Wizard's Journey

Chapter 149 The Eternal Enemy

About a dozen hourglasses had passed.

The latter half of the lever of fate was spent in a conscious state, which made the time seem exceptionally long. In contrast, for the wizarding apprentices who were enjoying the ride, the entire process of gliding across the lever of fate was like a beautiful dream, where they arrived at one end of the lever in the blink of an eye.

Gradually, the source of countless chains of rules in the wizarding world came into view.

This is an irregular red sphere with a diameter of about 10,000 meters. It is irregular because directly below this red sphere, a dark gray sphere with a diameter of about 5,000 meters is formed.

This is the fundamental will of the wizarding world, the heart of the world!

Although the main body of the Heart of the World was a crimson red like lava, with golden light emanating from its cracks, it did not feel hot at all.

The golden river of fate is like a giant shuttle, delicate at both ends and powerful in the middle. The delicate ends connect the heart of the world and the Wizard's Lever Square, while the powerful middle is the fulcrum of fate.

"Oh right, all the Holy Towers in the Wizarding World have the ability to borrow the lever of fate..." Green suddenly thought of this.

Does this mean that the Lever of Fate itself has become the rule and melody of the Wizarding World, and that the ability of the various Holy Towers to conquer other worlds and traverse the void is not the use of the Lever of Fate itself, but rather that the Holy Towers have simply leveraged the rules of the Wizarding World that belong to the Lever of Fate?

At this moment, all the wizard apprentices had awakened in the "River of Destiny" and were quietly gazing at the Heart of the World, which was constantly approaching in the distance.

All wizard apprentices could clearly see that when the Heart of the World touched the Lever of Fate, a huge crack appeared, hundreds of meters in diameter. The crack was surrounded by countless endless seven-colored runes, which seemed to form a huge sealing array, like bandages wrapped around the huge wound of the Heart of the World.

Every now and then, the seven-colored sealing bandage would tremble and countless seven-colored runes would flash, seemingly preventing something from erupting from inside the wound, and it seemed to be quite effective.

However, sporadic bursts of light always emerge from the gaps in these seals.

Hey……

Whether it was Green's hallucination or his own imagination, it seemed that after a silent sigh, the light that had erupted from the wound in the Heart of the World was taken away by an inexplicable force and disappeared.

Beneath his pale mask, Grimm's eyes were fixed on the seven-colored seal barrier of the Heart of the World, his gaze filled with unspeakable sorrow as he recalled the top secret of the wizarding world that his mentor, Peranos, had once told him.

The heart of a world is the highest embodiment of the common will of all living things in that world.

Under normal circumstances, the destruction of the World Heart occurs in only two ways. One is that, with the endless passage of time and the excessive self-consumption and loss of balance of certain natural rules within the world, the World Heart's lifespan reaches its end, leading to its self-collapse. The other is that numerous super-creatures at the True Spirit Wizard level continuously disrupt the fundamental rules of a world until all life in that world is completely annihilated, at which point the World Heart, representing the will of all things, naturally collapses.

Besides, the Heart of the World is virtually indestructible.

Even if the most powerful being manages to damage a trace of the Heart of the World, it will be repaired by the balance rules of the endless world where the Heart of the World resides, and there is absolutely no possibility of it being shattered.

but!

The Heart of the World in the Wizarding World is an exception.

In ancient times, the great True Spirit Wizard, in order to save the last vestiges of the wizarding world's civilization, willingly sacrificed his own life as a fulcrum of destiny. He used all the wealth and resources the wizarding world once possessed as energy to shift the world's coordinates in the endless void, thus changing the tragic fate of the wizarding world's impending demise.

On the surface, all of this seemed to mark the end of the wizarding world's tragic fate and the beginning of a new journey.

However, the real phenomenon is...

Even though that great True Spirit Wizard sacrificed everything, he could only delay the fate of the wizarding world's demise by a few epochs.

The lever of fate did indeed allow the wizarding world to successfully escape the clutches of that powerful civilization, giving it a new destiny. Before his demise, the True Spirit Wizard uttered that famous saying, a statement tinged with both relief and regret. Even many remaining ancient Holy Mark Wizards and True Spirit Wizards believed that the fate of the wizarding world had been changed, only to discover…

Beneath the Heart of the World, above the Lever of Fate, a broken crack appeared in the fundamental will of the Wizarding World.

