Meanwhile, Nicolaus nodded his head and stood up from his seat.
At that moment, Abium thought of something and asked.
"But why did you kill Twin Blade Godwin and his gang members? Also, how did you know I'm staying in this street?"
"Oh, I almost forgot about that. I went to your territory, and that blonde haired girl told me that you went to the capital in secret. But when I tried to search for you in the slum, I couldn't find a clue. So, I have no choice but to choose this method." Nicolaus said calmly.
'But I didn't tell her where I will stay in the Slum Borough, though? Is it due to his [Hero's Intuition] skill?'
Abium let out a heavy sigh and quickly thought this was an excellent opportunity to take control of this street.
He took out his sword and looked at Nicolaus with a bright smile.
"We need to fight for a bit. I want others to know that I'm a warrior, not some mysterious mage. Can you help me with that?" Abium asked while unsheathing his sword.
Upon hearing his strange request, Nicolaus curled his lips upward and nodded.
"Well, I also want to check my skills anyway." Nicolaus also nodded as he picked up his helmet and armor and wore them.
Within a few seconds, a deadly fight broke out in former Godwin's house, waking everyone up.
Abium and Nicolaus started parrying against each other, soon attracting everyone's attention. They used pure strength and sword skills to battle.
But that was enough to destroy all the nearby areas. Bricks, sliced wood, and rubbles started to fly up in the air, and soon two figures flew from inside.
A moment later, the front entrance door and the wall completely fell, creating a loud noise.
Although Abium didn't show his real swordsmanship, the mere glimpse of his swordplay made Nicolaus enter a bitter position. He would've long been defeated if he hadn't trained in the pocket dimension for the past six months!
'What the hell? Isn't he on a completely different level? Advanced swordsmanship? No, I feel the trace of profound sword power!' He couldn't help but let out a shocking gasp.
Unknown to him, he started to memorize Abium's strange movements and tried to mimic them.
Upon noticing his action, Abium was also stunned and decided to continue teaching him more.
Unlike the true Royal Swordsmanship, Abium's modified one focused solely on killing. Although he only reached the level of master swordsmanship before regression, he knew that it had the power of a peak sword master!
He didn't learn these moves from any academy or teachers but by himself. He learned sword skills by battling against monsters, demons, evil, and cult members and was full of brutality and cruelty.
Nicolaus felt he was battling against an opponent who had been through life and death ordeals several times within a few moves.
'What did he experience in the past?' Nicolaus wondered in awe and astonishment. At that moment, he got some enlightenment and was momentarily stunned.
Without delay, he stopped his sword movement, closed his eyes, and started absorbing the new information.
"What the-? He is gaining sword enlightenment?" Abium was pretty shocked.
'Impossible! He only has barely average talent for swordsmanship, though? Could it be-? Is it due to the strange 'Hero's Fruit'? Interesting.'
As Abium was in deep thought, Nicolaus stood there with a blank expression and tried to adjust his stance and sword positions.
On the other hand, Darby, the other gang members, and neighbors watched Nicolaus's strange movements and became confused.
'I didn't expect that my regression could change this anomalies in the timeline.'
After some time, Nicolaus finally woke up from the strange enlightenment state and started to attack him with full force.
But what shocked Abium was that he was already using advanced swordsmanship!
Although it would still take more than six months for Nicolaus to master Advanced Sword Aura, this speed was absurd in Abium's eyes.
'F*ck! I spent more than 8 years in battle before reaching this stage in the past!'
Abium didn't evade his attacks; instead, he parried against his sword and pointed out Nicolaus's mistakes from time to time.
As they immersed themselves in sword fighting, hundreds of people from the nearby alleys gathered at the Godwin house entrance and watched the fight with wide-gaped eyes. Many warriors from the slums stood silently for the next 30 minutes and tried to get a glimpse of their skills by watching.
On the other hand, Nicolaus finally stopped his battle, sheathed his sword back to the scabbed, and silently left Pine Street.
At that moment, everyone realized that the black-haired young man had won the battle against the unknown knight with pure sword skills!
Everyone saw that both only used swords for fighting and didn't use any sword aura or elemental energy. But the mere parrying caused the large house to such a state made them shudder in fear.
Meanwhile, Abium was pleased by the onlookers' responses and quickly shifted his gaze towards Darby.
"Darby, tell your gang members that I will be taking over this Pine Street from now on," Abium said loudly, which was enough to reach others' ears.
"Yes, boss." Darby understood Abium's intention instantly and quickly responded with a bow.
'Hmm, my first objective is almost success. As long as I get permission from the Royal Family, I can shift most of the slum people to my territory.' Although many were bad people who had committed many crimes staying here, he had a way to plug them off.
