Chapter 189 - Nathan's Legendary Spell

  Ricardo:

  The boy advanced slowly toward Eliza, each step unleashing brutal wind bsts that tossed her around like a mere toy at the mercy of an untrolled force. Eliza was hurled through the air, boung across the water’s surface, each impact reverberating with a muffled thud and leaving a trail of agony in her expression.

  With a fluid and precise movement, the boy summoned a water serpent that coiled around Eliza in a relentless whirlwind, dragging her back toward him. The water swirled around her like a living maelstrom until she was flung directly into his arms.

  He held her cruelly, his fingers pressing against Eliza’s face with merciless forearly crushing her. His blue eyes, cold as ice, locked onto hers with a chilling indifference.

  “What are your st words?” he asked, his voice filled with disdain.

  Eliza tried to retaliate with a desperate headbutt, but she was too weak to make any impact.

  “I don’t have a brother,” she whispered, ughing through the pain. “And I should have killed you during that date.”

  The boy’s gaze remaieady as he brought his hand closer to her face, the air around them growing hotter and more suffog.

  “It was a good date, each of us pying our roles. Now, go to hell already feeling its heat.” With these words, flickering blue fmes erupted from his hand, engulfing Eliza’s body. The fmes were intense and uing, burning mercilessly. Eliza struggled fiercely, her screams tearing through the air as she desperately tried to extinguish the fire, throwing herself into the water. But the fmes persisted, dang around her even while submerged. Each attempt to douse the fire only deepened her despair.

  Finally, Eliza's body emerged from the water, pletely charred and motionless. Her skin, once marked by determination, was now nothing more than a bed, twisted mass, an unreizable burnt corpse.

  “Eliza!” I screamed, but the word was swallowed by the howling wind, as terror seized me. My voice faltered, filled with a visceral fear. The boy, ued by Eliza's death, simply turned, his pierg blue eyes shining intensely as they fixed oh an idifferehat sent chills down my spine.

  “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?” Desperation and helplessness poured from my voice, each word a plea. His presence was suffog, crushing any remaining will to resist.

  “I am something you should never have provoked!” he decred, his voice calm yet heavy with a final verdict.

  He raised his hand toward the sky, a blue light radiating from his fingers, spreading with growing iy. The wind began to blow from all dires, like a chorus of sinister whispers rising in volume. The surrounding trees swayed violently, as if trying to resist the storm, while the river trembled, almost as if it were attempting to flee from the impending horror.

  Massive clouds gathered and darkened, swirling as if the sky itself were being ed by an abyss.

  “This is impossible! No power bend a natural phenomenon to its will!” I shouted, disbelief mixed with horror as I withe impossible unfolding before me.

  “I am the natural phenomenon,” he replied, his voice calm at the eye of the storm, as if the entire world were under his and. With a siep toward me, the weight of the tempest increased, and I felt my body weaken, uo resist the overwhelming force pressing down from all sides.

  As he moved, the water around him seemed to react, alive and raging. The sky above us was dominated by an immense bck cloud, swirling into a sinister vortex as if nature itself obeyed his and. Every lightning bolt that split the clouds cast violent fshes across the surrounding forest, briefly illuminating the horror of the se.

  This should! I thought, as fear crept over me. What he was doing was beyond what any mage should be capable of.

  He kept his hand raised, and the vortex in the sky respowisting in spirals of immeasurable power. The atmosphere was charged, the air vibrated, and an overwhelming aura of destru loomed over us.

  "There once was a man who aimed to kill a god…" he began to t, his voice reverberating with an authority that struck deep into my soul. Lightning burst around us, dang with deadly brilliance as the forest was ed by the fury of the heavens. "And to do so, he became a god…" His words were like a decree, each sylble bearing the weight of turies of hatred. The clouds above formed into a colossal circle, as if we were at the ter of a forbidden ritual.

  "AHHH!" A scream of agony escaped my lips as a bde pierced my chest from behind. The searial felt like it was ing my insides, spreading a corrosive fire that made me tremble in pain. It was as if every cell in my body was burning from within.

  "Martha, what are you doing?" the boy asked, his expression showing a hint of fusion. He hadn’t expected this interruption.

  "Young master, that spell is far too dangerous. Your aunt forbade its use." The feminine voice that responded was calm but carried an unyielding authority.

  "I just wao have a little fun… you said you wouldn’t interfere," he replied, sounding someetunt, like a child being scolded for mischief.

  "You’ve had enough fun. Don’t fet that your aunt’s and is absolute. I ot allow you to disobey her."

