Wizard's Journey

Chapter 306 Setting Off to Conquer the Nest World (Part 1)

call out!

Green landed alone on the rooftop plaza of the Hexagonal building, the headquarters of the Demon Hunter Dark Wizards. At this time, not many people had gathered in the vast plaza; there were only about seven or eight thousand Demon Hunter Dark Wizards.

Demon hunters continued to gather from all directions.

The choice was made in a place where dark wizards were relatively sparse. Grimm wore a gray-white spiral patterned mask of truth, a dark gray wide wizard's robe, and held a ram's horn skull magic staff. A beautiful fat myna bird with red and green feathers stood on his shoulder, looking tired, listless, and yawning.

With one eye being the azure blue of frost and the other the crimson red of flames, radiating a faint halo under the Mask of Truth, Grimm became an inconspicuous member among the many dark wizards.

A nearby dark wizard looked at Green. This was a level one dark wizard, and Green also looked at him.

A magic wand, wrinkled and bent like an old tree root, with a hunched back, and a brown cat with long curly fur and a pair of emerald green eyes crawling on its shoulder.

It was clearly the honor badge on Wizard Green's robes that made the other party pause slightly, then become alert and take the initiative to perform wizarding rituals towards Green.

Nodding, Green simply returned the greeting.

Time passed slowly, and more and more low-level wizards who landed next to Green bowed to him. More and more demon hunter dark wizards gathered. Suddenly, a mechanical puppet flew towards Green from mid-air.

"Respected Wizard, your Level 3 Demon Hunter Honor Badge has been verified. You are granted priority access to the Expeditionary Source Space Fortress. Would you like to proceed with priority access?"

Green was taken aback. The Demon Hunter Medal had such an advantage?

Without hesitation, Green nodded and said, "Yes."

With a click, the mechanical puppet landed on the rooftop and carried Green step by step through the crowd of dark wizards, heading in another direction.

A short while later.

Standing atop a five-meter-long flying bird slave covered in fine, silvery-white scales, Green vanished in a blur and soared straight into the sky, effortlessly breaking through the seven-ring defensive shield and the clouds.

A short while later, Green arrived above the sea of ​​clouds.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal hemispherical space fortress, radiating a chilling, blood-red light above the clouds, suddenly appeared before our eyes. The clouds beneath the fortress were even pushed aside by the pressure it inadvertently emitted, resembling a blood-red moon hanging high in the sky.

This expeditionary fortress of the origin space, though seemingly close at hand, is actually quite distant, simply because it is so vast.

One after another, three-hundred-meter-long, shark-shaped spaceships were busily and orderly flying into the interior through the open hatches at the base of the space fortress.

Higher up in the clouds, three other space fortresses await, ready to welcome future new demon-hunting expeditions.

The silver-scaled bird beneath their feet moved with incredible speed, leaving a ripple across the relatively calm surface of the clouds.

In the more distant sky, there lies the unique world rule of the wizarding world, a water curtain that shields the void from the erosion of energy.

Between the water curtain and the sea of ​​clouds, the energy vacuum layer of the wizarding world replaces the chaotic layer of the otherworld.

"Hmm? This space fortress is considerably larger than the last one," Green muttered to himself.

As the silver-scaled bird drew closer to the space fortress, Grimm gradually realized that the size and scale of this space fortress seemed to far exceed that of the space fortress he had once used in his expedition to the world of Shadow Mystery.

The space fortress in the Expedition to the Shadow Mystery world was only a little over 10,000 meters in diameter, but now this space fortress has a diameter of a full 20,000 meters!

The diameter is almost twice as large, and since the fortress is an irregular hemisphere, its volume would be about ten times larger!

Which Stigmata Wizard ordered this space fortress?

What kind of world is this alien realm that we are embarking on this expedition to?

Feeling slightly uneasy, Green boarded the Silverscale Bird and landed on the Space Fortress Plaza a short while later.

Click!

Green stepped onto the metal ground of the huge, empty fortress square. In the vast square, there were only about six or seven thousand people gathered in the central area, but demon hunters like Green were constantly joining in.

After casually tossing a fire crystal onto the silver-scaled bird, Grimm's eyes flashed, and he leaned on his ram-horned skull magic staff, walking step by step toward the crowd.

Of the six or seven thousand people, only a small portion are level two demon hunter dark wizards, or level one demon hunter dark wizards with honor medals; the majority are captains of demon hunter light wizards.

Green silently observed these witch hunters.

The demon hunters remained motionless, with crystal balls floating in front of them, displaying information about their demon-hunting expeditions.

Demon hunters, both open and dark, constantly patrolled and observed these dark demon hunters. Occasionally, some open wizards would take the initiative to talk to the dark wizards and leave their contact information.

"Hmm? This is...?"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Green, who was completely baffled.

