Wizard's Journey

Chapter 196 Fatty Barrier

Five hourglasses later.

At this moment, seventy-three unrestrained dark wizards had gathered on the ground. Three of them were level two wizards, and none of them possessed a medal of honor.

If the people present were open-world wizards, they would probably have automatically divided into three teams led by the three level-two wizards. But for dark wizards, seventy-three people meant seventy-three teams.

Viktor took a metal ball out of his clothes. After a burst of energy, the metal ball floated in the air.

This is a mech heart made by a modern wizard. After a series of metallic friction vibrations, the mech heart decomposed into thousands of metal ribbons, which wrapped Viktor in the blink of an eye, fitting him perfectly.

Green raised his wizard's shield, and three fire bats circled around him as magic surged around him. He glanced at the many demon hunters who were ready around him. The demon hunters took to the air and rushed into the ventilation shaft of the camphor tree, which was over a hundred meters high. One after another, dark figures plunged into it without hesitation, falling into the depths.

A moment later, a huge and empty underground plaza appeared, with a layer of fleshy barrier covering the ground, and dozens of openings in various directions in the distance.

Everywhere you look, there are constantly writhing fleshy walls radiating a fiery red light. The air is warm and humid, and deep inside the tree hole, there are constant sounds of flowing water, the clanging of metal, and the chaotic roars of Amonro.

After dozens of demon hunter wizards fell one after another, they floated in the air without stepping on the surface of the constantly writhing fleshy barrier.

squeak!

Viktor's long metal tail stabbed fiercely beside Green, piercing the fleshy barrier on the ground and causing a wound. Immediately, a dark green liquid flowed out, emitting a foul odor, and seemed to contain a considerable amount of fire elemental energy.

Victor collected some of the eerie green liquid dripping from the long metal tail, inserted his metal needle into the liquid in the test tube, and after a moment whispered, "The fire element energy content is about 0.75%, and the life energy is 0.3%. It's a good experimental material for wizard apprentices, but it's not quite enough for wizards."

In a short time, the area where the green liquid had been flowing from the fat barrier had completely healed.

Green then took out a black worm the size of a fingernail from the wriggling gaps in the fleshy barrier. The worm's body was covered with white spots, it was somewhat fat, and it didn't seem to have any special abilities. Only the straw on its head was exceptionally well-developed, and its limbs had almost degenerated to the point of being nonexistent.

hiss……

After letting out a long sigh, Green seemed somewhat incredulous. He then took out another worm from the gap in the flesh. After seemingly confirming it, he excitedly stuffed the two fat worms directly into the mouth under the Mask of Truth. Green juice flowed into Green's mouth as he chewed.

A moment later, Green murmured in surprise, "It really does contain Vitana, a nutrient found only in many precious and high-end ingredients."

Vitana is a term used by gourmets to refer to certain rare nutrients found in high-end ingredients.

At this moment, in Green's mind, the food he ingested was entirely based on the rules of the food chain and the wizard's knowledge of food. If there was no suitable food, Green would rather not ingest any food at all.

Clearly, Green had forgotten the vow he made more than two hundred years ago in his first introductory wizarding class that he would never eat insects.

Humans in their youth are always ignorant, so much so that when their future selves look back on their childhood, they often do so with a strange sense of irony and escapism, choosing to downplay or even forget it.

Because they chose different paths of evolution, mechanical wizards were generally not interested in gourmets. At this moment, Victor saw Grimm savoring these lowly creatures, glanced at the empty plaza and the gradually dispersing wizards, and said to Grimm, "A quest ahead?"

Green was collecting insect specimens, intending to bring some back to the world fragments to raise as snacks for himself later. According to the gourmet's knowledge, regular consumption of Vitana would increase the sensitivity of a wizard's skin cells, indirectly enhancing certain sensory abilities. Therefore, he simply said, "I need to collect some biological specimens; you go ahead."

This underground entrance plaza has dozens or even hundreds of openings in all directions, resembling an underground maze.

"Um."

