This necromancer is going to seduce the beautiful girls who are already dead.

“No…” Rebecca blinked, “but it’s about research…”

“The research team in Eternal Night City has plenty of capacity, so you don’t need to worry about that. Come with me. I need your brainpower to fulfill your wish,” Abyss said.

"Hmm...okay..." Rebecca hesitated for a while before finally nodding.

"Leave your safety to me," Abyss smiled at Rebecca. "I won't let anyone harm a single hair on your head."

“Then I’ll entrust myself to you.” Rebecca finally returned to her usual self, smiled easily at the Abyss, and expressed her trust in the Abyss without any reservation.

“Then next, we need to investigate more magic related to time to see how we can fulfill your wish more perfectly.” As Abyss said this, he put his arm around Rebecca’s waist and with a wave of his hand, a rift appeared in front of them.

He took Rebecca and leaped in, thus leaving Helheim.

Watching the crack quickly close after the two left, Sofia hurriedly memorized the new technique—to domineeringly wrap her arms around his waist and then take him with her.

Great, I must find time to use these techniques!

Chapter 223 The Inspiration for the Abyss

Where is this place?

After Rebecca was taken out of Helheim by the Abyss, she flew in one direction and soon arrived at a remote, desolate mountain wilderness. The area was overgrown with trees and vines, which had completely blocked the path into the mountains, indicating that no one had set foot here for a long time.

“We’ve come here to visit some ancient mages.” Abyss pulled out his map from the magic catfish, which was marked with the locations of numerous tombs, and pointed to a marked point. “I think I have enough time-related magic that I’ve collected now. What I need now is a way to further improve these spells. The ancient mages buried here might be able to quickly provide me with some inspiration.”

"Do you still need to get inspiration from other people?" Rebecca asked Abyss with a smile.

Abyss shrugged: "My magical talent is indeed quite remarkable, but inspiration doesn't just appear whenever I want it."

Rebecca nodded: "I understand. The more one knows, the more easily one's imagination is restricted when faced with a blank slate. No one can escape this. It's precisely because you have too much magical knowledge that it's sometimes difficult for you to think from a different perspective."

“You understand me better.” Abyss gave Rebecca a thumbs up.

That's true. As one of the most powerful mages on the entire continent, Abyss's understanding of magic has reached a very high level. However, the more magic one knows, the more one knows what is possible and what is not, which in turn restricts one's imagination.

It's not that Abyss can't generate inspiration; his genius mind certainly won't stagnate. It's just that the process of generating inspiration is a little more troublesome—he needs to receive some external information, which is what is known as finding inspiration.

“You may have heard of these ancient mages.” Abyss pointed to the depths of the mountain in front of them. “They are called the Five Stars of Yulk, and they are quite well-known in history.”

"Yurk Five Stars?!" Rebecca seemed quite surprised when Abyss said that. "Those five mad mages from ancient times?"

The Five Stars of Yurk, as mentioned by the Abyss, are far from benevolent. These five are infamous throughout history. They are five powerful, but severely mentally disturbed, mad mages. They have severe violent tendencies, are extremely ruthless, often act together, testing their magic everywhere, and have even committed the cruel act of wiping out the entire population of an entire town.

Everything these five mages did was actually for the sake of the new magic they invented. In an era when the magical system was still incomplete, these five mages, who abandoned morality and conscience, did indeed create all sorts of powerful spells.

Of course, no amount of contribution they made to the magical world could atone for their inhuman crimes. After these five mages slaughtered an entire town of innocent residents, the entire magical world was thrown into turmoil. Various factions dispatched their most elite troops and powerful mages to join forces and kill these five madmen, finally restoring temporary peace to the continent.

“The five stars of Yulk are buried here. My master brought me here before, but he didn’t let me come into contact with these five people, saying he was afraid I would be corrupted by them.” Abyss took Rebecca’s hand. “Now let’s go find them. Although these five madmen are quite evil, they are also very clever. I may be able to get some useful inspiration from them.”

“So you’re going to communicate with them.” Rebecca let Abyss take her hand and followed him up the mountain.

The path up the mountain was not easy. Abyss used magic to cut down the various vines and thorns blocking the way, clearing a narrow path so that they could continue upwards.

Moreover, as Abyss and Rebecca ascended the mountain, numerous traps and poisonous gases were constantly triggered, and all sorts of deadly magic and mechanisms continuously attacked the two. Cutting beams, poisonous caltrops, traps filled with poisonous insects (which had now multiplied many times over and were crawling everywhere), and all sorts of dangerous defensive measures appeared one after another.

