Chapter 181
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You would rarely see people with the guts to use spells around here in the Wizard Union branched headquarter in the Duchy of Keyen, but today, every Wizard could feel an intense magical wave. An experienced Wizard would know that this magical wave was brought on by the 'move in a flash' spell.
In the hall of the Wizard Union branch headquarter, a beam of white light flashed. Wizard Morton and Abel appeared in the middle of the hall. Every single Wizard around was disturbed. This seemed like a direct offense to the Wizard Union.
Around 2 seconds after Wizard Morton and Abel appeared, 5 beams of white light flashed from every single direction around them. 5 beginner Wizards with red shirts had been teleported.
One of the red shirt wizards said in a dark tone, "No matter who you are. Your offensive behavior today will be punished by the Wizard Union!"
Wizard Morton smirked and looked around. He then shouted, "Johnson, do you really want me to tell everyone what happened?"
The expression of the red shirt Wizard suddenly changed. Wizard Johnson was one of the most powerful Wizard of justice sent by the Wizard Union's main headquarter. It was not someone the Wizard Union branch headquarter could mess with.
"Retreat!" Wizard Johnson appeared in the hall. His pale old face was filled with surprise. He stepped up, hugged Wizard Morton, and said with a big laugh, "I knew a bastard like you would be ok. You are still that immortal crow back in the days. No one can kill you."
When Wizard Morton heard the world immortal crow, he could help but remember back in the days. But soon, his face returned seriously again.
"You need to give me an explanation about what happen today!" Said Wizard Morton gently pushed away Wizard Johnson.
"This isn't the right place to talk. Let's go inside!" Said Wizard Johnson to Wizard Morton. It seemed like he didn't want the crowd to know about what happened today.
"Ok, go!"
Wizard Morton placed his arm on Abel. The 2 of them disappeared into a flash of white light along with Wizard Johnson, leaving behind the 5 speechless red shirt Wizard and a crowd of confused wizards in the hall.
Wizard Johnson, Wizard Morton, and Abel appeared simultaneously in a big room with the round ceiling.
"Thank you so much for not telling everyone what happened in the hall," said Wizard Johnson with eyes full of appreciation.
I'm a member of the Wizard Union too!" Said Wizard Morton in a deep voice.
"We have captured the low ranking Wizard who had taken advantage of our teleportation circle and teleported you to the temporary teleportation circle. However, he had already killed himself during the time he was locked up."
Wizard Johnson then turned and took out 2 bottles of potion from the draw behind him. He then handed the potions to Wizard Morton.
Wizard Morton didn't show any respect as he took the potions directly off Wizard Johnson and gave it to Abel. He said, "Abel, let's treat your wounds first. One is for damage, and one is for international damage.
Abel took the potions. The 2 bottles of potions were red, but he was not sure what kind of potions they were. It definitely shouldn't be anything simple, considering Wizard Johnson's status in the Wizard Union. Therefore, he threw one of them directly into his portal bag, while only leaving on to whip on the wounds on his body.
Wizard Morton didn't say much about his disciple's action. Since his disciple was an official Knight, he must be very familiar with his own body. Therefore, Wizard Morton knew Abel's internal damage probably wasn't too bad.
Afterward, Wizard Morton turned to Wizard Johnson and said in a mocking tone, "Do you really believe the low ranking Wizard had killed himself when he was locked up?"
"I know a problem had occurred in the Duchy of Keyen's branch headquarter, but I'm still investigating. Do you know who had attacked you today?" Said Wizard Johnson after he sighed.
"Take a look at yourself!" Said Wizard Morton as he took out 2 beginner wizard's dead bodies from his portal bag and threw it onto the ground.
Wizard Johnson bent down and examined the body in close detail. After a while, he stood up again and said: "they are documented dark Wizards. The Wizard Union wanted to capture them many times, but always failed."
"Of course, the Duchy of Keyen's branch headquarter couldn't capture them!" Said Wizard Morton with a mocking tone again.
"What do you know?" Asked Wizards Johnson seriously.
"Guess who their leader is?" Said Wizard Morton in a somewhat playful tone.
"Who?" Wizard Johnson quickly followed.
"Wizard Ston!" Said Wizard Morton.
"How could it be!" Wizard Johnson mumbled in slight disbelieve.
"If this wasn't enough, I got another dead body that you will definitely be interested in!" Said Wizard Morton looking at Wizard Johnson.
"Who's?" By this point, Wizard Johnson felt his mind cluttering up. An intermediate wizard trying to hunt down another intermediate wizard was already an extremely rare and massive case within the Wizard Union. After he heard there was another dead body, he began to get worried.
"Abel, give the dead body to Johnson!" Said Wizard Morton to Abel, who was rubbing his potions by the side.
"Yes, teacher," Said Abel as he threw the dead body of the orc's deity on the floor from his portal bag.
