Supreme Magus novel Chapter 714

’No way.’ Lith refused Solus’s offer right off the bat. ’To stand a chance, I need to be at 200%, which means that I need both your smarts and help. Don’t get me started with the consequences that revealing your existence might cause.’

While they were running along the corridors, Lith and Solus reviewed their fight with Jiira, noticing several things out of place.

’Why did they send only one Odi to take us down and how was he linked to the Mana Reactor?’ Lith pondered.

’I doubt they can have made many spheres capable of creating the green array and even if they did, giving someone infinite mana and conjuring such a powerful array is something even my tower form can’t achieve.

’It probably takes the full output of the Mana Reactor and geyser to just fuel one person. As for the link, beats me. If I had to take an educated guess, I’d say they have Forgemastered their bodies.

’After all, the reason why the Body Forgemastering procedure on the specimens failed was that they didn’t have enough mana to fuel the enchantments, but if part of the Forgemastering process gives them access to infinite mana...’

’The problem is solved.’ Lith completed the sentence for her. ’That also means that all those linked to the Mana Reactor can’t leave Kulah without getting a new body first since their survival depends on a constant supply of mana.’

The further down they went, the clearer Lith could see the Mana Reactor. It was a giant structure, at least 30 meters (100 feet) high, placed right in the middle of the natural mana geyser.

Somehow, the Reactor siphoned most of the Geyser, which explained why despite they were right in the middle of one of Mogar’s most powerful natural phenomenons, all of their mystical senses worked, whereas in the crystal mine Lith and Solus had been blinded.

’I guess this also explains where he Odi found so many crystals. This place had to be a mine in the past.’ Lith thought, while observing the constant stream of world energy being sucked and spun inside the reactor.

Lith couldn’t see how it was shaped, only how the energy moved inside the device. The world energy was then divided into all of its components before being reassembled in the form of pure mana.

The process was intriguing, but Lith was more concerned looking for Quylla’s and Phloria’s energy signatures. He was afraid of arriving too late, to see their expression fixed by death in a state of pure despair like it had happened to Yondra.

Even worse, he was afraid to arrive just in time to see their bodies perfectly fine, but occupied by someone else. Lith wouldn’t hesitate to kill someone who was just borrowing Phloria’s appearance, but it would still be the proof that he was as helpless now as he had been on Earth.

’Calm down, the body-swapping procedure is bound to be difficult. No one can remove the Skinwalker armors except for their wearer, so they’ll probably leave Phloria and Quylla for last.’

’That, or they’ll shatter my prototypes with their ridiculous array. Damn me and my avarice. Why didn’t I prepare something better for them?’ Lith thought.

When they reached the fifth underground floor, the two Rangers perceived an odd vibration running through the metal structure surrounding them. Lith also heard muffled screams, but both Solus and Morok confirmed to him that the corridor was actually silent.

Lith had been feeling strange since he had discovered to be able to understand the words of the Odi’s victims, but now that sensation was getting stronger with each step he took.