Fire Mage (Web Novel)
chapter-427

'How did my stealth mission turned out to be like this? This looks more like a perfect ambush!' Charles looked at the thousands of knights in the vision and shifted his attention towards the sky.

At that moment, he saw a black-winged Knight hovering up in the dark sky and was looking at him with a stern look on his face. He held a black sword in his right hand and appeared calm as water. He was in his late 40s, had long silver hair, triangle face, pure white eyes, two bat-like wings, and looked more like a noble vampire from the legends. Charles also saw two more golden-winged knights hovering in the opposite direction and turned grim.

Anyone could tell that this was a well-planned ambush.

'But how did they know of my arrival? Did Irzoch betray me? No, my spell connection is still active. There is no way she has the power to fool the black fire hiding in her Dark Space.' At that moment, he subconsciously thought of the mysterious person named Victor.

'Is this his set up? But even if he is a powerful seer, I should've known that someone is probing my future, right? Why didn't I feel anything? From the looks of it, they seem to have find a way to hide their presence from my wisdom power! Otherwise, I wouldn't have ended up being surrounded by thousands of people.' Confusion appeared in his eyes.

'Should I abandon this mission? The opposite party even seemed to have locked the space and put me in a bitter position.' He blinked his eyes and soon saw that the whole surroundings suddenly broke into millions of pieces.

A moment later, Charles found himself standing in the middle of the dense woods and turned solemn.

Even though it was only around 5 P.M, the dense trees completely blocked the sunlight and made the atmosphere gloomier.

'I can't back out now. I want to know how this mysterious Victor managed to see the future without alerting me. Although I can go back to my territory and hide there for a while, I don't think that the opposite party would wait for me to make preparations.' He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then heaved a heavy sigh.

'This is a very big anomaly in my future.' He opened his eyes and made up his mind.

'I will use a completely different method and take things much slower. I want to know if this guy could actually see every future of mine.' A cold glint appeared in his eyes.

First, he raised his hand, touched his face, linked his mind with one of the shapeshifting imprints, and dismissed his current identity.

A second later, his wavy blonde hair turned into deep blue color, his azure blue eyes turned into jade one, his smooth face turned little rough, and even his height started to increase a little.

Before long, he turned into his original appearance!

Alas, he changed his original appearance into his younger self to match his dress size.

If someone looked at his current appearance, they would consider him as a foreigner.

Indeed, his original appearance actually looked more like a people from another kingdom from the north called 'Crido Kingdom.'

But they rarely appear in the Aetas Kingdom.

'Alas, no one would think of me as a Daniel. No, I should be more careful of this Victor guy.' He nodded inwardly and released his wisdom power in all directions.

Once he noticed that no humans appeared in the surroundings, he breathed a sigh of relief and flew upward. Once he reached a certain height, he suspended in the air and looked down from the sky.

He saw the Grime Plains territory, the nearby Snakewall Valley, a small mountain range, and soon shifted his gaze towards the northern side.

It was the direction where Duke Michael's territory was located.

After that, he moved further into the white clouds and flew towards the northern direction.

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Charles continued to fly in the sky for the next 30 minutes and soon reached the territory of Duke Michael. Then, he activated [Conceal] skill and hid his presence in the sky.

At that moment, the whole sky was filled with dark clouds. Flashes of lightning appeared in the sky from time to time and caused the entire territory to lighten up.

While Charles flew into the Duke's territory, darkness also descended to every part of the territory.

Thankfully, this benefited him to conceal his presence even more.

Soon, he reached the north-eastern side and started searching for the fortified castle building.

A few minutes later, he finally saw a Dinton castle and soon smiled.

It was a stone keep type castle. Charles also matched it with the castle blueprint and confirmed that this was his target.

Eight towers were connected by tall stone walls and looked majestic even from the sky. Castle walls were very high, and the stones used to build the walls appeared thick and sturdy.

Even though he was hovering more than 3000 meters away from the castle, it wasn't difficult for him to see everything.

'But where are the thousands of soldiers?' Currently, the whole castle looked empty.

If Charles hadn't seen the earlier vision, he would've loosened his guard and directly flew towards the castle.

'Something feels off.'

He squinted his eyes sharper and released his wisdom power.

A second later, an invisible ripple came from the sky, spread towards the castle, nearby grassland, the lone hill, and the forest, and covered the whole surroundings.

But to his shock, not a single soul appeared in his scan. Other than a few travelers who were camping near the lone hill, nothing appeared in his scan.

"It seems this plane has some technique to hide away from one's wisdom scan.'

Muttering inwardly, he turned himself into an elemental form, disappeared into his Inner World, and then opened his eyes in the Astral Plane.

At that moment, his surroundings turned gloomier and looked darker. He also saw some wandering ghost clouds here and there in the sky, then turned his gaze towards the castle and frowned.

'I sense a foul smell from that castle.' Even though he was in his soul form, he sensed some nasty smell from the castle.

'What is that black layer covering the castle?' He felt a mixture of chaos and death power covered in all over the place.

'I sense the power of death looming over there.'

A second later, he covered his soul form in a red flame and started to descend.

Although the rebirth flame enveloped his soul form in the Astral Plane, no fire-elemental energy appeared in the Faith Realm.

Currently, his existence was disappeared entirely from the physical plane.

He was more like a ghost now!

'I don't think that seer could track my location in the Astral Plane.' He nodded inwardly and continued to descend.