Wizard's Journey

Chapter 148 The Pivot of Fate

This is an endless plaza entirely paved with super magic stones or other energy crystal remnants.

This is the Wizard's Leverage Platform Plaza, its overall shape resembling a giant ladle or a tray of a balance scale, stretching as far as the eye can see.

A hazy mist of pure magical energy drifted across the Wizard's Platform Plaza. At this moment, even wizard apprentices who had no control over the forces of nature would have that pure magical energy flowing into their bodies as long as their magical energy was depleted.

It seems that the "density" of the pure magic in the surroundings has far exceeded the magic density of the wizard apprentice himself.

The flying carpet was put away by the witch in front, and the five wizard apprentices, including Grimm, landed on the square. Looking at the bustling crowd of human wizard apprentices gathered in the square, a thousand thoughts raced through their minds.

These are the top elite wizard apprentices selected from the wizarding world over the past century!

Green shifted slightly, surveying all the wizard apprentices around him, silently counting in his mind: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five! In this small square where the wizards have broken in, apart from the wizard in charge, there are a total of seventy-five wizard apprentices."

These seventy-five wizard apprentices were clearly divided into four small factions.

The largest faction was the elemental wizard faction, which included Green, and consisted of seven wizard guardians leading thirty-five wizard apprentices. These wizard apprentices were dressed in various styles and had different appearances, but most of them wore loose magic robes or carried magic wands.

These are the elemental wizards of the Wizarding Continent, and at this moment, they are the most powerful force in the wizarding world.

The other faction also had a considerable number of wizard apprentices, consisting of six wizards leading thirty wizard apprentices.

These wizard apprentices mostly wore leather armor or helmets, were burly, and exuded a sinister yet fearless aura. They carried various types of directly lethal magical artifacts on their backs or waists, but rarely had equipment like elemental magic wands.

Small, gecko-like creatures scurried across the wizard apprentices' bodies and between their armor, seemingly delighted by the pure magical mist around them, emitting low chirps like crickets.

These are the dragon-training wizards from the underground space of the wizarding world.

The last two factions each consisted of only one wizard leading five wizard apprentices.

One of the wizard apprentices, judging from the mechanized modifications to his body or the small, exquisite puppets accompanying him, is clearly a mechanical wizard from the Sky Tower.

The other group of wizard apprentices all concealed their bodies under huge robes, their faces hidden by elemental means on their cloaks. Their eyes emitted eerie light, some dark red, some ghostly green, and their hands holding magic wands were a withered, deathly gray, with their large, bony knuckles standing out starkly.

Moreover, the magic wands of these wizard apprentices all exuded an eerie aura.

Some wizard apprentices held wands with a constricted pupil at the tip that kept moving, while others had two intertwined snakes flicking their tongues, and still others were constantly emitting dark purple smoke...

Green sensed an indescribable oppression emanating from these wizard apprentices, as if it were a fear stemming from human instinct, as if these wizard apprentices were humanity's natural enemies, revealing humanity's instinctive weaknesses.

These are definitely the black wizards of the mysterious and terrifying underworld!

All the wizards in the square waited quietly, without making a sound.

About a quarter of an hourglass later, a huge hexagonal starfish floated over from the distant, endless chains of rules and landed on the plaza.

The wizard apprentices in the square stirred slightly, but quickly returned to calm.

None of the six creatures on the hexagonal starfish are true humans. At most, two of them can be considered humanoid, while the other three can hardly be called humanoid at all.

Their bodies are mostly covered with solid, smooth scales, and their streamlined bodies are perfectly suited for swimming in the sea.

Leaving aside the three completely marine creatures resembling octopus monsters, sea lions, and fanged sharks, Green turned his gaze to the two humanoid sea creatures.

One of the marine creatures was obese, with a white belly and a pitch-black back. Its feet were webbed claws, and its fins had two hands at their tips. Although its head was human-shaped, it had a duck-like bill.

"This is... a penguin?" Green had never seen any description of a similar marine species in books, so he made up a name in his mind.

Another sea creature made Green's eyes narrow slightly, and most of the wizard apprentices present also turned their attention to this sea creature.

The upper body is the perfect female form.

Her long, emerald-green hair cascaded down her back, revealing a delicate face and a pair of jewel-like eyes. Her smooth, fair skin was enough to make any woman envious. Her towering breasts were only partially covered by two shells, and their firmness and fullness easily evoked the vitality of life. Her waist, which could be encircled by a single hand, lacked a human navel, creating a striking visual illusion with her high breasts above.

Its lower body is a fish tail covered with fine scales.

This is actually a mermaid from the wizarding world!

Stories about mermaids are widely circulated in the wizarding world, among both commoners and wizards; even Grimm knows some. If the sirens and monsters of the mysterious ocean are the nightmares of sailors, then the endless treasures and mermaid legends are the dreams and hopes that sailors set sail.

