Fire Mage Chapter 481 - More Clues

Chapter 481 - More Clues

Chapter 481: More Clues

Charles then took out a bunch of sealed letters from his space ring and was about to read them one by one but suddenly stopped.

At that mont, he noticed that the green pendant on his neck flickered in green light and soon received a ssage from the Will of the pocket dinsion.

"Oh? lody returned to the pocket dinsion using the fixed teleportation ring?" He muttered in surprise.

He then leaned on the wooden chair and waved his hand.

A second later, the space behind him started to distort and soon ford into a one-ter tall bluish portal.

The next instant, an erald-haired young lady walked out of the portal, arrived near the wooden table, and bowed her head.

"Good morning, Your Majesty!" lody greeted him politely and was about to tell him about her mission but suddenly froze.

At that mont, she saw his closed left eye and got confused.

"W-What happened to your eye, My Lord!?" She asked in an anxious tone.

anwhile, Charles glanced at her, activated [Eyes of the Runes] skill, and checked her status.

At the sa ti, he noticed the anxiety on her face and answered with a smile.

"It's nothing serious. But I'll be like this for most of the ti from now on."

While answering, he noticed peculiar energy filled with so nature essence power appeared in her left hand.

It looked more like a claw mark and appeared almost minute.

If not for his keen sense and [Eyes of the Runes] skill, he wouldn't have noticed it.

'Soone cast a tracking spell on her body?' He furrowed his brows before conjuring a ball of [Rebirth Fla] and tossed it towards her hand.

Although lody got started by his action, she didn't try blocking it. Instead, she showed a stiff smile and waited for the ball of rebirth fla to hit her hand.

anwhile, the fla appeared near her hand and enveloped the area where the claw-like mark appeared before sealing it.

Then, Charles probed for any other anomaly in her body and breathed out a sigh of relief.

"They won't be able to track your location now." In truth, tracking her would be an impossible task for anyone from that organization. Currently, she was more than 1000 km away from the Eastern Forest and even used a different transportation thod to co here.

Still, he thought it would be safer to seal that mark for a while.

Then, Charles took a deep breath, placed the letters on the table, and spoke solemnly.

"You haven't returned to the pocket dinsion for the past one month. Did sothing happen?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

lody nodded her head and answered.

"After joining the Druid's Guild, the official mbers didn't allow to roam outside. But thanks to [Trickster's Mask] skill and my identity, I managed to fool the higher-ups and even beca an elite mber."

"Your identity?" Charles raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I was Lady Laura's student back then, and she was the one who taught everything and even helped multiple tis during our escape from the Magewind city. So, when the old Druids heard about my request to join the Guild, they directly promoted to an Elite mber and even requested to stay there permanently."

"Oh? How is this new organization? Care to tell more about them?" Charles's interest piqued as he heard those words.

'Even if they were affected by her skill, no one would allow a stranger that easily. Although lody has so history with the founders, sothing feels fishy here.' He thought to himself.

In the anti, lody showed a solemn look on her face and spoke.

"The organization has grown to an unimaginable level, Your Majesty. More than thousands of druids are staying in the Guild's headquarters, and almost all of them are newly recruited humans. As for the organization's location, it resides in the deepest part of the Eastern Forest and difficult for anyone to locate it." She deliberated for a mont and then added.

"Also, they seed to find a way to turn a normal human into a Druid using so unique golden leaf. They called it 'Divine Leaf,' and it enchanted a normal human's nature affinity by one level! Although they only use that leaf for the awakening process, its ability to boost one's Nature affinity exceeded common sense."

"Leaf?" Charles widened his eyes in surprise, hurriedly touched his chest area, and took out the [Nature's Leaf] before showing it to her.

"Did it look like this? I an, did that leaf have any star-like symbol like this one?"

At that mont, a surprise flashed on lody's face as she stared at the star-like symbol imprinted [Nature's Leaf] and soon showed a puzzled look on her face.

anwhile, Charles shook his head and added.

"It's called 'Nature's Leaf.' Unlike the other leaf, this one can't boost one's Nature affinity. But I didn't expect that a small group of refugees would possess such an extraordinary item."

On the other hand, lody also showed an impressed look on her face and asked.

"What are your orders, Your Majesty? Should I steal it?" Her voice contained a trace of excitent.

"Nah, you can take that yourself when you took full control over that organization." Charles waved his hand and asked.

"What about the 'Nightmare' Box? Did you get so clue about it?"

As she heard those words, the trace of excitent on lody's face soon disappeared without even a trace and was replaced with a hint of anxiety.

"Y-Yes, Your Majesty. As you have guessed earlier, the one who took the 'Nightmare' Box from Bryson was indeed a Druid's Guild mber. His na was Wade, and he was the leader of the group who brought the 40 plus Druids out of Magewind city to this faraway land. After that, Wade, Laura, and a few other druids created this Nature's Guild and started expanding it to a large organization."

"Where is he now?" Charles raised his eyebrows and asked.

"He died, Your Majesty. From what I've heard from an elite mber, the Nature's Guild and Deceivers' organizations seed to have cooperated to steal the Nightmare box from the Holy See 210 years ago. Although that guy doesn't know the relationship between these two groups and their original goal, he said that the Druid's Guild betrayed Deceivers' organization by sacrificing Lady Laura's life for that artifact-"

"Artifact?" Charles raised his eyebrows and interrupted her all of a sudden.

"Yes, Your Majesty. They called that sealed 'Nightmare' Box a terrifying cursed artifact. From what I learned from him, anyone who stays in the Druid's Guild for more than a month started having nightmares in their dream. There are even cases where so druids went to sleep during the nightti but never woke up. That's why every Druid must leave the organization's headquarters once in a month to neutralize the nightmare effect." lody said in a gloomy tone.

anwhile, Charles nodded his head in understanding and asked further.

"What about Wade? How did he die?"

"After stealing the Nightmare Box from Bryson, Wade returned to Druid's Guild headquarters and tried to open the box with all elite Druids, Your Majesty. From what I heard from an Elite Druid, they appeared to have planned to turn the Nightmare Creature into an artifact. Unfortunately, they underestimated that thing. When Wade tried to open the box, he seed to have entered a coma stage and started losing his lifespan. Within three minutes, he died of old age, and even his body and soul were erased from existence itself." lody paused for a mont and then added in a grim tone.

"Not only him, but those who touched that tallic box also affected by the 'Nightmare' being and turned into ashes."