Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2186

"It's amazing how even inside a Sealed Space the darkness element keeps seeping inside the prison. I think…" The man's voice faded in the distance and the group resumed their advance.

Lith regretted not having heard anything relevant about the room's defense system. Yet hearing Orpal's voice and learning how he was being tortured both physically and psychologically every day almost made Lith change his mind about killing his brother.

Almost.

He took a mental note of the room with his own Eyes and asked Solus to memorize its dimensional coordinates.

'We have no chance of breaking in without being surrounded.' She thought. 'There are too many people here and even with the Eyes, it would take a while to crack the door. I'll humor Lith just to keep him calm.'

In a regular academy, the seventh floor was dedicated to the living quarters of the staff and the Golden Griffon was no different. There lived Thrud's Generals, Linnea, Jormun, and the Mad Queen herself.

None of the doors was closed since most of the occupants of the floor were gone and there was absolute trust between them. No one was supposed to be capable of entering there uninvited.

Each room was as big as a penthouse and as luxuriously furnished. There were soft carpets covering the floor of every room, and the lobby of every apartment was bigger than Kamila's house in Belius.

Lith could see that Thrud's Generals had their own personal labs and research materials right inside their homes. They had all been neglected apprentices and now they had arranged their living quarters better than those of their old masters.

The Divine Beasts kept their doors open also to keep an ear on the little Valeron, especially while his parents were away. It was the reason Kalla and the others heard the cooing and giggling typical of a small child.

Lith pointed at the source of the noise before passing his thumb over his throat, gaining the reproachful glares of Vladion, Kalla, and Solus.

'Hey, if we can defeat Thrud and end this war just by taking a child hostage, I have no problem being the bad guy.' He said via the mind link.

'What if it was your child?' Vladion asked, filled with outrage.

'I would never leave her unguarded like- Oh, shit!' Lith had peeked around the corner, discovering that Jormun was on his same page.

He was there, playing with Valeron while several Forgotten guarded all corners of the room and its entrances. To make matter worse, Valeron the Second had two violet-cored Awakened for nannies.

They were the handmaidens of the late Syrook. Thrud had taken them with her so that Valeron would grow up with someone who could teach him to embrace his human side and understand the struggle of regular people.

In exchange, the Mad Queen was teaching the handmaidens everything they needed to survive in the outside world.

'It's like he expects someone to Spirit Warp in. The guy is beyond paranoid, he's mental.' Lith's words earned him a second volley of glares. 'Let's move. Plan A it is.'

'It takes one to know one.' Solus scoffed at him taking mental notes of Jormun's protection just to enhance them with some of Lith's own for the baby girl's future room. 'Valeron is just a little boy. How can you even think of dragging him into the war?'

Now, however, being so close to the academy's power core with the full power of the geyser at its disposal, made climbing the final steps hard for his group. The world energy was collected, accumulated, and amplified in the keep before being evenly spread to the rest of the academy. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}