Abe the Wizard

Outside of the Kurast Dock of the Dark World, Abel wiped out the Spider Forest, Great Marsh, Flayer Jungle, Lower Kurast, Kurast Blazaar, and Upper Kurast.

Of course, the hell creatures on the surface were the easiest to kill. With Johnson’s Titan gear as well as Flying Flame and White Snow as support, all Abel needed to do was to wait for the souls of those hell creatures to come to him.

He found Khalim’s eye in a tunnel in the Spider Forest and Khalim’s brain in the Flayer’s jungle. He entered the sewer of the Kurast Blazaar and found Khalim’s heart on the second level.

Exploring those tunnels took a lot of time. There were many hell creatures, and he had to be careful. He wouldn’t risk his life.

With the spirit guardian knights as a shield, he gathered the remains of Khalim. He then combined those remains with his Horadric Cube into Khalim’s will. While destroying the Compelling Orb as part of the quest, the path of Mephisto opened up.

Abel remembered the final boss of the Kurast Dock was Mephisto. As long as he could kill Mephisto, all the hell creatures of the dock would vanish.

He knew this very well when he killed Anderial and Durial. Both times, he got a piece of the world stone. If he was correct, Mephisto would have a piece of world stone as well.

The world stone was very attractive to him. When he obtained a certain piece of the world stone, he would be fully in control of a certain place.

For example, he felt like a god in both the Rogue Encampment and Lut Gholein. However, there was a limit to his power of will, so he could not stay in that god-like state for too long.

There was too much difference between his current abilities and that god-like state. He would lose himself if he was not careful, so he had avoided stay in those places for too long.

He knew he could use that feeling of superiority to guide his progress in the future.

He brought the remains of Khalim into Travincal. It was where Zakarum’s cathedral was located. Mephisto had used the Compelling Orb to control the ancient being and the followers of Zakarum, which turned this place evil.

Abel looked around at this city made out of stone; his heart was filled with respect for Zakarum’s cathedral.

He still remembered the legend of this place. The leader of Zakarum’s cathedral, Khalim, was not intoxicated by Mephisto. Instead, he was killed by the high council. His corpse was divided, and his remains were buried separately.

The only thing Abel needed was Khalim’s flail, and the high council was the one who had it.

“Johnson, be careful. These are precious ruins, don’t damage anything!” Abel said after seeing Johnson bump into a statue.

Johnson helplessly looks at his giant feet and that delicate city. Still, he had to listen to its owner’s command.

Everything around was very important to Abel. This place would soon belong to him, so he didn’t want it to turn into a dump.

A team of hell creatures emerged. It was a crazy team of warriors from the cathedral, and they soon spotted Johnson. Johnson was always the one being attacked first. He was too eye-catching.

The warriors yelled frantically, and they speeded towards Johnson with their long blades. They were only tall enough to attack Johnson’s knee, but before they could even get close, Johnson swiped with its lightning long spear, and tens of crazy warriors flew out.

However, a strike of lightning landed on Johnson, making it pause for a moment.

It was Hierophant, a spell caster of Zakarum’s cathedral. It’s spells included ‘lightning’, ‘teleportation’, ‘blizzard’, and ‘healing’.

It was a well-rounded wizard with elemental ability, but its opponent was Johnson: a thing of powerful defense.

The lightning did not do any damage to Johnson, and a grey cloud followed above it. But before the blizzard even got the chance to rain down, Johnson had already charged towards the crazy warriors. It struck its long spear and destroyed them along with Hierophant.

That lightning long spear of Johnson was a Titan’s weapon. With the weapon and Johnson’s powerful force, turning the enemies into pieces was no surprise.

As Johnson kept making his progress, a patch of ice fog rained down and covered the crazy warriors and turned them all into ice blocks. White Snow then swooped down from mid-air and smashed them in scattered pieces of ice with its wings.

Johnson helplessly put away its long spear. Although it was more powerful when it came to defense, White Snow was much more skilled in mass attacks. Johnson just could not compete with a top-level spiritual beast who grasped the ice elements.

Flying Flame did not join Johnson and White Snow and compete for the result. He was an arrogant one. Those low-level hell creatures could not attract him. Instead, it gazed into the cathedral.

Johnson and White Snow also shifted their target and continued to attack.

