Fire Mage

Chapter 501: Disasters (Part-2)

Just as Charles spoke, a strange vibration appeared from the ground and caused the surrounding air and the land to tremble.

Both Charles and Pope glanced at each other and soon felt that the minute amount of the divine power in the surrounding air disappeared all of a sudden!

'The earlier 'Time-stop' spell affected the surrounding spatial elements?' A surprise flashed on Charles's face.

At that moment, he knew that Pope's Domain power had lessened in the surroundings due to this strange phenomenon and felt glad inside.

"What did you do?!" 

Meanwhile, Pope showed an icy look on his face and asked him.

At the same time, he again moved his crozier and was about to attack him but stopped!

At that moment, he also seemed to have gotten a dangerous premonition and went pale in an instant.

Not only that, drops of blood came out from the corner of his eyes and drenched his wrinkled face.

"N-NO! Y-YOU-!" He suddenly made a furious look on his face, locked his gaze on Charles, and instantly cast [Mark of Truth] spell on him.

The next instant, a dense amount of invisible ray suddenly appeared out of his crozier and flew towards Charles at an unimaginable speed.

The fragment of Truth power entered Charles's body in a blink and directly imprinted on his soul form.

Meanwhile, Charles sensed an anomaly in his body and soon frowned.

At that moment, he felt like Pope's gaze seemed to have penetrated through his wisdom barrier and directly observed his physical strength and magical spells.

'A tracking spell?' 

He felt essence-filled light energy from that mark and snorted coldly.

In truth, it was just like the tracking spell he had seen in Lost Tombs Dungeon. At that moment, an incarnation of the mysterious mage named Felix Starfall cast such a mark spell on him and tries to track his location in the future. 

But during Charles's rebirth process, that mark also got washed away by the rebirth flame.

'But this one indeed is troublesome. If I didn't erase it sooner, Pope might learn more about me. It's better to break the tracking spell sooner.' He gave a swift glance at the newly appeared curse, flapped the black wings, and back away.

Meanwhile, Pope took a deep breath to calm down his mind and spoke coldly.

"Remember this! I'll come after you and hunt you down even if you run to the end of this world!"

On the other hand, Charles panted lightly and shook his head.

Just as he was about to say something, his vision went blurry all of a sudden and showed him multiple future images!

'F*ck! Not at this moment!' He almost cursed inwardly and hurriedly activated both the 'Nature's leaf' and cast [Sun's Guard] spell.

At that moment, Pope also noticed the strangeness and snickered.

Distraction during battle was a godsend opportunity for any person, so he didn't dare to miss such an opportunity. 

Before Charles could take a deep look at those images, he took out a strange dagger from his waist and directly stabbed his own heart!

Simultaneously, he raised his left hand, pointed his forefinger at Charles, and muttered.

"Heaven's Heart!"

Then, he turned into pure golden light and tried to teleport from there.

But to his shock, a dense spatial fluctuation appeared in the surrounding area and prohibited him from teleporting!

It was not due to Charles's spell, though. 

In truth, the earlier 'Time-Stop' effect caused the spatial disturbance.

'Oh no!' Pope's face turned pale for some unknown reason as he looked up at the dark sky in panic and then shifted his gaze towards the lone mountain.

A second later, he created two light wings behind his back, flapped them forcefully, and shot towards the Holy See like a bullet! 

On the other hand, Charles didn't even have any time to look at Pope as he was assaulted by sharp pain and clutched his chest in shock.

Even though he activated his defensive spells, Pope's spell seemed to have bypassed the two barriers without any problem and harmed him!

'Did he stab my heart?' He gritted his teeth and looked in the direction where Pope was flying like a scared cat. 

He then looked at his elemental body but saw no visible stabbed wound on his chest area. 

Confusion appeared on his face.

'There is no wound? But why do I feel a deep pain in my heart? Another curse?'

He instantly conjured a ball of soul fire and tried to heal it. But he soon noticed that a unique Light essence appeared deep inside his heart region and affected his soul fire from even reaching inside!

