Supreme Magus novel Chapter 900

Chapter 900 The Red Sun Part 2

"No, but it means that this is not a good moment to talk. He’s gone rogue. I need to establish a safe zone. I’ll call you back as soon as I can." Lith replied.

’Way ahead of you.’ Solus opened a Warp Steps leading to the nearest mana geyser. She took her tower form and activated all the cloaking and defensive mechanisms at her disposal.

Only after Lith was inside the tower and they were ready to tower Warp at a moment’s notice did he contact Kamila. Meanwhile, his words had shaken the control room and Commander Berion had ordered to pinpoint the traitorous Ranger.

"I’m sorry, sir. Ranger Acala is out of range. I can’t provide you with nothing but general information." The young lieutenant Guyles had his mouth as dry as the desert.

A Ranger going rogue was hardly their handler’s fault, but depending on the gravity of the betrayal and the bad news he brought, Guyles was afraid the high command would demand someone to take the blame.

He was likely to be the prime candidate.

"What do you mean, out of range? Even if he crossed the borders, we can still locate one of our amulets inside the Empire or the Blood Desert." Berion hated incompetence. _{freewebnøvel.com}

In his book, a handler was more than a paper pusher issuing orders from above. Their duty was to bond with their operative enough to provide them psychological support and catch wind of anything wrong with them.

"His log moves him from above the Snake Tongue mountains straight to Jiera." Guyles said, making the entire control room become silent.

When Lith called, Berion took charge and demanded a full report. Lith had shapeshifted the tower so that the space around him looked like an underground cave. Seeing him holed up made Berion change Kamila’s request for a rescue team into a Spellbreaker unit.

Lith explained all that had happened since the last contact, lying solely about the ending. In his version of the story, he and Nalrond had run away in different directions after dealing a seemingly lethal blow to Dawn’s host.

At the first mention of the Bright Day, Berion ordered Lith to stop talking and moved the conversation to his personal office, bringing only Kamila with him. As Lith’s handler, she had to be aware of the contingency measures the army would prepare in the case the two met again.

"If several spawns are still alive why did you say that the threat has been dealt with?" Berion asked.

Lith cursed his bad luck, racking his brain for a believable lie. In the original version of the story he had prepared, Acala’s death had left Dawn weakened and forced her to reabsorb her minions, giving Lith and Nalrond the opportunity to escape.

Now, however, the only way Lith found to avoid his lies from being exposed was by adding another piece of truth to the mix.

"Because according to Nalrond, it takes time for the cursed object known as the Bright Day to choose and adapt to a new host. I assumed that after losing Acala and being her plan exposed, she would retreat along with what’s left of her undead force.

"Now I’m not so sure anymore." He said.

"Don’t worry about it. The two of you must have taught the Horseman of Dawn quite a lesson if it ran off to Jiera." Berion laughed merrily while thinking about the big promotion that he would surely be awarded with.

The appearance of the Bright Day was just another piece of bad news for the Griffon Kingdom, but it meant the world to him. It was only thanks to him ordering the two Rangers to work together that Dawn’s plan had been foiled.