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 928: Ignoring Fate.
"What are you doing, Senior Brother?" Oasis asked smoothly.He stared down at the kneeling cultivator, his brow slightly arched in a mixture of sheer surprise and deep second-hand embarrassment.Qin Shuang paused mid-kowtow, slowly raising his head. His face was flushed red, stained with bits of damp grass and soil from the bank. "Y-You... you don't want to kill me, then?"It was a deeply humiliating, pathetic display. From the moment he had appeared, Qin Shuang had projected an aura of arrogant superiority and condescending pride, treating Oasis like a helpless insect he could crush at his leisure. Yet now, he was reduced to a groveling mess on his hands and knees. He hadn't even bothered to test his own combat capabilities against Oasis; the absolute carnage he had just witnessed was more than enough for him to reach a definitive conclusion. He was no match for Oasis whatsoever. Worse still, he knew with terrifying clarity that he possessed zero means to bypass or survive Oasis's
Chapter 927: Desperate Kowtow.
Thud. Thud. Thud!The heavy sound of three limp, lifeless bodies collapsing onto the soft grass beside the spring echoed through the silent clearing. All three peak Enlightened Realm ambushers had been effortlessly eliminated in less than a second by Oasis.As if the empty air beneath his feet were as solid as hardened earth, Oasis stepped lightly on the atmospheric pressure while still mid-air, executing a fluid, graceful spin back toward the bank. He landed silently, his back turned to the spring, calmly opening and clenching his fingers as if testing his own physical density.Directly in front of him stood Qin Shuang, completely paralyzed with fear, his hand trembling uncontrollably against the cold hilt of his sheathed blade. The senior disciple was so profoundly taken aback that his breath caught in his throat, his mind struggling to process the absolute display of dominance he had just witnessed."Mmh... it seems my raw physical output and baseline strength have increased signif
Chapter 926: Ignorance of the Narrow Valley.
"What just happened?""What in the world just happened?!" Qin Shuang thought, his mind reeling in absolute disbelief.His hand, which had been resting so arrogant and heavy on Oasis’s shoulder, began to tremble uncontrollably. Tremors ran up his arm as he slowly slid his hand off, staring at the younger disciple in utter, paralyzing shock."Was that... a Sentient Aura Response?! How is that even possible?! He just wiped out two peak Enlightened Realm cultivators in less than a single breath! How is any of this possible?!"Qin Shuang gaped at Oasis, unable to comprehend the divine spectacle that had just unfolded before his eyes. Yet, Qin Shuang was no uneducated fool. As an elite disciple of the prestigious Jade Pulse Sect, he possessed a deep knowledge base regarding the mysteries of the martial world. He had studied extensive scrolls and understood the terrifying nature of high-level phenomena.He knew that a Sentient Aura Response was an extraordinary, almost legendary phenomenon,
Chapter 925: Delusion of the Arrogant & Automatic Harvest.
Oasis, the moment he stepped into this realm, refrained from blindly charging around to seek out spirit herbs or immediately engage in mindless slaughter against other participants. Instead, he meticulously analyzed the entire situation, combining every piece of information imparted to him by Pulse Sage Qin Xian with his own sharp, analytical observations. He pierced straight through to the underlying truth and true intent governing the actions of those scattered across this massive dimension.As vast as the opportunities within the Great Kong Mountain range were, those divine opportunities were never meant for everyone, and the vast majority of participants understood this bitter reality all too well. Thus, their primary objective shifted from seeking dangerous, guarded treasures to hunting down and murdering the rising talents of rival factions. This was not merely the personal ambition of the disciples themselves, but a direct, unspoken directive passed down by their respective s
Chapter 924: Concentric Rings & Law of the Slaughterhouse,
Within the Great Kong Mountain peaks...Across the threshold of the spatial barrier, the vast, ancient environment of the Great Kong Mountain opened up in all its perilous majesty. Thousands upon thousands of participants were instantly scattered across the realm, forcefully separated by the randomizing spatial matrix of the ancient mountain array. Upon setting foot inside, everyone immediately realized that the internal dimension was vastly larger than what they had observed from the outside.The majority of the incoming cultivators materialized along the dense, sprawling foot of the mountain peaks. The territory was so overwhelmingly immense that a single participant among the thousands could easily find themselves standing in complete, eerie solitude within a secluded valley, while others materialized directly in the midst of chaotic crowds.Disaster struck almost instantaneously. Certain unlucky cultivators appeared right in the hunting grounds of ferocious, hungry mystic beast
Chapter 923: Realm Seal Breaks.
Then at that moment, as that glorious burst of light erupted across the heavens, the dark, stifling shadows that had shrouded the skies instantly vanished. The towering natural barrier surrounding the Great Kong Mountain range began to ripple intensely, shuddering as if an ancient, invisible layer of space were being peeled away from its divine matrix.“Be ready, everyone,” Pulse Sage Qin Xian commanded softly, his voice cutting through the surrounding commotion with absolute clarity.At that exact moment, Oasis shifted his gaze, calmly observing the gathered disciples from both the Jade Pulse Sect and the Willowroot Sect. The primordial, divine pattern within his eyes rotated with silent precision as he quietly activated the Stellar Mark ability of his supreme ocular traits. Invisible specks of light flashed momentarily in his pupils, imprinting an imperceptible, eternal spatial anchor upon the spiritual aura signatures of every single disciple present, a secret failsafe and track
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