Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3342

Chapter 3342 Two Strangers (Part 1)

"You are very famous, Ripha." Elina said. "I have yet to meet a Forgemaster who doesn't daydream about meeting you and talk about their work."

"That I can believe." Menadion replied. "I meant that even though I've seen you do it countless times while I was a wandering soul, I still find it unbelievable that you are checking Lith for injuries and starvation.

"He's a Divine Beast and we ate less than two hours ago!"

"So what? He is my baby." Elina grabbed Lith's face and peppered his forehead with kisses.

"Mom! Please, stop!" Lith whined as the Phoenixes standing guard to the Warp Gate covered their mouths with their hands to stifle a laughter.

"I'm sorry. It's just that you are my miracle baby and I'm happy for your latest success." Elina said with a beaming smile that could light a city for years.

As the guards snorted harder at the "baby" part, Lith could only grin and bear with it.

'I hate it when Mom does that but at the same time I don't want to spoil her good mood.' He inwardly groaned.

"How are you feeling, Solus?" Elina asked. "Do you need to get back to the tower?" "I'm fine, Mom. I was away only for a short while and Lith was with me. The capital is also built over a mana geyser so I barely consumed any energy."

"That's good to know." Elina took their arms and walked with the pride of a mother hen parading her chicks.

'Damn, compared to your mother I feel like a heartless monster.' Menadion said via a mind link.

'Welcome to the club! Lith replied.

"Gods-dammit, Lith, you could have warned me." Senton said. "You've made my father cry!"

"Grandpa Zekell?" Leria asked with a worried look on her little face, fearing that after Valtak something bad would befall another of her grandfathers. "Why is he crying?" "What she asked." Lith nodded.

"I'll let you hear it from his own voice." Senton pressed a button on his communicator, replaying part of the conversation.

"How could he do that to me?" Zekell said amid sobs. "I could have made a fortune buying unused land and selling it for dozens of times its original price to nobles. Now it's too late and the market is going crazy"

"Oh, it's about money" Leria sighed in relief.

"Why are you sighing in relief?" Senton asked.

"Because Grandpa Zekell told me that it doesn't count." Leria smiled. "He always cries about money. With the big clients to make them pay more, with the suppliers to pay them less..."

As she counted on her fingers, Senton couldn't help but find his daughter adorable and swear that he would have a talk with his father about what not to teach the children.

"I'm sorry, I have to take this." Lith walked away and activated a Hush Zone before opening the channel with Count Jadon Lark and Countess Kelya Lark.

"Lith, you should have contacted us the moment the Royals summoned you." They both seemed angry, which was unusual since, like their late father, they had been Lith's patrons for over a decade. "My sister and I had every right to know it before the public announcement."

"I'm starting to sense a pattern here." Lith sighed. "Jadon, Kelya, you are the rulers of the entire Lustria County. What need do you have to speculate on your own land? You own it!"

"Not that, you dumbest genius alive!" Kelya cursed like a sailor. "He means about Menadion living with you. As you said, we own the land but we are also the ones who are being buried in applications and business proposals.

"Nobles can't change their residence to another noble's territory without their consent. We are understaffed and unprepared to deal with this kind of paperwork. Not to mention that we have to walk on eggshells while we try to understand who we can and can't afford to offend."