Supreme Magus novel Chapter 706

Phloria used one of Orion’s spells, which revealed the relays of the keycard lock mechanism and allowed her to open it simply by sending a mana pulse to the right spot. She opened the door and ran into hiding.

They had chosen a place at the end of a corridor, so that there was only one way in and one way out, requiring just a single Golem to trap them.

As Phloria had predicted, the construct Warped at the end of the hallway to block the only escape route available. The Golem was surprised seeing that there was no human in front of itself, nor its sensors could pick up any energy signature.

Yet the door was open.

Phloria and Quylla were on the opposite end of the corridor, waiting for the Warping Array to open and Blink through it. Once on the other side, Phloria was surprised to discover that not only did the surveillance devices have already been destroyed, but also the cells were all empty except for the one holding the Assistants.

The Golem reported its failure and stepped back inside the Gate, getting struck by both sisters with their respective Clean Slate. The tier four Forgemaster spell required physical contact and had no permanent effect on something as complex as a construct.

Yet it could temporarily stop its functions. Two Clean Slate at once were enough to turn the Golem’s power core off for a split second, which made the dimensional corridor collapse.

The Construct was only halfway through, so it got cleaved in half along with its power core. Phloria’s plan had been a complete success.

"Please, don’t abandon us here as the Professors did!" The Assistants started sobbing the moment their jailer was gone. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}

"I don’t have much time, so I need you to be honest with me. Which one of you is a Warden?"

They all started to yell "Me! Me!", making Phloria curse.

"We should take with us both Asera and Onma." Quylla said while opening their locks with Clean slate. They are the Assistants of Neshal and Ellkas. I spoke with them more than once, so I know that they are respectively a Warden and a linguist.

Onma was actually an Alchemist, but that information was useless in their situation.

The two remaining Assistants started to scream so hard that Phloria had to Hush them.

’Is this how Lith felt during Balkor’s attack?’ Phloria thought. ’Knowing that you can’t save everyone and that even bringing one more person along might doom us all?’

Lith had never felt anything like that. He had just pretended so to not be burdened by people he didn’t care about, but Phloria had no way to know it. She regretted leaving two innocents to a fate worse than death, but at the same time, she couldn’t kill them in cold blood.

"Great thinking Quylla, we must..." Her words were interrupted by another Warp appearing. She and Quylla had expected that the destruction of a Golem might alert the others, so they had a contingency plan for that.

What they didn’t have a plan for, was the man accompanying the construct. Tired of losing their precious Flesh Golems, Jiira had decided to personally take care of the latest disturbance. His eyes lit up with joy when he saw the two young women.

\u003c "Well, well, well. Finally our luck it’s turning."\u003e His smile creeped all those presents out. They had seen multiple Odi pictures, but even that wasn’t enough to prepare them to meet the real deal.

Just like all his colleagues, Jiira was the embodiment of perfection, but only according to Odi’s standards. He was 1.70 meters (5’7") tall, with long purple hair and blue translucent skin.