Abium felt deep pain from the depth of his soul and grew pale.
'My spirit power is already at its limit!' Multiple thoughts crossed his mind. He felt death was looming over his head and got scared.
As he pondered how to get out of this situation, he noticed Time God Udnir's illusionary figure was also quivering.
'Is he also at his limit?' He thought to himself and got some hope.
Without delay, he used his remaining energy to conjure a thick red bolt filled with fire law power and released it.
Before the Time God Udnir could sense the red bolt, it had already stabbed into his chest.
Time God Udnir's illusionary figure began to tremble a moment later and soon disintegrated into multiple light particles, leaving the white cloud behind.
Meanwhile, a wave of fatigue assaulted Abium's consciousness due to a loss of spiritual power, followed by endless darkness.
A few minutes later, Abium slowly opened his eyes and noticed he had already returned to the Time Temple. He then gasped for a breath and soon realized he was lying on the cold floor.
'Did I win?' He muttered to himself in shock and noticed a unique golden shard was lying on his chest.
'What is this?'
Abium slowly picked up the shard and noticed a slight resonance from the mysterious fountain.
Abium furrowed his brows and directly sent that shard into the fountain. The second later, Abium felt the connection to that mysterious fountain became much stronger.
'What happened? No, I need to get the hell away from this room first.'
Taking a deep breath, he stood up unsteadily and quietly walked out of the sanctum sanctorum.
But just as he was about to walk past the statues, he suddenly noticed that all the five rings on those Angels' statues began to shine brightly.
Before he could even think, five beams of light directly entered Abium's body and soon entered the mysterious fountain.
'What was that?' He was startled deeply.
'I'm more curious about this mysterious fountain's origin now.' He thought.
'No, that's called Core of Itera.' Abium suddenly remembered Udnir's words and nodded his head.
But just as he was about to enter the Mysterious Fountain and explore the changes, a clanging sound came from his waist and broke his thought.
He slowly looked at his waist and noticed that the Sword of Wrath was trembling violently.
No, he soon heard multiple creaking sounds inside the sheath and instantly unsheathed the sword.
A second later, he couldn't help but blink his eyes in shock.
At that moment, the Sword of Wrath had countless cracks and was already on the verge of breaking down!
'How did this happen? Wait! Is it due to the battle that happened inside my Sea of Consciousness? It affected with the reality?' He drew a deep breath and fell into a deep silence.
Although it was just a High-Tier Artifact, it had accompanied him all this time and helped him in many ways.
'I'll give you a proper burial later.' He said solemnly and stored it inside his spatial ring.
Then, he took the 'Dark Silver' sword from Yozis's space ring and kept it in his waist as a replacement.
Even though it was the same tier as the Sword of Wrath, its quality appeared much lesser.
'Haa, I need to get my hands on a Pseudo-Legendary or a true Legendary Sword sooner. Otherwise, I won't be able to use the Master Level Aura at all. Should I search for the Crow's Sword I got coincidentally in my past life? Nah, searching for it in the black market is almost an impossible task. Moreover, it is only a Pseudo-Legendary weapon. This time, I should get my hand on a Legendary Sword.'
While thinking, he sat down on the half-broken floor and let his soul enter the mysterious fountain. The next instant, he couldn't help but let out a gasp in his soul form.
At that moment, an illusionary golden throne began to materialize behind his soul form. Following that, many changes happened around the mysterious fountain, which made him completely flabbergasted.
Instead of empty darkness, Abium found himself standing in some throne hall. Moreover, his soul form was already seated on a golden throne and seemed to be overlooking everything below him. The Golden Throne was much larger, and strange divine power was emitting from it.
He also saw the mysterious fountain behind the Golden Throne, protecting his soul using some invisible barrier.
Slowly, he looked at the five stems in the fountain and noticed that they were shining brightly, illuminating the whole hall.
While looking at everything in shock and awe, he suddenly noticed that the golden Throne began sending some unknown information to his soul. Abium paused in surprise for a second and soon accepted the information.
A moment later, a deep pain came from the depth of his soul, followed by countless pieces of information.
'Heh, so this place is Time God's divine palace, huh? But what is Itera anyway? This Golden Throne seems to choose me as its owner due to the sudden disappearance of Time God's consciousness. Damn, I didn't expect this Golden Throne also has some intelligence. Moreover, it needs a part of my soul with consciousness to maintain this place stable.' Abium scanned through all the information and fell into deep thought.
'But how did this Core of Itera came here? Although 'Time divinity' traveled back in time along with me make some sense, but how could this large fountain come back to the past? Something is definitely not right here. I'm missing some important information about the 'Time divinity' and this mysterious fountain.'
'Damn, the unknown is always scarier. Moreover, I can tell that this Golden Throne must be the same as normal Tower intelligence, which Azolla once mentioned before. I heard the Tower intelligence has the basic ability to communicate with normal intelligence life forms and help mages during their research. Unlike Azolla, who can think on her own, these Tower intelligence don't have any of that. Hmm, I think this Throne must be something like that.' Abium made a rough guess and soon turned his full attention towards the Golden Throne. Without any other choice, he began to probe the Golden Throne using his spirit power and finally discovered that it was linked to the whole hall. But not the mysterious fountain, though.
'The information it gave me was indeed real.' Abium nodded and began sending part of his soul towards that Golden Throne.
The next second, he sensed that Golden Throne was asking permission to split a part of his soul from his body. After a slight hesitation, Abium agreed with a nod.
A second later, Throne Hall began to tremble uncontrollably and released powerful ripples in all directions.
Meanwhile, Abium felt a deadly pain even though he was in soul form and almost passed out.