Rebirth of Abium

''He is indeed special. He managed to get out of Udnir's temple without any scratch.'' A lustful voice came out of the Pink gem embedded ring.

''Freya, don't try to steal my prey. He is mine and mine alone.'' A cold voice came out of the other Purple gem embedded ring.

''Tch, how are you planning to get his soul? You need my help, Invidia.'' Freya, in the pink ring, said calmly.

After a second, Invidia in the Purple Ring let out a fierce light and spoke.

''I have a plan.''

Then both rings talked secretively and then disappeared into the woods.

...

A few days later,

Abium returned to the Fire temple and began to take rest.

On the third day, he woke up from the deep sleep and began to organize his plan.

'I'm so weak. I need to find a way to improve my spirit power in the future. Although I can search for one or two divine fragments in those dungeons, it's not a permanent solution to increase my spiritual power.'

'Azolla, can you give some idea to increase my spirit power at a faster rate?' Abiun asked solemnly.

'It's not a good idea. There are few artifacts hidden out there, kid. But I don't think you can find any one of those easily. Moreover, all those artifacts are wicked intelligent artifacts, so searching for them is basically a suicidal mission.' Azolla warned him sternly.

'I know. But I don't have time. If I used a normal meditation method to increase my spirit power, it would take several decades or even centuries to promote to a third-tier mage.' Abium said with a bitter smile.

Hearing Abium's words, Azolla went silent. After a long silence, she let out a heavy sigh in his mind and spoke,

'You can find one or two lawful intellectual artifacts in Light God's main churches or Cathedrals. Mostly Church followers use these special artifacts to collect the faith power from the masses and offer that power to their gods. These artifacts are mostly twisted and are not trustworthy. If you steal one of these artifacts, you will have an easy time promoting to a legendary tier mage.'

'But you also have to face the wrath of Light God. If he found out that someone was stealing his power, he will even send one of the '99 Judges' to kill you.' Azolla said solemnly.

'99 Judges?' Abium raised his eyebrows in interest.

'It's a secretive organization filled with crazy bastards. Light God Welos created this organization solely to eliminate all future threats. If you ever happen to encounter one of them, run for your life. All of those Judges has strength above Third-Tier mages. In the past, I once heard that the Head Judge is a Demi-God.' Azolla's words caused him to frown deeper.

Then he took two fist-sized elemental crystals from his spatial ring and placed those crystals on the floor.

One was a fist-sized darkness-elemental crystal, and another one fist-sized was an ice-elemental crystal.

Then he stored the ice-elemental crystal into his spatial ring and then held the darkness-elemental in his hand.

'First, I need to create an adept level artifact.'

Nodding his head, he took out a gold coin from his spatial ring and placed it on his palm. It had a bird symbol on one side and a tree symbol on the other side. Then, he took out the second-tier spell book and began to search for a spell model. Abium didn't plan to create an artifact with an attack spell or defense spell, so he skips those pages and directly looked at those supportive spells. After searching for a bit, Abium finally found a spell model and smiled.

It was a spell model called 'Illusion Area.' At first, he planned to create an artifact with an attack spell. But he changed his mind after he battled against the Three-Eyed Giant.

'With this, I will have one more trick to fool the enemies.' Abium nodded with a pleasant smile.

Without wasting any time, he began to create his first Adept level artifact. First, he inscribed basic rune circles and then began to inscribe 'Shrink' rune circle on the gold coin. After he finished inscribing that circle, he placed that fist-sized fire elemental crystal on that gold coin. Once that crystal touched the gold coin's surface, it began to shrink into a small red dot and soon disappeared. Abium didn't delay any longer and began to inscribe the 'Illusion area' spell model on it.

He knew creating this adept level artifact was the hardest thing because there were 2100 runic letters in that spell model. He carefully began to inscribe those rune letters one by one. Although his writing speed had increased in these last few months of training, he still began to face difficulty.

He concentrated his full attention on that single gold coin and silently inscribed the spell model using his spirit power. Time flew by, and on the fourth day, he finally finished inscribing the 2100th letter. Once he finished inscribing that spell model, the gold coin began to shine for a moment and returned to normal.

Abium carefully picked that gold coin and placed it separately in his pocket. After that, he again walked out of the temple and then started exploring the Fex's dimension.

Time flew by, and finally, it was the beginning of the fourteenth month. Although Abium didn't manage to get any rare herbs, he still managed to get his hand on a few precious things. The most important thing was the vial of the Blood of descendent of Three-Eyed Titan.

With Azolla's help, he already purified the blood essence's chaos energy and carefully stored it inside a vial. This blood essence could make any mortal improve their strength to the first-tier warlock in just a couple of months.

During the past few months, he also managed to get a ton of platinum ore in an abandoned cave mine at the other end of the Fex dimension.

