Supreme Magus novel Chapter 664

"Excellent thinking, Quylla." Phloria said while placing food and moss at the four corners of the cave. "Defeating the Golems would have been a hollow victory if we died right after taking care of them."

"Yeah, but once I got the idea, anyone could have done it. I would have much preferred to help the others on the front line rather than play gardener and leave to others doing the dirty job." Quylla replied.

"You and me both, sis." Phloria said.

"Now you know how it feels to be me. It sucks, right?" Both women chuckled.

Lith was impressed by the Professors’ prowess. Sure, they had the protection of the arrays whereas he had been forced to fight inside the formation, but defeating three Golems had taken the Professors the same time he had needed to crush just one and with Morok’s help at that.

’I really need a good weapon. There’s only so much I can do bare-handed, especially against an enemy capable of blocking my best elements.’ Lith thought.

He had yet to have the time to relax that the ground trembled. Lith used Life Vision to see through the wall surrounding Kulah. A giant pillar of red light was enveloping the second building, the one from which the Golems had emerged.

’That’s an array, the question is: what is trying to achieve?’

’Based on the runes it’s comprised of, it seems some kind of huge self-destruction array. Too bad that because of the Golems’ plan to asphyxiate us now there’s not enough air inside Kulah for the array to work.

’Our array keeps the oxygen inside our camp, out there you couldn’t light a match, let alone a bomb.’ Solus explained.

After a few failed attempts, the pillar turned from red to a mix of orange and black. Since it couldn’t explode, the array made the building implode under its own weight by using earth magic.

Then, it conjured a focused mass of darkness magic that fed upon everything the armory contained until the nothing but dust and debris were left. No one had told him what the building contained, otherwise Lith would have probably started cursing on the top of his lungs.

He was in dire need of a new weapon and all the marvels the Odi had left behind were now lost forever.

The sound of the collapsing building alerted the camp, but no one was willing to go outside after such a heated fight. Lith kept staring at Kulah even after the ground stopped trembling.

The destruction of the Golems had triggered some kind of safeguard that was now flooding all the buildings with the world energy that the magic crystal cables extracted from the underground mana geyser.

Lith could see them through the wall thanks to Life Vision.

’What could they possibly need all that energy for?’ Lith pondered.

’The world energy is simply flowing through the buildings, without any apparent effect. No new array has been activated nor the mana is accumulating in specific points to power up weapons or new constructs. Do you have any idea, Solus?’