Wizard's Journey

Chapter 135 Ancient Battle for Supremacy

three days later.

As Green gradually flew away from the Sea of ​​Life, he looked at the towering, majestic mountain range that reached into the clouds in the far distance, and his body trembled with shock.

Nine-tenths of this mountain range, from its base to below the clouds, is covered in snow. Even when Green and Peranos were flying 300 meters in the air, they were still only at the lower part of the majestic mountain range that was not covered in snow.

Compared to this truly majestic and imposing mountain range, any mountain range Green had ever seen before was nothing more than a small hill. And at this moment, from high above, Green and Peranos, these two little ants, were "slowly" flying towards this mountain range.

This mountain range, with an average annual height of at least 10,000 meters, suddenly appeared on the flat land!

Ok?

Suddenly, Green noticed that among the tall, dense weeds on the ground, the huge skeletons of primitive marine creatures began to appear in his field of vision. The skeletons were already somewhat weathered and corroded, looking so fragile and withered, yet they seemed to carry and tell the story of some unknown ancient history.

The skeletons of these marine creatures vary in size and shape.

Generally speaking, only the skeletons of giant creatures that are twenty or thirty meters long will be visible from the soil and weeds. Occasionally, the skeletons of smaller marine creatures, similar to siren, can be found in relatively low weeds or in soil eroded by rainwater.

As Peranos and Green sped across the sky, getting closer to the majestic mountain range in the distance, the distribution of the marine creature skeletons gradually became denser, and even the skeletons of several giant marine creatures were piled up together.

Finally, when Green was only a dozen kilometers away from that towering, majestic mountain range...

As far as the eye can see, there is only a forest of white bones!

Huh?

Green let out a soft gasp.

As Peranos and Green drew closer to the towering, cloud-piercing mountains in the distance, they gradually began to see the remains of giant metal golems and countless human skeletons. However, these metal golems had long since become dilapidated with the passage of time, and some had even begun to show signs of corrosion, petrification, and sandification. The human skeletons could only be identified by their distinctive skulls.

Among these puppets were not only the worker-ant level puppets that Grimm had seen on the arena, but also larger, more exquisitely crafted advanced puppets, and even some mecha wreckage that Grimm had seen in books.

Mechs are essentially giant suits of armor created by mechanical wizards for their bodies; they are very popular among mechanical wizards in Sky City.

Peranos suddenly stopped. They were still about 10 kilometers away from the towering, cloud-piercing mountain range in the distance, but the mountain range's imposing presence made Green feel breathless.

Such a high mountain range has actually penetrated into the chaotic space above the clouds. How can we cross it?

With so many bizarre, gigantic marine creature skeletons here, this must be an ancient battlefield in the wizarding world. Could it be that in ancient times, wizards truly waged a war against marine life that determined the survival of human wizarding civilization?

"Do you see this majestic mountain range?" Peranos asked casually, looking up.

Green swallowed hard and asked, "Master, could this be the more ancient history you mentioned before, before the war between the wizarding world's civilizations? Did the ancient wizards wage war against the marine life of the wizarding world?"

"Hmph."

Peranos sneered, "It wasn't a war between ancient wizards and sea creatures, but a war between the humans of the wizarding world and the sea creatures of the wizarding world for supremacy. Although the specifics are too ancient for a low-level wizard like myself to understand, there's no doubt that the wizarding world officially became known as the wizarding world after that war!"

Even Professor Peranos said he was a low-level wizard?

Yes……

From a historical perspective, only a Saintly Wizard could possibly leave their mark on wizarding civilization, right? A Level 3 Wizard is merely a high-ranking soldier in the wizarding world.

The Wizarding World is not actually called the Wizarding World.

Only when human wizarding civilization successfully ruled this world in ancient times and became its masters could the wizarding world truly be considered a wizarding world.

As for what the Wizarding World was called before...

It's quite possible that the Sea King's altar contains relevant records, and that altar might even be an ancient relic older than the Wizarding World or Sky City. After all, judging from Peranos's tone, it seems that human wizards at that time were in a weaker position.

correct!

Green suddenly jolted, staring intently at the wreckage of a mecha about three meters tall, his expression changing repeatedly.

The shapes of these mechs are almost identical to those of the mechs he saw behind the crystal glass curtain in the ruins he discovered in the Black Tower Secret Realm, which were part of a huge spatial battlefield!

According to clues obtained by mentors on the arena, these mechs and mechanical puppets, apart from those in Sky City, were replaced by the soul servants of the Stigmata Wizards after the First Civilization War in the Wizarding World.

