Supreme Magus Chapter 2096 City Hall (Part 2)

Chapter 2096 City Hall (Part 2)

By the ti the Forgotten patrolling the neighborhood noticed that the maid seed to have two energy signatures, Valia was already done.

Returning to Lith's shadow required no mana and didn't leave any dinsional energy that arrays could detect. As for the Eyes, she only had to store them back in the pocket dinsion to make them disappear without a trace.

Solus flowed out of a pinhole-sized dinsional door, just to be safe. Thrud knew about Spirit Magic and Solus had already witnessed several anti-Awakened counterasures throughout the city.

'Maybe the Mad Queen invented an array that perceives the stretches in space. Better be safe than sorry.' She thought while looking around with the Eyes of nadion.

During the day, the city hall was bustling with people and noise. The fall of Trephius at Leegaain's hand had thrown a wrench in the security of the area and the local officers were busy preparing their defenses for the attack they knew would sooner or later co.

The Eyes perceived that many powerful people were assembled in a room that Solus assud was the mayor's office. Clerks ran in and out of the offices non-stop, bringing blueprints of the city, maps of the region, and refreshnts.

The office Solus had Warped into was empty only because its owner was busy in a eting as well. She made sure to have not triggered any alarm before running in her spider from over the desk and checking the docunts for anything that might be useful for the mission.

The room was the standard issue workplace for a dium-level bureaucrat.

It had a large desk with a few chairs in front of it for the guests, cabinets for the important docunts on either side, and a library filled with folders containing the paperwork of the past years in chronological order.

The carpet covering the floor of the room was of diocre quality and so were the landscape paintings hung on the walls.

After a quick glance, Solus dismissed the docunts in the room as irrelevant and searched for a place near the first array node where she could open a Warp to the hotel room.

'My cloaking rings make invisible to mystical senses and my small form makes hard to notice when I stay still. I'd better take my ti and scout the area to avoid unpleasant surprises once Lith and Tista arrive.' Luckily for Solus, the security was laxer on the inside.

There were too many people going around and the guards had barely the ti to check the IDs of everyone they t during their patrol to bother looking down on the floor.

Solus studied the patrol patterns and routes while also taking a ntal note of which corridors were frequently used or avoided. The longer she stayed away from Lith the weaker she beco and she couldn't even use the Sage Staff due to the artifact not being cloaked.

On the other hand, her spider form consud little energy and she used the Eyes to do most of the work.

Once she was done scouting the third floor, Solus moved to the safest area she had managed to find. She made sure to morize its dinsional coordinates before opening a minuscule Warp Steps to the hotel room.

"Thank the gods you are alright, Solus. You had worried sick." Lith embraced her stone body the mont he felt their mind link restored. "What took you so long? I was starting to fear that sothing had happened to you."

"I was just doing my job." She replied. "Exploring such a large place takes ti, especially if you want to go unnoticed. Let's go."

She slipped on Lith's finger, using a partial mind fusion to share her findings with him. Solus could now rest for a bit while Lith opened a dinsional door.

'Why of all places in a city hall did you pick a broom closet?' Tista asked via a mind link.

The room was barely spacious enough for two and the pungent sll of cleaning products made her eyes water.

'Because while checking the floor I t clerks, guards, city officials, and nobles but no regular citizens. This ans that either all unnecessary staff is forbidden entry until the crisis has been resolved or that the cleaning happens after office hours.

'We can stay in here for as long as we want without the risk of being discovered.'

'Fair point. Where is the first node?' Tista said.

Solus passed the Eyes of nadion to her. The artifact contained a detailed map of the floor, the real-ti position of the guards, and the locations of the key points of the array system.

'The good news is that there is only a handful of Forgotten inside and they spend most of the ti in the mayor's office so until the operation starts the probability of eting one of them is low.

'The bad news is that there is a node on each floor for a total of four. Once we start disabling them, the Forgotten are bound to co to check what's happening. Also, there's no way you can escape being discovered the mont a patrol spots you.

'Each person inside the city hall has a badge containing a sample of their life force. This way, when the guards check it, they can recognize the original from a shapeshifted Awakened.'

'Simple but effective.' Once again Lith cursed Thrud's ingenuity as a mage. 'Don't worry, I have a way around it. Just give a few minutes.'

He took a deep breath and suddenly the broom closet went dark. Neither the Eyes nor Life Vision could see anything and even the light filtering from the doorfra was swallowed the mont it crossed the threshold.

'Call of the Void? So much for going stealth.' Tista said.

'No, that would be stupid. It's just this place being damn small.' Lith replied.

One after the other, the Demons of the Darkness left the room in the form of two-dinsional shadows that moved from one piece of furniture to another until they found their prey.

The Demons would enter the shadow of one guard each, crawling under the folds of their armor and clothes, ready to strike at any given mont. They slowly infested the whole city hall, detaching from their targets solely when they approached one of the Fallen and went back stalking their prey as soon as the coast was clear.

As more and more Demons left the broom closet, the light returned to the room.

'I can now hijack the security the mont they spot you, turning the guards into our unwilling accomplices.' Lith said.

'Brilliant move but isn't it dangerous?' Tista asked. 'I an what if a Forgotten makes a sweep with Life Vision? Even from the mayor's office, with so many Demons on the prowl they are bound to notice that sothing is off.'

'No, it's not. I gave them barely the energy to manifest. Unless soone watches directly at them with Life Vision from up close, they are nigh-invisible.' Lith replied. 'The problem is that I can't move from here until we are done.

'Controlling so many Demons and watching through their eyes at the sa ti takes a lot of focus. On top of that, to empower the Demons at the right mont, I'll need Invigoration. I can't check on you and my surrounding while also using a breathing technique.'