Wizard's Journey

Chapter 250 Self-Reincarnation

"Where am I? What happened to me?"

Surrounded by murky, dark liquid, Green, who was gradually regaining consciousness as he opened his eyes, had a familiar feeling. It was during his apprenticeship as a wizard, when he was undergoing body tempering with poisons under the guidance of his mentor, Peranos. Due to mistakenly ingesting a lymphatic parasitic toxin, he had been soaking in a fish tank during his final, weakened state.

Looking back now, the youthful ignorance of my wizarding apprenticeship was a kind of bliss. Every day was filled with indescribable excitement, and every moment of the future was unknown and joyful.

In a daze, feeling his body cells absorbing nutrients and energy from these liquids, Green fell unconscious again.

It seems to be undergoing a long period of hibernation.

……

This is a spacious, enclosed room inside the space fortress, with high-level restrictive energy surrounding the metal walls.

Inside the room were six cylindrical, transparent glass medical devices, each 15 meters high and 7 meters in diameter, connected at both ends by a dense network of pipes, filled with a murky, viscous liquid.

Among the six cylindrical, transparent medical facilities, three of them contain vaguely visible naked humanoid organisms immersed inside.

Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...

Suddenly, a series of alarm sounds emanated from one of the medical facilities. Soon after, the room door opened, and several composed Ming Wizards surrounded one of the medical facilities, observing it.

……

On the medical bed, a transparent barrier isolated Green. Beside him, a wise wizard bowed his head and respectfully reported to the wizard before him.

"This wizard Grimm's cellular life force is extremely strong, and he has already achieved the first level of savage self-breakthrough. Therefore, it cost 3,200 Ganas to replicate his body. Now, his soul memories have been successfully transferred to this replicated body through the Shadow Conduction Device, undergoing a routine self-reincarnation."

"Um."

The powerful wizard, who was receiving a report from the medical wizard, nodded.

She wore a ring of colorful bells around her head, her eyes were covered by a red ribbon, her long emerald green hair reached her waist, her ears were slender and elfin-like, and her entire body was covered in a layer of white mist, like a layer of illusory veil.

It turned out that the great Tomb of Words Saint Mark Wizard had personally descended into this room to visit Grimm.

Behind the Tomb of the Stigmata Wizard, D'Artagnan, clad in blood-red metallic armor, with flowing long hair and a face covered in stitched-up wounds, stood bowing.

Even a level three demon hunter wizard with three level three honor medals could only show the utmost respect to the great Stigmata Wizard.

The myna bird perched on the shoulder of its second master, Dadalong, looking left and right as it observed.

The Tomb of the Stigmata Wizard looked at the Healing Wizard and asked, "Then, when will this Demon Hunter Wizard awaken and fully recover?"

The medical wizard pondered for a moment and said, "To awaken him, we will need to perform elemental analysis on his body, then phase adjustment, and finally electrical stimulation to awaken him. Once awakened, he will only need a few months of simple rest to fully recover."

"Phase modulation, electric shock stimulation? Hmm, I'll do it myself."

Without performing any elemental analysis on Grimm, the Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard extended a slender, white index finger, and slowly, a companion insect with vibrant petals crawled out, ignoring the defenses and flying to Grimm's chest.

Squeak!

A spark of electricity flashed, followed by a convulsion in Green's body, after which he involuntarily began to cough, spitting out several mouthfuls of sticky, murky liquid.

……

Green slowly opened his eyes, regaining consciousness. Lying on the bed, he looked up at everything in this unfamiliar environment, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Huh? The great Tomb of Words Saint Mark Wizard!"

Green, who was struggling to get up and pay his respects, was too weak and was stopped by the Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard who waved his hand and used his domineering and complete control over the power of nature.

"Alright, it's good that you were able to successfully reincarnate. The time you died was seventy-nine days and five hourglasses ago, because your body cells collapsed on their own. I used your normal cells to rebuild this body and transferred your soul consciousness into it."

Death? Reincarnation? Soul transfer?

Green stared blankly, mouth agape, at the Tomb of the Holy Mark Wizard in disbelief.

Green, who had just regained consciousness, found it hard to accept that others were telling him this.

The Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard shook his head, the wreath in his green hair swaying as he turned and left: "The previous 'Explore the Coordinates of the Endless Crimson Sun Seal' mission was due to my oversight. Your compensation is already within your body; it grants you three opportunities to visit the Tomb of Words Secret Realm at the Tomb of Words Wizard Academy, or allows you to offset one hundred years of Arcane Wizard work at the Tomb of Words Wizard Academy."

