Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1949 Cigarette Butt

"Is there anything else?"

The pool of dark green water was quite large and extremely corrosive. Millie wasn't sure if there were any more of these trashy, illusory monsters below, so she asked Green. With her current barely level-one creature level, she had almost no power to resist.

"I'll go and test the waters."

Having sealed away his own strength by 30,000 times, Grimm naturally lost the ability to summon the projection of the rules of the Face of Truth, and also lost many of his means of perception. He could only use himself as bait to test the waters himself.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap...

After a few leaps, skimming the water with his toes, Green suddenly stopped in the pool.

"What's wrong?"

Millie asked from the pool, but Green didn't respond immediately. With a soft "hmm," a repulsive force rippled out, and the dark green water beneath their feet slightly distorted, spreading outwards to reveal a half-human, half-scorpion statue. Surprisingly, it wasn't corroded by the dark green water and still stood proudly in a lifelike posture.

"Why is there another piece of art here?"

Millie's curiosity made her want to come and take a look, but Green said, "Wait a minute, don't come over yet, this is a sealing spell."

As he spoke, a large amount of water element gathered in front of Green, forming a water sphere that appeared harmless. However, under Green's exquisite manipulation of the repulsive and attractive forces, the water sphere became a continuous source of a high-pressure water column, which in turn became an extremely sharp cutting machine, slicing along the edges of the stone carving.

Tick, tick, tick...

Suddenly, Green stopped cutting, because he was surprised to find that the seal on the half-human, half-scorpion statue was weeping!

"Or? What are you?"

Sensing something amiss, Green tentatively asked, "Stop cutting for now. I've never heard of a sealed vessel transforming into a completely new life form due to maintaining the seal for a long time. What kind of life form is this?"

"From the day I was born, my mission has been to nurture this thing. I don't know what I am, nor do I know what it is. I only have that digestive beast as my companion. Please don't kill me."

The stone sculpture, half-human and half-scorpion, opened and closed its lips, seemingly begging for mercy, clearly terrified by the scene of Green and Millie dissecting the digestive beast.

"Digestive Beast! Are there any other digestive beasts here? What's sealed inside your stomach? What lies deeper in the cave?"

Green asked three questions in a row.

"The so-called digestive beasts here are digestive spirits formed from the long-term accumulation of gastric juices from a giant beast named Man after its death. They constantly hunt to nourish this digestive fluid. As for what's in my stomach, I don't know what it is. And the things deeper in the cave are outsiders like you, who just wandered in many years ago."

This sealed statue has limited knowledge and lacks the ability to depict it precisely, so it cannot provide Green with many useful clues.

"quite?"

The wizarding world has no records or clues about the creature described by the sealed statue. Under its terrified gaze, Grimm continued to activate the high-pressure water jet magic, cutting into its petrified skin.

Click!

After about two-thirds of the hourglass time, the petrified statue's skin was perfectly sliced ​​in two by Green. With a sudden "crack" sound, the statue shattered into two pieces, and a burst of golden energy emerged.

Looking through the golden aura, Green saw a gaunt, six-armed old monk in a meditative posture beneath the stone sculpture. After his death, his body was successfully sculpted into a golden statue.

"The Sanskrit Vajra World Group!"

After learning that there were no more digestive monsters in the pool, Millie followed them to the center of the pool. At this moment, with the reappearance of the six-armed golden body of the deceased, although there was very little information about the Sanskrit Vajra World Group in some wizarding books, this kind of experimental specimen was the first time she had seen it, and its preciousness was self-evident.

"In life, it should have met the standards of a Level 3 biological being, but now the hardness of this golden body should be even harder than the hull of a space-based star destroyer, capable of withstanding attacks below 90,000 degrees Celsius, becoming an inexhaustible power source for the stone sculpture!"

After conducting some testing, Green came to this conclusion.