'No good!' 

A deep sense of scorching sensation appeared in his chest area, causing him to grimace.

'It is trying to wound my heart?'

He cast a ball of fire with pure rebirth essence, created a cube-like form, and directly pushed it into the area where his elemental heart was located.

Simultaneously, he noticed that his rebirth flame cube had started attacking the Light Essence and soon froze it!

Upon seeing this, a smile crept on his face.

At that moment, he knew that Rebirth Flame had stopped the Light Essence from spreading everywhere and felt relieved!

As long as the Rebirth Flame eradicated the unique light essence in his elemental heart, Charles doesn't have to worry about it.

'I should leave first.'  He shifted his attention towards the future images he received earlier and soon stiffened up. 

'A volcanic eruption!'

Muttering inwardly, he enveloped his body in a crimson flame and tried to teleport away from there. But just like what happened to Pope, the surrounding spatial elements appeared in a disoriented manner and prohibited him from teleporting! 

He also tried to enter the Astral Plane in alarm but couldn't!

'I'm in deep sh*t now!'

Just as he flapped his Fallen Angel's Wings in a hurry to get away from here, a hot gust of air filled with sulfur and lava liquids came from the hole that Pope's Light Spell created earlier and enveloped him all of a sudden!

If not for him in fire-elemental form, he would've been struck by the lava balls and rocks and ended up in a tattered position.

Still, the mere gust of sulfur air tossed him up in the sky at an unimaginable speed.

While flying, he looked below with a pensive look on his face and flapped his wings constantly to stabilize his movement.

At that moment, he heard a rumbling sound from the deep belly of the earth and soon saw that the surrounding 5 km radius of land rose upward and downward like some monster waking up from its deep sleep!

Simultaneously, more gusts of air filled with volcanic gases and lavas came out from multiple areas and outstretched towards the sky like some hot springs. But instead of water, the ones that appeared from the ground were seas of lava balls, volcanic gases, rocks, and darkish grey ashes!

The next instant, the lone mountain's summit suddenly swelled up and exploded violently while sending tons and tons of lavas up in the sky.

A second later, a shockwave filled with destructive power spread in all directions while ripping everything in its path. Even Charles got affected by the shockwave and flew towards the Holy See's direction.

Meanwhile, the Holy See and the whole Nightmare forest, which appeared to be around a 20 to 25 km radius, got completely enveloped in greyish ash in the next few seconds. All the trees and vegetation were either burned up or eradicated due to the shockwave!

Large stones from the volcanic mountain's mouth hit the air constantly, turned into crimson fireballs, and burst into flames. The fireballs then flew along with the gust of wind and spread towards the upper atmosphere. It was a very massive and powerful eruption and spread everywhere. 

As the ash and lava spread up to the sky, Charles flapped his wings and flew higher while evading all the flying fireballs in midair.

'This is not some normal disaster! The whole Light Kingdom might get affected by this meteorite-like shower!' He wouldn't be surprised if this incident caused a temperature change in the Aetas Kingdom and affected everyone's life!

If he had known this earlier, he wouldn't have thought of using it.

'No, I had no choice earlier. If I didn't use this dice, there is a high chance that damned Pope might have killed me!' He grumbled inwardly and looked below.

At that moment, the powerful ashes continued to rise from the lone mountain and formed into a giant mushroom cloud that almost looked like a nuclear explosion cloud!

'What a terrifying disaster!' He looked at the surrounding areas from the sky and soon noticed nothing visible to his eyes.

The Holy See, the forest, and even the lone mountain were enveloped in a greyish cloud of ashes!

Just as he wondered whether the Holy See survived this disaster, a monstrous amount of light energy gathered from below and soon cleaned away the nearby ashes in other directions.

Then, a tattered city appeared in front of Charles's eyes. Even though the outer wall and the strange dome made of pure light remained still, the Holy See seemed to have gone through many changes and appeared more like a funeral house.. The earlier shockwaves destroyed tens of thousands of houses, and casualties occurred higher inside the city.