Chapter 2901 Collapsing Eternity (Part 3)

Chapter 2901 Collapsing Eternity (Part 3)

"I need to get rid of Thaymos now to protect you guys." Tyris shook her head. "If I just seal him somewhere, sooner or later the Council of Jiera is going to decipher his language. I don't think you want him going around babbling about the Destroyer and his cursed object."

At those words, Solus' anger at Tyris disappeared and was replaced by gratitude.

"By my Mom, I had almost forgotten about that. Lost cities don't have much credibility but if someone believed him, we would have gotten in trouble."

"Indeed." The Great Mother nodded.

Saying that Lith was bonded to a cursed object was easy to refute since he could foil any investigation simply by taking off the stone ring. The problem was that Thaymos wouldn't make a generic allegation but point at Solus.

The moment someone examined her from up close with a breathing technique and discovered that her energy signature was the same as Lith's, Thaymos' words would be confirmed.

"Also, this isn't my turf." Tyris added. "Fenagar would notice me if I followed you as you moved the camp to a new site. If I waited for you guys to go back to Garlen, instead, I would have to bring Thaymos with me.

"The other Guardians would then ask themselves why I'm endangering Elysia first and my Kingdom later, wasting my focus instead of just dropping Thaymos here and making him Jiera's problem.

"This is the best moment to get rid of the lost city without anyone suspecting that I needed your tower, Lith. Remember that the Guardians know you possess Menadion's legacy but they are completely unaware of what it can do.

"Thanks to these blueprints, I can claim that during the fight I recognized Thaymos and had a way to destroy him. I just needed to restrain him to keep you safe while I searched for the self-destruct spell among the ancient books I keep in my pocket dimension.

"It will explain my current absence and why I was so confident I could destroy him." The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.

Even through the haze of pain and confusion, Lith knew that the Guardian was right.

'Even Grandma had no idea of the properties of the various floors of the tower and we spent months on her turf. By protecting my secret, Tyris is making sure that Jiera's Guardians won't bother me during my stay.'

In the chaos of battle, no one had noticed her disappearance and Friya was providing Solus an alibi. Friya knew that the camp had withstood the Tower Spirit spells only thanks to the defensive system of the tower and this was the only way to give Solus her due credit.

"We make a good team, as always." Between her still ringing head and the influx of information from her copy, Solus had a hard time focusing.

After Tyris had disappeared, the camp had fallen into a stunned silence. The fear from witnessing the fury of a lost city and the apparently endless scores of the Black Tide had taken a while to fade.

One moment everyone was praying the gods for mercy and the next a living god had fought for them. Tyris' power, her Morning Star, and the complete annihilation of a monster tide had left the people in the camp with their mouth agape and their brains frozen in shock.

It had been the cries of the babies when Kamila had come to check on Lith that had broken the stillness.

"Are we safe now?" She had asked.

"Yes, it's all over now." The construct had replied with so much confidence that his words had lifted everyone's spirit.

The camp had burst into laughs, cries of joy, and cheers that had continued until that moment.

"You can turn tail and get back to the camp, you cowardly bastards." Orion cheerfully said to the pilots of the DoLoreans. "I'm sorry to break this to you, but we are all alive!"

Once he confirmed that there had been no casualties and that everyone from the advance party had come back, Orion went to talk to Lith.

"I know that it's a stupid question, but I need you to confirm it to me. Is the Black Tide really gone?"

"Most of it, but yes." Lith nodded. "I'm not sure if the lost city left a few of them behind as a backup, but even if he did, they shouldn't amount to more than a few monster hordes. And hordes without a leader at that."

"What about the lost city?" Orion pointed at the massive molten remains that lay a few hundreds of meters in front of the camp.