Abium didn't halt his attack. Instead, he cast 'Mind-Freeze' and 'Aura of Hallucination' spells at Goblin Zack and teleported right behind him.
Then, he thrust his green aura-coated sword at the goblin's heart with full force.
For the first time, Goblin Zack showed a sense of wariness. But he didn't panic even when his mind got attacked by two first-tier spells. Although he couldn't think properly, years of experience came to Goblin Zack's mind, and he instantly moved his Scarlet sword.
A second later, Goblin Zack blocked Abium's sword and gave Abium an evil, mocking smirk.
But Abium remained motionless and spoke coldly,
"Now."
Upon hearing his words, Zack got confused and soon felt a sharp pain from his nape.
Before Zack could understand what was happening, another shadow appeared behind him and directly decapitated his head!
Edith, who had stayed in the shadows all this time, used the opportunity and assassinated the goblin skillfully.
He died without even knowing who had killed him!
Abuim breathed out a sigh of relief as he saw the falling head.
"That was faster than I expected," Kate finally muttered with a shocked face. Only Abium knew how fatal it would be if a single person made a mistake and sighed in his heart.
'I need to grow stronger.'
While muttering, he tossed the almost damaged Dagger into his ring, picked up the Legendary Scarlet Sword from the dead body's hand, and scanned it.
'Hmm, this Scarlet sword is forged by a legendary blacksmith. Moreover, the blacksmith forged this sword using Magic Lava metal and Red Adamantine. You can use this sword until you become a legendary swordsman. After that, you at least need an even more powerful weapon.' Azolla scanned the Scarlet sword and replied instantly.
Meanwhile, Abium nodded with a smile and stored it inside his spatial ring along with the sheath. After that, he checked the goblin's body but found no artifacts or precious materials.
'I thought I might find more good stuff here.'
But he soon cast those thoughts away and turned his attention towards Cedric.
"Can you use this body and make a marionette using parasite?" He asked while furrowing his brows.
At that moment, not only Cedric but even Ringer, hiding in Cedric's mind, was deeply shocked.
This time, Ringer was damn sure that this Royal Elf knew more about him and grew more cautious.
He instantly thought of killing the royal elf by forcefully taking over Cedric's body. But after some thought, he dismissed that idea. Although Ringer was just a part of the real Dark God Ringer's consciousness, he had the strength to kill everyone here.
But he didn't think that was necessary.
'Brat, he knows more about us. Kill him when an opportunity arises. Otherwise, he will be a thorn in our path.' Ringer began to speak while planting a malicious seed in Cedric's mind. Upon hearing this, Cedric froze for a moment and immediately retorted,
'He will be a thorn to you, old man, not me.'
Cedric knew this Dark god was scheming inside his mind to kill this mysterious mage and fell into a dilemma. Yes, he did swear his 'loyalty' to this elf. But loyalty? He was a thief!
If an opportunity arises, he wouldn't show any hesitation to this mysterious mage and even devour his soul with his new abilities.
But that thought soon ended as he remembered that a Dark god's consciousness was hiding inside his mind. Cedric could vaguely guess this mysterious mage must have some way to separate this parasite from his body and might help him eliminate this parasite once and for all.
'If I want to live, I have to use both to my advantage.'
As Cedric was deeply thinking, Ringer began to speak again,
'Brat, I know you trust this elf and already planned to become his follower. But you can't live under someone like this for the rest of your life.' Ringer immediately changed his words when he found out this guy was stubborn.
Meanwhile, Cedric thought for a moment and replied solemnly,
'I will think about it.'
Although Ringer was slightly disappointed when he heard Cedric's words, he didn't say anything.
He knew there would be many opportunities in the future, and all he had to do was plant more malicious seeds inside his mind and completely control him when Cedric became weakened.
At that moment, Cedric turned his face towards Abium and replied,
"My lord, I can't use the 'Parasite Marionette' bloodline spell on a dead person without enough spirit power. Moreover, I can only marionette a person with the strength of an official mage. If I want to marionette a second-tier mage, I need to be a first-tier Warlock."
Abium got surprised a bit when learning more about this bloodline spell and thought inwardly,
'His spirit power is already increased to 6 points. Hmm, it seems he can only use three bloodline spells.' Abium made a calculation and asked,
"What do you need to do to break through into an official Warlock?"
Cedric got startled a bit when hearing this question and quickly fell silent as he started asking his question to Ringer.
After a few seconds, Cedric's expression got worsened, and he replied,
"My lord, if I want to become an official Warlock, then I have to defeat an official tier Mind worm or official tier Warlock who had Mind worm bloodline and devour the blood essence from their body."
Abium smiled as he heard those words and nodded.
"Hmm, first-tier bloodline essence, huh? We can find one of those Mind worms in this dungeon's other layers. Let's go. I want to see what is hidden in this temple." Abium thought for a bit and spoke solemnly. Meanwhile, Cedric didn't reveal the whole truth and kept some information hidden from others.
After discussing with Ringer, Cedric discovered that most of the living things in this dungeon were already parasitized. The chance of encountering an official tier mind worm or Official warlock was very high. Moreover, he heard from Ringer that most of the first-tier beasts had Mind worm bloodline and had already made some plans to obtain the blood essence. At first, he thought of revealing all the information to the mysterious elven mage but soon stopped.
'I must act cautiously.' Cedric thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Abium and others shifted their gaze towards the Dark God's temple entrance and cautiously stepped towards it. Although Cedric said that no enemies were hiding inside the temple, Abium wouldn't bet his life on some Dark God's words.
As they stealthily entered the temple, Abium's amber eyes suddenly widened. At that moment, he noticed that the entrance door suddenly closed from behind, leaving the temple filled with complete darkness.
Without hesitation, he conjured his crimson wings and wrapped everyone under his wings. The next instant, he felt stabbing pain from the wings and noticed multiple dark spears coated with purple poisons were stabbing his wings continuously.
He instantly guessed that these spears must be traps set by that goblin and got more serious. He knew how dangerous an assassin's traps were and turned his face grim.
After a few seconds, even his 'War Angel's wings' spell couldn't withstand all those attacks and was on the verge of breaking as the last poison spear landed.
Then, the dark hall soon returned to complete silence, making others feel like countless poisonous snakes were staring at them.
Abium quickly conjured two red balls of crimson flame out of thin air and maintained to float in the air to illuminate the dark hall.
No one spoke a word and stayed still as if time had frozen.
On the other hand, Abium quietly scanned the temple and soon found many traps inside the main building. There were many broken stone slabs, pit traps, poison traps, spell traps, illusion traps, and many more. What was more shocking was that the goblin had manipulated the inner space and turned the whole hall into multiple small rooms. Each room had more than hundreds of traps and looked more like a crazy psychopath's creation!
'One more thing, lad. You failed to notice the Spider-Space Trap, which lay all over this building. Moreover, you guys have long fallen into it and didn't even realize it yet.'
'What the hell?! He was a scary one. No, I should say he must be a psychopath or a madman. Damn, he laid almost thousands of traps inside this temple! Moreover, all these traps are enough to kill even a second-tier mage.' Cold sweat dripped on his face.
If Abium didn't have Azolla's scanning function, he would have already given up on the divine fragment located on the altar of the Dark Temple and escaped.
After a swift scan, he silently looked at everyone and began to speak,
"That assassin laid a total of 1540 traps. And all of them are interlinked with one another, so destroying is not an option." Abium wore a bitter smile on his face and added,
"Our only choice is to face them one by one and win against that dead assassin. Also, we don't have any choice because the first trap he set inside this temple was Spider Space trap. It's a space-loop-like spell."