Wizard's Journey

Chapter 343 The Nest of the World (19)

A journey of nine days.

Having previously snatched the mission handover from the Three Pepper Demons, Green's team of demon hunters had no objections to Green and fully cooperated with his mission commands.

Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand...

Now, nine days have passed in the Snowline Nest. The Green Squad is flying above the sea of ​​snow worms and has arrived at a dark area without any floating magic lamps.

Within the light of the elements, Grimm and his companions discovered a slope of bones in the distance.

On the back of the Thousand-Eyed Crab, beneath the Face of Truth, Grimm's eyes gazed at the crystal ball, while the myna bird also peered over, pretending to understand with one eye.

After a long while, Green nodded, having done some careful calculations in his mind, and said with certainty, "This is it."

The bone stone slope was covered with small, blackish-gray six-petaled flowers, exuding a fragrant aura of death, far removed from the sea of ​​snow worms. Above this bone stone slope, there was a huge crack passage more than two hundred meters long, more than twice the size of the entrance to the Snowline Nest that Green and his group had previously used!

The sheer size of the tunnel entrance indirectly suggests that a large number of snow worms have come to the Snowline Nest from the nest space above, implying that a relatively small number of powerful biological groups exist.

"Lord Green, shall we go up now?"

The giant crab in front of him asked, awaiting Green's command.

"Okay, let's go up."

Upon hearing Green's voice, the Thousand-Eyed Crab responded with an "okay," then quickly rose into the air and crawled sideways towards the World Nest exploration passage marked by Green's team's mission.

Splash splash splash splash...

Less than three hourglasses of time had passed in this wide passage when a torrent of hundreds of thousands of snow worms rushed down. The Thousand-Eyed Crab quickly moved aside to make way for the torrent of snow worms.

After a good half hourglass period, the torrent of snow worms finally finished rushing forward, and the Thousand-Eyed Crab, carrying Green and his group, continued to fly upward.

Gradually, the space inside the passage seemed to become more spacious, reaching over three hundred meters in length, and in some areas where the passage was particularly severely eroded by snow worms, it even reached five hundred meters.

Its width is comparable to the first unnamed miniature nest space that Grimm and his group encountered after entering the World's Nest from the surface ice field.

After flying through the nest passage for more than a dozen hourglasses, Green and his group arrived at the first nest space.

This is a nest space that is three to four thousand meters long and wide. It is not large in area. There are traces of fierce battles between some Ming wizards. It is inhabited by a predatory species that resembles a giant dragonfly, and its average life strength has reached level one.

It's likely that this species had been completely wiped out by the previous Ming Wizard Legion; Green and his group only found some juvenile specimens.

The plants on the ground seemed extremely afraid of light; even the elemental light generated by Green and his group caused these plants, protected by the ice crystal layer, to hiss continuously.

After spending several hourglasses of time in this relatively small nest space and collecting some biological specimens, Green and his group discovered two entrances to the passage.

One is over two hundred meters in diameter, and the other is over one hundred meters in diameter.

Without hesitation, Green and his group naturally followed the route cleared by the previous mission of the Ming Wizard and chose the wider World Nest Tunnel.

A month and a half later.

And so, after nearly two months, Green and his group arrived at the Ice Mud Nest, the last World Nest passage cleared by the Ming Wizard Array Legion.

During their journey, the group passed through nine nest spaces of varying sizes, all of which showed clear signs of being cleared, and they did not encounter any danger.

The Ice and Mud Nest is much more vast, stretching as far as the eye can see, probably several hundred kilometers in length.

These are a group of relatively mild-mannered creatures, a branch of the Mud Monsters, who have adapted to the cold climate of their nest world by evolving a layer of ice armor.

Of course, these mud monsters' so-called gentleness only applies when other creatures do not provoke them.

That's why the previous Ming Wizard Legion didn't bother to clear out these ice mud monsters, saving them a lot of time and effort.

Although mud monsters generally rely on absorbing energy from nature to sustain their lives, they also occasionally hunt.

