Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3852

Chapter 3852: Not Hungry (Part 1)

"How big was that mana crystal to cause that kind of explosion?" Baba Yaga asked.

"The size of your fist, Yaga." Salaark replied. "But the crystal was just the trigger. The real cause was the energy involved in the experiment. I used my full power to forcibly extract my life force from the Spirit Crystal, generating a vacuum.

"What was left wasn’t dimensional magic, but a crippled, unstable mix of elements that endlessly absorbed the world energy in an attempt to reconnect with my life force. I was dumb and prideful, so I refused to accept my failure.

"I poured more and more mana to stabilize the crystal and keep the life force away from it until it was too late. When I realized how much energy I had fed to the unstable elements, they had already reached the point of no return.

"You know the rest."

"Back to the drawing board, then. I’m glad we had this conversation." Friya and the other women swallowed hard.

For the first time in their lives, they welcomed failure with open arms.

***

Verhen Mansion, a few days later.

"Do you think we should start worrying about Zor, Solus?" Lith asked while they worked on perfecting tier five Void Magic in the Firing Range. "First, she refused to help us against Ruugat, and now it’s been days since the last time we got in contact with her."

"Maybe she’s on a mission for the Master." Solus replied while switching fire into ice and light into darkness. "When you served as a Ranger, we disappeared for weeks at a time and the only person we contacted regularly was your handler.

"Zoreth is strong, and Bytra is always with her. I doubt there are many things on Mogar that can hurt them."

"I don’t know, Solus." Lith imbued fresh mana and willpower in the spell, but he failed to alter enough runes to keep the elements together as they changed before they faded away. "Zor loves Elysia so much that Bytra is almost jealous of their relationship.

"It’s weird that Zor hasn’t even messaged me for a new picture or a funny video of Elysia. Also, when is the last time that Bytra has passed on the opportunity to try to make amends with you and spend time with Ripha?"

"That’s my point." Solus interrupted her flow of swear words to reply. "I’m sure that they’ll come here running the moment they are done with their mission. What I’m not sure about is whether we’ll ever master Void Magic! Why is tier five so farming hard?"

She activated the Eyes of Menadion, replaying the experiment from the beginning and taking notes of all the flaws in their technique that the artifact had spotted.

"Because the willpower imbued in a flaming hard-light construct has nothing in common with a darkness-imbued snowstorm." Lith replied as the readings of the Eyes confirmed his hypothesis.

"Sadly, we started from a wrong assumption. Ice can indeed change its shape at will, like light, while fire and darkness coat the construct in the same way, but it seems we can only switch the elements, not pass the willpower from one to another.

"This technique would have worked if we switched light into water and fire into darkness. Only then would the willpower have matched the elemental switch."

"That’s because those were your failures, while these are mine." Solus had a hard time keeping her face straight as she did her best Manohar impression. "Only idiots fail, and I’m not id-" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

’Someone either raving mad or desperate.’ Lith replied. ’Either way, we need to do something. Unless that thing targets Elysia or someone else with a Guardian watching over their shoulder, at that speed, it can kill half our family before we so much as slow it down.’

’What’s the status on the Cannon Vault?’ Lith asked, lowering his center of gravity and expanding his arms to their full size to shield the kids with his body.

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