Abium soon entered the exchange counter and searched for a pseudo-Legendary tier sword.
Alas, he couldn't find any sword above High-Tier and left regretfully. Although he had a high tier, Abium knew that sword wouldn't withstand the master-level sword aura. He thought he would get a good sword forged by some master blacksmith, but he was wrong.
'I should get my hands on a legendary sword quickly.' He muttered inwardly and returned to his room in the magic tower.
After entering his Sea of Consciousness, Abium realized that he could recollect many forgotten past life memories in that mysterious world and thought of trying it out.
'First, I should try my best to enter my Sea of Consciousness again.' He muttered to himself and closed his eyes.
After that, he entered the astral realm and tried to search for a way to enter his Sea of Consciousness.
Suddenly, he felt a pulling sensation and soon found himself standing in an empty darkness.
Strangely, he felt two strange connections coming from both sides and got confused.
'I should explore this dark space first.' Nodding, he let his spirit power wander through his right side first and soon saw an image.
No, it was his room in the magic tower.
Before thinking further, he suddenly noticed that his consciousness had already returned to his body.
'That means that other connection might be coming from my Sea of Consciousness.' He smiled brightly and once again closed his eyes.
After a long silence, he finally entered the strange dark space and moved towards the left side.
After walking for a few minutes in the empty darkness, Abium suddenly felt another pulling sensation from the front and soon found himself standing in the middle of memory clouds!
"Finally!" He breathed a sigh of relief and searched for memories using the date.
Soon, he realized that more than billions of memory clouds were hovering before him.
Just as he was racking his brain, the memory clouds started to shift and arranged themselves in a long line.
The memory clouds that appeared closer to him were yesterday's and today's memories. Following that memory clouds were his memories of staying in the Fex Dimension.
But what shocked him most was that he even saw a random memory of him picking up a strange herb that appeared in his Sea of Consciousness as clear as water.
'This is getting more exciting.' He hurriedly flew past the memory clouds and soon reached the period when he got killed by a Higher Demon's hand.
But he didn't stop there and moved further. Alas, he noticed that some memories appeared more like blur images. The more he flew past the memory clouds, the more blurry images appeared.
After a long search, Abium finally arrived when he, Helena, and Kuran were sneaking into Count Tibal's mansion and battling his soldiers to rescue Camilia.
He slowly skipped those memories and started looking for anything interesting. Although many appeared blurred, some random memory clouds materialized clearly, like him talking with random adventurers in the taverns.
He slowly recollected those memories one by one and soon found some big pieces of information.
After that, he quietly left his Sea of Consciousness and finally opened his eyes.
'I'm amazed. Those memories appeared like they happened just yesterday. Light Church also got a Legendary Sword inside the Taiga Sloth Woods, huh? Not only that, but a Mysterious Necromancer also got another artifact called 'Death Cane' and fought with Light Church members.' He suddenly stopped for a moment and soon started making a new plan.
'Anyway, my first job is to get my hand on that Legendary Sword. As for the Death Cane, which that necromancer acquired in the past, I will think about it later. Hmm, if I'm not wrong, that artifact also has the ability to break shackles or something. That's the main reason why the Light Church expert and the Mysterious Necromancer fought each other for days.' He suddenly recalled something about the Dark Dungeon expenditure and soon frowned.
'I clearly remember that more than three big factions went to explore the Taiga sloth woods in the past, but only a few people managed to come out alive. After that, the Light Church announced they had found a few legendary artifacts, which caused a huge commotion among the masses.' Abium remembered most of the artifacts' names due to his refreshed memory.
'Among those artifacts, there was a sword named Dark Blade that caught every warrior's attention at that time.'
'Rumors say it is a legendary weapon forged by an ancient Legendary Blacksmith.' Abium's eyes flickered. After that expedition, the other two forces that went along with the Light Church remained silent and didn't reveal any information. But Abium remembered the reason for the Light Church's action at that time. They showed their wealth to the public to distract everyone's attention from the death of the Light Church Bishop.
