Supreme Magus novel Chapter 374

"This is really interesting." Leegaain said while showing Milea the scene unfolding inside Scarlett’s lab. The moment he had perceived the anomaly, he requested Tyris to share her vision.

"What does this mean?" Milea asked. "He’s just going from cyan to blue, it’s no big deal. Why the light pillar? It didn’t happen to me."

"That’s because you are human while he is not. What baffles me is that silver light. You see, back when I refined my mana core from cyan to blue, evolving from a Salamander into a Drake, I produced a black pillar. Tyris generated a white one and Salaark a red one."

The Dragon’s words left her in a stupor.

"Are you saying that..."

"No, I’m not." Leegaain cut her short. "A different colored pillar means nothing until all tribulations have been overcome. What I’m saying is that a human never achieved Guardianhood and if I’m right they never will. Because whatever he is, he’s not human."

From their respective viewpoints, Salaark and Tyris watched an enormous pillar of silver light descending from the sky above Lith’s position. Until that moment, they had always dismissed his existence as an oddity. Now their interest was piqued.

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If Lith knew what was about to happen, he would be grateful for being unconscious. Every major breakthrough was always more excruciating than the previous ones. Luckily, his body was refined along with his mana core, making it more resistant to pain.

So, when his nails fell off like invisible pliers had pulled them out, he didn’t wake up. Neither he did when his bones broke or his flesh was turned inside out. It had already happened in the past, Solus was more worried about Nyka than about Lith’s condition.

’I don’t know what could happen if the vampire attacks him during the core refinement process. Maybe I should go back keeping watch.’ Solus thought, yet found herself unable to move, just like everyone else in the room.

The magic lab that Scarlett the Scorpicore had borrowed Kalla was several meters underground, shielded from external influences by some of her best arrays. Nonetheless, the gigantic silver light pillar descending from the skies passed through them like they were thin air.

Solus had observed the evolution process of magical beasts several times and it always made her think of a giant finger of some god that came down to breathe new life in the evolving creature.

This time things went differently.

When the light pillar from the sky met the one originating from Lith, his heart withered at a speed visible at the naked eye until it resembled a giant dried plume. The blood flow stopped. The resulting agony was so intense that Lith woke up clenching his chest.

Solus could see impurities flow out of it like an invisible hand was squeezing them out. Then, when Lith was an inch from death, his heart absorbed the blood surrounding it and mixed it with the silver light, returning to its original size.

Solus noticed with mana sense that the renewed heart pumped not only blood, but also mana. She also used Scanner, to check Lith’s life force for anomalies. The result was just as amazing.

’After his heart has been restored, Lith’s life force’s started to flow. It’s no more static, maybe that’s the secret behind the ability to shapeshift.’ She thought.

Then, the same thing happened to the lungs. Lith opened his mouth to scream, it was like countless scorching daggers had pierced his flesh, but no voice came out. One by one, all of his internal organs underwent the refining process.