Wizard's Journey

Chapter 324 is incomprehensible.

A short while later, with Naraku's return, Green's demon-hunting team was now at full strength, consisting of ten members.

Naraku glanced at the myna bird a few times, but the myna bird seemed to have already forgotten about the witch and was busy arguing with the parrot, completely ignoring Naraku.

Green stood opposite several demon hunter wizards, looking at the nine members of the temporary demon hunter dark wizard team, plus himself, making a total of ten.

Nodding, Green said in a deep voice, "Then let's set off."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Led by Grimm, the nine demon hunters flew toward the Thousand-Eyed Crab and all landed on it.

"This is?"

Lu Lianman asked the question that had been on everyone's mind, and they all stared in shock at the enormous, thousand-eyed crab at their feet.

That's right, this is indeed a genuine Level 3 creature!

The voice beneath the mask of truth, Green, said calmly, "This is a protected slave bestowed by the great Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard, and of course, only during the Demon Hunting Expedition in this Nest World."

Click, click!

"In this world of demon hunting expeditions, I will completely submit to Lord Grin's will," the Thousand-Eyed Crab explained, holding its claws.

Whether it was Lu Lianman, Naraku, or the other seven demon hunters, they all showed expressions of disbelief.

Lu Lianman's delicate face, framed by short golden hair, parted her red lips slightly as she smiled and said, "The Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard's favor towards Lord Green is truly profound."

Green said nothing more, glanced at the World Nest passage information recorded in the crystal ball, and pointed in a direction to the Thousand-Eyed Crab.

When the Thousand-Eyed Giant Crab moved its massive body, swirling winds and clouds appeared, and all the surrounding demon hunters, flying machines, mechanical puppets, and weak soul slaves made way for it.

Unstoppable!

The Thousand-Eyed Giant Crab led Green and his group of ten down to the ground beneath the space fortress, to the entrance of the World Nest, where several Light Fortresses had already been built.

"Um?"

In the distance, two other teams of demon hunter dark wizards, also flying towards the entrance to the World's Nest, looked towards the Grimm team on the Thousand-Eyed Crab.

One of the teams consisted of ten demon hunters, led by a level two demon hunter, while the others were level one demon hunters.

The ten demon hunters were filled with disbelief.

How could a mere ten Level 1 Demon Hunter Wizards allow a genuine Level 3 creature to carry them to the core of the World Nest?

This……

This is truly unbelievable...

The other team of demon hunters consisted of only four people, all of whom were level two demon hunters, and no trace of honor medals was found.

The four men's gazes were all focused on Green, who was standing at the very front of the Thousand-Eyed Crab's back.

This gray-white spiral-patterned mask, this ram's horn and skull magic wand, this lifelike and beautiful myna bird—isn't this the very same Grimm personally named by the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard?

As expected of someone publicly named by the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard, he actually...

Standing at the forefront of the Thousand-Eyed Crab, the long red hair on its shell reaching above his knees, Green leaned on his ram-horned skull magic staff and bowed slightly to the captains of the two teams of demon hunter dark wizards.

The leader of the demon-hunting squad, who was leading nine first-level wizards, returned Grimm's salute and left silently without saying anything more.

The squad leader, who was leading three level-two demon hunters, unexpectedly paused for a moment and said to Grimm, "Captain Grimm, would you be interested in joining us on a journey to the core of the World's Nest, the Snowline Nest?"

Green has not yet truly explored the World Nest.

Based on the information obtained about the World Nest, the World Nest is a collection of tens of thousands of nests of various creatures of all sizes, interconnected like a beehive, and thus a collective term.

Among the tens of thousands of nests in the World Nest, the smaller nests are like fragments of Grimm's Demon Hunter Castle private world—insignificant in size and devoid of any powerful creatures worthy of attention.

Within the World Nest, most of the nests are just insignificant little nests like this.

However, some large nests are said to be as large as fragments of the Sacred Mark Realm, forming a self-contained ecosystem.

The Secret Realm of the Holy Mark Wizard?

At least for Green, traversing the vast Black Tower Secret Realm is still not something that can be done in a short time, which shows how enormous this World Nest is.

Even for Green himself, it was simply unbelievable that such a complex and vast world system could exist without the birth of a world ruler.

Therefore, Green naturally wouldn't refuse, nodding and saying in a deep voice, "Okay."

The second-level witch hunter captain was an old witch with wrinkled, withered skin. After nodding to Green, she introduced herself, "You can call me Ararat."

After saying that, the old witch flew ahead to lead the way, and Green instructed the Thousand-Eyed Crab to follow.

Behind Green, the other witch hunters in the team all looked relieved. With this Thousand-Eyed Crab, they could easily deal with any encounters in this nest world.

