Supreme Magus novel Chapter 219

"You are too fast to be human." The Valor said to Lith, using a childish voice that matched his face for the first time. Lith let him blabber on, using the idiotic bad guy monologue to activate Invigoration to mend his wounds and replenish his strength.

"You don’t care for the young ones." The Valor shot another student in the back, pleasantly surprised to see that Lith didn’t even flinch.

"Do you care for the older ones?" By using their hive mind, the Valor didn’t even need to turn around to shoot Nalear in the back. What any Valor saw, every Valor knew. That was the reason why Blink had been of no use to the Professors so far.

Thanks to the hive mind, by watching each other’s backs, the undead had no blind spots.

The darkness bullet was deflected by Nalear’s armor, but still managed to pierce her shoulder, making her yell in pain and surprise. Their already weakened formation fell apart.

"No, you don’t." The Valor nodded. "Do you care for those ones?" He pointed his fingers to the four youths still laying on the ground, finally obtaining a reaction. Lith stopped using Invigoration, dashing forward to intercept the spell and deflect it with his blade.

"This is going to be fun!" The Valor laughed heartily.

"Not for you though." Lith replied with a wolfish smile. He Blinked in front of the enemy and activated Death Zone and Death Call at the same time.

Several tentacles erupted from Lith’s body, while a dense fog surrounded both him and the Valor. Lith had used that time to also cast his two most powerful darkness spells. The dark tentacles wrapped themselves around the Valor’s limbs, draining his strength and making it impossible for him to run away.

Meanwhile, the highly concentrated darkness magic summoned by Death Zone was eating away the Valor’s lifespan like a starving man at an all you can eat buffet.

"No, you can’t do it! I’m not allowed to die!" Balkor’s orders were absolute. The Valor struggled with all his might, trying to get away like his master had instructed him to do in case of danger.

Lith was done talking. He only focused on dodging and parrying the enemy’s attacks while the undead withered more with every passing second.

Soon the physical gap between the two was so wide that Lith could afford to go on the offensive, slashing the Valor’s body over and over with his darkness infused blade. Despite being an undead, the Valor experienced blinding pain and desperation.

Each hit would eat away a good chunk of his master’s lifeforce, making the Abomination inside him go wild and inflicting on him an agony that every Valor would share.

Back in his lab, Balkor’s convulsions rose in intensity until he bled from his ears, eyes, and mouth.

***

Feeling their companion’s imminent death sent the other Valors into a frenzy. Because of the hive mind, they shared more than just their senses. They also shared their rage, joy, and fear.

Protector exploited the enemy’s sudden madness to bite the Valor’s chest hard and pin him to the ground, trapping the Valor’s sword and tendrils inside his own body.

"Quick, finish him!" He yelled to Ironhelm. His eyes were sad, but unwavering.

Ironhelm understood his intentions, casting his strongest darkness spell, Dark Star. Ironhelm wanted to cry, but his voice remained steady and his hands firm for all the duration of the spell.

Dark Star generated a pillar of darkness with a radius of ten meters (33 feet) that engulfed both the warriors until the Valor was no more.

Protector remained true to his name until the end, standing proud even in defeat.

***

Meanwhile, Linjos and Rudd were mercilessly taking down two Valors at once. Linjos was the strongest Archmage of his academy. His personal spells were fast and deadly, there was only so much the undeads’ magical registance could do against them.

To make things worse for the undead, although Rudd lacked his firepower, he had plenty of ingenuity and talent for dimensional magic. Whenever one of Linjos’s spells were about to miss, a Warp Steps would open, redirecting it right into the back of a Valor.

Even trying to escape was useless, Rudd would simply Switch their positions with his own and Linjos’s, who always took care to leave them a darkness based nasty surprise.

"Come on, that’s all you can do?" Rudd sneered, opening many Warps Steps at a time, making the new barrage of Linjos’s spells appear and disappear from thin air. When the Valors tried to escape in different directions, Linjos Switched their position, making them clash one against the other. Rudd exploited that moment to redirect the spells, which hit the Valors all at once and turned them to dust.

"Excellent work, Rudd." Linjos said.

"I’m glad to have you on my side."

"Two down, still six to go." The two Archmages Warped to the rescue of their colleagues, hoping the battle could be still won.

***

As soon as she came out of the headquarters, Scarlett hunted down the Valors one by one. Even with the hive mind supporting them, the other undead weren’t much of a threat.

She hadn’t missed how the destruction of the two Valors by the hand of Kalla had made the lesser undead revert to their frenzied fighting style and lose any semblance of order or discipline.

Of the eight remaining greater undead, two were keeping themselves at the outskirts of the mining town. Scarlett suspected that their refusal to budge even after losing two of their generals could depend on their role in keeping the hive mind active.

She Blinked behind their backs, infusing her roar with air magic, making them tumble on the ground like rag dolls.

- "If I’m right, they will attempt to run rather than fight. I must keep them away from their escape route and kill them as fast as I can."– Scarlett thought.

As she had predicted, the two attempted to cast a flying spell to get away from the Scorpicore, but she only needed another roar to send them tumbling again and interrupting their cast.

"Filthy beast, your time has come!" Said the first Valor unsheathing his sword.

"Filthy beast, your time is n..."

He only then realized that what Solus was referring to wasn’t an enemy, but the members of his group. They had yet to wake up from the lightning bolts, so unlike the other students, they had remained on the attack site. _{freewebnøvel.coɱ}