Wizard's Journey

Chapter 142 The Snail Messenger

The lush green that blotted out the sky finally reached the edge of the defensive shield above the vast canopy of the Tree of Life after the snail, a seventh-ringed messenger, had crawled at full speed for three hourglasses.

An indescribable shock!

Having never seen it with his own eyes, Green simply couldn't imagine that a living being could actually be as majestic and imposing as described in books, growing with such a grand and imposing presence.

Even just being around it gives you a feeling of looking up at the sky and looking down at the ocean.

Maybe……

When life forms grow to such an enormous size, they themselves become part of the rules of the world.

Although one can only vaguely see a dark brown trunk covered with ancient, thick bark through the dense, palm-sized emerald green leaves, the castle-like houses scattered on the cracked "cliff" of the trunk tell Green that the trunk diameter of this Tree of Life is probably over three or four thousand meters.

Countless flying magical artifacts, airships, balloons, transparent bubbles, and giant birds gathered and dispersed around the Tree of Life, rising and falling.

The wizard apprentices on the snail messenger's shell stared wide-eyed at everything beneath the defensive shield.

Such a magnificent and spectacular sight is truly beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

At this moment, the snail messenger seemed to be gliding above the giant bubble covering the Tree of Life, looking down at all the scenery below.

Beneath the towering shadow of the Tree of Life, rows upon rows of neat, snow-white castles stand side by side. Rivers, springs, vegetation, and corridors separate the castles, each seemingly an independent entity, yet there is a strange sense of interconnectedness that stretches to the horizon.

Peranos pointed to the tiny castle at the foot of the Tree of Life, which looked like a grain of sand, and said, "These places are the residences of Level One Demon Hunter Wizards. You will live here from now on. The Seventh Ring Holy Tower stipulates that Level One Demon Hunter Wizards must carry out a World War mission every two hundred years, otherwise they will lose their Demon Hunter Wizard status."

Green nodded and asked cautiously, "Are the castles on the trunk of the Tree of Life the residences of level two and three demon hunter wizards?"

"No, that's the residence of a Level 2 Demon Hunter Wizard. Level 3 Demon Hunter Wizards are all in the Seventh Ring Holy Tower," Peranos said.

hiss……

Glancing up in surprise, Green realized that he hadn't even seen the Seventh Ring Tower yet. He had completely forgotten his true purpose for coming here because of the Tree of Life. It seemed that he was indeed shocked by the scenery and experience he was going through.

"Master, that Seven-Ring Holy Tower..."

Peranos interrupted Grimm: "You'll find out soon enough. Grimm, before the Tree of Life's canopy blocks our view, take a look at the structure of these level-one demon hunters' castles. What can you glean from that?"

What are you thinking about?

Green didn't answer casually, but instead carefully observed the castles, trying to discover something subtle. Could it be that these castles all possessed the ability to fly? Or was it an illusion, a delusion, not real? Or...

Even after the dense foliage of the Tree of Life completely obscured Green's vision, Green remained bewildered and looked at his mentor, Peranos, with a puzzled expression.

Shaking his head, Peranos said, "Back then, I didn't obtain the qualifications of a witch hunter wizard, but after becoming a formal wizard and coming here, I discovered the secrets of these castles for the first time."

After a hint of smugness, Peranos said, "Don't you think these castles are just isolated magical runes within a six-star magic circle?"

Um! ?

This……

Green looked at Peranos in surprise.

A colossal magic array based on castles as magical runes, powered by hundreds of thousands or even millions of resident demon hunters, and with six wizard towers as energy nodes.

This kind of boldness, this kind of grand gesture... is this the world-shaking difference in understanding between a true spirit wizard and a wizarding apprentice?

What is the purpose of a magic circle that gathers such terrifying energy?

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the snail messenger crawled at full speed, it broke through the field of vision of the defensive shield. Suddenly, six energy beams shooting straight into the sky from the top of the Tree of Life appeared in Green's field of vision.

"Wow!"

"Wow! Such pure magic elements..."

Exclamations of surprise came from the wizard apprentices beside Green. Green watched as the six suddenly appearing pillars of energy shot straight into the sky, and the thick clouds were stirred up by the six pillars of energy to form six huge vortexes.

Each of these energy beams was tens of meters in diameter, and accompanied by booming sounds, huge hexagonal metal boxes, each a kilometer in diameter, moved up and down between the energy beams. Above them stretched the unknown space above the thick clouds, and below them lay the dense canopy of the Tree of Life.

"That's the Heart of the Seventh Ring. In the Seventh Ring Tower, it's equivalent to the human heart, responsible for pumping blood," Peranos said, pointing to the metal box between the six energy beams.

The heart of the Seventh Ring Road!

As he got closer to the pillar of energy, Grimm had a feeling that after Bibi Leona and Mina used their talents, due to some unique reason, the surging magic would make their hair stand up straight, as if a gust of wind was constantly blowing from below.

However, after Green acquired the talents of the two, no matter how he used them, he never had that kind of reaction or feeling.

