Abe the Wizard

’t feel comfortable placing his life entirely on his own defense.

Which left him with the choice of performing “instantaneous movement” on his own.
By drawing himself away from the gory beasts, they shifted their targets to the eight spiritual guardian knights and the claystone guards.
That was exactly what he needed.
He didn’t have a lot of defense to begin with, so he needed to keep moving while exerting his specialty, which was the fact that he had a lot of output in his attacks.
He would continue casting the “firewalls” at the feet of the hell creatures, meanwhile observing the changes in the life force of his summon creatures with his druid spirit.
While doing all of that, his “lightning chain” would also be launched and stun whatever target that he was hitting.
This way, the chance of his summon creatures being attacked was greatly reduced.

The battle ended really quickly.
With his firewall and lightning chain, about a hundred gory beasts and ghouls died one after another.
When the last one, the ghoul king, died, the ten-something unrotting ghouls started coming in.
They were faced with the same attacks.
The eight spiritual guardian knights and the claystone guard were put aside, so they didn’t take part in this fight.

One after another, the unrotting ghouls continued to explode from their insides.
As the poisonous mist continued to spread in the air, this was when he picked up the corpses of the hell creature and put them into his personal storage box.
The corpses of the hell creatures were not something that was acknowledged by the dark world, so even if he was putting a hundred of them in, the total would only take up to two slots in his personal storage box.
Still, the ten slots he prepared for the upcoming battle were already filled with the things he prepared.

The corpses were casting the “resurrection of skeletons,” of course.
The corpses needed to have a slight bit of vitality inside of them.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t suffice as materials for the conjuring procedure.
Thankfully, time remained stationary inside the personal storage box, which meant that as Abel put in the corpses that he had just slain, he would have a lot of ammunition for casting the spells.

Next up, his target was Duriel, a hell demon that was similar to Andariel.
Come to think of it, the fight with Andariel still left him somewhat scared of what was to come.
Anyways, he had to first focus on opening the passageway into Duriel’s room.
To do that, he had to focus on the eight symbolic runes that were on the ground.
He already had the key when he was synthesizing it with his Horadric Cube.

Abel took out the “Horadric staff” from his portal bracelet to activate the eight symbolic runes.
He jammed it into the slot, and the eight symbols were immediately activated.
A dim blue light started flashing, and the eight symbols lifted from the ground about ten centimeters.
They started flashing brighter and brighter…so bright that he had problems staring straight into them.

At the same time, the floating symbols were starting to flash at the dim blue light towards the “Horadric staff” at the center.
This way, when all eight streaks of light were received, a collected stream of energy would produce energy from the Horadric staff’s tip.
It struck at the wall inside the tomb room.
He could feel the entire tomb shake, and dust continued to fall from that very wall.

Boom.

When the energy pierced through the wall, a hole, big enough for a person to pass through, opened.
Abel stared into the wall.
He knew that the upcoming fight wasn’t going to be easy, so he channeled his power of the Will into his portal bracelet and put bottles of the “full recovery potions” into the belt portal bags.

Next, he took out the crows from his portal beast ring, something that he hadn’t used for a long time.
Concerned about his powerful enemies, he decided to go with everything that he had at his disposal.
Then, he took out his oak tree, which could greatly enhance his abilities and all his summon creatures.
To protect himself, he added a layer of “shattered ice armor” buff and the “combat qi armor” buff on himself.

Lastly, he took out a hell creature’s corpse from his personal storage box.
With another “resurrection of skeletons,” the ninth skeleton crawled out from the exploded corpse he took out.
His maximum spell capacity was eight, but by wearing the snake’s magician skin, the +1 level effect was enough for him to gain an extra skeleton.

Instead of training this new skeleton to become a spiritual guardian knight, he was planning to use it as a sacrifice, something that would be sent purely for the purpose of testing what sort of attacks the enemies had.
Once he readied everything, he began to bring all his summon creatures into the hole that was on the wall.
The next thing that appeared in front of him was a giant tomb room.
The room was pretty damaged.
Apart from the wall painting, most of the art and decorations were buried in dirt and ruins.

Abel stepped on mud.
It made him feel uncomfortable.
When he was checking in on the tomb, he heard a terrifying scream.
This was when he started to feel a change to the ground.
The mud was starting to solidify.
The air was getting cold.
When he looked towards the direction where the sound was coming from, a giant insect with ten feet started rushing towards him.

