Wizard's Journey

Chapter 292 A Web of Dry Bones

The eyes beneath Grimm's mask of truth seemed to have lost their fear at this moment.

"Three-pepper ghost?"

Grimm stared intently at the powerful demon hunter in his black wizard robes, raising the purple Holy Mark Key of Friendship in his hand.

"The Key of Friendship I hold was personally bestowed upon me by the great Stigmata Wizard of Hesotah. Without a Key of Friendship of equal rank, you have no chance. Give up. I have my reasons for doing this; I must save my wife!"

Holding a spinal magic staff, with gray dead soul flames burning silently above his head, and his jet-black robes fluttering in the wind, the Three-Pepper Demon's pair of dark red eyes looked at Grin.

It was as if it were mocking them.

"No chance? Heh heh heh, if that's the case, it seems you can only watch your wife die..."

After speaking so coldly and menacingly, the Three-Pepper Demon turned to Kuyak and Loki.

"Then I'll give you one more chance. I'll deal with him in one minute and then come back to you. If you're still wasting time and helpless against the dark wizard like you were a few days ago, don't blame me for competing for the demon-hunting achievement spot."

Luo Qilu was puzzled and his expression was somewhat strange.

Kuyak seemed to have thought of something, and after quickly realizing what was going on, he exclaimed with delight, "Great! If you successfully kill this demon hunter wizard in one minute while we fail, we will withdraw from the competition for demon hunter achievements."

Green stared at the Three Pepper Ghost in shock, unable to believe it.

Has he gone mad?

He actually said that he would kill himself within one minute while under the protection of a level three creature?

He himself was only a level one wizard. Even if he were to be far stronger than an ordinary level one wizard, it was simply impossible... right?

Suddenly, the Three-Pepper Demon stretched out its palm towards Hattori Mizo. The five skull rings flashed and stopped transmitting magic power. In an instant, the phantom skulls around Hattori Mizo disappeared completely, and the giant net that trapped him also vanished in an instant.

"Hahaha, Green, I'll be waiting for you in the Dark Domain..."

Having said that, Hattori Mizokyo vanished in a flash, becoming a blur as he fled into the distance. However, immediately afterward, a beam of energy flashed from the pyramid-shaped flying vehicle, and with a deafening boom, a wave tens of meters high erupted from the distant sea...

Gradually, the intense energy fluctuations receded into the distance...

After glancing at the three people who were gradually flying away, the three pepper demons, with the remaining five soul slaves of different shapes standing around, turned their heads and looked up at Green and the strange behemoth with densely packed small eyes in the crack in the air behind them.

Three-Pepper Ghost suddenly felt arrogant!

Every wizard has their own pride!

This pride might stem from one's persistence, certain experiences, unique areas of knowledge and research, one's current state of mind, one's potential, a wise perspective, or even one's appearance—countless small aspects in total...

Just like Green's inner desire to constantly explore knowledge and to take pride in fulfilling the ideals in the ancient wizarding will, Three Pepper Ghost experienced too much glory and possessed too much pride at the first level of wizarding.

When a wizard faces the challenge of their unwavering pride, their emotions completely overcome their cold reason, and they become as passionate as a knight.

At this moment, the Three-Pepper Demon is protecting and perpetuating its pride.

With its head held high, the Three Pepper Ghost, its withered and seemingly frail body, held aloft a magic staff made of its spine. Its wide black wizard robes fluttered and billowed due to the oppressive force emanating from the crack in the sky above.

hum...

Gradually, the Three Pepper Demon's increasingly powerful magic concentrated on the spinal magic staff, and the low-voiced sorcery incantation resonated with a large amount of elemental power on the sea surface.

In an instant, the wind rose and the clouds surged, and the waves crashed.

"Five skulls of dead souls ablaze, withered bones weaving a net to seal..."

However, at the height of the Three Pepper Ghosts' incantation, Green in the sky did not hesitate either. With one hand ice and the other fire, the opposing attributes of the two sisters, Millie and Mina, were gathered into a dark red energy ball, which merged between Green's hands.

"Exploding Flame Technique!"

Green's Explosive Flame Sorcery was one step faster than the Three Pepper Ghost Sorcery.

With a flash of incredibly fast, dark red light, the sky was filled with a dark red glow, and a sudden burst of fiery waves blazed brightly.

boom……

The sound of the explosion traveled far and wide through the Gem Sea, and huge waves and ripples swept outwards.

In the sky, Green breathed slightly, the scorching wind and waves blowing his wizard robes and hair wildly, his eyes only seeing the fiery red of the sky and sea beneath his feet.

"Was his witchcraft interrupted?"

Green gasped for breath and muttered to himself, not daring to be arrogant enough to think he could hurt his opponent with a single blow.

Gradually, the flames subsided, and Green, having seen the situation clearly, suddenly narrowed his eyes beneath the Mask of Truth. The next moment, his hair stood on end, and he dodged a white ray with a flustered swift movement.

Ok?

wrong!

Realizing something was wrong, Green looked back in shock, and what he saw made his heart feel as if it had been violently pounded.

The worst-case scenario has occurred.

A giant white net, tens of meters long, covered the dark crack. The net burned with a cold gray flame and exerted force, causing the black crack, which was expanding, to gradually shrink, emitting a screeching sound like glass rubbing together.

This three-pepper demon hunter dark wizard actually attempted to seal the behemoth back into the Black Tower before the Key of Friendship of the Grimm's Mark could fully summon it to the wizarding world.

Roar!

Realizing its predicament, the monster in the Black Tower Realm let out a loud roar and desperately stretched out a huge red crab claw covered in thick, long hair from the dark crack, and began to roar anxiously in the wizarding language.

"Roar... Lord Grin, give me one minute! No, fifty seconds, just fifty seconds, and I will fulfill my master's command and descend upon the wizarding world as you wish."

Green was taken aback. This "crab monster" actually addressed him as "Your Excellency"?

Did the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard give some special instructions? Or perhaps it misunderstood something?

Click! Click! Click!

Green, with his crab claws on his head, was acting like a madman, frantically struggling against the sealing net like a primal beast, seemingly disregarding the damage he would sustain while struggling.

At the same time, a second crab claw, more than ten meters long, began to emerge from the crack. The sealing net was stretched taut, and the crack began to widen again.

With a "bang," one of the sealing ropes of the giant net snapped...

On the other side, in Green's view, after the fire wave dissipated, two of the five soul slaves that had been surrounding the Three Pepper Demon had disappeared without a trace. It was likely that the Three Pepper Demon had sacrificed itself to block the Exploding Flame Spell.

The spinal bone magic staff and five skull rings in the hands of the Three-Pepper Demon, which seemed to be consumables for casting super-class sealing magic, have also disappeared without a trace.

The Three-Pepper Demon seemed completely unconcerned. With a sinister "hehehehe," it opened a spatial rift and released three ordinary soul slaves.

Immediately afterwards, the three soul slaves were tainted by the dead soul flames on the heads of the Three Pepper Ghosts and burst into flames, actually gaining the aura of a first-level living being in just a few breaths!

It seems that this Three-Pepper Ghost's soul magic allows it to keep six level-one creatures fighting at all times.

Even if there is some loss, it can be quickly and readily replenished.

Covered in scales, Grimm, having activated the first layer of his wild transformation, looked unavoidably at the Three-Pepper Demon.

"One minute? Well then... let's see how you plan to kill me in one minute."

After saying this, a seven-meter-tall giant of golden and black flames slowly stood up behind Grin, its eyes burning with golden flames. It looked at the Three Pepper Demon and released its powerful aura without restraint.

Roar……

(End of this chapter)