Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1192 The Collapse of the Devil Crocodile

The Devil Crocodile Devourer, once a dominant predator in the swamp world, used its proud magic crystal scales to become the apex predator in the food chain.

Its powerful defenses and death roll gave it boundless confidence. Confined to the peak level of level five, it desperately needed more resources to support its evolution. Clearly, the swamp world, as a small world, could hardly support its evolution to a higher level of life.

Thus, the world invasion wars began!

At the summit of that magic crystal, there was another level-five creature. The Devourer of Terror Crocodiles was confident that it could defeat it, thanks to the boundless confidence brought by its proud scales.

The final battle took place atop the sacred mountain, where that guy used a mysterious and bizarre ability that I had never heard of in the swamp world, dragging me into the gray rift and bringing me to this endless land of bones.

The initial arrogance was quickly overwhelmed by endless fear.

In this world, the Devil Crocodile Devourer felt as if it had returned to its childhood, as a lowly predator at the bottom of the swamp world, struggling to move forward in the muddy swamp where giant creatures roamed.

Every hunt must be done with extreme caution, for one could become food for other terrifying creatures at any moment!

Here, the scales that the Devil Crocodile Devourer was so proud of could no longer bring it any sense of security. In the years that followed, the Devil Crocodile Devourer finally learned that this place was called the Dimensional Esophagus, and that the reason it had come here was because of... a sealing technique!

On this day, the ravenous Dire Crocodile Devourer, after suffering heavy injuries, finally defeated another Exile World Lord and enjoyed the spoils of war.

however!

As strange lights suddenly rose from all directions, the Terror Crocodile Devourer thought it was some kind of illusory world rule descending. Before it could react in its fear, seven points of light shot out from a door in the sky, surrounding it completely.

Six of them were terrifying beings with exactly the same aura. The sense of dread that they exuded made me feel as if I had been petrified instantly, waiting for them to manipulate and control me at will.

If the six identical beings brought fear, then this terrifying life form, tearing at light from all directions and seemingly a black hole where light and darkness converge to devour everything, gave the Terror Crocodile Devourer a sense of overwhelming powerlessness.

I've experienced this feeling countless times in the swamp world!

The Lord of the World preys on lower creatures, so there is no need to capture them. With his superior level of life, any resistance or escape becomes meaningless.

Ten days have passed.

The Devil Crocodile Devourer, along with its six obliterated clones and the completely obliterated and integrated Green's original body, stood motionless like six statues, creating an extremely eerie atmosphere.

The Devil Crocodile Devourer felt as if its heart was filled with endless shadows. What were these guys trying to do by surrounding it? This had been a full ten days. After being frightened like this for ten days, the Devil Crocodile Devourer felt like it was about to collapse!

Just then, in the center of the distorted light and darkness that had annihilated the incarnation, Green, who allowed no room for error, suddenly moved.

"One hundred and twenty hourglasses constitute a growth node, one year has thirty-six and five nodes, and one epoch has thirty-six and fifty million nodes. Hiss... Could it be that I'm really going to be trapped in the dimensional esophagus for several epochs, becoming one of the eternally existing monsters here!"

Even a time error of only half an hourglass, when expanded to several epochs, would result in an amplification of tens of thousands of degrees.

If Green stayed in the dimensional esophagus for four eras, that would be an increase of 1.46 million degrees.

If Green stayed in the dimensional esophagus for five eras, that would be an increase of 1,825,000 degrees.

If Green stayed in the dimensional esophagus for six eras, that would be an increase of 2.19 million degrees!

With such a terrifying increase, coupled with the base attack performance of over 200,000 degrees of the power of annihilation itself, and the elemental surge of the body's power attack limit of 850,000 degrees, and even the self-sealing explosion, its power is so great that it is entirely possible for a level six organism to fight against the Endless Overlord for a short time!

Although the Endless Overlord, possessing an omnipotent soul, is almost invincible from the start, once Grimm's sealing technique is unleashed, he will only be able to retreat. However, being able to fight against the Endless Overlord with a level six life force is already an absolutely legendary and terrifying existence.

