Supreme Magus Chapter 3671: Book of Knowledge (Part 2)

The Book of Knowledge had developed Numbing Hail to deal with human armies, powerful Awakened, and Divine Beasts alike. He considered the Engine no different from a Tiamat wearing a thick suit of armor and had no doubt Numbing Hail would work.

Yet he had failed to take into account that Lith was never alone, and this ti he had an undead army at his fingertips.

'Now!' Several stone doors opened along the Engine's surface as Lith focused to free the Engine's joints from arrow constructs and break the hold of the plant folks on its legs.

Fifty seven-eyed Demons ard to the teeth jumped out of the openings, breathing bursts of Origin Flas that burned at Numbing Hail and the enemies clinging to the tower.

Lith had received fifty suits of Adamant equipnt taken from Thrud's defeated army as a reward for his contribution in the War of the Griffon. He had refined them in the Spark for a long ti, and now he was putting them to good use.

The Demons of Darkness had two weak points when facing a powerful opponent. They had no equipnt, making them easy prey for skilled blade masters, and every wound they took and every spell they cast would diminish their strength.

The Adamant-Davross alloy suits of armor and weapons solved the forr issue, and adding the Demons to the tower's list of apprentices solved the latter.

The Demons' attacks now had the sa reach as their enemies' and enjoyed the sa degree of protection, if not better. On top of that, a Demon couldn't die. With the tower fueling them with endless energy, the Demons would recover their strength without the need for spells or nutrients.

Lith could conjure way more than fifty Demons, but with the short ti he had to prepare and the limited amount of Adamant stored in the Crucible, he preferred quality over quantity.

A seven-eyed Demon was a force to be reckoned with, and with only fifty of them, the Engine retained its full power while providing the Demons with a constant flow of world energy.

The Golems Raptor and Trouble ca after, leading ten-man units like Lith would, thanks to the mory crystals embedded in their chests. Valia, Trion, and Varegrave led the remaining units while nadion and Locrias flew to the opposite sides of the battlefield.

"That's your big move?" Uragar sneered. "A handful of undead?"

Lith's reply ca in the form of thundering hooves. The trajectory he had provided to the Dread Knights included the path with enough space of maneuver for the undead cavalry to turn around without breaking formation and strike at the scattered Upyrs from the back.

"No, you don't!" The Book of Knowledge changed the target of his tier five Spirit Spell, Sundered Earth, from the Engine to the cavalry. Life Maelstrom also boosted the physical and mystical senses of Book and host, allowing him to react before it was too late.

Or rather, to try.

Lith unleashed another Annihilation at the sa ti as Uragar released his spell.

"Shit!" Uragar activated his best defensive enchantnts and wrapped himself with the Sundered Earth.

It was a purely offensive spell, but it would still lessen the blow.

The Annihilation scattered the Sundered Earth to the wind, pierced through the elental and Spirit Barrier, and reached its target with almost no delay. The Book of Knowledge's host shielded his master with his body right before being vaporized.

The anti-Guardian spell then attacked the living legacy, burning its hardcover and tearing its pages apart.

'Shit, shit, shit!' If not for the many counterasures and his maker's ingenuity, Uragar would have died that day. 'This is the fourth Annihilation already. How many does Verhen have?'

The ancient Forgemaster had crafted the Book of Knowledge from Davross, not paper, giving it unparalleled regenerative properties and the ability to disperse mana by channeling the water elent through its pages.

The Dread Knights' cavalry hit its marks unimpeded, turning what was left of the Upyrs' battle formation into a chaotic scramble for survival.

"Send the reinforcents into the wall, now!" Lith yelled via the communication array, and the Dawn King complied.

"How are we supposed to get past this thing?" One of the generals asked while pointing at the Yurial Guard. "It protects us, but it also traps us inside the Fortress."

"Verhen said to go into the wall, so stop talking and start walking!" Bahz snarled.

The confused troops stepped forward, discovering that while the Yurial Guard was an impregnable fortress to those outside, it let those inside pass through the enchanted tal as if it were just a thin veil of water.

The Upyrs were still trying to break past the shield with their spells and bloodline abilities when long spears rippled out of its surface and impaled them in a disciplined charge.

The undead returning to the battlefield had healed their wounds and regained their strength. They were still groggy from the dayti, but while their formation was flawless, their enemies were scattered and isolated.

'Ti for the finishing blow.' The Engine perford delicate movents with Ragnarök that weaved complex strings of runes upon his passage.

"A Blade Spell!" Orpal warned his army. "Leech is preparing a Blade Spell! Stop him!"

As if mocking his order, Yurial Guard released the energy it had stolen from the Upyrs. Six elental beams of energy erupted from the elental crystals studded on the colossal shield's surface, making space for new spells to absorb.

The beams reached the corresponding elental crystals on the Engine's armor and replenished its energy reserves.

'One slot of the Cannon Vault is fully recharged.' Solus reported. 'It only needs our Spirit Magic to beco another Annihilation. A second slot is only half full.'

'It should be enough.' Lith nodded.

'Are you sure you don't want to use Extinction instead of Ruin?' Solus asked. 'Extinction is already stored, whereas Ruin you have to cast from scratch.'

'I'm sure.' Lith replied. 'I'd rather show ln as little as possible of our strength and keep the rest for when we et him in person. Extinction is wasted on a clone, and I don't want to give him the ti to prepare a counterasure.'

The Upyrs were too busy defending themselves from the undead's pincer attack to obey Orpal's orders.

"Stop him?" nadion scoffed, letting her voice thunder across the battlefield. "What do you think we are here for?"

Without giving Orpal the ti to answer, she unleashed her Blade Tier Spell, Unstoppable Hamr, from her Fury.

nadion could Forgemaster equipnt that allowed even people she had just t to cast Blade Spells, doing it for herself had been a piece of cake.

Unstoppable Hamr conjured a wide beam of highly compressed hepta-elental energy. It had incredible destructive power but poor maneuverability. Any deviation from its original trajectory required bending the beam, disrupting the precise elental symtry of the spell.

Just like a hamr blow, Unstoppable Hamr was fast and devastating, but the slightest alteration from its original course would greatly compromise the final result.

The Upyrs scattered, each running in a different direction to avoid being smitten.

"And when she says 'we', she's talking about !" Locrias released his Blade Spell, Unbreakable Anvil, from the opposite side of the room.