Damned Healer-Chapter 464: Treasures Destined

After handing everything to Camille, Darian turned to the others, and they all left, leaving the hall behind. Camille was left alone with Mallory, who was still alive and relatively fine. After seeing all those memories, she’d have a good talk with her granddaughter.

Lucius led them through another path to a door that opened into a small room. Inside, Anbon’s soul was sealed exactly as Darian had left it.

He moved closer and used his dark power to invade the soul. Then Lucy snorted coldly and used her technique again — but this time, with no intention of avoiding damage.

Slowly, Anbon’s soul began to fracture and break apart in front of everyone. After a few minutes, Lucy returned to reality with a disgusted look on her face.

"I’ve seen enough. The New Arcadia Empire doesn’t have that many secrets, just a few interesting things," Lucy said dryly. Anbon had been an important figure, so he knew a few of that place’s hidden parts.

She turned to Darian. "Bro, you want me to record his full spiritual technique?"

Darian shook his head. "It’s just something average."

Lucy smirked, then turned back to that soul — her fists pulsed with dark light.

*Crack!*

She threw a light punch without a hint of mercy, and the sound of shattering glass echoed through the room.

That soul broke apart completely and vanished from existence in a brutal way.

At the same time, Lucy took a deep breath, feeling an immense weight lift off her shoulders. Her eyes gleamed slightly, a little watery; memories of many innocent people from her clan being slaughtered before her eyes because of that man came flooding back.

But now, she’d given the dead a proper answer. That fool would hardly ever reincarnate after such damage — he’d probably cease to exist forever.

Darian comforted her, gently patting her head. Lucy sighed and smiled faintly, letting it all go for good. Now she had to focus on making sure nothing like that ever happened again.

"Let’s go, we still have a few hours before dawn," Darian said calmly, and everyone nodded slightly.

So, except for Camille, they all returned to the party.

***

When the first rays of sunlight lit up the ballroom, Camille slowly came back, radiating a calm, peaceful aura.

Lucius rushed to her with a worried look, but Camille just smiled faintly. When she turned, she met Darian’s eyes.

"Don’t worry. I’ve lived long enough to see everything in this world... sadly, I was already expecting all that. She couldn’t shock me one bit."

After taking a deep breath, she went on, "I’ll first make public everything she and her family did on Earth. I’ll keep her alive until you return from the Divine Protection Universe. That’ll be the time the Wube family has to come up with some kind of justification. After that, I’ll finish it all in a way no one can accuse me of being unfair."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Exposing that family and demanding a justification would only make things worse for them, since it’d be impossible for them to come up with anything believable.

Darian turned to Tian Yu and Haruto. Both nodded, eager to take him to their empire.

"I’m coming too," Lucy said, walking up to Darian, excited and curious to see everything in those lands.

Lucius looked like he was about to say he’d go as well, but Lucy shot him a sharp glare.

He stopped mid-sentence, swallowing hard. It was obvious Lucy was stepping aside so he and Veyle could have some time alone for a few days. This was his golden chance. Realizing that, his face reddened slightly, but he only nodded in silence.

Darian gave a faint smile, and then everyone left calmly.

After saying their goodbyes, Tian Yu couldn’t help but burn through resources and used an expensive spatial artifact to open a direct passage to his empire.

Darian and Lucy entered side by side, followed by Haruto and the Emperor. The others would return by the normal route.

In moments, they found themselves in the middle of a massive, oriental-style castle.

The Celestial Order Empire had architecture very different from the other ones on Earth — they valued the ancient culture of their lands more than building functional structures with materials from other universes.

Tian Yu arrived and immediately summoned someone.

In seconds, a girl about Lucy’s height came rushing in. She had pretty, distinctive features typical of the people living there, but she was just an ordinary human, seemingly a teenager.

"This is Tian Lin, my daughter. She loves to travel and has already visited every place in the empire."

Hearing that, Lucy nodded and approached the girl. "Perfect, come on, show me everything you like here."

As soon as the two of them left, Tian Yu and Haruto turned to Darian. He nodded. "Let’s go to the forge — we don’t have much time."

The Emperor cleared out the empire’s main forge and left only the two of them inside.

Once they entered, Darian took out a few Jade Slips and let Haruto read through everything carefully. He just watched while that forger — known as one of the best in the universe right now — changed expressions over and over, looking more and more surprised and excited.

After several minutes, Haruto turned to Darian.

"Sir, I’ve never seen or even imagined something like this. In the Empire, there are records about the Heavenly Elemental Spirits found in other universes, but fusing their body and soul perfectly into a weapon? If I hadn’t read it myself, I’d think it was a joke."