It seems that because the Wizarding World has completely broken away from the original coordinates of the Endless World, the balance rules of the Endless World have not occurred at the heart of the Wizarding World.

It's as if...

The fate of the endless world no longer favors this wizarding world that is trying to escape its doom!

Thus, the cracks in the Heart of the Wizarding World will be unable to repair themselves, and the source of life within the Heart of the World will begin to break and disappear due to the shattering of its outer shell. This is the sign that the Heart of the World is about to perish and collapse.

In his panic, the ancient wizard tried every possible method, but in the end, he could only set up the Seven-Colored Space-Time Sealing Technique, which represents the strongest sealing ability in the wizarding world.

On one hand, the wizarding world is doing everything it can to delay the day of the destruction of the Heart of the World. On the other hand, it is using all its resources to develop and strengthen the wizarding civilization, attempting to defeat the powerful civilization that once made the wizarding world flee like stray dogs before the wizarding world is completely destroyed.

Only by moving the Wizarding World back to its original coordinates in memory can it return to the balance of the endless world and thus avert its fate of destruction.

For this goal, for this ideal!

All the true spirit wizards in the wizarding world have put aside all their past internal conflicts and formed a unified will.

From the establishment of the five Abyss Holy Towers, the establishment of the Legendary Knights' Perseverance Academy, the two-way contract between the Dark Domain and the Wizarding Continent, the Origin Will Space Fortress Invasion Technology developed by the Sky Holy Tower, and the Endless World Wizarding Alliance's Great Harmony System!

From: the distinction between light and dark factions of wizards, the selection of elite wizard apprentices through the regional academy's breeding system, the incentive system for arcane wizards to cultivate elite disciples, the development and establishment of strategic regional academies, and all Holy Tower institutions' frantic invasion of any known surrounding native worlds in order to plunder more resources, knowledge, and soul slave reserves!

At this time, all the "prosperity, harmony, and flourishing" in the wizarding world is the result of the collective will of the true spirit wizards who survived the Second Civilization War.

That is……

They will exert every effort in the wizarding world to save it from destruction.

This is why the wizarding world is known as the world's slave owners, because the wizarding world is cruel to its outsiders!

This is why the Blackthorne trial for newcomers is known as the Blood Millstone, a testament to the wizarding world's internal cruelty!

It is because of so many things that the wizarding world may have a chance, in the distant and unknown future, to avert its tragic fate of destruction.

At this moment, the wizarding world is nothing more than a homeless, starving wolf, licking its wounds in a sorry state, its eyes glowing with a cold, eerie green light from hatred, anger, and hunger. It is desperately devouring everything it can see to grow stronger, defeat the terrifying beast that has taken everything from it, and escape its fate of being starved, freezing, and plagued by disease.

In the brutal, endless wars between world races and civilizations, there are never tears or sympathy, only sharper fangs and sharper nails!

A hungry wolf that has experienced defeat now has eyes that are not only cruel to its enemies, but also cruel to itself!

Its claws frantically devoured all prey weaker than itself.

Its fangs seemed ready to devour everything it could see.

Its belly is like a bottomless pit; no matter how much food is put in, it can never fill its abyss-like stomach.

Its heart is now filled only with cunning, cruelty, bloodlust, fearlessness, and... hatred.

This is a path with no turning back in the wizarding world.

The only way is to fight with everything you have; if you can't, you'll be destroyed.

…………

A wizard dressed entirely in black robes sat quietly above the rift in the heart of the world, sealed by the seven-colored spacetime.

The guardian of the seven-colored spacetime seal in the Wizarding World?

However, what is noteworthy is that a pure white snowflake, resembling a snow lotus, floats behind the wizard.

The pure white snowflakes have six points, fluffy white tentacles, and anthropomorphic facial features in the middle. On a pair of large eyes, curved eyelashes radiate an inexplicable brilliance.

Snowflakes with curved eyelashes?

It seems that this snowflake is a snow sprite belonging to the wizarding world, representing the will of snow that changes with the seasons.

