Just as Abel was about to kill Duriel, a black flame ignited on its body. These flames weren't real flames. Instead, they were made of countless souls that were screaming in agony.
These screams seemed to be providing Duriel with energy. Duriel resisted the numbness and stared at Abel with its merciless eyes. Suddenly, the black flame ignited, and Duriel let out an earth-shattering roar.
This roar made the entire tomb tremble, and a pressure of heaven and earth began to form around Abel. Abel felt like he was being rejected by this space. The "lightning" spell pattern that he just drew disappeared on its own before it could be activated.
He couldn't move his body at all. It was as if the entire world was suppressing him, and this place had abandoned him.
This feeling reminded him of the situation when he faced Andariel. At that time, Andariel was like a god controlling this world.
Duriel rushed towards Abel. The skeletons and mud monsters in front of it were sent flying by its claws. They slammed into the wall and shattered into pieces before they could even put up a fight.
Abel felt an extreme sense of danger. He couldn't move. If Duriel got close enough, he would be dead in a few hits.
As if sensing the danger, the shadow of an oak tree appeared in his Druil soul. It was the same oak tree that lived in Rogge's camp.
The oak tree shadow quickly shook its trunk. Every time it shook, the shadow would become more and more illusory. At the same time, a giant oak tree appeared outside of Abel's body. It wasn't a real oak tree, but it was standing behind him like a real thing.
Abel's body was under the oak tree. Suddenly, he felt his body become lighter. The world's suppression disappeared, and Duriel was right in front of him.
The Ancient's Pledge shield in his left hand struck towards Duriel. The white combat qi rune on the shield sent the shield strike rune into Duriel's body before it could attack him.
Duriel's front claws were raised high. It was supposed to be a victor that was going to harvest the enemy's head, but it was hit by the shield strike. Its body tilted and fell heavily in front of Abel.
The oak tree shadow seemed to have run out of energy, and it began to fade away from Abel's druid soul. At the same time, the giant oak tree behind Abel disappeared as well.
Duriel was stunned after being hit by the shield strike. The god-like suppression from before was also gone.
Abel threw the lightning spell in his right hand into the hole in Duriel's shell. He did the same with his left hand.
Duriel had lost its ability to defend itself, which made the effect of the lightning even more intense. The black flames seemed to have consumed too much of its energy, and it didn't even have the strength to get up. It was paralyzed for a long time.
While he was attacking, he had Black Wind step back carefully to create some distance between him and Duriel.
If it wasn't for the oak tree, Abel would've been killed by Duriel.
He had never been so close to death before. The feeling of being suppressed by the world made him feel powerless.
Duriel didn't seem to be able to fight back anymore. Abel's lightning spell continued to attack. Duriel's body was trembling non-stop. Even its screams were silenced.
Duriel's body finally began to swell from the inside due to the constant barrage of attacks. Due to the obstruction of the outer shell, the internal expansion eventually overcame the already shattered outer shell. With a loud explosion, Duriel's flesh and organs burst out of its outer shell and exploded. Duriel's outer shell was filled with blood, flesh, and organs.
The skeletons and mud golems in front of Abel were destroyed by the explosion. Abel was a little further away, so he wasn't affected.
"It's finally dead!" Abel breathed a sigh of relief. The exhaustion in his body washed over him like a tidal wave. Even though he had been taking potions, he had been using the world stone's ability to see and analyze data.
Using this ability took a huge toll on his mental strength and stamina. Even if he could replenish his mental strength and stamina, it would only replenish his mental strength and stamina on the surface.
Abel smiled bitterly. This battle lasted for three whole days, and it was very difficult for him to deal with this Duriel with his current strength. If he didn't have enough summons, and if he didn't know how difficult this battle was going to be, he wouldn't have been able to tell who would win this battle.
Just as he was sighing, a broken crystal floated up from Duriel's body. It shone brightly and lit up the entire chamber.
Abel immediately recognized what it was. It was a world stone fragment. It was the reason why Duriel was so powerful.
Just as he was about to take a closer look, the world stone fragment suddenly flew towards him. He instinctively wanted to dodge, but he realized that he couldn't move his body at all.
Luckily, his intuition didn't tell him that there was any danger. When the world stone fragment flew towards him, his combat qi armor and broken ice armor didn't seem to have any reaction at all.
Even the two defensive magic items he had on him suffered the same fate. The World Stone fragment had reached him before he could even react to the attack.
The world stone fragment passed through his body like an invisible object and entered his soul dimension. There, the two world stone fragments were getting closer and closer to each other. It was as if there was some kind of natural attraction between them.
With a crisp sound, the two pieces of world stone merged into one. He immediately felt a sense of closeness to the world around him. He felt like he was in the Rogue's Encampment.
He was like a god here. Every strand of mana in the air was cheering. The muddy water on the ground automatically separated under his gaze. A ball of water separated from the ground.
