Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1454, Part 1402: The Nightmare Bone Demon World (Part 1)

One day later.

The guardian has departed. As a low-ranking guardian who tracked him down from the depths of the sea, he belonged to the forces under the Spring Guardian. Having been away from his protected territory for so long, it was time for him to return.

Thus, Grimm and the Evil Crystal Stigmata Wizard continued their journey, searching for the source of that ominous and absurd feeling.

call out!call out!

In mid-air, Grimm and the Evil Crystal Mark Wizard stopped at the same time.

"This is the Moonshade Ring Wizarding Academy."

With a deep, somber voice, the Evil Crystal Mark Wizard looked down at the ruins of the wizarding academy, murmuring in anguish, clearly having some history with this academy.

The wizarding academy is built atop a mountain peak, where a vast, clear pool of water sits atop the summit, making it a wizarding academy that floats on the water.

Now it has been polluted by fluorescent green and turned into ruins. The flesh and blood of the corpses have melted away, leaving only pale green skeletons and mechanical puppet remains, silently displayed.

These ghastly green skeletons were all struggling in pain, raising their arms as if trying to scratch something, and some were even desperately choking their own necks, trying to breathe, as if they had experienced a long struggle of fear before death.

Suddenly, the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard turned his head, his sunken eyes looking at Green, who had been silent for a long time, and asked suspiciously, "What, did you discover something?"

Green nodded, his tricolored eyes flashing brightly and dimly, his pupils frequently switching between various shapes. In his field of vision, the entire mountain's rocky structure appeared black and white, with textures covering a thickness of nearly a hundred meters. Chaotic fluorescent green energy served as a glaring embellishment against the black and white background, displaying subtle dynamics such as hot and cold reactions and energy flow...

As the perspective of Grimm's Face of Truth shifts more and more frequently, the various afterimages of the nineteenth phase of Grimm's Face of Truth gradually overlap. This is what Grimm and all wizards have always pursued: to break through appearances and directly point to the essence of truth.

Green never revealed to anyone the world of truth he saw at that moment; it was a completely new world!

The rules are composed of billions upon billions of square runes. These rules include the earth's gravity causing mountains to fall, the seasonal temperature differences causing uneven heating and cooling of various substances, the inability of wind speed and direction to conflict with each other, and the passage of time and the barriers of space. As a result, every living being, after gaining self-awareness, will spread out an invisible force field, influencing the changes of everything around it and the scope of its self-awareness.

Each thread of rule, with its vibrant colors, is formed from countless different rules.

Although not corrupted by the nightmare, Grimm, observing with the most meticulous detail through the face of truth, still found ominous and absurd rules belonging to the nightmare world among countless rules. These rules were like strands of dark red hair, parasitically attached to the rule chain of the wizarding world, influencing it.

At this moment, on this mountain of ruins, the nightmare rules that Green felt were especially intense!

"Let's go down and take a look; maybe we'll find something."

As he spoke, Green took the lead and descended towards the green pool at the mountain peak. With a "pop," Green lightly stepped onto the green pool, walking step by step as if on flat ground, seemingly searching for something. Behind him, the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard was also trying to sense something, but found nothing. He only felt that this Saint Mark Wizard of the Tower of Annihilation was becoming more and more mysterious.

"Found it, here it is."

Standing on the flat, unremarkable surface of the pool, Green looked in the direction of the Nightmare Power they had been flying in and said in a deep voice, "If we go any further, we will truly enter the area influenced by the rules of the Nightmare Bone Demon World, which is the part of the Nightmare Bone Demon World that it is trying to overlap with the Wizard World. Heh heh, such a vast world gate is indeed a predatory illusory world. If it were an ordinary small or medium-sized world, it would probably have already enveloped the entire world."

Glug, glug, glug...

The once calm pool suddenly churned with a large number of bubbles. These bubbles then floated in mid-air and gradually turned scarlet, like blood, revealing ghostly faces that surrounded Grimm and the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard, looking both greedy and fearful.

"Oh? It really is a nightmare node. Interesting."

The polluted fluorescent green mist in the sky grew increasingly dense, with hints of dark red peeking through it. It was oppressive and suffocating, as if something might emerge from the mist at any moment—a monster from that ominous and absurd illusory slumbering world.

"Hello, quack quack."

A white plaster frog emerged from the fluorescent green mist, stepping onto the water's surface and leaping out one by one.

Strangely, on its back were two distorted figures, one crying and the other laughing, two completely different postures. At this moment, it was the laughing distorted figure that was greeting Grimm and the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard.

The Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard smiled coldly and stood behind Green without saying a word, but his eyes were filled with greed.

"Hehe, hello."

A wicked smile crept across Green's face beneath his mask of truth as he responded.

The plaster frog was overjoyed, its twisted, smiling face appearing so hypocritical. At that moment, a weeping figure on the other side murmured, "These are my children, the most pitiful wandering souls of the Nightmare Bone World. I think... you two wouldn't mind offering your own skin and bones to clothe these poor, naked children, would you?"

"We need to get dressed, waaaaah..."

These black bubbles cried out and grew tails, with a row of sharp, pale teeth opening and closing incessantly, emitting "woo-woo" cries, transforming into ugly tadpoles that approached Grimm and the Evil Crystal Stigmata Wizard.

At the same time, perhaps because Green answered the frog's words, moss-covered branches surged towards Green from below the clear pool, trying to imprison him on the spot.

"mine!"

"be mine!"

"mine……"

Green stood motionless, while countless ugly and ferocious tadpoles surged toward him as if they had gone mad.

At this moment, it felt as if Green was a giant egg attracting these parasitic sperm to complete its rebirth.

Any branches that came within ten meters of Green silently crumbled. Green smiled coldly, and a bronze lamp appeared in his hand. A flame, one black and one white, wrapped around the wick, slowly burning from a grain of rice to the size of a fingernail. As Green raised his tricolored eyes to look around, with a "hum," all the nightmare-like metal objects in all directions crumbled and were decomposed.

"Depend on!"

It was the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard behind them who shouted.

Amidst the swarming, decomposing, and mutated tentacled organs, and under Green Brick's questioning gaze, the Evil Crystal Saint Mark Wizard continued, "These are quite precious illusory specimens. Didn't you see their bizarre life forms?"

"If you want it, the rest is yours."

As he spoke, Green stepped across the water and walked towards the ruins of the academy in the center.

Faintly visible, a distorted, towering phantom swayed. It was an ancient tree with a drooping, twisted face on its withered bark, waving branches covered in bones, from which hundreds of wailing heads were stuck, emitting mournful cries.

(End of this chapter)