Supreme Magus novel Chapter 822

Chapter 822 Poisonous Tree Part 2

’Best case scenario it’s another unexpected side effect of the experiments since now I got Erlik’s energy signature and it matches the symbiote’s.

’Worst case scenario, it’s a trap that we might trigger by trying to remove the scarring.’ After his meeting with Faluel, Lith had practiced the meditation techniques she had taught to her, enhancing his willpower perception.

To control Domination, the first step was learning how to sense willpower, while the second step was to identify its focus points in a spell and replace it with his own. Lith was still inexperienced due to the lack of time for training, but the mass of willpower in front of him was powerful enough for him to easily sense it.

He immediately covered them with a Hush spell and shared his discovery with Kalla, who had a hard time suppressing her enthusiasm.

"Fascinating. I never thought about using darkness magic in such a fashion. I must have a talk with this Erlik before he’s put down like the madman he is." She said.

"Fascinating or not, we must check if the tree is infected, and we need it for yesterday!" Lith had met two Liches in his life, and judging by her level of craziness, Kalla would be a perfect addition to the club. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}

Since according to Solus’s mana sense the treehouse had no blood core, both the Awakened used the diagnostic spell Marth had taught them to check on the nearest wall. Unfortunately, the spell was meant to study small samples, not gigantic creatures.

The area that Lith managed to study with it was clean, but that meant nothing. If it really was a trap, then the symbiote was likely to be dormant. Kalla and Lith grimaced, neither of them wanted to use Invigoration.

The treehouse was a giant living being, each cell of which shared a part of its consciousness. The first time Lith had attempted such a thing he had almost fainted due to sensory overload.

He focused solely on limiting the area analyzed at a time while Solus searched for anomalies. Just as he feared, they found several small lumps of inactive symbiote located in the treehouse’s key points.

They had been arranged so that once the infection started, it would take them less than a minute to spread to the whole building.

’This is actually good news.’ Solus thought. ’Depending on the trigger, we might be able to safely cleanse the parasite. I doubt they expected that this could happen. It would also explain why they didn’t care for fake mages studying the phenomenon and sent a thrall against you instead.

’They were afraid of what only an Awakened could discover.’

’Well, yes and no. Sure, we can remove them, but there are too many lumps and we have no time to waste. A partial cleansing would slow the spreading of the symbiote and nothing more. Moreover, we have no way to explain what needs to be done and why.’ Lith replied.

Kalla had examined a much smaller area than Lith due to the strain of not being overwhelmed by the tree’s voice, yet her findings were similar.

"Kalla, do you know how to establish a mind link with spirit magic?" Lith asked, hoping to avoid talking under the effects of the Hush spell in front of so many people.

"Is such a thing really possible?" Her surprise gave him the answer he wanted.

After a quick exchange of opinions, he and Kalla were of different minds. Lith wanted to leave the lumps alone, to not risk activating the trap, whereas Kalla wanted to trigger it on purpose.