Supreme Magus

hallow at best.

After the help he had provided during the plague outbreak, the unanimous consent was that unless proven otherwise, he was worth the risk of letting him live. The Court hoped that marrying him into a noble household would put him on a leash for good.

After the fight between Awakened Ones, Farg wasn ’t so sure it was such a good idea.

She had many unanswered questions, so she used that time to mull them over. Getting an audience with Lady Tyris was a rare event even for the King himself. That was the reason why she didn ’t submit her report until now.

When Tyris imparted orders, they had to be executed at once leaving no space for discussion. Only when one was required to give a report or was granted an audience, they may have the opportunity to ask questions.

’Since I risk getting stuck with brats for a whole year, I better make good use of this chance and try to understand as much as I can about Awakened ones. I don ’t know when or if I ’ll get the opportunity to speak with the master again in the near future.

’This might be my only opportunity to learn from her for the gods know how long and I don ’t know how many questions she ’ll allow me. I must make them count! ’ Farg thought.

As soon as she walked through the double stone door, Farg ’s body froze in fear. Every hair on her neck stood up, her instincts screaming at her to beware of the danger ahead. Something was wrong with the underground throne room.

Instead of being dimly lighted as usual, everything was bright as daylight, allowing Farg to notice black stains of blood on the floor and columns. Near each stain, there was a small crater from which departed several cracks.

Farg needed but a glance to recognize the signs of a struggle. She knew how powerful were the defenses in the lair, yet the invaders had managed to smash some of the stone armors decorating the room, damaging even the thousand years old tapestries.

Before she could understand what had happened, a sudden flash almost blinded her. The light was followed by a shockwave, like thunder after a bolt of lightning.

Farg used earth fusion to protect herself, conjuring a barrier with spirit magic a split second later. Yet the force of the impact was enough to push her several meters back with one knee on the ground, the air squeezed out of her lungs.

A second was all she had before a second flash appeared. Bracing herself for what she knew was about the come, Farg strengthened the barrier. This time she managed to stand her ground, but the effort took a toll on her.

After a third and a fourth shockwave, she finally realized that the flashes had a precise rhythm.

’Could this be just a heartbeat? ’ The surprise faded away quickly.

Farg brushed off the panic that had paralyzed her until that moment, taking the whole room into account. Right behind the throne, there was a white mass that she had never seen before.

At first glance it looked like a white wall, changing its color at the edges. The left one seemed to end in a gold vein, while the right one was of a clear grey, like a mountain peak.

About once per second, the wall produced a lightning. It was dissipated on the ground by several arrays, so powerful to be visible to the eye, leaving behind only its light and the resulting shockwave, yet producing no sound.

”Lady Tyris, it ’s me, Farg! Please, cease the attack! ”

The next lightning had almost completely formed, but after Farg ’s words, it disappeared. The white wall opened, revealing a silver circular window as big as the throne itself, one meter and a half (5 ’) high and 1.1 meters (3.6 ’) wide, with a black dot at its center.

The contrast between the gleaming silver reflecting the light and the dark dot, made it appear like a bottomless hole in Farg ’s mind.

”There ’s a reason why you should always announce yourself before entering. ” The voice was soft like a whisper, yet it made the walls and the floor tremble.

”Sometimes I feel the need to stretch myself. Other times, like now, the human form cannot contain my wrath and I need to revert to my original one. ”

The wall moved backward, towards the center of the massive underground cave. Farg realized it was no wall, it was simply a portion of Lady Tyris ’s head in her griffon form. The gold vein that Farg had spotted earlier was actually her beak, while the grey belonged to a different shade of feathers near her neck.

Tyris ’s body was enveloped by a white aura that was the real source of illumination. The griffon had the head and the front legs of an eagle, while the rest of the body was that of a lion. On her back there were three pairs of feathered wings.

”It seems that my enemy does not only know about my existence, but also about my efforts to identify them. Attacking me in my own home is something no one managed to do in millennia. This should teach them a lesson. ”

The griffon body shrunk, turning into the familiar womanly form Farg was used to.

”Sorry for earlier, but that was no attack. When I ’m angry I produce lightning bolts that the arrays in place are supposed to nullify. It seems I was still a little worked up from before, so my power overloaded them and part of the energy ran wild. Your report? ”

Tyris smiled apologetically at Farg. Normally she would have her subjects kneeling, but she could see how tired Farg was after withstanding wave after wave of her anger empowered heartbeats.

A nod of Tyris ’s head wiped out all the traces of the attack, cleaning the black blood and repairing the stone furniture in the throne room. It also made a comfortable armchair appear right behind Farg, allowing her to rest.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting.

”My lady, did someone dare to attack you? ” Farg didn ’t know if to be worried about her master ’s safety or the enemy ’s madness.

”Yes. Several Abominations Warped in here and self-detonated. I don ’t know if they were trying to harm me with the explosion or to make the underground cave collapse, destroying the castle in the process.

”Either way, the only thing they managed to do was annoy me and force me to upgrade my arrays. ” Tyris sighed sadly. Even if her protections were ancient, one of her oldest and roughest works, she still loved them dearly.

They had been one of her few happy memories of the times when she still had most of her feelings and now they were gone forever.

”It pains me to admit that albeit outdated, their power was supposed to be unmatched. I guess that Arthan ’s Madness isn ’t the only thing our enemy has managed to find in the archives. That, or we have a traitor among the Corpse ’s ranks.

There is no way for beings so weak to bypass my protections unless they had a deep knowledge of my arrays. Now your report, please. ”