Abium turned his head towards Nadine and ordered.
"Tell me all information about the Mage guarding this town."
A look of curiosity appeared as she heard Abium's words, and soon she spoke solemnly.
"He is a second-tier mage named Heller from Rath institute, My Lord. Except for other superficial knowledge, we know nothing about him."
Upon hearing those words, Abium wasn't surprised.
He pondered momentarily and soon shifted his gaze toward the Anchorage area. Multiple boats were already importing goods into the cargo ship, and all those soldiers and holy knights were constantly checking the workers using some artifact.
Once he saw the strange artifacts, he knew that sneaking in using his upgraded faceless mask wasn't difficult and fell into a dilemma.
'I don't have time right now.'
As Abium was racking his brain, he suddenly saw a Red robed old man, around 70 years old, walking towards Anchorage from the town street. He had straight black hair, a square face, pale skin, and black eyes. He also saw a strange red mark on the red-robed guy's hands and got startled.
'He must be the second-tier powerhouse. From the looks of those strange claws, he looks more like a Warlock.' Abium thought to himself. He also saw another two black-robed men following him and guessed that those two must be first-tier mages.
'But why is he walking out of the Magic tower?' Abium looked at the Red robed guy with puzzlement and began to hesitate. He knew this was a big opportunity for him to assassinate this guy. But if the enemy somehow manages to evade his attack, he would be in the wrong position.
After thinking for a moment, Abium decided and scanned the red-robed mage.
'Heh, so he is a Vampire, huh? Moreover, a Viscount Rank.' Abium creased his brows.
'Vampire... He might not be a member of Rath institute. Light Church member? Possible.' He nodded thoughtfully and soon furrowed his brows as he saw the bloodstain on the red-robed guy's hand.
'Is he injured?' He turned his face solemnly and shifted his attention toward the two first-tier mages following him.
'Both of their robes are already covered in blood. It seems all three of them encountered a fierce battle.' Abium stared at them for a second and soon decided his following action.
'In truth, this is a perfect opportunity for me. Although he is 200 meters away from me, it will be fine to teleport right in front of him. Then, I must destroy his heart in the first attack and kill him in one blow. I heard vampires have unimaginable regeneration innate ability.'
The next moment, he cast the 'Quick-Thinking' divine spell on himself and entered a deeply concentrated state.
Without delay, he removed his scarlet sword from his spatial ring and disappeared using a teleportation spell.
In the next millisecond, Abium's figure reappeared before the red-robed mage, Heller. With a calm look, he cast the 'Misfortune' curse spell on the mage while tapping his 'Miracle star.' At the same time, he cast both Mind Freeze and Aura of Hallucination spells on Heller and attacked Heller's mind.
Heller couldn't process his thoughts momentarily and stood with a dubious look. All he noticed was a humanoid figure suddenly appeared before him, and the next moment he felt his thinking ability become disarray.
Abium gave a cold smirk and directly thrust his short scarlet sword towards Heller's heart, covering his sword with a master-level greenish aura.
Although a small light shield appeared and tried to cover Heller's body, Abium's scarlet sword directly tore through the light shield and instantly stabbed his heart.
Abium didn't stop there as he withdrew his sword, directly slashed his sword multiple times, and completely cut him into numerous pieces.
"BLOOD MIST!" Heller screamed before he was cut into small pieces. The next moment, Heller's body became scarlet mist, spreading everywhere while corroding nearby people.
Upon watching this scene, Abium's eyes widened. Instantly, he cast the 'War Angel's wings' spell on himself and flew up toward the sky. A moment later, he saw the nearby Holy knights, soldiers, slaves, and even those two first-tier mages were wholly eroded by the blood mist spell and died in seconds. In seconds, the scarlet mist completely absorbed their flesh and blood, turning them into skeletons.
After that, the scarlet mist condensed into a giant blob of blood droplets and formed a humanoid figure. Now, Heller's eyes turned red, and his sharp claws and naked body were covered entirely in blood. He looked up at Abium with a hateful glare and muttered coldly.
"Blood Berserk!"
Following his mutter, two red-colored bat wings of pure blood materialized behind his shoulder, giving an ominous feeling to the surroundings.
Heller flapped his blood wings with a shrill cry and shot towards Abium quickly.
Abium became shocked momentarily and quickly covered his body with both crimson wings.
The second later, a loud bang resounded in the air.
Everyone soon saw two figures falling directly on a pirate ship's deck and was terrified.
Meanwhile, Abium slowly stood up while shaking his head and noticed Vampire Heller standing up, glaring at him intensely.
Abium recovered from the shock briefly and noticed changes in the Vampire Heller.
'His strength and agility already crossed above 10! I need to kill him quickly.' He instantly decided and took his 'Death Cane' from his spatial ring.
He then pointed the heel at bloodied Heller's head and cast the 'Death Shot' spell.
Bang!
A bloody hole appeared on the Vampire Heller's forehead as a loud bang sound echoed, and a second later, his whole head exploded like a watermelon!
Then with a loud thud, Vampire Heller's body fell on the deck and stopped moving after twitching for a while.
Without minding the fearful gazes of pirates who stood frozen on the deck, Abium stored his Death Cane and went near Heller's body.
"Assassin!"
Meanwhile, other first-tier mages shouted in terror and got panicked.
Abium didn't waste any time as he confirmed that Vampire Heller was already dead and began to extract Vampire's blood essence into a small bottle. After that, he inscribed multiple rune words to preserve the blood essence and stored it in his spatial ring.
He then took a gold coin from his pocket and tossed it upward. The golden coin flew up and soon began to shine brightly.