"That is…. the worgen deity of Gosford?" Wizard Johnson shouted in shock and disbelief after he took off the hood on the dead body's head.
Afterward, Wizard Johnson turned his head back to Wizard Morton and said in a slightly distracted tone, "Old bastard, you really are an intermediate wizard. Not only surviving the attacks of an intermediate deity and 2 beginner wizards but also brought their corpses back. That's unbelievable!"
Wizard Morton looked at Abel, who was still applying his potions, and turned his head back to Wizards Johnson. He said, "that's because I have a stupid disciple who was willing to risk his life to help me take up the attacks of 3 wizards."
Wizard Johnson also turned his head to look at the burns all over Abel's body. They were all scars left over by fire spells. Wizard Johnson could help but turn his head back to Wizard Morton again and said: "You really have a good disciple, a very admirable one."
Abel was really enjoying himself. Wizard Johnson's potion was amazing, even the naked eye could see his wounds healing by the second. Other than some deeper wounds, all the other ones just basically turned into some small red marks. It looked like all his wounds would be healed in 2 days.
At this moment, Abel was lamenting that he only have so little potions like this. If he had enough of them, as well as the Horadric cube's combination, it's ability would definitely be neck to neck to the 'healing potion' from the Dark World.
It seemed like potion study was a must for him in the future. If he didn't have a 'healing potion' in the Dark World, it would be very dangerous. If he could combine something similar to a 'mana potion' after he learned potion study, that would be perfect. The biggest challenge he had encountered when battling in Blood Moor was not enough mana. No matter how powerful your Wizard weapons were if you had no mana, they were basically useless in a battle.
On the other side, Wizard Morton was criticizing Wizard Johnson. He asked, "A locked up convict had killed himself in the Wizard Union branch headquarter in the Duchy of Keyen. Wanted dark Wizards were following the most powerful Wizard in Duchy of Keyen, and this most powerful Wizard could partner up with an orc's deity to kill a human Wizard. Is this what the Wizard Union has become? Is the Wizard Union still the Wizard Union back in the days?"
Wizard Johnson said with an extremely serious tone, "I will definitely give this case a clear investigation. I will not only give you an explanation, but I will also give the Wizard Union an explanation. I will definitely remove this evil parasite from the Duchy of Keyen."
"Since we've known each other for so long, I'll let you take care of this, but if it was not done correctly, I will definitely ask my teacher to give this a justification despite all costs." Said Wizard Morton lowering his voice.
Wizard Johnson quickly replied with a scared look on his face, "Don't worry, I definitely won't bother the old man."
"Let's hope!" Of course, Wizard Morton knew an intermediate wizard would need to have a massive background. In order to become an intermediate wizard, they must have a full inheritance and a huge amount of resources. The full inheritance made sure a Wizard would not go down the wrong path, and the huge amount of resources was what builds them up. Therefore, every wizard who could break through to the intermediate rank must have a massive background. He was no exception.
"I will let the main headquarter know that you had killed a dark wizard and an orc's deity, then I will directly transfer you your merits," Said Wizard Johnson looking at the dead bodies on the floor.
"I'll take the merit of killing the dark wizards, but the merit of killing an orc's deity belongs to my disciple. You should directly transfer to him," Said Wizard Morton coldly.
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Chapter 182
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Chapter 182 Urgent Call
In Blood Moor, Abel was unleashing the 'charging bolt' like a walk in the park. He could now unleash the rank 5 'charging bolt,' which included 7 electric arcs simultaneously. 10 fallen were rushing towards him, and 7 of them had been struck to halt but the electricity. Afterward, he unleashed 4 'charging bolts' again and filled the ground with electric arcs. The 10 or so fallen were knocked over immediately.
The fallen shaman kept reviving the dead fallen, but they could only revive one at most. The soul of all the other dead fallen was directly sucked into the Horadric Cube. In regards to all the fallen who were still alive around him, they were all screaming for their lives, scattering towards all directions, leaving only the fallen shaman who was just preparing a fireball to attack Abel.
Abel lightly padded Black Wind. After Black Wind got the signal, he quickly dashed around left and right, dodging all the frightened fallen and arrived in front of the fallen shaman.
A fireball flew directly towards Abel from the fallen shaman's hand, so Abel took out a fire rune sign. The fire rune sign exploded the fireball in mid-air. At that moment, he was trying to fight like his teacher Wizard Morton.
Afterward, 2 'fireball' spells had ended this fallen shaman life. Abel then jumped down from Black Wind. He picked up the fallen shaman's magic cane and threw it into the Horadric cube for examination.
"Uh, It's a 'fireball' spell again!" Abel blamed it on his bad luck and shoved the magic cane in his portal bag.
It had been a week since he was attacked in the Duchy of Keyen. Throughout this entire week, he had stayed at home to heal his wounds. Most of his time was spent in the Dark World, this was the 8th fallen shaman he had killed, and it was located in one of the smallest fallen camps. There were only around 500 fallen were there.
