Author's Note: The previous chapter mentioned Archangel Tyrael. That was only a fragment of Archangel Tyrael's soul. It lacked most of Archangel Tyrael's emotions. It was not Archangel Tyrael's main body. Do not treat it as the real Archangel Tyrael!
After returning to Lut Gholein, Abel didn't stop for a second. He was worried about the Oak Tree. He felt that the Oak Tree must have paid a great price to save him.
He teleported to Rogge's camp from the little teleportation station, and then he flashed to the Oak Tree outside of Rogge's camp.
Many of the leaves on the Oak Tree were yellow, and the ground was covered with a layer of fallen leaves. The once lush Oak Tree now looked like a big tree in the middle of winter.
What surprised him even more was that the Blue Howling Rabbits around the oak tree were no longer playing and eating like they used to. They were all facing the oak tree and crawling on the ground. It was a spectacular sight to see so many Blue Howling Rabbits crawling on the ground.
Abel had a feeling that the blue howling rabbits were treating the Oak Tree like a god. It reminded him of what Archangel Tyrael said about the budding of a god. Could the Oak Tree really become a god?
The level of a god was so far away from him that he couldn't even imagine what it was like.
Abel shook his head and put away his thoughts. The most important thing now was to see how the Oak Tree was doing.
He walked to the Oak Tree's trunk and carefully placed his hand on it. His soul speaker ability allowed him to clearly feel the Oak Tree's current state. It was extremely weak. That was the feeling he got from the Oak Tree.
He took out a purple full recovery potion from his portal bracelet and placed it on the ground.
The Oak Tree was a unique existence to Abel. It was the Druil's soul's symbiotic tree, and it had a close connection with him.
However, since it was only the Druil's soul's symbiotic tree, and it wasn't directly connected to the main soul, the Oak Tree wasn't like a contracted creature to the main soul, but it had a deeper connection with the main soul.
It was because of this connection with him that every time he was in danger, the oak tree would do its best to save him, even expending its own energy for him.
Abel didn't know what kind of energy the Oak Tree consumed, and because of this strange connection, he couldn't use the same potion on the Oak Tree as he did on his contracted creatures. So he could only give it to the Oak Tree.
A tree root stretched out from the ground with great difficulty, wrapped around the bottle of 'full recovery potion' and pulled it into the ground.
Abel's Soul Speaker ability sensed a surge of energy in the Oak Tree, but it only helped the Oak Tree recover a little bit of its spirit. It didn't fundamentally change the Oak Tree's state.
He took out another type of potion, the 'soul potion', and placed it on the ground. Once again, the roots dragged it into the ground.
This time, the Oak Tree seemed to have regained some vitality. The 'soul potion' seemed to have helped it. Seeing the effect, Abel was not stingy. He took out another 5 bottles of 'soul potion' and placed them on the ground.
After the oak tree drank another five bottles of 'soul potion', although the number of leaves on the tree didn't increase, the originally yellow leaves had turned green, and the oak tree's vitality had returned to the tree.
If the Oak Tree was like an old man before, then it was now like a teenager.
Abel could finally relax after seeing the Oak Tree recover. Although he didn't know what Tyrael was talking about, he felt like the Oak Tree was very important to him.
After the Oak Tree recovered, the blue howling rabbits on the ground returned to their normal state. They began to play and eat the fresh grass on the ground.
Abel had been fighting for three days, so he didn't have time to meditate. Now that the battle was over, he needed to complete his wizard meditation for the day.
Once again, he returned to Lut Gholein, to his training room. He knew that this meditation was very important to him because it might trigger the effect of the song of life.
The last time he obtained the Song of Life, it gave him a lot of benefits, so he attached great importance to this meditation.
Abel sat in his training room. The mana in the room floated like water, but he knew it was far from enough. He took out a few golden blue howling rabbit crystal cores and held them in his hand.
Meditation was like eating and drinking to Abel. He entered a deep state of meditation as soon as he started.
As soon as he entered the meditative state, he heard the song of life again. All of the mana in the training room rushed towards him in a frenzy. Outside of the training room, the mana in the sky was like a funnel, sucking in all of the mana around it.
If he wasn't in the Dark World, there wouldn't be so much mana in the Holy Continent.
