Rebirth of Abium

'Nightshade vines! I have seen these types of vines during the Despair dungeon exploration. It's a living plant species which has highly concentrated paralysis poison in its branches and leaves.' He cautiously took a step back and noticed the surrounding was bathed in golden hour light.

'Where am I?' He was confused.

At the same time, a drop of blood like dew fell from one of the pointy green leaves and splashed on his oval face. A startled expression appeared on his face. With a wary look, he glanced upward, and soon his amber eyes widened in shock! Because Abium saw dense red fluids collected in those trees branches and gave him an uneasy yet warm feeling. He soon guessed the reason for that feeling.

'These drops are filled with spiritual energy!' He wiped the droplet and nodded in understanding. He hadn't expected those scarlet droplets were precious treasure drops! But soon, his face stiffened up as he sensed some dark red energy also mingled in those droplets.

'Strange..., chaotic impure energy and pure spiritual energy appeared to be mixed in these drops. Where am I exactly?' The frown on his forehead deepened as he glanced towards the sides. Bright golden lights illuminated the whole dimension from all the sides. There was also a strange bluish rift like spatial crack that appeared up in the sky and beyond that were empty darkness.

'I'm not in Easica world… No! It looks more like I'm in another separate dimension.' Enlightened, Abium quickly thought of those storybooks, which he read about in the past records.

As he was about to turn around and see who had managed to escape from that mythical red bird, he felt his first-tier spell fireball spell model and zero-tier unique defensive spell model began to flicker intensely inside his mind. He got stunned by this sudden unusual change and soon astounded inside. He felt massive fire elemental energies from his right direction. It was as if something was attracting his fire spell model inside his mind.

This separate dimension is also filled with pure fire elements. Heh, the fire spell models inside my mind are acting strangely. Is this place also belongs to the Lockridge family?' Suddenly, a thought appeared in his mind. 'That is possible! If my guess is right, all those five family elders must be fourth-tier pseudo-legendary mages.'

"Riza and Lahk didn't make it." Grazius, who stood on his right side, let out a regretful sigh.

Abium also quickly regained his senses and scanned the surroundings using his spiritual scan. Confusion appeared on his face as he ended the scan.

'Only 8 of us managed to enter into this dimension. But besides us, who are those two unknown entities shown in my scan? Are there any other creatures out here besides us?… Although I couldn't be able to pinpoint their exact position, I'm feeling strong spiritual energies from those two entities.' Abium frowned deeply, and soon Azolla's voice echoed inside his mind.

'I'm feeling a little familiarity with this place—the smell of a familiar Divine power. Kid, I think this place is somehow connected to our plane. Strange, the atmosphere inside this dimension is very chaotic. I have to use some formulas to check how many types of laws were used when creating this dimension. Also, I think this dimension seems to hold some of god's divine power.' As she said those words, she stopped for a second and continued with a concerned tone. 'You might meet many mutated magical beasts and creatures from the outer space here, kid! That spatial rift up in the sky and surroundings may be connected to another plane. Those two entities may also from that category, so be careful.'

Abium's expression froze when he heard her complex explanation and become completely puzzled.

'Law? Formula? I think I don't know much about any of those. Heh, magical beasts and creatures from other planes, huh!' Abium sighed inwardly. Magical beasts and the creatures from the other plane were not new words to him. He had heard of those beasts multiple times from those church priests and mages in the past.

He had even met a few Rank 1 magical beasts and shivered as he thought of those battles against those creatures. Those magical beasts were very rare to find normally in the Peral Kingdom surroundings. Although these beasts live only in dense forest areas, there were times they invaded human society due to provocation from humans. They were intelligent and won't attack unless if someone provokes them like entering its territory.

'I have to be wary of their spells. Those Magical beasts could be able to release some strange bloodline spells.' Abium silently took note and noticed Rilos was walked past him while gazing at the monstrous scarlet hills, which appeared a few miles away from them.

"Let's move towards that direction," Rilos said casually and stepped forward. Although Rilos was somewhat curious about those strange types of plants and trees, he didn't let himself be distracted from the main mission and entirely focused his attention on the surroundings. His teacher Mike had warned him multiple times about the dangers hidden in this place and asked him to come quickly to this place.

"Britta, do you have any guess about where the final seal would be hidden?" As he was stepping on those bright red colored wet soils while avoiding those strange vines, Rilos glanced back at the other red-robed blonde-haired woman and asked. She had round silver eyes, tan brown skin, elongated, thick eyebrows, and low bridge nose. From her outer facial appearance, anyone could guess her age was below 20, but only she knew the truth.

As Britta saw Rilos's questionable gaze, she let out a sigh and started talking. "I think we are in Fiz's dimension, Rilos. It is a dimension from the legends that solely created for training mages. From Lord Shade's earlier words, I could guess Bidora Empire's royal family once controlled this land. Later, Lockridge Family elders somehow seized this place and started guarding with their monstrous family pet.

But these mysterious seals are placed beforehand. Those seals are placed all over the continent. And the ones who put these seals took some extra measure to hide all these pocket dimensions' co-ordinations from the gods." She paused and fell into deep thoughts. It appears even she was guessing the information she had gathered during the past few years. Rilos, on the other hand, started nodded his head and suddenly asked,

"Are you thinking it is some other god's or demigod's work?"

Britta stopped her walking and shook her head after two seconds and said solemnly.

