Supreme Magus novel Chapter 856

Chapter 856 Parasite Star Part 2

Having access to Invigoration, most Awakened had no need to study healing magic. Being a Light Master, Xedros had mastered healing magic up to tier four before discovering how to create hard-light constructs.

To him tier five light magic was all about combat, he had never bothered with Body Sculpting. Nor could he just call a Healer to his home. It would mean to reveal his weakened state and risk to be killed, leaving his treasures ready to be plundered.

He didn’t receive Lith in his throne room because Xedros didn’t feel confident about being able to protect his treasures in the case that Lith took too much a fancy to them and decided to risk his mentor’s rage for them.

In the Wyvern’s mind, no Dragon would pass on such an opportunity, no matter the consequences, especially a half breed.

"Maybe." Lith shrugged. "I don’t do freebies, though, and I demand my payment regardless of the outcome."

The smile disappeared from Xedros’s snout, replaced by an annoyed look.

"You fail at manipulating Origin Flames because you handle them like you do with magic. Yet they’re not alike. Magic is made of mana, whereas our Flames are made of life force.

The difference is the same between moving a chair and moving your arm.

"The former needs you to apply your strength on a foreign object, whereas the latter just requires awareness of your own limb. Elemental magic is the ripple effect you produce by emitting your mana, it has no will of its own unless you bestow it upon it.

"Origin Flames are just another part of your body, like an atrophied limb you’ve forgotten how to use. You can’t inject willpower inside of them because they already have one, yours. By attempting to do so, you give the Flames conflicting orders that make them unresponsive."

"It makes sense. How do I fix that?" Lith asked.

"That was your down payment. For a Forgemaster, Origin Flames are an invaluable tool. I’m not going to take you by the hand and bring you to my level. I might offer you some more insight if you heal me." Xedros’s grin returned, but Lith was too focused on his teachings to care about it.

Just the implications of those few sentences were enough to make his head spin and him glad to not have brought Solus with him. Body sculpting required physical contact and she would have had no way to hide her presence once the treatment began.

"Fine, let me uphold my part of our bargain." Lith stepped forward and placed his hands on the Wyvern’s back. Invigoration confirmed his assessment about the Emperor Beast’s skills while his tier five spell, Scanner, examined Xedros’s life force.

Much to his surprise, there were actually two energy signatures residing inside Xedros’s body and what was even more amazing was the fact that the stronger life force wasn’t the dominant one.

The life force belonging to the Wyvern looked like a red sun, the mass of which was slowly getting drained by a nearby white dwarf. The red sun’s surface was distorted and there were small threads connecting the two energy cores that made Xedros’s life force look like a bridled beast.