Team villains except me

Chapter 555: Rage of the Abyss

Abel did not see Dooku.

In this dark space, the first thing she noticed was the conspicuous sarcophagus.

Abel felt that her heart had stopped beating for a certain moment. She had an absurd and terrifying idea - she was hesitant to use space magic to open the sarcophagus and see what was inside.

She hadn't yet come to terms with Dooku's boldness, let alone the possibility that he might be in any danger. How would she break the news to her other students? They hadn't been having a good time lately.

Damn Deus! Aren't her students all good students of Abesgar? How much more will they have to lose before the gods stop?

Abel cursed as she gradually adjusted to the darkness amidst her fearful hesitation. She looked around and found some spare parts in the corner of the wall.

The disarray of the parts made her feel somewhat familiar. She must have seen something similar in her memory, perhaps in 1206, or in the Rose Mansion—Abel observed carefully, and suddenly knew where this place was.

This place, whose conditions are even worse than those in a prison, might actually be Dooku's room.

Where were Dooku's things? Where was his bed? Where were his quilt and pillows? His desk and lamp, and the display case for his work, his handy tools, his favorite trinkets...

Abel suddenly looked at the sarcophagus in the center of the space in astonishment.

That can't be... Dooku's bed, right?

Abel approached the sarcophagus in silence and placed the vines she was carrying on the ground.

The flower vine began to grow automatically. When it reached half a person's height, the flowers suddenly bloomed, and then threw out many points of light. Those points of light stuck to the top of the space, forming a light strip.

Abel saw those dots of light clearly; they were glowing seeds, gathering one by one and emitting a soft and warm light.

Abel felt that none of her students were bad. Zhu-yao only seemed impatient, but in reality, she had also grown.

Abel looked relieved when he looked up, but turned to fear when he lowered his head.

She herself dismissed the idea that this was Dooku's chamber. She saw a dark red stain on the sarcophagus. She reached out and touched it, but the stain had seeped into the stone; she couldn't feel the sticky, dried blood stain.

This is the cell.

Definitely a prison cell.

Abel couldn't wait any longer, she used space magic to blow up the sarcophagus and subconsciously closed her eyes.

If it was Dooku in the sarcophagus, she wondered if she would faint right here. At that moment, she only hated the fact that the development of time magic had always stagnated. If time magic could travel through time, she wanted to go back a long, long time.

If she had known she would feel so bad for them now, she would have been nicer to them from the beginning. Even nicer.

The sarcophagus opened with a bang.

Abel exhaled, and she resolutely opened her eyes.

The air was filled with dust and had a rotten smell.

…Not Dooku.

Abel felt like he was going to faint. Although it wasn't Dooku, there was a skeleton in the sarcophagus, fragmented but neatly arranged.

Abel had no knowledge of this kind of thing. Her communicator was unusable in the abyss, and she couldn't even determine what race or gender the bones belonged to... Judging from the skull, this life should have a pair of very large eyes.

Abel used space magic to lock a glowing seed the size of a box, and she walked out of the room with the sarcophagus.

As the glowing seeds were released, Abel saw the environment in which Dooku grew up.

Broken parts, an old metal table, its surface pitted and dented, like the sarcophagus, stained with blood, its original color unrecognizable. Beside the table lay a pile of utensils Abel didn't recognize, all filthy. The walls were mottled, also bearing traces of dark brown.

In the empty dark space, the walls were made of stone, and some broken puppets were thrown in the corners, looking eerie and terrifying.

Abel opened the doors of other rooms along the wall.

One room was filled with corpses, some with bones visible, others barely decaying. The nauseating smell made Abel vomit. Another room was filled with ancient books, their text intricate and complex, which Abel didn't recognize.

There was a room that looked like a kitchen, but there was no food. Abel found some potion residue. She had seen Orb making potions, and she thought this was probably something similar.

There were not many rooms, and Abel finally found a room suitable for human habitation at the very back.

There was a normal bed, books, and a lamp that looked like it was made of some kind of mechanical device. It was clean, not a speck of dust. Only this room had no blood stains.

Abel didn't think this was Dooku's room.

She had seen Dooku without his mask, and the scars on his face told the story of what he had gone through in the past.

Abel had looked at all the rooms and felt that even if her most hated enemy lived here, she would not think that he was guilty of such a crime.

Yet this is where her student life grew.

Abel felt her eyes burn. She rubbed them fiercely, but didn't stop. She tried to find Dooku somewhere she hadn't searched carefully enough. The gem had brought her here, and there was Dooku's blood in the gem... and of course there was Dooku's blood here too. It practically covered the entire place.

Abel fumbled around and finally found the secret door in the cabinet of the clean room.

Her spatial magic seemed to be blocked at this moment. She tried many times before she found the tools to pry the door open.

——Even many years later, when Abel dreamed of this scene, he would still wake up in fright.

Outside is a vast world paved with flesh and blood.

Abel nearly missed a step. Horrified, she clutched the doorframe, watching countless spaces of varying shapes below wriggle like worms. Her eyes began to bleed after just one glance. Forced to look away, she raised her head tremblingly.

There is a blood-red sun in the sky above the world.

A closer look reveals that it is not the sun, but a huge, glowing meat grinder that rotates at a terrifying speed.

The rotating fan blades are extremely sharp blades.

Abel took one look and was drawn to the warm light. An uncontrollable desire filled her heart. She wanted to follow that light, to pass through that terrifying meat grinder and reach the world beyond it...

Abel's grip on the door frame gradually loosened, and she raised her foot again. Although every cell in her body was filled with fear, she was completely unable to control herself.

One of her feet was already dangling in the air.

Whether she fell or rose, she would die.

The wind suddenly picked up, a forceful upward current, as if something was eager for her to get away.

