Fire Mage

Chapter 454: Important News

Nine months passed in a blink.

During the past nine months, Charles stayed inside his Inner World, completely comprehended the chaos fireball, and created a unique Pseudo Rank-6 spell called [Fire Rain].

It was a large-scale attack spell that could eradicate a whole kingdom in a blink.

Moreover, his other chaos fire spells had also upgraded to peak Rank-5 Rank spells!

At this moment, he was nothing but a walking disaster.

'No, I haven't encountered the Awakens yet. And, I heard that there is also a different level gap between the Awakens.' He didn't dare to take them lightly.

Currently, he hovered in the dark sky and stared at the 20 meters large chaos spell model with a solemn look on his face.

'It took longer than I thought!' He breathed a sigh of relief, descended from the sky, and soon landed at the central island.

It was the place where the elemental imprint was located.

Once he landed on the rocky floor, he shifted his attention towards the palace and noticed that his three consciousnesses were also inside.

He then closed his eyes, read the past nine months of memories, and soon learned that they had already created the Star Constellation Book!

But what startled him was the result of his physical body training.

'Oh? My body physique only awakened up to Expert Knight Level?' Although he was startled by the slow progression, he didn't put too much thought into it. Then, he shifted his attention towards politics and learned some important news.

The first one was about the official coronation ceremony date of the crown prince!

Not only that, but the Royals also made another announcement saying that they banished the Second Prince Julius from the Royal Family and even put Julius's mother under house arrest!

'Banishment? Why?' He soon glanced at the other important news and became stunned.

'No wonder they banished me. So, it was my consciousness' doing, huh.'

Although Julius was the Second Prince of Aetas Kingdom, his mother wasn't the Queen of this Kingdom but a consort. So, she didn't hold much power in the Royal Palace and failed to stop the banishment.

The same goes for Leone's mother.

The late King Ezequiel had four wives. The first wife was the Queen of Aetas Kingdom and also the daughter of Duke Ismael.

She had two daughters and one son. Her son was none other than the playboy Crown Prince, Quinn Matthias Claymoore.

'But the problem is not the Crown Prince but Duke Ismael… He is the Guardian of Aetas Kingdom and also the only Awaken powerhouse.' If not for his protection, the whole kingdom might've fallen long ago.

The second wife was Julius's mother. She was the first consort of the late King and had no noble background like other wives.

Her father was just a famous merchant and owned many luxury shops. The reason the late King Ezequiel chose to marry her was because of her beauty.

The third wife was Prince Leone's mother, while the fourth wife had two daughters.

But they were just a part of the Royal Family, though.

'Ezequiel also had two younger brothers… Both are also Royals under the kingdom's law and had equal right to inherit the throne. This Royal Family is more like a large noble household. If it were any other kingdom, the successor problem would've escalated to a whole new level. But because of Duke Ismael, no one dared to raise their voice. If not for the third prince's and Julius's protest, the Royal Family would've enthroned Quinn long ago.'

The coronation news arrived just a day before yesterday and caused restlessness among all the soldiers. Even Melody and Irzoch got scared by this news and were waiting for his decision.

The second important news was about the third prince of Aetas Kingdom.

'If I'm not wrong, this kid is a genius and a crafty brat.' He also recalled his personal information.

Leone Matthias Claymoore… He turned 19 this year and had two-third of the kingdom nobles' support. He had both political and army support. In truth, Julius and Leone had a good relationship, but that soon ended when King Ezequiel died of a heart attack two years ago.

Currently, there was a strange rumor spreading among the masses that Leone had gone missing.

All this time, he stayed in Duke Edwin's private guest house and remained firm on his decision. He even gathered an army under the shadow of Duke Edwin and was planning to invade the Royal Capital. But two months ago, he went out with Duke Edwin for a hunting game but never returned.

As Charles read the information, he couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

'So, Duke Edwin already formed an agreement with Duke Ismael, huh. No wonder the Royal Family announced the coronation ceremony sooner.' In truth, Duke Michael, aka Irzoch, also received a secret letter from the Royal Family two months ago. But Charles's consciousness told her not to respond to that letter and did something unbelievable in Grime Plains.

'This incident gave them a chance to banish me.' He shook his head and shifted his attention towards the other information.

The third important news was about an assassin.

Three months ago, an assassination incident happened. At that time, a servant tried to stab his consciousness in the back when he went out to train his body. Thankfully, his [Forewarning] skill warned him about the danger, and he managed to evade the fatal attack.

'But the assassin used dark magic and escaped?' He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

After some thought, he shook his head and finally shifted his attention towards the Grime Plains incident.

After Bishop Blake took control over the Darkwell Town, he brought more Light Knights from the Holy See and declared that territory as Light Kingdom's territory.

This news caused rage among all the Aetas Kingdom citizens. To others' shock, the Royal Family didn't make a single comment about this incident and acted like it wasn't their problem. At first, the Third Prince Leone and Charles's consciousness accused Bishop Blake of illegally occupying Aetas Kingdom's territory and even sent a warning letter to the Holy See.

Unfortunately, the Light Kingdom didn't take both of the Princes' words seriously and even ignored to send a reply.

But Irzoch and his consciousness didn't give up and decided to give everyone a huge surprise.

First, Irzoch and his consciousness went to Grime Plains with two-thousand elite knights and invaded the occupied territory. They didn't show any mercy towards any Light Knights and killed everyone.

It was a massacre!

Moreover, they imprisoned Bishop Blake, cut both of his hands under the watchful eyes of thousands, and put him in the dungeon cell!

His action was more like a tight slap to the Light Kingdom!

That's the main reason the Royal Family banished him and indirectly told everyone that what he did in the Grime Plains had nothing to do with them.

"A bunch of cowards." An amusing smile appeared on his face. Although he planned on making the Light Church a political enemy, his consciousness did the opposite and reduced his future troubles.

'Next is about my current army power.' Indeed, his consciousness also created an elite legion under his name and even trained them harder. There were only 1,050 people in this legion, and this legion was further divided into 21 squads while having one Radiant Knight as the leader in each squad.

As for the rest, all of them were Crystal Knights!

Although their strength wasn't enough to take down an army, they could more or less do all kinds of stealth missions.

As Charles read about this legion, he couldn't help but praise inwardly.

Then, he shifted his attention towards other information like Demon Sorcerer Nash's suspicious movements, the appearance of two Druids in the Royal Capital, and so on and decided to read them wholly.

Once he read all those memories, he silently left his Inner World, waking up in the physical world, and noticed that he was resting in his room.

Then, he sat up, stepped down from the bed, and went towards the bathroom to take a long bath. A few minutes later, he walked out of the bathroom, wore a nightgown, and went near the table.

After that, he touched his space ring and took out a black-covered notebook from it. Even though he hadn't opened the book, he felt a familiar power from inside and got surprised.

Then, he opened the notebook and started checking whether if his consciousnesses had made any mistake for the next few minutes. This book appeared similar to the previous Star Constellation Book and even had the same mysterious blank page in the middle. Not only that, but Charles also saw some unique marks at the twelve corners of this blank page and got startled a little.

'Hmm? What are these? Each of these marks appears creepy and, at the same time, unique.' He hurriedly searched for the cause from his consciousnesses' memories and learned that they also didn't have any clue about it.

After confirming that there was no danger from those marks, he sat on the ladderback chair and put the opened notebook on the table.

After that, he also took out the ink bottle and quill pen from his space ring, dipped the quill's brush into the ink, and began to write on the mysterious blank paper.