Supreme Magus novel Chapter 365

’If I tell the Awakened the truth, that the Master is just a human, he’ll have no reason to spare me. I have to bluff my way out.’ The creature thought.

"The Master is a powerful undead. They are watching us even now! Kill me and they’ll send their legions to avenge my death."

’Solus?’ Lith asked.

’Nothing.’ She replied after a deep scan with all her senses. She even analyzed the single elements composing the world energy which gave her a terrible headache.

’No trace of spells or even of other anomalies in the area. I can faintly see someone incoming though. I don’t know the others, but one of them is Tepper.’

Lith pierced the Worm with the Gatekeeper, infusing it with enough darkness magic to turn it into dust.

’Why did you kill it? It could have still talked.’ Solus asked.

’It would have just fed us more lies and we have no more time.’

The Sergeant and several mages arrived a minute later and circled around the area looking at the traces of the battle. Before joining them, Lith Warped Solus under his bed, just to be safe.

He had no idea if they would believe him, nor what tools the army had at its disposal to search him for dimensional items. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

TThey were all surprised to see Lith in one piece and when he reported that the crystal was gone, their worries turned into suspicion. Lith told them most of the truth.

He only belittled his wounds, which Solus had replicated on the uniform before leaving, and explained how after the shaman’s defeat, the Worm had swallowed the crystal before disappearing underground.

"Do you have any proof of your claim?" An elder mage asked him with a stone cold voice.

"I only have some pieces of its armor. They fell off when I tried to stop it with a barrage of spells." Lith handed them a black stone that left the mages stunned.

"This is Darwen!" One of them exclaimed. "It’s a rare material capable of nullifying most detection arrays and resisting magic. How much did you get?"

"Not much. Just the pieces inside my ring." The rest was inside the pocket dimension, but judging by their smiling faces it was still quite a catch.

’Damn! I should have kept more.’ Lith inwardly cursed at himself. ’The silver lining is that they will be more inclined to believe me now.’

The elder mage took Lith’s ring as he stared in his eyes.

"Young man, this ring is an army property. We can break your imprint and check its content anytime. Do you realize that both the crystal and the Darwen you found both belong to the Kingdom? That you, as a Cadet, are one of its servants?"

Lith nodded.

"If we find you in possession of stolen items, you’ll be charged with treason. Are you sure you don’t want to amend your story?"

Lith nodded again.

"This is preposterous!" Tepper objected. "He risked his life for the unit. Without him, my Cadets and I would be dead. The Kingdom would have lost good soldiers, the crystal, and the Darwen. How can you doubt his word?"