Even in the deepest, most illusory realm of the endless world, there are probably only a handful of such beings.

Such an existence could almost completely suppress the King of the Infernal Giants in the Evil God Paradise state, and withstand its Infernal Furnace state!

With a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, Green did not make a decision on whether to stay for such a long time, treating it as a last resort.

After all, according to Grin's estimation, due to frequent damage, Grin's Stigmata Soul could not maintain such a long lifespan as some of the terrifying old monsters in the Dimensional Esophagus.

Even if the sacrifice is accepted in the Dimensional Path, which slightly prolongs the journey, if one stays in the Dimensional Path for too long, even if one escapes through the Coffin of Hope, it is unknown whether one will end up in the Endless World or even in the void.

The road home is still long.

For Grimm, who will likely wander among the worlds in search of a way home to the Wizarding World, the more time he has, the more confident he will be. However, the shorter his stay in the dimensional esophagus, the less likely he is to succeed in leaving using the Scepter of Hope.

If we are defeated, and the Scepter of Hope is seized by another Coffin Ascender, being trapped in the Dimensional Eating Passage will surely lead to our death!

In this light, perhaps we should indeed take this opportunity to explore other gathering places in the Dimensional Digestion and see if there are any other chances to experience the power of the other top-level life forms here.

Green slowly exhaled the deep breath he had taken, and was about to search aimlessly while meditating his mental energy to its limit of 650 points when he was astonished to find that his six Origin of Annihilation clones were standing motionless like statues.

And that level-five scaled monster, surrounded by itself and several clones, stood there as if petrified.

"What are you doing?"

Amidst the distorted interplay of light and darkness, Green conveyed a sense of astonishment.

"Waaaah, unknown, great and powerful being, just eat already! It's been ten days already, don't scare me anymore!"

With a "thud," the Devil Crocodile Devourer collapsed to the ground, its massive body trembling uncontrollably. It looked utterly devastated, ready to be killed or tortured at will, and no longer wanted to continue living in such fear.

No wonder, after ten days of execution, anyone would completely break down.

The surrounding area bears numerous traces of battle, but these will soon be erased by the storms of time; it is a battle between the wounded Deinosuchus devourer and its prey.

"Eat you? Uh..."

Green pondered for a moment. Ever since his physique reached its limit and he could no longer passively evolve on his own, Green had stopped consuming the Philosopher's Stone. With the absolute control of the elements by the elemental wizards, he had almost no hunger and never thought of eating this big guy.

"Huh? What are you doing now?"

Green looked at the six clones of the Source of Annihilation.

"Hahaha, I give up, I give up, I can't take it anymore, hahahahaha."

The avatar of the Source of Annihilation, composed of fifty percent joy, forty percent happiness, and ten percent sorrow, could no longer contain itself and pointed at the Devourer of the Terror Crocodiles, laughing out loud.

"It actually made us eat it willingly, hahaha..."

"Tch, boring, I'm a vegetarian."

"See, I told you this guy was definitely afraid the real thing would eat it."

The several clones of the Source of Annihilation were making a racket, actually playing a childish game of remaining motionless. Grimm shook his head and put the clones away.

At this moment, compared to before the advancement, there has been no fundamental change in his strength.

Even so, the limits of passive evolution, coupled with the power of the elemental surge leveraging the double fulcrum, are enough to make Green look down on this level 5 creature.

Surrounded by seven creatures that surpassed even the elite of the Crystal Terminator, it's no wonder he was trembling with fear and completely motionless.

Do you know of any strong individuals gathering nearby?

Green tentatively asked the scaly monster a question.

"Know!"

The Devil Crocodile Devourer roared, fearing that Green would treat it as a useless thing and eat it whole. Its fierce reaction surprised Green.

"In that direction, I heard from an ice skeleton that there's a settlement called the Collapse Endpoint!"

(End of this chapter)