Three human figures appeared above the ruined town square two hours later and slowly fell from the sky. All of their red robes were completely torn and covered in blood.
They were Ubius, Cole, and Zivior!
Three of them were severely injured, and even Ubius appeared to have lost one of his hands. Abium and others instantly stopped their work as they saw their arrival and sprinted forward to help the trio. As they arrived closer to them, everyone got shocked upon seeing Zivior's appearance.
At that moment, his face was filled with numerous large papules, and he looked different. Moreover, Abium even saw multiple burn marks on his body and grew nervous.
Meanwhile, Zivior stood with a blank expression for two seconds and soon fell.
"Teacher!" "Zivi"
Abium's and Tabitha's faces went death pale as they saw Zivior's falling and shouted simultaneously.
"Hurry up. We have to bring Zivior to the academy quickly." Alius spoke solemnly and quickly took a puppet carriage from his spatial ring. After a few minutes, Abium, Alius, the three injured teachers, and others returned to the Royal City and quickly teleported to the White Tower.
Abium got more worried about his teacher's condition and checked his condition using Azolla's scan function.
'Frozen layer appeared in the outer lung tissue due to a potion's side effect, Uri-Curse infection caused due to an unknown drug. It looks like your teacher used a type of raw alchemic flower to reduce the freezing effect but seems to have a backlash and caused a mutated infection.' Abium frowned as he heard Azolla's words and soon began to listen patiently about those infections.
After sending out a few orders to a few apprentice mages, Alius carried Zivior on his shoulder and walked into the White Tower. Within a minute, they all arrived at the White Magic Tower's seventh layer for treatment. But Alius didn't allow others into the medical room and only invited Ulzez to enter. Abium, Tabitha, and others stood outside with anxious expressions on their faces and glanced at each other in worry.
After a few minutes, Ubius and Cole moved to another room with Anne and Mark to treat their wound, leaving Abium and Tabitha alone in the hall. At the same time, Alius began to use some strange artifacts and started treating Zivior's external wound. Following that, he began to cast multiple spells and became puzzled.
"It's a mutated infection with unknown origin." He said solemnly.
Upon hearing Alius's words, Ulzez stared at Zivior's body for a moment and checked if any foreign organism was hidden in his blood. He used a Chaos spell to inspect his blood and soon noticed some foreign organisms were affecting Zivior's body from his lungs. Both began to search for the foreign organism's origin and checked all those previous records. After that, both started experimenting with potions on Zivior and finally started to cure his internal injuries.
Meanwhile, Abium and Tabitha listened to their discussion outside and waited for them to finish curing Zivior. After three hours of treatment using strange methods, both stopped working and let Abium and Tabitha in. Although both couldn't restore Zivior's original appearance, Alius and Ulzez managed to cure most of his internal wounds and infections.
"He is just affected by the side effects of the Dark Soul potion. It will take at least six months for him to wake up from the coma. Don't worry; he won't die easily while leaving you alone, little girl." Alius said while patting Tabitha's shoulder and left along with Ulzez. Meanwhile, Abium stared at Tabitha, then towards his teacher, and was lost for words.
But quickly, he noticed Tabitha standing there with a sour expression on her face and didn't know what to say.
'Leave her alone, kid. She must be thinking about her past.' Azolla suddenly said as if she were experienced in this field.
Meanwhile, Abium nodded and silently walked out of the medical room.
After that, he went to the exchange counter and began to sell a few potion materials and other rare magical beasts' body parts, which he collected in the Fex dimension. A total of 79 strange items were placed on the table located on the exchange counter, startling other mages. If he had placed all those Elemental crystals and other rare potion materials in his spatial ring, he knew it would have caused a great commotion.
After selling all those treasures, he earned another 30,000 white gold coins.
A few minutes later, he walked out of the white tower solemnly and sighed as he thought of his teacher's condition.
'All we can do now is just wait.' He thought to himself.
After that, he paid one chaos to the Grold and returned to the royal capital.
'Why am I feeling lonely?' He walked out of the Northern Tower and glanced at the surroundings.
He even saw a few children roaming with their parents and sighed heavily.
'I wonder how do my mom and dad look like. Are they still alive?' He smiled bitterly and moved towards the Brougham Carriage near the Northern Tower.
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Commoners' Borough, Black Street.
A red Brougham Carriage arrived in front of the Black Street's entrance and stopped in front of the signboard. A black-robed elven guy with blonde hair walked out of the Carriage a second later and started walking.
Abium soon arrived at 21 Black Street and noticed it was around 11 A.M.
As he walked closer to his house, he saw Lillian and other children practicing sword arts in the yard and smiled subconsciously. Before they could notice him, Abium cast the 'Mirage spell' on himself to change his appearance and opened the compound gate.
His arrival immediately attracted everyone's attention. Quickly, they stopped their practices and greeted him with respectful eyes.
Meanwhile, Abium smiled warmly in response and was soon astounded by their improvement in strength.
Everyone had already breakthrough into second-tier warriors and appeared to have gained some progression in sword arts. Even Wendy improved in sword art, causing Abium's smile to widen. With a proud face, he shifted his attention towards Lillian and spoke.
"Lillian, I will give you six zero-tier darkness affinity spells now. You can slowly improve your spirit power and construct them one by one from now on. Once you finished constructing all six zero-tier spells, go to Alastall Woodlands and look for a Druid woman named Helena. She will tell you what to do next." Abium patted the anxious child's shoulder and placed a badge of the sun with two wings spreading outward on her palm.
It was his noble seal!
After that, he shifted his gaze toward Ash and Aaron and continued.
"I have a new job for both of you. I want you guys to gather all information about the Underworld Boss. But be careful when you are searching for information about him. If somehow any of you got caught by some gang leaders, spill everything you know about me. Don't hide anything."
Although both became confused a little, they didn't say anything and quietly nodded their heads.