Supreme Magus novel Chapter 756

"Tell those idiots that if they stay out of my hair, I’ll stay out of theirs. If they really want to meet me, we’ll do it at my conditions, and only after I received proper compensation for all the troubles their incompetence caused me."

Lith let her go since killing was pointless. The Council might always send someone else and the woman was nothing more than a messenger. He had made his point, any more would only anger the power backing her.

Someone capable of making a blue cored Awakened move at their whims was a force to be reckoned with. It was better to speak softly and let them play by his rules. As long as Lith could prepare the field in advance, he was certain to have the upper hand.

Athung recovered her strength the moment she was capable of breathing again. She stepped back slowly, using Life Vision to confirm that Lith wasn’t conjuring more mana for some sick cat and mouse game.

Athung got out of Silverwing’s array and Blinked away, eager to tell Raagu that she had done her part and that she wanted nothing more to do with Lith Verhen.

’I don’t believe he had no master. His abilities don’t make sense. Someone must have helped him along the way. That or he Awakened in the crib.’ She thought.

It was just an idiom that the Awakened community used to describe an unbelievable event, except this time it was an actually precise description of the truth.

Lith cast the Life Detection array, to make sure that no one, not even the members of the Queen corps were near enough to have bore witness to the events.

Spending his first night out in a month with his family was already bad. Being forced to kill the very same people who had loyally protected his beloved ones would have been the icing on the crap.

For once luck was by his side. Or to be more precise, it was Athung’s doing. To be able to freely speak with Lith, she had organized a small distraction that had actually worked against her.

"Thanks for your help, Reaper." Lith said turning towards a secular oak. Back when Kamila had confirmed Lith that Athung wasn’t their guest, he had used air magic to alert his allies with the magical equivalent of an ultrasonic whistle.

"Please, we just answered your call, Scourge." Reaper the Manticore, the king in the south of the Trawn woods stepped out of the shadows. He had the body and the head of a lion, with quills like those of a porcupine protruding from most of his body.

Reaper also had black feathered wings on his back, horns like an ibex on his head, and the tip of his tail was a mass of spikes. Each one was infused with a different element and ready to be thrown at the enemy.

"Who was that puny female?" The Manticore was so tall that he needed to slightly tilt his head up to look into Lith’s eyes.

"Troubles. Is Lifebringer with you?" Lith asked while checking on Reaper’s equipment.

The cloaking ring on his tail reduced his signature to that of a big animal to anyone who wasn’t Lith while the metal claws he had made for the Manticore made the creature even more lethal.

"Yes, and so is Sentinel. Without them, I wouldn’t have been able to set the Hexagram up so fast." The other two Emperor Beasts, respectively a Kirin and a Garmr, joined them as soon as they were certain that the coast was clear.

They each wore equipment similar to Reaper’s that Lith had crafted for them before leaving for Kulah.

"Why didn’t you let us simply turn her into our dinner?" Sentinel asked. She once was the Ry that had taken Protector’s place as pack leader and king.

"Because with an unknown enemy, one has to be careful. The cloaking rings coupled with your stealth abilities make you invisible even to Awakened ones.

"This way, she thought I was some kind of monster whereas if she learned about you, the next time she could stage attacks on your packs to keep you busy and prevent you from helping me." Lith replied.