Rebirth of Abium

"How did you find out?"

Abium had already expected this kind of outcome. But still, he was somewhat surprised a little.

'I'm really curious now.' He stared at Yozis cautiously and thought.

"Just now, Real Baxter would never ask me such a silly question. He will say, 'We don't have any time to waste here. Let's go'. Moreover, I already started to notice some changes in your personality during the previous gathering and became suspicious of you. So, now your reply confirmed my suspicion." Yozis smirked at him.

Abium became speechless as he heard those words. But soon, he realized Baxter's arrogant and cautious character and then sighed helplessly.

'I need to improve my acting skills.' He thought.

Before Abium could say another word, Yozis tore that scroll on his hand and disappeared from there. Meanwhile, Abium turned his head towards that Mutated Three-Eyed Giant, and, without hesitation, he ran towards the direction where the dense fire element energy was coming from!

Coincidentally, it was also the direction that Rilos chose to search for the last seal!

At the same time, Mutated Giant also finally opened its Third eye and peered on his back. The next instant, Abium felt his soul was gripped by some invisible force and got a premonition of being killed!

'F*ck! I have to escape from this monster, and then I will think about what to do next.' He muttered to himself in shock and blinked multiple times. The next second, a bolt of strange black lightning came from that monster's third eye and pierced through where he stood before and directly hit all those trees on its way and disintegrates them into nothing. It was so powerful that lightning even disintegrated few large Red rocks!

Meanwhile, Abium reappeared 500 meters away from where he stood before and watched with a horrified expression on his face! Although he escaped from being killed instantly, he still felt a malicious gaze from afar.

Without wasting any time, Abium started running. But he didn't run without any clue. He already confirmed it was the route that Rilos went ahead using seer's intuition spell and followed after him. He knew it would take some time for that Mutated Giant to come out from the ground and hastened his speed.

'Azolla, what was that attack?' Abium asked while wiping the cold sweats on his forehead.

They somehow entered into this Fex dimension and became corrupted due to the long exposure of chaos power in this dimension. As for that Three-Eyed Titan's name, I don't want to speak about that Titan's name because if he is still kicking somewhere in the universe, it will definitely attract his attention.

During ancient times, I heard he was a peak legendary level Warlock, and he was one of sixteen Kings of Ancient Titans. At that time, those Ancient Titans were even capable of killing Intermediate gods' avatar.

This Three-Eyed Ancient Titan, who created this Eye of Destruction, could even capable of destroying the whole lower plane with his single Eye of Destruction spell at his peak level. Although this Three-Eyed Giant is still an ant when comparing to the Ancient Titan, don't underestimate the Three-Eyed Titan's bloodline descendant!' Azolla's seriousness made Abium become panic!

Now, he regretted choosing to follow after this reckless group. He nodded his head gravely at Azolla's warning and then asked.

'I heard you said something about Laws and formula when we entered this dimension. What was that?'

'Oh, it's called Star Plane formula. This formula is used to calculate the exact time difference between the Easica plane and other planes or inter dimensions. We also use this formula to calculate how many types of laws were used to create this dimension. As for the law, you will earn after you understand the meaning behind those spells. You will start learning more about Laws when you became a third-tier Mage.' Azolla said solemnly and soon stopped herself as she noticed his clueless expression on his face.

'I must spend some time to learn some of this information when I have time in the future. So, did you find the answers?' Abium turned his face solemn and asked.

'Kid, using this star plane formula to calculate the time difference is not an easy task. It will take at least five days to find out how many laws were used in this dimension when it was created. After finding the exact percent of those laws, I could be able to tell the ratio of time flow between Easica plane and this Fex's dimension.' As Abium heard her words, he became more shocked.

'So, should I get out of this dimension quickly?' Abium asked while taking out the Returner's ring, which Lady Nyara gave him earlier. He knew that Yozis must have already informed Rilos about the situation and started to become nervous.

'Don't! You should try to explore this dimension on your own.' Azolla said calmly and added.

'Maybe you would get some benefit due to time differences between Estica plane and this plane.'

'Okay.' Abium nodded. 'Although I'm a little worried about Umi and her mom, I think they can manage on their own. Well, with Nicolaus on their side, they wouldn't have any problem. With his accurate decision making skill, he will find a way to keep them safe.' Abium breathed out a sigh of relief as he thought of his non-ambitious friend. In the past, Nicolaus had saved his life multiple times due to his right decisions.

'For now, I should think more about my safety. Hmm, I already have extra rations and water, which could hold on for even six months. All I need to do here is find some clue about that undying ability artifact and get the hell out of this place.' Abium thought for a while and stealthily ran towards the direction where Rilos went earlier.

After an hour, Abium finally managed to cross the large dense forest and now stood in front of a giant lava pool. Abium could see full of lava pools and volcanic mountains up ahead on his path. But what surprised him most was that he saw a strange red light on the other side of that volcanic mountain range.

'If I want to cross these mountains, I have to search for another route.' He bit his lips in frustration as he looked at the path up ahead. He was now regretting that he didn't choose to construct any flying spell model in his mind.

After pondering for a moment, Abium began to search for a safe path to cross those volcanic mountains and lava pools.

At the end of the first day, he couldn't be able to keep tracking the location of Rilos. He noticed Rilos suddenly backed away from the original path and moved towards a different direction, which made Abium baffled. He frowned deeply and thought they might have found the location of that last seal. After thinking for a bit, he thought of searching what was at the end of this volcanic mountain range.

