Abe the Wizard

by teleportation, it quickly went over to slay the skeletons and claystone guards.
After that, it quickly rushed towards the spiritual guardian knights for a frontal assault.

To respond to such a rampage, the spiritual guardian knights also teleported before the sacred freezing hit them.
The chase afterward became quite dreadful.
Duriel was the one chasing after Abel, but Abel and the spiritual guardian knights were moving so fast that it became wasteful for it to keep pursuing after them.
Its strongest weakness was its speed, and exploiting such a weakness meant that Abel had a surefire route of dealing continuous damage to it.

When the wounds became too many for Duriel to handle, it decided to stop moving.
A strange blue glow started to appear on its body.
After that, it unleashed a “sacred freezing’ that occupied the entire tomb.
Abel didn’t know what he was looking at.
He didn’t think that the sacred freezing could cover up this much area.
Still, when his body was covered by the blue frost mist, it was very easy to tell that the sacred freezing was nowhere as effective as it was at the start.
Before it would’ve taken just three hits for him to be killed by this attack, but now, even with his moving speed very much reduced, there just wasn’t too much damage that’s been dealt to him at all.

As things would have it, the sacred freezing was not for attack purposes anymore, but instead, it was used as a method to slow Abel down.
Abel had no way of neglecting its effect, actually.
Nothing he possessed could do so.
His only choice was to keep firing despite the fact that his attack rate was about half or less than before.

And there it was again.
While Abel was slowed down, Duriel readied itself for another charge attack.
More skeletons and claystone guards were summoned, but it wasn’t like they mattered.
Abel held the contract of the ancient shield in his left hand.
A white combat qi rune flashed across his shield as he also ran towards Duriel.
While its body was too large to dodge the “shield attack,” its front claw still managed to block the shield that was used to strike it.

The shield was blocked, unfortunately, and Abel’s body was sent flying.
He was starting to gain a better understanding of how strong its force was.
Also, it was not that bad for him to gain some distance away from Duriel.
He needed distance for safety.
He needed more time to think of a more effective way to resume the fight.

Despite being sent flying, his shield attack rune still left the shield and flew towards Duriel.
It was too fast for it to react, so as soon as it was hit, its gigantic body was knocked still on the spot.
It couldn’t chase after Abel, but Abel’s attacks were still moving because they were automatic.

Duriel was not to be underestimated, however.
Even after taking the shield attack straight on, the fainting effect didn’t last for even a second.
It could respond enough to repel the lightning attacks with its front claws.
It was calculating, terrifyingly sturdy, and almost never made any mistakes.
It was the most difficult fight Abel had ever been in.
He did have plenty of his own methods, but if none of those prevented Duriel from getting close, this fight would’ve been over before it even began.

When Abel re-summoned the skeletons and the claystone guards, Duriel let out another sharp shriek that forced him to switch into his druid spirit once more.
After that, he teleported away from it to gain some momentum.
When his body just appeared inside the tomb, he could feel a chilling qi spreading all across his body.
Duriel was going all-out, so it seemed.
It was trying to overwhelm him by using two of its most powerful moves in sequence.

Anyways, the slowing effect of the “sacred freezing” was not something that could be blocked away.
It covered the entire tomb, so the effect was actually dealt incrementally.
This meant that Abel couldn’t move much.
Abel had no choice but to change his approach, and that was by making a direct charge at Duriel.
He was slowed down, yes, but Black Wind was still running at a speed that was difficult to observe.
It managed to reach Duriel’s face before it even raised its front claws.

Still, Duriel was the calculative type.
When Abel got close to it, a blue ice mist appeared and made him slower than before.
The “charge” was still intact, however.
The trap wasn’t enough to prevent Duriel from getting hit by it.
Abel was starting to notice.
The steel sword he held actually carved a scar on Duriel’s body.
Green blood was flowing at where he was slicing.
By the way, it wasn’t supposed to be this effective if it was a purely physical attack.
He wouldn’t do any damage even if his physical strength was doubled.
Most of the work was done by his “steel” sword, which could provide him with a 50% chance of making a tear at his target.

Duriel might be strong, but it had no way of resisting the power of the rule that the rune possessed.
Abel didn’t think that this was the case, too.
He didn’t think that such an unnoticeable ability was changing the entire fight.
Duriel unleashed another “sacred freezing” after a terrible scream, and once Abel was slowed, it tried to attack him again with its two front claws.

This time, Abel tried to do something different.
He used his shield to strike at the front claws and activated the white combat qi rune on it.
What resulted from that was a fairly strange phenomenon.
They were both attacking each other in close range, but neither of them did any damage to each other.
Duriel dodged all of his knight’s combat techniques, whereas Duriel did virtually no damage apart from the occasional “sacred freezing” and screaming.