He gained 8 fallen shaman magic canes: 2 of them had been damaged during the battle, and 4 of them didn't have any special abilities. After all, he only got another 'fireball' magic cane. So must be very lucky when he got that magic cane with an official Wizard ability form that first 3 fallen shaman he killed.
Ever since he realized the Horadric cube had the ability to suck up the soul of those creatures from hell, he began to use Black Wind's speed, as well as applying the guerrilla tactic to slowly drag those fallen to death. Since the fallen shaman couldn't do much to revive them anyway.
Abel checked his mana, and there was not much left. Abel began to use the 'fireball' spell to kill off those fallen who had regained their will to battle one by one until his mana had completed depleted.
"Black Wind, let's go out!" Abel commanded as he gently padded Black Wind on the neck.
It was time for him to go back to the Rogue encampment to restore his mana through meditation. He had only made this decision after he learned his lesson. In the past, every time when his mana was depleted, he would always direct Black Wind to someplace that he thought was safe for restoring his mana through meditation.
He thought he could save some time this way. But, a few days ago, when he was restoring his mana through meditation, he suddenly woke up. What he saw was a ground full of zombie corpses surrounding him. Black Wind was covered in blood. If Black Wind didn't risk its life to protect him, Abel would lose his life in his meditation journey just like that. Ever since then, he would return to the Rogue encampment for meditation.
Luckily, at the time, he still had that leftover healing potion, so Black Wind's wounds didn't affect too much of its performance the following few days.
Nevertheless, they weren't playing a game. It was very dangerous to meditate in the wild without any strong self-defense strategies. There was no revival here, so he only had one chance.
When Abel was thinking about his self-defense strategies, he thought of that stone metal monster left over by the orc's deity. Originally, that would be the best defense puppet, but in order to make that thing listen to Abel's command, Abel would at least need to be an official wizard. Therefore, he could only admire it for now.
In regards to the lambskin parchment in the orc's deity's dimensional finger joint, it was filled with notes about potions. However, those notes were too complicated for Abel to understand at the time. They were not notes for basic potion study; they were notes for some extremely elite complicated stuff about potions. On top of that, they were all written in the orc's language. If Abel wasn't fluent in orc's language, they would be hopeless looking at it.
There were 2 books in the dimensional finger joint; one was called 'skeletons summon' spell guide. The other was a scripture.
When Abel first saw the 'skeletons summon' spell guide, he thought he could learn another new spell. However, only when he opened the book did he realized that he bear using skeletons.
This was what the so-called deity altered spell. The power of the skeletons depends on the skeletons' original owner's power. Therefore, the more powerful the owner of the skeleton was, the more powerful the skeletons would be.
In order to attain these skeletons, one would need to drain and torture the will of an elite warrior for a long time in the harshest manner. On top of that, they would be injected with all kinds of poisons to corrupt their flesh, so their power could be transferred to their skeletons bit by bit. Afterward, the broken-down soul of the elite warrior would be locked in their skeletons. Just like that, a skeleton with the same ability as it's the original owner was born.
Abel could not tolerate this, so he decided not to learn it. Even if he could tolerate it, he would still be frowned upon by other wizards if he had really learned it.
However, through this 'skeleton summon' spells description, he could try to find a way to counteract the spell. Of course, his optimism was in the 'soul potion'.
Throughout the past week of the massacre in Blood Moor, Abel gained 5 bottles of 'soul potion'. However, he did not use them on himself. Instead, he tested it out on Black Wind to see how it would go.
Since Wind Black would need to be prepared for battle at any moment in the Rogue encampment, Abel was not ready to let it use the 'soul potion' yet. If something had gone wrong here, he could only pray to the Lord. But if he was outside, he might be able to find Marcy for help or ask a pope to unleash some holy spells.
Although Black Wind was Abel's mount, it was not a member of the wizards. Therefore, if it got hurt, it could still seek the pope and the shrine for help. Abel could not do that, although his wounds were healing very slowly these past few days, he still didn't find the pope for help. The reason was simple, and that was because a Wizard could not accept the holy spell by a pope. Holy spells and mana had too many conflicts, so it would only damage his wounds even further.
The worst part was that his wounds would heal very fast every time he enters the Rogue encampment, but every time exited back to the Holy Continent, his wounds returned to how they originally were. Originally Abel thought this was the best way to heal his wounds, but it was only until now he realized it would be his downfall.
Before Abel exits the Rogue encampment, he would always meditate to recover his mana. This was because he had almost gotten killed by a wolf rider captain one time when he exited the Dark World with a depleted mana store.
After Abel's mana was fully recovered, he looked at the sky and calculated the time for a while. It was time for him to leave.
He opened the portal and disappeared with Black Wind from the Rogue encampment.
