Wizard's Journey

Chapter 128 Who Can Compete!

hum...

Green felt his body twist and then opened his eyes again. Although he was still on top of the stone pillar, the platform at the top of the pillar was far too large.

The stone pillar, about one kilometer in diameter, is divided into two sides.

On one side was where Grimm stood, and on the other side were the three otherworldly creatures, the same kind that were the corpses of the creatures beneath Grimm's feet, flying in mid-air, blocked by a transparent defensive layer.

The entire defensive shield resembled a giant, inverted pot lid, with a partition in the middle, where Grimm and the three otherworldly creatures stared at each other.

Green glanced back; the area below the stone pillar was shrouded in mist, giving the impression that it soared into the clouds.

Ok?

Green gently touched the defensive shield behind him again, closing his eyes to carefully sense the energy fluctuations within. He felt as if his own pale mask possessed an infinitely magnified version of its own built-in defensive shield. It was a strange energy that had no inherent energy attribute, yet could neutralize most attacks.

"You, you... this little wizard, how did you kill them?" The chaotic and disordered voices of the souls reached Grimm. Grimm frowned slightly, and his eyes, hidden behind his pale mask, began to examine the three alien creatures opposite him.

Three creatures of the Academy Guardian level...

However, Green noticed that each of the three otherworldly creatures seemed to be injured. One of them was seriously injured; a section of its left wing had been cut off, and one of its claws had been severed, with blood flowing freely. As for the other two, one seemed to be under some kind of curse, constantly sneezing and losing feathers, while the other seemed to be under some kind of voodoo, its breathing somewhat disordered.

If the three-headed guardian of the academy is in poor condition, then he can coordinate with other wizard apprentices...

Ok?

wrong!

Why am I the only wizard apprentice who has been teleported in so far?

Green stood there, looking around. After several dozen breaths, suddenly, the figure of Wiki, the Heart of the Earth, appeared after a spatial distortion. Green was startled and reached out to say something, but Wiki only looked around a few times to make sure that Green was alone, and then crushed the badge in his hand without hesitation.

Space warps again, Wikipedia disappears, and Green's integral increases.

Green opened his mouth but made no sound, and his outstretched hand, which he had reached out to greet, froze in mid-air. His eyes, hidden behind the pale mask, stared blankly at the empty space where Wiki had left.

After about half an hourglass's time, seven or eight more wizard apprentices arrived sporadically. But once they confirmed that only Green was in the arena space, each of them crushed their badges without hesitation. One of them even said, "Hey, it really is you..."

Since these newly arrived wizard apprentices meet the attack power requirements, they are definitely not weaklings, and their scores should all be above two thousand.

Green's points steadily increased, but there was no joy on his face. Instead, his eyes, hidden behind his pale mask, gradually became indifferent, calm, and silent.

Gradually, no more wizard apprentices were teleported in, and Green's score on his forehead rose to a terrifying 49581.

Perhaps the reason these wizard apprentices came in was simply to confirm whether that terrifying wizard apprentice had actually come to this arena to compete for the top reward. Since they could no longer get first place, the extra points were useless anyway.

A short time later, a strange energy swept across the vast arena, and a voice echoed in Green's mind.

"Wizard apprentices on the arena, the arena teleportation has closed. You can compete for points during the quarter hour of the hourglass, and then fight against the otherworldly creatures on the other side after the quarter hour. You can also team up to defeat those otherworldly creatures. Note that leaving the arena at this time will also deduct half of your points."

This hint is clearly a test.

Because these hints clearly indicate that the otherworldly creatures also possess the ability to plunder points. Moreover, the otherworldly creatures on the other side are united against external threats, because they have only one goal: freedom and survival.

However, among the wizard apprentices, there are various internal struggles.

Even if all the wizarding apprentices on the arena were to fail, the so-called pinnacle rewards might actually fall to those who didn't even make it to the arena. If this were to happen, the immense irony would likely become an indescribable disgrace that would haunt the wizarding apprentices who made it to the arena for the rest of their lives.

however!

At this very moment, on this battleground of the Seven Rings Holy Tower, in districts 11 to 15...

Beneath his pale mask, Grimm muttered mockingly, "Wizard apprentices?"

Looking at the empty space around him, Green was all alone in the vast space. In the entire Holy Tower Qualifying Tournament, no one dared to compete with him for the top spot. While he felt incredibly proud and honored, an even more indescribable loneliness and loss arose in Green's heart.

This should have been the most glorious moment, but there was no one left to share it with, and there were no rivals left either.

This... is the loneliness of the peak.

The atmosphere born of this solitude allowed Green to finally understand the unspeakable loneliness behind Hillwoods' arrogance and ignorance.

When all the wizarding apprentices within his reach no longer have the will to fight him, when everyone fears him, when he can no longer find an opponent he can treat as an equal, where does his goal and meaning lie?

