Supreme Magus novel Chapter 760

"We couldn’t examine this yesterday because of the sudden breakthrough, but now I’m really curious to see what this does. Phloria thought it was a dimensional item, but the Odi had to steal Professor Ellkas’s ring to have one, so she was wrong."

The small ring was covered in glowing blue runes and had a small green mana stone embedded on it. Lith could now recognize a single rune pattern, which made it even more underwhelming.

Such a weak pseudo core that required both runes and a crystal to work couldn’t be anything important. Especially since after it had been lost, no one seemed to have ever cared to pick it up, letting it end in the fungal creature’s hands.

After checking that there was no self-destruct mechanism, Lith imprinted the ring. Much to his surprise, the enchanted item started to suck upon his mana avidly and its pseudo core grew in both size and power.

"Damn, I’m a moron!" Lith blurted out. "Of course it was weak as fuck, the ring was ownerless for centuries and if not for the runes, its pseudo core would have already dissolved."

While the ring recovered its strength and its pseudo core stabilized, Lith continued to translate the book about the body-swapping procedure, searching for a way to replace the lost Odi technology with modern magic.

Quylla had been right all along. Normal dictionaries were pretty useless to decipher the Odi’s jargon about magic. Thanks to the vocabularies she had written and borrowed to him, however, Lith’s and Solus’ work progressed smoothly.

Even when they encountered an unknown term, between Quylla’s work and their own brain it wouldn’t take them long to make sense of it. At some point, Lith took also out the books he had copied from Kalla about Lichhood.

The two procedures were indeed quite similar and the past mages who had strived to achieve eternal life had already solved some of the issues that Lith was now facing.

"If they succeeded, then I can do it too." Lith said with renewed confidence once he realized that he could blend the two procedures into a new one and maybe obtain something better than the Odi had ever dreamed on.

"Yes, but it will take some time." Solus pointed out. "Even by using the Odi’s book and Kalla’s notes as a foundation, it’s still a mammoth task. In the little free time you have as a Ranger, we can work on the theoretical field, but putting it into practice will have to wait."

"That’s what I was planning to do anyway. It’s not like I’m going to drop dead tomorrow, so there’s no rush. The more we travel, the more we learn. Once I’m done with the army, I might visit the Empire and the Desert.

"I’m sure that they have lost ruins and secrets as well. The problem is how to get there without having trouble with the local authorities. To them, I might as well be just a spy." Lith sighed.

"We’ll think about it when the time comes. Now let’s get back to the ring. It has already stabilized for a while now. We can use it without the risk of it crumbling due to mana stress." Solus said.

Lith nodded and took another good look at the small blue thing on his finger. Now that it had the time to self-repair, the ring didn’t look so shabby anymore, making Lith’s hopes fly high. _{freёwebnovel.com}

It was then that Lith suddenly realized he had no idea how to use it. Huryole’s sword was a different matter since its enchantment was so simple that it only needed to be activated to produce air blades against a target.

Lith was sending the ring the mental command for activation, yet nothing happened.