use fire unless I want to repeat Calil’s mistake. Earth would only squash Lith, the same applies to darkness. I’m no Healer so I can’t help the infected. What are the elements I can safely work with? Air and water.’ Phloria thought.

A sudden idea popped up inside her head. It was dangerous and likely to backfire, but Phloria had learned from her father that she had to fight with the options she had, not those she might want.

Regretting to have never learned a single tier four War Mage spell, she unleashed a barrage of the tier thee spell, Frostbite. Fake mages couldn’t amplify the strength of a spell below tier five at will, so Phloria had to compensate for the lack of quality with speed and quantity.

A frozen wave after another struck the mass of living spores surrounding Lith, limiting their movements and making those closing in to replace the mass lost due to Lith’s dark aura fall to the ground.

The fungal cage became thinner by the second as its external layers were frozen and the internal layers were sucked dry by darkness magic. Lith managed to escape by releasing a sudden burst of his aura that scattered the creature’s remains away while Phloria’s unrelenting barrage of spells prevented the spores from taking a physical form again.

"Why you didn’t do that earlier?" Lith asked while flying to her side.

"Because I was afraid that something like that would happen!" The moment she stopped casting to catch her breath, the spores broke out of the ice and started to multiply at a terrifying rate. _{ƒгeewёbnovel.com}

"If something that size lived for so long and kept such a huge mass, then the Odi must have left it plenty of food. Food plus lots of water...."

"Make the problem even bigger." Lith completed the phrase for her.

’So she was aware of the risks and yet she used water anyway. How can she still trust me so much that she bet her life on me finding a way to beat this thing?’ Lith thought.

’Maybe it’s not just trust. Maybe she wasn’t willing to abandon you. Feelings don’t fade just because we want them to.’ Solus hated it when Lith was so dense, but being cynical also made him blind to the most obvious and cheesy answers.

’I hate to ask you for this after all the troubles we had to escape from that living prison, but I need you to get back in the belly of the beast. Metaphorically, of course. I can’t find anything from here, so if you are right, the corrupted spores are in some place deeper inside Kulah.

’It would explain why the creature didn’t attack as soon as the door was opened. Probably if its consciousness gets too far from the corruption, the mind link might be broken. It had to wait for us to be in position.’

Lith mind whimpered before saying:

"Thanks for your help, Phloria. Also, please don’t get mad at me!" Then he seemingly threw in the gutter all of her efforts by charging at full speed against the spore cloud that was now so big that it covered the entire Kulah from her sight.

’I really hope Lith does have a plan. Otherwise that creature will have to get in line to kill him, because I call dibs.’ Phloria thought as she was now left alone against a raging storm of deadly spores.

Only half the creature was following Lith. The remaining half was determined on crossing the entrance and dealing the finishing blow to the crippled expedition team. Then, it would have all the time to focus on the last invader standing.

’Well, at least protecting is what I do best.’ Phloria activated her tier five Mage Knight spell, Death Bastion. It conjured a stone wall infused with darkness magic that quickly replaced the opened door, sealing Kulah’s entrance.