Rebirth of Abium

It was around 8 A.M.

In the study room at a luxurious mansion,

Viscount Gauvain sat with a solemn expression on his face while looking at the scroll made of human skin. On opposite to him was a gray-skinned humanoid creature. That creature looked similar to a goblin sat on the wooden chair and stared at Viscount's face with a creepy smile on its face. It had a sharp grey nose and ears. Its eyes were dark red colored with a hint of madness in it, and that creature wore a comfortable black shirt and pants like a butler.

Viscount face already turned green as he skimmed through the document and finally asked,

"So, you are from Red python?"

"Yes, mister. Our organization would like to co-operate with you. If you agree, we will allow your son to walk on the path of the 'Warlock'." It said with a creaky tone in the standard common tongue and placed a red vial on the table.

Viscount gave an in-depth look at that red vial and asked while arching his eyebrows upward,

"How do you know those necromancers will fail to kill those High-rank nobles during the gathering?"

A low eerie chuckle came from that creature's mouth, and it replied while playing with its sharp-clawed hands.

"Because 'Her Majesty' sensed an anomaly appeared in the royal capital. He was the one responsible for our previous mission failure. Although we couldn't able to find about him, at least we want to use this opportunity to gather more souls." Hearing those words from that creature, Viscount fell into deep thoughts and once again asked,

"What is your name? Also, explain more about this vial."

A big grin appeared on that creature's face as it heard Viscount's words, and it replied with an excited tone,

"My name is Susur. As for this red vial, it contains drops of blood of a Dark Serpent. Once your son consumed this vial, he will directly breakthrough into an official Warlock and also have the possibility of him breaking through into the second tier in the next few years." Susur said.

Hearing Susur's words, Viscount became tempted as he knew the possibility of his son reaching second tier mage under the normal circumstance was almost zero. But he didn't reply instantly and asked one more question,

"Once he consumes this blood, will he lose humanity and become some type of demon?" That was Viscount's most concerning question. If his son became a mindless monster after consuming this vial, then he might die from the shock!

Hearing Viscount Gauvain's words, Susur became surprised a bit and replied while shaking its head,

"No. Your son will look like those normal Warlocks and could able to cast all of his bloodline spells. He won't face any shackles up to third-tier Warlock."

Viscount's eyes shined brightly and blurted out.

"What do I have to do for that?"

"I need a large scale human sacrifice."

The next instant, Viscount's expression turned stiff, and he asked while trembling,

"You want all my peoples in this city?"

Viscount immediately knew this demon was after the human souls of Roseglen city and got chills. But soon he calmed down as he understood his situation.

'I need to sacrifice something if I want to achieve something. If those necromancers failed, then my whole plan would flip up, and my son will also be in danger.' Viscount thought carefully, and finally, after a long silence, he stood up and nodded.

"Excellent!" Susur said excitingly and continued,

"I want your soldiers to write some characters all over this city. Also, if you want your family members alive, then get them out of this city before I start the ceremony."

Hearing those words, Viscount nodded solemnly and soon walked out of his study along with the demon.

Following that, he sent all of his family members out of the city and then asked his soldiers to draw weird letters in multiple places in Roseglen City. After he did that, he hurriedly moved out of the city while sending his message to all his three children.

Around 10 A.M, Susur moved towards the city square while wearing a black hood and soon arrived there while gazing at the busy humans with its greedy eyes. There were shop owners, adventurers, soldiers, children, elders, homemakers roaming here and there. Many shouts, giggles, and laughing were echoing in every direction as a few children began to play hide and seek at the front of the town square.

A blue-haired kid called Tim, who was around ten years old, suddenly halted his footsteps as he heard a strange mutter from a hooded guy and walked near to that hooded kid with a curious look on his face.

That hooded kid looks almost the same as his height and thought of asking him to play with them.

"Hey, want to play hide and seek with us?" Tim quickly arrived in front of that hooded figure and asked casually. But he didn't get any response from that figure, which made him annoyed a little. Instead, that hooded figure completely ignored him and continued to mutter strange words. Tim also saw a crystalline bottle on that hooded figure's right hand and became more curious.

As he was about to snatch that bottle, that hooded figure slapped his hand using his other hand and continued to mutter like a puppet.

