Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4329

Chapter 4329: Cursed Carrion (Part 1)

Tista and Morok went full Hekate and Tyrant, slowly absorbing the world energy through their wings.

"I guess Lith’s paranoia must have rubbed off on me." Solus sighed in relief when they walked through the entrance of the keep, and nothing happened. "Whoever Teneb’s mysterious enemy was, we can cross Emperor and Divine Beasts off the list.

"Yet do me a favor and keep your weapons sheathed. There’s no telling what might trigger the intruder alert."

When she turned around to look at her companions, Solus noticed that most of them now exceeded the two meters (6’7") of height, making her, Quylla, and Menadion look like small children in a group of adults.

"Gods, if I hate it when you do this." Quylla sighed. "You make me feel like back at the academy, when I was a malnourished little girl."

"Who cares about that?" Menadion shrugged. "Someone is tall, someone is average, and someone is a sexy midget. Am I right, Solus?"

"Yes, I mean no!" She grunted. "Speak for yourself, Mom."

"She’s right, Ripha. Solus is too fat to be sexy." Morok nodded, making Quylla giggle and Solus’ eyes almost pop out in outrage.

"I meant that I forgot that now I can shapeshift as well, you jerk!" Solus focused on her life force as a whole rather than just the human threads and shapeshifted into her Divine Beast form. "As for you, Quylla, how can you laugh when your husband calls another woman sexy?"

"He didn’t." Quylla shrugged. "Ripha called herself and you sexy, you denied her claim, and Morok jumped at the occasion to tease you a bit. As simple as that."

"Simple my-" Solus’ words died in her throat as the lights of the Armory turned red and alarms blared with deafening noise.

The sensory arrays of the underground fortress had perceived the anomaly that Solus was ever since she had stepped inside the Armory. Yet until that moment, her tower side had remained hidden under her human life force and shielded by her cloaking rings.

That and the many differences between the modern enchantments of Menadion’s tower and the Black Throne’s ancient ones had confused the Scout Golems enough not to sound the alarm, yet the Scouts had never stopped looking for a sign of the enemy they had been created to fight.

Shapeshifting had brought Solus’ tower side to the surface, and the defensive system’s reaction was instantaneous.

All the dormant Golems scattered throughout the Armory stirred, and the many arrays that enveloped the cave became active, their runes now visible to the naked eye.

***

A few hundred meters underground, in front of the final vault protecting the Adamant reserves stored inside Armory number 7.

"What in the gods’ names did you idiots do?" Uragar snarled as a force field suddenly erupted from the armored door, cutting his enchanted tools in half and almost severing his host’s arms at the elbow. "I told you to sit tight and touch nothing!" 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"I didn’t even pick my nose!" Akhton snarled. "Nobody has moved a muscle since we got down here. You are the one who messed up, old fool."

"I did no such thing!" The Book of Knowledge gestured for his companions to get away from the vault just in time to avoid a massive heat ray that turned the wall behind them into a molten crater. "Have you already forgotten what I told you earlier?

"If I had triggered the alarm of the safe, the defensive system would have detonated the whole room and buried us under tons of rubble. Since that didn’t happen, one of you dumb flesh bags must have activated another failsafe."

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