Supreme Magus novel Chapter 80

While Termyn was still in a daze, Belia didn’t miss the opportunity to strike with her most powerful lightning spell. The Cingy was incapable of using fusion magic, so it took a clean hit, its whole body going into a spasm, keeping it an easy target.

- "Dammit!" Belia thought. "I was so scared when those things attacked, that’s only thanks to Phloria’s instructions that I didn’t freeze again.

And to add insult to the injury, I was in such a rush that I ended using the Bladed Battle Armour instead of the Bashing one. Edged weapons are useless against such thick protections. F*ck my life. Here goes everything!" –

As soon as the lightning struck, Belia rearranged the ice shards that composed her armour, turning the gloves in war hammers, that she slammed with the combined strength of her arms and flight spell between the Cingy’s eyes.

The impact was strong enough to make the beast take a few steps back, while shaking its head trying to regain focus. The several blades conjured from the ice armour, started to spin on their axis, turning into buzz saws.

Following Belia’s will, they encircled the enemy attacking from all sides, managing thanks to their high-speed rotation to cut through the rock-hard skin.

Termyn scoffed at the girl’s efforts.

- "Please! The first hit is for free, the next ones you have to earn them." -

Just like the day of their first encounter, the Cingy activated Mountain Body, its strongest defensive spell. Every inch of Termyn’s body turned to a shiny black, its density raised to the extreme thanks to a massive flow of earth magic.

A short charge forward was enough to send Belia crashing against tree, stopping the blade swarm in its tracks. Phloria had no idea how to stop something so strong and heavy, yet she had to try.

It was in that moment that the situation turned for the worse, with lightning and dark projectiles raining from the sky.

- "That’s a game two can play!" Visen inwardly screamed. "Gods, why in the heroes’ tales they are never caught in the middle of a spell? Talking should be a free action!" –

It was his time to shine, yet he was forced to keep chanting the third Warden formation, while with his foot he activated the magic symbol he had engraved in the ground.

All he could do was use first magic to create a bang noise, alerting his companions.

Instantly, the entire area of the fight was surrounded by magnetite enriched stone pillars, that acted like powerful lighting rods and intercepted every single electricity magic-based attack.

- "Sh*t! I wanted to complete all three to maximize their effect, but we are losing ground every second. – Gritting his teeth, Visen activated the second array, creating a ten meters (11 yards) radius low gravity field.

The four mages had all stored a flight spell in their rings or were already flying, so they could instantly cope with the sudden change. Gravity or not, it made no difference to them.

But when Termyn tried to take on Phloria’s shield, she only had to give it a strong push upwards to send it in the air, like the Cingy was just a balloon.

Belia’s armour had already reformed, and she was ready to intercept the enemy.

According to the plan, she should have kept it in the air, exploiting the Cingy’s weakness to wear it down with physical and magical attacks, giving Phloria the time to take care of the Ry.

But avoiding the sudden hail of dark bullets and foiling all Termyn’s attempts to reach the ground, required all of her focus, leaving Belia no time to attack.

Termyn was conjuring tendrils of earth to get back down, generating at the same time thick ice shields to intercept Belia’s spells and ice bullets to keep her away.

The Cingy couldn’t allow to be hit by a Lift again, it would have been too humiliating failing twice for the same trick. Termyn was giving its all, swimming towards the tendrils.

All Belia could do was use her conjured weapons to cut the tendrils as soon as they arose from the ground, while dodging the combined attacks the magical beasts were raining on her.

Lith could only curse their bad luck.

- "Who would have thought that magical beast can use arrays too? Based on what I have seen, if I could use true magic, I could fight on par with one of them. But as a fake magic user, we need two of us to make one of them.

Even if Mirna was still with us, we would still be at disadvantage.

We have only until Visen’s formations run out of juice before the wipe out. Got to take care of that Cron, and fast!" –

As soon as the second Warden array was activated, Lith circled around the flabbergasted M’Rook, whose legs were now a few centimetres floating above the ground, grabbing it by the tail and throwing it toward Phloria.

According to the plan, it was up to her to get rid of the Ry with the ace in the hole Lith had kindly provided. But even without the lightnings, Sentar’s control on the array was on another level, compared to Visen’s.

Sentar could freely manipulate the dark bullets aiming only to their enemies, greatly reducing the advantage the low gravity field granted the man-pups. The Cron would also reinforce the barrage adding wind blades, making any attempt to attack her allies even harder.

Despite always having refused to learn how to fly, M’Rook was a natural at air magic. Even just reacting by instinct, the Ry was able to move enough to avoid almost all Phloria half-baked attacks.