Supreme Magus novel Chapter 127

At first, everything went according to plan. Lith could see via Life Vision that the highly compressed forces stored inside the spatial crack were progressively weakening.

But then, he noticed its edges turning white hot, just like had happened to the previous one before exploding. _{fɾēewebnσveℓ.com}

- "Dammit, I was too naïve. In this situation darkness magic is a double-edged sword. It allows me to erode the energy just as I predicted. What I didn’t take into account, is that at the same time it accelerates the destabilization of the crack, making it even more volatile." –

"Quylla, I did all that I could. Time for you to step in!"

Lith let the darkness fade away, hoping she had still enough time to complete her spell. At the same time, his hands moved rapidly, forming random signs, pretending to cast one spell after another, creating strong and thick multi layered barriers in case something went wrong.

Lith could only count the seconds, watching the fissure becoming more and more unstable, inwardly wishing for Quylla to hurry up and finish. Just when the crack was about to collapse, the Restoration spell took effect, making it disappear with a small bang.

"One down, one million to go." Lith didn’t find any joy in succeeding. There were still too many spatial distortions, and only a handful of seconds had passed since he closed the conversation with Linjos.

Time wasn’t on their side.

He immediately attacked the next crack, using all his focus and skill to speed the energy degeneration process while trying not to affect the fissure’s stability. If before he had just made chaos clash with chaos, now there was a method behind it.

Lith could see the hot spots where different cracks overlapped, and gently used darkness magic to weaken the interactions between them before attacking their cores, avoiding chain reactions.

Rudd had no such thing as Life Vision, but thanks to his talent and abundant experience, he could appreciate the finesse Lith was demonstrating by using darkness magic in such an unorthodox way.

- "Brilliant, simply brilliant." He thought. "It’s such a shame that his space sensibility is so much greater than his dimensional magic aptitude. And to add insult to injury, the only one capable of using Restoration is a flimsy commoner.

The world has really turned upside down. Here I am, fighting side by side with some ’inferior’ commoners that yet stand at the top of the class, showing unparallel talent and improvisation, while the ’nobles’ do nothing but run like rabbits.

Maybe I have grown too old for this job." - Rudd inwardly sighed, closing one fissure after the other, trying to create a safe zone for the students.

Meanwhile, Lith realized that the strategy was doomed to fail. They had only two mages able to use Restoration, while the space distortions were too many and too strong to keep attacking them one at the time.

"Quylla, focus only on the cracks that I point out for you! Phloria, Friya, you protect her at all costs with your Mage Knight’s shields! I’m going all out!"

Without waiting for a reply, he enveloped several spatial distortions at once with darkness magic, marking each time the most dangerous one with a wisp of light.

His hands and mouth moved like crazy, mixing random seals and words, giving Lith the alibi he needed to create small but densely packed barriers around the remaining cracks, this time trying to prevent the resulting explosion to get out, rather than get in.

- "What in the gods’ name is that?" Professor Rudd was flabbergasted by his performance. "He is controlling so many spells at once, adapting the shape, size and intensity of each one according to the situation.

No matter how simple each incantation is by itself, the combined effect is on par with a tier five spell." –

The number of fissures started to decrease rapidly, but it came at a cost. Only those treated properly with Restoration would just disappear, the rest would suffer the corruption of darkness magic until they blew up.