After all, the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard had personally informed all Demon Hunter Wizards that there was no world ruler in this nest world.

Only Naraku, his body wrapped in a metal chain ball, had his head protruding from the chain ball slightly lowered, his teeth clenched.

The more Green displayed his potential, composure, and glory, the more unspeakable pain Naraku felt, just as when the Heart of the World bestowed upon him the fragments of the original will.

Despite being an insignificant dark wizard, he obtained the most fragments of primordial will from the Seven Rings Holy Tower.

Previously, he had been fighting endlessly with that dark wizard named Hellroar. Beneath his seemingly cold and cruel exterior, he was secretly pleased that, as his mentor had said, he, representing the chaotic faction, was undoubtedly the strongest among this year's Seventh Ring Holy Tower wizard apprentices.

However, everything changed after fragments of the world's primordial will were dispersed...

Even so!

Naraku didn't believe that this dark wizard named Green was really stronger than himself. The ferocity of the Holy Tower qualification battle for the Chaotic Faction was beyond their imagination. Naraku firmly believed that he was definitely the strongest and most promising among his fellow wizard apprentices.

Having emerged from the pinnacle of the Chaos faction's wizarding apprenticeship, I will one day make them experience true despair and terror!

With this in mind, Naraku, after remaining unknown in the Demon Hunter Castle for two hundred years, originally planned to show his skills and prove himself in the first Demon Hunter Expedition.

However, cruel reality once again ruthlessly destroyed Naraku's heart, who was still a wizard apprentice.

There are far too many so-called geniuses and strongmen in the world of witch hunters.

They were all among the best of the generations of wizarding apprentices in the Seven Rings Tower. Whether it was Naraku or Green, they were just one of them.

These are just a few decent loaves of bread that Seven Rings Santa selects from countless loaves baked once every hundred years, through oven after oven.

This demon-hunting expedition, composed of a large group of "genius wizards" from the wizarding world, was killed one by one in the relentless and brutal slaughter in the world of Shadow Mystery, devoured by the endless Amonro, leaving no trace.

At this moment, Naraku truly realized his own insignificance, how utterly worthless he was...

Even the worldview he had built up during his time as a wizard apprentice was shattered, causing Naraku to constantly doubt that all of this was the hand of God manipulating fate, turning him from a nightmare feared by everyone in the chaotic camp into an insignificant member among countless witch hunter wizards.

In this torment, Naraku finally came to understand himself and began to gradually transform into a true, formal wizard, while also gaining some insights of his own.

Unless one becomes a great Stigmata Wizard, an individual's power is far too insignificant in the history of world change and transformation, so insignificant that it can only serve as nourishment for other beings to try to turn the gears of world change.

The vastness of the endless world has far exceeded the imagination of wizard apprentices.

As a result, no new Witcher is recognized as a true Witcher Wizard by the Holy Tower. Only after successfully completing a Witcher expedition and returning to the wizarding world to undergo the growth process that a formal wizard must go through will they be called a Witcher Wizard!

Only those witch hunters who survive relentlessly through battles of carnage and grow ever stronger, their faith unwavering, will become the true nightmare of any world that opposes the wizarding world.

These demons, who walk on the edge of life and death in war, have made killing an art and an instinct, and regard the beliefs they hold in their hearts as their ideals and the only value and meaning of their existence. They will ruthlessly tear apart any creature that dares to resist the will of the wizard.

Having come to this realization, Naraku finally faced his true status and transformed himself into a formal wizard.

And he plans to keep growing stronger through each demon-hunting expedition until one day he can become a Saint Mark Wizard.

however……

Naraku stared at Green before him, unable to understand why Green, who seemed to lack such awareness, had somehow managed to walk ahead of him.

Did this Green already have such awareness during his wizarding apprenticeship?

That's impossible, that's simply impossible.

Naraku couldn't believe that a tiny, even insignificant, wizard apprentice would have such awareness, something only a formal wizard would possess.

Because of the difference in life levels, everything seen by two different life levels will undergo earth-shattering changes, and lower life forms cannot even imagine such a difference in change.

It's unimaginable that a group of wizarding apprentices, whose eyes are only on a few wizarding academies and whose goals are only to be constantly tested and challenged, and whose strongest members are a large group of mysterious wizards whose secrets you can't comprehend, would experience everything that only a formal wizard possesses.

Even wizarding apprentices wouldn't understand why there were these cruel tests and trials.

In the past, wizard apprentices would resent and even curse, but they had no choice but to obey unconditionally.

Until one day, after experiencing these cruelties and fully growing into formal wizards, they no longer harbored resentment, but instead felt gratitude and continued to uphold and protect this cruel rule.

Naraku, I can't understand... what's the reason for this gap?

(End of this chapter)