Having said that, the Tomb of the Stigmata Wizard had already left the room.

Green sensed something within his body and discovered a flower-like symbiotic worm that was in a dormant state.

"Hehe, congratulations, young master! After all my hard work, I almost broke my wings flying, but I finally managed to rescue you. Young master Green, you've survived this ordeal, you're sure to have good fortune in the future, you're definitely going to make a fortune soon, hehehe!"

The myna bird hopped and jumped on the sheets around Green's body, looking much lighter than before.

Click, click.

D'Addaron, clad in metal armor, approached and looked at Green with a solemn and apologetic expression.

The somber mood stemmed from the fact that of the six space-skilled demon hunters who had embarked on the mission of "finding the coordinates of the Endless Crimson Sun Seal," only Grimm had escaped the Crimson Sun Cataclysm. This suggested that this junior disciple of the third brother indeed possessed considerable ability.

The apology is naturally because of this reincarnation.

Self-reincarnation is a type of magic used by high-level wizards in spatial fortresses to save lower-level wizards under specific conditions. It has many limitations and is only applicable to lower-level wizards.

"Grimm, the physical replication of a first-level wizard's body is not too difficult for a space fortress, but it consumes a lot of precious resources, and the Tomb Words Saint Mark Wizard has already personally paid for it."

After a pause, Daddaron continued, "As for the psychological pressure after reincarnation, you don't need it. According to ancient wizarding theory, we are dying every moment; the person we were a moment ago is already dead. And the wizarding life defined by modern wizards consists only of knowledge and the will of the soul, which are our eternal lives."

Green opened his mouth, but finally, the words caught in his throat. He weakly changed his voice and asked, "Second Uncle, what was that about the Great Tomb of the Holy Mark Wizard saying that the Arcane Wizard worked for a hundred years?"

Seeing that Green didn't mention self-reincarnation, D'Artagnan breathed a sigh of relief.

Many low-level wizards simply cannot accept this kind of witchcraft psychologically, and there have even been extreme cases of enlightened wizards taking their own lives because of it.

"The most common way for arcane wizards on the Wizarding Continent to obtain wizard essence is by teaching their disciples to become demon hunter wizards and hunting down black wizards, in exchange for wizard essence rewards from the Holy Tower. Besides this, arcane wizards can also obtain it through trade with demon hunter wizards. Some arcane wizards trade their time, conduct experiments and observations on behalf of demon hunter wizards, or customize experimental equipment; typically, one wizard essence is traded for a year's worth of time..."

Green was taken aback, then suddenly realized!

No wonder, as combat wizards, demon hunter wizards become stronger and stronger relative to arcane wizards, rather than becoming weaker or even inferior to arcane wizards because the demon hunter expeditions delay knowledge research time.

So, the real reason is here.

A moment later, Second Uncle Daddaron left.

After calming down, Grimm remembered the matter of the Face of Truth and looked at the myna bird. The myna bird seemed to already know what Grimm was going to ask: "I've already put it into the dimensional gap for you, so you can rest assured."

After a moment, Green calmed down again and organized his thoughts.

Regardless, Green still couldn't get over what the Stigmata Wizard in the Tomb had just said—that he had died and been reincarnated.

The myna bird, however, seemed completely unconcerned, saying, "It's just a difference of opinion among some wizards. Young Master Grin, I ask you, are you still yourself now?"

"Of course I'm still myself!" Green affirmed, looking at the myna bird with a strange expression.

That's a stupid question.

The myna blinked and said, "That's right. To me, you are still you; to your Uncle Daddaron, Millie, and even this space fortress, the wizarding world, and the endless world, you are still you. So there's no need to overthink it."

Grimm, however, was unwilling to accept this and said, "But why is the Gravestone Stigmata Wizard saying that I am already dead?"

Embracing its two wings, the myna bird said, "Now, in the endless world, there is only one thing that believes you are dead: the cells of your previously collapsed body. Perhaps, in their view, you are merely a cloned, grafted memory to prolong your life. This is also the reason why the wizard's will disagrees with this self-reincarnation magic."

With a grunt, the myna continued, "The old bastard said before he died that, at least for wizards, soul consciousness and knowledge are the foundation of life, while physical cells and memory are merely clues for wizards in the material world. This has been proven since the first war of civilizations in the wizarding world."

Self-reincarnation magic?

(End of this chapter)