At this time, the Mana Gathering Array was useless because the Song of Life was more useful than any other Mana Gathering Array. The Mana Gathering Array gathered Mana.
The song of life, on the other hand, allowed mana to flow into his body on its own. He didn't even need to meditate during this process. Mana could just be absorbed by his wizard core on its own.
The rank 13 wizard pattern in Abel's wizard crystal body was forcefully injected. A large amount of mana entered his body through meditation and was converted into mana through the song of life.
He had just become a rank 13 wizard not long ago, so he didn't have much mana left in his rune. However, it was like he was sitting on a rocket. After a few minutes, he became an intermediate rank 13 wizard. After another few minutes, he became an advanced rank 13 wizard. After a few minutes, he was back to full again.
Abel had reached the full state. He was supposed to meditate for an hour, and it wasn't even an hour yet, so his meditation wasn't over yet.
Originally, there should have been a bottleneck for rank 13 wizards, but in the song of life, the aura of advancement suddenly appeared, and soon, the aura of advancement became stronger and stronger.
Instinctively, Abel began to draw the rank 14 wizard pattern into his wizard crystal body. The process was very smooth, and he didn't run into any trouble.
Everything became very simple in the song of life. It was like he was blessed by the gods. Of course, this was only his imagination. Even a normal god's blessing wouldn't be able to achieve this effect.
After the promotion qi disappeared, Abel became a rank 14 intermediate wizard. However, the song of life was not over, and neither was the meditation.
Large amounts of mana continued to pour into Abel's body. The rank 14 wizard pattern was filled with mana. Yes, filled with mana.
Rank 14 beginner wizard, rank 14 intermediate wizard, rank 14 advanced wizard, and finally, it only took 20 minutes for Abel to reach the full state of a rank 14 wizard.
The speed at which Leylin's magic power increased was enough to stun any Magus and make them envious.
Abel was in a state of transcendence. When a wizard was meditating, he didn't think too much. He just focused on his meditation.
The rank 14 wizard pattern lasted for less than 5 minutes, and the song of life broke out. Like water flowing into a canal, the promotion qi began to rise again.
Abel instinctively began to draw the rank 15 wizard pattern. Everything was so smooth that it was like a child's play. Soon, Abel became a rank 15 intermediate wizard.
At this moment, the song of life began to slow down. Eventually, it turned into a lingering sound and disappeared from the training room.
Abel opened his eyes from his meditation. An hour had passed, and his meditation was over.
He opened his eyes and realized something was wrong with his body. His power of the Will had increased.
"What happened?" He mumbled to himself and began to check his body. He suddenly realized he had become a rank 15 wizard.
"Song of life!" He sighed. The song of life was still as powerful as ever. He didn't know if the song of life was unique to the Dark World or if it existed in every world, but he had never heard of it in the Holy Continent.
The conditions for the song of life were very strict. The first was the number of souls. There had to be hundreds of thousands of souls to trigger the song of life.
The second was the despair of the soul. There was nothing more despairing than having a soul fall into the hands of hell. It was almost impossible to save a soul from hell.
This was because the energy in hell required souls to power the most powerful creatures of hell. Each of these creatures was the ruler of an entire world. If it weren't for the world stone fragment, neither Andariel nor Duriel would have the right to use soul energy in the first place.
Finally, it would take time. It would take at least ten thousand years of continuous torture to make these tortured souls feel a sense of extreme gratitude towards the person who saved them. This condition was the most important and also the most difficult to achieve.
Hell creatures needed souls, and their souls were constantly being consumed and replenished. It wasn't like the Dark World, where there were no enemies for tens of thousands of years and was in a static state.
Anyway, Abel was blessed by the song of life. This world had been abandoned by hell for tens of thousands of years to nurture it.
The Dark World was like a chicken rib to hell. It was tasteless, but it would be a waste to just throw it away. Therefore, after all the creatures in the Dark World were wiped out, hell left some tricks on it and gave up on it. Hell would not waste its energy on a world without potential.
Tens of thousands of years had passed, and no life had appeared in this world. Of course, it was impossible for life to be nurtured in the Dark World with so many hell creatures roaming around it.
He thought it would take many years for him to become an elite wizard, but after two blessings from the song of life, he was only one step away from it.
