Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4310

Chapter 4310: Imagination and Willpower (Part 2)

Several runes formed in his mind, accompanied by a discordant choir of voices that made it impossible for him to understand a single one.

"Fuck me sideways!" Lith fell to one knee, holding his ears to muffle the deafening noise.

"What’s wrong, child? Talk to me." The Mother had to repeat the question multiple times before he managed to hear her.

When Lith was done explaining what had just happened, Baba Yaga sighed in relief.

"You’ve just bitten more than you can chew, child." She said. "A tier one spell can’t have so many effects. You need at least tier three for that. Also, you didn’t define what kind of explosion you wanted.

"A burst of pure fire? A blazing shockwave? A series of concussive blasts? You left your spell open to too many interpretations, and the Lodestar delivered all the possible answers to you at the same time.

"Scale it down to something simpler, and it will be a perfect tier two spell. Either keep the piercing effect, or make the Cinder blast explode upon contact."

Lith did both, obtaining Iratho Het and Iratho Rak.

"That works too." Baba Yaga nodded. "Now move up to tier three, but this time picture the effect you want clearly, step by step."

"Iratho Ghet Rekhat!" The three runes fused together, conjuring a pillar of Cinder the size of Lith’s arm that pierced through the Firing Range’s Zero counterspell.

Then, Fire Stab exploded in a hot flash that consumed most of the oxygen in the room, making what little was left too hot to breathe. If not for the Firing Range cooling the temperature and injecting fresh air, Lith would have suffered more than a brief fit of cough.

"Thank my paranoia, I sent Elysia away." Lith cleared his throat. "I would have never forgiven myself if something happened to her."

"Don’t worry, child. Elysia would have been fine." Baba Yaga replied. "The Firing Range’s timing was impeccable. Not a hot gust of wind reached Solus or me. The only reason you coughed is that you were too close to the point of the explosion.

"Next time, make your spell detonate at a safe distance. The fire of your own Cinder spell can’t hurt you, but the heat and lack of humidity can still turn you into a dried-up mummy."

"That was a safe distance." Lith inwardly cursed at Cinder Magic. "I couldn’t risk the spell exploding too close to the wall and hurting Solus. I didn’t expect the side effects to spread so far despite the Firing Range."

"I’m afraid something similar will happen with all the other Cursed Elements." Solus shuddered at the thought of the kind of damage Cinder could do to the tower and how it might reflect on her.

"Chaos is relatively safe because it doesn’t affect its surroundings. Its power is focused on destruction, whereas the other Cursed Elements alter everything in their area of effect, and destruction is just a consequence of that."

"Solus has a point." Menadion said. "To make matters worse, when I created the enchantments for the Firing Range, I wasn’t aware of Cursed Elements other than Chaos. Are you sure you want to continue with your experiments?"

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