This is why some level-two dark wizards are able to call for support from the light wizard formation or even the expedition space airship when they judge certain crisis situations during the Demon Hunting Expedition.

After standing there for a moment, Green took out his crystal ball and played some records of his missions in the Shadow Mystery World. He then joined the group of dark wizards who seemed to be waiting to sell their wares.

The fact that a sorcerer chooses a dark sorcerer is itself a responsible and discerning approach.

From the perspective of the dark wizards, the light wizards are their external support; but in reality, within the entire Demon Hunter Expedition force field, the dark wizards are merely special forces personnel who effectively coordinate with the light wizards' group combat power.

Generally speaking, the things that a dark wizard cannot handle are likely to involve tasks that are quite dangerous.

If each of the Ming Wizard captains leaves behind too little information, the benefits of this world expedition cannot be guaranteed.

However, if there are too many, there is a high possibility of some unexpected situations arising, causing teammates to fall into danger, or wasting time on some low-level tasks.

Each captain of the Ming Wizards must carefully consider the appropriate measure.

Generally speaking, the dark wizards chosen by the airship commanders are usually powerful demon hunters with stronger individual abilities and who are more likely to encounter higher dangers, making it easier to obtain higher rewards. Squad leader Fang Zhenming, on the other hand, is relatively less dangerous.

Demon hunters and sorcerers kept walking past Green.

Most of the demon hunter wizards did not stop in front of a level one dark wizard, and the few wizards who watched the world quest footage of the Grimm Crystal Ball Shadow Mystery seemed only slightly surprised by the demon hunter dark wizard in front of them who had only one expedition experience.

However, these same wizards also shook their heads and did not leave any contact information for Green.

Indeed, judging from Green's experience of obtaining a Level 3 Honor Medal on a single demon-hunting expedition, it seems that there was a lot of luck involved.

As the number of light and dark wizards gathering in the fortress square grew to just over ten thousand, no new demon hunter wizards joined.

Two hourglasses had passed.

One by one, the light and dark wizards dispersed, seemingly having accomplished their respective objectives, and began awaiting the distribution of the Zero Boundary Stones from the fortress's combat command.

With the Zero Boundary Stone, elite Dark Wizards and captains of Light Wizards can communicate over extremely long distances by consuming the Zero Boundary Stone.

However, a small number of open and covert demon hunters have not yet achieved their goals, and Green is one of them.

Just as Green was feeling somewhat frustrated, a female sorcerer finally stopped in front of him. When Green looked at her, he was stunned by what he saw beneath the mask of truth.

It's her!?

This female witch hunter was actually the green-eyed witch, Guli Ni, from the Ming Wizard faction during the Wizard Apprentice Regional War. The two later met again on a balloon airship while traveling together to the Seventh Ring Holy Tower, led by their respective mentors, and subsequently traded the Mechanical Heart with her.

Now, coincidentally, the two of them are participating in this demon-hunting expedition together.

"Green?"

After a moment of surprise, the somewhat aged-looking Gulini exclaimed in astonishment, "You've already earned a Medal of Honor? You should have just participated in one Demon Hunting Expedition, like me."

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Green said in a deep voice, "Just luck."

After a pause, Green looked at the crystal ball floating in front of Gulini and said with a hint of envy, "But you have become the captain of a 25-person squad."

Shaking her head, Gulini said slowly, "It's only because of our past friendship and trust that the team members are all wizards who advanced in the same year from my academy, that we formed a small squad. Well... since that's the case, and our mentors can form a good complementary contract, I think I don't need to leave you my contact information anymore."

A slight joy welled up in his heart. Although the opposing team's twenty-five-person squad was almost at the bottom of the ranks among the Ming Wizards, this was the first time that Green had truly enjoyed such a privilege.

Nodding, Green said, "Of course not."

The two chatted briefly for a while. Although there was no affection between them, they had some social connections, which made things quite convenient for them.

After half the hourglass had passed, the numerous gathered light and dark wizards had completely dispersed, and Green no longer encountered any light wizard captains who were paying attention to him.

After the boredom dissipated, as the first batch of mechanical bees, giant flying machines, and flying beasts carried squads of demon hunters and dark wizards towards the space fortress, dozens of wizards from the fortress's combat command distributed three Zero Boundary Stones as a perk to everyone. Green, in a moment of inattention, caught sight of a few familiar faces and froze.

Meanwhile, during their free time, these people spotted Green.

Three-Pepper Demon, Kuyak, Lokiru, Gabil, the demon hunter wizard whose robes were ablaze with flames, and two other unfamiliar dark demon hunter wizards—these seven dark demon hunter wizards, who once competed for demon hunting achievements, have now formed a team to participate in this demon hunting expedition!?

(End of this chapter)