Rebirth Of Abium

"Only a few days left for that royal banquet, ugh I have to construct those remaining spell models quickly."

This time he chose another dark elemental spell that red-robed apprentice mage used during battle.

"Dark bind."

Once again, dark elements started to gather inside his room. Soon it got denser than before and started to surround him like a cyclone. Small ripples of energy appeared and spread everywhere around his room.

Soon, Abium went through a severely painful experience and felt his head was about to burst open. He felt a small amount of strain settle upon him, threatening to harm him. But he endured, and soon, he completely constructed that spell model.

As soon as he finished that fourth spell model, those surrounding darkness elements a.s.similated into his body. At the same time, the three-headed snake reappeared on his nape and flickered. Following that, the surrounding elements started to calm down, and everything went to normal.

Abium slowly opened his eyes and slowly checked the spell model inside his mind. Pitch black spell model, along with some white runic letters, floated inside his mind. His understanding of Darkness elements improved a little along with his senses.

Yes, now he noticed he could see everything clearly, even though it was dark inside. While he was a.n.a.lyzing the changes, he suddenly felt slightly uneasy and followed by a few drops of blood that appeared from his mouth. He panicked. But after he heard it was a slight side effect on continuously building the spell model, he relaxed. He also didn"t understand why it"s taking him so much time to construct this spell model, and the elemental energy appeared fiercer. While he was pondering, he felt a tickling sensation on his nape. He felt uncomfortable all of a sudden and touched his nape but couldn"t able to figure out where that sensation came from.

"What is this unsettling feeling?" He furrowed his brows. He felt the same feeling when that demon sword cursed him.

He let out a deep sigh closed and shook those thoughts away. Although he knew something was wrong, but from Azolla"s words earlier, he thought it would be best to find everything on his own.

Abium stood in silence for a moment and went to bed to rest for a while. Although he somewhat understands that continuously constructing the spell model might harm his body, but still thought of asking Azolla.

"Azolla, is there any problem if I construct the next spell continuously?"

"Don"t worry, kid. If it is any normal mages, their head may already explode due to mental strain, but your case is different. If the pressure inside your head exceeds, I will help you."

He nodded his head and continued to build another spell after a few minutes. It"s different from the other spell models. This spell had no beneficial to him. But Azolla recommended this spell beforehand and mentioned that it might help him understand the s.p.a.ce element more. She also said it was one spell that every mage must construct inside their mind.

"Storage."

This spell would help him open s.p.a.ce and store things away like a s.p.a.ce ring. Azolla also said this was an active spell that would take only a minute amount of mana and permanently open a small s.p.a.ce for himself. Although it might be not that much useful in battle, Azolla told him earlier than he could create a mini pocket dimension inside without others help in the future,

He once again sat in a meditative state then began to construct his next spell.

But this time, small crystalline particles energy that started to gather around him. Abium couldn"t able to see those particles with his naked eyes, but he felt a surge of elements.

Abium felt the same feeling when he created that "Blink" spell and guessed it might be easy like before. But Soon, he felt trouble constructing this spell model. What made him a little anxious was, he noticed this spell contains 33 rune letters!

He continued to carve those rune letters and felt like time was moving much slower. He soon entered a deep meditation state and carved those runes for a long time. He felt like he had been carving those runes for days or even weeks.

On the outside, it was only two hours pa.s.sed.

"Ha! Finally!" Abium opened his amber eyes and shouted excitedly. He managed to create a total of five spells in his mind in a short amount of time. But soon, his excited face started to frown as he felt dizzy all of a sudden. Soon he noticed everything went blur, and with a thud sound, Abium fell on the ground.

He soundlessly slept on the ground for nearly two days. While he was in his own dreamland, a sudden knocking sound woke him up. He instantly sat up and noticed he had been sleeping on the floor. Soon his sights shifted towards the door and quickly walked forth.

Once he opened the door, a pitch-black eye floated in the air using black bat wings. Slowly it"s small white pupil gazed at him up and down, then suddenly a middle-aged man"s voice came from that eye.

"Young mage. I"m waiting for you in the alchemy laboratory. Come and meet me now."

He terrified all of a sudden and stood there rooted for a few seconds. Soon, that black eye suddenly flew towards the ceiling and disappeared.

He dumbly stared at the ceiling for a second and soon dashed towards the fourth layer with half sleeping face. He somehow guessed it must be his new mentor. Once he entered the fourth layer, he saw many apprentice mages roaming everywhere.
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"Wow! There must be a hundred apprentice mages here! And most of their age appeared older." He was astonished.

