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Chapter 2: Sanctum
update icon Updated at 2025/5/23 0:10:12

"Azeral's moves are mainly related to the soul, I'm not very clear about the specifics, but I am very confident if you handle it."

"Alright."

After Fred left, Green quickly skimmed through the intelligence about Azeral.

There wasn't much to say. He had seen some basic information about Azeral from Caesar before. The only thing that could be confirmed about Azeral was that his abilities were related to the soul, which Green was aware of.

Those who manipulate souls, Green believed they would not have a good ending.

Meanwhile, in the palace of the Caesar Empire.

Since Tia's last unprepared escape from the capital and being rescued by Green, she no longer dared to run around randomly. However, she didn't know if she had been traumatized or not. Now, besides combat training, Tia hardly did anything else.

Caesar was delighted, thinking that his daughter was becoming more and more motivated. He would definitely hold another martial arts tournament.

If Tia knew about his thoughts, she would probably burst into tears on the spot.

The reason why Tia wanted to increase her own strength was to break free from Caesar's control. At least in terms of marriage, Tia did not want to obey Caesar's orders.

After training today, Tia suddenly thought of something. She found Alice and looked up some files.

"Have all four Sin Lords' whereabouts been found?"

"Yes, someone has already taken on the task of annihilating Azeral."

"Who is it?"

"It seems to be from the side of Falsist, but I'm not sure about the specifics."

"Oh..."

Tia responded with some thoughts in her mind and stopped asking further questions.

During these days, she first learned about Green's identity from Caesar, that he was the king of the Green Kingdom.

Following this lead, Tia did a lot of research, and finally discovered that the Green Kingdom was a newly established country with no referenceable information at all.

The only clue was that the Green Kingdom was built around Falsist and had a friendly relationship with Falsist.

However, based on just a few words from Alice, she could not determine anything further.

"Among these Lords, which one is relatively weaker?"

"... Tia, there are no weak Lords among them... What do you want to do?"

Alice had a bad premonition in her heart, and Tia's answer confirmed this guess.

"Are there any plans to eliminate any Lords in the country recently? I also want to participate in the battle!"

The death of three Lords united the forces on the continent and began a large-scale investigation into the Lords who had existed for hundreds of years.

It can be said that during this period, if anyone dared to do anything illegal, congratulations, you're done, completely done. After being done, pour a pot of boiling water on yourself, and then pour a pot of cold water on yourself.

It can be said to be very exciting.

Based on the intelligence on this side, it seemed that there was an informant within Zion's territory for Azeral, and that informant had allegedly been captured.

Not only that, as Green looked at the simple description of the informant in the information, he couldn't help but feel familiar.

When Green reached his destination and saw the so-called informant, he immediately realized.

"Oh, isn't this an old acquaintance!"

"It's, it's you!?"

The blond man in front of him was full of fear. His name was Delgon Asteria.

Yes, he was the man Green used the Time Gem to rewind time.

He was also the first non-random character to have a conflict with Green after he came to this world.

Since the turmoil before the summoning of the Brave was arrested, this guy had disappeared. And Green had completely forgotten about him afterwards, but this guy was a legendary figure.

Do you remember the attribute panel Green once had?

Inflict irreparable damage with a certain probability.

- That was the description of this legendary man in the attribute panel.

"Long time no see, if it weren't for Azeral this time, I would have forgotten about you. By the way, you did mess with souls back then... So, how have you been?"

Green looked mockingly at Delgon, who was trapped in the dungeon. Even though Delgon's family had power and influence, how could he expect a good outcome after rebelling on the eve of the Brave summoning?

Delgon glared resentfully at Green. For the past few months, he had been living in misery, unable to eat well or sleep well. Most importantly, he hadn't had the chance to play with his "toys" in the basement for a long time, which left him feeling frustrated both mentally and physically.

But he knew that Green wouldn't meet him for no reason this time.

And indeed, that was the case.

"Tell me everything you know about Azeral, or I won't hesitate to end your life right here," Green demanded.

"What Azeral? I don't know anything about Azeral. Isn't Azeral a criminal? How could I possibly know anything about him!" Delgon's reaction was total denial, with awkward acting and inexplicable emotions.