He sensed the situation in his body and found that although these two levels were promoted very quickly, because the mana was replenished too quickly, it was not as stable as the mana that was cultivated on its own.
Right now, he needed a lot of time to polish his own magic power. But since he was still one rank away from becoming an elite wizard, he still had time to polish his magic power back to its previous state before he became an elite wizard.
Abel came out of the Dark World and found Flying Flame and Snow White. He put them in his portal beast ring and returned to the Dark World.
He summoned Flying Flame at the seaside port of Lut Gholein and jumped on its back. At the same time, he sent a sea map to Flying Flame through the soul chain.
Flying Flame let out a dragon roar and stomped on the ground. It lifted off the ground and flew towards the sea.
This path was supposed to be a sea route, but there was no life in Lut Gholein. Even the big ships in the sea were turned into piles of wood, so he could only rely on the ability of the flying mount.
Abel looked down at the sea and realized it was dead silent. But then again, hell had taken over this world, so there was no way it would let any living creatures live here.
Luckily, this place was not suitable for the demons of hell to live here. That was why this world was preserved after losing all life.
Abel realized he should've brought Bai Yun with him. That way, he wouldn't have to change to a flying mount. He was worried about encountering hell creatures along the way. Bai Yun didn't have any fighting ability, and he couldn't do much on the sea, so he brought Flying Flame and Snow White with him.
However, it was Snow White's turn to carry him the next day. Flying Flame went into the portal beast ring to rest. In the end, they didn't see any enemies on the sea until they arrived at the Kurast Harbor.
The Kurast Harbor was very easy to recognize. You could see the tall lighthouse from afar. Even during the day, the light from the lighthouse could still be vaguely seen.
The biggest difference between Lut Gholein and Kurast Harbor was the greenery that could be seen everywhere in Kurast Harbor. This place was filled with green plants.
Just like Rogge's camp and Lut Gholein, this harbor city was also protected by an unknown force. Although it was old, the buildings were still in good condition.
Of course, the first thing they did when they arrived at the Kurast Harbor was to explore the city and find something useful.
Abel searched every building in the Kurast Harbor, but he was soon disappointed. In the entire Kurast Harbor, only Ashela's room was big enough for people to live in. This allowed him to set up a large mana gathering circle.
Abel didn't find anything useful in the city, so he placed his last hope on his last target, Apothecary Eco's hut.
Apothecary Eco's hut was located in the corner of the Kurast Harbor. Abel followed a wooden bridge to his hut.
If it weren't for the unknown force protecting the Kurast Harbor, the wooden bridges connecting the various parts of the city wouldn't have lasted for tens of thousands of years. However, not only were these wooden bridges still functional, but they also seemed to have aged for a long time.
After entering Apothecary Eco's hut, Abel saw that there was almost no space in this small hut. In the middle of the hut, there was an alchemy table with alchemy tools on it.
He picked up an alchemy bottle, but it was just an ordinary one. It was far inferior to the dark gold "Akara's Alchemy Bottle" in his hand.
Maybe it's because Akara's alchemy skills are the lowest, so it needs the best alchemy tools? Abel guessed maliciously.
Putting the alchemy bottle back to its original position, he shifted his gaze to the medicine cabinet on the wall.
The potions on the wall were divided into three colors. One of them was white. He picked up a bottle and confirmed that it was a "stamina potion." As long as the stamina potion was consumed, one's stamina would be completely restored, and for a period of time, it would reach the effect of full stamina. During this period, no matter how much one exercised, one's stamina would not decrease.
The second one was black. It was the "antidote potion." Abel had a bottle before, and he kept it like a treasure until he used it in his battle with Andariel.
Now, there were tens of them in front of him. He was overjoyed. The "antidote potion" in the Dark World was very powerful. It could cure any poison.
The last one was yellow. This potion was very unpopular. It was called the 'Antidote Potion'. It was specially developed to counter the freezing effect of ice spells. As long as the user took the 'Antidote Potion' immediately after the freezing effect appeared, the freezing effect would disappear, along with the freezing and slowing effects.
The advantage of this potion was that it could nullify the most powerful ice spells of an ice wizard, which was very beneficial for Abel.
If he could get the antidote potion before the battle with Duriel, his battle with Duriel would be much easier.
