Abe the Wizard

Chapter 888 - Stronger

Chapter 888: Stronger

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Abel went back to his accommodations on the 10th floor and entered the training room. He ignited the barrier circle and returned to the Dark World.

In the Rogue Encampment’s blacksmith guild, he took out the pure iron ore with lightning attributes and placed it in the furnace.

The world stone made him feel like a god. It gave him power on top of many god-like abilities, even if he didn’t intentionally ignite it.

Fire element rushed into the ore as it entered the furnace, and it became unsettling against the lightning elements. It could lose control at any moment.

Abel’s power of the will focused on the ore. Once he lost control of the elements inside, he would take it out.

He needed to get the timing just right. If he took it out too early, it would not be hot enough. But if he took it out too late, it would blast open.

Only a wizard with powerful sensitivity to elements could do this. Normal blacksmith’s senses were nowhere near that level.

He lifted the Horadric Malus and struck down. The impurities in the ore soon splattered out. He then increased the weight of the Horadric Malus to 2000 pounds and further condensed the ore.

Although it was the first time he condensed a pure iron ore, it didn’t take him too long with the Horadric Malus’s help and the god-like feeling of the world stone. He was a grandmaster Blacksmith, after all.

It was the first time he saw a pure condensed iron ore. Those things only existed in fantasy.

Pure irons were already extremely hard, so it was very hard to hammer it down. Normally even for a strong blacksmith, hammering a normal ore a hundred times would be their limit.

That thing was the toughest thing Abel had ever forged. Its shape would not change even if he continued to put it in the ground furnace and stopped hammering with his Horadric Malus.

He was very happy with the result, so he decided to find more iron ores and make a new body for Johnson.

Thinking about Johnson and Jason, Abel was once again reminded of their horrible spear techniques. He stepped out outside of the Rogue Encampment and summoned them from his monster ring.

Johnson stepped out and quietly bowed at Abel. Jason copied and did the same.

Although Jason was higher than Johnson by rank, their fighting ability was a little behind. It realized this ever since the first battle.

Spiritual beasts made their own rules, but ever since Jason became Abel’s beast, it had to follow his instructions. This made it respect Johnson even more, so it began to learn from it.

“Johnson, Jason. I want to teach you guys some spear techniques today. You better practice it!” Abel said.

Johnson and Jason nodded seriously. Strengthening their body was very important to them.

Abel was about to teach them the Wolf family 11th rider spear technique. It only required the strength in one’s body. It was completely different from the ones with combat qi.

Abel did a demonstration, and the stone giants watched carefully.

Johnson was faster at learning. He could basically do the movement only after seeing it once. However, it was far from perfect. Some more practice and correction by Abel should be fine.

The 11th rider spear technique was made for wolf riders to correspond with their mount wolf. However, its power did not decrease much using the technique by itself. The only thing lacking would be the momentum from a mount wolf.

Johnson’s extra fast and large body could make up for that.

After Johnson mastered the technique, a green glow emerged from its lightning spear. It was the physical embodiment of its power being manifested through the 11th rider spear technique.

Johnson’s mastery was smooth, but it did not work as well for Jason, on the other hand. Even after Johnson could perfectly execute the 11th rider spear technique, Jason was still working on the first move.

“Maybe it’s because of the soul potions!” Abel thought to himself. Those things strengthened the soul and allowed Johnson to learn new skills faster.

However, Abel was not planning to give Jason a soul potion. It has been a while since he gave his other beasts a soul potion. It was about time, so he needed to have a lot of them stored up.

Also, Jason was already a top-level spiritual beast. Soul potions wouldn’t do much to it. If he used too many on Jason, it would affect the leveling up plan he had for his other beasts.

“Johnson, I’ll leave Jason with you. Teach him!” Abel said in command.

Both Johnson and Jason were stone giants, so they had their own unique way of communicating. Abel could totally take a rest and leave this important mission to Johnson. If not, he might need to waste a lot of time on Jason with that learning speed.

As Jason and Johnson practiced, Abel took out that Holy bone card from the Dove. Since its soul was possessed and injected with soul potions, its body was reignited after becoming a spiritual beast.

This caused the priest’s holy bone card to lose its summon target. It was almost like Dove was dead once again.

Abel wanted to take a good look at that bone card and see if he could resurrect dead creatures with it. He could then use a soul potion to recover their soul into a normal state of being. If it worked, Abel would have countless powerful beasts.

