Wizard's Journey

Chapter 268 Wizard's Nightmare Civilization?

Below is... the ruined tower?

When Green woke up again, he was already above this illusory world constructed of mental energy.

A pure black barrier formed a giant funnel shape. Grimm lay on the funnel, and a continuous stream of magic power washed over his body from top to bottom, flowing into the illusory world below the funnel.

Occasionally, a scream would emanate from the magic washing over Grimm's body. This was because the bruises and claw marks on Grimm's body were being washed away by the continuous torrent of magic. The torrent of magic would then carry them away briefly into the illusory spiritual world of the dilapidated tower below, where they would be sealed.

"What a waste, the utilization rate of this magic..."

After the sigh, Green felt immense gratitude towards the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard.

Hmm, this state of saturated magical energy in the body...

"Perhaps I should take this opportunity to experiment with what I've been thinking about all these years."

Thinking this, Green struggled to his feet amidst the surging magical energy in the funnel. A symbiotic fly crawled out from between his fingers and on his skin. Then, in his other hand, a bottle of perfectly preserved blood appeared.

This vial of blood was the one Millie "gifted" to Green along with the myna bird during the Santa Qualifying Tournament.

Mina, the daughter of the sun, and Millie, the sister from the Ice Age, are a combination of opposite energy attributes, one fire and one ice. In principle, this is also a counteracting attribute with a higher utilization rate of the power of annihilation.

However, during his time as a wizard apprentice, Green could only rely on what he had nearby due to the talent he gained from the three secret great magic spells. At that time, Millie's acquisition of the Ice Marrow Body was obviously too far away for Green, who even the Son of the Sun had to look up to.

Currently, for Green to evolve from three secret grand magic spells to four secret grand magic spells, it is unknown how many more years it will take to accumulate and repair his life code. This is not very realistic for Green, who currently possesses the Ice Marrow Body, and thus can master Millie's Ice Marrow Crystallization Magic.

Thus, Green came up with the idea of ​​"Three Secret Magic Modified Great Sorcery".

The so-called "modification" is to replace the life code talent with similar attributes among the three secrets with other similar talents. For example, replace Bibi Leona's vaporizing water element rune talent with Millie's ice attribute Ice Marrow Body talent.

In this way, fewer life codes need to be changed, and the cracks that damage the life code can be minimized.

As ice is a variant of water, Grimm's modification plan does have some theoretical basis.

However, according to Green's previous estimates, the energy required for this kind of experiment that modifies the life code is immeasurable. It is very likely that Green will have to consume an astonishing number of witch essences to obtain some extremely high-quality rare energy crystals to complete it.

But now...

With the help of these rivers of magic that continuously cleansed his body, Green had the perfect basis for his experiment!

"Heh heh, little one, don't you have any questions about the Alien Nightmare Civilization?"

At the top of the black funnel barrier, while continuously releasing torrents of magic and playing with the alien specimen, the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard asked Grin in an excited and satisfied voice, while Peranos had already left.

Green, who was conducting a magical modification experiment in the torrent of magic, opened his eyes.

Questions about the alien nightmare civilization?

After thinking for a moment, Green asked, "How exactly did the ancient wizards defeat the alien nightmare civilization?"

"Hehe, I knew you'd ask that."

Unable to discern the expression on the old wizard's face as the surrounding space continued to collapse, he waved his hand and said in a sinister tone, "In truth, the ancient wizards never truly defeated the alien nightmare civilization."

"How is that possible!"

Green asked incredulously, "Then why does history say...?"

The old wizard stopped Green from asking any more questions, and said jokingly, "Little one, let me ask you, through this Nightmare Shadow Curse, you should already know that the Alien Nightmare Civilization is actually divided into two parts: the Alien World and the Nightmare World, right?"

Nodding, Green had indeed obtained this information through the Tomb of Words Stigmata Wizard and his second uncle, Daddaron.

The old wizard continued, "So, although the alien world has been completely defeated by the ancient wizards, the nightmare world between illusion and reality is unable to completely kill those illusory creatures. Meanwhile, the cunning creatures living in the dream have successfully transferred the nightmare world to the wizard world, attempting to transform the wizard civilization into a wizard nightmare civilization."

Therefore, I say that the ancient wizards did not actually defeat the alien nightmare civilization; they survived by emulating the wizard nightmare civilization.

"What does this mean?" Green couldn't understand the old wizard's words.

"Simply put, every wizard in the Wizarding World is a potential Nightmare Shadow Infected, and under every bed in the Wizarding World is a projection of the Nightmare World. The ultimate goal of the Nightmare Creatures is to control the Wizarding World, which is even stronger than the Alien World, and to perpetuate their unique parasitic evolution."

As the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard spoke, he drew a claw mark from Green's body, imprisoning him within a black barrier.

The claw marks kept striking the black barrier, but to no avail.

The old wizard sarcastically remarked, "These seemingly invincible and incredibly powerful nightmare creatures are nothing more than a bunch of mental parasites in the eyes of all the Holy Mark Wizards."

When you don't understand them, you might think they are invincible demons, but once you do, you realize they're nothing more than a swarm of cockroaches and fleas. They could never control even a single wizard apprentice!

"Why?" Green asked in shock.

"Because, the highest mental strength limit of the creatures they can control, as shown in the crystal ball, is only 10. As for the Nightmare World, which is now extremely weak, it's probably difficult to control even creatures with a mental strength of 5."

The old wizard shook his head dismissively.

