Abe the Wizard

When the black hole finally closed, Abel was free to close his portal beast ring. He couldn’t help but laugh out loud. All the stuff he wasted was worth it. He got himself a few new teleportation circles, a lot of money, and most importantly, he got himself his own magic tower, which was not something that coins and gemstone could buy. He didn’t even have to get loans to afford for it. He didn’t have to do any missions, either.

“Let’s go!” Abel said as he sat on Flying Flame’s back. Soon, Flying Flame and Black Wind moved to White Cloud’s back. They then all disappeared into the invisibility barrier.

At the same time, a knight in Denan City was pointing towards the sky in the east.

“What was that?”

“My spirit! Has divine punishment finally come to me?” A smuggler called out and pointed towards the white light pillar in the sky.

Almost everyone in Denan City saw it. Some thought that it was a miracle. Others thought that it was a curse. There were even those who started riding towards the light pillar on their horses.

Inside the center of Denan City was the St. Ellis Wizard Union building. Right now, it was secluded from the outside world with a defense circle. This was where all the wizards got their missions assigned to them.

Right now, a large siren was calling through the place. The communication circle was turned to full volume.

“Beware, Beware! We are now in a state of emergency! All members of the Wizard Union, you must not head to the area outside of the defense circle!”

Three novice wizards were standing inside an office. They were all calling advanced wizards through their communication circles, and they all had frightened looks on their faces.

One of them sighed in relief as the call connected, “Oh, thank goodness! Master Edmond! There is a soul light at the east end of Denan City! Judging from its strength, I think it’s coming from an advanced wizard!”

Wizard Edmond’s voice came crashing in like thunder, “WHAT? SOUL LIGHT? In the east end of Denan City? Did Wizard Cliff contact you?”

The novice wizard looked towards his two nearby friends, “We are trying to make calls right now, sir! We’ll tell you as soon as we get something!”

“I’ll be back to the Wizard Union,” Wizard Edmond said, then immediately hung up the call. Soon, Wizard Anthem’s call was connected.

“Did you…” Wizard Anthem was kind of speechless, “Oh, what the…. Is it actually a soul light? Did you confirm it?”

The novice wizard said with certainty, “Yes, Master Anthem. We’ve already sent people to go to where it was located.”

Master Anthem asked, “Did you tell the other masters?”

“Just Master Cliff, sir,” the novice wizard looked at the one beside him.

Wizard Anthem asked in a slow voice, “You…. The soul light, is it at the east end of Denan City?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Uh, fu-, AHHHHH! I’ll be back right away!” As reluctant as Wizard Anthem was to head back to the Wizard Union, his sense of obligation was telling him that he must.

In no time at all, the two advanced wizards have arrived back to the Wizard Union. When they looked at each other, they could see the fear that was in each other’s eyes. It had been many years since the soul light appeared in the Holy Continent.

The soul light was basically the equivalent of a spiritual beast’s crystal core. Unlike a crystal core, however, it would vanish as soon as the wizard was dead.

When wizards ranked up, their soul light would increase in their quality and size. Once an official wizard was dead, his power of Will would be released into the air like some sort of firework. The time that the soul light would last would depend on how much progress that was previously made.

Wizard Anthem and Wizard Edmond had thought that the next soul light that they would see would be at the west end of Denan City. It was where a lot of the wizards and their magic towers were. Currently, rank 17 Wizard Dunn was doing his shut-off training. They never thought that he could come out alive, so they just waited for his soul light to suddenly come out one day.

But the east end of Denan City? That was where Wizard Cliff lived! That’s where the intelligence agency was! And despite all their efforts, they couldn’t make any contact with him or the intelligence agency.

“Should we go, Anthem?” Wizard Edmond whispered.

Wizard Anthem rubbed his face with his hand, “We have to, don’t we?”

Wizard Edmond said as he activated several of his defense items, “Look. We can’t separate from each other. If Wizard Cliff… If someone really did him in, we can also be killed in the same way.”

Wizard Edmond was right. It was hard to kill an advanced wizard. And it wasn’t like Wizard Cliff was a man who liked taking risks. He was calculating. He would never engage in a full-on battle if it meant losing even just a bit of his resources.

There was only one explanation. Wizard Cliff tried to escape from that person that was after him. When he did, he failed, and that killer ended him by chasing him down. This was pretty ridiculous, but it was the only explanation that made sense.

“Oh, come on….” Wizard Edmond said as he flashed to a sport a hundred meters away from where he was at. At the same time, Wizard Anthem followed him to the same spot.

As the two wizards moved together with their “instantaneous movement” spells, they went to where the soul light was at. It had been a while since the soul light was released. It was no longer as bright as when it had emerged. In about ten minutes, it would be gone from where it was.

“It’s Cliff!” Wizard Anthem called out. It was Cliff, indeed. His upper body was separated from his lower body. When he noticed, he started adding a few more layers of defense on his body.

Wizard Edmond said as he examined Wizard Cliff’s corpse, “The killer should be gone now. Look, Cliff’s portal bag was gone.”

“Right, right…” Wizard Anthem tried to calm himself down, “Good. Let someone else look into this. We’ll, uh… we’ll just report what happened.”

Since all the precious items that Wizard Cliff had were taken away, the killer must’ve gone away for a while now.

“Hey, come and have a look at this,” Wizard Edmond lowered his body for a closer look at Cliff’s corpse, “Damn! I’ve got to say, this is pretty scary. His body was split into two without any resistance. Can you tell what did this?”

Wizard Anthem swallowed down his saliva, “Uh, uhhh….. I can’t. I don’t think there’s any weapon in this world that can do this. Cliff…. he definitely had passive defensive items on him, and it’s not like he doesn’t know how to cast defensive spells. So, what…. I, I don’t even know. Whatever the killer did, he managed to break through all that and killed him in one slash.”