Supreme Magus novel Chapter 684

"Good gods, one mistake and we might blow up?" Her survival instinct took the wheel and her Forgemaster wand appeared in her hand.

"Maybe. I’m paranoid, but the Odi were crazy, so it’s not so unlikely that..."

"You’re not paranoid. I mean, not this time." Phloria cut him short.

"Once a safety protocol is breached, the defense readiness condition is raised. Unless the Commander promptly resets the system, two things are bound to happen. The first is the call for reinforcements, which probably failed, being the Odi dead.

"The second is triggering the failsafe mechanism protecting a base’ secrets. It usually implies self-destruction so to kill the invaders and prevent state secrets from falling into the wrong hands."

"Can you reset it?" Lith asked.

"Maybe. So far the Odi protocols are not so different from those of the Griffon Kingdom."

’If she manages to do it, we might have enough energy for the tower!’ Solus thought.

"Let me guess, that’s where we’re headed." Phloria pointed at a room that was double the size of those they had encountered so far.

It had ample glass windows which allowed them to look inside and there was a small antechamber in front of it, with a desk for the secretary and seats for the guests.

"Five arrays, three mana cables, twelve purple crystals. This is going to be tricky."

During his stay in Kulah, Lith used Invigoration so many times to scan for dangers that he had discovered new ways to use it. He placed his hands on the walls nearby rather than directly on the arrays.

He made his mana travel from a safe distance, closing it in to the magical formation to make sure that he could study them without triggering their defense mechanisms.

"Or not." Said Phloria, while walking to the secretary’s desk. "Secretaries are usually the real second in command. They know everything about their boss and organize their workday, so they have access to pretty much everything."

Lith had already cleared the area, so she could cast some of the spells Orion had taught her. Silvery strands of energy came out from her wand, highlighting several secret compartments where Life Vision showed nothing.

"Wait, what?" Lith asked both Solus and Phloria.

’Beats me. To my mana sense, it’s just a normal desk.’ Solus said.

"Paranoia." Phloria quoted the book of Lith, chapter 1, verse 1. "The spell I just used specifically reveals cloaked spells. Dad developed it right after studying how such spells work."

"I’m really tempted to ask you what the heck that wand is." No matter how much Lith looked at it, it appeared as a conducting baton made of silver to him.

"You’ll have to keep your curiosity to yourself so that my father can keep his head." She replied as several silvery runes appeared over the desk.

For the first time, Lith was interested in Royal Forgemasters’ spell, looking at Phloria’s actions in the detail. The magic words she used were mostly unknown and the few he recognized derived from Forgemaster spells.

She formed hand and wand signs, using both to draw energy runes in the air. After a few seconds, all the compartments opened at once. One was full of paperwork that Phloria stored for the Professors, one was for office supplies, and the last contained a small keyboard.

"Gods, even the Odi suffered from a bad case of stationery thefts if they used secret compartments for them."

"Paranoia should tell you they are enchanted." Lith replied with his eyes ablaze with Life Vision.

"My bad. My spells can take me only this far and the buttons all look the same. What do you make of them?" She asked.

"More paperwork and enchanted stationery. What about you?" Lith asked. _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}