Wizard: I Have a World of the Dead

The restless school of fish suddenly quieted down.

Time seemed to stand still.

The Eton Wizard looked down at the seabed, where the marine life surged like a tide.

After a moment, he spoke: "According to Article 328 of the Wizarding Covenant, this is a free passage designated between wizards and sea creatures. Sea creatures, do you intend to start a war?"

The sea was silent, and no one answered his voice.

The Eton wizard raised his voice slightly and demanded again, "Sea creatures! Do you intend to start a war?"

Still no response.

The Eton wizard frowned slightly, said nothing more, but also made no further move.

The two sides appear to be at an impasse.

After a moment of silence…

"Splash!"

The sea, which had just been calm, began to stir again.

The larger fish on the outer edge began to flap their fins and wave their tentacles, stirring up the sea surface. The waves they created pushed the school of fish closer and closer to the wizard's ship.

The sea fish that had gathered in front began to swim away, circling around the thin membrane on the outside of the wizard's ship.

It didn't charge directly, but kept making gestures as if it wanted to rush over, as if it were doing something...

A test?

"Ha!" A cold laugh rang out from the sky.

The Eton wizard said, "You're asking for death!"

Having said that, he didn't waste any more words. Instead, he raised his right hand, which was holding the short-handled magic wand, and thrust it straight into the sky.

The next second, something unexpected happened!

"Whoosh!"

A strong wind blew up, and the sky darkened again, even more so than before.

A thicker cloud gathered overhead, like an invisible giant hand completely covering the entire sky.

"Boom! Boom!" The muffled thunderclaps echoed continuously.

Within the dark clouds, lightning flashed, like countless silvery-white giant snakes intertwining in the darkness. Each flash was accompanied by a deep rumble, pounding heavily on one's heartbeat.

The howling wind and thick, dark clouds slowly rotated around the wand held high by the Eton wizard.

It was as if with a wave of his hand, the giant black hand above his head, along with the countless lightning snakes gathered within it, would strike down and obliterate everything below.

The world changed color!

The fish on the sea surface finally stopped probing.

The fish that had been swimming around the membrane stopped swimming, the giant beasts that had been flapping their fins and stirring up waves withdrew their tentacles, and the strange fish that had opened their mouths to reveal sharp teeth closed their mouths.

The fierce glint in their eyes vanished completely, leaving only an overwhelming sense of fear.

"Splash!"

The seawater churned, waves surged and crashed, and large numbers of fish fled backward at high speed, clearing a large area around the wizard's ship in an instant.

"Is...is this the power of a wizard?"

"That's terrifying!"

The apprentices were also deeply shocked by this scene, staring wide-eyed at the Eton Wizard in the sky, who looked like a god, and the terrifying thundercloud he held in his hand.

Even Lin Qi couldn't help but widen his eyes.

He knew, of course, that wizards were powerful, but the effects seen on the computer screen were completely different from the scene in reality.

Compared to this truly powerful force that could command the wind and rain and control nature, he felt that his fireball was a complete joke.

Just as a massacre seemed inevitable, a voice rang out:

"My lord wizard, please calm down, we meant no harm!"

A giant wave rolled up from the sea, lifting a strange figure slowly into the air.

It was a humanoid creature, standing upright on the crest of a wave, about the same height as a human, with skin that was a deep, dark blue, covered with fine scales.

Its torso is humanoid, but its head is fish-like. It has no neck; the head is directly attached to its broad shoulders. The head is cone-shaped with a protruding mouth and no ears, but two fins.

The hand, with only three fingers connected by a semi-transparent puff, holds a trident wrapped in seaweed. The feet are wide and webbed.

Grand Knight Baruch happened to be standing by the window near Lynch's table. Lynch heard him sneer, "So it's the Tide Siren. No wonder you were so bold as to plot against us."

The apprentices' anxiety eased somewhat because of the Eton wizard's appearance.

Upon hearing Baruch's words, a nearby apprentice couldn't help but ask, "Tide Siren? What's that?"

Baruch explained, "It's a group of sea creatures, notorious scoundrels of the ocean, who commit all sorts of atrocities, including burning, killing, and looting, disregarding conventions and disrupting peace."

Meanwhile, the conversation on the sea continued.

