Rebirth Of Abium - Volume 2: Volume 2 Chapter 169 169: Thea

Chapter 169: Thea

25th September, Gerian Kingdom, Zistedel Empire.

Magford

It was a remote town located in the northwestern part of the Gerian Kingdom and was governed by a second-tier mage named Hider. Even though it was a small town, hundreds of Holy knights and warriors always guarded it.

On 25th September morning, a messy blonde-haired warrior around 40-years-old entered the town while showing his identity and went towards the Nobles’ street. He wore standard black armor, brown linen cloths, and old boots. His deep-set hazel eyes were always wandering everywhere, and his stern face looked more solemn. He had thin eyebrows, a hawk nose, and a pear-shaped face.

He didn’t stop anywhere and soon arrived in front of the city lord’s six-layer Magic Tower. After that, he went in while showing his identity card towards the entrance. Within a second, multiple harmless spells scanned his body, and soon a soulless voice asked in a cold tone.

“Welcome back, Oliver Magford. Please choose your destination.”

“Send me to Section-0.” He spoke in a cold tone. A moment later, he felt the space around his body began to distort and soon disappeared from there.

Within a second, he reappeared in a dark underground tunnel. Fire torches were placed on the tunnel walls’ sides and gave off a dim yellow light everywhere. Oliver Magford went forward in the dark tunnel without any fear in his eyes and soon arrived in front of a five-meter tall black door, which was guarded by two holy knights.

Noticing his presence, those two holy knights gave a polite nod and opened the gate without any inquiry. Oliver stepped in and went inside the long dark chamber with a calm face, filled with countless prison cells. In those prison cells, some appeared in a crazy state, while others stood in half-dazed faces. He didn’t even glance at those prisoners and went deeper into the dark chamber.

Although he could hear curses, cries, angry yells, and swears from those half-crazed prisoners, he wasn’t affected even a single bit. After a long walk, he arrived in front of a large prison cell and sighed deeply. He saw a bloody figure pinned on the wall, and most of that figure’s skin was removed using blades. Because of some unknown person’s constant tortures, the whole prison cell was painted in dark red color. The humanoid figure wore a torn blue robe and only had a few long blonde hairs remained on the humanoid figure’s head.

“It’s been a while, Oliver.” A cold female voice filled with a hint of sarcasm and mockery came out from that bloody figure. Even though her whole body was wholly pinned by nullifying metals, she spoke like she wasn’t affected by any pain.

“Good to see you again, Lady Thea.” Oliver smiled wryly and greeted her.

“So, how is my son? Has he grown up already?” Thea asked in an exciting tone.

Upon hearing her question, a weak smile appeared on Oliver’s face. He stood there silently for two seconds and replied with a solemn voice.

“I failed this mission, My Lady. With that chaos ring, I managed to control goblins and attacked Viscount’s son’s group. But your son somehow managed to kill most of the goblins and spoiled my whole plan. After that, he moved into the woods and disappeared. I tried to track his footsteps, but he somehow erased all of his footprints. I searched for him all over at the Baxborn woods but couldn’t able to find out any clue about him.”

“Are you saying that he had already chosen the Warrior path?” Thea asked in a confused tone.

“No. Back then, Abium was just a normal mortal.” Oliver shook his head firmly and continued,

“He somehow… I felt like some higher being was guiding him from the dark.”

“Impossible!” Thea instantly thundered and added,

“Although he has my Elven bloodline, he doesn’t have any excellent affinity. Hmm, something seems off.”

Oliver also nodded his head and suddenly thought of something and began to hesitate.

Noticing his hesitation, Thea waved his pinned bloody hand and asked curiously.

“Why are you hesitating? Do you have any other information?”

Without any other choice, Oliver nodded his head helplessly and spoke.

“Although I couldn’t be able to find anything about your son, I heard a rumor when I went to Dewsummit city.” He stopped for a moment and continued,

“I heard a mage named Abium became an official mage, and Peral Kingdom’s late King even granted him a noble title and territory.”

Although Thea became interested when she heard the name, she soon sighed in disappointment.

“Abium is a common name all over the Easica continent, Oliver. It’s not a strange thing for a mage to have that same name.”