Human remains are frequently found on the ground, from various eras, many of them dressed as necromancers. These are necromancers attempting to resurrect the five stars of Yulk, but their strength is far inferior to that of the powerful ancient mages who once laid down the defenses of this entire mountain. At that time, almost all the forces on the continent participated in the operation to kill and bury the five mad mages, and the mountain's defenses were also established by them jointly. Even after so many years, they remain reliable and remarkably efficient at killing.

After a perilous but safe journey, Abyss and Rebecca reached the summit of the mountain. At the center of the summit, a deep cave had been carved out, where the five mad mages who had once threatened the safety of the entire continent were buried.

“Come on, let’s jump.” Abis hugged Rebecca.

Rebecca then wrapped her arm around Abyss's waist, saying, "You're in charge of my safety now."

Abyss smiled slightly and jumped down with Rebecca.

A barrage of poison arrows was launched from all directions, and poison gas capable of killing most creatures was also released at this moment. Gravity spells were triggered, along with a heating spell array, preventing Abyss and Rebecca from falling.

But these defenses were a joke in the face of Abyss's magic. Abyss and Rebecca quickly jumped into the deepest part of the tomb, where they found a large coffin.

Abyss didn't waste any words. After releasing Rebecca, he directly used magic on the coffin. The coffin lid opened automatically, and the souls of the five deceased ancient mages were instantly summoned back.

"Awaken, Yulke Five Star," Abyss whispered.

"Hah..." Five heavy breaths mixed with a lot of dust came from the coffin, and five desiccated corpses sat up straight.

Yulke, now a desiccated corpse, opened his eyes, turned his head with a creaking sound, and stared at Abyss with his shriveled eyeballs.

“Someone has come…someone has resurrected us…” one of the five mummies uttered.

“Someone’s coming… Kill him, kill him, turn him into our experimental subject too…”

With the sound of another mummified corpse, the five mages rose abruptly from their coffins, powerful magic instantly gathering in their hands. Each of the five possessed supreme-level strength!

Chapter 224 Five Madmen

"Foolish necromancer, how dare you come to resurrect us! Now, we will kill you and make you pay the price for touching power you should never have touched!"

One of the five Yurk stars roared loudly, a terrifyingly powerful and destructive energy already gathering in his hand, leaving no doubt that he truly intended to kill the Abyss.

These five people were truly insane. They didn't care at all about the fact that necromancers' bodies would turn to ashes after death. Each of them held a different magic in their hands—even after death, they still wanted to test the magic whose power they hadn't had time to verify in life.

These spells weren't recorded at all; they were spells they had researched back then but hadn't had time to document. And since the five of them used different spells, taking quick defensive measures would likely be quite troublesome.

"Die!" The five mummies let out a strange cry in unison and unleashed a spell on the Abyss.

Snapped.

However, after a snap of their fingers, all the magic in their hands vanished.

"Alright, stop struggling. I've drained all the magic from your bodies and this area. You can't use any magic. If you want, you can come up and fight me hand-to-hand, but I can't guarantee I won't tear your bodies to pieces."

Abyss stood still, not moving an inch, casually observing the five mummified corpses standing inside the coffin.

"What!?" The mummies were shocked. Just as Abyss had said, they had no magic left in their bodies and no magic to draw upon.

Their prized magical abilities are nothing compared to the Abyss.

"Let's get back to the point. I didn't come to visit you specifically to resurrect you. I have something to discuss with you. I want to talk about some rather unconventional ways to improve magic," Abyss continued. "After we finish talking, I will remove the necromancy from you and let you remain here as corpses. If you want to talk, we can start now. If not, then forget it, I'll go find someone else."

"Our minds will not be given to others!" one of the five Yurk stars said arrogantly.

“Although you are powerful, you are not worthy!” another person said.

Rebecca sighed behind the Abyss. These five people were truly mentally unstable; they were completely suppressed by the Abyss, yet they still spoke so arrogantly. Communicating with madmen truly requires a different approach than using common sense.

Abyss wasn't alarmed when he heard that the five madmen opposite him didn't approve of him. He smiled and said, "So you think I'm not qualified? Then what do you think makes me qualified?"

“You will never be worthy!” A female mage from the five stars of Yulk pointed a withered, twig-like finger at the Abyss and shouted, “We say you are not worthy, and you are not worthy!”

“That’s a pity.” Abyss shrugged, making a helpless expression. Then he pulled a bench out of the magical catfish and sat down with Rebecca. “Then we’ll just have to discuss these magics ourselves. You can do some stretching there, after all, you’ve been lying there for thousands of years.”

The five Yurks looked at each other, but took no further action.

Normally, the Abyss has a special affinity for the undead, making them easily trust and submit to him. However, the five Yulk stars are a group of madmen, their minds far more obsessive than ordinary people. Therefore, the Abyss's affinity has little effect on them, merely making them unwilling to fight the Abyss to the death.

