Wizard's Journey

Chapter 256 Alienation Field

The cave laboratory in the underground lake where the crystal turtle was discovered.

It would take at least ten years for the space fortress to fix its world coordinates and establish a world rift teleportation array with the Wizarding World.

During this time, Green planned to study the Thunder Mirror at the bottom of the lake and uncover its secrets.

During the Crimson Sun Cataclysm at Lava Sacred Mountain, Grimm accidentally glimpsed the secret of the Crimson Sun Cataclysm within the Lava Sacred Mountain, which was also visible through a lightning mirror.

Thus, naturally, Greene thought of the thunderous mirror at the bottom of the lake.

While the true purpose and abilities of these wondrous lightning mirrors remain uncertain, there is no doubt that similar lightning mirrors in this world must conceal some of the world's fundamental secrets, much like the Black Sea vortex in the Wizarding World connects to the heart of the rule-based world and the lever of fate.

Green speculated that these lightning mirrors were very likely a coordinate connecting this world to the primordial rule space.

goo goo goo...

Bubbles were rising from the bottom of the lake. Green told the myna bird his guess. The myna bird used its limited brain capacity to think for a while before saying, "Huh? It's very possible. However, we are not creatures of this world. If we trespass into the rule space, it may provoke a backlash from the original will of the entire world."

If it triggers a counterattack from the primordial will of a world, even in a low-level world, even a Saintly Wizard could potentially perish completely.

Grimm nodded, his eyes beneath the Mask of Truth looking at the Crystal Turtle waiting silently to the side, and smiled slightly.

If it were this crystal turtle, it wouldn't provoke a backlash from the fundamental will of the world within the rules of space, right?

It seems I need to prepare properly.

With the perception of relative spatial barriers, Green was now certain that a wondrous space was indeed hidden behind this thunderous mirror screen.

After a while.

The crystal turtle lay on the experimental table. Through the soul seed, Grimm knew the fear in the crystal turtle's heart, because on this very table, it had witnessed Grimm's "brutal killing" of Amonro. This was a terrifying place, a place where wizards displayed their cruel will.

However, the Crystal Turtle, as Green's soul servant, was powerless to resist.

The eyes beneath Grimm's mask of truth seemed to have seen through everything about the Crystal Turtle, yet remained unusually calm, which, combined with the dim light of the laboratory, made him appear cruel and mysterious.

Quietly, Green extended his index finger, and a tiny worm, the size of a grain of rice, slowly crawled out from between his skin. It looked so harmless, so defenseless, so ordinary, as if it could be crushed with a gentle pinch.

With a mysterious smile, Green inserted his index finger into the crystal turtle's elemental body and left some "bait" inside.

Greatness begins with small things.

After speaking in a low, hoarse voice, Green took out his finger, revealing the symbiotic horsefly already embedded in the crystal turtle's body.

The horsefly, which possesses the ability to alter the life code, has no offensive capabilities against elemental creatures like the Crystal Turtle and poses no threat. However, Green had already discovered another ability of the horsefly: to merge with the host's life information and conceal its life perception.

The horseflies in Grimm's body today, after more than two hundred years of reproduction, are no longer the wild horseflies that Grimm collected in the first generation of wizarding worlds. Instead, they are horseflies that have been carefully cultivated and selected in Grimm's body and have evolved purposefully for dozens of generations.

In recent years, Green has vaguely sensed that his symbiotic worm has begun to feel uneasy within his body, as if it is about to undergo an evolution.

The root cause, in Green's opinion, might be that after his life code collapsed and he reincarnated, these hidden abilities gave small creatures that could change his life code a certain opportunity.

For a horsefly to evolve, it must reproduce in a new host and obtain some kind of opportunity.

If Green suppresses the horseflies in his body for a long time, it may cause a conflict, leading to the rupture of the life code in his body.

Now, in the near future, a batch of horseflies will be generated inside the crystal turtle, but Green's purpose is not it.

