Supreme Magus novel Chapter 727

"Begone!" Lith screamed at Rizo while using his wings to cover his arms, creating a multi-layered protection to stop the incoming slash.

Rizo laughed at the monster’s stupidity, this way he could kill all three of them in one fell swoop. He activated the powers of his Eternal Blade, fueling them with an enormous amount of the power that the Reactor still had left.

The Odi’s masterpiece was now surrounded by a white aura, strong enough to literally cut the air in front of it and even to split matter down to an atomic level. Lith’s black wings evaporated, unable even to withstand the intense heat and power the Eternal Blade emitted.

’Wait! Why are the wings black?’ Guuna pointed out. She was a genius on Solus’s level, so she couldn’t possibly miss what was happening.

’What the heck are you saying? This Scourge has always been red and black!’ Rizo ignored her remark, putting all of his weight and focus behind the strike.

’The monster, yes, but his armor was silver! Where is its armor?’ Guuna had noticed that Lith’s wings were back to being pitch-black, only made of flesh and bone.

The answer to her question came in the form of a silvery sound as the Eternal Blade was pushed away by an unstoppable force. Rizo could only curse at his stupidity when he saw that the armor wasn’t the only thing to have disappeared.

The arm protector was gone as well and, in their stead, there was a silver bastard sword between Lith’s hands. Its shape reminded Phloria of the Gatekeeper, but it was clearly made of Orichalcum and had a green and a yellow mana crystal on its hilt instead of two blue crystals.

Lith had made Solus’s stone body took the form of his once prized blade and given her the entirety of the Skinwalker armor to protect her from harm. As the final step, by injecting his mana inside the armor, he gave to the makeshift weapon the same properties of mana boosted Orichalcum.

Yet Solus was more than what even the Gatekeeper once was. Not only could she channel Lith’s elemental fusion, but also add her own, further enhancing all the blade’s and Orichalcum’s properties.

The Adamant alloy was semi-liquid, so no matter how many times the Eternal blade’s aura pushed the liquid metal aside, new Orichalcum kept flowing to replace the missing parts while its energy field clashed with Rizo’s weapon.

Lith’s strength plus Solus’s while combining their fusion magic was enough to almost rip the Eternal Blade off Rizo’s hands. Both blades were now above their masters’ heads, but only one of the fighters still had a firm grip and both hands on his weapon’s hilt.

Lith’s body was wounded and battered, his mana almost depleted.

Too long had passed from the last time he had used Invigoration and even more since he had actually slept. Yet thoughts of his broken existence back on Earth were filling every corner of Lith’s mind.

Almost losing Solus had reopened all of his old wounds. It had reminded him of the differences between the loveless world, devoid of anything worth living for, that he had left behind and Mogar, which was filled with people who needed him.

Rizo was now defenseless from his midriff to his chin, yet it wouldn’t last for long. Lith moved his blade in a downward diagonal slash, to cut Rizo from his right shoulder to his left hip.

Even if with only one hand, Rizo managed to strike at the Soluskeeper with his own blade, preventing the cut from being deep by pushing the edge down and away before it could pierce his organs.