“Alright, let’s summarize the time magic we’ve mastered so far,” Abyss said to Rebecca, who was sitting opposite him.

“Yes, I’ve already written them all down when you reported to me before.” Rebecca knew what Abyss was up to, and played along with Abyss, saying with a smile, “Let’s count them. There’s magic that lets you see the past, magic that lets you see your future self, magic that slows down time for objects, magic that makes water stop flowing, and magic that restores objects to their state a second ago…”

As Rebecca described these spells, the five mages standing inside the coffin all pricked up their ears curiously to listen.

“Very good, these are the spells. Now let’s think about how to improve these individual spells into modular spells so that they can be combined into a magic circle.” Abyss took out a blackboard and a piece of chalk from the magic catfish and handed one to Rebecca.

“Hmm… let’s start by designing this spell that makes water lose its fluidity. I think this spell is an important part of time travel. Air is also a fluid, and if we travel through time and space and can’t move freely in the air, it will be very troublesome. So we need this kind of magic to control fluids. I’ll draw the spell first…” Rebecca also started analyzing seriously. She drew a circle on the blackboard as the base of the magic circle, and then planned to write magic runes and magic circuits on it.

"Oh, I'll have to wait a moment."

Abyss suddenly spoke up at that moment. He tilted one side of the blackboard up, deliberately so the five mages couldn't see it, and leaned a little closer to Rebecca.

“Now that’s settled, those five probably aren’t very interested in our magic. I also think that this magic might be a bit too advanced for them, so it’s better if we discuss it in private,” Abyss said seriously.

Rebecca suppressed a laugh and said, "Okay."

The five mummies who had been straining to listen couldn't take it anymore. One of them slammed his hand on the edge of the coffin and protested loudly, "Damn it, what kind of magic are you discussing behind our backs? Turn it over so I can see!"

"That's right!" the others chimed in.

Abyss innocently turned his head to look at the five angry ancient mages, spread his hands and said, "What's wrong? You were the ones who said I wasn't qualified just now, and now you're the ones who want to see my magic. What do you want? Do you even want to discuss magic with us?"

The five stars of Yulk were once again caught in a dilemma. They stared at each other for a while, then reached a consensus.

Look! Why don't you look! I did say earlier that this necromancer wasn't qualified, and it would be very embarrassing to go back on my word now.

But they're a bunch of lunatics. What's face worth? Can't they just throw away their shame?

“We want to discuss this with you! Show us your blackboard! Magic that can control time is so interesting!” said the mage who had previously said the Abyss was unworthy.

Abyss and Rebecca exchanged a smile.

Chapter 225 The Minor Patient's Broad Thinking

"No, give me the blackboard!" A mummified corpse suddenly let out a sharp roar, snatched the blackboard from in front of everyone, and clumsily picked up a piece of chalk, frantically scribbling on the blackboard as if venting its anger.

Upon seeing this, the other mummified corpse suddenly screamed, "Idiot! What kind of garbage is that magic circle you drew? It could have been improved! This circuit is too complicated!"

"I kill you!"

"I'm already dead! I'm going to kill you!"

"I'm already dead!"

The two mad mages, who were originally on the same side, started arguing, but since their magic had been stripped away by the Abyss, they didn't fight.

Abyss and Rebecca are now sitting in the middle of the five stars of Yurk, discussing with them improvement plans for time-related magic.

Sitting amidst five mummies, listening to them occasionally argue and even threaten to fight, was a truly unique experience. Abyss seemed quite content, while Rebecca was a little uncomfortable. However, being with Abyss made her less nervous, and she was able to focus on understanding the mad mages' thought processes.

“Oh, I never thought of this circuit before.” After the group of ancient mages had been arguing for a long time, Abyss took the blackboard that they had drawn all over and looked at the magic circuit that had been modified many times.

“Indeed… an unconventional idea…” Rebecca also gained some new insights into the level of these five ancient mages.

In an era when magic was largely based on individual comprehension, the thinking of these five madmen was indeed quite capable of breaking through the existing magical system. Although the magic circle design presented to Abyss and Rebecca still had much room for improvement, the design was quite bold, achieving his desired goal in a way that Abyss had never imagined.

“Then all I need to do is to draw the simplest and most reliable magic circuit from this messy design…” Abyss said, taking out a piece of chalk of a different color and selecting the best circuit on the blackboard, and a complete magic circle was born.

Just as the Abyss needed, this magic circle not only achieved its original effect but could also be combined with other large-scale magic circles. Although the five members of the Yurk Stars were a group of mentally unstable individuals, their magical abilities were not affected by their mental breakdowns.