Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4137

Chapter 4137: Menadion’s Heir (Part 2)

"Yeah, there’s no way to make them float above the Sage Staff." Solus pondered. "Anyone with half a brain would shoot them down first and disable the staff. Not to mention a bunch of flying eyes would be creepy and disgusting. It would terrorize the children.

"Off the top of my head, I say we should fuse all six Balor eyes in the Yggdrasill wood. They are both living tissues, and the same enchantment that preserves the wood would preserve the eyes."

"It also offers you the ability to have the eyes sink below the wood’s surface when we are not fighting to hide the Sage Staff’s true purpose and make it less creepy." Lith nodded.

"Moreover, with the ability of Balor’s eyes to draw in large amounts of elemental energy, the staff would have the next best thing to a breathing technique of its own. It should help you sustain your human form longer while away from a mana geyser."

"Something like this?" Solus conjured the hologram of a version of the Sage Staff with the Balor eyes arranged in a vertical line along the haft, with a Spirit crystal between the orange and yellow eyes.

Seven more crystals arranged in the same sequence rested on the head of the staff, floating in the air and orbiting in perfect synch from time to time.

"It looks perfect." Lith said.

"It looks awful." Menadion appeared from his shadow and clicked her tongue.

"This is a private conversation, Mom." Solus replied.

"I’m not here as your mother, young lady, but as your Forgemastering teacher." Menadion’s eyes narrowed. "Or did you change your mind and don’t want to inherit my legacy anymore?"

"Point taken. Sorry, Mom. It’s just that you are so nosy and bossy that I forgot about our arrangement. I thought you were just meddling as usual." The honesty in Solus’ words stung Menadion more than any insult could.

"I’m not nosy or bossy, and I don’t meddle!" She snarled. "That said, how would you grab that thing? Would you be okay constantly touching one or more open eyes during a fight?"

"No, I wouldn’t." Solus retched at the idea.

"Then what about this?" In Menadion’s version of the hologram, the sequence of the Balor eyes was the same, but they were arranged horizontally in a circle, matching the resting position of the floating crystals.

"With this configuration, the six eyes channel the six elements in the same point at the center of the Sage Staff. From there, it only takes a spark of your life force from the Spirit crystal to turn them into mana ready to use."

"That’s brilliant-"

"I’m not done." Menadion raised her hand with the palm out, gesturing for Solus to wait. "Also, by aligning eyes and crystals, you can establish a solid framework for your mana flow that should improve the stability and output of the Sage Staff’s enchantments compared to Vorgh’s."

Menadion flicked her fingers, and the mana crystals in the hologram formed a Silverwing’s Hexagram. Instead of forming a circle like Vorgh’s staff would, the mana formed a frustrum, with a smaller Hexagram passing through the Balor eyes.

The miniature array exerted no effect in itself, but shaped the mana and arranged the runes in the proper order like a mold. It allowed the upper array to form faster and be easily repaired in case the mana it held was damaged.

"That’s brilliant, Mom!" Solus said, and this time Menadion didn’t interrupt her.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify