After I swore that I would in the future help revive Magister Arcanist Balcoin, we went directly for the combat test.
"While it is indeed true that compared to Warlocks, we Arcanists are more pursuing knowledge and understanding of the world around us, combat strength is still essential in everything we do. So the first part of your Trial, if you can call it like that, you will fight with Fiend at the level of Abyssal King. Your task is to kill it. Even though this Fiend was sealed for a long time by me, it is still comparable to Mighty Stage God in terms of combat prowess."
I stated remnant consciousness of the Magister Balcoin as I grinned slightly.
I quickly recalled knowledge that I knew about Fiends, what I obtained from the Longinus Dreizhen Orden. Being a member had such perks, like that I have access to practically most knowledgable people in the entire Astral Boundary Universe and that vast repertoire of knowledge even about many other Universes.
Fiends originate from the Infinite Abyss Universe.
It is a very mysterious Universe where enormous negative energy from countless Universes gather, as Infinite Abyss Universe is connected to the enormous amount of Universe, Planes, Sealed Worlds and many other realms of existence. This negative energy, in turn, gives birth to creatures known as the Abyssal Fiends.
Contrary to other Universes, Infinite Abyss Universe is stylized as some kind of "tower" and has an immeasurable amount of Floors; with each century, new floors are birthed and expanded while some crumbles away. It has a great number of Abyssal Primogenitors, which are the same as Warlock Emperor or Lord-Class Devil, Great Old Ones, and several Divine Thrones.
Fiends are by nature destructive creatures that only care about slaughter and chaos while devouring Universes to expand Abyss. Thus they are often called the menace of all existence. Infinite Abyss Universe isn't ruled by anyone, but rather various Abyssal Primogenitors are waging war against each other in fierce and brutal slaughter, while Great Old Ones and Divine Thrones are permanently sleeping, they didn't awaken, not even in past Conjunction.
They only awakened during the certain event that was known as "Fiendish Exodus" when several powerful Universes got invaded by power-hungry Abyssal Primogenitors. They invaded several powerful Universe, including Okhwang's Ancient Dao Universe and Sarion Universe, which housed mighty Sorcerers. In the end, Abyssal Primogenisotrs were banished, but it didn't stop there.
A coalition of several top factions among Ancient Dao Universe and Sarion Universe and several others conducted an expedition into the depths of Infinite Abyss Universe, arrived at 94,456th Floor before they were stopped by several Fiends at the Great Old One Level and three Divine Throne Level Fiends.
Then a fight took place where top powerhouses fought for several years before the coalition of invaders of Infinite Abyss Universe was pushed back. Both sides suffered immense losses, and everyone saw the terrifying underlying strength that the Infinite Abyss Universe possessed.
Soon enough, remnant consciousness of Magister Arcanist unsealed Abyssal King.
He looked large, about 12 meters tall, bulking with muscles and having three golden horns over his head.
'So it is a golden-horned fiend, and these are rare and many times stronger than other types of Fiends. Though If I can get my hands on this bloodline... it would improve my physical abilities tremendously.'
I thought in my head as I observed the Abyssal King looked confused before becoming enraged and attempted to attack the remnant consciousness of Magister Arcanist Balcoin only to find that his fist passed through his corporeal form.
Golden-Horned Fiends were the rarest species of the Fiend Race and had the strongest bloodline among them all. Actually, most of the top powerhouses of the Fiends were Golden-Horned Fiends, so they were something akin to Holy Race among the Fiends.
But fighting a Fiend as a test... this was good.
With my Dark Light and Holy Flame Clan Traits, I had the perfect counter for Fiends, and even this one was way stronger than me; I could kill it.
Before remnant consciousness of the Magister Balcoin can say something, and Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend can understand what is going on, I instantly conjured [Dark Light - Enkidu] and shot them at the Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend, binding his arms and legs in the Dark Light Chains, as they started burning the Fiend, as he cannot handle well elemental disadvantage of the Dark Light.
General knowledge about Fiends says: approximately 99% of their race is stupid as brick, and the only task that required usage of the brain they could handle is scheming. So almost none of them attempts to comprehend Laws, minus some exceptions that now reached an extremely high level of power.
This meant that while I was weaker, my comprehension of the Law of Darklight made up for it. Coupled with the fact that this Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend didn't have anything to strengthen his defense against Holy/Light attribute attacks against him, I had it even easier.
Unfortunately for me, after several seconds, Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend broke free from the Dark Light Chains and rushed directly at me. His physical strength was something else, as he was able to break free from my Dark Light Chains with relative ease.
Seeing this, I frowned slightly; I cast [Gravity Fall] spell at Forbidden-Tier and directly increased gravity around the Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend more than a hundred times, though to my shock Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend was able to move fine, now he was moving at a speed that I could easily follow.
I instantly teleported several hundred meters away while at the same time barraging him with Dark Light Spears and Holy Flame Spears.
Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend roared in rage as he was attacked by hundreds of Dark Light Spears and Holy Flame Spears, and while they didn't cause him severe injuries, they were too much, and soon his body started to be covered by wounds.
I flew high in the air and started casting more spells at the Golden-Horned Abyssal King Fiend, who now started releasing his aura in full mode, and it was really something terrifying.
For the first time in my life, I felt excitement during the fight.
"Good."
I grinned with a bloodthirsty smile.