Even attempting to advance to become a formal wizard requires waiting until after decades of qualifying battles at the Holy Tower.

…………

hum!

Grimm suddenly gave a strange laugh, slowly raising his head. An indescribable aura of evil, chill, and loneliness enveloped him as he calmly gazed at the three otherworldly creatures on the other side of the arena. In an instant, the three creatures sensed a change in Grimm. From the blurry shadows behind him, they saw the eerie aura of the terrifying wizard who had captured "themselves"—an unspeakable sense of oppression emanating from this "young and weak" wizard opposite them.

At this moment, the three otherworldly creatures actually felt a primal fear!

This... is fear of wizards.

"You weak wizard, you are all alone, you have no hope, you should leave now!" A creature from another world actually began to "persuade" Green, but the instinctive tremor in its soul fluctuations made its persuasion seem so unconvincing.

Hehehehe...

Amidst a chilling, malevolent laugh, Green licked his lips, his soul trembling with a sinister light as he declared, "The wizard's pursuit of knowledge is the eternal truth."

As he spoke, Green squatted down, picked up the corpse of the otherworldly creature he had been studying halfway, pulled open its dissected abdomen, and pulled out a fist-sized, bloody organ. He grinned evilly, "This organ may have played an irreplaceable role in your past evolutionary history. But now, in your bodies, it has begun to degenerate, becoming dispensable. I guess... it must be because your world was conquered by the wizarding world that this happened, right?"

Green's actions and words immediately caused the feathers of these otherworldly creatures to turn red, seemingly due to the increased blood flow within them after their anger.

"Stop! Stop your blasphemous insults against the great Uchihao tribe!" an alien creature screamed at Grimm through soul fluctuations.

Green completely ignored it.

With a "snap," he pulled out the bloody organ from his hand, quickly prepared it into a specimen, and then a chillingly excited smile appeared on his face. He remained unmoved by the screams of the three otherworldly creatures, and proceeded to pull out another bloody organ, saying, "Judging from your body structure, this organ should be a female reproductive organ, right? These veins and structures… um? You're viviparous? I thought you were oviparous creatures! Heh heh…"

At this moment, Green suddenly had an undeveloped fetus of an alien creature in his hand!

This fetus was obtained by Green from the biological organ that had just been dissected, and Green was showing off his harvest with an "evil excitement" on his face.

"Roar! Evil wizard, filthy wizard, even if we die, you will pay the price for your actions!" The chaotic soul fluctuations of the otherworldly creatures erupted.

"Even if the great Wuchihao tribe and the Wulin Miyue world are conquered by your wizarding world, the great Wuchihao tribe will not simply disappear into the endless world!" another creature from another world screamed in unison.

As Green quickly bandaged the fetal specimen, he scoffed dismissively, "Countless specimens have said similar things to the wizarding world before!"

Meanwhile, looking at the hateful gazes directed at the three otherworldly creatures, Grimm silently thought: This level of hatred should be enough...

Boo!

After a crisp sound, the defensive layer separating Grimm from the three otherworldly creatures suddenly burst like a bubble. Almost without hesitation, the three otherworldly creatures pounced on Grimm with terrifying momentum, as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.

Suddenly, a black flame rose up around Grimm, and then a giant of grenades, six meters tall, was born.

After Grin deliberately provoked the three otherworldly creatures, the hatred and aversion aroused in the Flame Giant successfully increased its strength after consuming the hatred, making it powerful enough to suppress even the Academy Guardians and ordinary Level 1 Body Refining Wizards.

Roar!

The terrifying and ferocious Flame Giant stood beside Grin, and Grin felt insignificant.

At this moment, it seemed that the Greedy Flame Giant was the protagonist of this space. With a sweep of the Greedy Flame Giant's hand, a four-meter-long giant sword of water and lightning spread out in large ripples of lightning power.

…………

After one hourglass period.

At the very center of the arena, surrounded by a vast expanse of blood, the stench of dark red blood filling the air, one after another, the scattered corpses of otherworldly creatures lay quietly.

At this moment, on the vast arena, only Green remained standing firm, radiating his own unique life force, though this life force was very weak.

Green smiled bitterly, gazing at the vast, empty, and silent arena.

Is this... the arena that the Holy Tower set up for wizard apprentices to compete for the ultimate reward?

The battle for supremacy at the Holy Tower? Who can rival it!

Click...

Suddenly, a pitch-black crack hundreds of meters long burst open in the dim sky. Then, a giant eye slowly opened behind the crack. The moment the giant eye looked at Green, Green completely lost consciousness.

Faintly, Green seemed to hear a voice: "A little guy with 60,000 points, not bad..."

Rumble!

The mark on Green's forehead suddenly transformed into a halo without any energy attribute, as if it were some kind of higher-level mark, a symbol of some kind of identity. Green's severely injured body rapidly healed under the mysterious energy of this halo.

(End of this chapter)