Supreme Magus novel Chapter 342

Lith spent the next hour explaining Tista about fake magic, true magic, and the Awakening process. She trusted her brother with her life, yet even after meeting Solus, Tista found hard to believe such a massive info dump.

Lith then cast perfectly silent spells of all tiers, from one to five in front of her eyes. Tista gasped for air, the whole Mogar was turning upside down. She kept hyperventilating due to stress until everything turned black.

"Has she fainted?" Lith asked.

"Yes. Too bad we can’t waste time being nice." Solus conjured ice cold water and splashed Tista’s face with it.

"Oh, gods! I had the weirdest dream..." When Tista saw Lith and Solus again, she realized it wasn’t a dream. Lith sat on the ground beside her, putting his arm around her shoulders to keep her calm.

"Is everything I learned so far a lie, then?" She asked after a while.

"No, it’s just part of a much more complex truth. Think about it. We and magical beasts having two different kinds of magic doesn’t make sense. We breathe the same air, we eat the same things. Why magic should be any different?" Lith replied.

"What’s wrong with me? Am I going to die?" She embraced Lith in search of warmth. Tista was so shocked that she had yet to dry herself from the water.

"There is nothing wrong with you and you are going to be just fine." Lith made the water disappear and had Solus turn the heat up in the tower.

"Yet to succeed I need your help. There are some unknown factors that I had no opportunity to study, so I need you to be completely honest with me. Don’t try to be a hero, if anything feels weird or painful you have to tell me."

"Weird how?" Tista blushed.

"To keep you alive and healthy I have removed impurities from your body since a tender age. I stopped as soon as I noticed your Awakening process started because I have no idea if it made things easier or harder for you. Also, you have a bright green core. So far my only successful experiments involve cyan cores." Lith sighed.

"Wait. Didn’t you tell me you had a green one too? What’s the difference between you and me?"

"The difference is me Awakening early. My body developed like that of a magical beast. I grew slowly in strength, so my body had all the time it needed to adapt. Yours is going straight from a dormant green core to an active cyan one. It could either kill you or turn you into an Abomination."

Lith hugged her tightly, kissing her forehead. The thought of losing her was unbearable.

’I’ll never be able to live with myself if she dies because of me.’ Lith thought.

’She’d be dead without you.’ Solus rebuked. ’Now bring her to the basement, we have no time to lose.’

Lith helped Tista to get up and did as instructed. He explained to her how Awakening usually involved the impurities reaching the mana core, triggering some kind of reaction that made both the core and the body stronger.

"I still have no clue about the details, but I think that expelling the impurities is only part of the process. During the refinement, the body undergoes a transformation that corrects any flaw humans normally develop during their lives.

"If I’m right, the stronger the core the greater the number of flaws the body needs to fix. It’s an incredibly delicate process, like using Body Sculpting on a healthy subject. Hence the body undergoes a lot of stress and if it’s unable to cope, the final result is death.

"In theory, you grew with very few imperfections. It should make things easier."

"What if you are wrong?" Tista asked.