Abe the Wizard

So Abel got right into it. He used his power of the Will to make records of the strange patterns he saw. The process seemed to be much more difficult than he had originally imagined, though. Some sort of strange powers probably protected the rune. If he wanted to see these patterns clearly, he had to be forceful and continuously activate energy waves from his wizard crystal body. He expended a lot of energy just to keep the runes visible to him, and each one was complex in its own way. From just the first half of the rune, he felt half of his mana depleted.

He opened his eyes and was surprised by the message he saw coming from his druid spirit. It was already the morning of the second day. He’s spent more time on just half of the rune than sleeping. The scariest part, actually, was that he didn’t notice until after.

He shook his head and murmured to himself, “That’s it, I’ll look it up in the dark world the next time. This is a waste of time.”

He didn’t know that the other two ranks twenty wizards spent years on just half of the rune. He didn’t know that, no. He thought that having the world stone fragment would just make everything easy, which was true in some regard. But, again, the other law-defying wizards had to go through a repetitive process just to make sure that they didn’t forget the pattern of the rune.

By now, Abel was starting to realize the pattern that was emerging in his soul. According to what he’s read from the personal accounts of the freezing element law-defying wizards, he knew that this was the foundation of this rune. Once he could have all the runes engraved into his very own being, that was the moment that he became a law-defying wizard.

“Butler Meyer wants to see you, Master,” a mechanical voice came over. It reminded Abel that his schedule was actually a bit misplaced.

Meyer bowed, “There are several representatives from different organizations that want to see you, Master.”

Abel looked away, “I’m going for shutdown training, Meyer. Carry on my words: I’m not saying anyone at this moment.”

Yes. At this moment, no connection was more important than figuring out how to master the freezing element.

“Yes, Master,” Butler Meyer backed away. With that, Abel went back to the owner’s building after he stretched for a bit. He didn’t stay here to continue with his research, though. Before he commenced, he called Black Wind to guard the training room. He needed to make sure that he was protected if a threat came. Black Wind seemed to be the best one for this job. It was small enough to fit inside the basement, and it wasn’t like he needed it to fight for him this time.

With that, he had the freezing bed inside Valaya’s ring, then teleported himself back into the Rogue’s Encampment through the teleportation gate. From there, he found an empty spot and took out the freezing bed. He sat on it, and once he looked checked up the records again, he realized that he was learning much faster than before. It seemed that his world stone fragment was connected to this land. He was technically a divine being in the Rogue’s Encampment. He wasn’t a powerful one, but he still had the advantage of possessing unique abilities such as a much-blessed memory, observation ability, decisiveness, and the ability to control.

Originally, when the big piece of fog covered him, his power started coming out of him. His mana started running out much faster, though. It was depleted within a span of just a few minutes. He was not that worried, though. After taking out one bottle of the “full recovery potion,” he took out the Valaya’s ring and took out the rune language for “observation.” Next, he had the “spiritual guardian knight captain” hold it beside him. Like a fog that drifted to his side, the “meditation” ring appeared at his feet. His mana recovered at a speed that could only be described as “terrifying.”

To use his mystic headband’s mana bonus effect, he took out the invisibility cape and wore it on top of his head. He wasn’t really planning on using it here, by the way. The elves would’ve easily recognized that it came from Prince Adler if they saw him wearing it.

“The rule of freezing will open to me, I say.”

When Abel began, he began to receive a word spell from the inside of his world stone fragment. It was trying to tell him that each stone fragment gave him absolute control over the land he was on. Right now, it was the Rogue’s Encampment. He was the owner of this land because he owned the piece of stone uniquely tied to this land. The hardest bit was done by hell itself. As for him, he just needed to think about what he was going to do with that.

As he gained more of the world stone fragments, he earned more authorization in the land he owned. With just one sentence, he drained all the energy inside the world stone fragment. It might not be desirable to see, but he soon realized that this was all worth it. All 999 rule patterns appeared in front of him as they formed a complete set of freezing elements. He needed to memorize them all.

