Supreme Magus novel Chapter 111

Despite he could see it with Invigoration, a mana core wasn’t a physical organ. It was inside the human body but at the same time it wasn’t. During the years spent as a healer in the Lutia village, he had cured countless peoples with stomach wounds, but none, no matter how deep, had ever affected a core.

Lith had to rely on his newfound mana sensibility, sending a tendril of pure mana from his core to the woman’s. At first, nothing happened, her core seemed stable, keeping its yellow colour despite the flood of alien energies.

But a few seconds later, Lith could see that the zone where he had attached the tendril was getting weaker and weaker. The yellow was turning to orange, slowly spreading to the whole core.

The woman suddenly started to scream in pain, all her veins and arteries bulging out, as if they were trying to shake off her skin. The red of the blood turned blue as the mana that was invading her body.

When it reached her head, she started to bleed the cyan liquid from her eyes, nose and ears. The shrieks of agony showed no trace of her previous defiance, only desperation.

Her voice when from shrill to hoarse, until it didn’t sound like a human voice anymore. She kept yelling and yelling, until she had no more air in her lungs, but she seemed incapable of drawing breath again.

Lith stopped, leaving her a couple of seconds to recover and feel the temporary relieve from the lack of pain.

"Ready to talk now?"

Sobbing in terror, the burly woman swore to the gods that if she managed to survive, she would have changed her way of life. No more trading lives for money, she would redeem herself.

"My name is Melia." She said trying to establish a connection, to force him to perceive her as a person. It was a trick that had worked countless times in the past, even if she had never been the one to attempt it, but Rodimas. _{fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com}

She always said that every man dreamed of being the hero of a sobbing woman.

And this time, she was sincere, she wasn’t just trying to backstab him as soon as he lowered his guard.

"I don’t care." He replied with a cold stare. "I mean who are you? Mercenaries? Hunters? Assassins?"

"Mercenaries. We were paid handsomely to come here, kill as many beasts as possible and frame the students for it."

Melia’s words confirmed his theory, but didn’t trigger any vision, nor relieved his fears.

"Who sent you here, and why?"

"I don’t know, I swear! I’m just the muscle of the team, Raghul is the one that deals with our contractors, while Rodimas is the brain of our operations."

"Raghul?"

"That man." She nodded in his direction.

"It’s everything I know, please, let me go."

Leaving them alive was out of question. They had forced him to use too much of his true power, they were a liability. No matter their promises, as soon as they were out of reach, they would sell him to the highest bidder with a smile on their faces.

"Then I don’t need you anymore." With a wave of his hand, Lith used spirit magic to twist her head 180 degrees, breaking the neck and putting her out of her misery.

"Now, mister Raghul, we can do this easy or painful. Tell me what I want to know, and I will give you a peaceful death. Resist and... well. You have seen what happens." Lith removed Raghul’s gag, allowing him to speak.

- "Wouldn’t have been better to leave her alive? To give them hope?" Solos objected. She really didn’t Like Lith torturing people. Every time he did it, she could sense something inside of him dying.

"What hope? They are professionals, not some girls scout. They know all too well that I will never let them live, because that’s what they would do in my shoes." –