Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3931

Chapter 3931: Fallen Goddess (Part 2)

"After all, it will be the Master’s duty to help you in case you’re injured in the future and to further your evolution, Big Sis." Lith said. "Yet he has no claim on me or my legacy. He chose me as his heir, not the other way around. Do we have an understanding?"

"We do." Zoreth finished her teas and offered him both her right hands.

"Good." Lith shapeshifted into his Indech form and shook them both with his fiery-red hand. "We’d better start immediately. I can’t wait to go back home."

"Oh, my!" Zoreth held his head in her hands and turned it left and right to observe the Indech’s striking features from different angles. "Now that I see you without the life support liquid and the crystal tank blurring my vision, I have to admit you are much more handsome in this form, Little Brother."

"Thanks. I can’t help but wonder why you got angry with Bytra when she treated you exactly like you are treating me now." Lith replied drily as she moved on to pat his muscular arms and chest.

"That’s different! She’s my wife, and she should like me for me." Zoreth tried to defend her double standards, but her flaming red face now matched Lith’s and exposed her honest thoughts. "You are my little brother, and this is just scientific curiosity."

"I would believe you, if Kami hadn’t used those same words arranged in a slightly different order to justify her experiments last night."

"I see." Zoreth became even redder and let go of Lith. "Please, promise me that we’ll pretend this never happened and never talk about it with anyone else. And I mean anyone."

"Deal." Lith nodded. "Before moving on, we need a name for your hybrid form. What about Arke?"

It was the name of a mythological goddess of rainbows from Earth who had her wings ripped off and was thrown into the abyss as punishment for her treachery. In more ways than one, she reminded Lith of Zoreth’s current condition.

"It doesn’t mean anything vulgar in any language I know, and it sounds much better than ’that thing’. Arke it is." She nodded.

***

During the following days, Lith explained the basics of how the abilities of an evolved human worked to Zoreth. He taught her the relationship between his wings and his eyes, and performed tests with the Infirmary to check if the rune patterns on her arms had a similar connection to her eyes.

"My theory is correct." Lith said while studying Zoreth’s Arke life force on the holographic display.

It resembled a humanoid four-armed colossus made of colored strings, blocks, rods, and gemstones. Most of the threads comprising the colossus were red like the blocks of a regular human, while the rest were black, white, blue, and crimson, and spread evenly.

Past the shoulder level, the colored threads took over, each elemental color forming one arm intertwined with a few red threads. A gemstone was studded on the back of each hand, shining with an inner light of the same color as the arm. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Four whirlpools enveloped the arms and absorbed the surrounding world energy, but there was no way to tell if they were connected to the threads, the gemstones, or both.

More gemstones constellated the colossus’ feet, hips, chest, and head. They shone with black and white light, resembling the life force of an unfallen troll, but instead of light and darkness, the gemstones shone from within with Chaos and Decay.

Four elemental spheres enveloped as many colored gemstones in place of the colossus’ eyes, each connected to its corresponding arm by a thick bundle of elemental threads.

’I’m not serving another powerful weapon to dangerous people like Vastor or Tezka on a silver platter.’ He thought. ’I know it’s only a matter of time before they learn it on their own, but I’d rather it happens later than sooner.’

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