Wizard's Journey

Chapter 344 The Nest of the World (Part 20)

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...

Seeing that Green and Naraku looked pale and were panting heavily, everyone knew that something extremely bad had happened. Without the slightest hesitation, they all flew into the passage above them in a flash.

"Oh my god, you scared Eighth Master to death, waaaaah..."

The myna bird perched on Green's shoulder, squawking and wiping away tears with its wings. Surprisingly, it didn't fly into the dimensional gap, seemingly afraid of being mocked by the parrot Ye Ye.

With a whoosh.

Grimm and Naraku stood on the reddish-brown fur on the back of the Thousand-Eyed Crab. Beneath the Mask of Truth, Grimm roared, "Run!"

"Understood, Lord Green."

The Thousand-Eyed Crab mustered its strength and, with its eight claws constantly sliding, rushed into the tunnel.

Turning back, Grimm and Naraku looked with lingering fear at the boundless darkness of the Ice Mud Nest, where countless blue lights formed a cloud that was flying in from all directions.

As the Thousand-Eyed Giant Crab moved further and further away from the Ice Mud Nest in the tunnel entrance, Green breathed a sigh of relief, but said with lingering fear, "A number of that size would probably cause heavy casualties even for a typical 10,000-headed Soul Slave Bright Wizard Legion, let alone our mere ten Dark Wizards."

"Um."

Naraku nodded and responded. Inside her black chains, a roughly 20-centimeter-long ice bee was also buzzing and struggling.

Soon, the Thousand-Eyed Crab caught up with the eight Dark Wizard team members who had escaped earlier. The group regrouped and continued flying towards the nest space above.

Green showed no resentment or emotion at his teammates abandoning him and running away first.

Because that's the rule among dark wizards.

The ice bee swarm did not pursue them. After more than thirty hourglasses, Green and his group passed through the tunnel and arrived at the first space that had never been explored by the witch hunters.

The ground was teeming with snow worms. Although their numbers were far fewer than those of the Snowline Nest, they were still far more numerous than any nest space that Green and his group had ever seen.

Floating in the sky were objects resembling jellyfish from the Wizarding World, ranging from a few centimeters to several meters in size, emitting a rare soft glow, their numerous tentacles swaying gently as they floated up.

No, they should be called "Ice Mothers"; that would be more appropriate.

As the team leader, Green had to collect ecological information about the nest space. So he took the crystal ball and began to record the ecosystem of this nest space. After a simple understanding, he named some nest spaces that he thought were valuable.

Clearly, the most distinctive feature of this nest space is these ice mothers.

Within the nest space, creatures emitting light generally resemble the roars of surface creatures, serving as a warning or the lure of a rattlesnake.

Clearly, these ice mothers were not lured by the rattlesnakes...

Seemingly sensing that these ice mothers were harmless, Xiao Ba laughed loudly, "Hehe, young master, we can change up our dinner tonight."

flapping its wings, the myna flew toward a small ice mother that was about twenty centimeters long nearby.

The Ice Mother seemed to sense the approach of the myna bird, an anomaly, and frantically slid her tentacles, trying to escape, but her speed was no match for the myna bird's. The myna bird began to circle around the Ice Mother.

Other witch hunters also approached these ice mothers, hoping to collect some specimens to take back for research.

Seemingly realizing it couldn't escape the myna, the ice mother quickly shrank into a ball, becoming a floating, semi-transparent ice sphere, which made the myna even more curious.

"Hehe, young master, it seems we can eat it like a rice ball!"

As he spoke, the myna bird dragged the curled-up ice mother over to Green as if it wanted to present her as a treasure.

"Oh my god!"

However, the moment the myna bird touched the ice mother, it seemed to sense something, let out a startled cry, and vanished into the dimensional gap.

The next moment, there was a loud "boom" and a large number of ice spikes shot out in all directions.

This ice mother actually self-destructed!

At the same time, the Ice Mothers, who were emitting a soft glow within a radius of several hundred meters, all huddled together, causing the expressions of the many demon hunters present to change.

Green reacted quickly, shouting, "Don't go near these ice mothers!"

The demon hunters who had originally planned to collect specimens also flew back in surprise. Although the explosion of the Ice Mother caused by the myna bird was not very powerful, it was only the smallest Ice Mother.

