Supreme Magus novel Chapter 266

"That’s why I practice it and I’m teaching it to my daughter." Archmage Ejar echoed through the ballroom.

"Because we, the Ejar are true mages, not two bit pretenders like you. Grassroots mages shouldn’t even be in the same room as us!"

A lot of indignant voices cursed at her. Archmage Deirus’s eyes shone with a menacing emerald light.

"I dare you to say that again!" Velan snarled, his face only a few centimeters away from his peer’s.

’I did my part, that’s for sure.’ Lith thought with a grin on his face.

’The Marchioness asked me for some ruckus. I’d say dinner is served, even though only Isaac Newton knows why.’

"What in the gods’ name are you grinning for, kid?" Archmage Ejar ignored Velan’s threat, pointing her finger against the uncaring youth.

"How did you do it? Who taught you about Gravity magic? Pray that I like your answers, otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?" Lith slapped away the hand in front of his face, making the Archmage’s eyes almost pop out of their sockets in anger.

"I’m a student at the White Griffon. First in the light department and an asset to the Kingdom. I’m Marchioness Distar’s honored guest, attending this gala on request of the Crown. What authority do you represent, exactly? Outside your own foolishness, of course!"

"Indeed." Archmage Ejar’s face was still in the process of losing its color, realizing the amazing number of blunders in a row she had just made when the Marchioness’s voice resounded next to her ear.

"You are in my house, while I represent the Crown and you dare to offend your peers and threaten my guests?"

"No, I..." Ejar stuttered, but luckily for her, Marchioness Distar’s question was merely rhetorical.

"Her rudeness is unforgivable, but she made a good point. Where did you learn such magic, Lith?" The Marchioness wanted answers too, but she asked them rather than making demands. Her tone gentle and polite.

"I learned it as a self-taught." He replied with a shrug, making new and ancient households gasp in surprise.

"It’s not that hard." Lith couldn’t understand the reason behind their disbelief.

"I learned how to create pocket dimensions at the Forgemastering lessons and how to bend space with dimensional magic. They are just two extreme applications of gravity. I only had to combine what I learned from both subjects and then use it to manipulate gravity around objects rather than on the space itself." _{freewebnøvel.com}

As the Marchioness had predicted earlier, Lith’s actions triggered a hornet’s nest. New households were using him together with Archmage Ejar lack of manners as proof that magic was fair, while the ancient households were not.

All mages deserved respect according to their talent and disposition, not based on the family they were born in.

The ancient households claimed it was a scam, blaming the Marchioness for having shared their secrets with a commoner mongrel. Lith decided it was time to get to safety. Nobles’ quarrels didn’t interest him, he only did what he had been paid for.

"Where do you think you are going?" Lith felt his center of gravity shift, suddenly he was on the verge of falling horizontally. Archmage Ejar was using gravity magic to pull him back in the middle of the conflict.

First, he had to crouch, gripping at the floor with one hand to prevent the fall. Then, Lith used his own gravity magic to cancel the pull. The opponent had a stronger core, but for her first magic was just a hobby, for Lith it was a life’s work.