Julius seemed to suddenly realize something. His pitch-black pupils, which had contracted due to Helos’s pain, suddenly widened a few degrees.
Magic. She mentioned ‘magic’. And the hand that was infused with holy light was currently pressed against her body.
Her pain did not stem from her ‘curse’. This fact, which he had overlooked since their reunion, now struck his chaotic thoughts like a thunderbolt.
Helos’s null magic field, that innate ‘curse,’ would absolutely not disappear without reason!
It was a lock rooted in the deepest part of her soul, but whether it was good or bad, no one could say clearly.
Julius did not know the true nature of this curse, but it was the reason he could become the girl’s ‘close friend.’
Its disappearance was no miracle; someone must have tampered with it.
Those Chaos Believers not only induced her to touch the power of chaos, they even found a way to temporarily ‘deactivate’ her curse!
Julius instantly understood. He finally understood why Helos had been corrupted by those evil powers.
Because her ‘shield’ had been taken away. ‘Curse of Silence’ was a curse, but it also acted like an absolute barrier, isolating all ‘magic’ and ‘will’ that attempted to invade her soul.
Her pure soul was thus defenselessly exposed before the most filthy taboos!
And now, the shield was gone. Helos’s pain was still intensifying.
The holy light and chaos within her were still tearing at each other wildly.
“Helos, hold on!”
Julius knew he must immediately find that ‘switch’. But Helos was now in so much pain that she couldn’t even speak.
Her entire body convulsed violently in his arms, her teeth clenched tightly, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, staining the front of his chest.
Julius had no choice. He could only start from her body, feeling the abnormalities inch by inch.
He could no longer infuse Helos with holy light.
That would only increase her pain. He forcibly withdrew his sacred power, and instead released all his perception, the keen spiritual sense of the chosen one, without reservation.
He became like the finest net, enveloping every inch of skin and every bone of the girl in his arms.
Cold sweat now covered his forehead. Sweat slid down his chiseled face and dripped onto Helos’s cold skin.
He knew he was now racing against time.
He could sense that the strand of her own ‘pale purple’ in her soul was rapidly dimming.
One step too late, even just a second. The girl in his arms might be completely devoured by that blue light and red glow, falling into an abyss of eternal damnation.
He could not lose her. He still had to fulfill his promise!
‘Where… where is it…’
He searched frantically. Her neck, her shoulders, her arms—
But fortunately, luck was finally on his side this time.
As his perception slid over Helos’s cold fingers, Julius quickly discovered the anomaly!
There was a ‘point’! There was a cold ‘source’ emitting a faint magic wave!
Julius abruptly lowered his head. His gaze locked onto Helos’s slender fingers.
It was a black ring with an archaic design that he had never seen before.
This black ring was currently emitting an almost imperceptible faint fluctuation.
And the target of that fluctuation was precisely Helos’s body and her soul!
It was like a signal tower, continuously transmitting some kind of command.
That command was not ‘attack,’ nor ‘defense,’ but a ‘suppression.’
It was suppressing something! Julius understood in an instant.
This ring… was the culprit! It was the switch that had deactivated the ‘Curse of Silence’!
Julius clenched his teeth. Without any hesitation, his other hand immediately grabbed Helos’s left hand, trying to remove that sinful ring from her finger.
But the ring seemed to be stuck by a strong magnet, tightly adhering to Helos’s finger!
He used all his strength, even causing Helos’s finger to turn white from the force.
The ring remained motionless. It seemed to have grown together with Helos’s flesh and blood.
“Damn it!”
Julius’s heart sank to the bottom. He could feel that as he tried to remove the ring, the fluctuation on the ring instead grew stronger.
It was resisting! It was accelerating the erosion of Helos’s will!
The girl in his arms trembled even more violently, the pale purple in her pupils almost completely swallowed by the blue light and red glow.
“No…! I won’t allow it—”
Julius let out a beastly roar. He could not fail!
He looked at Helos’s face, twisted in pain. He looked at the black ring stuck to her finger.
Julius’s eyes revealed a frightening ruthlessness at this scene. He had no time to try other methods.
He must immediately, right now, sever this connection!
‘Sorry, Helos!’
He thought silently. — Golden light flashed from his right hand again! The holy sword ‘Daybreak’ was summoned again!
His left hand tightly yet gently grasped Helos’s hand wearing the ring, forcibly fixing her finger in the air.
His right hand held the holy sword reversed, the tip pointing downward.
He needed absolute precision. He could not hurt her finger.
What he wanted to cut was only… that black gem on the ring!
Julius held his breath. All the power of his chosen one converged in that moment.
Time seemed to slow down. He could see the fine patterns on the gem.
He could see the holy light flowing on his own blade.
“Break!”
The blade, like a golden shadow cutting through the night, less than the blink of an eye, instantly slashed across the black gem on the ring.
Crack.
An extremely faint breaking sound rang out. That seemingly indestructible black gem, like early spring snow meeting a blazing inferno, couldn’t even offer the most basic resistance.
It split in two from the middle, then turned into tiny fragments scattering in the cold air.
And the next second after the gem shattered, a presence Julius was all too familiar with, centered on Helos’s body, instantly enveloped the area around her!
—! That presence at this moment was so domineering, so absolute.
It was as if even the wind was stilled by it.
The night insects that had been chirping in the forest instantly fell into silence.
The magic stone that Gavi had dropped on the ground was still emitting white light.
But that light was forcibly suppressed by an invisible force, becoming dim and weak.
Julius even felt that the holy light within him was also suppressed by nine-tenths!
Curse of Silence— It had returned. It was once again surrounding the girl.
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