Wizard's Journey

Chapter 264 Metal Destroyer

"Wild my ass! You damned, lowly black cat, how dare you try to eat Master Ba? You're the wild game, your whole family is wild game! My son and I love candied black cat the most!"

At this moment, the myna bird was like a fighting rooster, standing on Green's shoulder, pointing at Gahei and barking, jumping around, seemingly quite angry at the black cat.

The black cat gracefully leaped and landed on a cabinet.

"Seriously, don't you like that joke?"

After saying that, the black cat rummaged around on the cabinet for a while and then pulled out a dried fish and threw it over: "Alright, here's a taste of my stash."

"Gah? Who wants to eat cat food smeared with your saliva! You stinky black cat, don't think that just because of this, the great and inviolable Eighth Master will forgive you. Someone like you wouldn't even lick the feet of our great Steel Emblem Myna clan... Ah..."

Green tossed the foul-mouthed myna bird into the dimensional rift with his other hand and caught the dried fish.

"Haha, Gahei, I didn't know you had a secret stash of dried fish. Just thinking about that delicious taste... oh my god..."

Green pretended to drool as he glanced at the fish tank.

Gahe stretched and lazily rubbed his eyes with his claws, saying lazily, "Don't even think about it. These guys will be breeding in another fifty years. These should be the last few Paozi fish in the wizarding world."

"Young master, it turns out to be an endangered species that's almost impossible to eat anymore. Leave some for me."

The myna bird poked its head out from the dimensional gap, muttered something to Green, then glared at the black cat and said fiercely, "From now on, black cats and bats are the least welcome species of the great Steel Emblem Myna bird clan."

After saying that, the myna bird shrank back into the dimensional gap and disappeared without a trace.

The black cat snorted, "Green, you soulmate, you have a really foul mouth."

Peranos, who was standing to the side, suddenly said, "Speaking of others, think of yourself! If it weren't for your gluttonous encouragement back then, how could I have been called 'Third Brother Peranos' for so long?"

Peranos, fuming, flicked his sleeves and turned to Green, saying, "Green, I'll ask your teacher's wife to prepare some dinner. She recently got some fresh produce from the Sixth Ring Holy Tower."

With that, the door creaked shut, and Peranos turned and left the room.

"Tch, you're only talking about me. Back in the day, he was a glutton too," the black cat muttered unhappily.

Green smiled, looked around the room, and then asked in a deep voice, "Where is Senior Brother Varo?"

"After that guy became a formal wizard 170 years ago, he went to travel to the underground world. Several hundred years ago, they found a world rift connecting the underground world to the wizarding world. It is said to be a rather interesting world called the Nut Elf World, which has been almost fully developed by those underground wizards."

Oh?

A world rift connecting to the Wizarding World itself?

It seems to be a naturally formed rift in the world. Judging from the name "Nut Fairy," the world's rules are probably mostly composed of asexually reproducing creatures like flower and plant fairies.

It was expected that my second senior brother, Varro, would become a formal wizard; otherwise, Master Peranos would not have accepted Varro as his disciple.

……

After a warm and intimate candlelight dinner, Alice, the professor's wife, was clearing away the dishes outside when Peranos and Green entered the closed laboratory and sat facing each other.

"Tell me, what's going on? Why have you been wrapping yourself up so tightly with elemental power?"

Peranos, holding a toothpick and picking his teeth, asked casually.

Beneath the mask of truth, Grimm gave a bitter laugh and slowly dispelled the elemental power surrounding his body. He extended his arm from beneath his wide wizard robe, revealing a dense network of purple bruises on his skin that grotesquely writhed and intertwined, as if they were about to burst forth from his skin at any moment, a truly ferocious and terrifying sight.

Peranos in the laboratory was startled, as if a cold wind had blown by and the temperature had dropped, and a mysterious and ominous atmosphere permeated the air.

"This is……"

Peranos stared at Green's arm for a while, then looked at Green's face after the Mask of Truth was removed, and gasped, asking, "Shadow of Nightmares?"

Slowly, Green nodded and put his arm back under his wizard's robe.

Upon seeing Green admit it, Peranos immediately stood up, snapped off a toothpick and threw it aside, frowning as he said, "You're really lucky, buddy. Modern wizards suffering from this kind of curse are extremely rare, and you actually won the lottery."

