Supreme Magus novel Chapter 793

Chapter 793 Ill Omen Part 3

Lith cut the head of the cleaved ghoul, yet its flesh reattached to its neck and so did the two halves of its body. Ghouls had regenerative abilities on par with trolls, and just like their living ’cousins’, healing from their wounds didn’t make them weaker, only hungrier.

’How the heck do you kill a ghoul?’ Lith thought.

’Either you destroy its heart or you pulverize its body with darkness magic.’ Solus replied, hoping to remember it right. Soluspedia was still stuffed with the material about runes and spirit magic, so there was no space for bestiaries.

Lith struck where the heart was supposed to be, but Ruin only hit the ground as the undead was swallowed by the earth as if it was a ghost. Meanwhile, his warning coupled with the failed ambush had given the others enough time to react.

Each one of them had studied the different species of undead back at the White Griffon academy. Friya and Phloria had actually slain a few of them during their respective missions.

Alas, this time they had no clue what they were facing. All of their opponents looked almost the same due to starvation. The undead had decaying grey-green skin and skeletal bodies that emphasized their long clawed fingers.

They seemed to coordinate their actions, but no one in Lith’s group could understand a single word they said. Phloria quickly activated Full Guard to foil any other attempt to Blink in her blind spot while Quylla unleashed a stream of lightning from one of her rings.

She was aware that it would buy her a split-second at best, but she needed time to prepare a suitable spell since her close combat abilities were non-existent. The creature bolting toward them was actually a vampire, but he was so emaciated that only his ability to talk made it possible to distinguish him from a mindless zombie.

The vampire, once a noble among his race, took the full force of the spell, but not because he relied on the natural resistance undead had against all elements. He simply couldn’t dodge it with the little strength he had left.

The bolt of lightning made him trip and fall, yet the creature turned the motion into a roll, managing to stand up with inhuman grace without ever slowing down. Friya Blinked behind him, stabbing at his heart while one of her rings released a pulse of darkness magic that blew his chest apart.

Darkness magic was the bane of the undead, and the vampire’s debilitated state had made him an easy prey for Friya’s spell, amplifying its effects.

Meanwhile, since the ghoul kept hiding, Lith struck at two more undead while infusing Ruin with darkness magic. The creatures had spent the last of their energies for the surprise attack, but their plan had failed on all levels.

None of their alleged victims had been paralyzed by fear and Lith could see their bluff for what it was. To Solus’s mana sense, their blood cores were almost pitch black, making Lith wonder why they had not succumbed to their hunger and attacked the trees as well.

One of the undead fell to its knees as the darkness Lith had injected inside his blade ravaged the little strength it had left, but Ruin went through the other one without doing so much of a scratch.

The second undead’s body dispersed on contact, like a dense cloud of smoke struck by a sudden gust of wind. Lith performed a barrage of quick spells, yet none of them, not even those darkness based, had any effect on the undead.

Its body would just let them through before reassembling itself.

’Please, tell me that you remember what the heck this is.’ Lith thought in frustration.

Luckily for her, the Awakening process that was endangering her life had also removed the biggest impurities in her body and brought them near her core. Ever since she had left her academy, Phloria’s physical abilities had slowly improved past human limits thanks to her strict training schedule. _{ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com}