After Abel took a shower and put on some new clothes, he ran into Steward Ken, who was just looking for him. Steward Ken said, "My Lord, your follower Finkle had just delivered a message. Wizard Morton invites you back to the magic tower!".
"Go order a carriage, I'll get going soon," Said Abel nodding his head. Since Wizard Morton was looking for him when he was healing his wounds, there were most likely had some updates from the Wizard Union.
The moment when Abel had got off the carriage at Morton Magic tower, he sensed a constricting atmosphere. All the low ranking wizards surrounding the magic tower seemed depressed. Something must have happened.
"Mr. Abel," when the low ranking Wizards saw Abel, they immediately stepped up and bowed. Those low ranking wizards were expertise in spreading the news, so when they heard that Wizard Morton really respects Abel, Abel's status in their heart had shot straight up as well.
Abel bowed back to the crowd and entered the magic tower with his identity card.
The moment he entered, he heard the voice of Wizard Morton, "Abel, go straight to my place now."
Abel suddenly felt his heart dropped; something big must have happened. Otherwise, why would teachers need him so desperately?
He quickly stepped up the stairs 3 stairs at a time, soon, he had arrived at the 11th floor. He pushed open some doors with all kinds of weird birds and beast on them. At last, he arrived at the hall on the 11th floor.
Camille and Carlos were already standing in front of Wizard Morton in the hall. It seems like they were reporting something.
"Abel, you had arrived!" Wizard Morton said to Abel with a smile while nodding his head. His expression didn't indicate what he was thinking at all.
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Chapter 183
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Chapter 183 Revenge From The Duchy of Keyen
Wizard Morton's face did not change much, but Camille and Carlos forcefully gave out a little smile. By this point, Abel was sure something had happened.
"Teacher, are you looking for me?" Said Abel as he greeted Wizard Morton
"Abel, go with Camille and Carlos to investigate the mines!"Wizard Morton commanded.
"What happened?" Abel asked with a heart full of confusion.
"The 2 magic gem mines in the Duchy of Carmel had been attacked today. And all the low ranking wizards guarding the place were killed!" Said Wizard Morton lowing his voice.
When Abel first saw those low ranking wizards surrounding the magic tower, he just thought they were here to suck up the mana leaked out by the magic tower. Only recently, he had discovered, those low ranking wizards would also often accept some missions given out by the magic tower in exchange for training resources and spell practice.
The wizards who were qualified for guarding missions would need to be at least rank 1. By that point, they already had a decent amount of fighting ability, so it should be very hard to attack a gem mine, on top of the gem mine's defense circle.
"Originally, I was planning to tell you about another case, but now, it seems like these cases are connected," Said Wizard Morton.
Abel turned his head up towards Wizard Morton. It had been a week, so the Wizard Union must have some updates.
"The Wizard Union will soon throw Ston in the Dark Wizard List, and send out an arrest warrant throughout the entire human world," Said Wizard Morton with a dim expression.
"They still haven't captured Ston? Will he come to the Duchy of Carmel to seek revenge?" Abel felt his heart drop. That guy was an intermediate wizard. He must have some massive revenge coming, considering all of the hatred between them.
"Don't worry. It's very hard for Ston to come to the Duchy of Carmel. Every single teleportation circle had banned him from using it, and the Wizard Union's information system is already looking for him. As soon as he shows himself, they will know where he is. After that, he will be welcomed by a ruthless hunt from the Wizard Union's redshirt guards," Said Wizard Morton after seeing that Abel was worried.
"Could this attack be set up by Ston?" Abel asked.
"It might be revenge set up by the Wizards from the Duchy of Keyen. They had taken too much damage this time by losing an intermediate wizard, as well the clean up by the Duchy of Keyen's Wizard Union branch headquarter. The Duchy of Keyen's power decreased a lot, and it's not looking good for them. If they continue like this, they can no longer preserve their resources," Said Wizard Morton with a somewhat 'laughing at people's misfortune' tone.
Wizard Morton gazed at his 3 disciples and proceeded to say, "This time, we official wizards will not leave the magic tower. We will be responsible for igniting all the magic circle in the magic tower. Your identity cards can be used throughout the entire Duchy of Carmel, so if another official wizard appears, the magic tower will know. This is a battle between novice wizards, and no official wizards will get involved."
There were 15 low ranking wizards being trapped in the Duchy of Carmel in total. Since all the branched teleportation circle towards the 4 nearby Duchy had been closed off, let's go hunt them down as revenge for our dead wizard!"
"Yes, teacher!" Said the three of them simultaneously as they bowed.
As they were coming out of Wizard Morton's room, Abel asked, "Carlos, do you know how powerful the 15 low ranking wizards are?"
Carlos slightly nodded and said, "When they were passing through the Duchy of Thunder's teleportation circle in groups to detour over our border, the Duchy of Thunder's teleportation circle had recorded who they were. 10 of the 15 of them were rank 3 and below, while the other 5 were official disciples from the Duchy of Keyen's magic towers.