The muddy chamber was now very dry. All the water was gathered and floated in the air. All this was done with just a thought from Abel.
Abel's eyes flashed, and a crack appeared in the air. The ball of water was sent into the crack.
He couldn't believe that he could tear a crack in the air without using any ability. The fusion of the two world stone fragments made his god-like ability even more powerful.
"Phew!" Abel let out a long breath and got rid of the god-like feeling. It wasn't his real ability. It was the power of the world stone. The world stone had a natural control over the ground under its feet.
Suddenly, Duriel's body began to spit out gray shadows. At first, it was just one by one, but soon, there were swarms of them. These gray shadows danced around the tomb. Although their bodies were blurry, Abel could see their faces clearly.
These grey shadows were the souls he saw in Duriel's wound. According to the world stone fragment, these were the souls of countless generations of humans in Lut Gholein that were absorbed by Duriel.
When hell left the Dark World, it transferred the last of the human souls in Lut Gholein to Duriel. Only soul energy could activate the world stone fragment.
The souls were finally freed from Duriel's imprisonment. After a while, the souls stopped. They had been in Duriel's body all this time, so they knew who had saved them.
The countless souls in the air lowered their heads and bowed to Abel. After that, all the souls emitted a white light, and the grey on their bodies turned white.
Countless living shadows and countless souls expressed their gratitude in this way. This gratitude came from the depths of their souls, and it removed the last bit of hell's taint from their souls.
Smiles emerged on the faces of these living shadows. It didn't matter if it was the elderly, the young, the children, the men, the women, the warriors, the farmers, or the people of other professions. They all had the same pure smile on their faces.
It was a smile that was so clean that it was indescribable. Their smiles made all the distracting thoughts in Abel's mind disappear. At that moment, Abel felt like he was a piece of transparent and pure crystal. His whole body was transparent.
The light on the living shadows slowly dimmed and began to dissipate. During this process, Abel heard a familiar song again.
This was the second time he heard this song. He still couldn't hear the lyrics, and he couldn't tell what song it was. However, he couldn't help but feel a sense of connection with life. He instantly knew that this was the song of life. It was the song of life sung by countless rescued souls.
Even though he had 2 world stone fragments with him, and his dynamic vision and data analysis ability had increased a lot, he could still only listen to this song of life. He couldn't remember it. At most, he could only feel a sense of familiarity when he heard it again.
As the song of life began to sing, sparkling light spots began to enter Abel's soul.
He still remembered how much he benefited from the song of life last time. This time, he was full of hope for the song of life.
"May your souls rest in peace!" Abel bowed back. As he bowed back, the living shadows completely disappeared from the tomb.
The tomb returned to silence, but the coldness was gone. Even though it was still a tomb, he could feel that every inch of soil, every piece of stone, and every mural was extremely clean.
This cleanliness was not something he could see with his eyes. It was something he could sense with his soul.
He didn't know when, but a tunnel had appeared on the wall of the tomb. Maybe it was because he was too focused on Duriel, but he didn't notice it until now.
Abel walked up to Duriel's body and began to search carefully. Unfortunately, he wanted to find a piece of equipment from the body of a giant insect. Even if there was one, it was not something that a human could use.
He looked at Duriel's body in disappointment. He couldn't help but laugh at his own greed. A world stone fragment and a blessing from the song of life weren't enough?
As long as he could get these two items, the three days of battle would be worth it.
With that thought in mind, he cast a "skeleton resurrection" spell on Duriel's body. With a bang, a skeleton stood up from the body.
This skeleton was very different from ordinary skeletons. There was a thick layer of shell on top of its bones, protecting its skeleton, its head, and its soul fire.
A mutant skeleton!
Abel had lost confidence in mutant skeletons a long time ago. He had tried countless times to summon a mutant skeleton, but to no avail. He only summoned one this time because his ninth skeleton died in the explosion when Duriel died.
"I'll call you Duriel then!" Abel couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the skeleton had the same shell as Duriel.
This was Abel's second mutant skeleton. However, he still needed time to figure out the abilities of this one.
He looked around the tomb again, but he didn't find anything else. He walked towards the tunnel that he had just discovered.
It was a dark tunnel, but under the influence of the world stone fragment, Abel could see everything clearly.
He didn't use the "instantaneous movement" spell here. Instead, he let Black Wind walk on the ground. He always felt a mysterious and powerful presence in front of him, so he needed to recover his tired soul.
He walked for quite some time. Although he didn't meditate, he felt like he was in his mother's womb. The strange energy of heaven and earth was constantly nourishing him, and the tiredness in his soul quickly disappeared.
The infernal fire also appeared in front of him, and he saw a stone door in front of him. It took a lot of manpower to build such a huge door underground. He couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the Dark World's humans.