Abel took all the potions from the cabinet into his portal bracelet. They were all useful potions, and he would need them in the future.
Afterward, he found some books in a box in the corner. There were also some recipes that he was looking forward to.
The "stamina potion," "antidote potion," and "antidote potion" were all stored in the box. There were also some potion master Eco's notes in the box. These were all very valuable information.
There was a clear difference between the Dark World and the Holy Continent. Abel could learn about potions in the Holy Continent through the Alchemy Union's library, but in the Dark World, he had to figure it out himself.
Now that he had potion master Eco's notes, he could have a deeper understanding of the Dark World's potions. It could also solve some of his questions.
Finally, Abel arrived at the Kurast Harbor square. He found a little teleportation station there and ignited it with 2 perfect gems. This way, he could travel freely between the 3 cities.
The entrance to the mainland from the Kurast Harbor was on one side of the square. Abel did not leave the harbor. Instead, he stood at the entrance and looked into the distance. He saw an endless forest. He would explore this forest in the coming days.
The reason why he didn't explore it now was because he had been in the Dark World for too long. It was time for him to leave.
He went back to Rogge Camp through the little teleportation station in the Kurast Harbor. Then, he opened a town portal scroll from Rogge Camp and went back to his magic tower in Harry Castle on the Holy Continent through the aqua-blue portal.
Normally, he would come back from the Dark World in the early morning, but today, it was already noon. He was very tired after coming back from the Dark World.
He flashed to the garden outside of his magic tower and sat on a chair in the garden. He looked around at the beautiful elf-style scenery and felt a lot better.
"Flora, get me a cup of water spirit fruit juice!" Abel said to the sky.
Not only his magic tower, but the entire wizard circle, including Harry Castle, was covered by Flora's magic tower. Therefore, Abel's words were immediately answered by Flora.
"Yes, Master!" Abel was sitting on top of the battle fort, and there were sound transmission circles everywhere. Therefore, tower spirit Flora's voice was heard immediately.
Afterward, a puppet was teleported over. It was holding a tray with a cup of water spirit fruit juice in its hand.
The puppet respectfully placed the water spirit fruit juice on the stone table beside Abel. Afterward, it disappeared in a flash of white light.
Abel couldn't help but laugh when he saw the puppet disappear. Perhaps only his tower spirit would dare to use energy like this. If it was a normal person's magic tower, the tower spirit would've used up too much energy and shut down a long time ago.
As Abel was immersed in the beautiful scenery and the delicious water spirit fruit juice, tower spirit Flora spoke again.
"Master, Young Master Bernie has come to Harry Castle. He wants to see you!"
Abel couldn't help but frown, but when he heard that it was Bernie who was looking for him, he drank the juice in one gulp and stood up. The "instantaneous movement" spell pattern appeared on his hand, and his body disappeared from the elf garden.
"Bernie, what do you want?" Abel appeared in the dining hall and saw Bernie eating. He realized he hadn't eaten either, so he couldn't help but say, "Get me lunch!"
"Yes, Young Master!" Steward Lindsey's voice emerged from the door. Only an old man like him would call Abel that.
"Abel, I have a favor to ask of you!" Bernie did not hold back. He poured a cup of grandmaster wine into his mouth and said.
"What's the relationship between us? Just say it. I'll help if I can!" Abel said with a smile.
Bernie's Goff Family had helped him a lot. Many of his most important items were provided by the Goff Family.
"Our family got 2 more sets of materials for the sky ships. We still need you to help us make the main material for the magic circle!" Bernie said a little embarrassedly.
To be honest, the main material Abel made for the Goff Family was way better than they expected. They had no choice but to ask Abel for help again.
"Bernie, no problem. Just give me the materials!" Abel immediately agreed. At that moment, 2 servants under Steward Lindsey came in with lunch.
After Steward Lindsey bowed and left, Abel cut a piece of beef and put it in his mouth. He then asked in confusion, "I remember you said 7 sky ships were enough. Why do you need more?"
The sky ships were not toys. They were so expensive that even the dwarves would have to spend a lot of money to make one.
"Abel, I'll be honest with you. The 7 sky ships are destroyed!" Bernie said with a sad look on his face.
"What's going on? Who destroyed the sky ships?" Abel asked in shock.