It was his first adept-level artifact. It had the 'Illusion Area' spell model inscribed in it.
A second later, all of them entered into a strange illusion. Some shouted in fear, while others tried several methods to wake up from the illusion.
In the meantime, Abium teleported beside one first-tier mage, who stood on the deck and cut off his head directly. Abium didn't stop there and once again blinked. Although a few first-tier mages used spell scrolls to defend themselves, Abium attacked those defensive spells ruthlessly using his master sword aura and killed them one by one without any problem. That 'Illusion Area' spell gave him a good opening.
Within ten minutes, he killed all the first-tier mages and reappeared on the shore, where he cut Heller's body into pieces. After that, he dismissed the 'Illusion Area' spell and stored the golden coin in his ring.
Without minding the terrified onlookers' gazes, he picked up Heller's spatial ring and put it in his pocket.
He then glanced around his surroundings and spoke loudly.
"Listen up, everyone. Sailing is forbidden for the next two days in this harbor. I will kill anyone who dares to escape from here using boats and hang their bodies at the entrance. Got it?"
His cold voice resounded loudly in that harbor, and soon everyone, including those slaves, began to nod their heads.
"Good." He nodded his head and turned his head towards Nadine and Smith, who had already arrived near him, then added with a chilling tone,
"These two people are your new leaders from now on. All of you must obey their orders for the next two days. If any of you thought of rebellion, I would kill ten soldiers without mercy."
Hearing his words, one of the Holy Knights stood on the shore, couldn't hold back his anger, and asked coldly.
"What would you do if all of us began to rebel?"
Following that, other holy knights, soldiers, and even some adventurers began to nod their heads and began to show their dissatisfaction.
Watching this, Abium sighed and calmly walked towards the Holy Knights, who had already begun to gather in a group.
He then conjured a scarlet-colored terrifying fireball with a snap and directly tossed it toward the holy knights.
It flew towards the group faster, and once it made contact with one Holy knight's body, the enormous fire began to expand like a massive balloon.
A loud boom echoed in the harbor a second later, devouring more than fifty Holy knights.
In a mere second, all of them were burned to death, leaving only their charred bodies behind.
For a moment, nobody spoke a word and stood with fear in their eyes.
"Smith, bring all those slave traders to the entrance of the magic tower. If someone dares to refuse, kill them on the spot." Abium ordered ruthlessly and turned his attention to Nadine.
"Nadine, your job is to close the entrance channel and put the whole town under lockdown."
Once he sent out those orders, he turned his head towards the cargo ship.
"Bring all those slaves out from the cargo ship."
All those adventurers, slave merchants, and soldiers, who had already boarded the cargo ship, began to move the Mermaid slaves to the shore using boats. Abium extracted a few bottles of blood from Elite Mermaids and stored them inside his spatial ring using that opportunity.
He then asked the slavers to release the charming mermaids and silently walked towards the ownerless Magic tower.
Meanwhile, Nadine and Smith sent multiple orders to all those soldiers and adventurers.
At the same time, the freed Mermaids directly dived into the seawater and disappeared from everyone's eyes.
Abium, on the other hand, arrived in front of the magic tower and entered inside.
Although a few apprentice mages tried to block his way, he killed them before they could attack and stormed into the magic tower.
It was a three-storied magic tower built using Red Herbalite stones and stood sturdy. He didn't waste any time in the first two layers and moved quickly toward the third layer.
After five minutes, he arrived before a head-sized blue spherical crystal and let out a relieved sigh.
'Tower Core.'
He then casually touched the bluish crystal and marked his spiritual imprint.
With Azolla's help, he saw all those spells inscribed in that tower core and nodded pleasantly.
'4 second-tier spells, 18 first-tier, and 70 zero-tier spells. Not bad!' Abium was pleased and soon noticed only tens of slave traders were gathered at the Magic tower's entrance.
With a frown, he teleported from there and reappeared at the entrance, startling everyone.
"My lord, what are your orders?" Smith asked as he went beside Abium.
"Order them to release all their slaves. After that, kill all of them." Abium spoke decisively.
Upon hearing his decisive words, Smith's eyes widened.
"I will carry out your orders." He bowed respectfully and sent out orders like a veteran soldier.
Meanwhile, Abium didn't waste his time and reappeared inside the magic tower. After that, he moved towards the laboratory in the second layer and started pondering.
'I can't stay in this tower for more than two days. Evil Eye organization and Light Church must have already been aware of Vampire Heller's death.'
While thinking, he arrived in front of the alchemy laboratory and walked in.
'Blood smell!' Abium narrowed his eyes as he sensed the blood scent from all over the laboratory and shifted his gaze toward the large table filled with experimental materials.
Inside, he saw many test tubes, beakers, a few amethyst lamps, crystallization dishes, spatulas, cloth filters, mortars, pestles, and even some tongs arranged in order.
But what made Abium startled was that he even saw an altar placed at the center, and many weird signs were engraved all over the laboratory room.
'Blood sacrificial altar?' A deep frown appeared on his forehead.
After thinking for a while, he destroyed the altar and erased all the weird engravings on the floor. After that, he took out a golden pocket watch from the wooden table and put it in his pocket.
He then shifted his gaze toward the walls and the ceiling and noticed multiple strange murals everywhere. The walls of the laboratory room were covered with strange symbols, paintings, and runic inscriptions. He also saw a few humanoid skeletons and strange medicinal herbs hanging from the ceiling and felt something wasn't right.
'This place looks more like a ritual chamber.' He thought.