Duriel stopped using its screams after a few times.
It made sense because such a unique ability would only come with the support of some sort of special energy.
There was no way that it could use this an unlimited number of times.
With that being said, the only threat to Abel now was the “sacred freezing,” and even that wasn’t going to do much harm at all.
He was the one with the advantage, as the eight spiritual guardian knights behind him continued to deal damage at a very steady rate.

Whenever Duriel tried to unleash another “sacred freezing,” Abel would respond in time with his shield attack.
Duriel had a fairly massive body, so it wasn’t like it could dodge any of his melee attacks.
Still, he wasn’t so sure if he should take the initiative to attack.
The shield attack was pretty much his only way of countering the sacred freezing.
Of course, he had constantly been checking on the sacred freezing’s strength with his power of the Will.
Whenever Duriel increased its output, he would immediately respond by teleporting elsewhere with his “instantaneous movement” spell.

This was truly a bizarre battle.
All of Abel’s tracks were neutralized by Duriel’s front claws.
In a similar way, Duriel’s attacks would be dodged almost simultaneously.
This was what would happen when both sides possessed the world stone fragments.
They were constantly going at each other, but none of the attacks would make contact.

By the way, the arrows of the eight spiritual guardian knights were buffed with lightning effect.
Given Duriel’s durable body, it had to be hit multiple times before the damage could accumulate.
This left Abel with not many choices.
As he would have it, the most effective method was to put himself in the most dangerous spot so that the spiritual guardian knights would never be attacked.
He’s obviously thought about using spells, but Duriel was cunning enough to attack as soon as his spell runes just appeared.

There was too little proximity between the two.
While some wizards were capable of casting spells while they were moving, the runes they drew had to be kept still as they moved, and this was certainly not one of those situations that Abel could do.
Actually, he couldn’t even use spells and knight attacks at the same time.
He pretty much had no way to use his most iconic skills.

For Duriel, it tried to enhance the power of its “sacred freezing” multiple times, but whenever it did so, Abel would always be early enough to teleport to a safe spot.
This forced Duriel to become more subtle in its approach.
Instead of going for a powerful overkill, it attempted to lure Abel in by gradually decreasing the power of its “sacred freezing.”

Back to Abel.
He wasn’t really planning on rushing it.
He had plenty of potions to sustain for a long time.
Also, this wasn’t like when he first entered into the dark world.
He didn’t have to worry as much about the possibility of overusing his mana.

As time passed by, large cracks started to appear on Duriel’s body.
Black smoke rose from the tremendous amount of damage compiled over time.
Abel started to hear terrible screams coming out of it.
Occasionally, he would see the faces of people that had the same miserable expressions from the smoke.
He assumed that they were once residents of Lut Gholein.
That, or warriors who went into the deserts to battle against the hell creatures.

Anyways, Duriel’s movements were getting a lot slower after all that fighting.
It was not like Abel.
Abel had plenty of supplements to keep himself going, where it had no ways of recharging its stamina nor heal its wounds.
Worse yet, there was not a single moment it was free from taking any damage.
It was a dark-golden level hell creature, yes, but all that damage started to take a toll on its body.

Basically, Abel was already much faster than Duriel.
Duriel’s only advantage was in its explosiveness and brute force, but as the battle dragged on, all that came to an end.
Abel was starting to make more successful hits.
Eventually, one of them managed to leave a giant crack on Duriel’s hard outer shell.
Duriel noticed as well, so it responded by producing a blue light that was meant to cover over it.

Abel was still very much aware of what was happening.
He could sense extremely powerful energy emitting from the blue light.
To avoid it, he teleported to another spot before the blue ice frost got him.
Crystals were starting to form in the air.
Duriel was definitely going full-out with this attack.

Instead of getting close to Duriel, Abel decided to respond with his own powerful attacks.
He activated the “lightning spell” with two of his hands.
He aimed at the cracks, which he opened just then.
Duriel had no way of dodging it.
It tried to block with its front claw.
It did manage to get one, but another one hit straight at where the crack was.

The lightning finally made contact.
Lightning arcs channeled through its body.
Not only was the zapping in effect, but the lightning finally dealt some real damage to Duriel.
When Abel noticed that there was no longer a need to dodge the attacks, he started throwing “lightning” spells with both of his hands.

Duriel kept screaming and screaming.
It was tired after using all that energy for the previous attacks.
It could’ve had the chance to make a last stand, but it didn’t save enough of its power to make the fight last any longer.
Abel could kind of tell that this was the case, but just to be safe, he ordered Black Wind to be ready for an “instantaneous movement’ at any time because as long as Duriel wasn’t dead, then there would always be a chance of danger.

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