Wizard's Journey

Chapter 126 Sweeping Through the Five Regions (Part 10)

Boom! Boom!

Two fire bats ignited an inextinguishable wave of flames on the ground. After a wizard apprentice grunted, space distorted and he left the secret realm.

"Only 120 points... only 60 points were given out." Green frowned and muttered to himself.

Without Kredia's guidance, Green was no longer able to sweep through with the same clear objectives and speed as before. Moreover, his frequent attacks on wizard apprentices with only a little over 100 points greatly reduced Green's "cleaning" speed. As a result, even though today is the ninth day of the Holy Tower Qualifying Battle, Green is still wandering around District 11.

Meanwhile, the wizarding apprentice in District 11 felt as if he were living in a nightmare!

Amidst the undercurrents of secret communication, all the remaining powerful wizard apprentices in District 11 knew that a super-powerful being from another realm had arrived in their area, and any wizard apprentice with a mark value exceeding one hundred would show no mercy in attacking.

As time went on, after the wizard apprentices whose mark value was less than 100 left the secret realm one after another, it could be said that every wizard apprentice that Green saw became a target of attack. With Green's nightmarish sweeping, this once thriving area had become a "desolate and ruined" place, and Green often could not see a single person for half an hour.

Ironically, District 11 became the area that Green cleaned most thoroughly.

However, Green also began to vaguely sense that the wizard apprentices in this area seemed to be preparing some huge and sophisticated trap. If he continued to sweep around recklessly and foolishly, he might fall into their trap.

Now that there were no competitors left, Green wouldn't be foolish enough to test the waters of a trap secretly set up by countless wizard apprentices. With a cold laugh, Green muttered, "It's time to leave. It's the last day. Let's go take one last look at District Twelve!"

With that in mind, Green left the stone pillar forest in District 11, which had been being cleared for several days, without any hesitation.

The black, damp soil on the ground emitted a faint, fishy odor, which most people might not be able to smell, but it was extremely sensitive to Green's hunting nose.

Ok?

A light appeared in Green's field of vision. Judging from the direction of the other party's flight, it was exactly the opposite of Green's, as if it was flying from District 12 to District 11.

Sensing the light element within, a dazzling light flashed in Grimm's eyes beneath the pale mask as he exclaimed in surprise, "The Wings of Light, Yekda? It must be him. Hmph, after District Fourteen, he even went to District Twelve for a while, and his points..."

hum!

With a cold laugh, Grimm, who had been flying calmly and discreetly in the sky, suddenly erupted with terrifying light and heat, as if a crimson sun had suddenly risen in the dim sky, and violent elemental fluctuations spread out unrestrainedly. His body twisted and he appeared dozens of meters away. Then, with a flash of scattered lightning, his body became a blur and shot forward for twenty or thirty meters before twisting again and reappearing dozens of meters away.

With terrifying and awe-inspiring power, Green pressed down on the distant point of light with an open, overwhelming force, as if a terrifying behemoth with outstretched wings, covering the sky and leaving a large shadow on the ground, was attacking an innocent bard on his journey.

At Green's speed, a distance of over a thousand meters would only take a dozen or so breaths!

……

This wizard apprentice, skilled in the element of light, is none other than Yekda, the Winged Light, who is extremely famous in District 11.

District 11 is different from other districts. Although it has not produced any standard legendary wizard apprentices in the past hundred years, it has produced a lot of talented people. There are at least more wizard apprentices than the top ten in District 12. Many of the top wizard apprentices have their own trump cards. Among them, there are six that Weeks is extremely wary of!

Besides those six people, there are several smaller groups that are even more terrifying than them.

If Yekda were to encounter those six people alone, he could still take the initiative thanks to his magical abilities. However, if he were to accidentally fall into a trap set by those small groups...

It was precisely because of its internal strength that Yekda realized that collecting points in District 11 was far too difficult; perhaps only by venturing out into the outside world could he have a chance…

Yekda was also a wizarding apprentice who was unwilling to settle for mediocrity; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to climb to the top ranks of wizarding apprentices in District 11 in just forty years.

It was because of his dreams, desires, ambitions, and confidence in his own abilities that Yekda went to District Fourteen first. After a fierce battle, due to his absolute advantage in speed and agility, Yekda instinctively sensed that the wizarding apprentices in other districts seemed to be different from those in his own.

seem……

Their average level is significantly weaker than that of wizarding apprentices in their own region.

Yekda gradually confirmed his conjecture, and was filled with immense excitement! If he could use his speed advantage to quickly sweep away the weak in the five areas, wouldn't those strong individuals who were on par with him but couldn't match his speed be left only to sigh in despair?