The soul of a newly resurrected beast would be extremely weak even with a powerful body, so it wouldn’t take much space in Abel’s soul storage space. Maybe even another 10 beasts would be fine.

He reached his power of the will into the bond card. But when he was about to ignite the resurrection spell, he suddenly realized he needed to have a corresponding rank.

The priest’s holy bone card was not a magic object but something that strengthened the resurrection spell. It was not for someone who doesn’t know how to use a resurrection spell, but it could allow a resurrected being to live forever.

“Too bad!” Abel picked up the bond card and sighed.

Maybe his plan of having a big team of beasts would need to be postponed until the day he became a law-defying wizard, but maybe he wouldn’t even need any beast if he was a law-defying wizard.

Abel took out the priest’s spellbook. He already mastered some priest spells such as the skeleton resurrection, skeleton support, mud monster, mud monster support, skeleton Sharman resurrection, and dark sight.

His next mission was in 10 days. Since he could no longer level up his ability through wizard spells, he could only practice priest spells in the immediate short term.

However, in such periods of time, he might not be able to do much even if he practiced every priest spell. He needed to find the most useful one and focus on that.

His spell learning spell was extremely fast. All he needed was the spell pattern and the incantation. He didn’t need to study the spell to level up like other priests.

It was also because of the strong foundation he set through learning other occupations. He only needed to successfully cast the spell once, and a marking would appear on the skill tree on his Horadric Cube. Next time if he wanted to use the spell, all he needed was to ignite that marking with his power of the will.

The more he ignited the spell on his skill tree, the more he would understand and master the spell. There was no need to do experiments or close studies.

His knowledge in wizardry was the most well-rounded out of all of the occupations studied, and he had a good understanding of its foundations.

If he didn’t have any knowledge and just practice wizard spells, he wouldn’t understand what it meant to be a wizard and level up at such speed.

He needed to keep leveling up his wizard skills until he could learn corresponding spells from other occupations.

Abel began to go through the priest spell guide one by one. After 5 days, every priest spell from beginner to advance had left a mark on his skill tree.

The level 1 spells didn’t take him long to learn since their power was basically like nothing. Both its sustainability and spell effect was horrible.

A spell Abel cared about a lot was the aging curse. It was one of the scariest spell and one of the first spell an elite priest would learn.

Some of the major downsides to the aging curse were its spell casting speed and range. However, its speed would not be a problem with Abel’s skill tree, and its range could be increased by leveling up the spell.

His power of the will had the range of 500 meters, which was rare even for rank 20 wizards.

Therefore the aging curse used by a powerful wizard was even scarier.

Abel’s druid soul could easily turn him into a priest. All it needed to do was to change the energy in him into death qi.

Abel was exploding in confidence, but he ran into some problems when he began to learn Barbarian skills.

The energy of a Barbarian needed to be created through Barbarian training. It was a strange energy to shock the body through roaring, which was the foundation of their power.

Abel’s body had reached 100 points, which was more powerful than many spiritual beasts. Shocking the body through roaring was basically impossible.

He was not expecting a powerful body to bring him trouble like this. Maybe it was the problem of being too wealthy.

However, he soon thought of a solution. He was in the rogue encampment. He was the god.

“I said, I want to roar!” He thought of the way Barbarian roared and tried to copy.

Afterward, a frightening roar filled the sky. It was ten times stronger than any foundational Barbarian roar.

If a normal person was standing in front of Abel, they would definitely be shaken into a mush or blast open.

Abel had enchanted the roar through his godly power after reading the Barbarian skill guide. He focused the roar on himself, so Johnson and Jason nearby were not affected.

He felt his body vibrating. This special method of training by Barbarian had perfectly utilized the power of their body.

Energy began to build from each cell and drifted into the heart to strengthen the heartbeat. Although the change was not dramatic, Abel could sense the change due to how much he knew about his body.

The heart was the hardest part to train. With his powerful body, he needed a powerful heart. However, he never had a method to train it separately.

The blue dragon crystal breathing technique strengthened all parts of his body.

After 30 minutes, Abel had to stop. Although the power of God was compelling, it was not his own ability. The world stone entirely supplied the energy.

Therefore, Abel could only train in the Dark World for 30 minutes a day. His dream of quickly grasping the Barbarian spells was crushed. Even the lowest rank Barbarian spell needed 10 days of energy, let alone intermediate ones.

If Abel wanted to continue with the dream of grasping Barbarian spells, he needed to accumulate them for a long time.