Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 963: The Sun God Revealed

Slowly, Charlotteʼs eyes started to flutter open. At first, she could only see a blur in front of her, as her eyes were out of focus. All of the energy felt like it had been drained out of her body and was still being drained now. Her body didnʼt even want to focus on what was in front of her and around her.

Using what will she had, she attempted to move her hands, but it was impossible. All she could tell was they were behind her back, and she could feel her feet planted on the ground.

ʼAm I in some type of chair, tied up?ʼ Charlotte thought, but even her mind was foggy due to her energy levels being low. ʼI canʼt even muster up any mana or anything. What happened? I canʼt even remember properly.ʼ

Although she didnʼt remember how she had gotten here, wherever here was, she was remembering what had occurred before.

ʼI was helping Sunder out. Those from the Church, they were attacking him, just like I thought they would, and then they all used that illegal substance-it gave them magical powers.ʼ

Charlotte was a 3 star mage, and she was quite versatile in her magic abilities. She could deal with one who had magical powers, but multiple ones were a tall task.

The moment she had been struck from behind by the strange power, more beams of energy were hitting her. As a last resort, she had decided to muster all of her Wind magic and blow Sunder as far away as she could. After he landed off in the distance, the last thing she saw was him running away to the city.

ʼWait, thatʼs not quite right. They didnʼt even bother to chase after Sunder. It was after they had learned that I was a mage, they decided to focus on me instead.ʼ

Finally, her vision was becoming clearer, and her other senses were starting to work as well. A foul stench had filled her nose. Her vision returning allowed her to see she was in a dark room; it was dimly lit with a few lights in the corner from some sort of glowing stones.

However, she wished she couldnʼt see, as the sight in front of her was a tragedy. Countless bodies were on the floor, their bodies either pierced through the stomach or slit by the throat, lying on the floor.

Her gag reflex almost activated, but it was almost as if her body couldnʼt even do that. She couldnʼt throw up due to how weak she was feeling.

”Mm!...Mmm!..Mm!”

Turning her head to the side, Charlotte noticed that she wasnʼt alone in the room. Her guess was correct; she was sitting in a chair, tied up, her hands close to the back of the room, but in the space there were two more, who had blindfolds on, as well as their body parts tied.

The thing was, Charlotte recognized them.

”You two, youʼre from the Church as well... they brought you here as well, what for?” Charlotte wanted to shout out; she wanted to use her magic to cut their bindings and get answers, but there was nothing.

Looking around to see if there was something she could use, thatʼs when she spotted a poor boy down by her side, already life lost from him.

”No... Harper... Harper... no... no, no!” Charlotte thought as she shook her head frantically. She didnʼt want to look at the young boy, who had no reason to lose his life, but when she did, she noticed there was something different about Harper compared to the rest.

For one, there were no cuts on his body, no blood, yet his life had clearly ended. When she looked under his body, she could see a magic circle drawn underneath him. It was a formation she hadnʼt seen before, and she was too low a star level to even have any idea of what it could accomplish.

When she looked down below her own chair, she noticed the same.

”A magic formation under me as well, and then there are links.”

A magic circle was drawn around her and her chair. Then branching off, a line could be seen connected to the two that were tied up. Equally, there were two more magic circles around them as well.

The image, if one was to look from a birdʼs eye view, looked a lot like that of the images in the Church-of the sun, and connected links streaming off from it.

In the middle of her thoughts as she tried to figure out what was happening, she heard footsteps. Eventually coming out from the stairs were three dressed in robes, and at the center of them all was Carl.

”You... you!” Charlotte tried to go after him, but all she could muster up were a couple of words.

Carl eventually walked up to Charlotte and stood a few meters away from her.

”You ruined my plans, you know, but itʼs no wonder since you are a mage,” Carl said. ”Itʼs the first time Iʼve actually managed to get my hands on one.”

”But look at this!” Carl said, pointing toward the two that were tied up. ”Because of you, there arenʼt enough sacrifices to perform the ceremony. Although, thereʼs a chance because youʼre a mage that things could work better.”

”After all, itʼs you mages and your power that are able to form links between different worlds, right?” Carl smiled.

In all honesty, Charlotte had no clue what Carl was even talking about. Them creating bridges or what this magic circle was for.

”This ceremony is twofold. We use the sacrifices to call and link with those above. They are always observing and watching us,” Carl explained. ”Then that goes down and gets stuck in you. After that, we extract the energy from you and deliver it to our Sun God.”

”That is your duty-you are to be used as a pass-through project, in order to allow us to gain great strength. It doesnʼt always work though, and at times the energy we have is used to make various weapons or tools that we can use as well.”

”Our god has given us a lot, and we have to pay him back for all the miracles he has solved. We pass on all the energy from the realm above to Gizin, our Sun God.”

The moment Charlotte heard the name, she was left with deep confusion. Gizin-a name very familiar in the world of Alterian; there wouldnʼt be a single person, mage or not, who wouldnʼt know him. As they were the largest supplier of pharmaceuticals for the general public and mages, creating medicine and even special clothing to enhance the lives of the people, he was one of the Grand Magus.