Supreme Magus novel Chapter 355

Lith was now moving a few centimeters above the ground, using air magic to float and prevent the enemy from detecting his presence. He even used darkness magic to cancel his own smell.

Yet, as soon as he obtained a clean line of sight, Lith noticed the orc staring back at him with eyes filled with mana. It was a male, slightly shorter than Lith. He was armed with a heavy stone club and was only wearing pants made of orc’s skin.

In the orcs’ society, the weak were nothing but livestock.

’What the heck? I always moved while keeping myself hidden behind trees or vegetation. There’s no way he could know my position, unless...’

Lith activated Life Vision again, noticing that the enemy’s mana was moving from his eyes to his free left hand. The orc waved his hand, releasing a wind blade towards Lith’s neck.

At such a short range, it was fast and powerful enough to decapitate an opponent unaware of the existence of true magic. Lith had no problem going under the blade while using spirit magic to break the orc’s neck.

Unfortunately, it had no effect.

’My usual rotten luck.’ Lith inwardly cursed. ’First, the f*cker employed some kind of Life Vision, then he used a tier two true spell, and now this? Why do I always find champions instead of regular grunts? Core color?’ He asked Solus.

’Deep yellow but definitely Awakened.’ Solus replied. ’This orc must be one of those the bestiary refers to as "displaying incredible abilities".’

The orc didn’t like Lith being taller than him. In his society size meant strength and strength meant survival. Seeing a feeble human surpassing him meant hate at first sight. When Lith easily dodged the air blade, hate turned into rage.

The orc swung his club in a wide arc that started above his head and ended at Lith’s feet causing a thundering noise. Lith sidestepped, avoiding the telegraphed attack and stabbing the opponent’s heart at the same time.

The orc grunted, activating earth fusion to stop the sword in its tracks. He contracted his strong muscles which together with his thick ribcage formed a rock hard defense. Lith reacted by infusing himself with fire magic, piercing both like paper.

The boost granted by the yellow core was nothing compared to the one from Lith’s bright cyan one.

The creature died with a shocked expression on his face while releasing a foul smell. The sword had not only robbed the orc of his life, but also of the control over his bowels.

’What the heck does this mean?’ Lith could see the creature’s life force fading away, yet the mana flow was increasing. He kneeled near the corpse, using Invigoration to get a grasp of the phenomenon.

’Amazing!’ Solus exclaimed. ’Somehow the life force is being converted into mana instead of going to waste. The question is: to what end?’

’I don’t know and I don’t care.’ Lith decapitated the creature, just to be safe, before storing it inside the dimensional ring.

As soon as the head was removed, all the accumulated mana departed from the body in the form of a yellow dart. It flew above the trees disappearing at the speed of light.

’This doesn’t make sense!’ Solus was shocked. ’Usually when someone dies, their core leaks mana until it turns grey and disappears. This time, instead, it grew in power before releasing a large amount of mana and turning red at once.

’Only then the core started leaking mana.’

’What does this mean?’ Lith asked.

’I don’t know. Otherwise I would have said that it makes sense.’ Solus’s thoughts oozed sarcasm