Abe the Wizard

Abel said with a headache, “Wizard Joseph, Wizard Arbuthnot is having a breakthrough here.”

He thought back to his water spirit fruit juice. Now that there was another who got a breakthrough because of him, he was starting to get worried that groups would start coming for it. Unfortunately, the water spirit fruit juice was not being mass produced at the moment. Since time inside the dark world was so fast, the maturation of one fruit tree only took 20 days. Still, although there were many other types of fruit trees for consumption, the water spirit fruit was still the dominant diet choice of the elves. They would still need it as an important food source.

Wizard Joseph had guessed that it was Master Bennett that led to this, “Did you happen to feed Wizard Arbuthnot something, Master Bennett?”

Abel sighed, “I just gave him a cup of my juice. I only did it because I thought he had a busy day.”

Wizard Joseph was getting worried, “Well, Master Bennett, I have a few underlings that went to the golden castle to eat your food, but they didn’t receive a promotion. Would you, um, be willing to spare some of that water spirit fruit juice for me?”

Abel had to make it clear, “The production rate is a bit low lately. I can do two bottles for you, Wizard Joseph, but nothing more than that.”

Wizard Joseph laughed out loudly, “Ha, ha! Thanks, I’ll be over very soon!”

Just when Abel was about to say something else, he realized that the contact circle was already open. Wizard Joseph couldn’t wait anymore, and he was about to be coming over. Abel checked his current speed. He could see that the 2000 puppets were about to dig up all the spaces around the ancient building. Only the underground part was left. Come to think of it. It should be just a bit more for them to finish the work. Since Wizard Joseph coming, he had to make sure that this was quick enough.

Abel commanded, “Battle command spirit! Stop the puppets!”

As the puppets slowed down, he jumped onto the pit that the puppets dug up. He could see the base of the ancient building from here. After having dug up the body of the mountain, the base of the ancient building was normally reconstructed with boulders that were chiseled. Because of how little mud there was on the very top, the ancient building was almost meant entirely for growing the fruit tree. In a sense, the base of the building was separate from the mountain body. Having thought about this, Abel began to calm down.

He spoke to Doff, “Doff! Lift this building up for me!”

The ancient building began to tremble after following Doff’s movements. Luckily, Doff’s grip had become a lot more firm now that it had mastered the “command long weapon.” Following Doff’s work, Abel’s power of Will could discover a loose movement between the ancient building and the mountain body. He placed his hand on the ancient building and activated his power of the Will to the max. 5000 square meters was big, but for where he was currently, it wasn’t all that hard to cover up the entire area like that.

“Splash!”

Followed by the sound of the rocks rolling, the ancient building was put inside the divine portal bag. Abel had no choice but to let out a long breath. Although he was the one who hid the fruit tree with the seclusion circle, he just couldn’t let the WIzard Union wizards see it, or else things could get very difficult.

Sensing the fruit tree that was inside the ancient building, Abel could tell that it was alright to store it inside the divine portal bag. He couldn’t help but smile in relief because of this.

“What makes you so happy, Master Bennett?”

A white light flashed, and Wizard Joseph was at the very top. He was in shock when he saw the giant hole that was on the top of the mountain.

Abel smiled and spoke, “You are quite early there, Wizard Joseph.”

Following, he nodded at Frankenstein, who was beside him. Frankenstein then teleported him to the elven wooden table, which was not very far away.

Abel laughed at Wizard Joseph, “Sit and chat, if you will. It’ll take some time for your underlings to wake up.”

Wizard Joseph seemed jealous of Wizard Arbuthnot, “Quite lucky to be promoted just by being with you, I would say.”

Wizard Joseph brought several of his subordinates to the golden castle many times and did not receive any promotion. Wizard Arbuthnot got his promotion accidentally on a business trip. This was unexpected, but anyways, Wizard Joseph now knew that Master Bennett’s water spirit fruit juice could do something special. That being said, he obviously wasn’t just there to get the two bottles of the water spirit fruit juice. Although that was one of the reasons, that wasn’t all. The most important reason had to do with the fact that he needed to form a relationship with Master Bennett first. He’s been falling behind Wizard Clemens of the Intelligence Agency and Wizard Hume of the resource department in that regard, as both these men had attended Master Bennett’s private banquet before.

Wizard Arbuthnot was just sitting across Abel. Abel passed a bottle over, but he decided not to take a drink. His few disciples were just sitting several ranks above advanced wizards. Perhaps this bottle of the water spirit fruit juice was their final hope. Again, He had to think for his disciples.

Abel laughed, “Relax, Wizard Joseph! The bottle you drank won’t be counted in the two bottles that were given to you.”

Wizard Joseph decided to put it in his portal bag, “No worries. I’ll savour it slowly.”

Abel understood what that meant. He didn’t have any students yet, but he had a mentor before. He understood what it was like to have to save up precious resources for students you were supposed to take care of. If it was Wizard Morton that was in this situation, he could totally see him trying to save some for him as well.

With that in mind, Abel passed two more bottles of the water spirit fruit juice over. Wizard Joseph didn’t say much. He just smiled and put it away.

Wizard Joseph looked towards the large hole nearby, “So there aren’t any wizards left, Master Bennett?”

