Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4320

Chapter 4320: No Maybe (Part 2)

"I said we don’t talk about that." Lith snarled. "Get off my back. Go do something useful that doesn’t involve mocking me."

"Damn, that killed all my list of daily activities." Protector chuckled. "See you later, then."

The Tower Warp had already brought them back to the Mansion, and Lith let his friends off before taking a short trip to the Blood Desert to drop his prisoners.

"I’m going to practice control over the scattered Cursed Elements. Do you want to join me? I could use an extra set of eyes." Lith asked once they returned to Lutia for good.

"I wish. Now that the Fusion Reactor is at full capacity, I have to start hunting for Adamant scraps with the Watchtower." Solus groaned. "I’ll travel back to all the mana geysers we know and mine everything I can.

"The more Adamant we have, the faster the Crucible works. Even if we stumble into a Divine Beast’s corpse or we kill one, it would be useless until we have enough metal to coat its skin and bones.

"You stay here and keep researching Dread Magic without me. Anyone can use the Eyes to study your progress, and there’s no point in wasting your time keeping me company. I’m not looking for a fight, and I don’t expect trouble.

"Even if something unexpected happens, I have the tower, the Engine, and you can instantly reach me as long as you stand on the Mansion’s mana geyser."

"Have fun, then." Lith shrugged.

"I wish. The next few days are going to be the longest of my life." She sighed.

Solus thought about taking Valeron with her, but decided otherwise.

’Val has no affinity for the Cursed Elements, just like me, but he’d miss his siblings.’ She thought. ’I can’t even ask Tista to accompany me for a bit of sparring. I’m a terrible fighter in my Divine Beast form, but fighting inside would damage the tower.

’Fighting outside, instead, would throw discretion to the wind. We cause small quakes whenever we fight. Even a blind man would hear us from kilometers away. Mom is bound to Lith, so I’ll have to settle for a good book as a travel companion.’

Solus sat on the command throne of the Watchtower and set the coordinates for the Snake Mountain Range, in the ancient Odi ruins where Dawn had built her secret lab after escaping from the Rezars’ Fringe.

’The place is uninhabited and in the middle of nowhere.’ She thought. ’According to Nalrond and the Royal Prospectors, it will be centuries before the mana crystal veins are viable, but maybe they have missed a very deep metal vein.’

Starforge used the Mana Injector to produce pulses of world energy that the Ears used to locate the presence of magical resources, akin to a radar. Magical metals and crystals absorbed part of the world energy, and the rest would bounce back to the tower.

The greater the depth, the longer a single scan took, and Solus took several scans before assessing whether the current site was a hit or miss.

’This is a miss.’ She sighed. ’I found lots of crystals, but we’ve got plenty of those. I’ll mark their position for future reference.’

’It’s a hit!’ She clenched her first. ’A small hit, though. There isn’t much Adamant and it’s located very deep underground. The rest is silver and Orichalcum.’

Also, the mining operations rarely required Solus’ attention, but she couldn’t get away from the tower in case an emergency arose. She had to endure long, tedious hours every time the Watchtower found something, giving her successful hunts the taste of failure. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

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