Oliver got stunned by her words but soon said while shaking his head.

“He is a Royal Elf.”

But once he finished his words, he suddenly felt immeasurable pressure came out from the prison and trembled.

“Are you sure?” A deep voice that had an aura of dominance came out from the prison cell.

“Yes, My Lady.” Oliver nodded his head solemnly. After that, both went silent for a whole minute.

After a long silence, Thea spoke with a weary tone.

“He is going to search about his origin. But if he did that, Elder Seer will find out about his location.”

Oliver also nodded his head and felt all of their hard work had gone to dust.

“I don’t want my son to be imprisoned near to me.” Thea’s bloody amber eyes opened in the dark prison cell as she looked at Oliver with pleading eyes.

“Within a few decades, he will come to this place and might get caught by the Elder Seer. Oliver, can you go and tell him not to come and look for me?”

“That would ruin the fun, Thea.” But before Oliver could speak, another voice came out from the prison depth, and soon a figure with a white mask walked out from the darkness. There was a smiling face drawn on the mask, and he almost looked like a clown.

“Elder Seer!” Both Thea and Oliver called out in alarm! Thea felt uncontrollable fear and helplessness as she stared at the masked figure.

‘Why? How?’ She couldn’t understand anything about the current situation and became confused.

‘Did my son found a clue about me already?’ An absurd thought appeared in her mind! But she instantly denied that possibility.

‘No, Elder Seer already appeared here means Abium already found some clue about me! But how?’ Thea felt that something had gone wrong in their plan. In the meantime, Elder Seer arrived beside Oliver and turned his head towards Thea.

“Heh, so your son’s name is Abium, huh.” He said coldly.

Elder Seer then looked at Thea’s bloody figure for a second and walked out of the dark underground chamber. Meanwhile, Thea and Oliver felt struck by a bolt of lightning and lost their composture.

30th September, Blackrock port, Wadel kingdom.

It was around 6 A.M.

Abium, in black-haired human appearance, stood at the entrance of Blackrock port town and was waiting for guards to open the gate. He wore a soft, narrow sleeved black linen cloth, the same color pants, and shoes without heels. Behind him stood a long queue, and most of them were slave merchants, slaves, and adventurers. Everyone had tired expressions on their faces as they looked at the gate. Abium also saw a few thugs mingled in the crowd and furrowed his brows.

‘Are these guys bandits? Or, pirates?’ Abium thought to himself, and soon an understanding expression appeared on his face.

In the last ten days, Abium collected more information about the Evil Eye organization using various methods and even found out about those responsible for transporting those Mermaids to the Holy See.

‘Well, I didn’t expect Rain Merchant Company and Violet Admiral would be collaborating with the Light church.’ Abium snickered inside and looked abruptly at the three-layered Magic Tower, located at the center of the town.

‘Hmm, something is not right.’ Abium frowned for a moment, and soon his face turned grim. Because he sensed a powerhouse scanned his body a moment before and grew cautious.

‘Is it a second-tier mage? Or another Bishop of Light church?’ Abium creased his brows and soon noticed that the guards were opening the gate.

‘It seems a second-tier powerhouse constantly guards this Blackrock port town. I have to meet Nadine and Smith quickly and gather some information about this town.’ Abium became more careful and entered the town without alerting anyone.

‘I thought it would be easy for me to get a bottle of Elite Rank Mermaid blood. But it seems I need to act carefully here.’ He thought to himself while moving towards Adventurers’ guild. On his way to the guild, he saw many human, beastkin, and even some elven slaves and became startled. He also heard whipping sounds from time to time and became annoyed a little.

‘It seems half of this town’s populations are only slaves!’ His amber eyes constantly flickered as he scanned everyone’s status while walking. All those slaves’ faces looked pale and appeared devoid of emotions due to the strange runes on their foreheads. But what made him frown was that there were many dead slaves thrown near the dark alley like garbage. The rotten smell assaulted him whenever he walked near those areas and became dissatisfied inside.

‘I’m gonna blow up this town!’ Abium muttered under his breath and then continued to walk.

