Fire Mage (Web Novel)

Chapter 488: Avatar

'Even Luis seemed to be clueless about Bryson's original goal.' Charles thought to himself.

But he knew that Bryson's goal must be similar to what the Light Church was doing or even worse.

Once he finished reading the memories, Charles placed his right hand on the throne's arm and tapped on it while pondering.

'The foreign entity... Evil God... Avatar...'

'A few weeks ago, Cardinal Ismael said that Pope of that time received an 'oracle' from their Goddess before she sent out her Angel for protection... Could it be that Pope realized the truth and retaliated? Is this also the reason for two factions in church?' A frown appeared on his forehead.

'It is possible. Bryson also wants to release this sealed Nightmare being to this world. But if he were born in this world, he would never make such a decision. Instead, he would have taken these Silver Crowns to the deepest part of the earth and buried it there... something is wrong...'

'What if the Nightmare thing that sealed inside the sealed box is not an Avatar or a Demonic Angel but an Evil God itself? What if Bryson is not a normal human with so much ancient knowledge but an Avatar of this Evil God? It perfectly makes sense.'

At that moment, his abnormal intuition also told him that it was the correct answer!

'Damn, I was almost got fooled by this guy. The Evil God must have descended to this mortal realm with so many plans, but met with retaliation from the Pope of that time. Yes, the Pope might have learned that it was not their Goddess who heeded their prayers but an Evil God. So, to save his people, he must have fought against it and even managed to seal the demon with himself in the black box...'

'On the other hand, the Evil God ended up in a critical situation and decided to separate a part of its soul to save its main body later... That remaining portion must be the Avatar of the Evil God!' Although this was just a guess, Charles felt that the truth wasn't far from behind.

'Even though I don't know how the Pope managed to seal away the Evil God, I suspect that it might be something to do with the sealed black box. It may be an intellectual artifact left behind by Goddess Zaqiel. Yes, when Druid's Guild members tried to open the sealed box, it inflicted a strong 'nightmare curse' on anyone who touched it and erased their existence from the time itself. The only one who managed to survive this curse was Bryson. Even he seemed to be still affected by it. It indicates that the one who cast this 'curse' spell was the intellectual artifact, not the 'Evil God.''

'As for the origin of those silver crowns? I still have no clue about it. But from all the gathered information, I can tell that Bryson or the Avatar seems to be searching for the silver crowns to open the sealed box and release his main body. But because of the Eternal Nightmare Curse and its effect, he still hasn't collected all the silver crowns yet...'

'But when did I attract this being's attention? Wait... It was when I chased after the Demon Sorcerer Nash into the Dream World... Yes, Bryson must have noticed that I didn't belong to this world and thought of using me as a pawn to release his Main body from the sealed box. He also seemed to have read a part of my memories and created a realistic future dream to confuse me.'

'I thought that releasing the Nightmare Being from the sealed box would be the right choice, but it seems I was wrong.' A grim look appeared on his face.

After some thought, Charles let out a deep sigh and shifted his attention towards 'Mystique' Jace.

'What should I do with him now?' He pondered for a while and decided to finish him off.

With that thought in his mind, he stood up from his seat and stepped down from the throne canopy.

Meanwhile, everyone in the throne hall also stood up from their respective seats and showed confused expressions on their faces.

At that moment, Jace stood more than 10 meters away from the golden throne and carefully observed Charles's every movement. Although he had an artifact in his sleeve that could block any sneak attack, a strange sense of uneasiness started to appear in the deepest part of his mind and made him anxious all of a sudden.

His heart started to beat faster, causing him to sweat a lot.

He was unsettled inside.

A cold voice echoed in his ears as he was confused by the strange unsettled feeling.

"You've done a great help by bringing me this gift, Jace."

Meanwhile, a stiff smile appeared on his face as he bowed his head a little and responded.

"I-It's my honor, Your Majesty-"

But before he could even finish his words, his intuition screamed all of a sudden and warned him about the impending danger.

At that moment, he knew that the king in front of him was about to finish him off.

'F*ck! I need to escape!' He subconsciously gripped his sweaty hands and took a step back. Simultaneously, he shifted his attention towards the golden amulet on his neck and tried to activate its protective ability.

On the other hand, Charles casually stepped on the red-carpeted floor, used the telekinetic wisdom power to pick up the wooden chest box, and stored it inside his space ring.

Then, he looked at Mystique Jace and cast [Burning Consciousness] spell on him.

Although Jace noticed some foreign power was invading his mind, his soul was too weak even to resist his spell!

Even his artifact didn't help him block the mind-related spell.

The next instant, he forgot what he was about to do next and stood there like an emotionless doll.

Meanwhile, a ball of purple flame appeared in the deepest part of his Inner World and formed into an appearance of Charles.

A moment later, countless [Knowledge Seeker] spell and [Fire Seed] spell appeared out of the purple Charles and flew in a different direction to burn all the memory clouds.

On the other hand, Charles continued to walk towards Jace and soon arrived in front of him.

Then, he extended his right hand towards his neck and snatched the golden amulet from him.

He then pointed his forefinger on his forehead and cast [Ember Needle] spell on him.

A second later, a chaotic reddish needle-like flame came out of his forefinger and entered deep into his head.

Then, the chaotic fire entered every part of his body and started burning him from inside. Within a few seconds, Jace fell on the floor, and his whole body began to erupt in reddish flame.

Alas, not a single sign of retaliation or scream came out of Jace's mouth.

The chaos flame burned his body continuously for the next few minutes, leaving only a charred body behind.

Meanwhile, an eerie silence appeared in the Throne Hall!

Be it the Nobles or the advisors, all of them were scared out of their wits upon seeing Charles's brutality.

On the other hand, Charles returned to the golden throne, focused his full attention on Jace's soul, and erased his memories for the next few minutes.

Once he finished his job, he gazed at the scared nobles and the advisors and smiled.

Unfortunately, that mere smile caused everyone's body to stiffen up.