Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2860

Chapter 2860 Cruel Lesson (Part 2)

2860 Cruel Lesson (Part 2)

"Narso!" Bodya screamed as tears streaked down his eyes.

The water hit the ground with a hiss due to its reaction with the acid that still permeated the area.

Tista put her personal feelings aside and turned into her full size to be able to embrace the Nidhogg and console him.

"He was my best friend." Bodya managed to say as the shock settled. "I was supposed to introduce him to you right here. We grew up together since we were the only two human hybrids of the tribe."

"I remember." Tista kept caressing his giant head.

"He had over 2900 years left to live. How could he die like that? This must be some sort of sick joke. A punishment for disappointing the patriarch."

'It indeed is a punishment.' Lith thought. 'But this is no trick, this is reality. Now I understand why the Jiera Council didn't oppose our colonization plans and Fenagar even helped with the first expedition. Things must be even worse than we expected.'

While Lith mused about the dangers that Orion's expedition was likely to face, Tista let her fury simmer but didn't let it show on the outside. Not a single tongue of fire erupted from her scales or feathers.

'What a cruel bastard! Forrn sent us here to make Bodya feel guilty and break him.' The Hekate cursed Fenagar and all the members of his bloodline with one single exception. 'Yet I'm no better.

'I was about to tear him a new one for letting the patriarch speak to him like that and for not taking my side immediately. In my fury, I hadn't considered how painful it must be to Bodya to cut off his family.

'This isn't a fairy tale. Love doesn't conquer all and we are not even engaged. If he gives up on his family for me and things don't work out for us, he's going to end up with nothing.'

Bodya reminisced several of his escapades as a child with Narso and shared them with Tista, shedding a tear from time to time. She smiled and chuckled for him, his face frozen in time like that of his old friend.

Their adventures were no different from those of Aran and Leria, so Tista could easily relate to them. The only difference was that instead of having magical steeds, Bodya and Narso turned into big snakes and hid below the ground whenever they ended in trouble.

She listened in silence until those sweet childhood memories crashed against the bitterness of the present.

"We were like brothers, Tista, and now he's dead because of me. While I was having the time of my life in Garlen, he was fighting for his life to protect everything we held dear." Bodya said.

"The patriarch is right. I'm a traitor of my species and Narso paid for my crimes with his life. If I had been here, he wouldn't have died a dog's death alone. We would have fought and survived together. I-"

He looked at the corpse of the Nidhogg and then at Tista, hearing the words of the elder echoing in his head over and over.