Tim was a short-tempered kid. So, he got more annoyed when he saw that the hooded figure was slapping his hand and got furious. Without any hesitation, he grabbed that black hood and removed it to see the face of that damn kid.

His action also got noticed by all those kids and a few shopkeepers who were watching their game amusingly.

But as Tim removed that hood, all of their faces turned pale as they saw a grey colored goblin-like creature appeared in front of them.

"G-GOBLIN!" Tim screamed in terror as he saw that creature and backed away a few steps with fear. Meanwhile, other children and women were also scared away in panic. But soon, they stopped as that gray-colored creature stood there like a statue and muttering a strange chant.

"It must be a hybrid goblin shaman!" An elite adventurer walked out from the crowd and spoke while gripping his sword. His companions also appeared behind him and took out their weapons to ready for a fight.

But suddenly, they saw those strange symbols which were drawn by the city guards earlier this morning began to glow in red color and let out some eerie noise.

"W-What is this?!"

"Magic?"

"It must be that goblin's doing!" A teenage girl spoke while pointing her finger straight at Susur and stepped backward nervously.

Soon, the panic appeared on everyone's face, and all of them sprinted towards in different directions.

Meanwhile, Susur completed its chant, and the next moment tens of thousands of strange black snakes slithered out from those creepy red words and moved towards different directions. Each snake had dark red eyes like its own and appeared more vicious. Massive panic appeared all over the city, and peoples began to scream as they saw dark, creepy poisonous snakes slithered everywhere.

Soon, some got bitten by those snakes and felt their soul began to suck out of their body.

Terror appeared in everyone's mind! Tim stood there with a frozen expression while watching his parents got bitten by those strange snakes. But what made him tremble even more was, those snakes began to tear down their bodies and began to devour their flesh with their poisonous mouth.

"Are you excited?" A chilling voice came from that gray-colored monster that stood in front of Tim. The next moment, Tim got frightened, and soon he felt a biting sensation.

The next instant, an immeasurable pain assaulted his mind, and he screamed with all he got. But in the next second, he felt his consciousness began to fade and fell on the ground with a thud.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of citizens screamed in pain and fear! They cried, hoping that some mysterious mages would come and rescue them.

But the reality was so cruel!

No mysterious mage came. Instead, more snakes slithered out from those creepy words, and soon the city was filled with blood, flesh, and bones.

Those hideous black snakes began to suck everyone's life force and their souls. Once they did that, those horrible black snakes began even to devour those fleshes and made the city look like a haunted one. After those snakes finished their work, they began to slither towards Susur, who stood alone at the front of City square and disappeared into the crystalline bottle in its hand.

Susur stroked that crystalline bottle carefully, which now contains hundreds of thousands of souls, and began to draw a ritual circle using human blood and flesh. After completely drawing that ritual circle, it began to chant an incantation in an abyssal tongue.

Within a few seconds, dense, chaotic energy descended to the city while tearing through space. It formed into a cloud of black humanoid smoke and gave off a chaotic feeling to the surroundings. Susur got excited as it saw that figure and threw the crystalline bottle hurriedly towards that dense, chaotic energy.

Slowly that crystalline bottle broke while releasing all those souls into that ritual circle. As Susur saw that, it didn't get anxious. Instead, it grinned widely and watched the whole ritual circle, which now shining in blinding red color.

Hundreds of thousands of human foggy like souls let out a despairing scream, and one by one, all of those souls began to suck into that black humanoid figure.

A smile crept on demon's face as it saw that scene and instantly knelt.

"Tell me about your request." A deep ancient voice came out from that fog after a short deliberation.

Susur's body trembled as it heard those words. Suppressing its fear and excitement, it spoke.

"Divinity of Sun."

"You gave me an insufficient amount of souls. Try again." The voice replied without any emotion in its tone.

Susur's heart sank. But the demon didn't discourage and tossed another crystalline bottle towards that chaos energy. The next instant, countless amounts of hideous humanoid faces emerged from that bottle and began to roar in despair and fear. Susur had spent two thousand years to collect all these souls secretly and felt an aching feeling inside its demon heart. Meanwhile, the chaos energy began to suck all those madly.

"Sufficient." Once again, the deep ancient voice came out from that chaos energy, and soon a white petal-like divinity flew out towards its direction.