He walked past the door, and a huge space appeared. There was no need to use the infernal fire to light up this place. There was a pool of lava in the center of this space. The red lava was boiling, and it lit up the entire space.
Even breathing in the air was hot. It was obvious how high the temperature was. However, Abel's flash ice armor was flashing, so the temperature didn't affect him much.
Above the magma, there was a platform that was connected to the ground around the magma by countless chains, allowing the platform to be fixed above the magma.
An ancient wooden bridge was connected to the platform, but Abel couldn't believe that a wooden bridge that was tens of thousands of years old could still be this sturdy. Therefore, he decided to use the "instantaneous movement" spell to teleport himself onto the platform.
"Young adventurer, thank you for saving me!" A voice suddenly emerged, and Abel was shocked.
He had never met a living being in the Dark World who could speak on their own. Even Cain could only exist in a different form, and he couldn't speak on his own.
Could there be a living human here? He couldn't help but look around for the source of the voice. The red imprisonment rune on the sharp stone in the center of the platform was broken, and a light figure was struggling to get out.
"Who are you?" Abel asked.
"Me? Let me think. I haven't met a human in a long time. Oh right, my name is Tyrael! " The light figure finally came out of the sharp stone. It was an illusory life form in a golden robe with wings of light on its back.
Archangel Tyrael! Abel immediately recalled his information. He was an archangel of justice, but it was hard to say if this was justice. At least from the message left by Akara in Rogge's camp, it was not friendly to the Heavens.
"It's nice to meet you. If there's nothing else, I'll be on my way!" Abel said with a slight bow.
He didn't want to have too much contact with this Tyrael. With his current strength, he might not be able to take on an archangel, so he decided to leave as soon as possible.
"Wait, I need your help, young adventurer!" Archangel Tyrael quickly called.
"I'm just a normal human. I can't help you!" Abel shook his head and refused.
"Young adventurer, don't be so quick to refuse. You may be a wizard, but I can feel that your body is very strong. You have already reached the standard of a Knight. As long as you help me, I can give you a Holy Knight class!" Archangel Tyrael tempted.
Abel immediately became alert. At the same time, he guessed that Archangel Tyrael's fighting power had been greatly damaged. Maybe this was why he was tempting him with a class.
If he was a human from the Dark World, he might've been tempted by Tyrael. The temptation of a battle class was very strong, but Abel was different. He knew clearly that this world had been conquered by hell, and all the souls had been harvested.
There was no way an archangel could appear in this world. Abel looked towards the broken binding rune on the sharp rock. He knew that killing Duriel had broken the binding rune, which allowed Tyrael to escape.
"No, I like being a wizard. I don't need to become a Holy Knight!" Abel said as he stepped back. The "move in a flash" spell pattern began to flash in his hand.
"Damn human, you're wasting my energy. Even if I'm just a remnant of my soul, I'm still not something an adventurer like you can fight against!" Archangel Tyrael's voice became sharp as he yelled.
As soon as the "move in a flash" spell pattern appeared in Abel's hand, it disappeared with a wave of Archangel Tyrael's hand.
Next, Archangel Tyrael pounced towards Abel. Abel felt his soul tremble. He knew his most important soul had been invaded.
As soon as Archangel Tyrael entered Abel's soul, he heard a dragon's roar. It was filled with a strong sense of suppression, but it was still a little weaker than Archangel Tyrael.
Dragon's roar only made Tyrael pause for a moment. He laughed maniacally and said, "This is great! This body, this perfect body, this is my body!"
Abel's soul had completely entered his soul. He turned into a giant dragon and roared towards Archangel Tyrael.
"Get out of my body!" Abel yelled.
"Young adventurer, I can see that you've been through a lot. You'll become one with me, and I'll give you eternal life!" Archangel Tyrael's voice was filled with pride. He didn't seem to care about Abel's dragon form at all.
"Despicable heaven!" Abel roared, "Because of your war with hell, there's no life left in this world. Now you want to take my body? Dream on!"
He transformed into a dragon and charged towards Tyrael. The dragon's aura was as heavy as a mountain.
"You! Sin against the heavens!" Archangel Tyrael yelled as he pointed at Abel. At the same time, a sword of light appeared in his hand.
As soon as Archangel Tyrael said the words "sin against the heavens," Abel's dragon form couldn't help but stop in mid-air. He felt like he was being judged by some kind of power.
The dragon's body violently twisted twice to break free from the power of judgment. However, the process took some time, and Archangel Tyrael took advantage of it. His sword of light landed heavily on the dragon's body.
Abel felt as if his soul was being torn apart. A huge wound appeared on the dragon's body.
Abel's heart sank. The soul space was his home ground. The dragon's power could only be fully unleashed in the soul space. Now that he couldn't defeat Archangel Tyrael in his dragon form, he felt that his life was in danger.
