Supreme Magus

you still alive? I've checked my communication amulet, sneaked inside the morgue, and saw your body- ”

Quylla's glare cut him short, making him rephrase his statement while protecting his gonads with his hands.

”I mean, I saw the body.
The smell, the height, even the hair were identical to yours.
Did you have a twin or what? ”

”Or what. ” She then explained Jirni's plan to him.

”Your mother is a bitch! I want a divorce! ” The Tyrant said in outrage.

”First, you can't divorce from someone you're not married to.
Second, my father, embarrassing as it is, said those same words.
None in the family can condone her manipulations.
We told her that either she left the house or we would. ” Quylla said.

”I'm sorry, I meant that I don't want to see her ever again. ” Morok raised his hands in an apologetic gesture.
”Now that she's gone, we can finally marry.
I don't want to risk losing you again. ”

Morok bent the knee, but before he could open a small box he had taken out of his dimensional item, Quylla stopped him.

”Slow down.
I'm happy to be alive as well, but I'm not going to marry someone I dated once. ” She said, turning his smile upside down.
”But now that Deirus is gone and I'm at house arrest no longer, we can have our second date. ”

At those words, Morok jumped in joy, hugging Quylla again before kissing her passionately and receiving the kick in the nuts he had requested a few minutes back.
He curled up on the floor, cradling himself while life fusion healed the damage.

”As much as I'd love to keep listening to you lovebirds, we've got important matters at hand. ” Faluel said while listening to the Tyrant's falsetto yelps of pain with a huge smile on her face.

”I've just received word from the Council about the discovery of some ancient ruins at the borders between the Griffon Kingdom and the Blood Desert. ”

'That's how Grandma knew about it!' Lith thought.
'The Council couldn't arrange for the expedition without her consent.'

'Yeah, but I find it creepy how quickly you've come to call Salaark grandma, and yet you still consider Leegaain as nothing more than a life force donor.' Solus pointed out via their mind link.

'That's because she's done all she could to become part of my life, she protected my family, backed me in front of the Council, and-'

”Enough with the mind link! ” A snap of Faluel's fingers broke their connection.
”In the Awakened community, what you so casually did is considered as one of the rudest and most disrespectful acts towards your peers.

”Awakened can see mind links so using one in front of them is the same as telling them that you don't trust them or that you're talking behind their backs. ”

”I'm sorry, Professor. ” Solus said while giving everyone a bow.
”We just didn't want to interrupt you and we're used to commenting things between us- ”

”And that's wrong as well. ” The Hydra said.
”You are two different people yet if you keep acting like that, you are going to cut everyone else off your life since you mostly talk among yourselves. ”

Lith apologized as well, yet Faluel scolded him for a while before talking about the expedition again.

”As I was saying, the ruins have been dated to over three thousand years back thanks to Salaark glancing at it and recognizing the inscriptions.
They belonged to the Urgamakka, a civilization comprised solely of Awakened.

”It was one of the first and most striking failures at making the four races coexist while also Awakening every one of its members. ”