Wizard's Journey

Chapter 267 Ancient Relics

Flying at a leisurely pace, like taking a stroll.

After the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard, Peranos, and Grimm spent several hourglasses spinning in the sky, they finally found the ancient ruin from Grimm's memories in this twisted forest.

The "Guardians" who once relentlessly captured Green's wizard apprentices in the Secret Realm are nowhere to be seen. Even the occasional chirping of insects in the Secret Realm, which I remember, has fallen silent, leaving an eerie stillness.

"All of this is because of this old wizard," Green thought to himself as he looked at the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard in front of him.

In the center of the open space is a protruding rock, made of a mixture of crystal and metal. Underneath the rock is an inconspicuous little hole, just big enough for a person to squeeze through.

"This is it!"

After exclaiming in surprise, Green was the first to land on the ground. He bent down and peered into the cave. Using the Ultrasonic Magic Positioning System of the Face of Truth, he confirmed that this was indeed the ancient ruin where the materials for obtaining the Alienated Marrow Refining Gold were obtained. He nodded to Peranos and the old wizard and was the first to crawl inside.

With a "clang".

A metallic echo reverberated beneath Green's feet, scattering dust across the vast space—a testament to the dust of history and the veil of time.

After activating the wizard's shield and blocking out the dust, a fireball burst into flames with a "whoosh," illuminating the vast and mysterious space.

Countless luxurious magical crystal chandeliers hang from the metal ceiling tens of meters above, but they have long since lost their effectiveness.

Rows of cylindrical transparent crystal vessels of varying sizes stood in rows. The tallest of these vessels was fifty or sixty meters high, while the smallest was over ten meters. Both ends of each vessel were sealed with metal lids, and metal tubes on the lids led to the dark and unknown depths that the firelight could not illuminate, making them incredibly mysterious.

In the vision of the Face of Truth, these crystal vessels faintly emitted a hazy, pale green glow; they were mysterious skeletal specimens with no discernible shape or regularity.

The skeleton's general shape resembles a gibbon with hooves, but it has an octopus head and many strange bone branches on its body, the specific structure of its organs is unknown.

All the bones were translucent and floated in a small container.

The skeleton itself seems to have no weight, nor is it as hard as people imagine; instead, it is full of flexibility and toughness.

However, Green, who had personally entered the vessel to collect specimens of alien marrow, knew that the strength and durability of these skeletons far exceeded his imagination.

Returning to this ancient site, Green felt less fear and more awe.

With his eyes scanning the surroundings, Green surveyed everything around him.

Greene kept imagining the scene where the ancient wizards, after conquering the sea creatures and gaining complete dominion over the wizarding world, were in a backward era where they were still using mechanical puppets as cannon fodder in war. They were fighting against the mysterious and powerful alien nightmare civilization while capturing alien specimens and conducting detailed research in large laboratories.

Ancient wizards used their wisdom to continuously learn and decipher the survival warfare methods of this unknown and powerful civilization.

I am afraid……

It must have been that the ancient wizards discovered some fatal weaknesses in these alien beings, which enabled the wizard civilization to overcome the odds and defeat the alien nightmare civilization in the First Civilization War, thus laying the foundation for the most glorious, prosperous, and brilliant period of the ancient wizard world before the Second Civilization War!

In that glorious and prosperous era, the wizarding civilization had a territory spanning tens of thousands of worlds, and all creatures within the world's communities submitted to the great wizards, trembling and prostrating themselves.

The ignorant and fearful enslaved creatures, generation after generation, passed down the power of the wizard, finding it difficult to muster any will to resist. Countless soul slaves, driven by the wizard's cruelty, built one magnificent sky city after another.

Wherever the wizard's will goes, there is only submission.

Thus, the wizard's will becomes the supreme rule governing the entire territory; with a single word, the world falls!

That was the most cruel, dark, and glorious heyday of the ancient wizarding civilization!

Until one day, an abyssal civilization from another world clashed with a powerful and glorious ancient wizard civilization, igniting an epic war...

Calming his inner turmoil, Green took a deep breath, as if he were experiencing the war between ancient wizards and the alien nightmare civilization, trying to imitate and learn from the more advanced civilization of that time.

At least, as far as Green knew, it was after the First Civilization War that the ancient mechanical wizards and dark wizards of the wizarding world gave birth to more advanced elemental wizards, who gradually replaced the mechanical wizards' dominant position.

This is an elemental wizard who casts curses with his symbiotic insects and uses the power of nature to manipulate the rules of the world. During his reign over the wizarding world, he led the wizarding civilization to its most glorious and prosperous period in ancient times.

"The wizarding civilization will not perish!"

With a roar raging in his heart, Green raised his head and shouted, "Mentor, Lord Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard, everything here is normal, just as it was!"

"Oh, Green, wait a minute, I'll widen the opening."

Peranos responded and then shouted, followed by a loud "boom" that shook the metal ceiling high above Green's head.

Splash splash splash splash...

A large number of magic lamps shattered, crystal shards fell, and after a violent energy fluctuation, Grimm, who was slightly covering his face, looked up. However, the opening did not seem to have expanded much, and only faint light still shone in.

Shaking his head, Green said, "Mentor, the metal walls of this ancient ruin are incredibly sturdy and impossible to destroy. Let's not waste our time..."

boom!

Green had only spoken halfway when a shockwave caused by an energy fluctuation suddenly came from above, as if a mountain was pressing down on him. Green groaned, felt dizzy, and fell to the ground.

Squeak...

A sharp metallic scraping sound rang out. Green braced himself on the metal floor, shook his dizzy head, and looked up. Beneath the mask of truth, his eyes were blank and empty, filled with disbelief.