At this time, his Druil soul turned into a giant oak tree in the soul space. However, many of the branches of the oak tree were already yellow.
The giant oak tree appeared behind the dragon. Then, a green light emitted from the oak tree, and the dragon's wounds quickly healed.
This was a dragon formed from his soul. The wounds on his body were actually caused by his soul.
Archangel Tyrael laughed maniacally. "Haha! My suffering is finally over. This body of mine has a divine sprout. Young adventurer, you don't know what you have. Why don't you leave it all to me?"
Archangel Tyrael was very confident. Even if he was just a remnant soul that was cut off from his true body by hell, even if he was imprisoned in a sharp rock and burned by lava for tens of thousands of years, his soul was still much stronger than Abel's.
The difference between the two was not small. It was an insurmountable gap. It was because of this gap that Archangel Tyrael saw Abel as a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Abel looked at Archangel Tyrael's greedy eyes and thought about his own methods. There was no way he could bring equipment into the soul space. It was the same for spells.
Spells wouldn't be able to do much damage to Archangel Tyrael. Abel looked at Archangel Tyrael getting closer and closer.
Just when Abel was about to give up, a broken crystal stone suddenly appeared from the depths of Archangel Tyrael's soul space.
"World stone! How did you recognize a world stone as its master?" Tyrael shouted as he looked at the broken world stone above his head in disbelief.
Of course, Archangel Tyrael knew about this world stone. He was shocked because hell had won the war against heaven in the Dark World. This world stone should be in the hands of hell. How did it end up in the hands of a human?
The world stone was originally in the hands of heaven, but it was contaminated by hell. It was Archangel Tyrael who destroyed it with his holy sword.
The world stone was the most important holy object in the Dark World. It suppressed the power of hell and heaven, and it also suppressed the power of humans in the Dark World.
When the world stone appeared on top of Archangel Tyrael's head, Archangel Tyrael felt an extreme pressure.
Archangel Tyrael was not a complete soul. It was just a small part of his soul that was cut off during the war against hell.
If it was a complete soul, this world stone fragment would not be able to suppress him. However, he was only a small part of his original soul, and it was heavily damaged by hell.
Therefore, the world stone fragment was like a giant mountain pressing down on Archangel Tyrael. The arrogant Archangel Tyrael could only scream in agony. He did not expect to be suppressed again as soon as he was released.
"Stop! I can help you become a Holy Knight! Stop!" Archangel Tyrael yelled. He only had a small part of his soul, so he did not inherit the complete personality of the real Archangel Tyrael. Therefore, he began to beg for mercy.
There was no way Abel would stop. If it wasn't for the world stone fragment, his soul would have been destroyed and his body would have become Archangel Tyrael's.
Archangel Tyrael's screams became softer and softer under the world stone fragment. Abel turned back into his human form from his dragon form. He could see Archangel Tyrael's body being crushed by the world stone fragment.
Every time the World Stone Fragment crushed the Archangel Tyrael, a grey shadow would emerge from the Archangel Tyrael's body.
The grey shadow that was being emitted made Abel's soul form feel hungry. He couldn't help but jump forward and suck the grey shadow that was flying out into his body.
A comfortable feeling emerged from his soul, and his human form began to grow bigger. After just two breaths, his human form had doubled in size.
Abel didn't know what the grey shadow was, but he knew it had to be something good for his soul. With the world stone fragment, he didn't think Archangel Tyrael's soul would be able to do anything to him.
More and more grey shadows were being emitted from Archangel Tyrael's body, and he stopped screaming. His body had lost its consciousness, and his eyes were dull.
The world stone fragment sent a message to Abel. The xenogeneic energy that had invaded his soul had been destroyed. Then, the world stone flew away from Archangel Tyrael's body and returned to the depths of Abel's soul space.
Archangel Tyrael remained in Abel's soul space. When the world stone fragment left, his body began to collapse. Eventually, he became a crystal angel statue.
Abel exited the soul space and opened his eyes. He was holding a crystal angel statue in his hand. It was the same one he had seen in his soul space.
He picked up the crystal angel statue. He couldn't see the face clearly, but he could see the body and the wings on its back. He didn't know what it was, but he could feel an endless amount of holy energy coming from it.
Since it was created in his spiritual space, he could clearly sense that this crystal angel statue had a close connection with him.
He didn't know what the crystal angel statue was used for, but he knew that it was an extremely precious treasure. A real archangel, even if it was just a statue made from a part of an archangel, was extremely important.
Abel put away the crystal angel statue and looked at the sharp rock on the platform. He saw a map at the bottom of the rock. It was a sea map from Lut Gholein to Kurast Harbor.
Although this was only a sea map, it wouldn't be of much use to people who didn't have a ship. However, he was different. He had two winged mount contracted beasts. If Flying Flame and White Snow took turns to carry him, he wouldn't have to worry about traveling any further.
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