'My spirit power is already at its limit!' Abium got worried, and multiple thoughts crossed through his mind. He felt death was looming over his head and got scared.

As he was contemplating about how to get out of this situation, he noticed Time God Udnir's illusionary figure was also quivering.

'Is he also at his limit?' Abium thought to himself, and hope appeared in his mind.

Without any delay, he used his remaining energy to conjure a thick red bolt filled with fire law power and released it.

Before the Time God Udnir could sense the red bolt, it already stabbed into his chest.

Then, Abium saw Time God Udnir's illusionary figure began to tremble and soon disintegrate into multiple light particles while leaving the white cloud behind.

A second later, a wave of fatigue assaulted Abium due to loss of spiritual power, and then he was blanked out.

After a few minutes, Abium slowly opened his eyes in the physical world and noticed he was already returned to the Time Temple. He gasped for a breathe and slowly saw he was laid on the floor.

'Did I win?' He muttered to himself in shock and noticed a golden shard was laid on his chest.

'What is this?'

Abium slowly picked up that shard and noticed a small resonance coming from the mysterious fountain.

Abium furrowed his brows and directly sent that shard into the fountain. The second later, Abium felt the connection to that mysterious fountain became much stronger.

Shaking his head, he quickly walked out of the sanctum sanctorum and noticed all those five rings on those Angels' statues began to shine brightly. The next instant, five beams of light directly entered into Abium's body and soon entered into the mysterious fountain.

'What the-?' He got startled.

'I'm more curious about this mysterious fountain.' He thought.

'No, that's called Core of Itera.' Abium suddenly remembered Udnir's words and nodded his head.

Without any delay, he sat down on the concrete floor and let his soul entered inside the mysterious fountain. The next instant, he got deeply startled. Because he saw an illusionary golden throne began to materialize behind his soul form. Following that, Abium saw many changes around that fountain, which made him completely flabbergasted.

Instead of empty darkness, Abium saw he was in some throne hall. Moreover, his soul form was already seated on a golden throne and seemed to be overlooking everything below him. The Golden Throne was much larger, and strange power was emitting from it.

As he looked at everything with a shocked face, he suddenly felt the golden Throne began to send unknown information to his soul. Abium paused in surprise and soon accepted the information.

Following that, he suddenly felt a deep pain coming from the depth of his soul. He noticed some information entered into his sea of consciousness, and then he began to encrypt that information using the rune language and soon astonished.

'Heh, so this place is Time God's divine palace, huh. What is Itera anyway? This Golden Throne seems to choose me as its owner due to the sudden disappearance of Time God's consciousness. Damn, I didn't expect this Golden Throne also has some intelligence. Moreover, it needs a part of my soul with consciousness to maintain this place stable.' Abium scanned through all the information and fell into deep thoughts.

'But how did this Core of Itera came here? Although 'Time divinity' traveled back in time along with me make some sense, but how could this large fountain come back to the past? Something is definitely not right here. I'm missing some important information about the 'Time divinity' and this mysterious fountain.'

'Damn, unknown is always scarier. Moreover, I can tell this Golden Throne must be the same as normal Tower intelligence, which Azolla once mentioned before. I heard the Tower intelligence has the basic ability to communicate with normal intelligence life forms and help mages during their research. Unlike Azolla, who can think on her own, these Tower intelligence don't have any of that. Hmm, I think this Throne must be something like that.' Abium made a quick guess and soon turned his full attention towards the Golden Throne. Without any other choice, he began to probe the Golden Throne using his spirit power and soon find out it really was linked to the whole hall.

'It seems the information it gave me was real indeed.' Abium nodded his head and began to send a part of his soul towards that Golden Throne.

The next second, he sensed that Golden Throne was asking permission to split a part of his soul from his body. After a slight hesitation, Abium agreed with a nod.

A second later, the whole Throne Hall began to tremble uncontrollably, and then Abium felt a deadly pain appeared even though he was in soul form. After a long, painful process, Abium noticed another small humanoid fog appeared in the throne hall. No! It was a small part of his soul.

'It appears I can simply transfer my consciousness to this other soul with a simple thought.' He got stunned. Abium felt both souls were his own and noticed a small part of his consciousness was controlling that soul.

'Hmm, I'm glad that splitting my soul didn't damage my Sea of consciousness.' He breathed out a sigh of relief.

After that, Abium controlled the small foggy soul to sit on the Golden Throne and directly moved his original soul towards the mysterious fountain.

'These five pedicles like stems seem to be the real deal. Now, what is this Core of Itera?... Moreover, these five pedicles appear to be linked with different divinities, making me more curious. Do I have to collect five different divinities?' Abium stared at the mysterious fountain with puzzlement and then shook his head.

'I can already guess this Core of Itera holds much more secret than just one Time divinity.' He felt a headache when he thought of those tricky questions and quickly shifted his gaze towards the other side of the Throne Hall and then froze in shock.

Instead of an empty hall, he saw a total of five smaller thrones in different colors placed on both sides and looked majestic as his own.