"Why isn't the Wizard Union getting involved with this?"Abel couldn't help but ask.
"The Wizard Union is a scattered organization. They can't control what wizards are doing. The most they could do was to warn wizards for the things they do. They will only get involved if a wizard had harmed the Union or the wellbeing of humans," Carlos explained.
Camille added on the side, "The reason why the teacher didn't get involved in this fight is that an official wizard can not fight in a battle between novice wizards. Or else it will escalate into a fight between official wizards. This is a hidden rule of the Wizard world."
"Those low ranking wizards could never have guessed in a million years that we have installed an alert circle in the gem mine's defense circle. Ever since the teacher came back last week, he had installed an alert circle on every important resource. So when they were attacking the magic gem mine, the magic tower was alerted. Although it was too late to save the wizards, he had immediately closed down all the teleportation circle towards through the 4 duchy alliance.
There's no way they can escape now," Said Carlos laughing coldly.
"Did we lose a lot of resources?" Abel asked in a caring tone.
"The magic gem mine can return to operations once it was fixed. The biggest hit we took was losing those low ranking wizards. But they will not die for nothing," Said Carlos clenching his teeth.
"Abel, Carlos and I prepared some rune signs for you. Keep them well," said Camille. She took out 5 rune signs. There was a defense rune sign in the 5 rune signs. In order to make a defense rune sign, you need an attribute-less crystal core, and those things are very hard to get for a novice wizard. Every single defense rune sign would be the last life-preserving method for a novice wizard in a novice wizard battle.
"Camille, these things are too valuable. I still have some of my own rune signs," said Abel waving his hand.
"Just do what I said and keep it. There might be a chance he will face an official disciple from the Duchy of Keyen. Our opponent is not normal low ranking wizards, but the rank 5 wizards from other magic towers will be responsible for taking them down, so we'll mostly just focus on the rank 3 and below. Ever since brother William had left, second brother and a third sister had locked themselves up, so there aren't any rank 5 wizards sent out by our magic tower," Camille said as she shoved the 5 rune signs towards Abel's chest.
Abel felt deeply touched in his heart. Suddenly, he was reminded of the 'fireball' spell magic cane he had. Although these magic canes with ability might be very valuable to others, they weren't too important to Abel. All he needed to do was to kill a few more creatures from hell. He had 3 of the magic canes with the 'fireball' spell ability, and could already do a quicken 'fireball' spell. These magic cane could only raise his spell by one rank.
Up to this point, Abel took out 2 magic canes from his b]portal bag and gave them to Camille and Carlos. He then proceeded to say, "I'll give these 2 magic canes to you guys, they are my spoils of war."
"That's some good stuff; it can raise the 'fireball' spell by one rank." Said Carlos after he examined the magic cane.
"Let me try" after Camille heard what Carlos had said, her eyes began to sparkle. He pointed with the magic cane in her hand, and a 'fireball' dashed out.
"Camille, you idiot. Do you want to burn down the magic tower?" Wizard Morton's voice came from the staircase. Afterward, a flash of white light surrounded the fireball, and just like that, the fireball vanished.
"Yikes, I forgot!" Said Camille as she stuck out her tongue. The staircase did not have a defense, which was why Wizard Morton would rarely use it unless he was trying to save some money.
"Just keep the magic cane Abel had given you. Once you have Abel's things, I am less worried about your mission," Wizard Morton's voice came out from somewhere once again.
Although Wizard Morton didn't know where Abel had got these magic cane, he seen him used one with an official wizard ability 'spirit transfer' I'm a battle before. Considering that Abel was a blacksmith Master, there was a big chance Abel was researching how to make a magic cane, and these 2 'fireball' magic canes were just his prototype.
"Thank you so much, junior brother. This magic cane is very nice," said Carlos in excitement, waving his magic cane around.
"What do you know dumb-dumb, this magic cane has the ability to unleash a quicken 'fireball' spell." Said Camille as she rolled her eyes on Carlos. She then turned her head back to Abel and said, "Abel, this magic cane is too valuable. I will definitely return it to you after the mission is done."
"That's not right Camille, I just took your rune signs, and you still want to return this little gift from me?" Said Abel in a concrete tone.
"Then I'll keep this magic cane junior brother. When I have some good stuff in the future, Is definitely share it with you." Said Camille playfully as he continued to wave around his magic cane like it's nothing.
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Chapter 184
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Chapter 184 Trace
Camille had gone to prepare herself. Carlos was just about to do so as well, but suddenly, he was dragged by Abel, "Carlos, do you have the map for that attacked gem mines? I have a mount wolf. It's very speedy, so I want to rush there to have a look at the condition first," Said Abel.
"Wow, little brother, you must be a rich guy. I heard a mount wolf is the number i land mount. When are you going to let me ride it, huh? Said Carlos. The moment he heard that Abel had a mount wolf, his eyes immediately lit up with admiration.