Although the Sky Ship had many flaws, it could still fly in the sky. Moreover, the materials used to make it were expensive, and the defensive formations on it were also very strong. How could it be destroyed?
The dwarves were the kind of existence that no other race in the Holy Continent wanted to mess with. No one would dare to attack their sky ships.
Bernie didn't answer Abel's question. Instead, he began to tell a story, "According to one of our family's records, a senior got an ancient boat that could travel under the water. That senior used that boat to explore the ocean!"
Abel didn't interrupt Bernie because he heard a topic that interested him, the exploration of the ocean.
No one in the Holy Continent would explore the ocean. Even if they wanted to fish, they would only do it by the shore. No one dared to enter the ocean.
The ocean was a forbidden area for all races in the Holy Continent. Even the Duchy of Carmel was not guarded by any army because it was a forbidden area.
No invaders could pass through the ocean, whether it was the sky or the sea.
If the Budapest Mountains and Double Moon Forest of the Holy Continent were the habitat of the land spiritual beasts, then the entire ocean was the habitat of the sea spiritual beasts. There were way more sea spiritual beasts than land spiritual beasts.
Also, sea spiritual beasts were born with a natural advantage in the ocean. They were almost invincible in the ocean. If humans encountered them, the only thing that awaited them was death.
"That elder had been gone for a long time. Everyone in our family thought he had died in the ocean. But one day, our family received a map and a message from that elder on the concentric jade. That was the last thing that the elder wrote. After that, there was no more news about him!" Bernie continued.
"You used the sky ships to go to the ocean?" Abel asked.
"That's right. We thought that the seven Sky Ships and the Bursting Crossbows would be enough to deal with any possible danger. Who would've thought that the Sky Ships would be attacked by flying fish beasts not long after they took off? There was no end to the flying fish beasts. Out of the seven Sky Ships, five Sky Ships risked their lives to protect them. Two of them made it back. The other five Sky Ships were forever lost in the ocean!" Bernie's voice was filled with grief as he spoke.
The dwarves on the sky ships were all elites of the Goff family. This loss was not a small blow to the Goff family.
"Can you tell me where the map leads? Why do you have to go there?" Abel was not surprised that the sky ships were attacked. He was just curious why the dwarves would go to the ocean if they knew the danger.
"We thought the 7 sky ships would be enough to go there, but now the hope is gone. There is no point in keeping it a secret. It is an island, and there is a giant temple on it!" Bernie said in a deep voice.
Abel immediately understood why the dwarves wanted to go there. The dwarves had always believed that they were the descendants of the giants. It was only because of some reason that they became so small.
The dwarves believed that as long as they could find the reason, they would be able to return to their original form. That was why they valued any news about the giants.
Not to mention a giant temple. That was the most likely place to explain the dwarves' origin. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, the dwarves would go there.
"Do you want to go there again?" Abel asked again.
"Yes, we have already experienced it once, and we want to try again. If it still doesn't work this time, then we can give up!" Bernie nodded. As long as there was hope in their hands, the dwarves would not give up.
"If you can't find what you want, is it worth it?" Abel frowned.
"It's worth it. Even if there's nothing in the temple, as long as there's a giant statue, we'll be satisfied. We'll worship the statue again, and one day, the giant's spirit will wake up and help us!" Bernie replied in a low voice.
Abel couldn't understand why the dwarves had such a strong yearning for the giants. Why would they put their hope in a giant statue? There might not be a living god in the statue.
From the blurry history of the Holy Continent, it seemed like the era of the gods had gone through a great war. Most of the gods were either expelled or killed.
And he had paid such a huge price just for an unknown result, a result that was very uncertain.
"Abel, if, and I mean if, if you can help us, the Goff Family will do anything. We will open up all of their warehouses and let you choose!" Bernie hesitated for a moment and said.
Bernie knew a lot about Abel's mysteries. Abel had a lot of unknown abilities. Although he didn't know if Abel could cross the sea, there was still hope.
He knew very well that if he wanted to use the sky ship to go to that island, he would never be able to do it.
The horror of the sea was described by the tribesmen who had escaped this time, and all the dwarves who heard the news were terrified. The flying fish beasts covered the sky, and although each of them was only at the level of a primary spirit beast, the damage caused by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them was extremely terrifying.
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