Supreme Magus novel Chapter 318

Valesa Nalear had gained the upper hand, yet she couldn’t stop cursing her eternal bad luck. Lith had yet to die, she had no idea if her plot against Constable Ernas succeeded, and it was only a matter of time before the academy’s power core rebooted.

When that happened, the Warp Gates leading to the White Griffon would open again, allowing the royal forces to restore order. Nalear needed to make sure that by then the stage was perfect. Not a single detail could be overlooked or her death would be as slow as agonizing.

She was way behind schedule and the time at her disposal was quickly running out. Blinking consumed a lot of mana, but it was nothing compared to Final Sunset. She had already used Invigoration a lot of times.

To heal from the poison, from the damage she had exchanged with Lith, and lastly from Farg. She needed to eat and rest soon, otherwise she was bound to collapse. The raw amount of mana she was handling put a heavy burden on her body.

Lith was in her same boat, but his situation was even worse. His body had still to fully recover after he consumed so much life force to save Protector. To make things worse, he had spent the last night being tortured and his core was weaker than Nalear’s to begin with.

Lith timed his Blinks with extreme precision, leaving behind darkness blasts whenever Nalear closed in. Another weak spot of her tactic that he had found, was that Blink’s dimensional door would always appear very close to the mage.

It meant that a huge part of the sphere Final Sunset created was temporarily cut off until the spell reformed it. By leaving his spells near Nalear’s exit points, Lith was sure he was chipping her strength bit by bit.

Even with Solus’s help, it was still a mammoth task.

’Damn, if it keeps up like this I’m bound to lose. She knows even true dimensional magic, so while she can use Invigoration, I’m forced to keep moving to avoid getting incinerated and prepping my traps. Any idea, Solus?’

’None.’ She snarled. ’We can’t leave the sword in front of the exit point. She always keeps a fire spike in front of her before Blinking. The sword would be thrown away and I would take heavy damage.’

Lith nodded. He preferred to attempt to escape rather than putting Solus’s life to risk.

’I can’t believe there is only us fighting. Where is everyone?’ For the first time since he started the academy, Lith wished for his companions to be by his side.

He needed only an opening to turn tables, but until he was alone, Nalear could focus on him. She was doing a damn fine job getting closer and closer. In a corner of his mind, Lith was afraid he had failed to prevent the vision from coming true.

Another exit point appeared in front of him. Lith was about to leave another Darkness bomb when Solus warned him.

’Behind you!’ Thanks to being temporarily fused, he could actually use all of Solus’s senses as his own. The warning was unnecessary, she did it only out of habit. A second exit point was forming at his back almost at the same time. Lith had no idea which was the real one.

If he picked the wrong direction to Blink, it would have been like throwing himself in the maws of the beast.

Darkness imbued flames came out from both dimensional doors at the same time, engulfing both ends of the corridors without leaving him no way out.

’F*ck, that’s not Blink. She actually opened two Warp Steps at once. How powerful is she?’ Lith inwardly cursed while their minds were spinning at top gear for a solution. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}