Legend has it that if a mermaid falls in love with a human, she will make a vow to the sea on the night of the full moon, activate the most ancient and mysterious witchcraft spell, transform her fishtail into legs, and from then on spend her life with the human she loves, never to be separated from him.

What a beautiful and romantic love story this is...

However, in the wizarding world, the existence of mermaids immediately undergoes a qualitative change.

Mermaid tears are one of the materials for resisting curses, a magical substance that can infinitely stack and delay curses; mermaid blood has the effect of enhancing cell vitality and slowing down aging, and is a top material for bloodline witchcraft for some female wizard apprentices; a mermaid's first kiss can bring good luck to a wizard at sea, which is one of the only three things in the wizarding system of knowledge that are vaguely mentioned as "fate".

The first is the lever of fate, and the second is the uncertainty of a wizard's advancement. The wizarding system also implicitly mentions the concept of "fate".

However, for wizards, mermaids have one more terrifying thing: the curse of the sea!

Any creature that kills a mermaid in the ocean will be cursed by the mermaid before her death with a terrifying curse called "the curse of the ocean." It is said that a wizard afflicted by this curse will never be able to cross the ocean in the wizarding world, or his body will gradually decay until he becomes nourishment for the ocean.

……

Six marine creatures stood in the Wizard's Looting Square.

At this moment, the basic structure of the wizarding world emerged.

The first to seventh ring holy towers of the Wizarding Continent, the Sky Holy Tower of Sky City, the Black Wizard Holy Tower of the Dark Domain, the Sea King Altar of marine creatures, the five great abyssal holy towers of the underground world, and... the legendary knight's academy of perseverance.

Without a sound, fifteen human wizards and the sea creature leader stepped forward, chanting profound and mysterious incantations. With each heartbeat-like fluctuation of magical power, specks of golden light began to fly out from the distant, rushing River of Destiny, landing on the seventy-five peak wizard apprentices and five sea creatures present.

(One of the fifteen human wizards is a legendary knight, which will not be elaborated upon. Similarly, among the wizard apprentices in the underground space, there are also five newly-formed legendary knights, which will also not be elaborated upon.)

"Go, children of the wizarding world, sail to the heart of the world and the will of origin, and claim your future and hope!" a male wizard roared.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Eighty golden beams shot into the sky, then fell into the distant, golden river-like lever of fate, gliding down towards the heart of this wizarding world's rule-based space.

On the other end of the lever of fate, the end that pried the square up with the lever of fate, the primordial will that gathers and carries the rise and fall, life and death, and hope of all living things in the wizarding world... the Heart of the World is opening its warm arms to welcome its children.

Like a slide, Green slid down the river of fate from a high vantage point. The golden light around him was clearly illusory and without substance, yet it gave Green the feeling of being in a raging torrent.

Ok?

Turning to the side, Green saw that the usually sinister Hellroar was now lying in the golden rapids, with a blissful smile like that of a sleeping baby.

He is an even purer dark wizard than Grimm!

Green had no idea that at this moment, his own expression was just like that of someone at the ball on that beautiful night, holding Raffi's slender waist and whispering sweet nothings to her—gentle and tender.

On the other side, Nairo's black chains disappeared, and she was now lying naked in the golden river, enjoying herself with her eyes closed.

Green was also enveloped in this warm and comforting feeling, and slowly closed his eyes.

I don't know how much time has passed...

Green, who was lost in a dreamlike reverie in the golden river, suddenly opened his eyes.

In a flash, a silent gray stone statue was swept past by the numerous wizard apprentices in the golden torrent. Apart from Grimm, not a single wizard apprentice opened their eyes to glance at the gray stone statue that had suddenly passed by.

The gray stone statue had no ornate decorations, no energy fluctuations, and even the carving technique was so simple and straightforward, devoid of any artistry, just like the stone lion in front of a fallen nobleman's gate. Passersby wouldn't even give it a second glance.

The gray stone statue depicts a sorcerer wearing a wide robe and a tall horned hat. He holds a magic wand aloft in one hand, his face contorted with a ferocious and cruel expression, yet also showing sadness and regret. The hand holding the magic wand aloft seems to be supporting the entire world.

In his other hand, he held an open book.

Green looked at the words on the book...

"Give me endless knowledge, and I will use myself as a fulcrum to move the endless world."

Muttering the words recorded in the book, the gray stone statue completely disappeared from Green's sight, swallowed up by the surging, brilliant golden torrent behind him.

Greene snapped out of his blissful reverie, his beautiful expression gradually turning to one of desolation. He said sadly, "Is this the fulcrum of fate? If that's the case... the lever of fate has already slid more than halfway through."

At this moment, in the magnificent and beautiful wizarding world, how many people know that this fulcrum, under the lever of fate, once changed the destiny of the wizarding world?

(End of this chapter)