Wizard's Journey

Chapter 164 Spacetime Rift

Back at the Demon Hunter Castle, with no visible emotional fluctuations beneath his wide cloak, Grimm continued to follow his daily schedule, slowly making his way to the alchemy laboratory while scrubbing the floor and bowing respectfully.

His silhouette was mysterious and composed, yet somewhat aloof.

Morning comes and evening passes.

A year has passed in the Wizarding World.

That day, Lou Ken diligently prepared a sumptuous feast, but the myna bird only ate a couple of bites before flying away from Green Demon Hunter Castle with no interest, probably to go find its old friend Angilie again.

With a calm expression, Green placed a piece of medium-rare meat and tendon into his mouth with a knife, chewing it slowly and delicately with his mouth closed.

As time went by, Green had long since grown accustomed to his peaceful and tranquil daily life.

What seemed dull and tasteless was a tranquil enjoyment for Green, who was indifferent yet full of goals and hopes.

Faced with a table full of food that had lost all its appeal, Green quietly ate it all alone, without uttering a word. For Green now, savoring delicious food had become merely a part of the rhythm of life.

While mechanically chewing the fragrant drink in his mouth, Green was lost in thought, with a cup of secret-recipe refreshing drink called Wave Rain Flower on his left.

The two meal breaks each day were supposed to be the only time in Green's daily schedule where he could relax and quietly enjoy life, but Green couldn't help but use them to summarize and reflect on his current and future research tasks.

As Green pondered, his gaze was exceptionally long and profound, like the surface of a bottomless pool shrouded in the silvery moonlight.

After a moment, with the food in his mouth, Green slowly untied the scarf from his chest, stood up, and looked at the slaves behind him who were standing respectfully bowing.

"How are the food supplies?"

Green straightened his robe with his long, slender fingers, his fair and vibrant skin contrasting sharply with Louke's rough, withered green skin.

Louken bowed slowly, displaying the manners a butler from the Wizarding World would show to his master. He took out a list, calculated it several times, and then carefully replied, "Reporting to Master, we can probably sustain this for another five weeks."

For the Loken race, the average intelligence is far lower than that of humans in the wizarding world.

"Um."

Nodding, Green didn't say anything more. The high and mighty master wouldn't express any plans or ideas to his slaves, so he didn't waste any more precious time by saying a word of nonsense and walked straight to the torture cell.

After removing his robes, Grimm, with his strong and muscular physique, finished inspecting the energy crystals in the magic circle and sat expressionlessly on the new stone chair in the magic circle, pressing the button on the chair's armrest as if it were second nature.

boom!

A wave of fire erupted on the stone chair, causing the automated magic array on the walls of the Demon Hunter Castle to distort slightly, indicating the fire's temperature was quite high. However, Grimm, trapped within the fire, only let out a muffled groan and slightly furrowed his brow. A layer of black scabs automatically formed on his skin, protecting him from the fire elemental damage from the stone chair.

A good quarter of an hour later, Green, who was in the flames on the stone chair, actually stood up and muttered with a frown, "Has my body become completely immune to this level of fire attack? It seems I need to improve the energy configuration of the magic circle and increase the elemental attack power of the magic circle."

Having said that, Green deactivated the magic circle, calmly put on a loose magic robe, his long golden hair cascading down his back, and quietly sat cross-legged on the stone chair, entering a meditative state.

As meditation progresses, the mental energy expands and contracts like an infant's breathing, entering a long and deep slumber.

Two hourglasses later.

After finishing his meditation, Green stood up, made a single gesture in the air, and retrieved a magic book from the dimensional gap. After studying it for a while, he used a quill pen dipped in magical ink to make some modifications to the design of the six energy node runes. He then replaced the one intermediate magic stone at each energy node with two intermediate magic stones.

In this way, it can be ensured that the elemental attack intensity in the magic circle exceeds the most basic elemental resistance of Green's body again, thereby prompting Green's internal cells to passively adapt and evolve to these conventional elemental forces.

Nodding, Green turned off the magic light in the torture cell and left.

In the alchemy lab, the main body and dragon head of the Grimm Elemental Staff 1.0 enhanced version have been connected. According to general alchemy techniques, this is already a finished magic staff.

However, since it is the 1.0 enhanced version, Grimm will naturally add certain elemental attribute bonuses from his own design concept to this magic wand, so that it can provide good assistance to Grimm's strength improvement in the future.