Their hunting method involves enveloping the entire creature, slowly assimilating its flesh and cells, and then expelling the unassimilated debris.

Green took out the crystal ball and examined it closely, then pointed in a direction and said, "This way."

The entire Ice Mud Nest is filled with long, kelp-like creatures. Since the Mud Monsters do not eat these plants, they multiply rapidly, filling the Ice Mud Nest with vibrant life.

These seaweed-like creatures, some of which floated for hundreds of meters, even growing from the ground of their nest space to the top of the stone wall, while most were only a dozen meters long, constantly drifting from side to side.

After a few hourglasses.

As they collected specimens, the group flew to the last entrance to the World Nest passage that the Wizard of Light had pointed out.

A chilling wind blew in from the entrance of the passage, ruffling the long, reddish-brown fur on the back of the Thousand-Eyed Crab and the loose wizard robes and flowing hair of the crowd.

Just as everyone was getting used to it and continuing to fly upwards, a series of rare roars from the ice mud monsters could be faintly heard in the distance, gradually becoming continuous. It seemed that something big had happened, causing all the ice mud monsters under the ribbon plants on the ground to resist.

"Um?"

Not only Green, but the other witch hunters also turned their heads to look into the distance, but all they saw was darkness and nothing was visible.

What happened?

Green wondered in astonishment.

On one hand, the dark wizard's cold rationality told Green not to cause unnecessary trouble, since whatever happened there was irrelevant to the mission.

On the other hand, it is driven by the wizard's thirst for knowledge. The thirst for knowledge is the most basic driving force for the wizard's progress. Only in this way can the wizard persevere in the tedious and boring experiments and research year after year, exploring the unknown and wonderful new knowledge in the darkness.

Gradually, the wizard's instinctive thirst for knowledge overcame the cold rationality of the dark wizard Grimm. Grimm glanced at the group and said, "Let's go investigate."

"Um!?"

Many of the demon hunters and dark wizards present voiced their doubts, and not a single one of them was willing to meddle.

Green was taken aback; was he the only one who wanted to go and investigate?

Normally, the captain should issue the order, and the other squad members should obey unconditionally. However, after some deliberation, Green said calmly, "Well... since none of you are willing to go and investigate, then just wait here."

After saying that, Green didn't say anything more and flew quickly into the distance.

"Huh? Young Master, we're really going..."

Watching Green's departing figure, everyone, being cold and rational as dark wizards, couldn't understand why Green had gone to such lengths.

This is the kind of stupid plot you find in horror biographies!

When something unknown happens in the dark, normal people would choose to avoid it. However, some foolish protagonists insist on investigating, which leads to a series of terrifying events that would not have happened otherwise.

I wonder how many people, after reading this kind of terrifying biographical novel, secretly cursed the protagonist's stupidity...

Everyone stood there with indifferent expressions, as if they would leave at any moment if things went wrong. Only Naraku, whose eyes were originally equally indifferent, suddenly showed a ripple as he watched Green's figure gradually disappear into the distance.

"Why was he the only one who chose to go and 'foolishly' investigate? Is that what makes him different, even superior to himself?"

In his heart, Naraku had completely acknowledged Green's strength.

"Wait a moment!"

Naraku suddenly shouted and flew over on his own, disappearing into the vast darkness with Grimm. The other demon hunters and dark wizards looked at each other and stood still, none of them moving.

Time slipped away little by little, and after about an hourglass's time.

buzzing...

The roar of the Ice Mud Monster grew closer and closer, accompanied by a dense buzzing sound. In the distance, Grimm and Naraku flew over at full speed, their faces pale and panting heavily.

"Run! A powerful group of creatures from a nearby lair has invaded!"

No sooner had Green finished speaking than the group of demon hunters and dark wizards, without any hesitation, flew at full speed towards the wide tunnel above them.

In Green's hand, a frozen ice bee, more than ten centimeters long, was lifelike, its eyes still turning inside the ice.

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(End of this chapter)