Supreme Magus novel Chapter 369

"Is it true?" Trion asked.

"Yes, she is really worried about you. Mom just wants to know that you are..."

"Not that!" Trion stood up, lashing out the insecurities that he had left festering in the last six months.

"Is what that Ernas wench told me true? That everyone has forgotten about me? That I now have a niece and a little brother? That both of them were named after you?"

Lith needed a split second to understand who the ’Ernas wench’ was. A Drill Sergeant couldn’t get close to Jirni, unless she was investigating them. Which left Phloria as the only possible answer.

Lith clenched his fist, yet his tone remained polite.

"Rena stopped considering you a brother after you never returned from your graduation. She couldn’t forgive you for making mom cry like that. Tista wrote you off the family list ever since you and Orpal said all those things about her.

"As for dad, he never talks about you. I don’t think he hates you, Trion. More like he has lost all hopes. We do have a niece, Leria, and a little brother, Aran. Leria is the only one named after me."

On Mogar, it was custom to name a child with the same initial letter of the most esteemed member of the family as a good omen.

"Well, I guess it had to be expected. A humble Sergeant is no match for an almighty magician!" Trion’s anger almost drove him insane. To the point he barely realized he was discussing family matters in public.

"I can’t believe Rena sucked up to you that much! What did you give her in exchange for it?"

"Nothing." Lith’s voice was losing its kindness and becoming colder by the word.

"She did it because I gave her a home, I protected both her old and new family, and because I delivered her firstborn. No one knew you became a Sergeant, simply because you never bothered telling us."

"I..."

"You are done talking." Lith cut him short, throwing his communication amulet on the table. "Either you promise me in front of all these people that you will come back home, or I’ll call our mother right now and you’ll explain to her your reasons."

Trion and all those present looked at the amulet with greed. Such an enchanted item was worth a year of their pay.

Trion hesitated for a second. If he called Elina and she started crying, his reputation would be destroyed. He had always pictured her to his colleagues as a cold hearted woman who had eyes only for her most talented child.

Trion knew it was a blatant lie. He said it for the same reason he had never returned home. It was the way he had found to get back at a family from which he had always felt left out.

Trion hoped to make them feel guilty and worried about his disappearance. Most of all, he wanted to hurt Lith. Yet it was clear he had failed. Lith still looked at him as when they were still kids.

Lith had taught to his older brothers that the flip side of love wasn’t hate. It was indifference. Even when he was little, he would stare at them without really seeing neither Orpal or Trion. Lith would talk to his brothers with the same tone he used for strangers.

Be it pelts or meat, he would never bring anything for them. Whenever they were hurt or ill, Lith never intervened unless their parents asked him to.

"The children, however, are another story. If when I get back I find out you have been anything but a loving uncle and brother, I will end you." Lith remarked his last words by letting out a sliver of killing intent. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}