Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4368

Chapter 4368: Court Justice (Part 2)

The Royals had just begun to make the noble households forget about the fall of House Frorl when the attempted kidnapping of the young Verhens had opened another can of Leviathan-sized worms.

There were two issues that were raised before the King on a daily basis for over one week now, and both were classified as matters of national security.

The first one was about Lith’s proven ability to break through the magical formations that had kept the members of the Royal Court safe from all threats since the founding of the Kingdom.

Unlike the god of death or the Dead King, Lith needed no army or preparation to bring an ancient household to its knees.

To make matters worse, he had taken House Frorl down so quickly that by the time the army and the Mage Association had answered the distress call, all they could do was count the bodies and clean up.

The nobles feared they might suffer the same fate if one of their problematic members incurred the Supreme Magus’ wrath. It was the reason they demanded to know what contingency measures the Crown had prepared to deal with Lith in the eventuality he went rogue.

The world of politics was full of power plays and old grudges, but until that moment, the nobles had always assumed that no matter how dangerous their enemies were, they would always be safe inside their own homes.

Lith had shattered that certainty, making the nobles aware of their helplessness before a power that no piece of paper could stop. The Supreme Magus was famous for having no interest in politics, but knowing that noble lives might end on his whim kept the Royal Court up at night.

The second issue was as bad as the first, and together they made every day a waking nightmare for the noble households.

According to the Griffon Kingdom’s law, only the Royals were allowed to have an army. Anyone else, no matter how high their ranking or how great their magical talent, was allowed to have a personal guard that couldn’t exceed a single army company.

Lith, however, had proved to have much more than 200 soldiers at his service. According to the most conservative estimates, the warriors of the five clans of the Woods numbered around 700 units, and they were all magical beasts.

Each of them could easily tear an entire team of professional soldiers apart and cast powerful spells without the need for expensive training or equipment.

As for the Emperor Beasts, they were capable of butchering an army company on their own, and could conjure spells that only the elites among the graduates of the six great academies were supposed to learn.

In the eyes of the nobles, Lith was someone who could disregard the sanctity of their homes whenever he liked and deploy troops that no noble family could match.

"For the last time, our Master Wardens can’t prepare magical formations to stop Magus Verhen’s spells if they don’t know what kind of spells he used against House Frorl." Meron sighed.

"Asking the Supreme Magus to reveal his secrets would be a severe violation of our law and create a dangerous precedent. Once that door is open, there is no closing it. Any spell that the Crown deems a matter of national security would be seized.

"At that point, no mage will feel safe in the Kingdom. They will defect to other countries, and we’ll lose the backbone of our military power. If we punish mages for being brilliant and steal the fruits of their hard work, our magical research will stagnate!"

’I would like to point out that Awakening makes no one a mage.’ Sylpha thought. ’Lots of promising fake mages join one of the six great academies just to be kicked out because they lack the will, talent, or discipline that magic requires.

’Finding these three qualities in children below ten years of age is unheard of. Aran and Leria Verhen are not spoiled brats, but natural-born mages.’

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