"Forget it, if you don't want to talk, then be prepared for the legendary judge who will come after you," Green said, preparing to leave. However, upon hearing those words, Delgon anxiously reached out to grab Green's hand.

In that moment, his mind was filled with curses.

The legendary judge was a nightmare for criminals, and although it was difficult to acquire his services, Delgon had no doubt about Green's abilities.

Now, the only way to survive was to honestly provide the intelligence.

However, he didn't know that no matter what he said next, his time was running out.

Delgon's misdeeds had already been under investigation, and after the Azeral incident was resolved, his crimes would be proven irrefutably.

At that time, he would have the same fate as a criminal.

Under Delgon's confession, Green quickly obtained more detailed information about Azeral.

Azeral's ability was soul devouring, allowing him to consume souls to prolong his own life. To obtain enough souls, Azeral had chess pieces called "informants" all over the world to find him prey.

Don't be fooled by Azeral's nearing death; he was quite particular in his choices and didn't devour the souls of non-beautiful girls. Therefore, his chess pieces were numerous.

Just like the old man who attached himself to Satala and was initially dealt with by Green, he had once extracted Lilith's soul. Although it was unclear whether it was his own technique or something else, there was no doubt that it had a connection to Azeral.

And the method Azeral used to stay in contact with his informants, including Delgon, was a special black magic circle given by Azeral.

Soon, Green returned to Delgon's underground chamber.

The investigators had already cleaned up the place, but the traces of the magic circle remained.

Seeing this magic circle that he had seen before, Green suddenly thought of the black magic staff.

That staff had been used to open the gateway to hell in the past, but he had forgotten to return it to the Grim Reaper, so he had kept it with him all along.

Now, in retrospect, maybe not returning it to the Grim Reaper was the right choice.

Green took out the staff and placed it on top of the black magic circle, following Delgon's description and using source energy as the casting energy.

Fortunately, the black magic circle emitted a dark red light, indicating that it seemed to be working.

In no time, the staff floated above the magic circle on its own, and with Green's source energy as the casting energy, the effects of the magic circle changed.

At the same time, in a dilapidated ancient ruin, a man with closed eyes, skeletal like, was sitting on a dusty seat.

This man was Azeral, one of the four great Sin Executors still alive.

Suddenly, he felt something and opened his eyes, unleashing sharp rays of light.

At the same time, a translucent figure appeared in front of him.

Upon closer inspection, it was easy to see that the figure was Green.

And a similar outline appeared on Green's side.

Although they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, Green faintly sensed something.

"It seems like something interesting is happening."

"!?"

A voice entered their ears, and Aezral's eyes widened. He quickly released a burst of black mist, trying to cut off the connection to the figure in front of him.

However, Green used source energy as their power source, so Aezral's magic had no effect.

"Don't be in such a hurry. I just want to ask you something, and it seems like you can hear me too."

"..."

Aezral remained silent. He dared not speak.

He knew exactly who was in front of him. It was the man who had killed one of his clones and summoned the flame dragon.

Seeing that Aezral was no longer struggling, Green smiled satisfactorily.

"Where is the dragon's habitat? I want the exact location."

"The sacred domain."

But as soon as the words fell, Aezral felt an excruciating headache.

"I remember I said I wanted the exact location."

The voice sounded a bit impatient, and Aezral immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

"In the sky above the western continent, there is an floating island. In the center of the island, there is a sacred pool, which is the entrance to the dragon's sanctuary."

"Oh?"

Hearing something interesting, it turned out that there was a floating island in this world.

But when it comes to the western continent, Green thought of the continent dividing this world, but it didn't seem to be round like the Earth. Perhaps there was something interesting at the boundary of the tectonic plates.

After hearing this information, the current intelligence was enough.

Killing Aezral directly through this magic array was unrealistic, intimidating him was acceptable, but killing him was really difficult.

However, Aezral seemed unaware of this, so Green left a threatening remark.

"If you dare to cause trouble again recently, your death is not far away."

After saying that, Green's black ghostly figure disappeared in front of Aezral, and Aezral felt a sense of relief. It was then that he realized he was drenched in cold sweat.

Recalling what had just happened, Aezral thought to himself that it was time to accelerate the refinement of the soul medicine.

Thinking this, Aezral closed his eyes again, returning to a posture resembling a dried-up corpse.