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 560: The Saint’s Scrutiny.
At the Upper Gallery.Where the only two who had seen everything—even through the blinding light—sat in silence.From this elevated vantage point, nothing had escaped their eyes.Even when the cyan brilliance had swallowed the world below and turned the Grand Sanctuary into a second sun, these two figures had seen everything clearly, as if the light itself bent away from their sight.They watched the aftermath unfold.Oasis was already outside the gigantic battlefield, his figure calm and composed as he headed toward the resting area within the Grand Sanctuary.His steps were unhurried, his posture steady, as if he had not just concluded a duel that shook the very foundations of the arena.At the same time, the guards did not waste even a heartbeat.They surged forward in disciplined coordination, descending toward the destroyed battlefield.They moved directly to Elanor, checking her condition with practiced efficiency before they carefully lifted her from the elevated slab of earth.
Chapter 559: The Mercy of a Disciple of a Monarch.
Shutter!!!!!The chair that Eclipse Bal sat on in the Noble Gallery suddenly shuddered—then disintegrated into nothing, reduced to dust as his martial aura surged upward like a raging sea.In an instant it flooded the entire noble gallery, dense and thick, heavier and more suffocating than what had been unleashed below on the battlefield.It was not a simple flare of emotion—it was a father’s wrath made tangible, a storm of power that did not care what it crushed so long as it reached its target.The air itself thickened, trembling, groaning as though the gallery was being squeezed from the inside.The enchanted glass panels before them vibrated faintly, humming under the pressure.Curtains of aura rolled across the noble seats, swallowing the space in oppressive might.Breath became a privilege.“Damn that brat… he wants to kill my daughter now!” Eclipse roared.His aura was suffocating.Most present felt it immediately—their lungs seized, their throats tightened, their breath halted
Chapter 558: Calamity’s Grace: The End of the Youthful Sky.
The moment of collision—A low, thunderous whisper of wind rolled across the Grand Sanctuary, not loud at first, but so deep and pervasive that it seeped into bone and marrow.The dark skies above were torn open by emerald brilliance, the stars themselves seeming to dim as everything turned green-azure and cyan,streaked with violent threads of compressed energy.Elanor’s X-shaped attack didn’t explode.It was devoured.The twin crescent slashes—one martial, one essence-born—were swallowed whole as they struck the roaring cyclone.They didn’t resist. They didn’t clash.They were chewed apart, stripped layer by layer, their power unraveled as if a colossal beast had clamped its jaws shut around them.For a split second—Those with sharp perception saw it.Within Oasis’s gigantic cyclone, the vague silhouette of a massive wolf formed—its shape carved from wind and mana, eyes burning with sovereign intent.Its presence was not physical, yet it was unmistakable, a monarch hidden within th
Chapter 557: The Living Seal: Runic Revelation of Avarice.
With each step Oasis took, his energy continued to rise.At first it was subtle—an increase in pressure, a tightening of the air—but within moments it became impossible to ignore.The air around him heated violently.His robes began to darken in patches, the fabric hissing and curling inward as cyan flames licked across it.Threads blackened, then disintegrated into glowing ash.His boots were next—first smoking, then burning away completely, leaving his bare feet resting against the cracked stone as if the heat meant nothing to him.The temperature spiked violently.Higher.Higher still.The entire Grand Sanctuary of Greatness began to brighten, not from flame, but from cyan radiance.Walls, pillars, and barrier surfaces reflected that color back upon themselves,layering light upon light until the vast arena looked as though it had been submerged in a luminous sea of blue fire.It was beautiful.And it was terrifying.Across from him, Elanor did not hesitate.In response, she unleas
Chapter 556: Dual-Existence.
Elanor’s umbrella snapped shut mid-motion, the click sharp and decisive.In the same instant, she thrust forward—the tip of the umbrella aimed straight at Oasis’s chest.The movement itself was simple.Direct.Almost plain.But the bearing behind it was anything but.The air screamed.The closed umbrella cut through the space between them, compressing air, aura, and momentum into a single lethal point.Crimson martial pressure wrapped around the umbrella’s tip like a drilling spiral, causing the surrounding space to distort as if it were being pierced by an invisible spear.Oasis shifted.Silently.Effortlessly.He angled his body just enough and slapped the umbrella aside with the back of his hand, redirecting the thrust sideways at the last possible instant.The redirected force tore a long groove across the battlefield floor, stone exploding outward where the pressure escaped.But Elanor had never intended for that thrust to end there.She flowed with the deflection, letting Oasis’
Chapter 555: The Crater of Avarice.
The spell erupted.A massive shockwave of emerald wind slashes exploded outward from Oasis, howling like an ancient storm unchained.Countless crescent-shaped blades of compressed wind tore through the air, overlapping, stacking, multiplying—each one sharp enough to shear mountains, each one roaring with murderous intent as they hailed straight toward Elanor.Elanor stood firm, her umbrella rotating before her as she poured every ounce of her crimson martial aura into it.BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!The collision was catastrophic.The emerald storm slammed into her defenses and the entire Grand Sanctuary of Greatness shook as if struck by a god’s fist.The ground before Oasis didn’t merely crack—it was ripped apart, slabs of enchanted stone uprooted wholesale.The battlefield’s surface was shredded into fragments, pulverized into dust and jagged debris that were hurled violently toward the barrier walls.The air turned opaque.Dust, shattered stone, torn formations, and violently clashing martia
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