After the tidal siren appeared, it quickly explained to the Eton wizard, "It's just a friend of yours. It wants to see you, so we brought it here specifically."

As he spoke, he pointed towards the deep sea, and then they saw a huge seashell, several meters in diameter, being carried over by a group of sea fish.

The apprentices' expressions immediately relaxed.

"Oh, it was a misunderstanding..."

"Damn, it's just a meeting, why make such a big fuss?"

"I was almost scared to death."

Baruch scoffed and said disdainfully, "Hmph! You're all just listening to its bragging. What kind of 'friends meeting' is this? It's just a way for them to save face when they can't win."

"That's how these lowlife groups are. They bully the weak and fear the strong. They only know how to bully others by relying on their power. Once they realize that the situation is not good, they will back down faster than anyone else."

The apprentices were stunned.

Lin Qi was also very surprised. Are the intelligent creatures in the sea really that clever?

in addition...

Are Yin Zheng's relatives connected across different dimensions?

Lin Qi was lost in thought.

Surrounded by the school of fish, the large seashell was quickly pushed in front of the Eton wizard, and then opened outwards with a 'click'.

A creature appeared inside the seashell...

Sea turtle.

Yes, this is just an ordinary sea turtle.

It was very old, its shell mottled, covered with barnacles and moss, cracked like a dried-up riverbed. Its eyes were half-closed, the pupils cloudy, like two pieces of amber soaked in seawater for thousands of years.

"Um?"

The Eton wizard's gaze lingered on the sea turtle for a moment, as if he had discovered something.

He put down his wand, flew down from the sky, and landed in front of the sea turtle, examining it carefully for a while.

Then, a smile appeared on his face: "Oh, it's you!"

The sea turtle seemed to smile in a human-like way, waving its limbs happily and making strange noises with its mouth open.

The two started chatting like that.

It's unclear how they managed to do it, but despite belonging to two different species, the Eton wizard was able to communicate with them.

This scene once again amazed the apprentices.

"Are they really friends?"

"Wow, the wizard can actually talk to sea turtles? Is that magic too?"

"That's awesome!"

After a brief reminiscing, the sea turtle waved goodbye to the Eton wizard and returned to the sea.

The schools of fish that had gathered around the wizard's ship dispersed.

Actually, these things had mostly dissipated while the Eton wizard was chatting with the turtle. It seems that, as Baruch said, this group is indeed cunning.

All I can say is, he's a relative of Yin Zheng.

The dark clouds in the sky dissipated, and the azure sunlight shone once more on the sea.

The storm subsided, and everything returned to normal.

The Eton wizard also returned to the deck.

He seemed to be in a good mood, with a faint smile on his lips.

Baruch asked curiously, "Is he really your friend?"

Eaton nodded and casually explained, "That happened when I was an apprentice. I had just arrived in the wizarding world and was sitting on a rock by a beach near this sea, playing the piano."

"That beach was the nesting ground for a group of sea turtles, and I happened to be there when the turtle eggs were hatching."

"The countless baby sea turtles thronged into the sea like insects."

"But it's not easy."

As if he had thought of something, the Eton Wizard's eyes dimmed, and his tone became more wistful.

"Crabs, seabirds, seagulls... too many predators have been eyeing these turtle eggs since early morning, just waiting for them to hatch and have a feast."

"Most of the sea turtles die on the beach and never get a chance to enter the ocean."

"To be born is to die."

At this point, the Eton wizard paused, his tone tinged with a hint of nostalgia.

He continued with a smile, "At that time, the little guy had already been picked up by a seabird, but the turtle's shell slipped, which allowed it to fall back down, and it just happened to land at my feet."

"That little guy is very clever; he hurriedly crawled under my feet."

"I saw that it had such a strong will to survive and looked so pitiful, so I helped it and threw it back into the sea."

"After going around in circles for more than two hundred years, I never expected to meet you here again."

The Eton wizard spoke casually, but the apprentices listened with great excitement.

A sea turtle that I casually rescued more than two hundred years ago has crossed the entire ocean and traversed this long period of time.

From a small turtle, it grew into a large sea turtle, an old sea turtle.

They met again in the ocean.

this...

It's just like a fairy tale.

The Eton wizard's gaze fell on the apprentices, and he smiled, "Keep it up! Crossing time and reuniting with old things—this is a kind of romance that only we wizards can have."