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 776: The Glorious Demon Altima.
“And to my eyes, and the specific way you just moved now,” Altima spoke to Oasis, his gaze narrowing into two predatory slits as he assessed the boy's posture, “you don't look one bit like a human being. So, what exactly are you, kid? And how on earth were you able to unleash that catastrophic level of strength?" "Without a single shred of doubt, my senses can distinctly tell that you are still nothing but a beginner Enlightened cultivator. But your actual, baseline cultivation realm doesn't correlate in the slightest with what you just did in our small exchange. So, boy, I ask you again: what are you?”Altima spoke with an absolute authority that demanded immediate answers from Oasis, and to enforce his query, he violently unleashed his raw, unfiltered murderous intent into the open air.The murderous intent was so dense, heavy, and physically concentrated that it actually took a visible form. It manifested as a dark, miasmic fog that condensed and shifted through the sky, moving l
Chapter 775: Altima.
Zabaka ascended higher and higher into the morning sky, his massive form cutting through the lingering smoke until he perfectly matched the aerial altitude of Oasis. Yet, learning from what happened to his people, he still stood a notable distance away from the youth, maintaining a cautious spatial gap. He glared at Oasis with eyes completely bloodshot with venomous rage, and his dark, enlightened demonic aura condensed once again around his massive frame. The energy leaked from his body in thick, turbulent ripples, vibrating with such dense hostility that it visibly distorted and warped the surrounding space, making his silhouette appear jagged and shifting.Meanwhile, Oasis did not focus entirely on the threat directly in front of him. Instead, his azure gaze looked past Zabaka’s shoulder, piercing across the distance to scan the horizon beyond the immediate battlefield.!!!But Oasis’s expression was fundamentally different now; his serene composure wavered for a fraction of a s
Chapter 774: Broken Reality and Guests.
Oasis, after calling out to Zabaka across the vast expanse of the ruined field, still had a dense, rapid torrent of tactical and physiological calculations running through his thoughts. He hovered silently in the sky, his piercing azure gaze looking down at the towering demon on the blood-soaked ground below, who was visibly horrified by the sudden annihilation of his entire vanguard.As he hung suspended in the air, Oasis was actively realizing something critical about his internal energy system and the current limits of his physical vessel.“Previously, when I was at a lower cultivation stage and drank the liquid elixir from the Pond of Eternal Youth, a single vial could effortlessly restore my entire being fully to its absolute peak. But now…” Oasis thought, his brow narrowing slightly as he experimentally clenched his fist for a moment to gauge the density of his internal system. “Now, without a single shred of doubt, I can clearly tell that just barely above half of my maximum
Chapter 773: Broken Reality.
The dead ground below became a horrific, saturated landscape as blood began to pool rapidly, spraying over the rocky terrain from the thousands of demonic troops. They had perished mid-awe, their faces frozen in expressions of pure, unadulterated awe as the golden radiance of the Solmire technique slowly faded into the morning air. The ethereal, towering figure of Marcellia Valmorra, having fulfilled her catastrophic purpose, drifted away into millions of sparkling golden motes that dissolved into the wind, leaving behind a silence so absolute it felt heavy enough to crush the lungs.Then, it happened.!!!Cough!!!!!!!!A massive, visceral pool of blood was violently coughed out by Oasis. At that agonizing moment, his usually healthy, bronzed skin turned ghastly pale, his physical form looking as if it had been completely drained of all its fluids. His lips appeared dry and patchy, and his hair, which had been a vibrant, glowing emerald, lost its luster and reverted to its original
Chapter 772: Solmire.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Vesta’s scorching threads violently collided with the colossal, descending attack of Zabaka. The demonic lord was now completely taken aback, his mind reeling as he struggled to understand what was going on. He could acutely sense the overbearing and suffocating Saint Realm aura erupting from directly behind his back—an energy that felt fundamentally different from Oasis’s own primordial signature, carrying the raw, absolute weight of a true sovereign.“Did I get played from the very start? Was I actually nothing more than a blind pawn in this brat’s game?” Zabaka thought frantically, his massive face turning a shade of pale gray despite still desperately maintaining his mana and spiritual control over the descending crimson palm.Then, he suddenly realized the true extent of the horror unfolding below him.“What?! Impossible!!” he muttered in sheer disbelief.Lines of glowing cyan light began fracturing his masterpiece. Before his eyes, the hyper-
Chapter 771: The Axiom and the Echo.
As Zabaka’s immense demonic aura continued to violently radiate outward, releasing more and more suffocating pressure into the stratosphere, his dark smirk of absolute confidence and certainty widened. He slowly moved his massive hand forward, raising his open palm directly toward the trembling Western Alliance masters.“I would have deeply loved to slowly drain every last drop of your mortal essence,” he muttered, his voice dripping with sinister amusement. “But ultimately, that doesn't matter in the slightest. For I have already set my eye on a singular prize on this field whose value will be worth far more than all of yours combined. So, die like the pathetic pests you are.”Then, it happened.The sky suddenly began to darken more at an unnatural, terrifying speed. Despite the brilliant golden glow of the morning light desperately trying to break through from the horizon, the natural dawn was completely swallowed, bathed in a thick, suffocating crimson demonic aura. Across the
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