Supreme Magus novel Chapter 880

Chapter 880 Simple Math Part 2

"What the heck?" Lith was as surprised as Dawn, but for a different reason.

The three deathblows had actually failed to kill two out of three targets. Dawn’s prisms enhanced the regenerative abilities of her spawns to the point that almost destroying their heads or hearts wasn’t enough.

Only Ruin had succeeded and only because it had shattered the prism along with most of its victim’s torso. The spawn turned into glass shards and released a sphere of light that returned the cursed object another portion of her strength.

"Most impressive." Dawn clapped her hands while another gigantic white energy mass moved towards her at subluminal speed.

Lith didn’t like her tone nor her calm. The spawns had yet to fully recover, so he used that opportunity to disengage and put more distance between himself and the battlefield.

The Bright Day clicked her tongue at his paranoia, redirecting the light pillar in his direction with but a gentle slap. To not hit her minions, she focused the beam to half its size and aimed it at the middle of the corridor.

The spawns shared her mind and strategy. Dawn ordered them to stick to the walls and add a few heat rays of their own. The move allowed them to dodge Nalrond’s spell and prevented Lith from doing the same.

’Did she use Dominance?’ Lith’s brain was working at full gear to find a solution.

’No, just mastery over the light element. The spell’s energy signature still belongs to the hybrid.’ Solus replied.

’It’s worth a shot then.’

Lith kept flying back while conjuring perfect ice crystals on his hands and boosting his Orichalcum Skinwalker armor with a steady flow of mana.

’The beam is half heat and half light. Ice can neutralize the heat and help the Orichalcum to reflect the light. Silver is the most reflective across the visible spectrum, so Orichalcum shouldn’t do any worse.’ Lith thought.

When the elemental energies clashed, the light pillar melted the ice until it came dangerously close to Lith’s body. The temperature of both spells was solely dependent on the amount of mana their respective casters imbued them with.

Nalrond had accumulated a lot of mana before unleashing his attack, but their connection was now broken whereas Lith kept pouring mana into his own. At first, the residual ice and the Orichalcum only managed to refract the light.

The ever melting and reforming ice separated the pillar into seven different colored beams that carved deep cuts into the rock while they moved in random directions.

Then, once the cold overpowered the heat, Lith managed to refocus the seven beams into a single one by adjusting the ice crystal’s shape.

Nalrond and Dawn were locked into close-quarters combat so they took the full power of the reflected pillar, but since it carried the hybrid’s energy signature, only the Bright Day was affected by it.

Nalrond had no idea where the attack came from, but he exploited the opening it had created to carve the Living Legacy out of the Ranger’s chest. Nalrond infused his long claws with the darkness and fire elements, using them the cut through the flesh while hindering the artifact’s amazing recovery abilities.

Unfortunately for him, between the loss of the fire element and the huge distance it had covered, the light pillar had barely a quarter of its initial strength. Dawn recovered from the surprise and shrugged off Nalrond as if he was an annoying fly.