On his right side were Black, Red, and Green colored thrones, and on his left side were Blue and Silver colored thrones placed in order. He easily guessed that these thrones were related to those Angel statues he had seen earlier and become more cautious. But what made his right eyebrow to arch up high was, he saw a few rings placed on each of those thrones.

'Aren't these rings I saw earlier in those Angels statues' hands?' Abium was about to walk towards those thrones to check those rings but stopped. Because he saw all six rings with different colors began to rise from those thrones and soon appeared in front of him one by one. Abium sat on the golden Throne, dumbly for a few seconds, and quickly regained his senses.

After a short experiment, Abium learned these rings, and even thrones were moving under his will, making him more scared.

'F*ck! I think I ended up stealing something so important from the Time god!' Abium finally lost his composure and got more alarmed inside as he stared at the throne hall full of vigilance.

The throne Hall now looked more beautiful and appeared more majestic. Even the Elven Throne he saw at the Star tower was insignificant when comparing to these thrones.

'Where the hell am I now?' Abium muttered to himself in shock and narrowed his eyes.

'This place must be Time God Udnir's palace, and somehow I snatched it from him after defeating a part of his consciousness. But I don't think any god will give away their seats. He will definitely come after me.' Abium fell into deep thinking and sighed heavily with full of worry. He felt both afraid and powerless.

'Well, I don't have another choice but to study more about this place.' Abium smiled bitterly and shifted his attention to those five different colored rings. He stared at those rings in confusion. Just as he was about to inspect those rings using his spirit power, Abium felt other information entered his mind from the golden Throne and soon frowned.

'So these rings are for Time God's servants, huh. Using these rings, I could appoint five members as my servants and could easily pull their souls into a separate domain to communicate with them in the future.' Abium nodded in enlightenment. He suddenly thought of the time when Lady Nyara pulling him into some mysterious black space and then started to understand a little.

'Can I really able to bring someone into the mysterious black space like Goddess Nyara? Even if I bring them here, what could they gain?' Abium thought for a moment and quickly dismissed those thoughts. Because he felt his soul power had already reached the limit to maintain his state in the Throne. Without any choice, he returned to the real world and began to tell everything that happened in that Throne hall to Azolla. Soon, he got disappointed as she also didn't have any clue about that mysterious throne hall and that Core of Itera.

As he was in puzzlement, Azolla spoke solemnly.

'Kid, there are only two possible reasons why I can't remember anything about that Core of Itera. The first one is that the mysterious fountain must be from another plane. For the second reason, maybe I knew about that information before the implantation, but it must be stored in that tower core. I stored most of the confidential information in the tower core.'

Hearing those words, Abium got disappointed.

'It's not an urgent matter anyway. First, I should start exploring this Fex dimension and get the hell out of this place.' Abium nodded his head and then rested for a few hours. After checking there was nothing left in the Time Temple, he quickly walked out of it.

But as soon as he walked out, he noticed a monstrous humanoid figure wandering in the ruined city. No! It was walking towards his direction!

It was around 10 meters tall and held a massive 8-meter long club in its Titan-like hand. It had a big muscular body, elephant-sized round head and its face looked exactly like the three-eyed Giant. It wore a monstrous red skin to cover its private parts and carried a 5-meter long silver snake on its shoulder.

'F*ck, I'm dead now!' Abium face went death pale!

'No, you aren't. It's a first-tier Warlock, kid. Not a third-tier one you saw a few months ago.' Azolla said calmly.

Hearing her words, Abium regained his calm and looked at the Three-Eyed Giant.

Simultaneously, the Giant was also looked back at him and then sprinted towards his direction while dragging its monstrous club.

Without waiting for a second, Abium conjured a one-meter radius fireball and threw it towards the incoming Three-Eyed Giant.

The fireball flew at a fast rate and directly smashed onto the Three-Eyed Giant's chest. The next instant, a loud explosive sound echoed and started burning its rock-like skin.

But Abium saw a smirking smile on the Three-Eyed Giant's face!

The next instant, the Three-Eyed Giant jumped up in the sky while raising its 8-meter long rod-like wooden club with its both hands and directly smashed at Abium.

'War Angel's wings.' Watching the incoming club attack, Abium cast his 'War Angel's wings' spell hurriedly and blocked it with his both crimson wings.

BANG!

A loud sound shook the whole ruined city!

Abium was beyond shocked by the power and then noticed his crimson wings were beginning to break!

'Is it because of 'Titan's strength' bloodline trait?' He spat a mouthful of blood and muttered to himself in a daze.

At the same time, he saw the burned wounds on its chest area were healed entirely, and the Three-Eyed Giant now looked anew.

'Damn it! It seems it will be tough to kill this guy.' He cursed under his breath and disappeared from there.

Due to Abium's sudden disappearance, the Three-Eyed Giant lost its balance and stumbled forward.

The next moment, Abium reappeared on the Three-Eyed Giant's right shoulder and pointed his forefinger towards the Giant's head.

"Let me teach you a good lesson." He muttered out loud while conjuring two massive fireballs and threw it towards its head.

A second later, Giant's head was entirely devoured by those fireballs!

