Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4510

Chapter 4510: Hollow Being (Part 2)

"You’d be crippled in mind and body. To what degree, it’s impossible to say. The choice is yours, but if you ask me, death is the most merciful solution. Unless you want the Vurdalak bloodline to spread.

"To let this cancer turn parent against child, brother against sibling, and clan leader against their people. Vurdalaks only see each other as food. They are incapable of trusting their own kin because being close to them causes the hunger you’re experiencing, child.

"Do you wish that on your clan or any other living being?" The Crone asked.

"No." Althika cried, battling the despair ravaging her heart.

She was about to die, and every egotistical instinct she had screamed for her to satisfy her hunger and run away. Yet she refused to listen, preferring to die with dignity as Althika the Dryad rather than as a monstrous Vurdalak.

"I don’t want this for anyone. Especially my baby boy. Is he suffering? Does he feel what I feel?"

"It’s likely." The Crone nodded. "Just like you, however, he refuses to yield. The curse left by his father has yet to overpower the baby’s desire to protect you."

"Verhen?" Althika turned to Lith. "Is there nothing you can do?"

’He’s younger and much less knowledgeable than Baba Yaga, but I won’t surrender my child’s life until there is a single shred of hope left.’ She thought.

"I think I can save you." Lith replied, shocking everyone. "I think I can save you both."

"How?" Baba Yaga asked. "This is my first time seeing something like this, and I doubt you ever encountered an illness remotely similar, let alone treated it."

"It’s my first time as well, yet I know there’s something I can do." Lith’s face was a mask of focus as he searched inside himself for the right words. "It’s an instinct similar to when I helped Solus or Ely helped Zoreth.

"Ever since I touched Althika, I can hear two voices in my head. One repeats, kill, obsessively. The other screams, wrong, over and over."

"An instinct?" Lotho scoffed.

"You hear voices?" Naphila sneered, and the Crone squeezed her Root into a crumpled mess to shut her up.

"Are you sure?" Baba Yaga asked. "I’m not doubting you. I know who you are and what you are capable of. I just want to make sure you realize how much is at stake here. You risk destroying three lives if you are wrong.

"Althika’s, her son’s, and your own. Can you live with the consequences of your actions if you fail?"

"I don’t know." Lith shook his head. "The only thing I’m certain is that I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t at least try. I can’t promise you anything, Althika. I can’t give you an explanation or my odds of success.

"I can only assure you that I’m not lying when I say that I believe I can help you. Whether to believe me is your choice."

"Nice move, Leech!" The Dryad’s delicate features twisted into a Vurdalak who spoke with Orpal’s voice. "You get to kill my child and pose as a hero. Only if this idiot buys your act, though!"

Baba Yaga used the arrays of the lair to restrain Althika before she assaulted Lith and used her tier five Body Sculpting spell, Cradle of Life, to suppress the influence of Orpal’s fragment over the Dryad’s mind and Light Soul before the corruption of the Vurdalak’s flesh spread further.

"Do everything you can." Althika panted heavily as she now had to fight back both the hunger and the attempts of the Dead King’s fragment to possess her. "Just promise me that if it comes down to a choice between my baby and me, you’ll save my son.

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