Supreme Magus novel Chapter 809

Chapter 809 Grendel Part 1

"Kalla, my friend, you spoke too soon." Lith said with a smirk "Now this is what I call interesting. No one dared to stop us until we almost reached our destination. Either Erlik has gone insane or he is afraid that we might discover something.

"Otherwise his goon would never bother us."

Most of the bystanders plant folks who were grinning at the idea of turning the unwanted guests into fertilizer flinched at those words. Their amused expressions were replaced by anger and suspicion as their gazes moved from the humans to Illum the Treantling.

"Shameless mammal! You are the one who associates himself with an undead. How dare you accuse me of being one of them?" The Treantling’s outrage and words were enough to shift the tide in his favor again.

Illum tried to push Lith back, but the small human kept his relaxed stance as if the steel beam thick arms of the Treantling were just a gentle spring rain hitting a mountain.

"How? Easy enough. Your skin, bark, or whatever you call it, shows signs of withering and so do your leaves. Yet even famished infected display an enhanced physique, hence you’re not one of them.

"Plus, you can’t be an undead either. If you were one of them, it would take days of starvation to reduce you to such a state. With such a hunger, you wouldn’t be able to restrain yourself in front of so much food. Do you know what does this mean?" Lith asked.

"That you are accusing an innocent to cover your friend’s ass!" A Thorn said. Judging from her forms and voice, she was supposed to be a female, or at least she wanted to appear as such.

Her whole body was a mass of vines and foliage that resembled a woman as tall as Phloria, with blue hair and eyes. She was quivering in indignation, making her humanoid appearance falter from time to time.

"He’s probably a victim of some undead scum. They must have fed upon him just like they did on me and my siblings! Many of us died to sate your bellies." She pointed her finger at Kalla.

"And yet you perfectly recovered, like all plants folk do." Lith’s voice was calm, he had dealt with more victims and angry mobs than he liked to. Yet it had taught him how to manipulate their fury.

"Of course I..." The Thorn stopped the moment she realized Lith’s words. She placed one of her hands on the Treantling, making her vines seep under his bark.

"You’re right. He’s not an undead nor an infected. Yet his life force is impure." She said while taking several steps back while her form shapeshifted into her battle form, resembling a green wave of barbed vines.

"Of course it’s impure. He’s a thrall, and a powerful one at that." Lith said. "The only question is who sired him."

A thrall was a living creature in the process of being turned into an undead. To make it happen, the sire had to feed upon the thrall and the thrall upon the sire. The exchange of life force allowed the blood core to form and slowly grow in power without it being rejected by the body while the mana core became weaker.

At the end of the process, the mana core would be swallowed by the blood core, allowing the thrall to become an undead without losing any of their memories, since they would never be completely dead.