After making the preparations, Green left the laboratory with a satisfied smile, temporarily forgetting the troubles of the Nightmare Shadow. The Crystal Turtle, with its old and cloudy eyes, trembled as it looked at the small life that had appeared inside its body.

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one year later.

"Owner……"

With a final, mournful cry, the Crystal Turtle's elemental soul was collected by the Green Crystal Ball. The cruel wizard treated his soul slaves merely as experimental subjects, showing them absolutely no compassion.

With a soft "poof," the crystal turtle's elemental body transformed into a ball of elemental power and dissipated.

Looking at the hundreds of tiny horseflies, each the size of a grain of rice, that had appeared on the experimental table, the myna bird asked, "These little things, are they your companion insects? That's quite interesting, unlike the wizards back when that old bastard was still around, who all used those disgusting horsehair worms as companion insects."

Regarding the wizard's symbiotic insect civilization, which originated from the First Civilization War, Green already had considerable clues. However, this myna bird was merely a "legacy" left over from the Second Civilization War, and there was no related detailed information.

It's likely that the ancient wizards, like the ancient wizards after the Second Civilization War, underwent some rapid evolution after the First Civilization War.

Grimm collected the fly larvae that had assimilated the life information of the Crystal Turtle, and shook his head, saying, "The wizarding world now is actually like the ancient wizards you described, except that half of the wizards' companion insects have been replaced by a strange creature called a moth."

"A moth? What's that? I've never heard of it. Is it a new symbiotic insect bred in the wizarding world?" the myna asked curiously.

As Green collected the horseflies one by one from the experimental table, he said, "According to research, the horseflies are likely a new species that mutated after the Great Cataclysm of the Second Civilization War in the Wizarding World. This was because the Wizarding World's coordinates shifted from the Endless World, causing a type of insect called the Rainbow Insect to be unable to absorb the Extreme Primordial Light from another world. As for the abilities that wizards gain as a result, it's a boost to their physical life force, equivalent to about a hundred years, during their apprenticeship, thus increasing their chances of advancing to become a full-fledged wizard."

Historical research is a favorite area of ​​knowledge exploration for some wizards.

Learning from history and gaining wisdom from it, history makes wizards wiser and is also the fundamental way for wizards to gain forward-looking wisdom.

"Huh? Do these foolish wizard apprentices really think that having an extra hundred years of lifespan will give them a higher chance of becoming a full-fledged wizard? Becoming a full-fledged wizard only involves two paths: wisdom and luck, not time." The myna bird looked disdainful, its little tail wagging.

Green silently added to himself, "He still has the ability."

Holding the horseflies collected on the experimental table, Green once again dived into the Thunder Mirror at the bottom of the lake. After sensing the relative space of the Thunder Mirror, he gently tore open a crack with his spatial control talent.

Green quickly threw all the horseflies in his hand into the hole.

This was Green's tentative exploration of the secret space behind the Thunder Mirror, and based on this, he would decide whether to report this secret to the combat command in exchange for witch spirits or even medals of honor.

As for the secrets of the Thunder Mirror itself, Green has not gained any insights into them for the time being.

It will take at least ten years to return to the Wizarding World, and we can't afford to waste that time. It's time to organize and summarize some of the gains we haven't had time to process in this world.

The key to Amonro's underground nesting technique lies in the control of the camphor beetle, and Green has collected a number of live camphor beetle specimens.

The Mystery Energy Replenishment System will be useful when Grimm creates evolved chimeras in the future.

The golden flames at the tail of the mutated Amonro have a natural ability to suppress fire elemental energy, and a small bottle of experimental specimens have been collected; a blood-stained moss experimental specimen; and a small piece of strange metal that can communicate with mysterious forces.

As for the knowledge of Ice Crystallization magic that he gained from rescuing Millie, he will need to process it after he arrives in the Wizarding World.