'That mysterious necromancer must be the reason for that Bishop's death.' Abium thought.
From the memory clouds, Abium understood that the mysterious necromancer was the one who discovered the Death Cane, but the Light Church members tried to use force on him. Angered by their action, he revealed his identity as a powerful necromancer and even killed the Bishop of the Light Church using that artifact at the entrance of Silverland City.
As he was thinking, Abium suddenly halted his thoughts as he remembered Count Henricus also went on that expedition and rose to power after that. Although he claimed he got a legendary artifact related to knowledge near his territory, Abium always found it skeptical. Because he knew that guy was just an apprentice mage at that time, and his territory was filled with mountains and agricultural lands. There weren't even any ruins that appeared anywhere near that land.
'Wait! Could it be he found that knowledge related artifact in the Taiga sloth woods?' Abium couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He knew that the three factions must have hidden all the information regarding the Taiga Sloth Woods expedition and became more curious.
'It must be an intellectual artifact or a divine fragment!' Abium made a guess bold guess.
'If I use my academic badge, I can also be able to participate along with the Royal family in that expedition.'
'Well, it seems I have to participate in that expedition and get my hands on that Dark Blade and that knowledge artifact. At least, I need to get that knowledge artifact or divine fragment to increase my spirit quickly.' Abium muttered to himself.
Following that, he quickly left the White Tower and moved towards the entrance.
At that moment, Grold stood at the entrance gate and looked at him with a creepy smile, startling the nearby mages.
Abium instantly knew that it was the original Grold and nodded in greeting.
Afterward, he took a step forward and walked closer to the goblin.
"Puny elf, I brought that divine spell trinket for you. Give me the elemental crystal." Grold spoke with the same arrogant tone and revealed a golden-colored small crystal-like stone on its green palm.
'Hmm? It looks a little different, though.'
Abium carefully took that trinket from its hand but didn't give the fire elemental crystal.
Instead, he asked jokingly.
"Mr. Mighty Grold, do you have an extra trinket? I will pay you with two more same-sized elemental crystals."
The next instant, Grold widened his eyes in shock and soon looked at him up and down suspiciously. Although his words tempted the goblin, it immediately considered its safety and shook its head.
It had two more divine spell trinkets, but it shook its head. It knew Watcher would only give another three spell trinkets after six months. Till then, it had to adjust with these two trinkets.
Meanwhile, Abium clicked his tongue and silently threw another Abyssal crystal and one thumb-sized fire elemental crystal to the goblin.
After that, he disappeared from the entrance.
...
Commoners' Borough, Northern tower, around 10.30 P.M.
Abium quickly walked out of the northern tower and took a luxury carriage while ordering the coachman to move towards the northern gate.
At that moment, he was planning to meet Duke Adhemar and borrow something from him. The luxury carriage specially arranged for mages reached the northern gate in a few minutes, and soon Abium quickly walked out of it. After he paid the right amount to the carriage driver, he moved toward the entrance gate.
Two guards stood at the entrance while glancing at him from time to time and quickly lowered their heads as they saw his black robe.
They knew what that robe represented and quickly opened the small metal gate without asking for his identity proof.
Meanwhile, Abium smiled and hurriedly stepped out of the metal gate. Then next instant, the two guards and the coachman, still peeking in his direction, froze in shock and rubbed their eyes.
"Oh, Lord Light! He is an angel!" One of the guards cried out in shock! At that moment, what appeared in front of them was not a human but a red angel-like figure.
Two crimson wings suddenly appeared on Abium's back, giving a scorching feeling to the surroundings. Everyone who stood near the northern gate also saw a mysterious black-robed mage standing at the entrance like an angel and became stunned.
Although soldiers had seen mages using fly spells several times, it was the first time they had seen a mage using crimson wings to fly. Before they could mutter another word, Abium flapped his wings and shot toward the sky. That day, the whole of Dewsummit City saw a bright red fire dance in the sky while circling the city and shooting forth like a bullet in the southern direction.