Supreme Magus

llowed by a second one.

They were different from those Lith had faced before. They were humanoid creatures, around 2.5 metres (8 ’2 ”) tall, with a blood red skin. They had extra mouths on both their abdomen and left shoulder.

For a second, Lith thought they had some kind of blue halo around their head, before realizing they were a series of glowing eyes which allowed the creatures to see in every direction at all times.

’Those bodies are unnatural. ’ Lith thought. They reminded him of Gadorf the Wyvern ’s human appearance. ’Not even by using two like me as building materials, they could have muscles so thick and bones so strong. These Carpenters are the result of Body Sculpting. ’

The first Carpenter opened his left palm, releasing a fireball at point blank. Once again, Life Vision saved Lith ’s skin. Even if none of the creature ’s mouths were moving, Lith had seen the mana amassing on its hand and moved accordingly.

The blazing sphere missed its primary target and hit in the middle of the group. Lith ’s companions managed to dodge only because they were distant enough from the caster to have the time to react.

Tista used air fusion to come out of it unscathed, while Jirni was caught by the fringes of the explosion despite her timely jump. She had to roll to disperse the momentum. Dorian did the same, but without her training, the shockwave sent him crashing against a wall.

’Son of a gun! ’ Lith thought as he extended his right hand and pretended to use the spells stored inside his rings while actually unleashing the true spells he had ready. ’He aimed the fireball so that if I dodged it, the spell would not go to waste. We must avoid lining up. ’

A barrage of air blades struck where the major arteries were supposed to be while lightning bolts bombarded the Carpenter ’s chest. They were supposed to turn it into a charred corpse, or worst case scenario to stun it long enough for the Plague Arrows behind them to cripple its strength.

Lith felt his life was becoming a play about Murphy ’s law when anything that could go wrong did go wrong.

The air blade cut the Carpenter ’s flesh to the bone, nearly chopping off its legs and head. Unluckily, not only did just trickle of blood spurt from such deep wounds, but also the cuts were so clean that regenerating them took the creature less than the blink of an eye.

The lightning bolts struck their target, leaving behind only blackened dots as proof of their brief existence. The cuts and the bolts combined effects locked the creature into place, preventing it from dodging the Plague Arrows.

The Carpenter used its giant right hand to intercept the darkness spells, swatting them like they were flies. The flesh on the limb rotted and fell, revealing that the hand was composed mostly of bones.

The Carpenter activated its vortex. It both helped the creature to counter the Plague Arrows ’ effects before the hand could fell off and left Solus astonished.

’This is really bad! A fully formed Carpenter can use both of its cores at once. ’ She explained as the creature waved its healthy hand and unleashed the tier four War Mage spell Chasing Lightning.

Five bolts of electricity came out of its fingers, with each lightning resembling a snake in both motions and appearance. Lith knew that dodging them was pointless. As their name implied, they wouldn ’t let go of their prey.

’What does it mean? ’ Lith replied while setting up his defense and sending invisible strands of spirit magic against the vortex to poison it.

’It means that the vortex is located in the secondary core, so even if you corrupt it with your mana, the Carpenter can still use it to acc.u.mulate a mother lode of world energy until the auxiliary core crumbles. ’