The necklace around Abel's neck swayed in the wind, making a sound.

Her students were still waiting for her. She didn't want to be just another piece of flesh and blood in this world. If she died here, would she be reincarnated? She didn't think so. She couldn't... couldn't just give up on herself.

She hasn't lived enough.

She still had people to see, she still had a future, people waiting for her. Her students couldn't bear any more grief. Her students were still very immature, she was worried, she couldn't feel at ease... She absolutely, absolutely didn't want to die here!

Abel's eyes were sore and she tried hard to close them, but her eyelids seemed to be pulled by something and she couldn't close her eyes.

Her other foot was slowly moving outside.

The strong wind made her body sway. The fear and unwillingness to die turned into control over her arms, and she held on to the door frame tightly with her hands.

Suddenly, she heard a tearing roar.

A person jumped out from the twisted and wriggling space, and was pushed towards the gentle light by the wind, and then soon, blood foam splattered.

Abel felt less controlled, and she threw herself back into the room in one go. The secret door made a heavy sound as she moved.

Abel lay on the ground, gasping for breath. Her nails were all broken, her fingers were bleeding, and her legs were still shaking. She clutched the jewel necklace around her neck, and recalled the world she had just seen in horror.

What exactly is that space? Why did her time magic completely fail? Why does this space exist in the abyss?

Abel was frightened.

A question suddenly occurred to her.

Could Dooku have opened the secret door as well? Could Dooku...

Abel couldn't think any further. She stood up with shaking legs and smashed the gem containing Norvia's blood.

She had to tell them this.

The next second, Abel disappeared from the spot.

In the clean and tidy room, the only evidence that Abel had been here was a few scattered bloodstains on the floor.

……

When Abel returned to Norvia, her head felt heavy, and then some of her memories were suppressed.

But her fear was still surging. She didn't give Norvia a chance to speak. She told her about Dooku's growing environment, the sarcophagus, the bones, the corpse, the clean room, and...

What else is coming?

Abel doesn't remember.

She seemed to want to say something very important, but her mind was blank. The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't say them.

Her fingers still hurt.

Norvia also discovered it.

She felt that Teacher Abel was not in a good state.

Nolvia first used water magic to treat Teacher Abel's wound.

Abel stared at his hands in a daze.

"...Mr. Abel. Mr. Abel?"

Abel came back to her senses and looked at Nolvia. It was obvious that she had not heard what he said before.

Nolvia repeated it to Abel.

"Dooku collapsed near the Abyss. The Abyssal Clan discovered Dooku. The time coincided with the time you smashed the gem, so it's normal that you didn't find Dooku in the Abyss.

Dooku is safe, we have found him."

Abel let out a sigh.

"That's fine."

"How did you get hurt?"

"Injured? Uh... maybe I accidentally scratched something."

"Teacher Abel, your standing posture is very unnatural. Your leg may be injured. And your fingernails are all broken."

Abel looked at Nolvia's serious expression and felt helpless.

"It's not that I didn't tell you on purpose because I didn't want you to worry. I really don't remember how I got injured."

Memory disappears.

Nolvia lowered her eyes.

She thought that Mr. Abel might have met Dooku's "grandfather." But Mr. Abel was not a puppet, so was he under the spell of a puppet?

Nolvia looked at Teacher Abel who was a little dazed. She took Teacher Abel and returned to Abersg in a magic circle.

Their team doctor, Mr. Can, is still in the college.

Tonight was a chaotic night. After learning Dooku had emerged from the Abyss, Kabra lifted the ban on "Sending You Home." Fianna and Zhu Ying headed to the northern continent, while Norvia remained. Knowing Teacher Abel, she suspected he would choose to shatter the gem imbued with her blood.

She was not wrong.

But she also knew Dooku. Why didn't she sense anything unusual about Dooku?

What did Dooku do? What happened in the Abyss, and why did Dooku faint?

Nolvia supported Teacher Abel. She felt that Teacher Abel's experience in the abyss would not be a good one. She apologized softly.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Abel."

Abel came back to her senses while thinking, she was a little puzzled.

"Why are you apologizing all of a sudden? It's nothing, I've been sleeping late these days."

"The abyss is very dangerous, then..."

"Of course I know the Abyss is dangerous. If it weren't, I'd be relieved to let you go down and find Dooku on your own. Nolvia, I'm your teacher and you're your student. The things you encounter on a daily basis may be more dangerous than what I experienced tonight.

Norvia, I am an adult. I am your first instructor. Of all the instructors, I am the only one left who can help you and whom you can rely on.

Of the teachers still alive, Obu is troubled by a monster appearing on the southern continent, and the chairman is still in a coma. Garcia is even more immature than you are. Although he's trying hard, he still needs experience in dealing with people, and he panics more than you when things get tough. Musa is in a bad way; she can't even handle those things on her own. As for the new instructor, you haven't met him yet, so how can you have any feelings for him?

If I can't be relied upon by you, Nolvia, then who on earth are you going to turn to for help?

Hazi is just an ordinary person, Ochifu is old, and Morga and Gillan are even more so. Gonia looks mature, but she's your age, and she has her own team. Meniluo has her own career, and you don't always ask her for help—I won't talk about the others. Nolvia, believe me. I know what's going on. When I broke the gem, I thought of the worst possible outcome, but look at me, hey, I'm back. I'm a genius time magician. I still have the necklace you gave me."

Nolvia lowered her head.

Abel patted Nolvia's head.

"It's okay, Nolvia, it's really okay. I'm glad you told me ahead of time this time, unlike before when I had to discover it on my own. I'm used to it. You little brats are all more troublesome than the other."

Nolvia raised her head and said the words again.

"Teacher Abel, please don't leave us."

Abel smiled.

"Of course. Nolvia, don't be afraid."