Supreme Magus novel Chapter 370

Lith hadn’t seen Kalla during the last three years, they just talked from time to time when her communication amulet appeared online. Lith understood how difficult the process of safely splitting one’s core was and he thought that endangering his friend’s life just for a social visit was beyond idiotic.

Once he reached the White Griffon, Lith asked the Headmaster to have his teacher ring back. He didn’t have the time to fly around the forest searching for Kalla.

Albeit short, his meeting with Marth provided him some vital information.

"I never met Kalla the Wight after Balkor’s attack. I honestly believed she had died by the hand of a Valor." Marth replied when Lith asked him about Kalla’s whereabouts.

"I would love to contact Scarlett, but she left the White Griffon for good. We have a new Lord of the Forest, Sentar the Thunderbird."

’That’s why Kalla needed my help.’ Lith thought. ’With Scarlett gone, there is no elder Awakened one that could cure her. Light magic it’s one of the hardest elements to master.’

Sentar had conflicting feelings about both Kalla and Lith. The former she considered an undead, which made Sentar reluctant to even stand in her presence. The latter had the stigma of Scarlett considering him a possible threat.

Yet Sentar remembered how her former leader had considered Kalla a close friend, as well as how much M’Rook and Protector liked Lith. She brought him to the Wight’s quarters without asking questions.

When Kalla had mentioned a lair, Lith’s mind had pictured some sort of natural network of caves, maybe a dungeon. A place riddled with corpses and undead, respectively the failures and successes of her research.

The entrance was an arch made of stone that led to an underground passage. It was the only part Lith had imagined right.

The moment he stepped inside, he thought to have entered a penthouse back on Earth. The room looked like an antechamber realized to allow Evolved Monsters to move without having to shapeshift.

Everything was oversized, from the corridors leading to the other rooms to the over four meters (13’) high ceiling. The floor was smooth, with no imperfection nor stain visible.

’This isn’t a natural cave at all. Someone carved everything out with earth magic.’ Lith thought in surprise.

"Thank the gods you’re here!" A giant mass of brown fur charged at Lith like a truck. Lith wasn’t scared, he had recognized Nok’s voice. The moment the Byk hit him, Lith realized how wrong he was.

Even with Nok’s momentum, the impact was too weak. The fur was full of white streaks and now that they were close enough, Lith noticed several bald spots.

"Follow me." Nok bit Lith’s left sleeve, tugging him forward without even waiting for a reply.

Lith exploited that contact to use Invigoration. Nok was now an adult Byk. His huge build was proof he had at least inherited his mother’s physical strength and of how well fed he had been.

’What the heck has happened to him? I can’t find any trace of disease or injury on Nok, yet his life force is as weak as when he was just a cub. Did he suffer from Kalla’s experiments too or what?’ Lith thought.

They passed through a series of rooms. Each one was bigger than Lith’s house and filled with state of the art equipment for all kinds of magical research. There wasn’t a single inch in any room that wasn’t filled with books or magical protections to prevent a failed experiment from causing a cave in.