Wizard's Journey

Chapter 146 Black Sea Vortex

Seven months later.

As usual, Green sat at the table wearing a large wizard's robe, using his mental power to trace the otherworldly soul text on the devil's contract, while observing the subtle fluctuations in the soul level on the crystal ball, trying to find some potential patterns.

After sitting motionless at the table for several hourglasses, as if at a certain time, Green instinctively took out two broken branches, stared at the cut surfaces of the branches for a moment, and then put them away.

He stretched, and after a series of crisp cracking sounds from his bones beneath his wide robe, Green stood up.

He walked to the vessel covered with a black cloth, observed it for a while, then removed the cloth. He then walked to an alchemy furnace, observed the temperature inside, and confirmed that the alchemical materials inside were undergoing the theoretically normal changes. He then took out a few magic stones and replaced the magic stones around the alchemy furnace that had run out of energy.

Boom, boom.

In the tranquil setting, a gentle knock was heard on the wooden door of the room.

Green walked to the wooden door, which creaked open gently. The old butler stood before him, holding a glass of chilled coconut juice. Taking the juice, Green took a sip and asked, "Any news?"

"Yes, my master. It has been confirmed that the top wizard apprentices of this year's Seven Rings Holy Tower will head to the Heart of the World in three days," the old butler said softly, bowing his head.

Aside from the somewhat mechanical sounds, it was impossible to tell whether the old butler was a puppet or a human.

Three days later?

After standing there for a moment and thinking, Grimm frowned and said, "It seems that the prototype mold for this 'Grimm Elemental Staff 1.0 Enhanced Version' can only be forged halfway for now. Hmm, once this magic staff is finished and the materials are prepared, we can try to forge the prototype of the Face of Truth."

Thinking this, Green had no choice but to once again systematically put his experimental items into his last disposable space pocket in preparation for receiving the reward for becoming a top wizard apprentice after the Holy Tower Qualification Battle: the Fragment of the Heart of the World.

……

three days later.

Wearing three layers of armor, a pale mask, and wielding the Elemental Staff (version 1.0), Grimm stood side by side with four other top-tier wizard apprentices.

Nairo was still floating, her entire body bound by metal chains. Apart from a head with golden hair and an indifferent face peeking out from above the metal sphere, it seemed that all her movements were replaced by that "omnipotent" metal chain.

Yubo was still wearing his black robe, his face revealing a sinister look. His eyes were fixed on Nairo, but he didn't even glance at Grin beside him, as if he didn't care about Grin at all.

As for the other two wizard apprentices, a man and a woman, they showed no intention of communicating with Grin, Nairo, or Yubo. They were both dressed in bright and colorful wizard robes, leaning on magic wands and wearing tall hats.

The giant tortoise of the Tiandu Peak floated and flew in the sky, getting closer and closer to the magical elemental vortex in the dim sky at the top of the Seven Rings Holy Tower.

hiss……

However, the wizard apprentices paid no attention to the approaching cloud vortex. Instead, they were drawn to the majestic, imposing yet eerie aura of the Seven Rings Holy Tower ahead.

This is not the traditional wizarding tower-shaped building in the wizarding world.

All around the towering and massive Seven Rings Tower, countless mechanical arms were constantly contracting. Whether it was wizards, machines, other creatures, or even flying bubbles, once they reached these mechanical arms, they were all sent into the walls of the Seven Rings Tower, which resembled a fleshy membrane. Then, with a strange and powerful energy fluctuation, the membrane absorbed everything on the mechanical arms into its own body.

The whole process was as if this seventh-ringed Holy Tower monster was stuffing the food that was delivered to its mechanical tentacles into its own stomach.

The sheer size of the entire Seven Rings Holy Tower is like another 'terrifying' version of the Tree of Life in the Seven Rings World. The giant tortoise of the Heavenly Capital Peak is soaring upwards beside the Seven Rings Holy Tower, striving to approach the elemental vortex clouds at the top of the Holy Tower.

Those spaceships and wizards, whose size was much smaller than that of the Tiandu Peak, all made way for the giant tortoise of the Tiandu Peak.

At this moment, the giant tortoise of Tiandu Peak not only extended its head, but also its four black rock claws emerged from inside the mountain. With its limbs swinging and the rumbling sound of rocks rubbing against each other, it gradually "slid" towards the vortex of elemental clouds and plunged into it.

Boom, boom, boom...

A piercing sonic boom sound.

After a brief moment when their bodies felt like they were being stretched into noodles, the numerous wizard apprentices felt a blur before their eyes, and an endless sea of ​​black water appeared below their field of vision.

Whoosh, whoosh...

Amidst the thunderous roar of the waves, Green and several other wizard apprentices, standing atop the giant tortoise atop the Tian Du Peak, simultaneously gazed towards the distant black sea behind them. The tip of a dorsal fin, hundreds of meters long, flashed by and then disappeared back into the sea, sending massive waves surging outwards.

hum...

Further away, a giant mechanical bee, tens of meters long, sped past the giant tortoise of Tiandu Peak at incredible speed. It was so fast that only a blurry afterimage could be seen before it disappeared into the distance, leaving a ripple on the black sea surface.