Abel, on the other hand, sat on Black Wind. He was not far from Johnson, so the soul of every hell creature could be sucked into his Horadric Cube.

The city was not big, but there were many buildings within it. Johnson and White snow could not enter them to kill those hell creatures, but the hell creatures’ nature was to attack. All they needed to do was to get close, and those hell creatures would run.

After some time, all the hell creatures beside the cathedral were cleared.

Abel also found the teleportation circle of the place and ignited it with some perfect gems.

He walked out from the teleportation circle. Flying Flame was already swirling around in the sky outside the cathedral. It seemed like he was provoking the councilors within it.

The council saw Flying Flame Swirling around, so they threw out a ‘nine-headed sea serpent’ spell.

It was one of the strongest fire spells. It could summon a nine-headed serpent from the world of flame.

This spell was already beyond anything an elite wizard could do. The high councils of Zakarum’s cathedral were extremely skilled in fire spells. On top of the enchantment of hell, they had mastered the ability to use this spell.

Afterward, a dark gold rank high council speeded out of the cathedral with a group of council members and yelled at Flying Flame. They were trying to tell Flying Flame to come down. Abel saw the name of this dark high council through his world stone ability, ‘Ismail Vilehand’

Flying Flame got angry when he saw Ismail Vilehand was provoking him. Ever since he became a young dragon, Abel was the only one he respected. He felt totally superior compared to other contracted beasts.

Flying Flame had no choice. It was the natural arrogance of the dragons.

It sped towards the ground and spat a row of white fireballs towards Ismail Vilehand.

“Bang!” A white fireball struck Ismail Vilehand, and the energy of the blast continued towards the other council members.

Even from afar, Abel could see the power of that strike. The white fireball was Flying Flame’s most skilled attack, and it could even melt steel.

Abel thought Ismail Vilehand would be badly hurt even if it didn’t die, but after the smoke had faded, it was almost like nothing had happened. Another nine-headed serpent was summoned again.

The only thing different this time was that lightning strikes began to sift out from its body.

Although that lightning stayed on the ground and couldn’t do anything to Flying Flame in the sky, Ismail Vilehand suddenly vanished in a flash.

“Lightning enchantment” Abe could recognize the ability of this hell creature.

The White Fireball of Flying Flame not only did not hurt Ismail Vilehand, but the other council members were also fine as well.

Suddenly, Abel, the council members of Zakarum’s cathedral, had another ability, “Fire resistance,” and Ismail Vilehand further protected them at the time.

Fire attacks under this circumstance couldn’t do much, no matter how powerful they were. This ability was not special to hell. Those council members had them before they turned into hell creatures.

Flying Flame did not expect this either. He was caught off guard for a moment, and the serpent spit a fireball back towards him. As a dragon with fire ability, fireballs also couldn’t do anything to him.

All of a sudden, this had turned into a strange battle. Both side’s attacks were useless.

Flying Flame then began to swoop down to attack Ismail Vilehand with its claw. Abel’s heart dropped, so he quickly sent out a warning through the soul chain.

“Flying Flame, don’t get close to it!”

Flying Flame would still listen to Abel’s instructions, so he returned to the sky again, but in that split of a second, a cursed aura emerged above Flying Flame.

“Special Curse” was another ability of hell creatures.

Abel let out a long breath. He knew the head of the council in this place had a type of fire enhancement that could achieve a kill in one strike.

Ismail Vilehand had the fire enchantment, and Abel didn’t want to test it out on Flying Flame.

“White Snow, also be careful. Keep your long-distance attacks!” Abel commanded through the soul chain.

White Snow was swirling around the sky from afar. It did not join the fight, but it was about to. Abel didn’t want the same thing to happen to it.

White Snow listened to Abel and flew high above Ismail Vilehand. It dodged the fireballs of the nine-headed serpent and spat out 10 ice crystals towards the council members.

Ismail Vilehand flushed away and effortlessly dodged the crystals. Abel was shocked at its speed.

‘Extra fast,’ it was yet another ability of hell creatures.

However, the other council members were too lucky. They were struck by the ice crystals and turned into ice blocks.

White Snow felt like it was letting its owner down since its target had dodged its attacks. It opened its mouth again, and a patch of frost emerged, covering the area.

