Supreme Magus

Chapter 3064 Untapped Potential (Part 2)

3064 Untapped Potential (Part 2)

Lith felt his Spirit and yellow eye react, but ignored them since he had no need to amplify the silver lightning further. He also felt a tingle in his black and red eyes, just like in Jiera.

ʼWhat can this be?ʼ He thought. ʼHow can fire and darkness interact with Life Maelstrom?ʼ

Finding no answer and not wanting to contaminate the silver lightning with other elements, he kept making it flow from his Spirit eye to his life force, hoping to trigger a resonance effect.

When everything Lith could think of failed and he felt the power of the Life Maelstrom starting to fade, he let it access his darkness eyes. The silver lightning turned black and Lith recognized the bloodline abilities of the Jotunn from Verendi.

ʼIf Life Maelstrom plus darkness produces Black Lightning what would fire-ʼ Lithʼs train of thought derailed as he remembered witnessing Protheusʼ experiments on Valeron the Secondʼs bloodline back at the Golden Griffon academy.

ʼThe golden flame! In his Bahamut form, Protheus mixed Life Maelstrom and Origin Flames to obtain those weird golden flames. Can I really do that as well?ʼ

Meanwhile, Morok felt the urge to merge his eyes to form the seventh, but he resisted it. He used Life Maelstrom to amplify his life force and connect it with the power of his emerald scales.

For a single moment, the elemental energy in the rest of his scales reached a perfect balance. The now matching six elements fused and absorbed a spark of the Tyrantʼs life force, painting all of his scales green.

Yet with Morokʼs next breath, his eyes absorbed an uneven amount of elemental energy and the balance was lost. The elemental scales rejected the spark of life force and reverted to their original color.

Morok didnʼt notice the phenomenon. No one did but Solus did and only because the Eyes of Menadion recorded the sudden energy spike and she could rewind the footage at will.

As for Ryla, she chose a different path.

ʼI donʼt have emerald eyes or scales but I know how Spirit Magic works.ʼ She thought. ʼGlemos, cursed be his name, taught me everything I needed to know in case something happened to him and it was up to me to help Garrik Awaken.

ʼI never thought the day would come when I used this knowledge for myself.ʼ She focused on the elemental feathers on her wings and absorbed the surrounding world energy.

She couldnʼt use Invigoration for fine-tuning the six elemental flows but her eyes were the next best thing.

She used them to identify how much elemental energy each feather drew in, turning each one of them on and off until the six kinds of feathers absorbed exactly the same amount of world energy.

Then, she channeled the accumulated power from her eyes to her body, where the Life Maelstrom was already amplifying her life force. Ryla used the silver lightning to stir the seven flows together, in the attempt to find a way to merge them into one.

Suddenly, she felt like someone had pierced her guts with a flaming knife and was twisting her insides. Ryla, doubled over in pain, releasing the elemental energy from her eyes in the form of six pillars and dispersing the Life Maelstrom before it tore her apart.

Solus reacted first, activating the Immortal Body array to mend Rylaʼs internal wounds. Lith arrived second, using Invigoration to study the damage to the Fomorʼs life force and doing his best to stabilize it with Body Sculpting.

”Fuck me sideways!” They said as one while doing their best to save Rylaʼs life.

”Is there anything I can do?” Panic made Morok lose control of Life Maelstrom which burst into silvery sparks.

”You can shut up!” The dolby surround effect of their voices was still as creepy as the first time the Tyrant heard it but he stepped back and let them work.

ʼDammit! We forgot that despite her appearance, Ryla still belongs to the Fallen Races. Her original life force is twisted and its unfallen shape is only due to the modifications that wearing the Harmonizer for generations caused in the Balors.ʼ Lith cursed his own stupidity.

ʼI know.ʼ Solus inwardly nodded. ʼShe must have found a way to nudge her evolution. We donʼt know if it was the right or wrong way, only that her fallen life force couldnʼt take it.ʼ

She used the Hands to manipulate the world energy so that Ryla received just enough to retain her Fomor form, energy starving her wings and eyes.?At the same time, Lith used a Life Sculpture to check on the records of Rylaʼs life force and restore it.

Life Sculpture was a device that Awakened used before learning how to shapeshift in order for them or their teachers to fix any damage their life forces might incur during their experiments.

ʼThere is a small change, but I canʼt tell if itʼs for the better or the worse.ʼ Solus recorded everything with the Eyes. ʼWhat I know is that Rylaʼs life force is rejecting the change and sheʼll die if we donʼt remove it.ʼ

The procedure was simple because the alteration was minimal and Life Sculpture was accurate down to the smallest detail.

”Thank you!” Ryla recovered quickly and hugged both Lith and Solus.

”For what?” Solus returned the embrace but didnʼt feel like she deserved it. ”Itʼs our fault you were hurt. Fixing our own mistake is the least we can do.”

”Iʼm not talking about that.” Ryla shook her head. ”Sure, this canʼt work for me, but it might work for Garrik! He has all of my powers but his life force is still malleable and possesses the best Harmonizer Glemos ever created.

”Maybe, just maybe, if we teach him never to open his Tyrantʼs emerald eye and make him train like I was doing as he grows up, not only will his life force stabilize but also move on the right path for evolution!”

Ryla didnʼt care if that path was precluded to her. The thought of her child free from the prison of the mana geyser as he became the first perfectly evolved human filled her heart with joy.

ʼI swore that Iʼd give Garrik a life better than my own and this might be his first chance at it!ʼ She thought.

”Guys, I know this might sound stupid but I want to ask anyway.” Morok scratched his head in embarrassment. ”I was thinking, since you are great at Body Sculpting, canʼt you make a comparative study of Rylaʼs fallen and unfallen life forces?

”I mean, what if you find the portion of her life force that was altered by her experiment and apply the change to her fallen form? This way, when the world energy turns her into a Fomor, there would be no resistance and she can keep practicing with us.”

”This is not stupid at all.” Lith rubbed his chin. ”Quite the contrary, itʼs very complicated. We canʼt just alter the fallen life force because thereʼs no telling if her unfallen life force would retain the change after shapeshifting.

”More likely, we must find a modification that will reshape itself in the correct form when Ryla goes from Balor to Fomor.”