Wizard's Journey

Chapter 242 The Shadow Catastrophe (Part 20)

In the Dead Zone Volcano, the Dark Wizards and the Lava Giant King's resistance army fought a fierce battle that lasted for three days.

Seven days later.

On the shattered earth, the broken body of the Lava Giant King was reduced to thousands of fragments, and the soul of the natural elements was taken away by the Holy Mark Wizard who listened to the secret words. The precious Lava Core was given to the new generation of Lava Giant King, Nine Lava Mountains, as a testament to the "cooperation" between the wizard and the new generation of Lava Giants.

The Lava Sacred Mountain, due to the excessive extraction of its energy by the Lava Giant King, was breached during a fierce battle with the Holy Mark Wizard. Thick, golden magma flowed out, transforming into a golden lake.

Although the remaining lava giants, under the leadership of the new generation of lava giant kings of Nine Lava Mountains, submitted to the will of the wizards and formed a subordinate relationship with the wizard civilization, the hatred and hostility they harbored could not be erased, but were covered by a deep fear.

In the previous three days of continuous battles, the Lava Giants finally witnessed the power of these wizards from a mysterious alien world.

Their methods are mysterious, unpredictable, and extremely cruel; they are bloodthirsty and seem to be a race born solely for fighting and killing.

Moreover, its advanced systems and civilizations are far beyond the reach of even the world's lava giants and Amon Ro.

Thus, some of the lava giants who were furious at the King of Nine Lava Mountains for compromising temporarily suppressed their thoughts, as if they "understood" the King of Nine Lava Mountains' "good intentions".

this day.

The three holy wizards and the King of the Nine Lava Mountains stood atop the sacred lava mountain, bathed in the endless crimson sun, with a cloudless view, and signed the Wizard Civilization Contract under the watchful eyes of all the lava giants in this volcanic dead zone.

According to the internal charter of the wizarding civilization, the holy-stigma wizards established a subordinate relationship between the lava giant race of this "Fire Crystal World" and the wizarding civilization, and read out the rights and obligations that the lava giant race enjoys within the wizarding civilization one by one.

Logically speaking, among the options of enslavement, subordination, and cooperation, as a small world, achieving a subordinate relationship within the wizarding civilization is already the best choice.

In fact, if Amonro had not launched the Shadow Cataclysm, the Shadow Empire established during this Demon Hunter Expedition would have been one of the standard methods used by the Demon Hunter Wizards to enslave the expeditionary world.

As a subordinate world, besides paying tribute to the wizard civilization with large amounts of resources and slaves every hundred years, it also had to obey the wizards' will and engage in a world trade that best embodied the wisdom of the wizards.

In this trade, an equivalent called Wizard Coin circulates.

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Standing quietly at the edge of the Primal Space Fortress, thousands of meters above the ground.

During the several days of fighting, Grimm gained a direct understanding of the combat power of the Lava Giant race.

The combat power of this massive elemental life form is exceptionally strong, especially within the sacred domain of the Lava Giant race. Its individual combat ability rivals that of many Demon Hunters and Dark Wizards, the elite combatants of the wizarding world.

In the fierce battles that lasted for several days, Green only managed to plunder a natural elemental soul from a lava giant. Many demon hunters and dark wizards perished here under the dying resistance of some of the lava giants.

At this moment, Grimm's wide wizard robes fluttered in the strong hot wind, and a fat myna perched on his right shoulder was eating a red, fleshy fruit. But Grimm's eyes, beneath his mask of truth, were fixed on the gold coin with a six-pointed star magic circle between his middle and index fingers.

"Is this... Wizard Coins?" Green murmured to himself.

This gold coin is no different in size and material from the gold coins circulating among the common people in the wizarding world. However, gold coins are not energy crystals and have no practical value to wizards or any race in the endless world.

Aside from the patterns, the biggest similarity between this gold coin and the gold coins popular among the common people in the Wizarding World is that this gold coin contains a faint, almost imperceptible aura of the Wizarding World's original will, marking its issuance in the Wizarding World.

However, it is precisely this wizard currency, which has no practical value, that, under the authority granted by the wizard's will and promoted by the full force of the wizard's will, must be used for transactions by any world that is subordinate to or cooperates with the wizard world, exchanging large amounts of cheap resources for goods from the wizard world.