A large amount of mana was quickly being expended from him. The meditation ring on his feet once again supplemented him. The loss in mana made re-supplying energy very important for him. The druid spirit would use up bottles of “full-recovery potions” in a matter of seconds. Still, it was quite easy to memorize the runes under this sort of condition. With no care for time or anything else, he tried all that he could to memorize the runes that he was seeing. 990, 991… 998, 999!

When the last freezing rule rune was inserted into his soul, he could see that a light blue freezing rule was formed. He was starting to notice something. If he was to activate his power of the Will now, he could enter into a state of promotion. There were two major problems. One was that he was still a member of the lightning clan, and two, mastering the freezing element was only the first step of becoming a law-defying wizard. The next step, merging, was also as important and possibly even more difficult. That was really the crucial point that decided if one could become a law-defying wizard or not. If he didn’t get that part right, he might just ruin his wizard crystal body once and for all.

That made him hesitate. He didn’t make the decision immediately. He thought about resting for a few days because he used his powers to aid his memories once. His psyche was already in an overdrive state, and he would be fatigued as soon as he stopped.

When he closed down the master building’s defensive circle and seclusion circle and went out, he could see that Meyer, Poly, and Gunter standing outside in a very agitated state.

“You’re out, Master Bennett,” Poly came up and immediately bowed to Abel.

“What happened, Poly?”

Abel knew that he was inside the dark world a bit too long this time. According to the record of his druid soul, he’s spent a total of five days inside the dark world. He was really starting to get worried when he saw Poly.

Poly seemed quite concerned, “There have been a few law-defying wizards waiting for you these past few days, Master Bennett.”

“From where,” Abel asked, meanwhile not as concerned as he should’ve been. To him, it just wasn’t that scary to hear that a law-defying wizard was coming to him. He was becoming one, so that evened out in a way.

Poly spoke in fright and humility, “There’s Joshua from the Flaming Village, Chestnut from the Land of Freezing Frost, Dunstan from the Ice Fire lake, and Hal from the Lightning clan. They all want to see you.”

“Wizard Hal!” Abel only became concerned when he heard the last name. Something major must’ve happened to the lightning clan for this to happen.

Abel spoke quietly, “Invite them to the guest room for me, Poly. Meyer, have your command sent over and prepare the finest juices there are.”

He went back to his room after saying that. He was becoming more mentally stressed after resting for a few days, but that didn’t seem to bother him too much. The clothes he wore were quite untidy, though. He thought that it’d be rude if he was to see four law-defying wizards like this. Anyways, he changed back to his elven robe as soon as he went back to his room. He checked his entire body as carefully as he could before he went over to the guest room.

“Welcome, welcome,” he smiled and bowed the four law-defying wizards when he saw them.

“Respectable Master Bennett! Thank you so much for the time you’re meeting with us.”

Dunstan bowed and said with a wide grin on his face. The other three didn’t repeat after him, but he was supposed to represent everyone that came here. By the way, the honorific sounded strange to Abel, but that was his common title now since his last demonstration was a major success throughout all of the central continent. On top of that, the real reason why they were here was straightforward. Abel shut down any visitors from the last few days, and they really had no choice but to come in such a humble manner.

Wizard Dunstan went as straight as he could, “I’ve come here so you can help me brew potions, Master Bennett.”

“Same here, Master Bennett, Please!” Joshua of the Flaming Village and Dunstan of the Land of Freezing Frost also spoke.

Abel smiled and said, “You’re all very welcome! Please, just leave the ingredients and recipes over there, and I’ll be ready to serve all of you. The Potionmaster Guild welcomes those who’re willing to trade under our rules.”

Abel wasn’t going to ask more from them. It’s already so much for three master wizards to come over to him. The most he was going to ask was to have them hand him over some ingredients. He didn’t want to break the rules of the Potionmaster guild, so he was just going to ask for the amount that was allowed by the guild.

“Great! Thank you so much, Master Bennett! Here, a token of my goodwill to you!”

As Wizard Dunstan said that, he placed a box on the table. It was a box with five fruits that were half-red and half-blue. This was the “ice fire spirit,” a specialty of the Ice Fire Lake. It was supposed to be a very rare type of produce that could help enhance one’s bodily functions with the counteracting forces of ice and fire. It was a very, very precious spiritual creation that belonged to nature.