Abium shook those thoughts and pa.s.sed through several corridors, and, finally, he saw the laboratory section a few meters away. It took a longer time than he expected to find the right department.

Soon, he thought of knocking the door, but the door suddenly opened, followed by a middle-aged man"s voice.

"Abium, huh? Enter!"

He entered the experimental laboratory.

A strong smell of alcohol filled the room, mingled with a spicy fragrance that made him furrow his brows.

A huge table took up almost the majority of the s.p.a.ce and placed it on were safety goggles, test tubes, funnels, beakers, which Abium had never seen these types of materials in the past.

There stood a middle-aged man with a stiff face and black hair and nodded at him.

"You already constructed three spell models? Excellent."

Mage Zivior"s surprised voice brought him back from the stupor, and he quickly replied with a stutter.

"Y-Yes, sir."

"Good, what are the other spell models you constructed in your mind other than that Fire Orb spell."

"Sir, it"s blink spell, Mirage, storage, and dark bind. I-" But Zivior cut him off without giving any time and exclaimed.

"You have s.p.a.ce affinity? Average or high?"

"It"s average, sir." Once Mage Zivior heard it was an average affinity, his express turned sour, but soon, he let out a fake cough and continued.

"Anyway, although I am inquisitive about how you managed to increase your spirit, but I don"t have any time for that."

After Zivior sends a small spiritual wave towards him and soon that black ring started to flicker a little.

"Now, I will tell you the offers to all the newly joined apprentices. All the apprentices have one free lecture per month for the next six months, a total of six lectures."

Abium nodded.

"Although it"s already two months over, but it"s not a problem for you. After six months, you must pay 10 Abyssal crystals for each lecture. If you want to attend lectures from other teachers, then you can feel free, attend them. Do you have any other questions?"

He hurriedly shook his head.

"Good, then do you have any extra ice elemental crystal now?"

The suddenly question startled Abium. He couldn"t be able to guess how did Zivior found out about this.

"H-How did you know, sir?"

Abium asked with a bit of nervousness in his tone. He never thought Tabitha would double-cross him. Zivior chuckled.

"Do you think I don"t know about that? Those two crystals are not something you can get anywhere, boy. The only mage who attended that auction except those necromancers was you. So I made an easy guess."

Abium was taken back. He backed away a few steps but soon found himself frozen on the spot. He felt some invisible force bind him. He couldn"t be even able to breathe and panicked inside.

"Don"t worry. I won"t take your materials. But be careful when you go outside because there may be some first-tier mages who already guessed it was your crystals. You can go outside of the inst.i.tute only after constructing that remaining spell model."

Soon the invisible binding energy started to loosen, and Mage Zivior waved his hand.

"You can go back now. I will tell you about the details of those free lectures and about the task later. Also, take this."

Mage Zivior picked up a book and tossed it towards him. Abium caught that book and gave a puzzled look.

"That was a basis alchemy book. Read it completely before the next lecture. You can go back now."

Abium bowed and soon walked out from that experimental lab. "Are you the new mage apprentice?"

A familiar young voice came behind him when he was walking on the corridor. As he turned to look back, he suddenly froze.

"Robert?!"

His eyes widened as he saw few young mages walked near to him, and Viscount Gauvian"s son was among them.

"Yes! I just joined the academy yesterday."

Abium nodded. Soon, Robert stepped forth and introduced himself.

"I am Robert Lawbarth, apprentice mage. What about you? How did you enter this inst.i.tute?"

"I"m Abium. Mentor Zivior invited me to enter this inst.i.tute."

But as soon as Abium said his name, Robert scowled.

"Hm? Your name looks familiar. So, you are just a commoner? Why didn"t you say that earlier? I wasted so much time on a filthy commoner. Tsk."

"Robert, I already told you that he must be the son of some commoner. But you didn"t believe it. Let"s go."

Abium glared at them and soon turned back. He didn"t want to start a fight inside the magic tower. More than that, he now stood only a few feet away from his mentor"s laboratory. So, Abium tried to walk away from that place, but one of Robert"s friends suddenly shouted.

"STOP RIGHT THERE! Kneel sc.u.m. You are in front of a n.o.ble, so show your respect."

This time even some nearby apprentice mages gave a weird glance at the group. As he was about to say something, a figure walked towards them.

"Kneel? For what? You are not in your kingdom, so f.u.c.k off."

A woman with red hair and scarlet eyes walked towards them with a piercing glare.

"Mage Equa! You dare to speak in front of me?" Anger swelled up on Robert"s face.

