Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4245

Chapter 4245: The Bitterest Poison (Part 2)

He and the other soldiers reacted as one, pointing their fists at the violet cores. Each member of the Corps was equipped with what looked like a bracelet made of several wooden sticks, exactly for that kind of situations.

The alchemical wands of the Hammer produced a barrage of powerful tier three spells that couldn’t be stopped by elemental sealing arrays and required no cast time.

The world energy was stored inside each wand, and the spells ready to be unleashed.

"Please, this is ridiculous." Rayko blocked the first volley with a Spirit Barrier and immediately Blinked in the middle of the soldiers, releasing a tier five spell from his body.

The Raging Sun took the members of the Queen’s Corps by surprise and threw their battle formation into disarray. It would have also killed them, if not for the protective barriers imbued in their battle armor.

"Still alive?" Xarto said in amusement, like an adult watching a kid’s exhibition. "You fake mages are way better than I expected."

The violet cores cast spells while they moved, whereas the soldiers only had their alchemical tools and the spells stored in their rings. Everything else they had prepared had been lost when the Raging Sun had broken their focus.

Even though the soldiers had a significant numerical advantage, every one of their attacks was easily countered. Even with the tattoo potions, the gap created by the Awakened’s body refinement was too big.

All the military training and equipment were useless against an opponent who could read their every move and cast spells nonstop. The roof of Zekell’s house had yet to fall, but every member of the Corps was already full of burns and cuts.

A deep, guttural howl resounded above the bustling sound of Lutia and the clash of spells.

"What are those morons doing?" Allion, one of the violet cores, said. "We told them to seal the area with an air barrier just like we are doing. We can’t afford one of the Verhens’ pets alerting the Kings of the Woods!"

Gorko and the others were not to blame. They had followed the plan by the letter, and not a peep had escaped Zekell’s house. What the Awakened had failed to consider was that the Queen’s Corps wasn’t the only one tailing the Verhens around Lutia.

One King of the Woods would always follow them from a distance and stand ready to intervene. The cloaking ring Sentinel the Garmr wore made her almost invisible to Life Vision, while her disguise as a girl had fooled even the Lutians.

More and more howls spread like wildfire through the Trawn Woods, until they were the only thing one could hear.

"It doesn’t matter." Rayko grinned at the sight of the Proudhammers’ roof coming down. "They’re just blue-cored beasts, we have plenty of-"

A glaive thrown like an arrow pierced his barrier, armor, and chest. The impact with the ground was so violent that not a single healthy bone was left in Rayko’s body.

Howling for reinforcements was just the second step of the contingency plan that Lith had assigned to the Kings of the Woods. The first step was calling Faluel the Hydra.

"You invade my turf." She appeared in her hybrid form, with seven serpentine heads swaying on as many long necks.

"You attack my disciples!" Strife returned to her hand as one of her heads unleashed a heat ray large enough to hit Allion from head to toe.

It carried so much heat that, even with the Spirit Barrier protecting him, the air surrounding the violet-cored Awakened burned his lungs with every breath of Invigoration he took.

He Spirit Blinked to safety, but Faluel cast the Collapsed Space spell on his exit point. The dimensional door collapsed while Allion was crossing it, displacing his body for dozens of meters.

"Faluel, please wait! We can explain!" Xarto raised his hands in surrender.

"Give Teryon back!" Leran’s body had moved before he could realize what was happening. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

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