His understanding of Runes and Potions had also increased drastically as he learned many things. Moreover, he also killed a total of seven first-tier magical beasts and got seven thumb-sized elemental crystals. Three of them were nature elemental crystals, which he got it from Trends, and the other four fire elemental crystals were from Fire lizards. After realizing the wealth hidden in this dimension, he understood how important this pocket dimension was.

'If I somehow manage to get my hands on this Fex dimension, I can achieve many things.'Abium began to think seriously.

But to achieve that, he needed to improve his strength up to the third-tier mage and tame that Redbird, or he had to ask help from the Bidora Empire's Empress Athena. Although Azolla had already managed to find out the correct co-ordination of this dimension using some strange formula, she said there was a mystic force constantly blocking others from entering and leaving.

Because of that only reason, Grold and other necromancers were using the precious Dimensional travel stones to leave this Fex dimension. As for the reason how that Redbird was controlling this dimension, Azolla vaguely guessed someone must have forcibly made that Redbird to become its guardian. Once Abium heard those words, he instantly thought of Emperor Jack and the other five family elders.

'Only they must have done that to stopping other mages from stealing this dimension.'

'Moreover, Lockridge family members have the power to talk to that Redbird... Hmm, it might be Lockridge family elder.'Abium made a guess and felt pity for that family. If there was no curse placed on that Lockridge family, they might have created another Empire like Bidora in this same land.

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and then took out the first-tier spellbook. This time, he chose a spell called Create Space. This spell was an advanced version of the storage spell. With this spell, he could open space up to fifty cubic meter space.

But what was more amazing was, he could also control the space in the outside world using this Create space spell. If he makes this spell to appear in the real world, he could be even able to stop the enemy from teleporting using this dimensional lock-like spell. Only now did he understand Azolla's previous words about creating a storage spell. After he finished constructing this final spell, Abium became more assured.

'Now I'm a peak first-tier mage and have the strength even to kill second-tier mages.' Abium's lips curl upward as he thought of his current progression speed. In these last fourteen months, he accomplished many things. One was, he learned a lot about runes, and he had already become an Adept level Rune mage. The next accomplishment was his knowledge of potion materials, potion names, and potion formulas.

If he used Quick thinking spell properly during potioneering, he could successfully create beginner level potions with the probability of 50 percent success rate. From Azolla's words, it was the biggest achievement for the beginner level potion mages. For the first time, he felt he had accomplished something great and started to grin foolishly.

Soon, Abium quickly stopped grinning and walked out of that Fire temple's entrance. After that, he cast the 'War Angel's wings' spell and flew towards the other side's dense forest.

...

On the other side of the volcanic mountain range, a green monster with pointy ears sat on a luxury chair while gazing at the volcanic mountain. Behind that goblin was a two-storied house that seemed to be built using wooden trees from the surroundings. Grold frowned in displeasure as it thought of that damn royal elf and started punching the newly crafted table angrily.

''Damn you, bastard!'' It roared towards the empty reddish sky and soon saw a crimson-colored bird flying towards its direction at an unimaginable speed. Soon, its eyes became bloodshot as it recognized that bird was that damn elf and instantly started to chant in a loud voice. It was going to give that elf a surprise attack and cripple him permanently.

Although its boss Watcher had told Grold not to kill him, it didn't mind killing him now. That damned elf had humiliated Grold and even stole that Dimensional Travel crystal, making it to become angrier. Simultaneously, its voice started to grow louder, and a dense black colored dark element started to gather.

Abium also noticed an abnormality in the forest and became serious. He knew battling against this sneaky goblin head-on would even cost his life, so without hesitation, he cast one of his new spells. The next instant, his crimson figure disappeared from the sky and suddenly appeared one meter above Grold's head.

Abium quickly flapped his both wings to slow down the momentum, and soon his legs directly crashed on Grold's face while interrupting its loud chanting.

''Guahhh!! Damn you, puny elf!'' It cursed with a roar while directly crashed into the two-storied house. Meanwhile, Abium landed with a loud thud on the ground while dispelling his fly spell.

''Get ready! We are going back.''Abium spoke coldly without even looking behind and taking out that blue colored crystalline Dimensional travel stone. Meanwhile, Grold stood up with an anxious expression on its face and started packing its things while staring maliciously at Abium from time to time. It was going to make that elf regret once it went back to the academy.

As it suddenly remembered its current appearance, it froze for a second and soon used the transformation spell scroll to change into a black cat. After that, Grold shifted its direction towards Abium while planning multiple schemes to take its revenge. Soon, Grold arrived near to Abium and growled at him. Abium didn't mind that sneaky cat's or goblin's behavior and threw that Dimensional travel stone towards Grold.

Meanwhile, that black cat casually grabbed that crystal using its tail and started to chant in abyssal language to activate the dimensional travel stone. After two minutes of long chanting, it threw that stone forcefully using its black tail. But that crystalline stone didn't fall on the ground. Instead, it started to float in mid-air.