Other resource-related gains include: one Soul of Nature from the Great Bloodfall Lava Dragon; one Soul of Nature from the Crystal Turtle; countless Energy Crystals; hundreds of Golden Amonro Slaves; and one Lava Core, which has already caused the Greedy Flame Giant to mutate into the Wrathful Flame Giant.

Thus, Green began processing his harvest day after day in the laboratory, while also going to the Thunder Mirror at the bottom of the lake once a day, hoping to wait for the return of the fly in the unknown space on the other side of the Thunder Mirror.

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Five years later.

As usual, Green went to explore the Thunder Mirror at the bottom of the lake after the test, but he was gradually becoming extremely disappointed.

According to the reproductive cycle of horseflies, they need to reproduce and renew themselves once a year. Unlike the selection and elimination process by the wizard's will within the Green body, the horseflies that reproduce themselves do not maintain a certain base number.

There has been no news for so many years. Perhaps it has been "digested" or "purified" by the unknown space behind the mirror...

Just as Green was about to leave the Thunder Mirror as usual, he suddenly paused, puzzled, and pulled open the relative space of the Thunder Mirror. Suddenly, a continuous "buzzing" sound came out, and countless tiny green dots crowded out. Green was startled!

The myna bird also appeared out of thin air, landing on Green's shoulder.

"Damn it, how come there are so many, and they've mutated from white to green?" Myna shouted as it watched the green horseflies swarming out of the crack in the Thunder Mirror.

After his initial surprise, Green felt the soul imprint of these horseflies and their intimacy with him, and his expression gradually relaxed.

It seems that something must have happened in the unknown space behind the Thunder Mirror!

Thinking this, Green calmed himself down and was about to try to read the simple memories of the companion insects when he suddenly discovered that these horseflies seemed to have formed some kind of external force field, something that had never happened before.

Could it be an evolved ability?

Guessing what was going on, Green carefully sensed the horsefly's abilities and remained silent.

Several minutes later, the swarming horseflies finally emerged from the cracks in the Thunder Mirror. The entire cave laboratory space was already completely occupied by horseflies, densely packed and countless.

Horseflies can float in the air, live in water, and parasitize.

In normal times, horseflies make no sound, like floating dust or debris in water. They appear weak, but their vitality is very strong.

In the wizarding world, apart from frogs, any small omnivorous creature that feeds on insects is a natural enemy of horseflies, so their numbers are not large and they are generally not noticed by people.

After a long while, Green murmured in surprise and disbelief, "This is... a mutation field! A field that can externally influence the mutation of life codes!"

In that case, wouldn't Green be able to unleash an incredibly terrifying magical ability with just a little development?

If this kind of witchcraft were to use a force field to remotely alter the life code of other creatures, it would appear to be nothing short of a curse witchcraft from the outside.

This curse doesn't even require a life code!

So, curse magic can evolve into this?

Of course, whether this imagined witchcraft would be considered a curse witchcraft if it were developed remains to be seen, since its principles are completely different from those of curse witchcraft.

At the same time, through the soul connection with the evolution fly, everything Grimm saw in that simple and vague memory, which seemed like a dream, was an incredibly huge green vine in a space of a single color strip, as if it were sealed there.

In the horsefly's vision, this vine stretched on and on, seemingly without end...

Green wanted to read more memories, but the horsefly's singular insect soul meant it couldn't store any more memories. Even if it did, those memories were incredibly vague, leaving Green to guess and judge them on his own.

After a long time, Green ultimately did not dare to explore this rule space himself, which would undoubtedly be suicidal for him.

Green suddenly felt that the more knowledge he had, the smaller he felt.

With a sigh, Green gazed at the densely packed evolution flies in the cave laboratory, squinted, and licked his lips.

The plans for the next few years should be changed. We need to select the most essential parts from these massive evolutionary fly species to become our new generation of companion insects.

(End of this chapter)