Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4508

Chapter 4508: Not a Hybrid (Part 2)

Baba Yaga gathered all the information she needed in three breaths, but she checked her findings multiple times, giving the artifacts time to complete their scans. Also, she didn’t want to believe her own findings and hoped the Menadion Set would prove her wrong.

"It’s your turn, Lith." She stepped away and conjured a chair. "I hope you have better luck."

The Crone sat down, trying to make sense of what she had just seen. When Lith approached the pregnant Dryad, she had another fit of rage that forced the arrays to suppress her powers until she calmed down.

This time, the silver flames of mother and child flashed briefly. Light Soul attacked Althika, while Feast Soul infused energy into Light Soul, but no barrier activated to stop either bloodline ability.

The sickly white lights bathed Lith with no effect aside from giving him the creeps.

He used his breathing technique, Abyssal Gaze, and noticed much fewer things than Baba Yaga, yet his diagnosis wasn’t much different. He turned to her and shook his head.

"Very well." The Crone stood up with a sigh. "I don’t have good news, child, but I need to know what led you to your current condition to be certain of my diagnosis. Lotho mentioned an accident during your training, but didn’t go into details.

"I assume he’s referring to this." Baba Yaga lifted the bedsheet, revealing the unsettling deformity of Althika’s left leg.

Her delicate toes and light green skin had been replaced by curved talons and a thick, black hide covered in bristles. The Crone furrowed her brows, noticing that the Vurdalak flesh covered the Dryad’s leg up to the calf.

When she had used Sun and Moon, only the left foot had been overtaken.

"Tell me, child, how did this happen, and why didn’t you cure it?"

"There isn’t much to say." The Dryad gasped, her body tensing as she suppressed another surge of hunger that demanded that she consume the life growing in her womb or at least her own.

"A few days ago, the silver flame appeared above my and my child’s head. I assumed it was the sign that his development had reached a new milestone and that he had awakened a new bloodline ability for both of us.

"My clan agreed with me, so I started experimenting with the silver flame while the feeling was still vivid in my mind. I had a vague idea of what I needed to do, like a long-forgotten instinct that necessity had stirred, and I followed it.

"When I activated the silver flame, however, it gave me no power. It sent my Upyr side into a rampage, and before I could stop it, the Dryad life force of my left foot was gone. It’s also when the hunger appeared for the first time.

"I didn’t understand what I hungered for at first, and tried to undo the damage to my life force. My regenerating abilities were helpless against the phenomenon, and so were all the healing spells I know. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"The Elders of the Redleaf family treated me with Body Sculpting, and it worked for some time. My life force still hurt, and the hunger abated, but after a while my foot reverted to its monstrous appearance, and the hunger returned stronger than before.

"I hoped that stopping the treatments would also stabilize my condition, but it didn’t." Althika arched her back in agony, needing sheer willpower to contain the wrath of the Vurdalak that craved to spill Lith’s blood.

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