As the insect continued to move, blue frost started to emerge in the air around it.
There was something that Abel could see in its eyes.
It felt the same as when he was fighting Andariel.
The eyes were empty.
It’s almost like the thing was dead.
Rather, the lack of life in it just showed how little it cared for all that was alive.

As planned, Abel instructed the new skeleton and five crows to go in the front.
He didn’t have to care for the crows that had the undead abilities.
He was more concerned with how many attacks the skeleton could take from Duriel because that was going to indicate just how difficult the real fight was going to be.

As he thought hard about what was coming next, the skeleton already blocked Duriel’s frontal rush.
The skeleton froze when a piece of blue frost appeared on it.
Abel could feel a slight intrusion to his power of the Will, but his mental strength was strong enough to feel it as nothing more than a slight vibration.

“Sacred frost!”

He’s guessed that Duriel already possessed this ability, but seeing it still made him feel quite surprised.
The skeleton he saw just then was summoned from a level 21 “resurrection of the skeleton” and a level 21 “command skeleton.” Even something of this caliber was killed in one hit.
If he took the hit, he didn’t think that he would do very well.

Anyways, the easier way was to attack from a long distance.
That much was clear.
He shouldn’t get close to Duriel.
The crows were the best example of that.
When they landed on Duriel’s head, their bodies were immediately frozen and shattered.
Some of the ones that were still flying fell, and as Duriel made a slight movement with its head, it hit the two and slammed them into the wall painting.
This all happened very quickly, and that’s the worst part of it for Abel.

There must be a world stone fragment inside Duriel’s body.
Abel had the same thing as well, so he knew how bad things could get from having one.
The one he had given him acute visibility and digitizing visual ability, which made him perceive fast-moving objects as ones that were moving slowly.
Everything he could see could be turned into numbers, and that made precision for everything to be a lot easier.

Without stopping what he was doing, Abel continued to think of more strategies.
He picked up another corpse from his personal storage box, threw it on the ground, and another skeleton crawled out of the corpse.
He produced another “firewall” spell rune in his one hand, then threw the firewall on Duriel’s feet.
It was enough to make all ten of them slip for a bit, but Duriel was agile enough to dodge the actual hit.

Next up, the “sacred freezing” was cast again.
Skeletons that came over were slowed once more.
Duriel seemed to have no interest in them as it was only coming straight at Abel.
The skeletons that were slowed down wanted to keep attacking, but the “sacred freezing” took them all down.
Abel could see it clearly now.
With the help of the world stone fragment, Duriel would have no fear for spells that were slightly slower.

Then, he took out another corpse from his personal storage box.
Another skeleton was summoned, and when it blocked Duriel, he decided to hit with a “lightning” attack.
It was too fast to be defended at all.
Duriel was big and not that fast, so lightning was the easiest way of hitting it.

Still, just when Abel thought that the lightning would do something to Duriel, a layer of ice frost flashed across its body for defense.
The lightning struck at the freezing frost, leaving countless small lightning arcs that continued to crawl onto Duriel but did no damage to it.

Abel was quite amazed by what he was seeing.
He repeatedly took out corpses from the hell creatures, and when Duriel killed the newly spawned ones, more would come to help.
At the same time, he would command his eight spiritual guardian knights and have them change into the “harmonious wind” rune bows.

Soon, eight arrows and one lightning streak flew towards where Duriel.
The blue freezing frost emerged again.
Since the tip of the arrows were laced with ice crystals, they became slow enough that Duriel could easily sweep it away with its front claws.
And because of the ice crystals, the “harmonious wind” arrows had to be fired before their lightning could be activated.

So Abel’s own lightning spells were neutralized by the “sacred freezing.” When he realized that the “sacred freezing” was activated at the exact same timing as the “lightning” attacks, this could only mean one thing, and that was that the “sacred freezing” would only be able to neutralize the lightning as soon as the lightning was activated.

From there, a great sense of failure started to rise from Abel’s mind.
There was a giant goal that’s right in front of him.
It was not moving very fast, and even though he tried with his fastest spell, the “lightning” spell, and eight spiritual guardian knights that were wielding the “harmonious wind” bows, they didn’t really do much at all to Duriel whatsoever.

Duriel’s front claws continued to crush the skeletons in front of it.
It was just close enough to Abel to make him feel threatened.
Without a second thought, Abel used his “instantaneous movement’ and disappeared to the corner of the tomb room with his summon creatures.
From there, he teleported again to the corner that was on the opposite side.

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