At this moment, the attributes of Grimm's magic staff are: saving 5% of magic power when casting elemental spells below 660 degrees, increasing the attack power of elemental spells below 750 degrees by 4%, and increasing the base elemental attack power by 20.

However, Green attempted to further enhance the attributes of this elemental staff: increase the basic purification and sublimation speed of water element below 500 degrees by 10%, increase the basic attack power of fire element by 30, and make the staff itself able to withstand physical attacks with cutting and shock properties up to 1000 degrees.

The increased speed of water element purification and sublimation, along with the increased attack power of fire element, will allow Grimm's Bursting Flame spell to be cast faster and attack more powerfully, thus enabling the regular casting of Bursting Flame spell.

The magical design that makes the magic wand's shaft sturdy and indestructible is based on the fact that Grimm will be a pseudo-body-refining wizard for a long time to come, so it can also be used as a long staff-like magical weapon in close combat.

After an hourglass period, Green walked back to his voodoo laboratory.

It was already afternoon, and the projection of the towering canopy of the Tree of Life had already bypassed Grimm's Demon Hunter Castle. Grimm was used to taking a short break during this time, sipping afternoon tea, and opening the window of the Voodoo Laboratory to let the fresh air filled with life energy from outside the Demon Hunter Castle into the room, while warm sunlight streamed in.

Warm and vibrant.

squeak...

He opened the wooden window, and bright sunlight fell on his face as he pulled back his cloak. Green took a sip of afternoon tea, the slightly bitter juice filling his mouth before flowing down his throat. He closed his eyes with a look of contentment.

"Hahaha, old man, look..."

Little Eight's sly laughter came from the lawn of Green's neighbor's house. Green, while enjoying the bitterness of his afternoon tea, glanced over there. These days, that Ming wizard named Angille was doing some kind of research, and had actually built a miniature balloon airship more than ten meters long to conduct some kind of experiment.

Furthermore, he installed a huge windmill on the lawn in his yard, the purpose of which is unknown.

At this moment, Hachi was standing on top of the miniature balloon airship, painting his own image as a one-eyed pirate soaring through the air, and writing "Flying Steel Emblem Wings Airship Dynamics Experimental Spaceship" in wizard script on the back of the balloon airship.

call……

Gently blowing on his hot tea, Green ignored the time wasted by Little Eight and the neighboring wizard's madness. After looking around, he suddenly noticed a gigantic, all-encompassing shadow looming over him, obscuring Green from the warm sunshine.

The sky and the earth were suddenly plunged into darkness.

Ok?

Green's arm trembled as he held his afternoon tea, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

Blood-red moon!

Clouds have descended from the space fortress in the Wizarding World. What's going on?

Rumble...

A sonic boom, like muffled thunder, came from the sky, as if it were the roar of a steel behemoth that was gradually awakening.

In the sky, thick clouds were pushed aside by a blood-red moon. The cold, metallic base, over ten thousand meters in diameter, radiated a heavy, chilling, cruel, and indestructible luster, while the surrounding thick clouds were violently pushed aside by an invisible aura.

Gradually, the silhouette of this space fortress, which resembled a steel monster, was fully revealed to all the wizards on the ground. Standing under the shadow of this terrifying metal fortress, the invisible pressure even made a formal wizard like Grimm feel a little breathless!

hula la...

Green suddenly noticed that the numerous demon hunters who were originally around the Tree of Life and those flying in the sky all began to fly towards their own demon hunter castle the moment they saw the Blood Moon Space Fortress descend from the clouds.

The endless black dots in the sky resembled a swarm of locusts in a plague, their numbers impossible to estimate.

And these are witch hunters from the wizarding world!

They are witch hunter wizards selected through the most rigorous rules in the wizarding world!

The entire defensive shield of the Seven Rings Holy Tower and the space fortress were like a seamless blend, offering no obstruction to the arrival of the space fortress.

The sky seemed to be falling like a moon, and on the ground, countless demon hunters flew in groups like a surging torrent. One after another, flying machines came to a stop, accompanied by snail messengers escorting the space fortress as it descended. Suddenly, with a creaking and groaning sound, the entire canopy of the Tree of Life began to slowly unfold, like a tightly closed flower bud gradually opening, or like a primal nightmare beast gradually opening its huge mouth.

hum...

Suddenly, a loud horn sound resounded throughout the entire Seven Rings Holy Tower's defensive shield. The sound was melodious and desolate, like the pre-battle drums of an uncivilized race from a primitive civilization, reaching the ears of all the wizards.

At this moment, even the so-called silent barrier of the Demon Hunter Castle could not completely block the melodious and desolate sound of the horn.

