Wizard's Journey

Chapter 246 The Shadow Catastrophe (Twenty-Four)

Beneath the greyish-white mask of truth, Green's breathing became slightly rapid.

The sunlight in this lava volcano complex seemed to be squeezed by rolling dark clouds, constantly shrinking the area it shone on. In the end, only a small area around the lava holy mountain could let out some light, but it was mostly blocked by the wizarding world's original space fortress.

Groups of lava giants and demon hunters from all corners of the Fire Domain World gradually retreated into the remaining protected area of ​​the Crimson Sun.

The witchers gazed with a hint of fear at the sea of ​​crimson tentacles that stretched out from behind the shadowy clouds.

"These... these writhing, blood-red tentacles are actually countless camphor trees?" Green muttered in surprise, having discovered some clues.

The myna bird yelled in its hoarse, raspy voice, "Damn it, there are so many!"

The myna bird was referring to the dense swarms of Amonro clinging to the branches of the camphor tree. There were so many of them that they were impossible to count, resembling countless maggots rolling and huddling together, which was extremely disgusting.

The last rays of the crimson sun in this world were concentrated in the space surrounding the Lava Sacred Mountain. The central part was obscured by the Wizarding World's Origin Space Fortress. From above, it looked as if the Lava Sacred Mountain was encased in a crimson sun ring.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...

One after another, the rubble and corpses of lava giants fell to the ground. With the peak of the Shadow Cataclysm spreading, the lava giants were simply unable to resist the Amonro Legion in the shadows.

A small portion of the lava giants fell into the lava pool on Grimm's side.

A surge of lava swept over the rocks beneath Green's feet, forcing him to leave the area of ​​the hidden magic circle and reveal himself.

However, at this point, Green's insignificant figure was no longer worthy of attention.

"Oh! Damn it, what's wrong with this world? It's so annoying, with two opposing rules intertwined..."

Inside the crystal ball, a demon hunter with six ghostly pumpkins floating around him complained. One of the ghostly pumpkins suddenly grew to be over ten meters tall, its mouth wide open, revealing sharp teeth inside. It seemed to have an infinite attraction, and several Amonroes around it howled and were sucked in in the blink of an eye.

Clearly, this demon hunter has conquered quite a few alien worlds and has extensive experience in demon hunting.

"Wow! This is... Glazed Flame! What a huge ball of Glazed Flame!"

The rolling shadowy clouds in the sky could not completely erode this last piece of land under the red sun. At this moment, hundreds of clusters of crystal-clear fire emerged from the depths of the shadows, forming a "long serpent".

The rolling, shimmering glass that made up the long snake was like boiling fire. It was long and about three or four meters in diameter, with one end in an unknown place deep in the shadowy clouds and the other end swaying uncertainly.

One moment it pointed to the Sky Wizard World's Origin Space Fortress, the next it pointed to the Lava Holy Mountain on the ground, as if it were making a choice, hesitating.

Finally, the long, fiery serpent of glazed glass pointed towards the Lava Sacred Mountain and rushed into the crater of the Lava Sacred Mountain with incredible speed. Countless Amonro followed the serpent, passed through the Crimson Sun Land, and rushed in as well.

boom!

The earth trembled, and the dark green glass bridge, like a giant scorpion tail from the shadow world, plunged fiercely into the lava holy mountain of the Crimson Sun World, with countless Amonro surging in.

At the same time, tens of thousands of blood-red camphor trees resembled giant hands, ranging from hundreds to thousands of meters in length, their blood-red flesh writhing together, densely covered with Amonro.

These crimson giant hands left the shadowy clouds, crossed the land of the crimson sun, and reached out in all directions toward the wizarding world's primordial space fortress.

The sunlight shone on these giant, blood-red hands made of constantly writhing tentacles, causing them to sizzle and emit black smoke as they gradually shrank, yet they did not retreat.

Like a demonic hand from hell in a nightmare, it wanted to drag all the wizards on the Origin Space Fortress into hell.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The resistance from the Origin Space Fortress was far more intense than that from the Lava Holy Mountain. Even from a great distance, Grimm could still feel the violent energy fluctuations constantly erupting around the fortress, destroying any hostile creatures that approached.

The ground looked as if it had been rained blood, and was filled with the stench of this world's disgusting fleshy plants.

Click!

Amidst the continuous tremors within the Lava Sacred Mountain, a crack suddenly appeared in the foundation, from which hundreds of fragmented Amonro bodies spewed forth, clearly influenced by the intense energy fluctuations of the battle within.

"Um?"

