Supreme Magus novel Chapter 673

Kamila looked at her assailants’ faces, but the two men were strangers to her. Her eyes then searched the alley for her communication amulet and the main street for a passerby who could help her to contact the authorities, but no one was around.

A spark of light and a buzzing sound preceded a tier two lightning spell that struck her chest and caused her a seizure.

Without the armor Lith had given her, the electricity would have caused Kamila severe injuries and made her faint, instead of just inflicting upon her the equivalent of a brief taser shock.

"So much for professionals. They got their asses handed to them by a woman. My father was right when he said that if you want a job done right, you got to do it yourself." Fallmug said, unleashing a second bolt of lightning before Kamila could recover.

She pumped more of her mana inside her Skinwalker armor, but with her weak mana core and after already using its metalizing properties thrice, she was already running on fumes.

Yet it was enough for Lith’s masterpiece to completely deflect the spell.

"Are you insane, Fallmug? Attacking a Royal Constable in the middle of a populated area? The guards will be here any moment." Kamila was dizzy from the shock and the lack of mana, so she decided to try and bluff her way out.

She had a few wands inside her pockets, but she was in no condition to win a contest of speed against someone pointing a weapon at her from such a close distance.

"I’m not stupid. Why do you think I hired those two buffoons?" Another lightning came, but this time she was able to dodge.

"I know the city guards’ reaction time, it will take them a while to get here. Those two idiots were supposed to help me kidnap you, but now I’ve got no time for being nice. Tell me where my wife is or die." Despite his rage, his voice barely higher than a whisper.

He was afraid that someone could hear the ruckus and alert the authorities. The citizens of Belius were famous for being unreasonably paranoid. Before making his move, Fallmug had been forced to wait that Lith was out of the picture and then for the occasion when the street in front of Kamila’s home was deserted.

Despite his twisted personality, Fallmug had come well prepared. Hired help so that he wouldn’t get directly involved, a means of transportation to abduct Kamila unnoticed, and an illegal wand as a contingency plan.

Unluckily for him, everything was going south. The men he had recruited were down, he couldn’t lift Kamila by himself, and the wand seemed to be defective since she was still conscious and screaming.

"You shouldn’t have stuck your nose where it doesn’t belong!" Fallmug said.

"Now tell me where my wife is and we can solve this peacefully."

His words didn’t match at all with his crazed eyes. Kamila knew that her brother-in-law couldn’t afford to let her live. Otherwise he would become one of the most wanted men in the Kingdom.

The army didn’t take well when someone went after one of their own, even less if a Constable was involved. Fallmug looked nervously left and right, he couldn’t afford witnesses.

That night, he would have to kill and dispose of the bodies of three people already, more wouldn’t fit into his carriage. Kamila and his hired muscle had to die. He couldn’t afford anyone being able to link him to attacking a Royal Constable. The lighter sentence for such a crime was death.

"I really didn’t want to do this, but you leave me no choice. You force me to..."

"Roll over and die." A voice coming from behind him cut him short. At the same time, a small but strong hand caught Fallmug’s wrist, twisting it backward so that his wand was now pointed at his own face.