Without any delay, Susur caught that sun divinity with its small hands and bowed its head towards that chaotic figure. Then, the chaotic humanoid figure began to pull back into the void and finally left the demon alone in that city. Susur held that divinity in its hand and began to suck the divine power madly. Within a few seconds, it felt its body strength began to increase, and soon noticed a small crimson cobra head began to form on its forehead.

Unlike last time, its same imp face began to grow mature with that tiny cobra head on his forehead. And its grey skin color began to change and turned into a completely dark red. Its body figure began to grow up to three-meter tall, and it became more muscular. Susur could feel chaotic madness power inside its body began to neutralize by the power of lawful sun divine power and got relieved.

"Kekekek, this time, even 'Her Highness' doesn't have the right to strip away my power." It laughed out loud creepily and continued with a crazy smile on its face,

"I need to digest all these divine power and study this divinity more. It will take ten years to understand the law power hidden in this divinity. For now, I should go and take over the Red python branch in this plane."

After giving one last look at that empty city, Susur walked out with a dangerous wide grin on its face.

...

16 Black Street, Commoners' Borough, Dewsummit city.

On 27th March, It was around 10.30 A.M.

Abium lazily sat on the sofa and looked at those slum kids who were now practicing sword arts at the yard outside through the opened door space.

"Wendy, Block it!" Aaron shouted as he fiercely thrust his wooden sword towards her chest. Meanwhile, Wendy gripped her sword with a trembling hand and tried to block the attack, but she falls on the ground pathetically due to sudden fear.

"Aaron, go easy on her. She is just a ten-year-old child." A lean black-haired girl who was around 15 years old spoke coldly while picking up her wooden sword from the ground.

"Elder sis, Lillian. She is already eleven." Aaron turned his gaze towards left while refuting, but soon he shut his mouth as he met with a piercing glare from Lillian.

Abium watched those kids battling with a pleasant smile on his face and soon frowned as he saw two peoples who were walking out from the Scar's Inn, which was located opposite to his house.

'Hmm? Isn't that Aliza? What is she doing here?' Abium furrowed his eyebrows, and at the same time, the bronze-skinned muscular, tall guy suddenly turned his head and looked at him sharply.

'What the hell? Is his perception that sharp?' Abium instantly flinched at that man's response, and at the same time, he spent his spirit power towards that direction. But to his astonishment, he felt an invisible force blocked his spirit from scanning.

Meanwhile, Ulzez glanced at the black-haired boy who sat inside the house and furrowed his eyebrows. He suddenly felt his spiritual perception was triggered, and he instantly knew that a black-haired kid was the one who scanned him. His intuition was telling him that a black-haired boy was not a normal one, and became curious.

'Is he the one who tried to control me? Hmm, I don't think so. Should I go and ask him directly? Nah! For now, I will keep an eye on him. If he acts suspicious, then I will decide what to do then.' Ulzez muttered to himself and soon followed after Aliza, who already walked a few steps towards the exit of Black Street.

Meanwhile, Abium's face fell as he stared at those two figures with a confused expression on his face.

'Azolla, do you know why I couldn't be able to see his status?' Abium asked hurriedly.

'He mastered spiritual shield. He is not from our plane because I felt impure chaotic mana when I tried to scan him.' Azolla said with a severe tone, which caused Abium to startle deeply.

'Miasma? Is he from the abyss? Or some other chaos affiliated planes?' Abium narrowed his eyes and asked solemnly.

'No idea, kid. But he looks stronger. Stay away from him.' Azolla instantly warned him. Meanwhile, Abium left confused for a while.

'Why would a strong person like him stay in an inn that was opposite to my house? Moreover, there is also that death mage Aliza seems to be tagging along with him. Is he related to Order of the dead?' Abium frown grew deeper, and quickly he activated Seer's intuition spell while thinking if those two were related to the Order of the dead or not.

Soon, his expression turned relaxed as cast Seer's intuition spell and confirmed they did not have any ties with the Order of the dead.

'Something is wrong. Booking the Inn opposite side of my house is not a coincidence.' Abium's frown deepened, and quickly he made a guess. 'Wait! It must be that fate divinity holder's work. Is he doing this to warn me that he already aware of my disguise? But how did he found me?'

Abium thought he had missed something important and suddenly sensed a slightly itchy sensation on his nape.