The Arcane God - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Who Are You?
As the sun slowly descended to the western horizon, signifying the arrival of nightfall, the ghostly orbs of light began to dissipate.

But all of a sudden, the door of the hut was pushed open, just as the last last orb of ether vanished, plunging the whole chamber into darkness.

“Who is there?” Oscar jumped up, raised his hand and threw out a magical ball of light. Immediately afterwards, a longbow appeared in his hand, aiming at the direction of the door.

“Light magic?” The visitor asked in surprise as the ball of light lit up the room. “You can already conjure light flares?”

“Master?” Oscar was shocked, and quickly put away his bow and arrow, but he was in a panic. He thought to himself: This was bad. Why did he use the light magic just now? “I didn’t know you were coming.”

Oberon stared at the boy, his eyes flickered a few times, and he said. “Come with me.”

Oscar stabilized his mind, dismissed the ball of light, then lowered his head and followed Oberon all the way to the master’s abode.

Entering the room, Oberon closed the door, walked to the table at the centre of the chamber and sat down, his eyes always fixed on Oscar. However, Oscar lowered his head and stood at the end of the table in a state of confusion, not daring to speak.

Oscar didn’t know how long it took, but he only felt that every second was as long as a year. Neither of the two said a word as the mage master seemed to be thinking about something in his mind.

“Oscar, you are hiding something from me, aren’t you?” After a long time, Oberon finally broke the deadlock.

Oscar lowered his head, thinking to himself: This is going to be a difficult discussion. He was already found out. What should he do?

“Alright.” Oberon continued. “If you don’t want to say it, then I’ll ask you something. You just need to answer yes or no, okay?”

“Yes, master.”

Oberon paused and said, “Is your body a sacred one, yes, or no?”

Oscar lowered his head and said nothing. He thought to himself: He just wouldn’t say anything but would just pretend to be ignorant of it all.

Seeing that Oscar didn’t respond, Oberon didn’t force him, and then said. “Alright then. If you don’t answer me, that means you’re acquiescing. Not only do I know that you have a sacred body, but also that the way you’re harnessing ether was a long forgotten, but extremely powerful skill known as the Twilight Skill.”

“Master, do you also know about this skill?” Oscar suddenly raised his head and asked in surprise.

In fact, it was no wonder that Oscar was shocked when he heard Oberon mentioning the skill. It was a forgotten skill shown to him by the remnant. How could his master know about this skill?

Oscar’s heart was filled with question marks. But soon, he was shocked by something hanging on the wall that he saw through the corner of his eye.

“Actually, I didn’t know this skill really exists.” After hearing Oscar’s question, Oberon laughed, and seemed to have finally confirmed one thing, and said mysteriously. “But after listening to you now, I’m certain it does.”

Oberon went to the library of the academy to find information about Oscar’s special way of harnessing ether, and it took him several days to search the library, but unfortunately he found nothing.

After that, the mage went directly from Profound Academy to the Alcoves in the city. After several days of searching, he also found nothing. However, when he was disheartened and was about to come back, he met an old cleric, an elder named Murdock.

Because of their close relationship, Oberon mention Oscar’s skill of refinement to the old diviner. After the elder heard the issue, and thought for a while, he told Oberon a legendary tale.

Many years ago, there was a legend being told by the former grand elder. It was said that thousands of years ago, a refiner, precisely a mage, with a divine saint body appeared on the mainland.

This mage created an ether harnessing skill after he became a divine mage, which could be done when dark and light energy of the sun and moon alternated in the sky.

When harnessing ether during this period, it would mobilize the universal energy of the world into orbs of lights to strengthen the body, thereby achieving rapid improvement in the power base of the refiner. It was called the Eventide.

But there was a catch. This kind of exercise could only be practiced by those with the bodies of a saint. But how could many refiners have a saint body? Not many. A saint refiner might not even appear in thousands of years.

Therefore, after this skill was created, it was not passed down to the next generation. Gradually, it became lost to time. Ever since, nobody knew if this kind of skill was real or made-up. Whether it really existed or not, there was no way to verify it. Only its legend was left behind.

After hearing this tale from the former grand elder, he, Murdock, only regarded it as a legend and did not take it to heart. Ever since, even during discussions among the elders, the legend was never mentioned. It was similar to what was now happening with the boy.

After Oberon returned to the school premises, he didn’t take this old legend seriously. So when Calder asked about it, Oberon just shook his head, saying that there was no development.

But after a day, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this legend was very similar to Oscar’s skill of harnessing ether.

So, in the evening of the following day, Oberon secretly observed Oscar outside his room with his true sight for a long time, and finally came up with a way to set up such a plan to see Oscar during his refinement time.

As a result, he discovered Oscar’s secret which really shocked him. He couldn’t believe the legend was true.

Oberon looked at Oscar in surprise. Not only was the boy using a skill that was long forgotten, but he also had a sacred body. Who was this boy?