Wizard's Journey

Chapter 124 Sweeping Through the Five Regions (Part 8)

After traversing the vast, black muddy terrain, Grimm and Kredia landed atop a stone pillar on the edge of District 11.

"There's a fluctuation of around two thousand mark values ​​over there!" Kredia seemed a little surprised. A two thousand mark value fluctuation is a very high value, because as long as you have such a mark value fluctuation, even if you leave the secret realm immediately, one thousand mark values ​​is enough to qualify you as a prospective demon hunter wizard.

two thousand?

Without hesitation, Green flew in the direction Kredia pointed, and Kredia followed excitedly behind him.

These past few days, Kredia had been following behind Grin, watching as this wizard apprentice was invincible, sweeping away all the wizard apprentices who stood in his way. His invincible and terrifying power had deeply fascinated Kredia, and she even listed Grin as her "idol".

I really don't know what kind of enemy in this area would warrant this guy's attention?

Just like before, they swept straight through?

However, Green, who was flying ahead, was pondering different questions with his forward-thinking mind. These were profound questions that ordinary wizard apprentices would never consider.

Although they are all wizarding academies of the Dark Wizard faction, different regions exhibit different regional characteristics due to the different class conflicts among the top wizarding apprentices.

such as……

In District 12, where Grimm resides, Aliro and Millie, despite their own strength, rarely affect the relatively weaker wizarding apprentices due to each other's presence and the influence of certain potentially powerful wizards. As a result, this generation of District 12 wizarding apprentices is in an ideal state of development, far stronger overall than the other three districts Grimm has previously traversed—much like the Holy Tower model of the wizarding world!

District 15, where Hillwoods resides, is so powerful that no other wizarding apprentice dares to claim second place because of Hillwoods' absolute dominance. Such a district appears strong on the outside but is extremely fragile inside, much like some "weak" large worlds that have creatures at the level of true spirit wizards.

The cataclysmic event at the District 13 Wizarding Academy resulted in the complete absence of top-tier wizarding apprentices, allowing Hillwoods to easily sweep through the region, followed by another sweep by Green. In some ways, this situation represents the most critical predicament the wizarding world faces now, after being "expelled" from its original infinite world coordinates by that unknown and powerful civilization!

(It's not that exaggerated. The wizarding civilization is still very powerful; it's just that it was reduced from a powerful civilization to a "more powerful" ordinary civilization. This is Grimm's personal speculation from the perspective of a wizard apprentice, and he doesn't understand the formation pattern of top-level civilizations. As for why it has more potential, we'll find out after Volume 5.)

In District Fourteen, because the legendary wizard apprentice Wiki's magic is inherently flawed, while he appears very powerful, he has a fatal weakness. This situation quickly reminded Grimm of a peaceful world within the wizarding civilization's territory, a world with a World Tree!

These things in regional warfare at this time...

Is it a "scaled-down" version of the power structure of those worlds in the endless world?

Of course, Green already knew that many worlds had different rules than the wizarding world, and the local creatures also had different models of civilization development. This is why there were endless worlds with infinite possibilities, and different civilizations had the desire to explore, expand, and plunder the surrounding weaker worlds!

So, what is the structure of this eleven-region pattern?

call out!call out!

Without wasting too much time, Green expelled a wizard apprentice with around 300 points halfway through his journey, and then flew towards the wizard apprentice with 2,000 points.

Huh?

Halfway there, Kretia let out a soft exclamation: "There's a wizard apprentice with around 1,300 points about 5,000 meters away over there."

Green was taken aback!

What's going on in this area? Did that legendary wizard apprentice leave without plundering all the points in his area? He actually left behind so many wizard apprentices with such a large number of points!

The melody seems a little different in this area!

Thinking this, Green continued charging towards the wizard apprentice with two thousand points without stopping. Expelling wizard apprentices with more points first was Green's principle all along.

Ok?

Green was surprised when he found his target.

On the ground, a male wizard apprentice wearing a bluish-purple mask appeared in Grimm's sight. He wore a loose gray robe and held a magic staff topped with an emerald. However, these were secondary; the main concern was the creatures surrounding this wizard apprentice…

This wizard apprentice, just like Robin, also practices the art of summoning otherworldly creatures through contracts?

The wizard apprentice rode on a giant toad three or four meters long. The toad's body was covered in countless bluish-red poisonous bumps, which immediately reminded Green of the primal curse, Al-Liu. There was also a two-meter-tall minotaur-like creature, which seemed to be an intelligent species, holding a thick black chain in its hand. Its pair of curved horns seemed to be emanating a layer of wind elemental energy. There were also hundreds of densely packed green insects, each of which had powerful forelimbs like a mantis and a huge mouth like a primal creature.

"Wizard apprentices from District 12? I've never seen you before?" The wizard apprentice on the ground, wearing a purple mask, asked with slight surprise upon seeing the mark on Kredia's forehead, but without much fear.

"Oh? You're also a wizarding apprentice from District 12?" Green, who was about to attack, stopped and asked with interest.

Cretia seemed to remember something and exclaimed in surprise, "The Key to the Stigmata, Dewui!"

Then, Kredia whispered to Grin, "Grin, Dewui is extremely powerful and possesses the Key of Friendship, a holy mark. He is a wizard apprentice that even Millie from the Ice Age and Aliro from the Primal Curse would not want to provoke."