"Let's talk about the mount wolf later. Just give me the map first," Said Abel slightly irritated by Carlos's careless attitude. There was no way Black Wind could let other people ride it. Even if Abel had commanded, it wouldn't let anyone get close to his back for even a second. That was the nature of a mount wolf; they were an extremely loyal bunch and would only identify one person as their owner. If Carlos was not afraid of getting thrown to the ground, then he could go for it.
"Here's your map. Since you have such a fast mount wolf, you will definitely get separated from us. Just remember, never force any attacks in a thousand years. The rune signs you have are enough to kill off those rank 3 and below wizards, but those rank 3 and above are a whole other league. You must be careful," Carlos said with a worried tone, as he took out a map from his pocket.
"Understood. Carlos." Said Abel as he snatched the map and threw it into his portal bag. He then immediately turned and ran downstairs.
"Ah, a portal bag. If I can also get one, that would be amazing." Carlos mumbled with admiration seeing Abel go off without needing any preparation at all.
After half a day, Abel arrived at the magic gem mines marked on the map with Black Wind. Since there would be a lot of low ranking wizards joining this battle, Abel did not summon White Cloud. He only arrived riding on the back of Black Wind.
One of the magic gem mines was located 500 miles west from Bakong City, and another was located 600 miles around the east-west direction from Bakong City. The map also marked all the places with resources that had not been attacked yet. They were all very close to Bakong City, which he could see why the magic towers were built around here.
Firstly, Bakong City was the biggest city in the Duchy of Carmel, so it could bring about large amounts of top quality day to day stuff for the wizards. Secondly, since all of those important resources were concentrated near Bakong City, wizards also needed to be concentrated just outside of Bakong City.
Abel rode Black Wind straight up towards a road on the mountain, which was reinforced by humans. He did not see anyone along the way. It was only after he took a turn on the mountain road, he saw a decent-sized mine. Around 10 miners were moving the scattered rocks away from the tunnel. When they saw Abel, he stood up in shock.
An old miner stepped up, looking at the intimidating Black Wind and said: "Mr., what do you want?" The old miner sounded so brave. It was almost like he knew how to fight.
"I am a wizard from the Duchy of Carmel. I was sent here to take a look at the damaged condition of the mine," Said Abel as he took out his identity card and held it in front of the old miner's face.
"Mr., 2 out of the dead bodies of the 4 wizard was there. The old miner let out a breath of relief, but he was still looking a bit nervous as he pointed towards a shed. He then proceeded to point towards a hole and said," there are still 2 wizard's dead bodies being trapped. We are already trying to get them out as soon as possible."
"No rush, were you there when the attack happened?" Abel gazed at the old miner, then towards the 10 or so other miners standing on the spot.
"The only survivors were another 2 injured miners and me. They had already been sent down the mountain for treatment," Said the old miner in sorrow.
"They killed ordinary people as well?" Said Abel in disbelief.
"Yes, after those wizards arrived, the first thing they did was blown off the defense set up by the Mr wizards. Afterward, they just kill anyone they saw. I stood on a rock, but I was so scared that I slipped and hit my head. When I woke up, I realized everyone was dead other than us 3. Wizard Morton arrived not long afterward and organized people to help us repair the mine," As the old miner was speaking, fear emerged from his eyes. It seemed like he was reminded of the demon-like wizards of the other day.
Up to this point, Abel had understood that only Wizard Morton could have speed like this in the Duchy of Carmel. So he could rush here in almost no time. But since those wizards had killed miners as well, it seemed like they were trying to slow down the magic gem production in the Duchy of Carmel. Therefore, they decided to attack the core resource of Wizards in the Duchy of Carmel.
"You can continue your work. I'll take a look around." Said Abel saving his hand towards the old miner.
At the entrance of the mine, there were some marks of a damaged defense circle. Although Abel didn't know too much about defense circles, he could tell this was a simple defense circle. The normal red lamp, a magic gem that the defense circle used was scattered into countless small pieces on the ground. The surface of the magic circle was intentionally damaged as well.
There were some pieces of used up rune signs on the ground. It seemed like those Wizards came here to attack was very well prepared. A simple defense circle was mostly used for defending against physical attacks. If it was hit with a magic attack that exceeded its limit, the defense circle would be destroyed immediately. Those wizards prepared many rune signs to directly destroy this defense circle.
Abel kept looking as he walked. He marks on the ground reflects how the battle was fought at the time. It was an unfair battle. There were no signs of fighting back-only the blood of the defenders.
Abel arrived at the place where the dead bodies were placed. The dead bodies of the 2 low ranking wizards were placed separately on one side, while the dead bodies of the 10 or so miners were lying on the other side. The power of the fire attack was too great. Most of the dead bodies were so burnt, and their faces were basically unrecognizable. After a close examination, Abel stood up with disappointment. The attacking wizards basically left no evidence behind.
