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 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
Chapter 554: The Sage’s Gale: Crimson Eye of the Storm.
“This kid is toying with Elanor, and what was with that inappropriate way of touching her?” Gita spoke from the general stands, his brows knitted tightly.“Now what do you think about this duel, since you have been vouching for Elanor in her previous bout?” Murime said, glancing sideways at him.“You’re twisting my words and intent now, Murime,” Gita replied sharply. “I was not vouching for her.I was only stating the truth—Antonov was never her match.”“Then what about this one?” Murime pressed. “After the kid defeated Lukan, you went quiet and never made another comment.”“Ei, Murime, let’s just watch the bout,” Gita said dismissively, crossing his arms.“After all, we will both witness who ends up winning. For now, the bout is still even.”Back on the BattlefieldCrimson flooded everything.Elanor’s martial aura surged outward like a raging tide, saturating the gigantic battlefield in red light.It pressed down with immense force, rolling like waves upon waves of killing intent.Wi
Chapter 553: Choreography of Death.
“Then let’s see,” Oasis said, his smile widening just a fraction, sharp and playful at once.“How you dance.”Shhhhk—!!!He extended his fingers just a fraction.That single, almost lazy motion was enough, the cyan strings surged forward.They pierced through the air without sound at first, so thin they were almost invisible, then screamed as they accelerated, bending space around them.Lines of condensed cyan mana shot outward in erratic yet deliberate trajectories, twisting and splitting mid-flight, their edges vibrating with a lethal sharpness that made the air itself recoil.They were not simple projectiles.They were execution threads.Elanor’s pupils constricted.“Mmh,”she muttered softly as her perception caught the incoming attack—moving at blinding speed, angles overlapping,paths shifting as Oasis’s delicate control altered their forms in real time.Her feet moved.She began gliding backward.There was no forceful retreat, no wasted motion.With masterful fluidity, as if gr
Chapter 552: Symmetry of the Crimson and Cyan- Final Duel.
The midnight bell rang.Its sound was even deeper than before,more unatural ancient, and absolute—one heavy toll that echoed throughout the Grand Sanctuary of Greatness like the decree of the heavens themselves.The resonance rolled through towering arches, through layered stands, through the very air saturated with mana and anticipation.As it welcomed midnight and the final duel, the roar of the crowd below erupted all at once, voices colliding into a thunderous wave that shook the gigantic battlefield.Under the vast, moonless sky filled with endless stars, Oasis Bluemoon(Volacris) stood before Elanor Bal.Unlike every other match before this—where participants took their positions at opposite ends of the battlefield,separated by distance and caution—these two stood at the very center.Face to face.Close enough that the space between them felt charged, compressed, alive.No grand gestures.No needless movement.Just two figures standing beneath the stars, as if the entire tournam
Chapter 551: Royal City of Omara.
Few hours later.Kingdom of DuskreedBrivana Royal Region — Royal City of OmaraThe night skies above Omara were ignited with countless stars, a vast silver tapestry stretched across the heavens, unmarred by the presence of the moon.Its absence made the starlight sharper, colder, as if each point of light were a watching eye.A night breeze whispered through the grand avenues of the city, carrying with it a faint chill that brushed against skin like a warning rather than comfort.Omara was immense—an imperial city worthy of ruling a kingdom.From its outer districts to the royal heart, the city burned with light.Lanterns lined every road and bridge, their warm golden glow reflecting off polished stone streets and towering white walls etched with sigils.High-grade mana lamps hovered at intervals above major crossings, humming softly, their cores fed by refined mana stones.The air itself felt dense, saturated with wealth and power, as though massive layers of gold, spirit crystals,
Chapter 550: The Silent Breach: Anti-Seal.
Just before the technique takes hold—In a blinding burst of speed that most within the noble gallery failed to even register, Barrett Woods moved.There was no warning aura flare, no pressure surge, no distortion of air to announce his intent.One moment he was seated—composed, dignified, seemingly relaxed—and the next, space itself appeared to fold.In an instant, Barrett stood before Oasis.Two fingers snapped forward.They struck the side of Oasis’s neck with terrifying precision,landing on a point so exact that even seasoned Enlightened cultivators would hesitate to target it casually—a spiritual circulation node,a hidden convergence where refined mana flowed upward toward the conscious realm pathways to ignite the spiritual techniques.The impact was gentle.Yet devastating.The moment his fingers connected, Oasis felt it immediately.His spiritual circulation halted.Not shattered.Not disrupted.Sealed.!!!The reaction was instantaneous.Before sound could even catch up to
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