'Helena? Can you hear my voice?'
Helena heard a familiar voice from everywhere, causing her azure blue eyes to widen.
"Abium?!" She blurted out in shock.
Afterward, she lowered her gaze toward the green ring and soon noticed no ring in her hand.
'It's been a while, Helena.' Abium said while making his blurry figure materialize in front of her.
"H-How?!" Helena squeezed out a single word and asked, full of confusion and shock.
'Even I don't know much about this ring. But with this ring, I will be able to contact you frequently. All you have to do is send a signal to this ring, and I can sense you from the other side. Then, I will appear like this and talk to you.' Abium said solemnly.
'That's truly awesome! It looks similar to the long-range communication box!' Upon hearing his words, Helena exclaimed in shock.
Although Abium got puzzled, he didn't show it in his voice and replied.
'Yes, same like that.' He paused for a moment and continued,
'My spirit power is almost drained up. See you!' Abium said as he noticed exhaustion in his mind and withdrew his consciousness from the Green ring. After that, he stood up from the Green Throne and appeared before his Golden Throne. He then sat on the Throne and opened his eyes to the real world.
'It seems I have to increase my strength first.' He muttered solemnly and felt tiredness washing over his body.
Meanwhile, Helena also reappeared in the reception room and noticed everyone didn't notice anything abnormal.
'Strange… Why didn't I fall when my consciousness was pulled into the mysterious dark space?' She pondered for a moment and shook her head.
...
On 8th December, Fennelis, Umi, Edith, and Rizz came to say goodbye to Abium and finally left Silverland city.
On the same day evening, the Royal family group finally came out of the Taiga sloth woods and revealed a shocking truth to the masses. It was about what had happened in the dungeon. Mages shared their experiences openly, causing sensational news everywhere. Even Abium was startled and became serious.
'In the past, they completely hide this news. Was that Light church's scheme?' Abium frowned a bit and soon cast those thoughts away.
Although the Royal family Group didn't mention a single word about the Light Church or Red Python members, rumors began to spread in the next few days. An anonymous mage revealed many secrets about the dungeon, and that mage even described the battle at the fifth layer, which caused a massive uproar. Many Holy Knights, who firmly believed in Light church's team's might, became anxious and finally felt despair!
When they heard about the death of Bishop Piers, they finally lost hope.
At the same time, Keris Kingdom's Royal family utilized this chance and completely began eliminating all of the Light church supporters in the name of treason. The first to be executed in the name of Traitor was Edel, an apprentice mage who sent information to the Light church about Sky Tower. After that, many nobles, knights, merchants, and even some apprentice mages were apprehended and executed. In less than a week, the Royal family ended the civil war and completely gained full control of their kingdom.
On 15th December, Royal knights entered Duke Vira's territory while massacring his lackeys and arrested him at his mansion. The next day, the King of Keris Kingdom, Stephen Ollim, personally arrived at the Royal execution platform and executed the Duke of Vira under millions' watchful eyes.
This incident shocked everyone!
When the Light Church's envoy arrived at the Keris Kingdom from the Holy See with his appointment letter, he became completely overwhelmed by all this news!
Meanwhile, Abium sat on the wooden chair in his study and casually sipped a lemon tea while reading a black-covered book with an impressive look. It was the book he picked up from Arkos's hand. When picking up this book, Abium didn't pay much attention to it and casually threw it into his spatial ring. But as he began to read the book, his face changed drastically.
'This is a Seer's book?' Abium's eyes shone in excitement.
He saw a few strange spell models inscribed on its first three pages.
He then noticed a few strange formulas written in black ink and got confused.
'Eye-Triangle formula?...Twelve Ring formula?... Itera's blessing?... What is this?' He frowned deeply.
After a few hours of reading, an understanding expression appeared on his face.
'Heh, these formulas are created to understand more about Time Law, huh? It looks more like astrology. Hmm, then what is this Blessing of Itera?' Abium got confused. Even after reading that book completely, he couldn't find more information about Star Itera, which made Abium frustrated. After that, he began to concentrate on the Eye-Triangle formula.
'If I want to use the Eye-Triangle formula, I need my date of birth, the original name with surname, elemental affinities with levels, and Place of Birth. Except for elemental affinity, I know nothing about those two details. Haa!' He sighed deeply and noticed Hooper and Selma walking into the reception hall.
'What happened to the other two?' Abium furrowed his eyebrows, walked out of the study, and soon noticed changes in Hooper's body. His face looked pale, and even black blisters appeared everywhere. Abium could tell this guy was already beyond saving with a single glance. He saw Hooper's heart was already consumed by chaos power and sighed.
Meanwhile, Hooper and Selma were surprised to hear his sigh and greeted him while bowing their heads.
"Did you able to get the Moon Sugar?" Abium asked casually.
Selma nodded, took out a small glass bottle, and gave it to him.
Abium noticed the bottle contained minute crystals like sugar and took it from her with a nod.
"What about Mermaid?" He turned his gaze towards Hooper and asked,
"My lord, I asked a few slave traders and got some good information about Mermaids. One of the Slaver trading organizations named Evil Eye is capturing many Mermaids from the Devil Sea and exporting them to Holy See every six months. I also discovered they imprisoned some Mermaids at the Blackrock port town in Wadel kingdom. So I asked Nadine and Smith to go there and gather more information about this news, my lord." Hooper replied with a solemn expression.
Upon hearing this news, Abium was surprised.
'Evil Eye, huh? In the past, I heard their headquarters is located in the Wadel Kingdom, and the one funding this organization is Jude Meader...' He suddenly froze as he remembered the Meader family name somewhere and soon widened his eyes.
'That's Wadel Kingdom's royal family name! So, that's the reason they are bold enough to abduct Mermaids, huh? The Evil Eye members must use pirates to catch these Mermaids and transport them to Holy See. But why does the Holy See need them?' Abium got puzzled a bit but shook his head.
