Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3634

Epp- Solus, you must consider that the natural strain of using the Eyes and Ears will never go away. On top of that, at the moment, they suffer from two more limiting factors that greatly worsen the artifacts' side effects." Ripha said.

"The missing floors of the tower are one." Solus nodded. "What's the other?"

"You, baby girl." Menadion looked straight into Solus' eyes, making her flinch. "Even as we speak, the tower is doing its best to restore your body. You take priority over the functions of every floor of the tower, even the recovery of its power core.

"Whenever you use the Eyes and Ears, part of the energy that can, in theory, make up for the missing floors is syphoned by you. The tower doesn't just keep you alive, it's also constantly mending your mana core and life force.

"Until my primary directive is accomplished, even if the tower fully recovers, the Eyes and Ears might still not work as intended."

"Are you telling me that I can be free from the tower?" Solus trembled from emotion, and Elysia wrapped her small wings around her in an embrace to soothe her. "That I can live, I mean really live, like a normal person, again?"

"That was the whole point of the Infirmary, the Bleed, and everything else." Menadion nodded. "Yet fusing you with the tower was a last-ditch move I attempted when everything else failed.

"It wasn't planned, and even at the height of my despair, I couldn't sacrifice innocent people to conduct test runs. For working my version of Yaga's Horseman technology worked, but the results went beyond my expectations."

Ripha pointed at the streaks in Solus' hair that she had lacked as Elphyn and then she conjured the pieces of the Set one at a time, tapping her finger on the changes to their original design.

"But still, my condition might not be permanent." Solus said.

"It might not." Ripha replied.

'But if that means restoring Elphyn Menadion's body or permanently fusing her with the tower in a living artifact, that's impossible to say.' She actually thought, keeping that information to herself, not to spoil the moment.

Solus was dancing in joy with Elysia, and even though the baby girl had no idea what they were celebrating, she was happy to participate.

"Masa! Masa!" Elysia giggled, bringing fat locks of Solus' multicolored hair to her mouth and munching them with enthusiasm.

"Elysia, no! What if you choke on them?" Solus stopped her spin, trying to take the thick lock of hair out of the baby's iron grip. "Don't be stubborn! Gods, if I leave her the hair, she can choke, but if I pull too hard, I might hurt her. Please, help me, Mom."

"With pleasure." Menadion dangled her own hair in front of the baby girl. Each strand took the shape of a different creature, moving around in the form of butterflies, small birds, and buzzing insects.

Elysia let go of Solus' hair just to snatch Menadion's and suck on it.

"What's the point? Nothing has changed." Solus sighed.

"My hair is made of energy." Menadion replied. "Elysia can't choke on it unless I wish it so, and I don't."

"Great thinking, Mom." Solus clapped her shoulder. "Where did you learn to move your hair like that? I can wrap mine around Elysia like a blanket, but turning so many locks of hair in a different form and moving them like that is beyond me."

"I had a lot of practice taking care of you, dear." Ripha opened her arms, and Solus handed her the baby. "You too were a sucker for hair and I had to make things interesting to keep you safe."

"Safe from what?" Solus asked.

"From yourself and that silly father of yours." Sadness and tears misted Menadion's eyes. "You loved him dearly. So much that you had no problem munching his hair even when it was dirty with paint after finishing his job in the art study."

"Oh, right. Dad had long hair too and- I sucked on paint?" Solus looked at Elysia and inwardly thanked the gods that no one in the family had a passion for art.

"Yes, which also caused lots of puking and crying when your tummy hurt." Menadion tickled the baby's belly, making her giggle. "Yet no matter what, you grabbed Threin's hair the moment it brushed your face."

"He too loved you very much, dear. He hated every minute he had to spend away from you." Ripha replied. "The idea was to rush back to you and then take a shower the moment you fell asleep. _{freёweɓnovel.com}