Thinking this, Yekda almost saw the pinnacle rewards beckoning to him, and the future looked bright.

until……

When Yekda encountered the male wizard apprentice, Earthheart Wiki, in the central area of ​​District Fourteen, when he mocked her with disdain, calling her nothing more than a flea, when he completely ignored her, and when all her attacks felt like mere tickles, Yekda understood something.

That is, above the top wizard apprentices in District 11, there is another level!

However, Yekda quickly realized the weakness of Earthheart Wiki: when his feet left the ground, his terrifying power would be greatly reduced, so the opponent never left the ground.

In that case, I can choose to ignore him and continue collecting points.

Subsequently, Yekda arrived at District Twelve, where he discovered that the average strength of this district was no weaker than that of his own District Eleven, as he encountered several wizarding apprentices who posed a challenge to him.

but!

These wizard apprentices seemed to be filled with fear, as if the shadow of something far more terrifying loomed over the region. Then, Yekda finally learned of the two strongest legendary wizard apprentices in the area: Ice Age Millie and Primal Curse Allilo. For the first time, Yekda grasped a new concept of hierarchy among wizard apprentices.

Above wizard apprentices like myself, there's a legendary wizard apprentice rank? A wizard apprentice capable of contending with a formal level one body-refining wizard?

By chance, when Yekda encountered Millie and Mina, whose strength had greatly diminished, and when they mentioned that there were even stronger wizard apprentices in the Holy Tower Qualifying Battle, and when the scene of all the stone pillars collapsing, the earth riddled with ravines, and the ground shattered within a few hundred meters of the battlefield unfolded before Yekda's eyes...

Yekda understood: above the legendary wizard apprentice, there was the nightmare-level wizard apprentice, who might not even be produced in dozens of Holy Tower Qualifying Battles!

And in this year's Holy Tower Qualifying Tournament, one such Nightmare Extreme Wizard Apprentice was born!

After the initial trembling and fear, Yekda suddenly felt an overwhelming excitement, for a sky far more expansive than he had imagined unfolded before him. Over the decades, Yekda had grown weary of familiar faces and sorcery, weary of the tedious factional infighting, and weary of the uncertainty and confusion of not knowing what the next step would be.

Feeling the abundant points on his forehead, Yekda realized his insignificance and extinguished his desire to compete for the top reward. Just like a wizard returning from his travels and planning to go back to his homeland, the wizarding world, Yekda flew towards District 11.

Below lay moist, black soil, and Yekda, lost in thought amidst a hazy sense of longing.

However, as an indescribable and terrifying elemental fluctuation suddenly erupted in the distant sky, as the terrifying power resembling the sun in the sky pressed down, and as the massive energy fluctuation that destroyed everything crushed towards him, Yekda's original beautiful vision instantly turned into despair!

This is a nightmare-level wizard apprentice?!

Is this really just a wizard apprentice? Such terrifying power is simply not something a wizard apprentice should possess! Even if I spend several more decades learning the profound wizarding knowledge that my mentor taught me, and then spend several more decades completing some of my mentor's ideas and my own reasoning and speculations, I can at most reach the level of a legendary wizard apprentice.

but……

Such power! What kind of witchcraft or magic has he learned? What ancient magic books or scrolls has he obtained? This is not the power a wizard apprentice should possess!

……

Yes!

Yekda will never understand the true, fundamental difference between a Nightmare-level wizard apprentice and all other wizard apprentices...

The power of a Nightmare-level wizard apprentice never comes from the power of witchcraft, but from knowledge! Following in the footsteps of predecessors, wizards will forever live in the shadow of others. They will never find the true meaning of their existence or shine with their own unique brilliance.

The most powerful wizard is one who forges their own path and uses knowledge to realize the magic that best suits their own beliefs!

Perhaps, the mindset a wizard apprentice has when they first pick up a magic book and master their first spell determines their future life and the highest achievements they can attain.

While all the wizard apprentices were excited about gaining "powerful" strength, excited that as long as they found magic books and learned those more powerful spells, they could gain even greater power, and those once high and mighty knights would be killed with a flick of their wrists. They could take control of their own destiny. What a delightful joy that was!

Only a few "foolish" wizard apprentices were occasionally pondering why this was...

Most of these "foolish" wizard apprentices will die in various catastrophic battles because of their foolishness and weakness, forever buried in the yellow earth and the long river of history of ordinary humans.

but……

However, there will always be a very, very few "foolish" wizard apprentices who will become "myths" that all wizard apprentices can only dream of in the future. They will suppress all "intelligent" wizard apprentices with decisive power and become the true nightmare of all wizard apprentices living in the same era and region as them.

This is the nightmare-level wizard apprentice of the elemental wizards.

The true protagonists among wizard apprentices in a certain period and region.

(End of this chapter)