Rebirth : The Alchemist's Path

As Cornelia looked at the ancestral stone necklace in Sylvus' hand, she was momentarily stunned.

Then, a white halo from her body merged into the surrounding space.

After a moment, Cornelia furrowed her brows.

"It seems a lot has happened on this continent. The divine power of the entire land has already been completely plundered,"

she murmured, then turned her gaze toward Sylvus.

"The item in your hand is a fragment of the Angelic Heart, and it has two uses."

"First, when someone in the elven tribe breaks through to the level of an Archmage, the fragment will conceal their aura, preventing the divine realm from detecting them.

"Second, it can assist someone in breaking through to the Archmage level, but it must be used in combination with a fragment of divinity. It contains divine power, but now, all the divine power in this land has been plundered."

"In order to break through to the Archmage level, you will have to rely on the divine power within the fragment of divinity and the Angelic Heart fragment."

"So, if I give the fragment of divinity and the Angelic Heart fragment to Elena, she can break through to the Archmage level?" Sylvus asked.

"Indeed."

Receiving Cornelia's confirmation, Sylvus smiled slightly.

"Then, I'll take my leave for now."

Even though he didn't need such items at the moment, there was no way he would give them to Elena.

At the very least, he would save them for someone closer to him.

Besides, he hadn't reached the Archmage level yet, and he knew he would need these items to break through himself later on.

As Sylvus walked away, Cornelia narrowed her eyes.

"This man has a special aura. Even I cannot fully discern him. Is the human race on the rise?"

After leaving the ancestral land of the elves, Elena and the others entered once again.

Whatever they discussed, Sylvus didn't know.

Nor did he care. He simply waited outside in silence.

After all, the elven tribe still owed him 500 billion magic crystals.

More than an hour passed before Elena and the others finally emerged from the ancestral land.

When they returned to the temple, the entire ancestral land space began to collapse, and Cornelia completely disappeared.

"Master, the leader has already told us. If you find the item that helps us unlock our bloodline seal, our entire elven tribe will follow your command from now on,"

Elena said as she looked at Sylvus.

"Let's put that aside for now. Pay up first,"

Sylvus said, spreading his hands.

Elena was taken aback, then smiled bitterly and nodded.

She hadn't expected someone as powerful as Sylvus to be so greedy.

However, she didn't renege on her promise.

She quickly had the High Priestess Genis retrieve the 500 billion magic crystals and handed them to Sylvus.

"The item needed to unlock your bloodline seal was taken by a fallen angel. I suspect that fallen angel might be related to the dark elves. Do you know where the dark elves are?"

Sylvus asked as he put away the magic crystals.

"Dark elves? We don't know for sure. Ever since they left the elven tribe, they've hidden themselves on the continent. They're impossible to find,"

Elena shook her head.

"Master Sylvus, the dark elves once attacked our elven tribe. I performed a divination at the time. While I couldn't pinpoint their exact location, I did sense that they are somewhere in the southern part of the Eslar continent,"

Genis, who stood nearby, suddenly spoke up.

"The south?"

The Bok Empire was to the west.

The elven tribe was in the north.

The dwarves were in the east.

If the dark elves were truly in the south,

then that meant Sylvus would have to travel the entire circumference of the Eslar continent.

"Well, I have nothing better to do anyway. I'll check it out when the time comes."

As he thought this, Sylvus turned to Elena.

"Do you have a quicker route to the dwarven lands?"

This time, he didn't want to fly all the way there himself.

If the elven tribe had a teleportation formation directly to the dwarven lands, that would be ideal.

"We can't send you directly to the dwarves, but we can teleport you to a place near their territory. I'll inform Ronald to meet you when you arrive,"

Elena replied.

Sylvus nodded.

Even though he couldn't go directly to the dwarves, it was still much faster than flying there himself.

Elena then led Sylvus to a war tree.

Beside it was a space teleportation formation.

When Sylvus stepped into the formation,

Elena and the others activated it.

In no time, Sylvus disappeared from the elven ancestral land.

"Your Majesty, do we really have to follow Sylvus' orders from now on?"

After Sylvus disappeared, Genis frowned and asked.

"The leader, Cornelia, already mentioned it. Back then, a strong member of the angelic race sacrificed themselves to foresee the future.

They saw that, many years later, a human man would lead our angelic race back to the divine realm. That man is most likely Sylvus,"

Elena said calmly.

"Even if we return to the divine realm, what then? We can't even handle the undead tribe, let alone the stronger divine realm beings."

Elena didn't reply. As Cornelia had said, it was their fate.

Even if they didn't want to return to the divine realm, once they unlocked their bloodline seal and became angels again, the divine realm wouldn't let them go.

With a wave of spatial fluctuations,

Sylvus appeared in front of a lake.

He looked around to confirm that he had left the elven tribe.

"Do the dwarves really live in this place?"

Sylvus looked around and sensed the presence of many powerful magical beasts.

Even in the lake in front of him, there were several magical beasts of the Grand Mage level.

"No wonder the dwarves are natural knights, living alongside so many magical beasts,"

Sylvus thought to himself.

Just then, the sound of something breaking through the air came from a distance.

Sylvus turned to see over a dozen dwarves flying toward him,

led by the dwarven prince, Mundo.

"We greet you, Master,"

the group said as they arrived before Sylvus, bowing respectfully.

Mundo's eyes showed a hint of fear.

When his grandfather, Ronald, asked him to meet someone, he agreed without hesitation.

But when he found out the person he was meeting was Sylvus,

even though he wanted to refuse, he couldn't.

Ronald simply wanted to take this opportunity to improve Mundo's standing in Sylvus' eyes.

After all, the dwarven tribe would one day be handed over to Mundo.

If their relationship with Sylvus wasn't good, the dwarves would be doomed.

"Let's go to your city first,"

Sylvus said with a faint nod.

Seeing that Sylvus wasn't making things difficult for him, Mundo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He quickly led the way, guiding Sylvus to the dwarven city.

In about a quarter of an hour, Sylvus saw a massive city appear before him.

From a distance, he could see countless dwarves bustling about in the city.

"Master, this is the city our dwarven tribe built. We have lived here for generations,"

Mundo said as he looked at Sylvus.

"Let's go in and take a look,"

Sylvus smiled and continued toward the city.