While enjoying his afternoon tea and lost in shock, Green suddenly sensed a seventh-ringed contract will appearing on the altar on the rooftop.

Green briefly closed his eyes, then opened them again, murmuring with delight, "One hourglass's time, continuously inputting 1000 standard magic points into the altar, and I get a witch spirit as a reward?"

No wonder all those demon hunter wizards rushed to their demon hunter castles; now I know why!

Green put down his teacup, glanced at the trembling, panicked henchmen downstairs, ignored them, and flew directly to the altar at the top of the castle. He held a high-grade magic stone in one hand and continuously channeled his magic power into the altar with the other.

The reason this lowly soul slave was trembling was probably because seeing the blood-red moon in the sky triggered some terrifying memories.

Like a drop of water falling into a pond, the moment Grimm channeled his magic into the altar, looking down from the oppressive spatial fortress high above, the runes of Grimm's Demon Hunter Castle slowly glowed, gradually merging with the countless Demon Hunter Castle rune magic circles centered on the Tree of Life.

An indescribable, terrifying energy fluctuation began to gather in the sky, on the earth, and in the air—a terrifying energy fluctuation that shook the entire wizarding world!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...

At the very edge of the Seven Rings Holy Tower's defensive shield, six wizard towers supporting the Seven Rings suddenly erupted with six beams of pure magical energy, shooting straight toward the wizard world's original space fortress, which had completely descended from the clouds.

Like a powerful recharge, countless runes on the hemispherical base of the space fortress began to move. At the same time, from one black hatch after another, batches of three-hundred-meter-long spaceships, resembling sharks, were densely packed together, and the hatches gradually closed.

At this moment, Green in the Demon Hunter Castle felt as if his magic had entered a torrent rushing into the sky, a torrent composed entirely of magical energy.

Rumble!

The sky-covering spatial fortress slowly moved towards the Tree of Life, whose canopy had already fully opened!

At this moment, the canopy of the Tree of Life had fully opened, transforming into a vast plaza tens of thousands of meters in diameter. Six thick energy pillars shot straight into the sky, and the hexagonal seven-ringed metal box remained quietly at the center of the six energy pillars in the plaza, gathering terrifying energy that low-level wizards could not even imagine.

This……

Green swallowed hard, watching quietly through the window as the space fortress gradually flew towards the canopy plaza at the center of the Tree of Life, and then slowly landed directly above the six energy cores and the seven rings.

boom!

Suddenly, amidst a world-shaking energy fluctuation, Green felt that even space and time began to distort with the energy disorder, creating different layers and misalignments. Accompanied by the shifting of a golden, sublime, and majestic scale rule in the Wizarding World, the coordinates of a distant and unknown alien world gradually began to overlap with the endless coordinates of the Wizarding World.

A rift in a portal between time and space is slowly opening!

Boom!

The magical torrents of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of demon hunters erupted beneath the Tree of Life, and beneath a magical pillar of light a hundred meters in diameter, the Seventh Ring Heart propelled the spatial fortress above it slowly into the sky.

It started very slowly, then gradually increased in speed...

Click!

Suddenly, Green, who was channeling magic into the altar of the Demon Hunter Castle, sensed the completely distorted spacetime rift. Then, the torrent of magic mercilessly pushed the original space fortress of the wizarding world into it, and the spacetime rift closed instantly.

Whoosh...

The entire Seven Rings Holy Tower's defensive shield seemed to have entered a period of weakness, as if this entire wizarding world was gasping for breath.

Grimm slumped down beside the altar of the Demon Hunter Castle, panting, "So this is how the Wizarding World's original spatial fortress conquered the alien world and entered the spacetime tunnel? Using the magic power of the Demon Hunter wizards throughout the entire Seven Rings Holy Tower as a driving force, it leveraged the rules of the Wizarding World's destiny, thereby opening a spacetime rift large enough to contain the entire spatial fortress?"

It's just unknown how long this space fortress will have to traverse through the spacetime gaps to reach the alien world it's destined to conquer.

Entering the space fortress within the space-time rift, time itself may be but a fleeting moment, as if one has arrived in another world in the blink of an eye.

But for that otherworldly realm, a blood-red moon will hang high in the sky until days, months, or even years later, when a super-intelligent crystallization called the Wizarding World Space Fortress will truly descend upon that world. Then, the countless powerful demon hunter wizards and endless soul slaves mounted on this terrifying war machine will plunge the entire world into a nightmare of invasion.

(End of this chapter)