The six demon hunter wizards, who were anxiously waiting for the Endless Crimson Sun Seal to be activated, suddenly raised their heads in unison. Their pupils shrank in disbelief as they saw a sky-covering hand formed by tens of thousands of blood-red camphor trees, stretching as far as the eye could see.

It completely blocked out the crimson sun in the sky, obscuring the last remaining land of crimson sunlight!

"No!"

Faintly, one could hear the terrifying screams of many lava giants, like the desperate battles of beasts in an arena.

This colossal hand, which blots out the sky, also blocked the view of the witch hunters on the ground looking at the wizarding world's original space fortress. What also disappeared was the witch hunters' perception of the wizarding world's original will.

"No!"

Inside the crystal ball, the performance of the other witch hunters was even more exaggerated than that of the terrifying lava giants in the sky.

Their eyes, which had been calm yet filled with greed, trembled like helpless lambs the moment the sense of the Wizarding World's primal will disappeared, their faces turning deathly pale.

"What should I do? I can no longer sense the fundamental will of the wizarding world, and I can't activate the wizarding shield!"

"It seems we have no choice but to abandon the mission..."

An extremely pessimistic mood spread among the five veteran demon hunters besides Green. At this moment, even the dark wizards were considering abandoning the mission.

This situation left Green, a novice demon hunter, stunned.

What's going on?

Theoretically speaking, the Wizarding World's original will and Wizard's Shield were merely one of the means developed by the Wizarding World to enhance the hunting abilities of Witcher Wizards.

But the current situation is clearly that the witcher wizards have become extremely dependent on the original will of the wizarding world, both in terms of ability and mentality.

So much so that now...

Even after only a brief period of sensory isolation, the Demon Hunter Wizard, an elite combat wizard, was already disheartened and ready to abandon his mission.

This inevitably aroused some suspicion in Green's mind.

This dependence is fine for light wizards, but for dark wizards, it is a challenge to their ability to survive and fight independently, and a weakness.

Just then, a muffled tremor erupted from inside the lava sacred mountain's lungs. The demon hunters, who had been disheartened and were carrying out the "Endless Crimson Sun Seal" exploration mission, were all startled and looked at the mechanical sphere in front of them.

The mechanical sphere emitted a pale red light wave, and faintly, there seemed to be dense, blurry wizard runes flowing within it.

"The Endless Crimson Sun Seal has finally been activated!"

boom!

Amidst the cries of several demon hunter wizards, a deafening explosion resounded through the sky, accompanied by rolling waves of flames that swept in all directions, igniting natural fires wherever they passed. A pure golden pillar of magma erupted from the mouth of the Lava Sacred Mountain!

For a moment, it even had the momentum of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart!

This golden pillar of magma was over a hundred meters in diameter. Its terrifying energy not only caused the surrounding space to become chaotic and distorted, but also burned out black cracks. The faint air currents emerging from the black cracks were constantly annihilating each other with the energy of the material world.

The ear-piercing sonic boom even caused Green to experience temporary hearing loss.

In an instant, the sound in Green's ears disappeared, and the energy clusters in the sky and on the ground were colorful and magnificent, yet completely silent.

Inside the crystal ball, the other demon hunter wizards were gazing up at the golden beam of light and shockwave, while calculating the information revealed by the mechanical ball and recording it into their own crystal balls.

On the other hand, Grimm seemed to have completely forgotten about the mission. He opened his arms wide, his eyes filled with an intoxicating enjoyment, and murmured to himself, "This feeling... is this the relative boundary of space? And beyond that relative boundary lies the mysterious and unpredictable endless void?"

"Young Master Green, look over there!"

The myna bird perched on Green's shoulder, squawking and jumping around. Its bright red and green feathers were now in disarray from excitement, and one wing pointed towards the breach in the lava holy mountain ahead.

At this moment, through the lowest crevice of the damaged lava holy mountain after the previous three holy marks wizards fought with the lava giant king, Grimm actually saw a golden pillar of magma seemingly appear out of thin air, gushing into the sky, instead of spewing out from the heart of the holy mountain as he had imagined.

This!

This is……

Green was stunned. The joy he had just been enjoying, which was about to be able to sense the relative spatial boundary by using the golden magma to melt the space, vanished, and he was shocked by the scene before him.

At the base of the golden magma pillar was a massive lightning mirror!

Endless golden magma erupted from the lightning mirror, as if this lightning mirror was connected to another space.

This is the secret of the Endless Crimson Sun Seal within the unique rules of this world.

But what about this Thunder Mirror itself?

(End of this chapter)