Following that, Abium roamed in those volcanic mountains for the two days and finally managed to cross those volcanic mountains. In those last two days, he had met three rank-one fire-lizard magical beasts and almost got himself burned by their bloodline spells. If not for his first-tier spells, Mind freeze and blink spell, Abium might have already lost his life.

He braced himself for any possible dangers up ahead while crossing the final mountain hurriedly and looked with expectation eyes towards the other side. Now instead of the old man's face, his face looked younger.

His amber eyes and pointy ears were clearly visible due to the bright light, and he gave off an aura of dominance. He wore a simple black magic robe that had a first-tier defensive spell inscribed on it and normal leather boots. His blonde hair was shining brightly due to the golden light coming from every direction, making him look more handsome.

As Abium reached the peak of the final mountain, his lips arched upward. Because what he saw was not some random lava pool but a large 200-meter tall temple! Moreover, that temple covered around one km radius, and its entrance gate was surrounded by beautiful red plants.

He quickly hung his mid-tier short sword on his waist and climbed down to the summit where those red plants were covering the sides of the temple. As he walked near to those plants, he noticed those plants' leaves were thicker in size and had a strange star pattern on it. Abium could easily guess they were magic plants and stopped his footsteps.

'Somehow, I feel I'm going to need one of these leaves in the future.' He got stunned a bit by that strange intuition and began to collect a dozen of Red leaves. After that, Abium silently walked near to that entrance while glancing around and noticed there was a big magic array placed at the front of the entrance gate.

'What is this place?' He didn't think much about that magic array and walked near to it.

At the same time, Azolla suddenly shouted inside his mind as she finally analyzed the magic pattern.

'Don't!!!'

But it was too late!

The magic array started to flicker as Abium's foot touched the array, and soon a crimson fire enveloped the whole temple.

'What kind of spell is this?!' Abium stared at the crimson fire, which was already enshrouded the large temple with both shock and astonishment.

'It's not a legendary spell.' Azolla said with a consoling tone, but Abium could feel something was amiss. Silently he gazed at the magic array and started to study the spell model which was inscribed on the magic array. After a few minutes of studying, he confirmed there were a total of more than twenty thousand runic letters inscribed in that magic array. Although he couldn't be able to find any meaning due to some strange array circle, he confirmed it was a third-tier spell model.

'This must be a third-tier spell, right?' Abium asked with a stunned expression on his face. He had already seen those second-tier spells and knew each of those spells had more than two thousand runic letters. So, after he saw this spell model inside the magic array, he instantly guessed it must be some third-tier defensive fire type spell.

'Yes! It's called Sun's glare. Although this spell's defensive capabilities are less compared to other defensive spells, this Sun's glare would be able to hold on for a much longer time. Well, you will be much safer inside this temple, so utilize this opportunity and start concentrate on rune learning.' Azolla replied solemnly. Abium also thought for a bit and agreed. After he discussed with Rune mage Ubius earlier, Abium knew he needs to learn more about runes if he wants to shine in that field. But before that, he needed to do one last work.

With wary eyes, Abium slowly turned his gaze towards the two-meter tall unlocked golden gate and walked near to it. A scarlet-colored bird symbol was seen at the center of the gate.

'This is a real phoenix bird!' Abium guessed instantly and walked further as he pushed open that gate calmly. He entered the hallway, which was filled with thousands of circular red pillars that were supporting the blue ceiling. Multiple window holes were opened on the sides, letting crimson lights from outside to illuminate the grand hallway. The floor was well carpeted with silk clothes and looked more beautiful. But there was no smile on Abium's face. Instead, his face turned grim.

Because he saw thousands of humanoid skeletons lying on the well-carpeted floor, and most of them looked like they died while worshipping.

'They are not humans!' Abium's amber eyes widened. With a curious look, he bent down his waist a bit and touched one of the humanoid skeletons.

The next instant, all those bones started to fall and turned into white powders! Even their clothes and ornaments became turned into dust while leaving nothing behind. Although Abium knew warriors' bones would take much longer time to decompose fully, he was still somewhat surprised.

He could quickly tell all these humanoids were at least above the fourth tier from the strange symbols on their body clothes. From the information he learned from the elven library in the past, first-tier warrior's bones would take long years to decompose into dust.

'Kid, these guys died more than seven thousand years ago.' Azolla spoke with a confused tone.

More than seven thousand years! Abium slowly moved to one skeleton after another and checked if there was anything valuable in those dust. As he started searching, he even saw many spatial rings began to disintegrate into powders due to some strange corrosive effect on every ring and weapons. After 3 hours, he thoroughly checked half of the hall and became utterly stunned. He couldn't even get one single artifact!

Finally, his eyes shifted towards the other half and soon squinted sharper. He could see some skeletons were already turned into dust a few meters away and became more cautious.

'Someone had already come to this place!' That was the only answer Abium thought as he saw those places. He could even see a few human footprints on the dust and gripped his sword tighter. With a grim look, he followed the footprints and finally noticed it was leading to the sanctum sanctorum at the center of that temple.

Only then, he noticed there were a total of four entrances to this temple and guessed this person must have come here through another door. He creased his eyebrows and once again moved cautiously towards the sanctum sanctorum. As he walked near to the entrance, he noticed this main room was also unlocked.

He pondered for a moment as he arrived in front of the entrance gate to sanctum sanctorum and stared at it for more than a minute. First, he cast 'Seer's Intuition spell,' and after confirming there was no reaction, he pushed the door open and entered inside. But the next moment, what he saw made his heart freeze.

He saw an altar placed at the center, and above that altar was a statue of a large Phoenix Bird. But that didn't freeze his heart in shock. He saw something strange below Phoenix Bird's statue.