Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Abel returned to the dark world to where the stone house was. Unlike last time, he could scan with his power of the Will. He did it towards a stone wall that was about a meter thick. Interestingly enough, both the rooftop and the bottom of this building were also about one meter thick.
He also noticed that this building was located underground. Everything beyond the stone wall was mud. He looked upward, and his scanning told him that he was at least about five hundred meters underground. That was actually quite shocking for him because if his rank was any lower than where he was currently at, it would be impossible for him to get out of here with his “instantaneous movement.” There had to be some space for him to teleport himself to somewhere safe, and this, it wasn’t the end of the world, but he had to be smarter than how he usually was.
There was one part he got wrong, though. This stone house was not meant to be a prison but infrastructure designed for concealment during training. All this design was created so that any wizard training inside would have almost no chance of being interrupted in the middle of their training. The lack of circle presence here was an indication of that. Such a facility made it impossible even for law-defying wizards and other wizards with special abilities to find out what’s happening over here.
Abel’s power of the Will couldn’t get him to realize where the end of this stone house was, but it wasn’t like he was too panicked because of it. Instead, he reached out the invisibility cape from his Valaya’s ring, the one with the power of the Will bonus in the headband on the head part. His power of Will became a lot stronger after wearing it. Six hundred. Seven hundred. Eight hundred. Having reached a total of eight hundred and fifty meters, he found a room that he could safely move away to.
So that should be where Wizard Malon spent most of his days at. There was a gigantic defensive circle on top of it. It was covering the entire underground. Anyways, he moved there with a quick “instantaneous movement,” which immediately moved him out of this underground stone house.
When he appeared, the first thing he saw was a room with all sorts of items laid around. It was the first time, honestly, that he had seen saw a wizard’s room this messy. He’s lucky that there wasn’t any rotten food, but it was still so messy that it was barely tolerable. Come to think of it. Wizard Malon probably had no use for food anyways. Since he did not need to eat or excrete, he’s basically set up his room so that it didn’t even matter if any regular human beings could survive inside.
Despite how messy this room was, Abel could still find items that he wanted quite easily with his power of the Will. Wizard Malon could do the same. It was the reason that he never bothered sorting these out. Out of the piles of junks of whatnot, the first thing he got that was of interest was a total of 340 intermediate light stones. It was what he needed for his daily training. These intermediate light stones were what he needed for his training, first and foremost. Spending just one night on the central continent would cost him about ten, and he needed to get as much of it as he could to sustain a living.
He used the “telekinesis” to put back the intermediate light stones under streaks of white light. No, he wasn’t going to use his hands to flip through them. He searched and searched, and once he detected a vitality force that was coming over him, he discovered a bottle with his power of the Will. A jade-green bottle was what appeared in his hands. There were tiny runes drawn all over it. The opening, apparently, was sealed with a lid that had all sorts of runes drawn over it.
As he pulled the lid open, he stretched his power of the Will inside and discovered that the bottle was actually a portal item. There wasn’t a lot of space inside. It was just about a liter in amount, with about a quarter of it being a green liquid with a very strong vitality force. It’s the first time he’s ever seen something like this. Upon smelling it, he could feel himself a lot more relaxed than he was. He had no ways of classifying this liquid, whatever it was, but he knew that it must be something of value. Having placed the lid back carefully, he put it back inside his Valaya’s ring.
There weren’t a lot of useful things here for Abel. Most of the items were ingredients that Wizard Malon seemed to be doing some sort of research on. Given how much the wizard cared for his own longevity, it probably had something to do with maintaining his metallic body. Whatever the case was, he decided to put every precious ingredient into his pocket. Even if he wasn’t going to use them for himself, there was always the opportunity he could leave them for his own family to use.
Soon, nothing he felt like he was interested in was left inside the room. Everything he considered valuable was already put inside Valaya’s ring. There was plenty of space for him to store the items inside. As he searched again with his power of the Will, he realized that the door leading to the exit had a special mechanism to it. That mechanism, however, seemed like it’s been a while since it was used. That seemed quite to be the case, especially given that the whole place was owned by a law-defying wizard who had no real use for things such as doors or locks. That was pretty much the point of how everything was built around here. Everywhere one could get, they’d almost had to do it with just the “instantaneous movement.”
Once again, Abel moved to another room with his “instantaneous movement.” The reason he chose this room was quite simple. There was a spirit here. A mechanical voice appeared as soon as he stepped in.
“Warning! There is a trespasser. The guardian puppets will be deployed.”
Followed by the voice of the spirit, two puppets that stood in the middle of the room started moving together with strange tools in their hands. They both started rushing towards Abel.
Abel screamed to the battle command spirit, “Battle command spirit! Change this spirit’s ownership to mine!”
After saying that, a strange ripple came across the elder sign card, Abel was wearing on his belt. The target of this ripple was, precisely, the spirit that had hollow light flashing all over it. It was about half a meter tall. Its body stood still like a pillar with light glowing throughout its body.