At the same time, Abium felt a dense amount of space elemental energy gathered around it. Abium felt crushing power from that stone and stared at that condensed space elemental area anxiously. Suddenly, he saw a slight crack that appeared below that stone and revealing a bluish-black empty void. Soon, that crack began to extend and formed into a one-meter tall portal!

Without any delay, both Abium and Grold jumped into it.

...

May 29th, Easica year 10292, Dewsummit city, Peral Kingdom.

It was around 8 P.M.

Suddenly, space began to twist near the royal castle entrance and soon formed into a large portal. The next instant, two shadows appeared from that portal and quickly moved out of that Royal Street.

While walking away from Royal Street, Abium suddenly felt connected to a star in the sky and looked up with a confused face. In the dark sky filled with endless stars, Abium felt some connection coming from the cluster of stars in the northern direction and became more puzzled.

He could vaguely feel it had something to do with that Core of Itera and became more serious. After thing for a bit, he shook his head and once again resumed his walking. After a few minutes, Abium and Grold stealthily walked out of the Royal Street and booked a room at a random inn in the Commoners' Borough. After checking that they were in a safe position, Abium stared suspiciously at Grold, who was now in Black cat appearance. After a small deliberation, Abium asked with a frown.

''Why did you transformed into a cat?''

As Grold heard Abium's words, its tail began to stand up like a tree, and its body became stiff. Abium also noticed it also began to tremble a little. As he noticed its behavior, his lips started to go upward.

''Hehe, I didn't expect Mr. Mighty Grold is sneaking into Fex dimension without its master's permission.''

''N-No! I am a mighty goblin shaman. Why should I ask permission from my master for silly things?'' The Black cat started to stutter, but Abium didn't even give that Goblin to finish its words as he took out his academic black robe and was about to activate the communication rune.

''Don't tell my master! I'm using a decoy golem to do my job. If he found out about this, he will definitely kill me.''Grold got panicked and spoke hurriedly. Abium gave an amusing smile and replied casually while activating the communication rune on his robe.

''I didn't plan on revealing your secrets to the headmaster. I'm just going to call my teacher.''

Soon, an annoying male voice came from the other side.

''Who is it?''

Abium smile broadened instantly.

''Teacher! It's me, Abium.''

''Hmm? YOU! You are not dead?!'' Zivior shouted from the other side in shock. Meanwhile, Abium almost got choked and asked loudly without even minding the other person was his teacher.

''What do you mean, 'you are not dead?!'? Teacher, what happened?''

A low sigh came from the other side, and soon Zivior continued.

''Well, we found out all the necromancers went to a separate dimension after capturing that lady necromancer and also noticed we couldn't be able even to contact you. The next day, we received news that only a few necromancers were made out of that dimension through a strange portal. But we couldn't find you in that group, so we thought you already died in that dimension.'' Zivior ended his words, making Abium smile bitterly.

''Don't worry. We still didn't inform this news to the masses, so there is no problem. Kid, if you are free, come and meet me as soon as possible at the magic tower.'' Zivior said with a serious tone.

''Okay. Teacher, what happened at the Grand Nobles' gathering?'' Abium asked hurriedly.

''Nothing major happened. A few unlucky nobles got themselves killed in the crossfire. If not for your friend's druidic spells and your early warning, we would have lost many nobles, including the Crown prince. Wait...There is one major incident happened at Roseglen city. I heard from Cole that Viscount Gauvain had betrayed the kingdom, and he found Viscount Gauvain seemed to be colluding with a demon.

That demon killed everyone in that city and escaped right under his nose. Viscount's household members also escaped from our kingdom, and even Cole's disciple managed to escape using some strange spell.'' Zivior's words made Abium frown a bit, and soon he shakes his head. He didn't need to be wary of that family anymore. After a small discussion, Abium ended the connection and shifted his gaze towards that Black cat.

''I want to meet the Watcher,'' Abium said with a serious tone. A surprised expression appeared on that cat's face.

''You will definitely meet him tomorrow.'' That cat's mouth started to go slightly upward as it was trying to smile and said mysteriously.

''Okay. Can I able to get that divine spell?'' Meanwhile, Abium didn't found anything odd with its word so, he asked while pointing his finger at those three empty spaces on its silver necklace.

''No. He only gave it to me because of the 1000 years contract.'' Grold said proudly, and soon it stopped as it noticed Abium's evil grin. A chill went up to its spine, and shivered a little. It once again cursed at itself for falling for such a simple trap and started shaking its head.

''Get one spell trinket for me; I will give you one fire elemental crystal.'' Abium took out a thumb-sized fire elemental crystal and shown it towards that Grold. When Grold saw that crystal, its eyes turned greedier, and without any hesitation, it shouted excitedly.

''Deal!''

''You can get this crystal once you bring that divine trinket for me,'' Abium said casually and walked out of that room. After that, he went out of that Inn and moved towards the northern tower.