Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3789

Chapter 3789: The Price of Success (Part 2)

After all, the Life Visors gave the Awakened community an edge over the fake mages since their use required Life Vision.

That and Menadion’s presence that allowed Lith to Forgemaster Blade Weapons for anyone fulfilled the only other criteria to be recognized as a Ruler of the Flames.

Lith, however, disagreed, claiming that he had just cracked the code, not invented the Spyglasses, and that Menadion was still a long way from catching up with modern magic.

As Marth said, Lith wasn’t big on taking responsibilities with no return. He wanted to become a Ruler of the Flames, but only on his terms and when the achievement wouldn’t mess with his life.

He had no time to deal with endless requests for Blade Weapons because, unlike Menadion, he would refuse to craft one if he had the slightest suspicion that it may be used against him or one of his friends.

The same achievement that gave Lith the fame he enjoyed in Garlen also branded him with the infamy that his name was associated with in Verendi.

"How dare you reveal the secrets of my work?" Rakar Guun, human Elder of the Verendi Council and closest thing to a Ruler of the Flames they had, roared in Lith’s face after forcing an emergency call via the Council amulet.

"You’ve broken the most sacred covenant between all living beings, magical and not! No mage can be forced to reveal his secrets! Ever!"

"I did no such thing." Lith stared at Guun with the disdain of a man who gets buzzed at his door in the middle of a shower. "I never forced you to reveal anything. We never even met before today, and I would have loved to keep things that way.

"I simply took something from a couple of assassins and studied it with the help of the Hydras. Then, we decided together that we couldn’t keep such precious knowledge to ourselves and shared it with others.

"If you don’t like this, either improve your device or choose your clients more wisely. If in the future something happened again because of your goggles, I’d have to hold you responsible."

"I just sell, or rather, sold my Spyglasses!" Gunn snarled. "What people do with it is none of my business. Also, don’t think I buy that lie you went spreading around about you and the Hydras.

"Those bastards bought my Spyglasses the moment I put them on the market. If they had the smarts and resources to crack my cloaking runes, they wouldn’t have kept buying more from me for this long.

"I’m certain that it was Menadion to screw me over, and she can’t do anything without your permission. So drop the mask and answer my question. Why did you release the blueprints for the Spyglasses to the public?

"I’d rather split the market with you than with a thousand Forgemasters!"

"What you believe has no value, only what you can prove. The Hydras back my claim, so you need something better than ’Because I say so’ to accuse me of anything." Lith closed the book he was writing and gave the man from Verendi his undivided attention.

"As for your clients, I hold you responsible for selling those goggles to professional assassins. It doesn’t take a Ruler of the Flames to guess what they’ll use them for. You knew what they were going to do. You just didn’t care.

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