"Huh? Seriously, it's the Sky Tower again, what's the rush..."

Black Rock, standing at the foot of Tiandu Peak, complained in a deep voice. Then, with a heavy rustling sound, Black Rock turned to Nairo, Yupao, Green, and the two apprentice wizards in bright robes and said, "When you come back, call me when everyone is here, otherwise I won't automatically send you back to the Seventh Ring Holy Tower if I'm asleep."

(I'm not sure if the characters "****" together will cause censorship, so I'm just marking it here. I won't change it even if it does, but it's better if it doesn't. Honestly, I can't find a suitable alternative for "White Egret," so should I call it "Turtle's Head"?)

After saying this, the massive rock of the Tiandu Peak slashed fiercely with its four limbs. Green and the others only felt a gust of wind rush towards them, and the next moment they appeared a thousand meters away.

So fast!

Green was just marveling at the sight when another gust of wind rushed towards him, and the next moment he was a kilometer away again.

After about half an hourglass's time, the "calm and solemn" surface of the black sea gradually disappeared, and a huge black vortex that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see appeared out of nowhere on the black sea, as if some invisible energy field was causing the surrounding black seawater to avoid the vortex.

Rumble...

The moment the giant tortoise of Tiandu Peak fell below the surface of the vacuum vortex, the deafening roar of the surging waves entered its ears. But when it was above the vacuum vortex, there was no sound at all.

The vast, dark vacuum vortex was bottomless, with no light at the bottom, and rolling seawater flowing around it.

The giant tortoise of Tiandu Peak stopped in the sky at the center of the vortex, just like a fly landing on a plate.

call out!

A wizard sitting on a red carpet flew over. The wizard's tall hat even had a magic lamp on it, and the strange shape was somewhat like some glowing fish in the underwater world.

"Seventh Ring Guardian, I will take these children to the Heart of the World," said a female wizard on the flying carpet to the giant tortoise of the Heavenly Capital Peak.

"We obey the will of the guardians of the wizarding world," the giant tortoise of Tiandu Peak said in a somber tone.

Immediately afterwards, a strange energy lifted Green and his companions from the giant tortoise shell-like mountain peak and gently placed them onto the flying carpet of this guardian of the wizarding world.

Green was astonished by this mysterious energy that he could not see or touch.

The feeling was as if the wizarding world had shifted, but the wizarding world itself had moved while the wizard remained unmoved, and then the flying carpet had automatically moved to the ground beneath their feet.

This……

Is this the absolute control of the forces of nature?

The other wizard apprentices also showed expressions of surprise and contemplation. The huge scroll behind one of the wizard apprentices floated up automatically, then seemed to collect some information before rolling it up again and returning to the wizard apprentice's back.

The flying carpet of this wizarding world's guardian seemed to be able to expand infinitely. When Green and the others stood on it, there was no crowding at all, and it didn't feel soft and spongy as they had imagined. Instead, it felt as hard as a wooden floor.

The female guardian of the wizarding world looked at the wizarding apprentices on the flying carpet.

The most eye-catching was naturally Nairo. His entire body was bound by black metal chains, with only his head covered in golden hair visible, and a pair of indifferent eyes quietly observing everything around him.

Although she landed on the carpet at this moment, the bottom of the chain ball always maintained a slight distance from the carpet.

Yubo was dressed in a black and gray wizard's robe, with two fire element circles on his forehead. At first glance, they looked like some kind of magical artifact, but upon closer inspection, one would find that they were still some kind of fire element magic that maintained stability. The circles on his black hair were bright and dazzling, giving him a unique style.

Meanwhile, there were some red cloud patterns on the black wizard robe of the Howling Prisoner, just like the similar fire cloud spell that Green had seen him cast before.

Generally speaking, wizards' robes rarely feature these strange and unusual patterns.

Then, the witch turned her gaze to Grimm.

He was tall and strong, wearing a suit of metal armor. A gray cloth bag and a strange dagger hung at his waist. He held a simple yet ingenious magic wand in his hand. His long golden hair fell down, and he wore a pale mask on his face.

The eyes, gleaming with rationality through the holes in the mask, nodded politely.

"Um."

With a curt reply, the witch turned her gaze to the apprentice sorcerer carrying a huge scroll on his back...

After observing the surroundings, the witch nodded and said, "Remember, all of you, once you reach the Heart of the World, remain quiet and solemn at all times. Do not engage in any conflicts or disputes with the wizard apprentices of the other Holy Towers. Once the Guardians of the Wizarding World have bestowed upon you the rewards you deserve and you have become official wizards, and if you also have the intention to leave the Heart of the World, you will be automatically teleported to the center of the Black Sea vortex by the lever of fate connecting to the Heart of the World."

Among the wizarding apprentices, only Green and the Ming wizard carrying the scroll trembled slightly, seemingly stunned by the term "leverage of fate".

So, we're really going to see this lever of fate that once changed the destiny of the wizarding world?

Nairo, Hellroar, and another Ming wizard remained unmoved, clearly unaware of the significance of the Lever of Fate in the wizarding world.

(End of this chapter)