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 747: Gathering of the Ashes.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM__________!!!!!!!!!!The entire massive war zone violently vibrated as the total, concentrated energy from the ultimate form struck the ground dead-center. The catastrophic discharge created a massive, incredibly wide crater in the plain, but unlike the prior attacks, the properties of this specific technique did not cause a messy eruption of earth. Instead, the intense, primordial heat simply ate away and dissolved the very composition of the ground itself. Terrifying, scorching shockwaves erupted outward in all directions, turning the entire surrounding environment into a glowing sea of bubbling molten stone as everything melted from the sheer, ungodly heat. Mezic’s severed left arm, which had been resting in the dirt, along with every single piece of debris and weaponry within the epicenter, was instantly turned to liquid slag. The heat wave rippled far outward, traveling even beyond the two-kilometer marker where Vesta and the others stood watching, forcing V
Chapter 746: The Twin Tombstones of the fallen Saints.
Instantly, trails of intense, fiery cyan aura danced wildly around the dark length of Elyon, the blazing heat mixing intimately with the blade’s innate properties, the crackling azure lightning and the howling emerald winds generated by the weapon's perfect resonance with Oasis’s energy nature.!!!Mezic’s eyes widened to their absolute limits as a cold, terrifying sensation of absolute fatality gripped the very depths of his soul.He could feel the imminent danger with every fiber of his being. Oasis was moving at a speed so profound that while Mezic’s highly trained senses could theoretically track the physical pathway of the approaching steel, his heavily injured, single-armed body simply could not formulate a physical reaction fast enough to defend itself.“Fifth Form: Searing Dance,” Oasis’s whisper intensified, the words vibrating through the air as the ultimate technique took absolute root within his weapon.Oasis moved his blade with a mesmerizing, terrifying fluidity, execut
Chapter 745: Twilight of the fallen Saints.
The Six Daggers and the Six Eyes, standing roughly two kilometers away from the absolute epicenter of the cataclysmic battlefield, remained completely frozen in a state of profound shock and awe. The twelve young prodigies were currently perched atop an elevated, jagged platform of fractured stone, which had been violently forced upward by the erratic shifting of the earth from the monumental structural destructions caused by the ongoing death fights between Oasis and the legendary demonic masters.From this elevated vantage point, the twelve warriors possessed an unobstructed view of the distant terrain, their eyes tracking Oasis and the two remaining masters across the two-kilometer expanse. In the darkness of the deep night, the brilliant, vibrant lights of their competing martial auras rippled and flared around their distinct frames like flickering beacons of raw power, casting eerie, shifting silhouettes across the ruined plain.“So… this is how vast the fundamental difference
Chapter 744: Avarice Volacris vs Master Mezic(4).
Deep within his core, Oasis could feel the subtle, creeping tendrils of physical fatigue beginning to kick in. He immediately controlled the rhythm of his breath, stabilizing his internal system. Throughout this intense clash, his internal mana reserves had already depleted by about half once again; He had been forced to expend a massive, staggering amount of pure mana to successfully redirect Mezic’s catastrophic Clap of Death, followed immediately by the rapid consumption of both mana and spiritual energy required to manifest the wind-essence strings of the Heavenly Slicing Technique.Yet, from the exact moment Oasis had originally evaded Triken’s descending war mace for the first time to the moment he had almost taken off Mezic’s head, the entire high-speed sequence had transpired in a window of time lasting no more than five seconds.Further away, Mezic let out a low, guttural growl of intense agony, his facial features twisting into a grimace of pure pain, though his immense pr
Chapter 743: Avarice Volacris vs Master Mozec(3).
But before his spiritual energy could fully expand and connect in order for the Phoenix Glaze to take firm root within the old demon’s physical and conscious vessel, a sudden, catastrophic shift in the upper atmosphere disrupted the execution.Through the razor-sharp periphery of his azure eyes, Oasis registered a terrifying shimmer of movement directly above his blind spot. A colossal war mace, densely laced with a thick, suffocating coat of dark crimson demonic martial aura, was already descending from the heavens like a falling mountain.The sheer size of the weapon’s head was monstrous, visibly larger than Oasis’s entire physical frame, and it was engineered with enough blunt force momentum to instantly bash the teenager’s head into a fine crimson paste.!!!Faced with this imminent crisis, Oasis did not panic. He aborted the final activation phase of the spiritual technique and instantly dashed using the Dancing Phoenix footwork. His body converted into a fluid, weightless str
Chapter 742: Avarice Volacris vs Master Mezic(2).
An immense, dense wave of internal magical energy rippled outward from his core, instantly coating the structural surface of the pre-existing wind barrier.Without wasting a single microsecond, the translucent sphere enlarged by a few feet before beginning to rotate at a dizzying, terrifying speed, creating a localized spatial vortex around his body.Then, it happened.The catastrophic Clap of Death slammed directly into the rapidly rotating wind barrier.CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK—BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!Once again, two supreme forces collided on an absolute axis.The extreme friction of the competing energies produced a deafening, metallic rumble that echoed all over the destroyed terrain as the necrotic crimson mana desperately fought to crush and penetrate the rotating barrier.But within the span of a single heartbeat, the fundamental mechanism of Oasis’s magic proved superior.Instead of allowing the Clap of Death to continue its forward, destructive path through his body, the incredibly
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