In the sky, there are many giant ice mothers, each several meters tall.

After a good half hourglass period, the ice mothers finally returned to their normal shape from their shrunken spheres. Grimm breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes flashing with elemental light beneath the Mask of Truth, and said in a deep voice, "Thousand-Eyed Crab, slowly fly up and find the tunnel entrance. Don't disturb these... um, these explosive ice mothers."

Green named these ice mothers with self-destruct capabilities "Explosive Ice Mothers".

"Understood, Lord Green."

The Thousand-Eyed Crab flew upwards at the speed at which the Ice Mothers glided away. The Ice Mothers dispersed on their own and posed no threat, which relieved the slightly tense crowd.

The space above Green's shoulder distorted, and a myna bird appeared.

"Waaaaah, young master, these guys can actually self-destruct! Let's not eat them!"

Parrot Ye Ye scoffed disdainfully, "Hmph, it's all because you provoked them. How could these Exploding Ice Mothers possibly self-destruct? All you do is cause trouble and add to the chaos for Grimm the Demon Hunter Wizard."

Green didn't say much, but directed the Thousand-Eyed Crab through the dense ice mothers, constantly searching for possible passages on the stone walls at the top of the sky.

However, because these ice mothers escape so slowly, the efficiency is not high.

Five hourglasses later.

Standing before the entrance to a tunnel about sixty meters long, Green silently shook his head and said calmly, "Keep searching."

Seven days later.

After abandoning two relatively narrow passages, Green and his team finally found a super-large passage with a diameter of over two hundred meters.

"Look over there!"

Following the direction pointed by the myna's wings, after passing through thousands of large and small exploding ice mothers emitting a soft glow, a super-large exploding ice mother with a top disc diameter of nearly thirty meters appeared.

Everyone gasped!

If this big guy self-destructs...

After thinking for a moment, Green said in a deep voice, "You guys wait here for a moment, I'll go and try to collect a specimen to name the nest space."

After saying that, a layer of ice crystals gradually appeared on Green's body. He then flashed quickly and froze a small, twenty-centimeter-long explosive ice mother into a large block of ice before it could shrink into a ball and explode.

With a soft sigh, Green said calmly to the crystal ball, "The Nest of the Ice Mother."

Then, Green and the others boarded the Thousand-Eyed Giant Crab and continued towards the entrance of the next nest...

Two months later.

"Young master, are they mating? How disgusting!"

Standing on Green's shoulder, the myna bird looked down with the others on the Thousand-Eyed Crab. On the ground of this nest space, hundreds of ice pythons, each over ten meters long, were intertwined and rolled together like a giant ice ball.

Green said calmly, "This is just a part of the rules governing the evolution of species in this world's ecosystem, a manifestation of the profound truths of the endless world."

These ice pythons are extremely strong, with incredibly hard scales, and are highly aggressive.

However, due to their long-term residence in the nest space, the ice python does not have the ability to fly, but has evolved perfect climbing ability.

However, it seemed to be the mating season for these ice pythons, and Green and his group perfectly avoided any potential attacks from them.

Using the light of the elements, Green looked into the distance. At this moment, there were several more giant ice python balls like this, intertwined within the entire nest space, within the field of vision of the elemental light.

Green said in a deep voice to the crystal ball, "The Nest of the Ice-Scaled Python."

The group, along with the Thousand-Eyed Crab, continued flying upwards through a tunnel a hundred meters wide...

Six months later.

Within a small space, the area is not large, and the ecosystem is extremely simple.

Green simply kept making simple notes with the crystal ball, without even naming them.

The nest spaces they've encountered over the past few months seem to be getting weaker and weaker. With the Thousand-Eyed Crab by their side, Green and his group are essentially the top-level creatures in these nest spaces. Nothing in the nest spaces can pose any threat to them, so the mission is progressing relatively quickly.

Moreover, unlike the surface ice sheet which searches downwards for a passage to the core of the World Nest.

Wherever the remains of those locust-men were left in the core passage of the World Nest, there would inevitably be a most secure route. All the witch hunters needed to do was find the largest tunnel entrance in each nest space.

However, at this moment, the only entrance to this unnamed nest space caused the expressions of the many demon hunter wizards present to change slightly.

Less than sixty meters?

(End of this chapter)