Supreme Magus novel Chapter 372

Cursing at both the army and his bad luck, Lith activated all of his Body Sculpting spells at once. He had modified the basic version learned at the academy into a true magic one with a few kinks of his own.

’The situation is bad. I have to alternate Invigoration and Scanner, otherwise one’s readings will block the other’s. Plus I have to fill the hole inside Kalla’s abdomen fast. If I take my time as usual, she’s as good as dead.’

In her attempt to achieve Lichhood, Kalla had damaged her life force, leaving a gaping hole that was slowly dissipating both her mana and life force. It also prevented her to use Invigoration since the mana would be drained by the hole.

Lith went all out from the start and conjured ten Chisels at once. The Chisels started to probe into the healthy life force. Kalla wasn’t a slime but an Evolved Monster, which made her a unique living being.

’If she was a human, at least I’d know where to start. I have never studied a Wight’s life force, dammit. It’s completely different from what I have ever seen before.’

Watching at Kalla through Scanner was like trying to follow a rollercoaster constantly changing its physical form, going from liquid to solid without warning. Her partial undead nature made unnecessary for her to breathe or possess most organs.

On paper, it sounded really cool because it made her resistant to most kinds of energies. On the other hand, for Lith it was a nightmare. Her life force was a hybrid, composed of the physical form of her body and the shadow energy that enveloped her physique to connect the various parts.

Lith had to alter them both without killing her nor having enough time to study Kalla’s unique nature properly. Even though Lith was in a rush, he needed to assess how bad the situation was, so he had the Chisels checking the edges of the black zone.

’The situation is worse than I expected.’ Lith sighed. ’The life force around the damage has stabilized, but even just poking it’s enough to make it bleed life force that disappears immediately. I can’t collect nor save it. The hole is like a drain.

Solus, I may need your help.’

’There is not much I can do with a deep green core. I can barely use a tier five spell by borrowing some of your mana.’ She replied.

’Don’t worry, I just need you to use Spatula to collect the life force in case I make a mistake.’

Lith could have conjured and controlled more than ten chisels, but that would lessen his accuracy. Kalla was already with one foot in the grave, he couldn’t afford to make any major slipup.

Manipulating life force was different from any other kind of spellcasting Lith had learned. It required to keep your focus at all times, exerting surgical control on your mana as well as on the patient’s body.

In any other circumstance, Lith would have used Body sculpting to repair the damage by redistributing the life force without altering its flow. The problem was that the procedure was slow and Kalla had maybe a couple of minutes left.

’Since I don’t have time, the fastest approach is to transplant life force from a healthy part to fill the hole. It will create a new one, but at least if I cover Kalla’s mana core, her condition should improve.

If I’m right, it will buy me the time I need to fix her.’

First, Lith used one of his personal spells, Mould, to take a magical picture of the life force in Kalla’s left paw in order to be able to restore it later once the emergency was resolved.