Wizard's Journey

Chapter 133 Ecological Balance

As a wizarding apprentice, Green was far inferior to a formal wizard in terms of both flight speed and magic conservation.

Once a formal wizard gains control of the power of nature, the multiplier of the rules that knowledge can leverage will not change. However, because they possess the ability to draw upon the power of nature with their own magic, the magic power consumed when casting spells will be greatly reduced.

As for flight speed, controlling the forces of nature can also significantly increase flight speed.

but……

Grimm and Peranos maintained the normal flight speed of wizards at all times. The reason was simple: Grimm and Peranos relied on mutual traction to maintain their relative distance.

Simply put, Peranos was constantly pulling Green along as they flew.

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

At the speed of a fully-fledged wizard, the two flew away from the direct control of the six major wizarding academies in District Twelve in just seven days.

This is a much wider and more boundless forest, far more expansive than the Thorn Forest.

Green and Peranos flew over three hundred meters, which is the normal flight altitude for most wizards. If they flew any higher, the wind and cold air would be much stronger, which would be unfavorable for long-distance flight.

Quack quack...

A large flock of three-eyed crows flew by, emitting anxious and panicked cries; there were about seventy or eighty of them.

Hovering behind Peranos, Green was overjoyed. Last time, because he was rushing to complete his mission, he hadn't had time to capture any of the three-eyed crows he encountered for experimental research. This time...

Ok?

Suddenly, Green noticed that behind the flock of three-eyed crows, two giant eagles with wingspans of seven or eight meters had also flown over. A shadow swept across the ground, and Green gasped in horror when he saw the two giant eagles in the sky, exclaiming, "Zhenglei Mo Eagles!"

The Zanglei Moying is almost the apex predator that wizard apprentices can encounter in the regular areas of the wizarding world. It is a powerful native creature of the wizarding world that can suppress ordinary academy guardians. It is said that this creature has a very mysterious application of certain earth and lightning elements and is completely immune to the petrification ray of the Three-Eyed Raven. It is the Three-Eyed Raven's absolute natural enemy.

Green looked at Peranos hesitantly. If his mentor were to take action, not to mention the Three-Eyed Raven, even the Zhenglei Moying should be able to completely suppress it.

Then, I can also conveniently obtain some experimental materials...

snort!

Suddenly, Peranos let out a cold snort, and Green felt an irresistible gravitational pull from the earth's veins towards the flock of Three-Eyed Ravens and Zhengleimo Eagles. Amidst numerous cries and screams, two Zhengleimo Eagles and a large number of Three-Eyed Ravens plummeted to the ground.

Green was delighted to see this.

It's hard to say about Zheng Lei Mo Ying, but if the Three-Eyed Raven is pulled to the ground by the earth's gravity like this by its mentor, it will have absolutely no ability to resist, even if it doesn't die. At that time, I can easily obtain experimental materials.

Thinking this, Green was about to happily land on the ground when he suddenly noticed a repulsive force fluctuation in the earth's veins. As a result, the falling Three-Eyed Ravens and Zhenglei Mo Eagles let out another startled cry and were "bounced" back up.

The panicked Zhenglei Mo Eagle and the Three-Eyed Raven let out a shriek and spread their wings to flee in all directions.

Green looked at his mentor, Peranos, in surprise, completely bewildered.

Peranos smiled slightly, his face resembling a crudely stitched-together ball, and said in a low voice, "You must remember, the wizarding world is the birthplace of wizards, and maintaining the ecological balance of the wizarding world is also one of the wizards' responsibilities. The seven holy towers of the wizarding continent have jointly decreed that formal wizards are prohibited from causing any destructive killings in the wizarding world other than for research, because excessive killing will one day cause the wizarding world to decline and become as desolate as the world of slavery."

Green stood there speechless, his mouth agape. As a wizard apprentice, Green never considered such things.

That's true...

In the ecosystem of the wizarding world, wizard apprentices are just a biological system at the bottom of the food chain. In the past, countless wizard apprentices have lost their lives in just one thorny forest that has been cleared away by wizards countless times.

Therefore, as organisms at the bottom of the food chain, why would they care about such trivial things as ecological balance?

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

Led by Peranos, Green flew at an extremely fast speed until ten days later when he finally crossed this vast and boundless forest, which was far more expansive than the Thorn Forest.

wow...

The roaring sound of the rushing river gradually reached Green's ears. A moment later, a huge river several kilometers wide appeared in Green's view, and the dense primeval forests on both banks were filled with giant trees, none of which were less than 100 meters tall.

Large flocks of birds soar in the sky, groups of apes climb on giant trees, and on the ground are solitary or gregarious carnivores, as well as large, gregarious herbivores and super-large herbivores that are twenty or thirty meters long.