'With this information, it will be easy for me to get some blood of an Elite Mermaid from their hideout' Abium nodded and soon frowned as he thought of the last ingredient.
'Red Leaf.'
'Azolla, do you know anything about this Red Leaf? Why is there no Red Leaf in the potion knowledge book?' Abium asked in his mind.
'Ah! Kid, you already have a dozen Red leaves inside your spatial ring. Did you already forget about those leaves you collected at the Fire Temple entrance in Fex dimension?' Azolla asked.
A look of realization appeared on his face, and soon it turned into astonishment.
'So that's why I felt a strange intuition then.' Abium nodded his head and quickly spoke while staring at Hooper.
"I need another help. Please give me some details about your history."
Hooper and Selma froze for a moment and soon nodded with a trace of puzzlement on their faces.
A few moments later, Abium got a piece of paper from Hooper and sighed in relief.
After that, he began to write Hooper's information using the Eye Triangle formula. It was like mathematics. With the Eye Triangle formula's help, Abium began to apply and calculate all this information.
'He has a darkness attribute which indicates he has the blessing of the Star of Sao. But Star of Oria and Star of Lagua has already blocked most of his blessing during his birth indicates, so he has only average darkness affinity...' Abium frowned while closing both eyes and continuing to calculate.
From time to time, strange images flashed before his eyes and soon broke into multiple pieces. At first, he began to face some difficulties. But once he grasped the key point to sense Hooper's future, Abium opened his eyes and smiled.
At that moment, he saw a strange golden crown placed on the head of a skeleton in a particular vision and realized that must be the clue to Hooper's cure. That Skeleton had scarlet soul fires and was sailing in a dark sea filled with strange bluish lightning up in the sky.
'Strange bluish lightning… Is it the Devil Sea? Wait. A skeleton with a strange golden crown?' He narrowed his eyes and soon skimmed through all the newly unblocked memories.
A moment later, he soon found the origin of that skeleton and nodded in enlightenment.
"An outsider altered your future. Although I can't save you from being devoured by the chaos, another chaos being can. Go to the Devil Sea and search for the Pirate King. With his help, you may able to save yourself."
Hooper and Selma became shocked as they heard his words and looked at each other.
'Pirate King? I heard that only Pirate Admirals rule the sea, and the last Pirate King had already disappeared along with his crown.' Hooper got flabbergasted inside but nodded solemnly.
At the same time, Abium already sat on the nearby sofa and began to see Selma's' future. Sometimes, he would show a puzzlement look and nod his head. Upon seeing that strange scene, Hooper and Selma got nervous and quietly stood near him.
"Hmm, you don't have much danger in your life. But you will become a penniless person. Even if you get a hefty amount of money, you will lose it or spend it on useless things. Money won't stay with you for the next three years."
"W-What?" Selma almost stumbled in shock and hurriedly checked her purse.
Thankfully, her five white gold coins were still there, and she felt relieved.
Upon noticing her anxiousness, Abium curled his lips upward and added.
"But don't worry too much about it. You need to give your money to your friend or family members and let them take care of all your needs." Saying so, he quickly waved his hand and dismissed them.
Then, he activated the 'Stone of Wisdom' ability and continued using the 'Eye-Triangle Formula.'
Strange visions appeared more clearly as he continued using the formula, and he soon began to grasp something about 'Time' by the end of the day.
No, it was more like Future assimilation.
All the earlier images and many other future images appeared before his eyes. After that, the crystalline Seer's intuition spell in Abium's mind changed!
At that moment, many strange runic letters appeared from the outside mysteriously and combined into his Seer's intuition spell.
'My seer spell is ranking up!'
Abium didn't miss the opportunity and cast the 'Quick Thinking' divine spell on himself.
The next moment, he began to understand the meaning of those rune letters in the spell model and entered a strange enlightenment state.
After some time, he finally returned to normal and muttered in amazement.
"Seer's Vision!"
After studying that spell model for an hour, Abium got more information about how this spell works.
'By this Seer's Vision spell, I can see 5 to 10 seconds into the future.' Although it didn't appear amazing, he knew how useful it would be during battles!
It was already dark when he woke up from the shock. After that, he walked out of the single storied house and went to have dinner at Red Meat Inn.
Once he ate the dinner, he contacted Rilos through the communication ring and asked him to arrange a place to use Death Cane on Mike.
When Abium returned to 32B Elm Street, Rilos called him back and gave an address, which made Abium let out a sigh of relief.
'Meet me at 102 Red Village at Siverland territory before Midnight.' That was the message he said to him before he ended the call.
Abium wasn't afraid of being ambushed by Rilos and his teacher.
'Probably both of them are sweating all over by now.' He chuckled inside and noticed that Hooper and Selma were already packing their belongings
"Take these spatial rings." While walking closer to them, Abium took out two spatial rings and added while giving them,
"These are my gifts."
Abium knew both were not powerful enough to face dangers and thought of giving them a few parting gifts.
Both were overwhelmed by his generosity and bound the rings with their spiritual imprint. The next moment, Hooper and Selma were completely stunned.
At that moment, they saw multiple spell scrolls, magic stones, a few low and mid-tier weapons, and even gold coins stored in it!
These were the loots when he picked up in the dungeon.
"Thank you, My Lord." Selma was the first to bend her waist and respectfully bowed at him. She knew these scrolls and weapons were not something they could even dream of getting in their lifetime and felt gratitude. Hooper also followed her and bowed his head in full of respect.
Meanwhile, Abium waved his hand and spoke,
"Go to the Dewsummit City and wait for your friends to arrive."
Saying so, he teleported from the hall and soon appeared outside Silverland City.