Speed could not counteract this mass attack, not even Ismail Vilehand. Its body turned blue, and its speed was slowed down.

White Snow saw that its attack was effective, so it spat out another round of ice crystals. While Ismail Vilehand slowed down, it could no longer dodge.

Ice crystals blasted out on its body one by one, sending its body into a tremble. However, the lightning beside it continued outward.

After 5 minutes of the attack, Ismail Vilehand still stood, and Abel began to question its defense.

Maybe it had another enchanted ability of hell, ‘Thicken skill.’

“How many enchantments does this thing have?” Abel thought to himself. He was glad that Ismail Vilehand did not show up in the tunnels or buildings, or killing it would have been very hard.

It was a dark gold leader at the end of the day, and Abel knew there were 3 of them in this cathedral.

After ruthless rounds of ice crystals attacks, Ismail Vilehand exploded at the end.

The ice attacks had slowed it down, and the crystals had caused a broken effect.

Abel commanded Flying Flame through the soul chain to lure many council members out from the cathedral.

Johnson was the strongest in defense out of the bunch, but Flying Flame could fly. It was the most suitable ability to lure out hell creatures.

Flying Flame roared and swirled around the cathedral’s gate, making every hell creature within it go insane.

The other 2 dark gold heads of the council led some low-level council mementos out of the cathedral. All the heads of the council were out.

Abel was pleased since he didn’t want to go into the cathedral to risk his life. It was too dangerous.

Through the world stone, Abel saw the name of those heads of the council. They were ‘Glebe Flamefinger’ and ‘Toorc Icefist.’

Glebe Flamefinger was the first one to speed towards Flying Flame. It turned into a shadow, but Flying Flame was too high up the sky, so it could only summon a nine-headed serpent.

Toorc Icefist did not have the extra fast ability, but it soon arrived by Glebe Flamefinger and summoned a nine-headed serpent as well.

Suddenly, 10 nine-headed serpents were summoned on the ground, and a patch of red fireballs flew towards Flying Flame.

Flying Flame was too lazy to even dodge those fireballs. All it needed to do was to spit out a big white fireball of his own.

But an annoying thing occurred again. Although his white fireball followed through and blasted out on those council members, it almost did no damage.

All of those council members of Zakarum’s cathedral were fire-resistant, making the powerful Flying Flame feel helpless all of a sudden.

White Snow saw what was going on, so it spat out a patch of frost again before Abel even said anything.

Flying Flame did not stop helping. Instead, it attracted all the fireballs from the serpents onto himself. White Snow could not dodge that many fireballs.

All the council members on the ground were soon wrapped in frost, and their bodies began to turn blue. They slowed down.

The only one unaffected was Toorc Icefist. Instead, it kept summoning nine-headed serpents.

“Don’t worry, kill the others first!” Abel was hiding in a safe place. He could clearly see what was going on.

White Snow’s energy was draining fast. Both the frost and ice crystals attacks took a lot of energy to create, and it could only do so continuously in cold temperatures.

Abel saw White Snow’s attack was slowing down, so it quickly teleported a full recovery potion from his belt.

Purple glow emerged on White snow, and it was returned to its top condition. Its attacks sped up again.

Abel imagined Glebe Flamefinger to have a lot of enchantments as well, but the attack of White Snow was like a bug in the system for it. Soon its life force was drained.

“Bang!” Glebe Flamefinger blasted open, and the fiery red fire elements lasted out. Even the naked eye could see it.

Although Abel might never know all the enchantment of Glebe Flamefinger, blasting open was an ability given by the fire enchantment.

The only one remaining was Toorc Icefist. It was resistant to both fire and ice.

“Johnson, careful!” Abel was still very confident in Johnson. Even if Toorc Icefist was fire-resistant, Johnson could directly reflect the fire attack of Toorc Icefist back to itself.

Still, Abel still wanted Johnson to keep their distance and use the lightning spear. As long as it’s accurate, there was no way Toorc Icefist could dodge it without an extra fast.

Johnson speeded out like a strike of lightning with its spear and a giant shield upfront.

Dong! The lightning long spear struck upon the body of Toorc Icefist, blasting it flying away.

When Toorc Icefist landed on the ground, lightning arcs flashed on its skin. The lightning attack was effective.

