Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3965

Chapter 3965: Desert Heart (Part 2)

"Yet even razing our first village to the ground changed nothing. At that point, we tried every possible shape and combination for our buildings, but things only got worse!"

"Is this the reason the layout of your current village is so... peculiar?" Lith measured his words, not wanting to start the conversation on the wrong foot.

"That’s a very polite way to refer to that jumbled mess, but yes." Rem sighed. "After we tried and failed everything we could on the Sea Heart, we checked if at least one of the many buildings Overlord Salaark showed us resonated with the Sea Heart.

"We hoped that at least one of them would have turned that ear-piercing noise in the song it was supposed to be. When that failed as well, we got creative. We tried many combinations of buildings, and what you see today is by far the one that sounds better."

"Fascinating." Lith didn’t dare ask how terrible the previous villages sounded. "Yet you are wrong about one thing. The phenomenon does make sense. Listen to this prototype."

Lith activated his spell again, but this time on the first version of the Desert Heart. The sound it produced was unpleasant and jarring, but Rem could distinguish the underlying vibration merfolk used to express trust.

"It’s amazing!" She said. "Can I give it a try?"

"Sure, but it’s nothing much." Lith handed the prototype to her. "I don’t even know if it works with any other merfolk song."

"Even if it doesn’t, it’s still better than anything we’ve achieved so far." Rem tried different tunes.

They came out worse than the first, but she could always recognize them despite the many flat notes.

"Sea gods, this is beautiful." The contours of Rem’s eyes turned blue and scaly from her own tears. "How could you craft something like this so quickly?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Because I’m not a merfolk." Lith’s reply flabbergasted her. "Let me rephrase. I know nothing about your customs or the rituals involved in making a Sea Heart. I studied the song of trust a merfolk taught me and used it to create a tier zero spell, Mimicast, to reproduce the song.

"After that, I fiddled with earth magic until I obtained the thing in your hands." Lith pointed at the initial version of the Desert Heart. "I mixed together sand, pulverized rocks, and soil without a care for their provenience.

"Also, I kept in mind that sound travels in air differently than in water. If you take your finger off the replica, it produces no sound at all."

Rem tried to transmit her song through the air, but it failed even from one centimeter away.

"I see." She sighed heavily. "Thank you for your effort. It seems that having a Sea Heart on the surface is impossible."

"True, but you can always make your Desert Heart." Lith replied. "Observe."

He touched the stone shell again, turning it into Solus’ stone Fire Orchid. When Lith used Mimicast to play the merfolk song of trust, each one of the various petals resonated at a different frequency, producing a much clearer and stronger melody than before.

Lith then took his finger off, and the song didn’t stop. He took his hand away slowly, and the melody got softer as his finger moved further away. Yet it didn’t stop. Even now that Lith’s hand was by his side, Rem could still feel the song of trust resonate throughout her body.

"How did you do that?" She looked at the Desert Heart as if it were a miracle.

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