Shaking his head, Peranos asked, "How much time has it been?"

"It's been about eleven years."

After answering in a low voice, Green cautiously said, "I came back this time hoping to ask you, my mentor, for help from the great Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard..."

"The great Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard is a sixth-level Saint Mark Archmage, and has even touched the threshold of a True Spirit Wizard. He has been busy for countless years to advance further, how could he have time to pay attention to you? Compared to the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard, you have better choices, such as your senior uncle or your grandmaster."

Uncle-Master? Grandmaster?

Grimm said in surprise, "By the way, Master, I met my second uncle, Daddaron, in this Demon Hunter Expedition world. It was through my second uncle that I met the great Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard, and he introduced me to the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard. My second uncle didn't mention my eldest uncle or grandmaster."

"Huh? You ran into that guy?"

Peranos lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "He didn't mention your grandmaster and great-grandmaster, which is understandable. Green, you have become a demon hunter wizard, and it's time for you to take on responsibilities. Today I'll tell you something that concerns the life and death of wizarding civilization."

The fate of the wizarding civilization hangs in the balance!

Green stared in disbelief: "What happened?"

Peranos's eyes gradually turned serious, and he said in a deep voice, "On the edge of the Wizarding Civilization World Cluster, 1,500 years ago, through world exploration, information about another civilization in an unknown world cluster was discovered! As we have not yet made direct contact with that unknown civilization, we know very little. The higher-ups of the Wizarding Civilization have temporarily named it the 'Metal Destroyer' civilization. The reason why your second uncle did not mention the matter of your eldest uncle and grandmaster is likely because of this."

With a sigh, he said, "After all, your grandmaster and grandmaster are only level four holy mark wizards. Sealing the Nightmare Shadow for you will result in significant damage to the wizard tower."

"Another civilization! Is the wizarding world about to witness the third civilization war?"

Green's voice was tinged with fear.

Although Green did not understand the full scope of the War of Civilizations, even just imagining it made him realize that the numerous Holy Mark Craters and True Spirit Craters on the Wizarding Continent demonstrated the terrifying and brutal nature of the ancient war of civilizations!

And based on the situation of modern wizards...

The clash between the endless slave armies and numerous spatial fortresses of the wizard civilization and the unknown warfare tactics of the so-called "metal destroyer civilization" would likely be so devastating that the world where the two civilizations first clashed would be reduced to a global meat grinder.

After a while, having managed to calm himself, Green asked, "So, mentor, how long do you estimate it will take for the wizard civilization to encounter that metal destroyer civilization?"

"It's definitely within an era. At least three to five thousand years, at most seven or eight thousand years, who knows. And your senior sister, Youquan, has become a pioneer in exploring the wizarding world, embarking on a journey to infiltrate and traverse barrier worlds. The last time you met was probably the last time you would ever see each other in this life."

Green remained silent, recalling the senior sister Youquan, who was wrapped in white cloth strips all over her body, carried a black longsword on her back, and whose agile and wild body moved with an aura that seemed to destroy the world.

Raising his head, Green said, "Mentor, I think... the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard will agree to help me seal the Nightmare Shadow, because the Tomb Words Stigmata Wizard said that the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard definitely wants to obtain that ancient relic."

Ancient ruins?

Peranos thought for a moment, then slowly said, "You mean... the place you discovered in the Black Tower Secret Realm?"

Once, Green unsuspectingly told Peranos about an ancient ruin he had discovered in Hessorta, only to be criticized by Peranos, who angrily denounced it as Green's own secret.

Green has always remembered it vividly.

Nodding slowly, Green said, "That's the place. The Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard said that the great Black Sota Stigmata Wizard would grant my request regarding the ruins of the ancient alien nightmare civilization."

After a moment of silence, Peranos slowly said, "So that's how it is... For the great Black Sota Stigmata Wizard, the energy consumed to seal your Nightmare Shadow Curse is negligible, but if we can obtain some external assistance, it might provide some help during the war with foreign civilizations."

Having said this, Peranos said, "Tomorrow, follow me to the ninety-ninth floor of the Black Tower to the secret realm and meet Lord Tower Pillar."

(End of this chapter)