Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3810

Chapter 3810: Hidden Weapon (Part 1)

The pilots strafed Ruugat with the gatling wands attached below the chassis of the vehicles while the soldiers on the passenger seats emptied their dimensional amulets.

Barrels filled with acid and all kinds of alchemical tools hit the lost city and detonated on impact. One fire seed produced the power of a fireball, something that a creature the size of a lost city wouldn’t even notice.

Yet one fire seed was no bigger than a bean, and one barrel contained hundreds of them. The resulting conflagrations blinded and deafened Ruugat of the Earth while also flooding his detection arrays with threat notices.

The lost city stumbled again, and his enemies exploited his moment of weakness.

Dawn impaled him from the front with the Lightpillar spells after turning them into high-speed drills, Lith slashed at him multiple times with Double Edge, and the Awakened hit him with Silverwing’s Annihilations from every side.

The Demons of the Darkness wasted no mana on spells that Earthly Vault would neutralize. They shapeshifted themselves into black pools that spread over the orange aura and drained its power, making it their own.

The foot soldiers, elves, and people of Zelex retreated as fast as they could, knowing that the lost city would far from defeated. They were still within Fountain of Death’s area of effect when Ruugat lost it.

He channeled the power of the mana geyser inside his body, trapping the weapons hurting him and thickening his orange aura until the Annihilations couldn’t pierce through it any longer.

"I’m done playing with you!" A knife-hand shattered the Lightpillar spells, and another would have broken Double Edge in half if Solus didn’t store it inside their pocket dimension in time. "I’m done being stung by a bunch of mosquitoes!"

Ruugat’s body shone with endless mana as he started to consume the energy that he had accumulated during the months he had spent over Detemer’s ruins. Until that moment, he had played a zero-sum game, putting behind his attacks only as much power as the geyser provided him with.

In Awakened terms, he had never stimulated his mana core or consumed a spark of mana, considering his enemies unworthy to witness his true power. Living beings, undead, and even other lost cities suffered from the same limitations.

Their bodies had a fixed mass and density, while their cores could contain a fixed amount of mana once their bodies fully developed or had been Forgemastered. A bright violet core held the same amount of mana, no matter if it belonged to a human or a Divine Beast.

Similarly, Ilthin’s and Vladion’s full-red blood cores were equally powerful, no matter if their living and undead races differed.

As for the maximum output a cursed power or pseudo core could produce, it depended on many factors, like the Forgemaster’s skill, the materials used, and the number of sacrifices performed to fuel the Forbidden Magic.

Yet once the ritual was over, the cursed core was a fixed entity. It was the reason the mad Forgemasters of the past had created unique powers to overcome the limits that their creations were bound to have.

Thaymos the Eternal Fortress needed willing slaves, Auros the Bringer of Unity bonded with endless hosts, and Argantyr the Elemental Lord infected every mana geyser he came in contact with to form the Divine Right array.

Yet such paltry tricks relied on external sources that could be cut off or killed.

They increased the lost cities’ magical prowess, but the cursed cores remained the same as the day the cursed objects had been crafted.

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