At that moment, however, Green suddenly felt an indescribable sensation. Not only Green, but all the wizards and wizard apprentices present had their robes and hair begin to tremble, showing signs of standing upright and fluttering.

"tutor……"

Before Green could speak, Peranos knew what Green wanted to ask and said calmly, "This is an energy distortion magnetic field, a disorder caused by an imbalance of certain energies. Remember, for wizards, this phenomenon represents the uncontrollability of magic and energy, something wizards try their best to avoid."

Green nodded, and as the snail messenger got closer and closer to the six beams of light, his robes and hair gradually stood up completely vertically.

Ok?

Green suddenly noticed that on the other side of the Seven Rings Holy Tower's defensive shield, another snail messenger had crawled out, carrying several wizard apprentices with halos above their heads and their accompanying mentors.

However, the snail messenger had no intention of waiting for the Seventh Ring Heart; it rushed directly into an energy core and disappeared instantly.

"Attention everyone, we're about to reach the energy breakthrough point. Mentors, please protect your disciples." At this moment, the snail messenger beneath him turned its head from its hard shell and said this to everyone.

Peranos said indifferently to Grin, "You're not only an elemental wizard, but also a body-refining wizard. Temporarily losing control of your magic won't mean much to you. Just stand still."

"Oh," Green replied somewhat nervously.

A moment later, Green suddenly had a strange feeling that spacetime was beginning to distort. As the snail messenger plunged headfirst into the pillar of energy, Green felt himself instantly shrink, as if he had been flattened into a dough ball. In a panic, Green looked at the others and saw that all the wizard apprentices were twisted like pancakes, while the wizards seemed unfazed, using various methods to protect their disciples.

call out!

The thick clouds overhead passed through in just a few breaths, followed by a sky full of blood-red light entering Green's vision, who was gritting his teeth and enduring the immense pressure.

A blood-red moon!?

One, two, three, four, five, six—six crimson moons?

Do not!

As Green ascended upwards at an indescribable speed, he suddenly noticed that in the far distance, a blood-red moon was slowly drifting over from above the clouds...

These blood-red "moons" have a standard hemispherical base. The blood-red metal exudes a cold, evil, and hard luster. Although they are too far away to see clearly, it is roughly estimated that the smallest of these blood-red moons, which vary in size, has a diameter of more than 10,000 meters.

What does a diameter of 10,000 meters mean?

That's the height from the ground in the Wizarding World to the clouds, the height of the Tree of Life!

Above these blood-red moons was a huge platform, with a building resembling a wizard's tower standing in the very center of the platform. Countless small black dots could be vaguely seen moving around the platform.

This is... the Wizarding World Space Fortress?

call out!

As Grimm rapidly ascended, and the distance between him and the crimson moons gradually increased, the numerous spatial fortresses in his field of vision shrank back into crimson moons, quietly sitting above the thick clouds.

Click...

Suddenly, the halo above Grimm's head crackled, conjuring a transparent wizard's shield around him. When Grimm turned around, he saw that all the wizard apprentices around him were in the same state. It seemed that besides the ability to ignore the pressure of life levels, as his mentor Peranos had mentioned, this halo was also a one-time protection from the will of the wizarding world.

At the very top of the void in the Wizarding World, a massive vortex appeared in the water curtain sky due to the stirring of the six energy beams, and the powerful sound of waves crashing against the reefs spread out.

At that moment, in Green's visual perception, he felt as if he were falling headfirst from the sky into an ocean whirlpool.

However, Green's rational mind told him that this was an illusion.

Incredibly fast, the instant Green entered the vortex of the water curtain sky within the energy beam, his vision blurred, and he found himself in the sky of a dark, lightless world.

At the same time, the feeling of being squeezed into a lump of dough disappeared.

"Ugh..." The apprentice wizard experienced various symptoms of discomfort, but was comforted by his mentor.

Although Green was not in any discomfort, he just stood there blankly, as if he had been startled by something.

In the sky directly in front of Green's eyes, a towering brown-black giant tower, thousands or tens of thousands of meters high, stood in the very center of this world, a sight that could not be more fitting than "standing tall and firm"!

An indescribable sense of oppression rushed towards me!

In the dim sky, a cloud formed entirely of magic twisted and spun, covering everything within Grimm's field of vision, below which thousands of spaceships were neatly moored.

"How was it? How did it feel to ride the lever of fate just now?" Peranos suddenly said.

"When did you board?" Green asked, dumbfounded.

Peranos paused for a moment, then pointed to the vortex in the dim sky above and said, "It happened the instant it pierced through the water curtain and entered the void world. That makes sense, since this world fragment is attached to the wizarding world, and the time-space distortion and teleportation only takes a moment, which is how the spatial rift between the two worlds is maintained. Well, you'll understand when you conquer other worlds later."

Snap, snap, snap...

The numerous disposable wizard shields on the snail messenger's body, created by various wizarding techniques, shattered one by one.

(End of this chapter)