In the Wizarding World, by simply printing an endless supply of this worthless stuff, one can peacefully plunder any resources from the entire world within its reach.

Many arcane wizard families have conducted in-depth research on trade with other worlds that are subordinate to or cooperate with them.

At the same time, the numerous Holy Towers in the Wizarding World extract a large share from the trade of the Arcane Wizarding Families. This is one of the Holy Tower organizations' biggest ways of obtaining resources, a forced and invisible plunder of resources from the alien world ruled by the Wizarding Civilization.

Just like the witch spirits, because the Holy Tower possesses resources and technologies that other wizards cannot reach, the Holy Tower uses this worthless item as an independent currency in the wizarding world, thereby integrating the most elite low-level wizards in the wizarding world and promoting the wizarding will and the demon-hunting system!

"These young wizards nowadays are actually doing this kind of thing."

While eating fruit, the myna bird glanced at the wizard coins in Grimm's hand and said disdainfully, "In ancient times, the world ruled by wizards was filled with endless slaves. The only path for them was to obey the will of the wizards. Under absolute rule..."

Green automatically filtered out the myna bird's words.

This myna bird is ultimately just an old relic; the changing times have caused its wisdom to lag far behind.

He tossed the wizard coin in his hand lightly, then caught it again. Grimm said calmly, "The reason this worthless wizard coin can realize its value is precisely because of the great wizard's will within it! Speaking of which... this King of the Nine Molten Mountains' visor giants is quite wise to compromise so quickly and take the initiative to accept the wizard's will."

"Hmph! This kind of wisdom is truly ugly." Suddenly, Millie snorted coldly from behind Green and walked to Green's side.

Green turned his head and silently looked at Millie, a strange look appearing in his eyes beneath the mask of truth.

Millie looked at Green solemnly and said in a deep voice, "Green, your future achievements should far surpass those of ordinary wizards. I hope that the cold wisdom of dark wizards will not affect your true emotions as a human being in the wizarding world."

"What do you mean?" Green pressed.

"What do you mean?"

Millie asked Green a question in return, then stared intently into his eyes and said, word by word, "Father said that all the most elite wizarding apprentices who have come into contact with the Heart of the World should know that the Wizarding World's eternal enemy is the Abyss World."

After a pause, Millie spoke in an almost lecturing tone, "The reason why the ancient wizards and sages were so great, and thus eternally revered by wizards of later generations, is primarily because their great wizarding will never yield! This is why later wizards praise their noble virtues, pure sentiments, and great sacrifices, but never condemn their foolishness in nearly destroying wizarding civilization, or... the power they possessed."

Green stared blankly at Millie, wanting to speak but unable to utter a word, his face filled with astonishment.

Gradually, as Grimm's soul accepted the fragments of the Heart of the World, the sounds of resentment, shouts, and roars of the ancient wizards from the original will of the wizarding world were recalled.

In an instant, a trace of emotion, something that a normal human being should have, returned to the depths of Green's rational, cold, and gradually calm eyes—something that Green had once abandoned.

In the mind of a dark wizard, emotions are considered a detriment to reason, something that dark wizards gradually hide and reject.

At this moment, with this emotion in his heart, Green looked at the world again, and in an instant, it seemed that the endless world had completely changed!

With a look of emotion in his eyes, Grimm once again gazed at the lava giants surrounding the three Stigmata Wizards and the King of the Nine Lava Mountains.

They... though still alive, were actually already dead.

Once, during Grimm's Dark Wizards' Gathering, the King of Nine Molten Mountains' compromise with the wizards, supposedly a sliver of hope to change their fate in the future, turned in Grimm's wisdom at this moment into the loss of the only chance to change their present destiny!

Green looked again at the new generation of Lava Giant King of Nine Lava Mountains. At this moment, its "Light of Wisdom" was indeed as Millie had said, extremely ugly.

This being, once a hope placed upon by the Lava Giants, possessing both strength and wisdom and limitless potential, had no noble sentiments whatsoever!

That is what makes it ugly.

Everything he has done, with his ugly wisdom, is destroying the trust the Lava Giants have placed in him, destroying the glory and history of the Lava Giants, and destroying their hope of changing their fate through this battle.

This despicable fellow took advantage of Amonro's desperate resistance and betrayed the entire world!

Too much to do, so I can only write at night. I'm starving, time to go eat.

(End of this chapter)