So this room was an operating room for this spirit that controlled the entire underground structure. If Abel came to a different room, the spirit would’ve had other ways of dealing with him itself, but instead, it could only rely on the puppets to attack him.
The battle command spirit responded to Abel, “Sir Elder! The ownership access for this research spirit has already been fixed!”
The two puppets that were rushing towards Abel suddenly halted and froze in a very strange position. That’s when Abel could see the tools that they were holding. They were basic tools. Wrenches, actually.
Abel inquired through his power of the Will, “So you’re saying this was a research spirit?”
The battle command spirit responded, ‘Sir Elder! This spirit is used for wizardology research. There is a huge quantity of data stored inside. You can look up the data at any point.”
Since Wizard Malon was dead, this research spirit had no owner. This was why it didn’t call the siren the whole time Abel was inside the first room. The alarm was only on when he came to where the operation room was. Now that he was here, he connected his power of the Will into it to do more research. He was gladdened by the fact that the wizard’s level was not so low. Actually, in terms of capacity, it was much bigger than most spirits of the same size.
If Wizard Malon was still alive, he would’ve definitely babbled on and on about how important this research spirit was. This must be the sole device that contained the heritage of his lifetime work, the Blizzard clan’s foundational techniques, and everything passed down across their group.
Abel asked as he picked up the jade green bottle, “So what’s this?”
There were two purposes behind asking this. First, he wanted to test out what the research spirit could do. Second, he wanted to know what the bottle contained.
The research spirit quickly responded via the room’s searching circle, “This, master, was a portal bottle that was produced by the elves. Only liquids can be stored inside. Its function is so that whatever’s stored does not have its properties changed.”
Abel slapped his head as he realized the mistake that he made. If he didn’t open the lid so quickly, the research spirit would’ve told him about the origin of this bottle.
He opened the lid once more, “So what’s this liquid that’s inside?”
The research spirit replied, “The bottle contains the elven life elixir, Master. It’s a type of fountain water that can fix one’s body from the roots. Only the elves produce these.”
Abel became extraordinarily satisfied with what he was looking at. The battle command spirit was quite powerful on its own, but its knowledge was limited to something that was only related to combat. It could do complex things such as commanding a group of puppets to execute a specific set of battle strategies. Still, it did not possess the capability of answering the questions that he was currently facing.
This research spirit, however, was different. Given that its original owner was a law-defying wizard, the amount of knowledge stored inside must be very, very surprising. Abel seemed to have a different view. As of now, he just wanted to know more about the central continent.
Before anything of that, though, he had to first move the research spirit so that he could bring it with him. He needed to first bring its body with him to store it inside somewhere safe. His magic tower, for example. That’s when he started looking around him. Having concluded, he discerned that he must bring even the room itself with him because holding the research spirit was why it was there in the first place. All the devices here, like the searching circles and the sound transferring circle, must remain. Otherwise, the research spirit would just have no ways of communicating with people whatsoever.
Of course, some other spell circles could be used. It was not like Abel was a spell master, so it wasn’t like he could really decipher the messages that were inside. Anyways, all the important things were already inside the operation room, so there was no need to worry if anything went missing. Still, there would be some trouble if he wanted to keep the room separated from the nearby areas.
Abel spoke towards his portal beast ring, “No need to come out, Johnson and Jason. Stay inside the portal beast ring while you use your abilities. I want this room to be separated from the nearby dimensions.”
A hollow hole was what appeared in the middle of the room. Followed by that, two streaks of presence passed out. Under Abel’s power of the Will, the room he was located and the nearby stones and mud were steadily being separated from the rooms. Despite all the rumbling taking place, the room inside remained completely still and was not affected by the muds and stones.
After everything was segregated, the room became an independent structure. Able cast an “instantaneous movement’ to move himself to another room. As he left, he wrapped the entire room with his power of the Will and stored it inside Valaya’s ring. It was done to do more research on it anytime he’s free to do so.
Abel looked towards the room where he was situated. This was a library room that had all sorts of books inside. He’s already got plenty in his one hands, but there was always a lack of the more important information. The ones these law-defying wizards had in their collections seemed to be a much better replacement, actually, than the ones that he’s stored.
Having flipped through these books, he realized that there was a lot that he didn’t know about at all. The ice element spells research papers, especially. He had never seen the theories mentioned. He was from the lightning clan, and he’s never even seen explored the true capabilities of research spirits upon this point. Still, just by glimpsing upon these books, he felt like all the dangers he went through were truly worth it. Knowledge was priceless, and knowledge was much more precious than a mountain of whatever resources he could get his hands upon.
Like a sweeping tornado, he got every book he was interested in inside Valaya’s ring. After that, he began to walk towards another room. He felt a great chill after he moved to another spot with his “instantaneous movement.” The chill didn’t give him any discomfort, strangely enough. It felt quite comfortable. It’s like his body wanted to be under these conditions.
His eyes focused on the giant ice bed that was in the middle of the room. He wasn’t sure if it was called “ice,” though, because he couldn’t see any of it melting. It must be a lot more complicated than that.