A thought suddenly occurred to Green: Could this be the reason why wizarding academies select wizarding apprentices with a mental strength of 10 or higher?

Seeing Green deep in thought, the old wizard continued, "Even if you are pulled into the nightmare world, these parasites can only make you lose your way in the nightmare; they can't possibly control you in return. But once you become a Saintly Wizard, in that illusory world, you will be able to suppress all nightmare creatures. He is probably what they call the Lord of Fear."

Green pursed his lips, remaining silent, his eyes revealing deep thought and longing.

The old wizard stopped mentioning the nightmare world, instead pointing to the alien specimen floating above his head and giving a sinister laugh: "Heh heh, do you see this interesting organ structure of the alien specimen?"

Green looked and saw that the old wizard was pointing to the unused skeletal part of the floating alien specimen.

Looking bewildered, Green nodded.

"This is the most important organ of the alien recorded in ancient wizarding texts: the incubation chamber. This kind of creature, the alien, has a very strange instinctive evolutionary method, which is to kill those creatures stronger than themselves in groups, absorb their flesh and blood, and thus split themselves into several juvenile forms with stronger life characteristics."

Green listened quietly, as if he were imagining the original form of this alien life form.

"Faced with these terrifying alien beings, the weakest of whom are at least level two creatures, the ancient wizards rely on the Amino parasites to master curse magic. They possess physiques unimaginably powerful by ancient mechanical dancers and black wizards, and they also hold the secret to manipulating the energy of natural elements. The weak wizarding world simply cannot resist them..."

After a pause, the old wizard chuckled darkly, "Back then, the ancient wizards couldn't have known that before the Alien world existed, the Nightmare World had already parasitized countless other worlds, ultimately choosing this species with limitless potential for evolution, the Aliens. The Alien Nightmare civilization had already reached a mature stage, while the wizard civilization was only in its nascent stage. How could they resist?"

The Black Tower Stigmata Wizard seemed to be asking Grimm a question, but Grimm couldn't help but retort, "How do you resist?"

The old wizard pointed to the alien's ovaries and said, "The answer is right here."

After a pause, the old wizard continued, "The ancient wizards who deciphered the mysteries of the aliens' natural elements and ancestral curses, relying on their wisdom, finally discovered a clue to defeating the aliens: their method of evolution!"

Green was taken aback, then his eyes lit up as he realized the answer!

The aliens rely on swarms to kill creatures stronger than themselves, then absorb their flesh and blood, automatically splitting into several juvenile forms with stronger life characteristics.

However, the way wizards in the wizarding world evolve is through wisdom!

In other words, when a great Stigmata Wizard dies, the first generation of aliens who absorbed his flesh and blood, and the second generation of alien juveniles who evolved through self-division of their ovaries, will become nothing more than waste with an innate physical constitution of less than 10!

Perhaps Green thought the data he reconstructed was somewhat exaggerated, but those second-generation aliens must have suffered unimaginable and enormous weakening.

Thus, if the ancient wizards make a great sacrifice and temporarily stop the first generation of aliens from directly invading the wizarding world, then what awaits these second-generation "evolved" aliens will be a massacre!

Could it be that the numerous world fragments surrounding the Wizarding World were sacrificial sites made during the first war of ancient wizarding civilizations to prevent the first generation of aliens from directly invading the Wizarding World?

After the battle of sacrifice, the first-generation alien, which had absorbed the Holy Mark Wizard and even the True Spirit Wizard, began to "evolve" wildly, splitting into the second-generation "useless" alien, which was followed by a massacre...

At this moment, Green finally gained a fundamental understanding of the first war of civilization experienced by the ancient wizards, which was also the history of the budding and development of civilization in the wizarding world.

One can imagine...

For the sake of the continuation of the wizarding world, the wizards who controlled the ancient mechanical puppets made enormous sacrifices to briefly halt the advance of the incredibly powerful aliens. The fierce battle shattered a complete world into countless fragments.

Only through the noble and great sacrifices of the ancient wizards could the wizarding world have the opportunity to grow into a wizarding civilization.

By learning how alien beings manipulate the forces of nature, elemental wizards were born, and by combining this with the knowledge and evolutionary methods of wizards, the prototype of the modern elemental wizard was formed.

By learning the Amiro parasite curse magic, the Elemental Wizard Companion Civilization was born, and it was no longer limited to the Amiro parasite, but began to develop countless companions with various abilities.

Seeing that Green seemed to have grasped something, fiddling with the alien specimen, the old wizard said calmly, "So, if you can advance to the Saintly Mark Wizard level to lift the curse, stay in the Nightmare World a little longer. Although you can't completely destroy the Nightmare World, as long as each generation of wizards weakens it, you can infinitely reduce the limits of these Nightmare creatures' parasitic control over mental power, bringing it infinitely close to zero."

Green knew the old wizard was teasing him, and forced a smile.

Two days later.

Green opened his eyes amidst the surging magic, exclaiming with delight, "I've finally completed the three-stage life code modification project. In a while, I'll be able to try researching some of Millie's Ice Marrow Crystallization magic."

Imagining a diamond-shaped ice crystal appearing in the center of his forehead, Green smiled excitedly.

On the other side, the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard on the funnel barrier glared at Grimm and said viciously, "Little brat, if it weren't for Peranos's sake, this wasted magic power would be enough for you to work for me for a thousand years, hmph! Here, take your curse seal. I will only provide magic seals for the next seven thousand years."

The moment Green caught a ram's horn skull, his vision blurred, and he found himself on the ninety-ninth floor of the Black Tower.

(End of this chapter)