Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3903

Chapter 3903: Solving the Mystery (Part 2)

"I’m sorry for my earlier outburst." Zoreth said. "You were just trying to help me, and I overreacted."

"You underreacted, child." Baba Yaga shook her head. "I don’t know the details of what happened to you, but I can tell by looking at your life force that whoever did this to you was a monster.

"I’ve rarely seen such deliberate cruelty. They knew what they were doing and what it would do to you, but they didn’t give a damn."

"What now?" Zoreth asked, feeling her eyes droop and her strength fade.

Without the pain, the exhaustion from the last few days was finally catching up with her. Normally, her powerful life forces would absorb the world energy from the mana geyser and restore the Shadow Dragon to her peak condition.

Yet the troll side was battling the Eldritch side, while the hybrid life force struggled to sew them back together and keep itself from falling apart. It left Zoreth little energy, and the procedure had drained most of it.

"Now that we have bought the Infirmary the time to analyze your condition and find a viable treatment." Baba Yaga replied. "In the meantime, we can rack our brains and see if we can come up with something on our own.

"You, instead, need to eat and rest. Don’t use magic for any reason. Don’t activate your bloodline abilities and don’t take a single step off that floating chair. The slightest strain might send your life forces on a rampage and thwart our efforts."

"Okay." Zoreth knew she was dying, but she was too happy about the absence of pain to care.

She had finally been reunited with her wife and wanted to make the best of whatever time she had left.

"I’ll show her the kitchens and be right back." Lith said while opening a Steps with the Warp Mirror.

"Why would you do that?" The Red Mother furrowed her brows. "We are all tired, and Invigoration doesn’t make us think faster or better. We can use some food and rest as well."

"Agreed." Faluel said as her stomach growled like a lion. "We didn’t do much, but resisting the constant erosion from the Chaos and Decay while we studied Xenagrosh’s life forces consumed the mana equivalent of several tier five Spirit Spells."

"I’m sorry, guys." Zoreth barely knew most of them and felt guilty for troubling so many strangers.

"Don’t be." Friya sighed. "Lith helped my boyfriend, so it’s only natural that my useless master returns him the favor."

"Who did you call useless?" Faluel snarled.

The quarrel continued until they reached the dining room, and the delicious smell of the various dishes on the groaning board waiting for them drowned the words in saliva.

Zoreth had a huge appetite and barely the strength to eat. In her weakened state, even carrying to her mouth the huge amount of food necessary to sustain her was difficult.

The Shadow Dragon couldn’t shapeshift into her Dragon form, so Salaark used Dimensional Magic to shrink whole cows to the size of pork chops and fit Zoreth’s human mouth, but their mass was unchanged.

"I must ask Grandma to teach me how to do this." Lith munched a bite of a steak that weighed more than a car. "This would save me a lot of time and allow me to eat a reasonable-looking serving of food.

"I’m tired of people staring at how much I eat every time we go to a restaurant."

"Yeah, right." Quylla snorted. "It would also kill anyone who dares pick so much as a crumb from your plate."

"That’s a good point." Lith shuddered at the idea of Elysia swallowing the dimensionally compressed food.

After the meal, Lith brought Zoreth back to the tower and created a room for her. She fell asleep the moment her head touched the pillow, but her rest was far from peaceful.

The memories of her imprisonment crept into her mind as nightmares, making her toss and turn. The alarms of the Infirmary flashed minutes after they had laid her to rest, forcing Lith to wake Zoreth up.

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