Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4488

Chapter 4488: Life Score (Part 2)

"Ral just called her name." He replied, letting emotion transpire from his voice. "Li is how he can say Ely at the moment. It’s his third word and the reason Ely is crying with joy."

"Oh, gods, you should have told me sooner." Kamila tried to record the moment with her amulet, but she fumbled it and wept as silently as she could so she wouldn’t ruin it.

"Don’t cry, Mom." Valeron didn’t understand what was happening, and seeing so many members of his family tearing up scared him.

"It’s okay, baby." Kamila sniffled. "I’m fine. I swear."

Yet Valeron could tell she wasn’t fine. Everybody seemed sad, and their eyes were moist.

"Don’t cry. Please." Valeron felt something stirring inside of him, an intense desire to protect those around him.

His life force and mana core surged, his mind growing attuned to the Garden’s immense energy. It was a subtle feeling; the baby boy was too young and weak to manifest the full scope of his powers, but Lith felt it.

He called upon Solus, and the tower appeared in a nearby glade a split second later.

Valeron didn’t notice it. He was too focused on trying to make the pain and sadness of his loved ones go away. His fingers dug into the ground as he listened to the melody of the world energy around him and added a few notes of his own making.

Valeron was the son of Jormun, the Emerald Dragon, and Thrud, the Golden Griffon. The powers he inherited from his father allowed him to naturally understand and interact with all forms of life, while his mother’s Life Maelstrom was meant to nurture.

The young Bahamut answered the call of a dying seed, too weak to bloom on its own due to a congenital defect. The seed wanted to live, and Valeron needed help. The boy extended his aura, wrapping it around the seed’s life force to examine its symphony.

It was akin to a torn, crumpled musical score. The melody was punctuated with faded and missing notes, making it impossible for the seed to thrive even in the fertile soil of Mogar’s Garden.

The little Bahamut used his Emerald Dragon side to restore the faded notes and guess half the missing notes by studying the flow of the tunes preceding and following them.

The other half of the missing notes, however, was beyond even an Emerald Dragon. Yet not beyond a Bahamut.

Valeron the Second opened his life force to the dying seed and let them interact. New notes that perfectly suited the incomplete melodies came to his mind, and he engraved them in the Life Score.

The symphony of the seed’s life force was now complete, opening a path toward life in the dark corner where death awaited. Alas, one problem remained.

The seed was already withering after depleting the nutrients in its coat and couldn’t absorb more from its surroundings. Valeron injected a tiny spark of his Emerald Energy and another of Life Maelstrom into the seed.

Life nurtured life, and the silver lightning gave the dying seed the strength to sate its hunger. All that Lith and Kamila saw, however, was a seedling sprouting in the middle of a small pillar of light between Valeron’s hands. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

The seedling grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, its stem stretching until it was centimeters away from the young boy’s face. A bud emerged from the stem and bloomed a heartbeat later into a beautiful flower like no other.

The stem had no thorns, and like its leaves, it shone with the vibrant emerald of a precious gemstone. It was crowned with a rose comprised of Indech-red petals alternating with silver ones that reflected the cave’s mystical lights like polished metal.

"Don’t cry, Mom." Valeron dug out the flower along with enough soil to preserve its roots and offered it to Kamila with shuffling steps, trying not to stumble and fall. "Please. Don’t be sad."

The young boy felt tired. More tired than after flying with his siblings in the morning, but something inside of him told him what he had done was worth the effort. That everything would be okay.

"I’m not sad." Kamila sniffled. "Not anymore. Thank you, sweetie. It’s a beautiful flower. What is it?"

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