Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3714

Chapter 3714: Mistaken Identity (Part 1)

The conversation of the previous evening with her mother echoed in Solus’ ears, making her turn to look at Menadion. Solus’ eyes met Ripha’s, and the First Ruler of the Flames gave her a knowing look as her lips turned into a gloating smirk.

"Good." Valeron nodded from his crib, and no one missed the first break in the silence between the boy and Lith.

Valeron was still angry and hurt, but he didn’t want anything bad to happen to Solus. He wanted her to be safe and himself to be free to resent her for as long as he wanted.

"What’s your next move, dear?" Elina asked.

"I have no next move, Mom." Lith sighed. "I’m playing defense now. I have no idea what Meln will do next or how many Awakened still believe him. I can only prepare for the next attack the best I can and ensure that only the most foolish Awakened put their lives on the line on a maybe."

***

During the following days, the situation with Valeron the Second made no improvement. Lith, Kamila, and Solus tried to keep the old routine, but backed down when the baby boy refused to acknowledge them.

Elysia, however, took it much worse. She had no idea why Valeron was so angry, and he refused to speak with her. On the one hand, he envied Elysia for having loving parents and hated Lith and Solus for causing the deaths of Thrud and Jormun.

On the other hand, Valeron didn’t want to make Elysia suffer by sharing his story with her. There was no point in making her miserable and maybe destroying her trust in her parents.

Valeron didn’t feel part of the family anymore, but that was no reason to drag Elysia into his misery. She was innocent, just like he had been, and that was the only way Valeron had to protect her.

He was a baby and couldn’t understand the irony of the situation. Doing to Elysia the same thing Lith had done to him only angered Valeron more. Every time Elysia cried his name and begged him to play with her made Valeron feel worse.

He was hurting her to protect her, which made no sense at all, even to him. Yet he couldn’t muster the strength to pretend to be fine. His mind and heart still ached from the loss of his parents and the revelation that Lith had taken them away.

Valeron was so hurt and confused that he spent most of his days in a daze, eating only when Elina and Raaz fed him, and sleeping whenever his little body gave out in exhaustion.

Surin welcomed his company and silence. She liked to take long naps while hugging Valeron, and the fact that he wasn’t a nagging machine anymore. Truth be told, the baby boy had never nagged at her, he had tried to communicate.

To a normal baby like Surin, however, it was just noise that made her head hurt.

Lith spent his time working in the tower and teaching Void Magic at the academies. Whenever he took a break, he disappeared in the Spark and stared at the Voidwalker armor’s and the Golems’ refining process.

It was slow and boring, but it helped him to keep the absence of Valeron from his life out of his head. The more Adamant turned into Davross, the less elemental energy it would take to jump-start the alloy’s newfound abilities.

Kamila and Solus did their best to take his mind off Valeron, but Lith’s problem was their own. They had gone from taking care of two babies to only one, with the other hating their guts.

Valeron’s eyes became filled with fury and pain from the betrayal whenever he looked at the two women. Every attempt to talk or just get close to him was met with screams.

Valeron was dead to them. The fact that he was alive to the rest of Mogar was the only silver lining to that awful situation.

***

’I can take anything they dish at me, and since I’m the weakest in the family, they won’t pull their mean words.’ She inwardly sighed.