Wizard's Journey

Chapter 451 The Mystery of Mirage Desire (Part 5)

The seashells in these illusory worlds are mostly blackish-gray, with a few scattered ones resembling a seven-colored rainbow. Their shapes and sizes range from seven or eight meters to tens of meters.

Naturally, the enclosed space where Green was at this moment was also inside such a seashell.

crunch...

After Green pried open the shell, feeling the sticky fleshy layer beneath him, Green scrambled out of the shell and arrived in this strange and mysterious illusory world.

"We still can't get in touch with Xiaoba."

Green first tried to use his talent for connecting with Xiao Ba's coordinates and time to see if he had left the virtual world. Then, after thinking about it, he tried to sense the relative spatial boundary to enter the virtual world, but it still didn't work.

squeak...

The colorful seashell that Green crawled out of closed again, and floated along with one after another densely packed mysterious seashell.

Are these the Devouring Shells?

Looking up, the gray sky was a huge vortex, with countless tubes at its center leading to countless unknown worlds.

To Green's surprise, this fictional world actually had land.

"Waaah..."

After a howl like that of a demon, some creatures spewed out from the dense network of pipes at the center of the vortex. The next moment, they were caught by the surrounding clams that seemed to have their mouths wide open. After swallowing the creatures, the clams closed with a "squeak" and became one of the countless clams in the sky, and slowly descended.

Green seemed to understand how he had come to this strange and illusory world.

Are these Devouring Shells creatures from some kind of fictional world?

A virtual world.

Some wizards describe it as a wondrous world in the endless world, somewhere between the material world and the illusory world, because if it were a complete illusory world, it would mean that any corner of the endless world could lead to this illusory world.

In some respects, the virtual world is also an infinitely large conceptual system, which is why the power of the spacetime sealing technique has no upper limit and is terrifyingly strong.

Other wizards describe the illusory world as an absolute barrier between the endless world and higher dimensions, which seems to be the only way to explain the bizarre and strange rules of the illusory world.

As a first-level wizard, Green naturally couldn't possibly study these profound and mysterious wizarding knowledge.

Even as a means of communicating between dimensions, the minimum requirement for a Saint Mark Wizard to begin researching the relevant knowledge through Little Eight is that the Saint Mark Wizard must possess sufficient memory and magic power.

Green's only hope now is that this world won't be a highly enclosed, illusory world like a dimensional rift, otherwise Green would probably have no chance to escape this illusory world.

Even Xiao Ba, who was a partner of powerful True Spirit Wizards like Antonio, was trapped in the dimensional gap for countless years before returning to reality through Grimm. Grimm could not have lived that long.

"hateful……"

Green was somewhat angry.

He had only explored a small part of the sea in the Flame Soul World, and at most thought it was just a world rule disaster targeting level three creatures. He never expected to be unexpectedly drawn into such a virtual world.

Although the rules of the virtual world are different from the balance rules of the endless world, each virtual world must have its own unique rules.

For example, dimensional gaps.

The dimensional gap is an imaginary world of endless world creatures, biographies, and stories. It is a gathering place for powerful creatures that transcend the descriptions in the books themselves. In such a world, all kinds of incomprehensible and bizarre events can happen. It is a truly terrifying and illusory world.

After all, it represents the imagination of intelligent beings in the endless world.

So, since this illusory world is still connected to the endless world that sucked Green in, it shouldn't be an illusory world of the same intensity as a dimensional gap. It's more likely to be a strange world similar to a nightmare world.

As for the rules of this world...

According to Green's current discovery, this world merely allows the creatures trapped within it to immerse themselves in a wonderful fantasy world they have created, providing these Devouring Shells with some form of survival support.

In other words, is this world constructed from these bizarre, devouring shells?

But now that he has awakened from the Devouring Shell, why is he still trapped in the illusory world and unable to connect with Xiao Ba in the real world in terms of time and space coordinates?

Green's foot landed on a hard, solid ground.

On the ground, there were also some Devouring Shells. Some floated for only a few meters, some landed on the ground, and some were even half-buried underground. As for whether there were Devouring Shells underground, Green could not sense it.

There is no vegetation on the ground, and the ground is not composed of soil and sand, but a hard, fleshy layer.

Because this is a virtual world, the rules of time, gravity, and elemental energy are completely unrelated to the real world.

After thinking for a moment, Green walked over to a dark gray Devouring Shell. This Devouring Shell was only two meters long, much smaller than the five-meter Devouring Shell that Green had emerged from.

Grimm grabbed both sides of the Devouring Shell, reached his hands into the gap, and with a forceful pull, pried the Devouring Shell open.

Since this Devouring Shell is much smaller than the Devouring Shell that sealed Green, it is much easier to open.

Gradually, a humanoid creature with green skin, a big belly, a small head, and only half a meter tall appeared in Green's field of vision. This humanoid creature had long nails and pads on its toes, which represented its superior grip and jumping ability, and it was good at running.