However, on top of its Holy Weapon’s attributes, Johnson’s humongous force had only given Toorc Icefist a little bit of damage.

“How many lives does this thing have?” Abel mumbled in shock.

According to the laws of hell, this thing should have the ability, ‘thicken skin’ and ‘extra strong.’ the iron balls on Johnson began to transform and formed a fiery outer layer on Johnson. The fireball attacks of those nin headed serpents could only leave a burnt mark on them.

Abel knew the spells of those serpents were not powerful. Toorc Icefist had forcefully obtained this top rank spell, so its power had been reduced.

Of course, this was due to Johnson’s powerful defence as well. Those fireballs almost couldn’t do any damage to it.

Toorc Icefist kept casting the nine-headed serpent spell, and it soon switched to close body attacks after realizing it was not doing any damage. However, it was not easy to get close to the extra fast Johnson even though it was huge.

Johnson kept switching directions and blasted Toorc Icefist away with its spear again and again. It was almost impossible to get close.

It was a one-sided battle. Even though Toorc Icefist was like hard rock, how long could it last under Johnson’s continuous attack?

The result was certain. Abel knew Johnson had grasped the rhythm of the attacks. It was just a matter of time till Toorc Icefist died.

Time slowly passed, and Toorc Icefist began to slow down. Johnson unleashed its last strike, and Toorc Icefist blasted open with ice elements.

Johnson kept its distance, so it was not affected by the blast.

Abel could recognize another enchantment from the blast ‘Ice enchantment.’

3 purple ability potions emerged from the Horadric cube of Abel. Each of them belonged to a Dark Gold council member.

Abel turned into a white light and flashed back on the battlefield.

Abel did not pick up the magic staff of those council members. Their enchantment from hell would fade from it after their owners have died. They would become useless.

Suddenly Abel spotted a ring on Ismail Vilehand’s finger. “That is?”. A wizard would not wear useless jewelry, not in hell or the human world.

Abel violently chopped off Ismail Vilehand’s finger and took out the ring.

It was a dark gold ring. He then ignited his world stone ability.

A name appeared in his mind ‘Stone of Jordan.’

It was a true surprise. If there was something that could dramatically increase his ability, it would be the Stone of Jordan.

This ring could increase every spell he had by a level. Although adding an extra 1-12 points of lightning damage wasn’t much, it could allow him to do lightning damage even without igniting his lightning combat qi.

The most useful ability was still the extra 20 points of mana and the 25% increase in mana limit.

It didn’t sound like much, but an extra 25% could make a world of difference to Abel. With his current mana storage, he had almost an extra 1000 points of mana. Abel never had to worry about running out of mana again.

He took off his Bahamut Vampire’s ring and put the Stone of Jordan in his hand. It was sad to let go of its 6% mana steal and extra 120 points of mana, but it was worth it.

It was the law of the Dark World. One could only wear 2 rings. Any more would be useless.

He did not let the Bahamut vampire’s ring go to waste. He would give it to Bartoli. It could increase her ability. Abel has also made a new set of rune gear for her. She was the safety guarantee to the Kingdom of St Ellis.

The Stone of Jordan was a pleasant surprise, but finding Khalim’s Flail on Glebe Flamefinger was expected.

Khalim’s Flail was always by the side of a high council. This guaranteed the Compelling Orb was not damaged. With the flail, the 4 remains of Khalim could make out Khalim’s will.

Abel cleared out his Horadric cube and put Khalim’s heart, Khalim’s brain, Khalim’s bones, and Khalim’s flail into it and began combining with his power of the will.

A new flail weapon was created in a flash of white light, ‘Khalim’s will.’

Before entering the cathedral, Abel scanned with his power of the will making sure no hell creatures were still alive. The past few battles had been too scary. Especially that fire resistance ability, it was the ability of a true wizard. He has to be careful.

The cathedral was not big, but there weren’t any separate rooms. After he made sure everything was safe, he entered it.

The cathedral’s glory back in the days could still be seen but was contaminated with the horrific smell. Blackened blood smear across the walls and pedestals. This holy place has now turned into a nest of hell.

Abel could see this cathedral was made with top quality white stones. The original shrine in the middle was no longer filled with the statue of spirits for worship. It was an empty shrine with the shadow of its past.