The Key to Friendship with the Stigmata?

Green was slightly taken aback. As far as he knew, only he and Raffi possessed the Key of Friendship in District 12. He hadn't expected that this Dewood also had one. However, Raffi's Key of Friendship was traded as currency by the Stigmata Wizard and then obtained by chance during an adventure; while Green's was personally bestowed by the Stigmata Wizard, and the level of the soul servants they could summon were different.

Presumably, De Wuyi's Stigmata Key of Friendship is the same as Raffi's.

Even so, for a wizard apprentice who possesses the Key of Friendship of the Holy Mark, and whose opponent cannot threaten the peak qualification reward, coupled with the randomness of this encounter in an alien world, Grimm actually felt a bit like he was uniquely venturing into an unknown alien world and encountering a wizard.

Thus, Green surprisingly abandoned his intention to fight and calmly looked at his opponent.

DeWoy, on the ground, sensed an incredibly terrifying aura emanating from Green. He was horrified at where this guy from District 12 had come from and had no intention of making a move.

After thinking for a moment, Dewood said loudly, "I was wandering around District 15 before, which was shrouded in the aura of a wizard apprentice known as the Bell Master Hillwoods, but I never encountered that legendary wizard apprentice. Later, I met Yekda, the Winged Light of this District, in District 14, and realized that there were no legendary wizard apprentices in District 11, so I came here to try my luck. What about you guys?"

This guy actually went straight to the Hillwoods area!

Green couldn't help but marvel at the guy's luck. If Hillwood had been sweeping through his area and happened to run into him, he would have been in deep trouble.

However, since we've encountered that Winged Light Yekda, why is it that Area 11 has no legendary wizard apprentices?

Green asked the question that had been on his mind.

DeWoy shook his head and said, "No, he hasn't reached the level of a legendary wizard apprentice who possesses unique insights into wizardry. However, his light element wings are very mysterious; I imagine even a legendary wizard apprentice wouldn't be able to do anything about him."

Green thought for a moment. This Yekda must be a wizard apprentice similar to Amiida, the Sword of Light of the Black Tower, right? Stronger than the top ten masters at the bottom level, but weaker than the top ten masters at the second level, yet able to escape from the hands of a legendary wizard apprentice.

Of course, this Yekda is probably much stronger than Amiida.

Green said, "I see... When we were in District Fourteen, we did hear that yesterday, the Earthheart Wiki fought a great battle with a wizard apprentice skilled in light element. Before that, I met Kredia in District Twelve and decided to venture out, but I went to other districts first. By the way, that powerful man from District Fifteen, Hillwoods, perished in District Twelve. If you'd like to try your luck in District Fifteen, that's fine too."

Yekda exclaimed in surprise, "Fallen! How is that possible? According to the intelligence, that Hillwoods should have killed a legendary wizard apprentice in their region decades ago. How could he have fallen in the Holy Tower qualifiers? Was it Millie or Arielokhan?"

Green smiled, said nothing, ignored Dewood on the ground, and flew with Kreta toward the wizard apprentice with 1,300 points that they had just sensed.

"Be careful! Although there are no legendary wizard apprentices in this area, but..."

Green and Kreta, far away, could no longer hear DeWoy's voice.

As Green flew through the sky, a thought struck him: Could this region be the very beginning of a civilized world for the endless world?

However, since there are no legendary-level wizard apprentices in this area, then for a nightmare-level wizard apprentice like Grimm...

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P.S.: Arrogance is inevitable; no wizard in the wizarding world can avoid it, including the protagonist.

Because any wizard gradually becomes accustomed to certain underlying rules or hierarchies, when an outlier breaks this system, it's seen as arrogance on the part of a wizard accustomed to the hierarchy. Of course, the somewhat morbid arrogance of Hillwood is quite rare, after all, such "genius-level wizarding apprentices" don't appear all the time, and it just so happens that he entered the wizarding academy in the previous years.

Wizards control their emotions to avoid arrogance, yet they are inevitably arrogant—a fact all wizards know but cannot avoid.

From another perspective, even without Green's appearance, would Hillwood still be arrogant? That would be perfectly understandable, wouldn't it? Would a wizard apprentice consider anything else when beating up a knight? The sense of superiority and crushing power would be inevitable, right? But what if this knight became the protagonist…

Uh……

The text does not provide specific examples, such as Green suffering losses as a result, which would be too unrealistic, foolish, and inconsistent with objective materialism.

But Green's psychological descriptions are just like that, gradually adapting to the hierarchical rules.

The following is the key point.

The Holy Tower Qualifying Battle mode is like the ship before heading to the Wizarding Continent in the endless world of "The Wizarding Journey". Just let me tell you in advance so you can be a little prepared and not be too confused and think it's just a simple wish-fulfillment story. Of course, there are wish-fulfillment elements and some artistic conceptions that Bai Lu wants to express, as well as the shaping and foreshadowing of the truly mature dark wizard's personality in the later part of The Wizarding Journey.

Try thinking about it from a different perspective.

The current Grimm is now a creature of the same level as Solem and Meteor on the ocean liner, capable of becoming the protagonist of a wizard's journey, rather than a wizard's apprentice journey. This is why the story has entered its second phase.

Also, Bailu just added parentheses at the end of some chapters at the very beginning to indicate foreshadowing that was difficult to understand. This does not affect your reading experience and has not changed the content.

(End of this chapter)