At this moment, the small creature was lying on the fleshy shell of the Devouring Shell, its fleshy tentacles reaching into the humanoid creature's skin.

In the beautiful dream it created, the little creature slept peacefully, its face filled with blissful ecstasy.

This feeling...

It's like a pearl that has become part of a devouring shell?

As Green pondered, he slowly closed the Devouring Shell. He then decided to look for an extremely rare seven-colored Devouring Shell nearby. Based on Green's time perception in the virtual world, he searched for a full hourglass before finally spotting a Devouring Shell that was over ten meters long.

With almost all his strength, Green managed to pry open a small gap in the Devouring Shell with a "creak".

However, Green's actions seemed to have awakened the creature inside.

Crunch!

Grimm didn't exert any more force, and the Devouring Shell slowly opened on its own. Under the gaze of Grimm's dual-colored eyes beneath the Mask of Truth, an intelligent creature with an incredibly large and beautiful body, smooth and moist skin, resembling a large frog, looked at him.

It has a body over three meters long and a pair of apricot-yellow eyes with eagle-like pupils.

"Hello there."

Green communicated proactively using telepathy and was prepared to defend and escape at any time.

Because Green sensed that the aura of this intelligent being was unexpectedly powerful, likely reaching the level of a third-level being!

"wizard?"

When Green heard the giant frog asking him about his identity in wizarding language, his heart skipped a beat!

On the one hand, it's because of the huge contrast in the plot, and on the other hand, it's because of concerns.

As a powerful civilization constantly on demon-hunting expeditions, the wizarding world has inadvertently conquered far too many worlds. The hatred of some intelligent beings whose homes have been destroyed for wizards is probably deep enough to penetrate to the bone and be imprinted on their souls.

Green nodded cautiously and said, "That's right."

Surprisingly, the giant frog's reaction was rather calm, even shifting from a hint of annoyance to tranquility. It murmured, "Another wizard has fallen into the illusion of desire. Cluck cluck, I am Liu Yong from the Liu Yong world, a level four world within the Wizard Alliance."

Green secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that it is a world within the Wizarding Alliance. As a fourth-level world, although it is nominally led by the will of the Wizarding World, it has considerable autonomy and can be considered a ruler within the Wizarding Alliance. It enjoys the benefits of the alliance along with those fifth-level worlds that possess endless dominion.

In that case, there's no fundamental conflict between their backgrounds.

Moreover, Green naturally noticed some deeper information in this chrysalis's words.

A mirage of desire? Yet another wizard?

The explanation for "蜃" is illusion, and the explanation for "欲" is desire.

Green asked impatiently, "This illusory world is called the Mirage of Desire? And besides me, there are many other wizards trapped in this illusory world?"

The pupa crawled out of the seven-colored devouring shell, squatting on the ground like a large frog. With a "squeak," the seven-colored devouring shell closed and slowly rose into the dim sky, drifting towards the vortex in the high sky.

The pupa glanced at the vortex in the sky and said calmly, "There's still quite some time before the Eye of Destruction descends. I'll take you to the wizards' gathering place; I wonder how many wizards there are now. As for whether you choose to remain a wizard or become a new Mirage, the choice is yours."

Suddenly, he found himself in a strange, illusory world, and Green had so much information to learn.

"What is the Eye of Destruction, and what will happen if it descends?"

As they flew, Green asked Liu Yong a question with a puzzled expression.

One of the pupa's front paws pointed to the huge vortex in the sky. Green noticed that its pale green fingers were webbed, which indicated that the pupa's world must be an amphibious world.

"When this mirage stops spinning, the Eye of Destruction will descend, and all creatures exposed to it, except for the towering cliffs and the creatures trapped in the mirage's dream, will die."

Green gasped and repeated, "All living things?"

"All of them!"

Liu Yong said with absolute certainty.

Green then asked, "So, what do you mean by saying that whether or not I become a new Mirage is my choice?"

"See those colorful mirage shells? The creatures inside them actually know they are living in an illusory world, but they are unwilling to wake up and have given up on returning to the real world. After all, for most intelligent beings, the world constructed within the mirage shells is intoxicating."

Green nodded silently; that was indeed the case.

Then, Green asked, "And what is that colossal mountain of blue cliffs?"

The pupa flew in mid-air, but made movements that resembled a frog swimming in water.

"That is the center of the Mirage of Desire, the place we are going to, the gathering place of all creatures in this world who do not wish to become part of the Mirage of Desire, and the only hope to leave the Mirage of Desire." (A fantastic event with freebies! Win a cool phone! Follow the Qidian/Chinese website WeChat official account (add friends on WeChat - add official account - enter qdread) to participate now! Everyone wins a prize, follow the qdread WeChat official account now!)

(End of this chapter)