Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3901

Chapter 3901: Precarious Balance (Part 2)

"Yes, my love." Bytra nodded. "And there’s also Lith with us, remember?"

"Hi, Big Sis." Lith waved his hand.

"I’m sorry. I don’t know what’s gotten into me." Zoreth’s mind was back into the light of the Infirmary, but she could feel the darkness of Raum’s vivisection room pulling at her.

"Don’t worry about that." Baba Yaga shook her head and conjured her tools again. "I need you to stay calm, or there’s nothing I can do."

"I don’t know if I can." Zoreth gurgled, her tears mixing with the life support fluid. "I can barely stare at those things without freaking out from this distance."

"Then close your eyes." Bytra said. "Close your eyes and only listen to my voice."

Zoreth moved her eyes from the constructs to her wife, torn between trust and fear.

"Okay." She closed her eyes shut. "Keep talking, Byt. It doesn’t matter what you say. Just don’t leave me alone." 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"I won’t." Bytra replied. "Lith, Hush us, please."

A split second later, the Shadow Dragon and the Raiju were isolated in a world of their own.

"You must come back to us, Zor." Bytra said. "Think of Elysia. She misses her Auntie Zor. Or, as she calls you, Auie So."

"Did she really learn my name?" More tears diluted the life support liquid, but this time they were born out of joy.

"Yes. I’m Biba now." Bytra chuckled.

"She can almost say your name, but it will take her years to pronounce mine. Stupid Dragon names." Zoreth sniffled. "Do you have a record of Elysia calling our names?"

"Yes."

"Can you play it?" Zoreth asked.

"No." Bytra said. "I want you to hold tight, Zor. I want you to get out of that tank and let Elysia call your name in person. Can you do that for me?"

"I can try." Zoreth focused solely on Bytra’s voice, ignoring the feeling of Baba Yaga’s mana seeping inside her body while her tools prickled the Shadow Dragon’s skin. "What happened while I was away?"

While the Eldritches talked, the Red Mother emptied the vessels of the light and darkness elements in the Storage, injecting them respectively into the Eldritch and the troll sides.

The sudden and massive influx of their missing counterpart neutralized both Cursed Elements and temporarily brought their struggle to a halt. Baba Yaga’s breathing technique now encountered no resistance as it moved past the outermost layers of the black and the white holes.

Or rather, what until that moment had looked like a black and a white hole.

’Well, this explains a thing or two.’ She thought.

’Zoreth’s human aspect has developed a symbiotic relationship with the troll life force and is the key to Zoreth’s stable form. The threads syphon the Decay and inject it into the Chaos, keeping them both from self-destructing.

’Yet the threads are not strong enough to withstand the energy at play and fall apart before the two life forces can be pulled together. The broken threads are quickly replaced, but not before the Eldritch and the troll sides drift apart.

’They get closer with each thread connecting them and further apart every time a thread snaps. It’s a precarious balance that hinges on both life forces holding on the human side with the same force, which is no longer the case.’

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