  I tried to turn around to see the source of that anding voice, but before I could move, a brutal impact sent me flying. My body was hurled violently, nding hard on the riverbank, the impaearly making me bck out from the pain.

  "AHH!" I tried to scream, but all that came out was a desperate moan, interrupted by the torment of the bde driving deeper into my chest. The sword seemed to pulse with a malevolent energy, disrupting any attempt to el my mana.

  What is this!? Make it stop! I pleaded inwardly, but the agony tinued relentlessly.

  "This bde is causing you so much pain that even your mana els are blocked," said a woman with a cold expression, dressed as a maid, approag me with slow, calcuted steps. "You try to use yic all you want… but as long as it’s inside you, it’s useless."

  Her gaze was unwavering, her eyes gleaming with an icy ruthlessness, as if my suffering was merely a trivial detail to her.

  The sky above suddenly cleared, as if the storm had never existed. The dark clouds that had threateo e the world vanished in an instant, leaving behind a hauntiiness. The trast to the hellish se that had just unfolded was uling, as if reality itself were mog my agony.

  Before I could prehend what was happening, a pnt-like serpent leaped from the shadows, coiling arouh crushing force. Its tendrils were like living s, firm and unyielding. I tried to summon my earth magic, searg for any remnants of power to expel the bde from my body, but the pain was incapacitating. The metal burned my insides, blog any attempt to trol my mana.

  "AHHHHHHHHHH!" A desperate scream tore from my throat, the pain so overwhelming it felt like it was ing my very soul.

  "You struggle all you want," the boy said with terrifying ess, his pierg blue eyes fixed on me like aioner before his victim. "I’ve driven that bde into myself before, just to test it, and tried to force it out with magic. It doesn’t work. This metal is deeply cursed, even for me."

  Then, from the depths of the forest, other women emerged slowly. I reized their silhouettes instantly, and panic gripped me.

  The three women stared at me.

  The other… Chloe Evenhart… and that maid… the head maid of the family…

  "The first thing this metal does is burn through your mana els," the maid expined, a cold smile curving her lips. "Then it begins to burn your flesh, and finally, your mind. The pain is unbearable, dissolving your will to fight. You bee immobilized, eternally trapped between life ah as the agony es you pletely."

  "Over the years, we've discovered that the damage from this metal isn't just physical," Nathan Evenhart tinued, his voice devoid of any passion. "It strikes the soul. Just toug it is enough to incapacitate us. There’s no esg it."

  They stared at me, cold and unmoved, like predators watg their desperate prey. My body trembled involuntarily, and my thoughts were ed by a primal fear. I knew, at that moment, there was no esg this hell.

  "Are you the man who tried to harm my son?" the mother asked, as the pnt serpent tightes grip, intensifying my pain.

  "I'll make him talk, Lady Katherihe maid said, her eyes gleaming with sick satisfa, her smile growing even more sadistic.

  Chloe Evenhart, who had remained silent until then, suddenly spoke, her voice almost indifferent, yet filled with curiosity.

  "I wonder who sent him?"

  Her words were an insult to my dignity. They were toying with me, pying with my pain as if I were just another pie their board.

  Damn it! my mind screamed. Who are these people? They were always oep ahead of us!

  "I'm sorry to disappoint you," I mao mutter between groans of pain, my voice breaking uhe torment. "I… will… not… reveal anything."

  The maid sloroached, her grin widening as if my defiance was a victory in itself.

  "I was hoping you'd say that," she said, her voice brimming with a twisted sense of joy. "It'll make my job that much more fun."

  "Your friend was quite clever," Nathan Evenhart said, his voice ced with a chilling ess. "She realized that provokio killing her was a far less painful option than living with the certainty of being tortured in every imaginable way to extraformation."

  His eyes were fixed ohe blue glow radiating a cold iy. His posed demeanor only made his words more terrifying, as if death was a calcuted decision rather than aional one.

  "But don't worry," he tiaking a step forward. "I never inteo capture her anyway. I definitely wouldn't capture someone capable of summoning a Soul Golem if they mao break free from this sword."

  Chloe Evenhart stepped forward, her gaze equally cold.

  "You shouldn’t have messed with the Evenharts," she said, her voice id cutting.

  She made a quick motion with her hand, and a wave of cold surged through my body. The frost spread cruelly, slowly eng my skin, seeping into my flesh. I felt my limbs start to stiffen, my entire body freezing as if ed from the i.

  "Sweet dreams," Chloe whispered, her voice the st thing I heard before darkness pletely swallowed me. "When you wake up, you will live a nightmare."

  Those were the st words I heard before I ulled into an abyss of darkness and cold, my body paralyzed, my mind desding into plete unsciousness.