After telling Darby to take care of everything in his stead, Abium didn't stay there any longer and walked towards his house, located at the end of that Pine street. After he arrived near his house, he glanced around the surroundings and confirmed that no one was nearby.
After that, Abium quickly took out a crossbow, metal bolt, and a rope from his space ring and tied the rope to the metal bolt. After that, he loaded the metal bolt in the crossbow, aimed the crossbow towards the top of the seven-meter tall wall, and pulled the trigger.
A moment later, the metal bolt flew directly towards the stone wall and stuck on the other side. After that, Abium climbed up using that rope and swiftly climbed up to the city wall.
After that, Abium silently jumped toward the other side and soon landed on the grassland.
After that, he erased his track and started walking away from the city wall.
'I need to be careful of roaming mages in the Creepers' Forest. The elemental fluctuation will attract their attention.' Abium knew the dangers of building spell models outside and acted more cautiously.
After that, Abium dashed towards the northern direction at full speed, where Creeper's Forest was located.
It took five hours for Abium to reach the Creeper's Forest outer area.
He soon saw eucalyptus, birch, and Oak trees start to appear in his sight and slowly down his footsteps.
After that, he frequently used [Spiritual Scan] and walked deep into the dense woods.
But after walking for around ten minutes, he suddenly stopped his footsteps and frowned.
'Strange… Why do I feel like I was being watched by someone?' Abium checked the map but found nothing unusual.
He quickly cast those feelings away and entered deeper into the forest. After walking inside for another three hours, he finally found a simple cave surrounded by shrubs and decided to occupy it.
He hurriedly walked inside the small cave and removed the shrubs and vines. After an hour of cleaning, he made a large door using the three branches and completely blocked the entrance. After confirming there were no dangers nearby, Abium sat on the rocky ground, picked up that spell book, and started to search.
'Which spell should I choose to construct next? Teleport? Nah. I have the 'Blink' spell, and it is handy. Mirage's corresponding spell? I need a powerful spell that could bind the opponent's movement like the 'Dark Bind' spell.' Abium opened the first-tier spell book with an understanding nod and started searching for the Dark Bind spell model's corresponding spells. After some search, he picked up three first-tier spell models.
"Dark Zone: Upon casting this spell, you can create a unique dark zone and completely obstruct the opponent's vision. Total number of rune letters: 200
Mind-Freeze: This spell can cause an opponent's thoughts to become clouded for 5 seconds and make them lose the ability to make correct decisions. Total number of rune letters:195
Shadow Snakes: Once you cast this spell, all the shadows near your surroundings will turn into snakes in the form of shadows and will obey your command like summoned creatures. Caution: Using this spell during the day will be less effective. The total number of rune letters: 220."
As Abium checked those descriptions, Abium instantly rejected that shadow Snakes spell.
'Dark zone and Mind freeze. Both seem to be pretty interesting.' Abium glanced at those two spells for another five-second and finally chose to construct the [Mind Freeze] spell.
In truth, this [Mind Freeze] spell could become very useful for Abium when using sneak attacks on the opponents.
Without any delay, Abium memorized the spell model, closed his eyes, and started to construct the spell model inside his mind.
At that moment, a mixture of black and white fog started to gather outside the cavern's entrance and formed into a transparent figure of a naked young woman with white eyes and black hair. Her whole body was like a fog, and she floated a few feet up to about the ground and looked at the blocked entrance with a curious gaze.
Suddenly, she blinked her eyes and flew in the northern direction.
Unaware of the strange being's appearance, Abium inscribed the first runic letter inside his mind and soon entered a deep state. Like last time, Abium inscribed the rune characters with deep concentration and started constructing a hexagonal structure spell model.
On 21st June, Creeper's Forest.
It was around 1. P.M.
A dense darkness elemental energy surged towards the blocked cavern and started entering Abium's body. At that moment, Abiuum saw a black crystalline spell model similar to the size of the [Fireball] spell model floating inside his mind and smiled.
As he engraved the final rune character, the [Mind Freeze] spell model merged with the [Dark Bind] spell and began to shine like a star!
After a few seconds, Abium felt the connection between the spell models became stable and even gained some understanding of the darkness.
At the same time, he also learned how this [Mind Freeze] spell could stop the opponent's thinking ability for a few seconds and make them enter a confused state.
As the dark elements wholly absorbed into his body, Abium slowly opened his amber eyes and looked around.
But a moment later, his face stiffened up.
What appeared in front of him was not the cavern's entrance but a transparent naked lady with black hair and white crystalline eyes!
She sat three feet away from him at that moment and smiled at him creepily!