Supreme Magus

t Odi runes are lost to time.
There are almost no books about them and the still existing few tomes belong to historians since they have no practical value. ” Faluel said.

”The good news is that we only need to decipher a few runes to be able to reverse engineer the whole thing and start working on upgrading the gravity to an energy field. ”

”How long would it take? ” Lith asked.

”Well, unless we find the right runes in a book, I ’d say a few decades to figure out the modern runes with a trial-and-error procedure.
After that, a few more decades for the energy field.
Two centuries tops. ” Faluel replied.

”Three hundred years in total? ” Lith couldn ’t believe his ears.

”More or less, if you, me, and Solus work together the whole time.
Kid, research takes time and dedication.
Why do you think Inxialot left you off the hook that easily? He is probably already working on a project that will take him at least 200 years to complete.

”He ’s a Lich.
They can afford to work alone because time is meaningless to them. ” Faluel said.

”What if I share it? After all, is what Royal Forgemasters would do. ”

”It would take much less time. ” Faluel said.
”If the Council pools its resources and we Forgemasters start to exchange our respective findings, the entire process should take about two years.

”The problem is that we ’ll lose the exclusive and there ’s no guarantee that others will really cooperate instead of just leeching from those who share.
Be them humans, beasts, plants, or undead, Awakened are greedy creatures. ”

”No wonder you ’re losing the magical research race to fake mages. ” Lith sighed.
”We ’ll continue this conversation at another moment.
I ’m dead tired and I promised Kamila to take her out on a date. ”

”Have fun while you can, my apprentice, because once I start teaching you, we ’ll take no breaks until Invigoration stops working. ” Despite Faluel ’s girl next door looks and radiant smile, her words sounded awfully like a threat.

***

Jiera Continent, ex-city of Hervor, now reduced to a bunch of ruins.

After putting her resources to the test in Othre, Thrud Griffon had moved to the neighboring continent, like she always did after completing a rejuvenation cycle.
She had spent centuries to create an alias that allowed her to live in the luxury she deserved and with access to the resources she needed.

Jiera was outside Tyris ’s influence and the local Guardian had no affection for any of her friends.
It made Jiera the perfect place to lay low while Thrud enjoyed the fruits of her labors and honed her skills.

Unfortunately, after the release of the plague, all of her hard work was lost.
Even a magical blight was powerless against her enhanced physique and that of her minions, but the plague had destroyed society as she knew it.

”Damn it all! ” Thrud wanted to smash the crystal bottle she was drinking from in a fit of rage, but finding another would be nigh-impossible.
”I can ’t go back to Garlen with the tight security all three Great Countries have established, but staying in this dead place is driving me crazy! ”

It wasn ’t just a figure of speech.
With the fall of human civilization, the continent had fallen into the hands of Emperor Beasts, who were able to identify Thrud from her smell and chase her away if she refused to leave.

She was a very powerful mage, even more thanks to the replicas of the Griffon Kingdom ’s strongest artifacts, but there were hundreds of Emperor Beasts living together.
Some were as old as she was and nearly as powerful.

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