What does it mean to be immune to 90,000-degree attacks? It is the limit of many level 5 Saint Mark Wizards' attack values, but this is only the result of a level 3 creature creating a golden body. The supernatural abilities of this Sanskrit Vajra World Group make the body's hardness beyond imagination!

"Not bad, that's quite an amazing find. We'll study it later. Let's go inside and take a look."

Green was referring to the place where the "snoring" sound was coming from deeper inside the cave. With their strength compressed by 30,000 times, they didn't really have a good way to study this Vajra body.

"kindness."

Millie responded, and in her half-human, half-phoenix state, she barely managed to gather a breath of icy power. While maintaining her bodily functions, she froze the surrounding dark green liquid, and the stone fragments sealing the statue were taken out one by one and collected as specimens.

"Let's go. This fragment isn't very big. Let's see what's up ahead."

After saying that, Green led Millie through the green pool with two "whoosh" sounds. The cave here was wider than the outside. At the same time, the originally dark gray stone walls became more grayish-white, like some kind of plaster powder. The originally damp cave also became dry and filled with a strange fragrance that was addictive and irresistible.

Snoring, snoring, snoring...

The snoring grew louder and louder, and even the air seemed to vibrate with the snoring. It was as if one could faintly sense a huge creature sleeping, and the ground also trembled slightly.

Gradually, the cave descended to a height of about thirty meters, and the two proceeded with extreme caution.

After turning a corner, suddenly, a giant cigarette butt appeared in front of the two of them!

"Well?"

Even with Green's extensive experience, he couldn't help but murmur a hint of doubt. Ironically, this enormous cigarette butt even had the words "Smoking is harmful to your health" written on it.

"It seems to be just useless trash. Let's not wake it up and leave."

Millie frowned.

The giant cigarette butt looked like the cigarette residue of a new human from the vast universe, but it was far too huge. The snoring was also coming from this cigarette butt. It seems that the grayish-white substance on these stone walls is not lime, but cigarette ash.

"But something's strange. I've smelled cigarette smoke before, and it's not this kind of sweet, addictive, and terrible fragrance at all."

This was the end of the tunnel. The two of them circled the giant cigarette butt, which was over ten meters tall, twice. The cigarette butt seemed to be completely asleep and was unaware of Green and Millie's arrival.

"Heh heh, soul writing... Since this is a garbage world, this so-called fragrance is certainly not real fragrance, but rather the life force stolen by toxic substances in cigarettes. Perhaps using 'garbage world' isn't quite suitable for this illusory world. Waste world? Abandoned world?"

After finishing his sentence, Green turned to Millie and said, "There's a small branch here, would you like to take a look?"

"The fragrance of life's vitality? The vitality of life that people have abandoned?"

After being reminded by Green, Millie became interested. After scraping some cigarette ash powder off the stone wall, an amazing scene appeared: the specimen tube in Millie's hand actually emitted a soft murmur.

"If I wanted to quit smoking, I could do it anytime. I'm not addicted at all; I just smoke casually for fun..."

"I'm not smoking cigarettes, I'm smoking loneliness..."

"Men smoke for social reasons..."

Millie said in surprise, "We almost missed it. It's an excellent material for using as a medium for mystical power. It would be good news if the wizarding world could develop such a mysterious material and mass-produce it."

After that, Millie looked in the direction Thorin had pointed. In this spacious, secluded place, there was a small, narrow cave branch about a meter long. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't notice it. Several roots were sticking out of the cave, and you could faintly hear some strange wind sounds coming from inside.

"Since we're already inside, let's go in and take a look."

As Millie was speaking, as the two approached the school inspector, the seemingly lifeless stalks at the entrance of the cave suddenly stood up like cobras, displaying a ferocious posture, looking extremely unwelcoming to outsiders, and vowing to defend their home to the death.

"Oh? That's kind of cute."

Green smiled, and silently, the roots froze into ice blocks, which then spread deep into the cave.

Green led Millie down and slowly crawled inside.

(End of this chapter)