What appears to be harsh and cruel is actually a breeding ground for new life.

"Eighty people, hmm, all here..." A female voice rang out from beneath the black-robed wizard. The white mist obscured her face as she sat at the end of the lever of fate, atop the seven-colored spacetime seal of the rift in the heart of the world, watching all the beings of the wizarding world slide across the lever of fate.

All the "people" swallowed nervously, gazing up at the black-robed wizard shrouded in a white mist.

Because above the wizard's head, a small mountain composed entirely of the source of life was floating, radiating an indescribable allure, and the many wizard apprentices were like newborn babies instinctively seeking their mother's milk.

These sources of life are the precursors of the worthless "Witch Spirits," fragments of the wizarding world!

Once a wizard loses its life-giving energy, it has no use or value of its own. It only becomes valuable because the Holy Tower of the wizarding world bestows upon it that value.

Just like... gold coins in the common people's world.

Wizard apprentices, as long as they obtain these fragments, even just a little bit, can absolutely advance to become full-fledged wizards and master the power of nature!

For body-refining wizards, obtaining even a small fragment of these worlds brings ineffable benefits, whether it's a deeper understanding of their wild instincts, a passive enhancement of their physique, or the ability to imitate and purify powerful creatures from other worlds!

As for mechanical wizards, dark wizards, and even sea creatures, they will all have their own unique and perfect evolution, which is determined by the sublimation of their primordial will.

Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff...

Eighty fragments of the world of varying sizes flew out from the small mountain of life source atop the black-robed wizard, the guardian of the wizarding world, and shot towards the eighty native creatures of the wizarding world present, like a dazzling meteor shower streaking across the sky.

The area where the five wizard apprentices of the Seven Rings Holy Tower are located.

The five wizard apprentices gazed at the five fragments of the Heart of the World flying overhead—one large, one medium, and three small—and felt a surge of longing.

Nairo looked at the largest fragment of the Heart of the World flying towards him, a hint of joy on his face. This fragment of the Heart of the World was so large that even among the eighty fragments of the Heart of the World, it still stood out and was so dazzling.

Yubo gazed at the medium-sized fragment of the Heart of the World, then at the fragment that Nairo was looking at, and sighed.

However, Yubo looked at the World Heart fragments flying towards the other Holy Tower wizard apprentices, and his mind finally calmed down a bit.

This fragment of the Heart of the World is not small either.

Beneath his pale mask, Grimm's eyes silently gazed at the fragments of the Heart of the World streaking across the sky, his pupils reflecting a gleaming light, showing no emotion. The other two white-robed wizard apprentices also showed no unusual reaction to the size of the Heart of the World; both appeared extremely excited.

Fragments of the Heart of the World slid down onto the halos above the heads of every wizarding apprentice present.

"No……"

Naraku suddenly screamed, a scream that was so abrupt in this space. She stared blankly as the giant fragment of the World Heart that originally belonged to her flew to the top of Green's head and gradually merged with the ring.

As for herself, she only obtained the smaller fragment of the medium-sized Heart of the World.

"you!"

Yubo was filled with disbelief, staring blankly at the large fragment of the Heart of the World radiating a dazzling light on the halo above Green's head, while he himself was just the smallest fragment of the Heart of the World, just like the other two Ming Wizard apprentices.

Green ignored the trivial matters around him and didn't even glance at the two wizard apprentices.

At this moment, through the chaotic information of the life source will of the fragments of the Heart of This World, countless chaotic messages surged from Green's soul.

The most prominent pieces of information are the wizarding world's past prosperity, flourishing, and power, which evolved into arrogance and complacency, followed by the bewilderment, fear, and trembling of countless lives, the roar, shouts, loss, resentment, dreams, and hopes of a single life...

……

Finally, a message was forever imprinted deep within Green's soul.

"The eternal enemy of the Wizarding World: the Abyss Civilization!"

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

Eighty brilliant rays of light were bound together by eighty chains of wizarding world rules and pulled into the heart of the world, like a mother lovingly embracing her child who has returned home.

Like all wizarding apprentices, Green instantly fell into a deep sleep and became absorbed in the dream.

Eyelashes curled like little snowflakes...

(End of this chapter)