"I don't think so. If the one who placed the seals was a god, then why did that god placed severe restrictions? In our world, gods can only use their incarnations to walk. Moreover, all their incarnations' strength had lessened due to these seals, making it harder for them even to enter. The scariest thing is, planar restriction on our plane is much more severe than other planes. If my guess is right, it must be that group of old monsters who roamed before 10,000 years ago." As Abium heard those two necromancers talking, his expression turned serious.

'They are talking about those ancient mages! Azolla, do you have any guess about these seals? Is she guessed correctly?' Abium asked Azolla while he continued walking towards those crimson hills.

'I can't make an assumption just from hearing others' words, kid. But if the mages from the ancient era were the ones who placed these seals, then they must have done this due to some hidden purpose. I also know a genius kid called Fiz, and he is a fire and space elemental mage. There is a slight possibility that he may do created this dimension. Maybe you can find some clues near to that seal or in some other place.' Azolla's words made Abium to fell into deep thoughts.

Soon, the group silently walked toward that hills area and then noticed they barged into the group of mutated black panthers. Most of those panthers were silently snorting and seemed to be taking a nap while only one mother panther stood guarding.

But Necromancer's group could slow down their footsteps. Mother panther sensed their arrival and let out a threatening roar. A second later, all four of those mutated black panthers woke up from their sleep and stared at them with vicious deep blue eyes. Behind those panthers were three small cubs, and all of those cubs looked nervously at them.

'Oh? All those five panthers are rank one magical beast. That's odd; it would take many decades for these normal animals to become a magical beast, right?' Abium furrowed his eyebrows and quietly thought the strange atmosphere inside this separate dimension must be the reason.

Meanwhile, Rilos quickly took out his white skeleton from the spatial ring and was about to attack, but suddenly Aliza spoke in the Nether tongue.

"Obey!"

Except for Ulzez, all of them cast a puzzled gaze, and soon all of their eyes widened in shock! All eight of five magical beasts suddenly started wagging its tails as if she was its owner.

'How?! Is this the power of death mage?' Abium stared at Aliza in wonder. He had heard rumors about her in the past, but all those were exaggerated tales of a demon child.

"O' Unholy Lord of the death! You became a death mage!" Rilos uttered with a shocked expression. While Britta, Grazius, and Ubrauqir instantly showed a respected bow towards Aliza. A few moments ago, they didn't even glance at her and thought of her as a first-tier necromancer. But now their sudden change in attitude made Yozis and Abium curious.

"What is mean by death mage, teacher?" Abium silently glanced at Rilos and asked with a deep tone. He was well aware of the real Baxter's common knowledge and knew that Baxter did not have any knowledge of these death mages. Moreover, his original character was a curious one, so Abium raised his doubts. As Rilos heard Abium's words, he gave a proud smile and started talking.

"Like Light God Welo's chosen ones, death mages are chosen ones of Lord Nurotl. During the ancient era, I heard there were many death mages. Even a single first-tier death mage had the strength to battle against ten normal first-tier necromancers. But after Lord Nurotl fell into his long slumber, their appearance in our world was also dimmed.

Some death mages rarely appeared and caused some great change in history. The last death mage appeared 500 years ago and caused great change in the nearby kingdoms. He is the only Death mage I had respect due to his legends and schemes. But that soon ended due to the Light church's intervention.

We heard there are many new chosen ones already appeared now due to some unknown reasons but didn't expect Lady Aliza to be one of them. Unlike necromancers like us, Death mages have the power to borrows strength from our Lord Nurotl and uses it to enslave any living beings." As he finished talking, he turned his gaze towards Aliza and fell into deep thoughts.

At the same time, Britta frowned a bit and asked while raising her right eyebrow.

"My lady, when did you become the Chosen One?"

Aliza was startled a little and replied after a short deliberation.

"Around two months ago, Ma'am."

But inside, her mind was full of chaos because she knew from Ulzez's words that she was just an experimental subject and felt a deep secret behind this title.

"This timing is too accurate. It was as if the Lord of Dead had already known the accurate future." This time, Britta's words made Abium's expression to frozen.

'What is meant by that? He knew about the future?' Abium raised his eyebrows and asked Azolla with puzzlement.

'Every god has a method to predict future events, kid. The title 'God' is not just randomly given to anyone.' Azolla said mysteriously.

"What does that mean, milady?" Meanwhile, Aliza also became puzzled and asked Britta full of curiousness.

Britta didn't reply quickly. Instead, she stood there while gazing at the surroundings with a vacant expression and started speaking in a deep voice.

"Lord Shade received an oracle a few years ago. In that oracle, Lord Shade got a divine message that chosen ones will appear everywhere, and we all have to help them break the seals placed everywhere in this continent."

'An oracle?' Abium's expression turned gloomy when he heard her words.

"Let's go! We don't have much time." Britta quickly shifted her gaze towards the Volcanic mountain range on their front and walked ahead while evading those vine branches attacks. Meanwhile, others also nodded and followed after her. Aliza, on the other hand, smiled at those panthers and walked away while breaking that soul bonds she had connected just now.

Following that, they hadn't met with any obstacles and slowly moved towards those hills.

'As I thought, the more we move towards these hills, the temperature seems to be rising exponentially. Still, these strange plants and trees are not even slightly affected by the heat. Did these plants also mutated and became resistant to fire?' Abium thought to himself and soon frowned. Because he felt his spiritual perception triggered.

'Something is tailing us? Are they panthers we saw earlier? No!… These two beings are different from those panthers.' Abium could feel slight traces of spiritual energy from his left side in the scan and narrowed his eyes.