"Woof woof!" Black Wind began to call next to a big rock. It must have discovered something.
Abel quickly walked towards Black Wind and took a look at where it's paw was pointing. There was a small crack between 2 rocks. There was a faint light coming out of the crack. From this, Abel could see it was a corner from a grey shirt at the bottom of the crack. It seemed like that corner of the shirt was ripped off by some sharp rocks and landed at the bottom of the crack.
That crack was around a meter deep, but extremely small, so it was basically impossible for a human to reach their hand in. This could very well be the reason why that corner from a grey shirt was not taken out by anyone.
But that's not a problem for Abel. He took out the magic cane with the 'spirit transfer' ability from his portal bag, unleashed the 'spirit transfer' spell, and in a flash of white that the corner from a grey shirt appeared in his hand.
"Come here Black Wind, give this a smell. See if you can find this person!" Said Abel as held up the shirt corner towards Black Wind's nose. As far as he knew, even dogs, the descendants of wolves, have a strong sense of smell, so a spirit beast mount wolf should have no problem.
Abel was right. After Black Windr 2 gentle sniffs, it told Abel through the soul chain that it could find out who this piece belonged to.
In a rush of excitement, Abel hopped on the back of Black Wind and sped down the mountain.
After Black Wind went down the hill, he sniffed a few more times in the air. It no longer walked on the main road. Instead, he entered into a small road when it came across a dissect road. At last, he stopped in front of a house.
It was an ordinary house made of mud and stone. The front door was opened wide. The moment when Abel jumped down from Black Wind and got close to the house, the stink of blood rushed towards him.
Abel put the 'frozen armor' on his body, and carefully entered the house. The moment he entered, he saw the dead body of a farmer and his family, there was even the dead body of a 2-year-old kid. The 3 dead bodies were just lying still next to the corner of the wall. It was clear that the 3 of them were dragged here, and struck to death with a sword. It seemed like those wizards didn't even want to waste their mana on ordinary people.
Abel stared at the dead family of 3 on the ground, especially that 2-year-old kid. He felt a fiery rage burning within him. Of course, Abel had killed a lot of people in the past as well, but he had never harmed an innocent. What those wizards had done was beyond Abel's comprehension; they wouldn't even spare the life of a 2-year-old child.
Abel walked through the rooms and arrived at the backyard. There were footprints of horses, which showed the reason why the family was killed. Those low ranking wizards needed a place to put their horses, and this house just so happened to be close to the mine. So, that's why the family was killed.
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"Black Wind, let's go!" Abel turned and hopped back on the back of Black Wind. Those wizards had only settled here for a while. He had to keep the investigation going.
Black Wind sniffed the air again. After he confirmed the direction, he sped towards it. This time Black Wind did not even go through roads. It just ran straight through the farms. Abel could see there were horse footprints on the fields, which confirmed the direction that he was going was correct.
Suddenly, the identity card on his waist began to vibrate; a Wizard wanted to contact him. Abel took out his identity card from his waist. After he connected with it, an unfamiliar voice came through, "Is this Abel?"
"Who are you?" Abel asked in confusion. He never heard this voice before, why was he contacting him.
"I am Yveline's disciple Carrol, what are you now?" Said the voice.
Rank 5 novice wizard Carrol? Of course, Abel had heard this name before. He lived in Yveline magic tower for a few days, although he had never seen novice wizard Carrol before, he met his follower. That follower's name was Ethan, and his attitude was horrible.
Abel didn't seem to have much connection with Wizard Carrol, why did he want to know his location? Abel couldn't help but feel like something was odd, but he didn't think of it much anyway. This was the first time all the magic towers had sent out their low ranking Wizard for a mission together, so Abel thought there might be some special arrangement that required his location.
"I just left the mine in Tezcuca mountain. Did something happen?" Abel followed.
"Wow, that was fast; you already arrived at Tezcuca mountain?" Novice Wizard sounded a little shocked as he proceeded to say. "We had discovered some trace of the enemies, so we were just trying to gather everyone up. We'll be waiting for you at Lenida mountain."
"Lenida mountain?" Abel took out the map from his portal bag to look at the location. Then he replied, "Ok, I'll be there in a moment."
"Quick, we are waiting for you." Novice Wizard Carlos added and cut off the identity card.
Abel closely examined the location on the map again. Suddenly, he felt his heart moved; it was exactly where Black Wind was heading.
He took out his identity card again and began to call Camille. After a while, their identity cards were connected.
"Camille, It's Abel!"
"Abel, where are you?" The sound of Camille emerged.
"I am heading towards Lenida mountain." Said Abel.
"What are you doing there?" Camille asked in a puzzled tone.
"Where are you now?" Abel was scared in his heart that things might turn out like how he had initially imagined. But he didn't want to tell Camille just now. He hasn't fully understood what was going on, so it was still better for him to go take a look first.