So, does that mean...?

Is that ruin an ancient site from before the end of the First Civilization War in the Wizarding World? Is it a truly ancient ruin?

Green's expression was one of suspicion and uncertainty. The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that there must be some secret waiting to be discovered within that ruin, perhaps even related to the first war of civilization in the wizarding world. Moreover, he knew from the Primal Curse Aliro that the wizarding symbiotic civilization originated from the Amiro parasite, but the Amiro parasite was originally the parasite of the alien entity in that ancient ruin…

Peranos saw Grin staring blankly at his surroundings and assumed he was stunned by the ancient battlefield. He smiled and asked, "Do you know the name of this majestic mountain range before us?"

Green snapped out of his reverie and shook his head blankly.

"The will of humanity!" Peranos proclaimed with a firm and proud voice, channeling the energy from his abdomen.

The will of humanity?

Green asked, "Could it be that in ancient times, the very survival of humanity depended on this mountain range to protect the continuation of their bloodline?"

"My mentor told me that the human race faced an even more perilous situation back then than during the Second Civilization War. And in ancient times, this was the dividing line between the ocean and the land in the wizarding world," Peranos said in a low voice, pointing to the Human Will Mountains ahead.

Green didn't feel much about the ancient war between humans and marine life, which was too ancient a thing.

Because for ordinary wizarding apprentices, or for normal humans in the wizarding world, people are used to the idea that the wizarding world is ruled by humans, and that humans are ruled by the Holy Tower wizards.

As for those "lower" marine creatures...

Although they knew that some of them were intelligent beings, they never considered anything else. If a wizard apprentice were to suddenly say that those marine creatures were an intelligent group that oppressed human wizards in ancient times, he would definitely be met with merciless ridicule.

Even Green found it somewhat unbelievable when he heard his mentor talk about how, in ancient times, humans and marine creatures fought for supremacy in the wizarding world and even faced the crisis of extinction.

Now, recalling it again...

Back when that ocean liner was still under the control of Dila at the Lilith Hut Wizarding Academy, sea monsters attacked, and Wizard Dila seemed to have said something similar to the ancient war between humans and marine creatures.

(This is mentioned in Chapter Thirteen, "The Flames of the Dead Soul," of Volume One. Those interested can go back and take a look.)

Needless to say, at that time, the human wizards on the continent were probably still in the nascent stage of civilization, and there may even have been other biological groups coexisting on the wizard continent, but they had already made the marine creatures, the rulers of the wizard world at that time, feel fear.

But why did the wizards win?

After Grimm voiced his question, Peranos sighed and said softly, "Humanity triumphed because of... the dark wizards!"

Green's pupils contracted, and he asked in disbelief, "A black wizard?"

Peranos nodded and said in a deep voice, "That's right, it's the black wizards! It was those mad wizards who first unleashed the terror of wizard civilization upon other species, laying the foundation for wizard civilization."

At this point, Peranos turned to Grimm and asked, "Grimm, do you know why dark wizards are so powerful?"

hiss……

Grimm never imagined that the infamous Black Wizards of the Wizarding Continent had actually saved humanity from extinction in ancient times and were heroes of the human race. This fact clashed violently with Grimm's beliefs and even gave him a sense of absurdity.

However, when asked by his mentor, Green thought for a moment and answered seriously, "Dark wizards can absorb and utilize negative energy, and on the battlefield, such negative energy is almost inexhaustible. Therefore..."

Nodding, Peranos interrupted Green, asking, "Anything else?"

"Hmm... Dark wizards need large amounts of flesh and blood to synthesize and refine their chimeras and mutated creatures, and the flesh and blood corpses of marine creatures are perfect supply materials for dark wizards, allowing them to create even more powerful chimeras and mutated creatures..."

"No, no, no, the synthetic beasts and mutated beasts of the ancient black wizards didn't have the technology we have now." Peranos interrupted Green again.

Green frowned, thought for a long time, and then gently shook his head.

Peranos sighed, "It seems you haven't grasped the true power of dark wizards; you're only at a superficial level. The true power of dark wizards lies in their targeted biological cultivation and modification—this is the most basic knowledge of dark wizard research and the mysteries of death."

Ok?

Targeted biological cultivation and modification?

Suddenly, Green remembered that when the wizard Dila killed those sea monsters, the strange insects called Urado's Nemesis completely ignored the sailors and humans at the time, and didn't even react to the severed octopus tentacle on the ship. Their only purpose was to kill those sea monsters.

Could this nemesis of Urado be a targeted biological modification created by ancient black wizards for marine life?

(End of this chapter)