"Mage Robert, I showed you some respect during the last two months because I know your family members from childhood. Also, your uncle helped me to enter this inst.i.tute in the past. But if you insult a fellow mage using your n.o.ble t.i.tle, then as your senior I will have to stop you otherwise-"

"Otherwise? You think you can beat me with your pathetic two water spells?"

Both glared at each of for a few seconds, but soon Robert withdrew. Not that he was afraid to confront her, but because he noticed multiple apprentice mages started to gather.

"Humph. I "ll deal with that commoner later using my first fire spell."

He gave a cold snort and walked away from there along with his friends.

"So, where are you from?" That woman gave a warm smile and asked towards Abium.

"I"m from…"

While he thought of answering, his expression went stiff, and he doesn"t know what to say.

If he says he came from Elven kingdom, he knew other high tier mages would check his background. If not for mentor Zivior"s protection, they might take him into custody.

"If you don"t want to talk about that, it"s okay. So, do you need any help?"

"Thanks, Mage Equa! Can you show me around this tower? I don"t know anything about this inst.i.tute."

"Ho! No problem. I will show you if you pay one Abyssal crystal."

He let out a sigh and nodded. Although he doesn"t have any abyssal crystal but Berold told him yesterday that he could exchange in the exchange counter.

"Can you show me where the exchange counter is?"

"Follow me."

Following, Mage Equa brought him to the exchange counter on the sixth floor.

Meanwhile, Mage Zivior watched the ruckus and let out a long sigh. Soon, a sudden ripple went through the air near to him, followed by a small white human doll that appeared.

"Zivior, I couldn"t be able to found about that kid"s origins at all. It seems like this half-elf appeared out of thin air near Baxbron woods two months ago. Also, we found out there were a few traces of death energy near to that area."

"Are you saying he has some connection with the order of the dead?"

"I don"t know Zivior. He shrouded in mystery. But for now he is an ally, I heard from Huggin that this half-elf appeared in the bare keep town and saved that little rascal."

"Ha! It seems wherever Raollet is going; some trouble seems to follow him. So, any other news about the order of the dead?"

"After their visit to the auction house, no one saw them making any troubles except leaving some clues intentionally. And all these clues are pointing towards Holy see."

"So, are you saying the light church is supporting these necromancers? But don"t you know the one who hated these necromancers most was that light G.o.d?"

That doll shakes its head and floated in silence for a few seconds and continued.

"I never said Light G.o.d is supporting these necromancers. I think maybe Pontiff of southern Holy see."

Soon, the room went silent.

"But why?" After a long gap, Zivior asked.

"Ask that question to him, not me. Anyway, inform these to Headmaster. I will continue to follow their movements."

"Hm, so what about that puppet margrave Eliot? Is he still going to rebel against the royal family?"

"That old b.a.s.t.a.r.d is still dreaming when the Holy See will take control of our kingdom and turn everyone into fanatics. Just tell the headmaster to stop his research on astral s.p.a.ce and make a visit to the royal castle."

"I will try to contact him. Continue your work, and don"t get yourself killed."

"b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I will not die before you. See ya!"

Soon, fire surrounded that human doll, and the fire burned it, leaving only some ashes on the floor, leaving Zivior alone.

…

On the sixth floor, with Equa"s help, Abium exchanged some of his white gold into that Abyssal crystals. Next, they moved towards the library, different lecture halls, and some other departments. Soon, Abium marked important places in his remote mapping and separated from her after he gave her one Abyssal crystal.

Once he returned to his room, he started pondering.

Following this, he took out that basic alchemy book and started reading. He was somewhat curious about the potions made by mages.

Alchemy was, in essence, imbues a mixture of chemical solutions with mana, the energy which powers all Magic, altering the properties of the solution, delaying the reaction of the compounds within the solution until a specific parameter.

Alchemy was also sometimes used to make magical explosives or other magical things.

"Ugh, I will read it later."

"Status"

[Name: Abium

Age: 16

Race: Half-elf (???)

Health: normal

Cla.s.s: Apprentice mage

Attributes

Strength: 3.4

Agility: 3.4

Vitality: 3.2

Mana: 24.0

Spirit: 12.0

Skills: master swordsmanship, Intermediate sword aura.

Spells

Zero tier spells: Blink, Red Orb, Mirage, Dark bind, Storage.]

"Mmm? Still, vitality didn"t show any improvement."

After checking his status for a second, he noticed exhausted a little.

He then decided that he should try to get some sleep. He got in the bed, closing his eyes and pulling the blanket over himself.