"I'm only just got out, and Carlos as well. The teacher ordered us to investigate separately. So if you have news, just let us know, never attack when you discover an enemy. Contact us first, and we will attack together." Said Camille in worry.
"Ok, I'll let you when I have news!"
Abel cut off his identity card, and a mocking facial expression emerged. He then began to mumble. "Carrols, I hope you have enough money to buy your rank increasing potions!"
As far as Abel knew, novice wizard Carrol was not like novice wizard Sam, who was also stuck at rank 5. Novice wizard Carrol had always been madly obsessed with money, and those rank increasing potions for official wizards. Abel just did not expect he would sell his information this time. That was just nasty.
But he could not blame Carrol for this nasty thing he did. Carrol was not closed to Abel, if he could successfully lure Abel into the place he had stated, the Duchy of Keyen would accept his condition. The action of sacrificing the life of a novice Wizard, in exchange for the chance of becoming an official wizard himself, made total sense in his heart.
Abel was already certain in his heart that those attacking wizards would be waiting for him in Lenida mountain. He just didn't know how many of them would be there.
Black Wind's speed was very quick. He was already close to Lenida mountain after around 30 minutes. When there was still some distance, he took out his telescope to examine the tip of Lenida mountain in detail.
Lenida mountain was medium size rocky mountain with almost no trees. Abel knew it was perfect for an ambush at first glance. In the left of the mountain, there was a cave filled with rocks
Through this telescope, he could see a white robed wizard desperately looking around in the cave. It was Novice Wizard Carrol. He seemed like he was waiting for someone. Abel turned his telescope to examine his surroundings. But he was not expecting Black Wind to arrive at the destination this quick. He could already see the hidden wizards behind rocks inside the cave. He had seen 5 of them poking out so far. It seemed like they really couldn't risk the chance of losing against Abel this time.
A cold smirk emerged from Abel's face as he took out Harry's bow from his Kong Kong spirit portal bag. This bow could shoot very far. If his opponent did not have a 'frozen armor' to protect them, one shot was more than enough to kill a low ranking wizard.
Horace was a rank 5 novice wizard, and his teacher was Wizard Ston. Ever since Wizard Ston became wanted by the Wizard Union, his life had been flipped upside down. He had turned from a respectable intermediate Wizard's disciple to a hated by many dark Wizard's disciples.
On top of that, the Wizard Union had come to him multiple times and asked questions about his teacher Wizard Ston's condition, which made his life very miserable.
This revenge operation was set up by another rank 11 Wizard from the Duchy of Keyen, Wizard Stanley. The team was almost entirely made up of Wizard Ston's disciples. The highest ranked Horace was one of the main forces. Wizard Stanley agreed to Horace, as long as he could kill Abel after the attack, Keyen's information system would help him return to return to Keyen. Afterward, he could become a disciple of Wizard Stanley.
In regards to the other 14 wizards, their chance of returning to the Duchy of Keyen would be very small from the perspectives of Horace. After they had divided themselves into 2 teams and separately attacked 2 mines, they realized the alert circle had been triggered. Although their actions were quick and didn't get captured during the attack, the teleportation circle to go back had already been closed down. There was no way the Duchy of Keyen would spend that many resources on sending those low ranking wizards back, so Horace truly believed that he might be the only survivor of the team. All the other wizards would be sacrificed.
To Horace, this operation was a good chance to turn his life around. He just needed to kill a rank 3 wizard, and especially after he got insider information from Wizard Carrol, he was certain that Abel couldn't escape.
As he was casually sitting on a rock, joy filled his heart. Those glorious respectable days would soon return to him after he became the disciple of Wizard Stanley.
But there was one thing he did not know, and that was all the other 14 wizards low ranking wizards had also gotten their own individual promise. Some were promised large amounts of resources; some were being kept as a disciple. They were all told that an official path was left for them to retreat.
These 15 low ranking wizards were already thrown into the dark wizard situation because of Wizard Ston, so there was no way the other Wizard form the Duchy of Keyen would accept them. They were all being used like trash. This attack operation was created to not only impact the resource of the Duchy of Carmel, but it was also created to officially get rid of these wizards with unclean names.
The moment the teleportation array was shut, the fate of these 15 wizards were already set. There was no way they could escape the search of the information reporting system of the 4 Duchies.
Horace was still innocently dreaming about his bright future as he sat on a rock. He suddenly heard a scream, followed by groans of agony.
Horace quickly hid behind the big rock and shouted, "attack!"
"Nice job Carrol, you had gathered all of them together. I will definitely let the superior know about your good work," Abel's voice came from outside the cave.
"Carrol, you betrayed us!" Horace was not surprised at all. Since Carrol would betray his fellow Wizards from his own Duchy, of course, he was more than capable of betraying wizards from other Duchy.