After watching all those slaves’ poor health conditions and those dead slaves, Abium felt that he needed to surprise the Evil Eye organization.

After a few minutes, he arrived in front of the Adventurers’ guild entrance and walked inside.

Unlike the one in Silverland City, this Adventurers’ guild was a small one. He used his Jeeves identity to register his name and began to search for Nadine and Smith. After asking a few adventurers, Abium soon found out where they were staying and became stunned.

‘Why did they choose an Inn next to the Harbor?’ Abium got puzzled and soon walked out of the Adventurers’ Guild. After that, he walked on the main street and soon entered Harbor Street after fifteen minutes of walking.

Unlike the other streets, Harbor Street was filled with wooden huts, small houses made of palm trees. Fishing nets, small boats, and dried fishes were placed everywhere and gave off a unique atmosphere.

Although some slaves worked in this street, he saw they looked healthier, which surprised him a little. Abium also heard waves sounds from the other side of Harbor Street and thought that place must be a seashore. His arrival also attracted others’ attraction, and some gave him malicious stares. But Abium responded to them with a cold look and then went towards the only inn located in this Harbor Street.

Within five minutes, he arrived in front of a two-storied inn and walked in quietly. After booking one room, he moved towards the second floor and knocked the room number 202 thrice.

A second later, a black-haired girl around 20-years-old opened the wooden door and instantly smiled while bowing her head. She was none other than Nadine!

“We were waiting for your arrival, My Lord.”

Abium was pleased by their work and nodded his head in response. If he had asked other adventurers to do this same job, they wouldn’t take this mission very seriously like these guys.

“Come in, My Lord.” Nadine invited him. With a nod, Abium walked in and soon noticed Smith was already sitting on the concrete floor.

Noticing Abium’s arrival, Smith instantly stood up and greeted him respectfully. Abium, on the other hand, waved his hand and turned his attention to the balcony. He arrived at the edge of the balcony and peered at the deep sea, filled with multiple boats and a few sh.i.p.s.

After that, he calmly looked at the jetty, then towards the entrance channel, and finally laid his eyes on the Anchorage area. But the next instant, his eyes widened.

In the Harbor, he saw three pirate sh.i.p.s, two naval sh.i.p.s of Holy Light, four Wadel Kingdom’s naval sh.i.p.s, and one large cargo ship were already docked there.

‘All of those sh.i.p.s are heavily guarded.’ He furrowed his brows.

But what startled him more was that he even saw a few first-tier mages stood on guard. He also noticed some merchants were shipping slaves, weapons, and other goods from the town and got stunned.

‘Is Wadel kingdom is preparing for war?’ A thought appeared in his mind.

“My lord, they are transporting 25 mermaids this time. I heard from a soldier that these sh.i.p.s are going to depart tomorrow morning.” Noticing his gaze, Nadine gave crucial information.

‘There is still some time. Evil Eye organization has the Royal family’s backing. Tsk, for now, I will get a bottle of Mermaid Blood and flee from this town. In the past few days, there is also an uneasy feeling appearing in my heart… l have to rank up to a second-tier mage before going to Zistedel Empire.’

Abium made up his mind and soon curled his lips upward as he stared at the slaves’ appearance.

‘Blue skin, glittering scales, and fish-like bodies No doubt about it. They are transporting mermaids through this cargo ship. It seems I came at the right timing!’ He let out a sigh of relief. But he knew that if he made a move to kidnap any Elite Rank Mermaid, it would be like courting his death.

But if he missed this chance, he had to wait for another six months to get a bottle of Mermaid’s Blood.

‘Should I assassinate the second-tier powerhouse first and then threaten others to free those slaves?’ A bold thought came to his mind.

‘No… That’s too dangerous! I don’t have any information about that second-tier powerhouse hidden in the Magic Tower.’ Instantly his expression froze as he completely forgot about the magic tower!

‘The second-tier powerhouse will be invincible as long as he stayed in the Magic tower.’ A bitter smile appeared on his face. Without any other choice, he quietly began to think of a plan while watching those soldiers and merchants transporting those goods. At the same time, Nadine asked.

“My lord, do you need any other information?”