Abe the Wizard

Abel let out a long breath of relief after he flashed out of that place filled with maggot larva. What just happened was too dangerous. If Black Wind couldn’t move in a flash naturally, he might have been stuck there forever.

He had not fought hell creatures in a long time, and his journey had been extremely successful until that point, which made him lose all fear in the Dark World.

The powerful ability of wizards made him arrogant, and this mindset was what put him in danger.

He had finally got a taste of the Dark World hell creatures’ diffusion ability. It could make anyone feel hopeless, just like a nightmare.

Abel examined his actions and put away his arrogance. He then carefully ignited his broken ice armor and combat qi armor again.

He put away the rune world ‘leaf’ magic staff and took out the rune word ‘iron’ sword and rune world ‘ancient pledge’ shield. His defense and attribute resistance shot up immediately.

The 8 spirit guardian knights were still fighting. The spirit guardian knight captain’s weakness was clear. Even though those sand maggot larvae were easy to kill, it could only kill them one by one without a mass attack ability. The process was painfully slow.

At the same time, Coldworm the Burrower would throw some poison attacks and ‘amplify damage’ curse from time to time. Those spirit guardian knights kept getting damaged. If Abel’s druid soul did not keep using the ‘light healing potion’ to replenish their life, they would have been dead already.

Naga was the only one in the team with a mass attack ability, but that ability was based on poison. Those sand maggots were naturally resistant to it, so Naga’s mass attack could barely do anything to them.

However, with those spirit guardian knights keeping the flying sand maggot larva occupied, Abel was safe outside the tunnel.

He decided not to move in a flash and slowly walked towards Coldworm the Burrower’s territory. When he saw the ground covered in eggs, he summoned a Mud monster to block in front of him.

The mud monster slowed down all sand maggots.

Afterward, Abel threw out patches and patches of firewall in the air. Although the firewall was useless to Coldworm the Burrower, it worked wonderfully on those Sand Maggot and their larva.

His main target was those sand maggots responsible for laying eggs. They were slow, so all they could do was twitch and screen within the firewalls of this confined space.

Abel did not grow desperate this time. He let the burning firewall clean the sand maggots one by one, killing their larva.

Soon, all the sand maggots were wiped out under the powerful fire elements of the firewall. Those sand maggot larva, as well as their hidden or exposed eggs on the ground, couldn’t even survive for a second of burning.

Even without those sand maggots and their larva, Abel still let the flames burn for another round.

Soon, the only thing left was Coldworm the Burrower. It was not known for its attacks since it could only poison attacks, and Abel already had the poison resistance Ancient Pledge shield on him.

Its attacks were no longer a threat to Abel. Since those spirit guardian knights were free, they all gathered around Coldworm the Burrower and ruthlessly stuck down with their Iron Sword.

Abel stood closely behind the spirit guardian knights and ignited the static field. Coldworm the Burrower screeched in agony under the white strips of lightning.

A spell like the static field would take a long time to ignite, but it was very satisfying to use. At first, Coldworm of Burrower was still striking back with its poison attacks under the attacks of those spirit guardian knights, but after a few rounds of the static field, it was feeling pain.

After a few more rounds of the static field, the spell had lost its magical ability.

Since Coldworm the Burrower was fully resistant to ice and fire spells, Abel used another lightning spell.

He ignited the ‘lightning’ spell pattern, and a strike of lightning emerged from the sky and struck upon Coldworm the Burrower.

Coldworm the Burrower was numbed and covered in electric arcs immediately.

Abel’s lightning spell power was 1 to 337 points of lightning elemental damage. Since he had the skill tree in his Horadric Cube and his gift for lightning spells, he could make 377 points of damage with every strike.

It seemed like Abel had underestimated the power of this lightning spell. His original Firewall spell had more than 1300 points of fire damage, 1000 points more than this lightning spell on paper.

However, in an actual battle, this lightning spell was more practical and even scarier.

Every strike of lightning could numb Coldworm the Burrower. One would completely lose the ability to defend and attack in a numb state, so Coldworm the Burrower had basically turned into a fixed target.

Although the lightning spell looked weak, it could do a lot of damage. Maybe this was why so many creatures were afraid of lightning spells.

Coldworm the Burrower was numbed as it endured the ruthless attacks. It could not unleash it’s poison attacks, so it couldn’t strike back. It could only brutally take in Abel and the 8 spirit guardian knights’ attacks.

The worms on Coldworm the Burrower increased as time passed. Green blood gushed out to the ground.

Abel sensed the life force of that Coldworm fading, but suddenly he also felt a sense of danger. He quickly flashed back to the tunnel outside of the space.

The spirit guardian knights received Abel’s warning, but they were a little too late. A powerful ice force blasted out of Coldworm the Burrower.

‘Ice enchantment’ Abel could feel the energy wave of the ice force even in the tunnel outside. He knew a powerful ice element would blast out of Coldworm the Burrower after it died.

Afterward, he felt like his power of the will was torn apart. Although his druid soul was overseeing everything, the ice blast happened way too quickly. So quick that even his druid soul could not react.

A spirit guardian knight had taken a huge hit and was killed in a second. The other spirit guardian knights were hurt very badly as well.

Abel went back inside. Coldworm, the Burrower was dead, and the entire place was covered in its greed blood. Once again, Abel was faced with the true definition of the word hell.

A golden glowing ball flew out from the Coldworm’s dead body and went into the Horadric Cube on Abel’s left arm.

He knew it was another Ability potion. He could roughly guess what kind of ability this potion had. One was the ice enchantment that just killed his spirit guardian knight.

Another was magic resistance. This could dramatically lessen the power of spells, which was why Abel needed to use the lightning spell a few hundred times before killing the thing.

There was also the amplifying damage curse, which the spirit guardian knight captain already had.

This was the only usable ability potion he had gotten recently. It did not have any aura enchantment, which was forbidden in the Holy Continent.

Abel put away his spirit guardian knights and cast a skeleton resurrection spell on Coldworm the Burrower’s corpse. Soon, the corpse began to shake, and ‘Bang!’ It blew open.

A skeleton emerged from inside. Abel quickly scanned with his power of the will, but to his disappointment, this skeleton did not inherit any special ability.

Abel couldn’t help but gaze at spirit guardian knight Naga. What kind of luck did he need to summon something like Naga?