Abel pointed towards the hole, “Apart from the Snow Spirit Mountain wizards that never left, we’ve got the wizards in the headquarters.”

Wizard Joseph didn’t care to ask about what happened at the large hole. If Abel wasn’t going to ask, he wasn’t going to push for an answer. Still, he realized something. Master Bennett might be interested in the treasures over here. As for what, he wasn’t really sure. He didn’t know what a small wizard organization would have that would interest Master Bennett. What he knew, so far, was that the Wizard Union knew that what happened was personal. Personal as it was, however, it’s really strange that Master Bennett had to take an extra step to decimate the whole place.

Wizard Joseph asked, “If there are any wizards outside the Snow Spirit Mountain, would you still go after them?”

Abel shook his head, “It’s all done already. I’ve killed the ones I was after.”

Wizard Joseph smiled, “I’ll see if there are any more alive, Master Bennett. If there are, I’ll send them a warning myself.”

Wizard Joseph and Abel smiled while they waited for Wizard Arbuthnot to be promoted. They weren’t going to leave at this point, as advanced wizards would have no defense during their promotion.

About one hour later, Wizard Arbuthnot slowly opened his eyes. He was very emotional. From 18 to 19 was just one rank apart, but so many had failed so much to go past this point. As for the bottle of the water spirit fruit juice Master Bennett handed over, he just reduced ten or tens of years of training required. If he was a bit unlucky, he might just be stuck at this forever.

“Master Bennett…”

Wizard Arbuthnot wasn’t sure what to say. “Thank you” seemed like nothing compared to what Master Bennett did for him, but he had no idea what he could do that would actually help.

Wizard Joseph spoke, “Wizard Arbuthnot, enough. You don’t owe Master Bennett for this. Just try to make sure that nothing bad happens with this incident at the Snow Spirit Mountain.”

Wizard Arbuthnot went forward and bowed, “Master Joseph!”

He then turned back to Abel, “I’ll do everything in my power to prevent this from causing your trouble, Master Bennett.”

He then looked around but was shocked to see that the ancient building that he saw before the promotion was gone. Actually, with a building of that size disappearing, he wasn’t even sure how he could keep this matter discrete.

Abel laughed, “Don’t listen to Wizard Joseph, Wizard Arbuthnot! It’s fine, you don’t have to keep everything underground. Just make it public. Send a message to the world that if anyone dares to go after my home, they’ll have to consider facing my revenge!”

Wizard Arbuthnot bowed and looked towards Wizard Joseph, “Yes, Master Bennett! Um…”

Wizard Joseph laughed, “Wizard Arbuthnot, just do as Master Bennett says.”

Having said that, he brought Wizard Arbuthnot to activate the instantaneous movement and disappeared amongst the white light. Abel put away the chairs and tables. He had the 2000 puppets and Doff away. Under the transportation of Frankenstein, he returned to the Fire Tooth Battle Fort that was in the sky. The revenge mission went according to plan, but the consequences were not as clear as he hoped that it would be. Still, given his current status, that just made the Holy Continent even safer. From this point on, any class holder would have to think for him if they wanted to do something.

Wizard Joseph returned to the Wizard Union. As he arrived, the first thing he did was to look for Wizard Clemens.

Wizard Clemens was just looking at some report, “Joseph! How did you have the time to be here today?”

Wizard Joseph could see the juice that Wizard Clemens was drinking, “I see you’ve been enjoying yourself.”

He wasn’t the type to say that kind of stuff before, but after knowing the effect of Master Bennett’s water spirit fruit juice, he seemed to have noticed that Wizard Clemens had been a little excessive in his use of it.

Wizard Clemens laughed out loudly, “Well, how about a cup for you?”

Wizard Joseph could notice something wrong immediately, “Lemme smell it. Wait, this isn’t right.”

Wizard Clemens asked, “What do you mean, Joseph?”

Wizard Joseph opened the bottle and said with certainty, “This isn’t Master Bennett’s!”

“You’ve got Master Bennett’s juice” Wizard Clemens widened his eyes, then smiled, “I’ve got my own, but as you can probably tell, it’s of a lesser quality. It’s still much better than the common ones out there, though. It’s good for your body and your spirit. The one you’ve got was probably the fine one from Master Bennett. I’ve only had it a few times when I was visiting Master Bennett as a guest.”

Wizard Joseph asked, “You’re right, I did get this from Master Bennett. Speaking of which, what connection does Master Bennett have with the Snow Spirit Mountain?”

Wizard Clemens replied quickly, “Sud question, but I’ll answer. The Snow Spirit Mountain tried sending two rank twenty advanced wizards over to the Holy Continent, where Master Bennett was born. They were going after his secret restaurant recipes, and the two advanced wizards died on the Holy Continent trying to do that.”

Wizard Joseph said in awe, “The Snow Spirit Mountain was found gone a few days ago! Did you know that?”

Wizard Clemens shook his head, “Well, they had it coming. I didn’t expect Master Bennett to act so quickly. I’ve only received a report on recent sightings. Can I ask how many wizards died over there?”

“No!” Wizard Joseph raised his voice, “Clemens! I mean the mountain is gone! There is just a giant pit left there! There’s no headquarters building, and there have been sightings of seven soul lights—one of them belonging to a law-defying wizard!”