2024-04-15 15:16:57Seven years ago, as Elias Hawthorne was preparing to close his herb shop on a peaceful night in Riverbend Hamlet, a small village located on the outskirts of Verdantia, he had to shut early.
Rumors of missing newborns were rampant, and it had been a busy day with many customers.
As he closed the shop, the sound of moving carriages at high speed and horses screaming pierced the night.
A banner flew into his face, bearing the emblem of the notorious Cursed Artificers Guild, which was allied with the missing babies.
Chills ran down his spine as he wondered what they were doing so far east.
After the silence that followed, a blast of light struck, momentarily turning night into day. The magical energy emitted shook the entire Aetheria realm.
Despite his shock, Elias's body moved towards the Silverwater River.
There, he found a white glossy carriage painted in blood, surrounded by a lot of dead bodies and horses.
The river ran red with blood. Among the dead were members of the Cursed Artificers Guild.
Inside the carriage, a woman lay dead, protecting something beneath her stomach.
Nearby were dead mages, seemingly protecting the carriage.
As he ventured further, pondering the source of the light and what had killed the members of the dark guild, Elias heard a baby's cry coming from the carriage he had just passed.
Realizing he hadn't heard it earlier due to shock, he hurried back.
The woman had been protecting a baby boy with brown skin.
It was evident that the dead were his parents, likely of noble blood, judging by the elite mages guarding the carriage.
Alongside the baby, there was something like a magic storage box that looked locked by magic.
Such boxes were rare and not easy to get, and it was small enough to fit in a pocket.
Additionally, the baby was wearing what looked like an enchanted pendant that was radiating weak magic. Elias wrapped the baby along with the box.
His instincts urged him to leave the scene quickly. As a retired mercenary who understood the corruption in the kingdom, he took the baby and left.
The sister from the orphanage located in Mossy Hollow listened skeptically as Elias Hawthorne explained how he found the baby.
However, she had no choice but to take the baby in, especially after feeling the powerful magic a week ago.
Elias couldn't care for the baby, so he left him in her care.
Before leaving, she asked him to give the baby a name, and he named him Oasis, after the desert kingdom of Avaloria, from where his brown skin likely originated.
Two weeks after the incident, news spread of the Divine King holy magic wielder,
Sir Roland Lightbringer from the Holy Cathedral, who single-handedly destroyed the three most powerful dark guilds: the Cursed Artificers, Obsidian Shadows, and Nightshade Assassins.
Since then, Sir Roland was titled "The Divine Avenger," and no dark guilds have been seen, thanks to his example.
When questioned about his presence in the east, far from the Holy Cathedral headquarters in the kingdom of Celestia in the western side of the realm,
Sir Roland explained that he had been tracking the incidents for some time.
The newborns of Celestia were also going missing, leading him to the dark guild from the south of the realm, the Cursed Artificers, rumored to have been seen in the east.
Despite the two kingdoms not being on talking terms, he had no choice but to go there and ended up destroying all the involved guilds, including the other two.
He emphasized , "I am acting in the best interest of mine kingdom and the realm's future."
And he did conclude, declaring, "If aught resembling doth occur again to mine kingdom, the Holy Cathedral shall not tarry in its actions."
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Chapter 808: The Sovereign’s Decree & The Weight of Destiny.
Halt!Dozens and dozens of kilometers away, Venak, Du Shiye, and Daku suddenly brought their movements to a dead, abrupt stop in mid-air. In that terrifying microsecond, they watched as the morning light abruptly turned pitch-black without a single word of warning. Simultaneously, a heavy, suffocating weight descended upon them, as if their bodies had been suddenly submerged and drenched in thick, crushing mud. Their cultivation cores rattled under an absolute, terrifying suppression that surpassed anything they had ever witnessed in their lives. It was so bone-chilling, so utterly terrifying, that without warning, cold sweat instantly drenched their clothes, their faces paling as sheer instinct screamed at them to freeze.This suffocating anomaly was not merely occurring in their immediate vicinity—it was actively cascading throughout the entire Celestial Garden Sphere, saturating every region and territory within both Hespera and Elysiome. Across all four cardinal territories of
Chapter 807: The Sovereign Dual-Lineage & The Celestial Return.
