Supreme Magus novel Chapter 285

"Away. I need food to evolve." Gadorf snarled.

"You really are an idiot." The Master sighed.

"Attack magical beasts and Evolved Monsters will kill you. Attack humans and mages will do the same. They are many while you are one. Not a particularly brilliant one at that."

Gadorf growled, but didn’t reply. He had always picked on humans because he was scared of meeting Evolved Monsters. The wyvern had always considered the humans as the weakest link, yet their fake mages had almost killed him several times.

The Master was a human and a fake mage, yet had single handedly defeated him. Those words deeply wounded Gadorf’s pride, yet their truth was undeniable.

"This lab costs money. Giving you power cost me a lot of money. This isn’t a bard’s tale where you get riches simply thanks to the writer’s pen. If you want your ’food’ and get away with it, if you want your gold, you’ve got to earn it."

The Master taught him how to feed only on the weak and the poor, those whose disappearance would cause no alarm, if not call for celebration. The Master also showed Gadorf how to alter his life force to assume a human form.

It was something called "Body Sculpting". Last, but not least, the Master introduced him to the criminal underworld. Someone like Gadorf, capable of opening illegal Warp Gates crossing hundreds of kilometers at once thanks to his arrays, of transporting people and contraband alike, was a money-making machine.

Drugs, fugitives, stolen goods, there was nothing Gadorf couldn’t slip over the Griffon Kingdom’s borders unnoticed. Even some of the most powerful noble families used his services to get to safety their endangered members, like the ex-Headmistress of the Lightning Griffon Linnea or Archmage Lukart did.

Thanks to their support and protection, his criminal empire had grown over time. The reports about his activities were constantly covered up or downplayed if hiding them was impossible.

Sometimes, leading figures of human society would use him to get rid of overzealous officers, like Captain Yerna, or to settle their grudges away from the Crown’s eyes, like in Lith’s case. Yerna’s execution was already scheduled, Lith’s was just the icing on the cake. An opportunity to kill two pests with one stone.

Gadorf needed food, they needed a killer, it was a win-win situation.

The wyvern gladly indulged in such favours. He would get powerful mages to feed on, together with huge sums. The only sour note was that half his profits ended in the Master’s pockets, to fund their research.

’I would have already acquired a treasure worthy of a dragon, if not for that leech!’ Gadorf hated sharing, but the Master kept him on a tight leash. A single Eldritch was enough to chase him to the darkest corner of Mogar and put him down like a rabid dog.

While Gadorf was assessing his losses, watching his treasures boil and his priceless furniture turn to ashes, Lith was back at his peak condition.

’Where the heck are the reinforcements?’ He had no idea that those sent to their aid were of no threat to the wyvern, nor that they had been sent to the wrong address. One hand washed the other, and both hands washed the face.

’Who’s left?’ Among the smoke and flames, it was hard for Lith to see. Thanks to air magic, breathing was not a problem instead.

’You, Red, the Captain, the Sergeant, and the only two orange cored members of the unit. I suspect the wyvern did it on purpose.’ Solus replied.

’No sh*t, Sherlock. We must be his full course. Time to go all out.’ Lith actually had several attack plans, but none of his liking. The wyvern was bigger and stronger than him.