Supreme Magus novel Chapter 751

"Lith’s achievements make no sense. Phloria has trained all her life under my guidance, yet he fought Nalear better than she did, even holding his ground alone. I had plenty of masters, books, and time to refine my art, yet he managed to craft an Orichalcum Skinwalker armor before me.

"Aren’t you scared of what he could become with proper training?" Orion pointed out.

"I’ve only two regrets. That Lith wasn’t born as our child and that he is too stubborn to realize his own limits. I’m not afraid of what he might become so much as him dying in another crazy experiment of his. It would be such a waste of potential." Unlike Orion, Jirni knew about Lith’s crippled life force and so did Elina.

That was the reason why both women would have liked him to have children, even though for completely different reasons. Elina just wished for his son a happy life, to experiment all the joy that he had gifted to others.

Jirni, instead, hoped that Lith would pass down his secrets to his natural heir and that would create another opportunity for her family to inherit such knowledge as well.

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Meanwhile, in Quylla’s quarters, the young mage couldn’t pretend anymore to ignore the elephant in the room. Not now that she had lied on his behalf to a Royal Constable.

"Oh, gods, what are we going to do now? What if Constable Griffon exposes our charade?" Quylla asked, adding a quick pacing to her fidgeting since her legs were unable to stay still as much as her hands.

"We’re not going to do anything." Phloria picked Quylla up and force her to sit down on the bed. Her sister’s anxiety was seriously starting to annoy her. "You haven’t lied and neither did Lith. I’m the only one who distorted the facts just enough to cover for him.

"Besides, how could she possibly expose us? There were only the three of us in the underground lab."

"Yes, but what if Constable Griffon is as good as Mom at sniffing lies? What if the Ernas household ends up paying for our mistakes? Lith kept the sword for himself and I still lied by omission." Quylla said while holding her own head between her hands.

"Quylla, we have lied to our parents, to the Headmaster, and to everyone else until now whenever Lith pulled one of his miracles. This is hardly the first time we lie to the authorities. What’s the real issue here?" Phloria asked.

"It’s just that it feels so weird. You think you know someone and then you find out that they are another person entirely, if even the term person is still appropriate in our case. _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

"Don’t get me wrong, I love Lith like a brother, but he is- Gods, I don’t know what he is. How can you be so calm? What we’ve just done is an act of treason. We have lied to an official of the Kingdom and helped a potentially dangerous individual to snatch a powerful artifact.

"We have basically put everything we have at risk for a dragon-human thingy. Why didn’t he tell us the truth sooner and how could you have kept being his girlfriend knowing what you know?" Quylla asked.

"I’m calm because this changes nothing to me." Phloria replied. "I lied for him back when I thought he was just stronger than regular people and I’ll do it again whenever Lith needs my help.