Dark golden aura danced wildly around Draven as it bent and distorted the very space in his immediate vicinity. Violent, suffocating Enlightened Realm suppression danced through the air like a heavy tempest. The small mystic beast perched upon his shoulder let out a low, aggressive growl, its glowing eyes fixed in a lethal glare toward Oasis, matching the sheer, piercing rage radiating from Draven’s face.Oasis simply stared right back at him in that tense microsecond.“Am I supposed to be intimidated by that?” Oasis said smoothly to Draven, his tone carrying a cool indifference that defied the overwhelming pressure.Where any other cultivator would have fainted on the spot or been reduced to a trembling, broken wreck under such terrifying aura, Oasis stood firm. Yet, this unyielding physical exposure to this level of energy without active, circulating mana to buffer his body took a severe, agonizing toll on his internal frame. Streams of dark blood began to leak from his nose once
Chapter 806: The Phoenix Claw & The Suspended Truth.
Then, as Altima continued staring at Oasis more and more, he abruptly realized something completely out of the ordinary.“I would swear on my very life that the kid was wearing a pendant of some sort all along when he fought against me... and yet, as of this exact moment, that pendant is no longer on him,” Altima thought to himself, carefully noting this small, critical detail about Oasis’s appearance.“Perhaps it simply fell off and crashed onto the ground below during that chaotic exchange...” Altima pondered, quickly attempting to dismiss the line of thought. “Meaning it was likely nothing more than ordinary jewelry after all, not a high-tier artifact.”And indeed, at this exact point, the pendant that had always rested securely against Oasis’s chest was nowhere to be seen. From Altima’s perceptive viewpoint, it had vanished without a trace.Meanwhile, as Draven continued gliding effortlessly through the sky, dragging his captive along, he suddenly turned his head to gaze at Oasis.
Chapter 805: The Bonds We Choose & The Monster’s Calculation.
At this point, most of the cultivators within the smaller camps down below had already become acutely aware of the elders hovering high up in the sky. Whispers began to ripple rapidly throughout the lower camps, spreading like wildfire from one anxious group to another as everyone gestured toward the clouds, their hearts heavy with dread, endlessly wondering what really was transpiring on the battlefield.Then, without wasting any more time, the surviving elders were seen streaking across the heavens, fleeing directly toward the mountain peaks of the upper camps. From the perspective of the low-tier cultivators watching from the ground, the fleeing masters appeared as faint, frantic blurs against the sky. Simultaneously, Venak, Daku, and Du Shiye were seen breaking away from the retreat, shooting through the air in the exact opposite direction—heading straight toward the dangerous, unknown north.At the exact same time, deep within the elite quarters of the lower camps, Kyoku sudden
Chapter 804: The Abrupt Northern Silence.
Back at the lower camps, the atmosphere remained thick with an suffocating silence.Venak still stood precisely where he had been for dozens of minutes, perched high atop the sturdy branch of a massive tree. His sharp gaze was locked directly toward the north, scanning the horizon dozens upon dozens of kilometers away where the high-altitude conflict had been unfolding. He had spent the entire duration of the clash attempting to sense the distant, chaotic energy fluctuations rippling through the atmosphere, despite the sheer distance preventing him from seeing the physical clash with his bare eyes. All that met his vision was the jagged landscape far off in the distance, where mountain peaks rose and fell like waves in a stormy sea.Now, a sudden, heavy silence had abruptly blanketed the northern horizon. The violent earthquakes that had been rattling the bedrock had completely ceased, the chaotic atmospheric energy waves had abruptly vanished, and the bone-chilling growls of the m
Chapter 803: The Mortal Key.
Oasis wore a look of intense shock at first.His weak, battered body remained suspended in mid-air, held aloft solely by the dark golden aura Draven exerted, even as excruciating pain radiated through his entire physical frame.Refusing to waste another microsecond on shock, Oasis pushed through the agony as his mind raced, dissecting his predicament. He calculated every variable, processing the massive flood of information that now rushed into his mind. Just as Draven had deduced, every single detail of what had transpired during the halted time flooded directly into Oasis's conscious realm. He vividly replayed the memory of Draven stepping closer, the dialogue, the calculated intent, and the precise moment the seal was slammed into his lower torso.At first, Oasis tried to ignore the lingering mental shock and attempted to forcibly circulate his mana.!!!Nothing happened. His channels were dead silent.He pushed again, desperately willing his energy to move.Nothing.As he endured
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