Scattered amphibious cold-blooded creatures were basking in the sun on the sandy riverbank, while occasionally a huge creature would leap out of the water or reveal part of its body in the rushing river.

The biodiversity of this region was almost unbelievable to Green.

How could such a highly developed civilized world as the Wizarding World still have such a "primitive environment"?

It's important to understand that the books of the wizarding world contain countless records of completely extinct creatures, a direct result of the highly developed wizarding civilization. On one hand, wizards are constantly using the power of nature to uncover the deeper mysteries of the world's rules; on the other hand, the discovery of these deeper mysteries is uncontrollably disrupting the ecological balance of nature.

The relationship between these elements creates a strange "balance".

There was even a passage in an ancient book that Grimm had seen that said: Ancient wizards, because of their overwhelming power, caused serious damage to the wizarding world and had no choice but to start building aerial cities. These were continents that could fly in the air and were the ultimate manifestation of space fortress technology.

The general idea is that, in order to protect the wizarding world, the ancient wizards required all powerful wizards to go to the Sky City. It seems that in ancient times, the Sky City of the wizarding world was far more than the one that exists in the wizarding world today.

Of course, modern wizards seem to be protecting the wizarding world more strictly. It is even rare to see a level four or higher Saint Mark wizard appear in the wizarding world. Even when their own wizard tower was completely razed and destroyed, no Saint Mark wizard has been heard of daring to show up on the wizarding continent to retaliate.

seem……

It is precisely for this reason that a bridge of interests has been established between third-level wizards and fourth-level holy-marked wizards. Some holy-marked wizards even have to humbly offer various conditions in order to hire powerful third-level archmages to guard their wizard towers, and they also personally pay attention to the progress of their academies.

Because in some ways, the development of the wizard academy under the wizard tower is the development of the strength of the Saint Mark wizards themselves.

Ok?

Green suddenly realized something, and when he looked up, his pupils shrank in horror!

High above, in the sky, beneath the clouds, the shadow of a colossal object fell upon the ground, so much so that one might mistake it for the shadow of a dark cloud.

Green's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, his eyes filled with disbelief. There was actually a "witchcraft" flying in the sky?

If it can cast such a huge shadow from tens of thousands of meters away, what kind of behemoth must that flying magical artifact be under normal circumstances? Judging from its appearance, it must be at least three hundred meters long.

Could this be the legendary spatial fortress of the Wizarding World?

Peranos noticed Green's unusual behavior and glanced up at the flying object in the distance. He said calmly, "The ecosystem in this area is one of the key protected areas in the wizarding world. That's a spaceship. Generally speaking, it has the energy level of a level three wizard, and its defensive capabilities and energy endurance are far beyond what a level three wizard can match."

Green's mouth dropped open, and he stammered, "Isn't this a space fortress?"

Space fortress? Hmph!

Peranos scoffed, "Once you reach the Seventh Ring Holy Tower, you'll understand what a space fortress is. Generally speaking, there are at least a hundred of these spaceships in the base of a space fortress."

Green's body stiffened, and he said in disbelief, "Impossible! Hundreds of them? What kind of behemoths would that be!"

Peranos merely smiled faintly, shook his head, and sighed, "After all, you're just a wizard apprentice who's lived for a few decades..."

After a pause, Peranos said, "Once we fly past this area, we'll be outside the indirect control of the six academies in the twelfth district of the Seven Rings Holy Tower. To put it simply, any wizard apprentices we take in outside this area are considered stolen. The area ahead is a bustling region between the Seven Rings Holy Tower and the regional academies, a free zone for the families with arcane wizard lineages. I have a fairly good friend along the way."

(Directly controlled territory refers to the area where the academy's wizard apprentices regularly operate, while controlled territory refers to the area where the academy recruits new students on the wizarding continent. For example, East Coral Island is within the controlled territory of the 19th District Wizarding Academy, yet there is little movement of wizard apprentices there.)

Green had absolutely no concept of the size of the wizarding world.

Currently, Green only knows that the main Wizarding World, the Wizarding Continent, is ruled by seven Holy Towers, and that beyond the Wizarding Continent lies a vast ocean, as well as an underground world, a sky city, and the Dark Realm...

As for the true structure and size of the Wizarding Continent, Green only had a vague idea of ​​the area directly ruled by the six academies in the twelve districts within the Seven Rings Holy Tower.

As for the area directly under the jurisdiction of the 12th District of the Seventh Ring Holy Tower, if one wanted to cross it from the central area, it would be enough for Grimm to fly day and night for more than two months at the normal speed of a wizard apprentice.

(End of this chapter)