"ROOAARRRRRR!" It let out a deep angry roar and rubbed its face using its gigantic hands after dropping its weapon. But Abium didn't stop his attack. Instead, he conjured another two massive fireballs and threw it on its face while floating above in the air using his War Angel's Wings spell.

The Giant began to swing its hands furiously and started to go on a rampage!

Although Abium was looking calm on the outside, he was deeply worried inside as he noticed the Giant's regenerative power.

'My fireballs are not enough to give a fatal wound.' Abium sighed heavily. At the same time, the Three-Eyed Giant ran towards a random direction while not minding the burning fires on its face and then began to shout in a weird language!

'Giant language? Does that mean there is a Giant settlement nearby?' Abium got more worried, so he quickly followed after the Three-Eyed Giant. But he didn't stop his attack. Instead, he took out the dark silver sword from his spatial ring and began to attack the Giant's neck, legs, hands, and other vital areas using advanced sword aura. Although it tried to grab him multiple times using its massive hands, Abium simply blinked and escaped calmly.

Within a minute, the Three-Eyed Giant was already covered in blood and was already on the verge of falling. As it was about to fall on the ground, it stumped on the ground and let out another roar.

The next instant, Abium saw a cruel smile appeared on its face, and then it let out a burst of loud laughter!

Abium got dumbfounded by the Three-Eyed Giant's sudden laughter!

"Elf, are you from the Easica plane?" Suddenly, it turned its head upward towards Abium, who was now floating 50 meters above its head and asked in runic language.

Abium was surprised for a moment and spoke a single word while nodding his head.

"Yes."

"Hahaha, good." Three-Eyed Giant nodded its head and spoke while grinning.

"Do you know why Giants and Titans are feared all over the universe?"

Abium got baffled by the sudden question and shook his head.

"You are a real fool, little elf. Hmm, you must have never battled against a Giant before. You thought it would be a piece of cake to get my Blood Essence, didn't you?" It curled its lips upward and then spoke calmly.

"Too bad, you take me lightly. We Giants are gifted with the pure bloodline."

As it finished its words, Abium saw those wounds began to heal at an unimaginable rate, and in a blink, the Three-Eyed Giant was returned to its former state!

"This spell is called Titan's regeneration. As long as I'm breathing, I can heal myself at an unimaginable speed." It spoke proudly.

The next moment, Abium saw the Three-Eyed Giant snapped its large fingers and disappeared from there!

'What the-!?' Abium got stunned by the Three-Eyed Giant's display! But soon, he calmed down as he remembered the status of the Three-Eyed Giant.

'It must be 'Mind Illusion' spell.' He coldly snorted and directly threw another fireball towards the area where the Three-Eyed Giant stood before.

The next instant, the illusion was broken into glasses and then revealed its original bloody form.

'Hmm? Why didn't this Giant use its 'Titan's Regeneration' bloodline spell?' Abium narrowed his eyes for a moment and soon smiled as he scanned the almost cooked Giant. Its face now was wholly charred and looked more like a deformed ugly face.

'Heh, it was a bluff, huh.' He was amused by the Three-Eyed Titan's petty trick and noticed Unyielding Will, Titan's Regeneration, and Titan's armor were in a sealed state.

As he was about to say something, but soon his eyes widened. He saw the Three-Eyed Giant was looking at him and seemed to be concentrating on his body.

Instantly, Abium sensed a danger premonition!

At the same time, the Three-Eyed Giant opened its Third-Eye and directly locked onto his body.

For the first time, Abium's body trembled uncontrollably in fear! He felt something invisible was gripping his body from escaping and got deeply startled!

But he was not an ordinary mage. He instantly connected his soul to the Core of Itera and cast 'Quick-Thinking' divine spell on himself.

The next moment, he felt the restriction got loosened and quickly teleported from there.

As his figure blurred, a beam of silver lightning came out from the Third-Eye and directly pierced through the air where he stood before.

The next instant, Abium's figure reappeared behind the Three-Eyed Giant, and instantly he attacked it with his Dark silver sword.

But this time, there was a different green colored aura covered the sword edges.

Before the Giant could respond, Abium slashed his sword at its nape and directly cut its head!

A second later, the large Giant body fell on the ground while breaking the nearby trees.

'Good Job, kid. Now, it's time to extract its Blood Essence.' Azolla said calmly.

'Blood Essence?' He asked with puzzlement on his face.

'Yes. This Blood Essence is a condensed form of this Three-Eyed Giant's blood. Even after its death, part of its consciousness will be hiding inside its Blood Essence to protect its bloodline. Unless someone with firm willed person consumes the Blood Essence and subjugates its remaining consciousness inside their Sea of Consciousness, they wouldn't be able to get the Three-Eyed Titan's bloodline. It is a rare bloodline, kid. You can give this to one of your friends and let them walk on the path of Warlock.' Azolla said solemnly.

Hearing Azolla's words, Abium got shocked!

Nodding his head gravely, Abium began to draw runic circles around the Three-Eyed Giant's heart area under Azolla's guidance.

After spending an hour, he completed the complex runic circle formation and then began to extract its Blood Essence.

He spent another hour to extract the Blood Essence completely and then flew towards the Fire Temple hurriedly.

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