Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3701

Chapter 3701: One Last Time (Part 2)

Yet Lith flicked Ragnarök back in front of himself and blocked the last two attacks as well.

When the third blade storm came, Ragnarök moved so fast that friction turned the blades of the Awakened white-hot.

"Okay, now I’m pissed off!" Zakra looked at Jissha and Cailm for help, but they were busy fighting the Golems.

Without the need to help Lith, Trouble and Raptor were pushing the Emperor Beasts back and wounding them deeply. As for the backline of Awakened, the turning of the tides had disrupted their tempo as well.

Lith and Zakra moved too fast and were too close.

One wrong move and Lith might use the Titania as a wooden shield and maybe even kill her. On top of that, Jissha, Cailm, Gamra, and Kidha were yelling for cover fire, forcing the seven Awakened to split their focus.

Now the Roc and the Orthrus struggled to resist the Golems’ onslaught while the Sphinx and the Manticore failed to keep up respectively with Lith’s whipping tail and flapping wings.

The Titania had no idea what was happening but knew something was dangerously wrong. She changed her form, shapeshifting from a wreath to a tall tree.

It allowed her ten blades to attack not only from every side but also from different heights.

Zakra started another blade storm, each blow seamlessly flowing into the next while alternating high and low strikes. The one-handed Ragnarök could never keep up with her strength and speed. Victory would be hers.

Or so she thought until Lith parried three consecutive strikes and deflected the following three without breaking his stance.

’Verhen is not just getting faster.’ The veil of pride lifted from the Titania’s eyes, allowing her to realize the truth.

At the beginning of the fight, each of Zakra’s attacks had blown Ragnarök away and forced Lith to readjust his guard. Now, instead, the angry blade barely moved from the point of impact.

’He’s also getting stronger. The gap in strength between us is gone!’

Alas, the truth came to her too late.

Lith deflected two of the last four attacks with a sweep from high to low of his tail and the remaining two with a slap of his wings. With the ten blades of the Titania far away from her body, there was nothing stopping Ragnarök’s fury.

Lith cut Zakra’s tree form twice before she could notice.

The angry blade moved faster and cut deeper with every one of its swings. It severed Adamant, vines, bark, and wood alike, until the biggest piece of the Titania could easily fit into a chimney as firewood.

The Tiamat roared in fury, and the mere pressure from his voice blasted Zakra’s fragments away.

"Thanks for the opening, Zakra!" Gamra hadn’t missed how Lith was defenseless from head to midriff.

Cutting down the tree had taken him wide and powerful movements that left Lith open to an attack from the side. Gamra mistook it for one of the many contingency plans Uryn had prepared for them.

’Sacrifice the tower to get the Queen!’ The Sphinx thought, remembering the strategy.

Little did he know that the reason Lith hadn’t returned Ragnarök to a guard position was that Gamra and Kidha were too slow and weak to be a threat.

"Gamra, that’s not my plan!" Uryn yelled, but it was too late.

Lith had practiced Keila’s teachings and applied them every time he delivered the Life Maelstrom to Ajatar and Faluel, learning its secrets.

The silver lightning that struck the two Awakened humans boosted solely their mana cores, making them ten times stronger and sending the many spells Uryn and Lelira kept at the ready into overdrive.

At the same time, the natural lightning ravaged their bodies, stripping them of their muscle control.

Uryn and Lelira couldn’t stop their overloaded mana cores from tearing their way out while the electricity burned its way in.

The two array specialists exploded into gory fireworks, whittling the number of Awakened down to nine.

"Together! Now, that he’s weak and alone!" Zakra said.

Lith had sent the Golems away to save them from the burst of natural lightning. On top of that, after consuming all the Life Maelstrom, he was weaker than his enemies.

The Awakened followed the order without question or doubt. Uryn was dead, and so was Lelira. Every plan they had prepared for that day assumed they had Uryn to guide them and Lelira to support him.

Without those plans, the Awakened had a faint idea of teamwork and no viable battle formation.

Lith wheezed as his enemies covered the distance separating them in an instant. Without the Life Maelstrom, he was indeed weak.

’But I’m not alone.’ His eyes fell on the crying baby, who, despite the terrible revelations of that day, had trusted his father’s murderer to keep him alive. ’I’m not alone!’

The emerald, orange, and yellow eyes on the Tiamat face burned with power, recalling the electrum-colored lightning bolts to his side.