Darian nodded. "Well, let’s get to the point..."

He explained that he had three small friends from that race whose runic bodies had been completely destroyed, leaving only their souls. However, they still had their natural elemental affinity, and with some effort, they could connect to a weapon.

Then, he explained in detail what Remira had suggested to him before and, finally, showed his three daggers forged from a Primordial Dragon’s body, along with the three draconic cores he had received.

Haruto listened carefully, then examined each item with extreme care. After a while, he asked for some time to run a few tests.

He took a newly forged weapon and some rare materials from the forge and tried to replicate the technique’s concept by creating something called an immortal core. That was the key to everything — if the core was perfectly made, linking a spirit to it would be relatively simple.

Hours passed. After almost a full day, Haruto stopped and turned to Darian with a serious look.

"Sir, I feel like creating this ’immortal core’ isn’t that complicated, as long as I have time to practice. But... with these daggers of yours, even if we use the draconic core as the base to create another one, I can already tell there’ll be rejection when we try to merge the souls. The immortal core created that way would become incompatible with any ordinary soul..."

Haruto went on explaining everything in detail, and it made Darian understand why he thought it wouldn’t work. The immortal core would become something mutated, extremely hard for any soul to link with.

Darian was shaken by that. He had done everything to try to bring those three back — and now he found out it was impossible? No. There had to be a way to change that.

He stayed silent for a long time, thinking, almost in despair. Until...

’Dan, didn’t you get anything from that weird world that could help? You’ve got so much stuff stashed away,’ Niara murmured, pointing out the obvious.

At first, Darian shook his head, but two seconds later, his eyes widened.

He immediately turned to Haruto. "I’ve got a plan!"

He quickly pulled out three small glowing objects that looked like stones radiating their own light. The moment they appeared, the entire atmosphere changed.

An elemental aura of wind, earth, and water filled the place.

Haruto stared at them in shock. "That’s...?"

"They’re just Stellar Ores... but at the highest level possible — formed only at the dawn of universes, in extremely rare cases. That’s why I called them Primordial-level Stellar Ores."

Darian remembered something he had kept in his inventory for a long time. He had received those items as the top reward in a Trial in that world’s desert. Back then, he’d found it curious that there were exactly three of them — and of the same elements as Tir, Awel, and Eleri. (Chapter 329)

They had been completely useless to him at the time, but now they seemed like treasures destined to be in his hands at the perfect moment.

Getting them couldn’t have been a coincidence. He knew Heaven’s Will was watching everything; it couldn’t interfere directly, but sometimes it moved a few pieces in the right direction — to subtly help someone or point them toward a path.

"The three Heavenly Elemental Spirits I want to use are the exact same elements as these Stellar Ores. And each of them has a strange mutation that gave them power really close to their element’s primordial root."

Darian spoke quickly, recalling their peculiar abilities. Eleri could devour the life force of living beings; Tir could consume their physical bodies; and Awel could merge with the atmosphere, becoming one with everything.

They were three unique powers that no other Heavenly Elemental Spirit in that world possessed — clear mutations. And from their nature, they had a raw, incredible potential that came straight from their elements.

Darian waited silently, watching. Haruto took the Stellar Ores and analyzed them carefully, thinking deeply for almost an hour.

Then he turned to Darian. "Sir, I can extract the essence of these Stellar Ores and fuse everything into the primordial core. It’ll be a fusion of many things into one, moving far away from the original technique I just read. But... my instincts tell me it’s possible. Now... whether the three souls will actually manage to connect to the core or not, that I can’t promise for sure."

Darian took a deep breath but didn’t hesitate. "Let’s try. The immortal core will have their elemental essence in its purest form. I believe they’ll make it."

Haruto nodded, his eyes gleaming with excitement at the new challenge. Without delay, he started practicing and working.

Meanwhile, Darian sat in a corner, taking deep breaths.

Soon, he murmured mentally, ’Thanks... sometimes I get too caught up in details and forget to check the simplest and most obvious things first.’

’Hehe... that’s why we’re partners, right? You handle the complicated stuff, and I focus on the simple things... sometimes,’ Niara replied, laughing.

Darian smiled, feeling warmth fill his chest. He really missed her simple way of thinking and living.

The two stayed silent, waiting anxiously. Since Haruto didn’t have to create the immortal core from scratch — just fuse the draconic core with the Stellar Ore as a ready-made base — the process would be faster, and he’d be able to finish it in just a few days.