After Viktor agreed, he ignored Green and flew towards an underground cave entrance.

In the blink of an eye, only three demon hunter wizards remained in the vast space. Among them, Green was collecting insect specimens, one wizard was making a small altar, which seemed to be the coordinates of some kind of short-range teleportation spell, and another wizard actually summoned a five-meter-tall tree-man that took root in the fleshy barrier.

Each wizard was doing their own thing, ignoring the others.

The witcher who was making the small altar finished his work first. He glanced at Green and another witch, then turned and flew into a hole. Green, after collecting a batch of insects, used a spatial distortion to call out Little Eight.

"Gah, great young master Green, where is this?" The myna bird was used to checking the surroundings first. Only after receiving no information about combat did it ask Green for the location.

"The Zhangma Tree Underground Palace." With a simple reply, Green pointed to the exit above and said, "Help me pinpoint a starting point outside the exit. You did a good job last time."

Well done?

The myna bird excitedly took flight, cawing loudly, "Well done? Really well done? What's so good about it? Hahaha, it's alright, it's alright. Since it's done well, I wonder about the reward..."

"We'll talk about it when we get back."

After shamelessly dealing with the situation, Green flew away without looking back towards a cave that no wizards frequented.

The opening was small, only about ten meters in diameter. The surrounding fleshy walls kept contracting and expanding, which annoyed Green and gave him the illusion that he was walking inside the intestines of other creatures.

After a short while, the monotonous scenery became tedious, and the passageway gradually expanded, revealing a small patch of exposed rock that was not covered by the fleshy barrier.

Green was surprised to see a hole behind the rock, which appeared to be naturally formed.

As Grimm stopped, a ripple appeared beneath his feet as he was about to fly into the rocky cave to investigate. A long, golden tail of Amonro emerged from the fleshy barrier, seemingly poised to ambush him.

Of course, even if Green had only maintained a wizard's shield with a defense of 300 degrees, it was simply not something that such a low-level creature could break through. However, even so, this sudden attack still startled Green. Even when the attack hit Green's wizard's shield, Green had not noticed it at all.

It was as if this golden Amonro had become one with the fleshy barrier beneath him.

The long, golden tail had thick joints. After its first attack failed, dozens of golden Amonro emerged from the surrounding fleshy barrier, their eyes gleaming with ferocity as they attacked Grin. These Amonro had all been significantly strengthened within the underground camphor tree.

This place turned out to be an encirclement set up by these lowly creatures, but Green had no idea.

The Eye of the Darkness quickly scanned all directions, and after confirming that the attackers were only low-level creatures, Grimm breathed a slight sigh of relief. Although these Amonroes were slightly stronger due to the environment, for a formal wizard like Grimm, they were only a little troublesome; the difference in their life levels made it difficult for them to pose any real threat.

Thus, Green urged the three fire bats around him to shoot out, while he himself flew into the stone cave under a repulsive force.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The three fire bat spells exploded, and the fire waves engulfed some low-level Amonroes, while Grimm's repulsive force pushed some Amonroes away.

However, these Amonroes all hid inside the fleshy barrier. Neither the fire waves nor the thrust could cause them fatal damage. Instead, most of the Amonroes emerged from the fleshy barrier even more ferociously and crowded into the cave.

A few breaths later.

A dark red beam of light flashed out from the cave and shot out with a deafening explosion. The roaring Amonro horde fell silent instantly, and the flames outside the cave pushed dozens of Amonro corpses to the ground, blood flowing freely.

Inside the cave, Green sensed the increase in his Amonro Despair level before turning around to look at the natural underground lake and the sparkling crystal cone hanging overhead.

Splash...

A translucent crystal turtle appeared in the lake. Its shell was a meter in size, and its eyes looked at Green with anthropomorphic expressions, full of surprise and wonder, but without fear.

Having grown accustomed to being stared at with hatred and fear by inferior beings from another world, Grimm was utterly astonished to see the inferior being before him so calm.

(End of this chapter)