Right before Green's eyes, a pair of pure black energy giant hands, each over thirty meters long, pierced into the ruins and, with a terrifying force, tore at the top of the ruins, gradually tearing open a large section of the metal ceiling, allowing the hazy light from the fragments of the outside world to shine in without obstruction.

The Black Tower Saint Mark Wizard actually tore open the top of this ancient ruin!

Only after the top metal was torn apart by the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard's giant energy hand, a hundred meters long, did the light illuminate the entire underground space, and Peranos and the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard descended to Grin's side.

As the space continued to collapse, the old wizard's footsteps on the metal floor produced a grating, creaking sound. In a short while, the metal floor began to twist and wrinkle like paper.

"Perhaps this is why the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard has reached the threshold of a level seven creature, but is unable to control his own power."

Green was making this guess in his mind.

After landing next to Green, Peranos looked around but did not move around much.

All the wealth here belongs to the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard; he is merely an attendant. It is already an immense stroke of luck that he has been given this opportunity to broaden his horizons.

As the ceiling was torn open, a hazy light streamed into the vast laboratory hall, revealing the end of the hall to the naked eye.

This is a gigantic laboratory, over 10,000 meters long and wide, with tens of thousands of dust-covered cylindrical crystal test chambers standing in rows. The visual impact is so great that perhaps only the Holy Tower Laboratories in the wizarding world can match its scale.

"Grin, it seems the value of this ancient site far exceeds our expectations," Peranos murmured in awe as he looked around.

Compared to this place, the difference between Peranos's dozen or so laboratories on the seventy-ninth floor of the Black Tower was like that between a royal palace and a slum.

Clang, clang, clang...

With each step the Black Tower Saint Mark Wizard took, the metal floor beneath his feet would twist irregularly, forming clearly visible wrinkled footprints.

With such power, Green felt that the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard could probably obliterate him with a single, casual punch.

Only such power can explain why, after the fall of the Stigmata Wizards, those exaggeratedly large basins of fallen holy relics would form in the wizarding world.

The old wizard stopped beside a cylindrical crystal experimental vessel, used the power of nature to wipe away the dust, and looked at the hieroglyphic ancient wizarding script on it.

Alien, juvenile, test subject 0719. Hazard level: Highest.

"Hmm? Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah..."

Suddenly, Green lost control of himself, covering his head with his hands and screaming in agony.

Countless ominous red hairs appeared out of thin air, densely packed. This time, these red hairs completely ignored the wizard's shield and desperately tried to burrow into Grimm's body.

On Green's skin, claw marks and bruises began to spread violently, as if stimulated by something, trying to pull Green completely into that mysterious and unknown nightmare world.

Gradually, Green's body began to fade, as if he was about to disappear.

"Mentor..." Green stammered, looking weakly at Peranos, the man who seemed like his father.

"Grin!" Peranos exclaimed, trying to offer assistance, but was blocked by a black barrier.

At the same time, as the black barrier opened, countless claw marks, bruises, and red hairs began to emerge from Green's body.

With a "vomiting" sound, Green actually spat out black hair from his mouth, the length of which seemed endless.

The belly beneath the wizard's robes churned and swelled, as if something was about to burst out.

Such a terrifying situation seemed to have exceeded the expectations of the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard.

The old wizard was slightly taken aback. He stretched out his withered hand and manipulated a black barrier sphere with a diameter of three meters to envelop Green, containing all the strange and terrifying things inside the barrier and letting it engulf Green. On the other hand, he looked in another direction with a solemn expression.

At the far end of the hall, a metal wall, completely warped by some immense force, came into view of the old wizard.

This is the last place where Grimm stayed after he was captured by the Academy Guardians.

On the wall, there was a clearly visible giant claw and hoof print left by a huge creature. The hoof print was more than ten meters in diameter. The originally smooth and thick metal wall was bulged out by seven or eight meters by this hoof print. The thick metal around it seemed to have turned into wrinkled paper, all twisted.

"Hmm? Here..."

The old wizard appeared in a blur in the instant of the transparent crystal window...

boom!

A blood-red eye, over ten meters long, suddenly opened on the crystal glass window. At the same time, countless distorted shadows, densely packed on the wrinkled metal wall, struggled to emerge, reaching out their arms towards the old wizard as if trying to pounce.

Green, whose interior was surrounded by a dense mass of eerie, distorted shadows, mumbled in a daze, "So, this is where the infection occurred."

"Hehehehehehe..."

The next moment, the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard began to laugh maniacally!

An indescribable energy wave suddenly erupted, and a thousand meters away, Peranos cried out in alarm and hid behind the experimental vessel.

boom!

It was like a Force 12 gale howling past!

The metal wall with hoof prints that had been protruding outwards in front of the old wizard suddenly exploded in the opposite direction with a "bang," shattering the thick crystal glass wall into neat, fingernail-sized fragments.

With a lift of his foot, the old wizard stepped into the ancient battlefield hall that Grimm had once seen through the crystal glass walls.

In the center, a gigantic alien skeleton, over three hundred meters tall, floated silently in the air, emitting a pale green glow. It looked so dreamlike and beautiful, like a wonderful childhood dream, captivating the mind with its magic.

Thousands upon thousands of smaller, translucent alien skeletons floated around the central giant alien skeleton, creating a beautiful yet eerie atmosphere shrouded in horror, misfortune, and strangeness.

Countless human skeletons and mechanical remains were piled up into a dense carpet, as if one could faintly hear the roars and fury of countless ancient wizards fighting bloody battles echoing in one's ears.

This amber-like, sealed space has been opened!

In an instant, all the distorted phantoms in front of the old wizard vanished into thin air, and his greedy yet reverent gaze swept over everything in the ancient battlefield hall.

Green smiled contentedly within the black barrier and then fell unconscious.

(End of this chapter)