Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1435

Chapter 1435 - Davross And Darwen (Part 1)

Lith pondered Faluel's words, realizing that between being capable of producing Origin Flames and of Domination, he was basically sitting on a gold mine.

"Stop gloating over your gold mine and start breathing fire, kid. I'm already envious, you'd better stop asking for a beating." The Hydra poked his head to snap him out of it.

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"How did you know what I was thinking about?" He blurted out in surprise.

"We Dragons all make the same face while counting our treasures." Faluel wore a set of heavy protective glasses while preparing the furnace.

The smithy of the Hydra was nothing like Zekell's. A complex system of arrays would keep all kinds of heat contained, no matter if natural, magical, or Origin Flames based.

A huge hole in the middle of the lab channeled molten lava from the depths of Mogar inside the furnace, where it was used in the place of charcoal to keep the temperature steady.

"What is the lava for?" Lith asked.

"Even under normal circumstances, keeping the temperature high enough to liquefy Adamant takes a lot of focus. While using my seven heads on seven different tasks, however, it's nigh-impossible without a source of fire element." Faluel replied.

"It's only thanks to the lava that I need barely a sliver of focus and mana to control the temperature of the furnace. There's no Forgemaster that works without one of those." The Hydra pointed at the hole, adding one more thing to Lith's already arm-long list of to-do things.

"Today's lesson will be special. Since there's only a limited amount of Origin Flames you can produce before hurting your life force and we've got a lot of metal to purify, I'll show you my Domination technique. I expect you to learn it by imitation."

Faluel put in front of him a rectangular block of smelted Adamant that was 2 meters (6.6 feet) long and one meter (1 foot) wide and high.

Lith placed his hand on it and activated Invigoration, using the flow of mana to detect the size and position of the impurities based on the resistance that they offered to his breathing technique.

Then, he took a deep breath, focusing his will on his life force so that the Origin Flames would pass through the metal and affect solely the impurities.

At least in theory.

What actually happened was that the mass of deep violet flames had many random hot spots that would deform the metal, moving the impurities away from their position and greatly reducing the purification's effectiveness.

Lith took control of the Origin Flames with his emerald eye and did his best to focus them on the impurities while also removing the unwanted hot spots. He displayed technique, willpower, and determination, giving birth to a glorious yet utter failure.

The Adamant block sagged like a badly cooked soufflé and the flames missed most of the impurities, removing a minimal fraction of them.

"Wow, that sucked hard." Faluel said after checking the metal with Lifestream, her breathing technique. "I should make you pay me for purifying this stuff."

She put the Adamant in the furnace, melting it inside a mold to give it a regular shape again. Making sure that every part of the metal melted completely and mixing it evenly required time, patience, and technique so almost five minutes passed before they could take another shot.

"Gods, this was so much easier with Zolgrish's forge! All I had to do was wish for it and the forge would do in a split second what it took you minutes." Lith whined.

"Agreed. When you manage to make a Lich spill their secrets without triggering a war, let me know." Faluel replied with a scoff. "Again, but this time leave Domination to me."