Wizard's Journey

Chapter 500 Just a Nightmare

Huff, huff, huff...

After running wildly for a while in this oppressive environment filled with mystery, ominousness, and fear, Green stopped at the port behind the Blacksor Tower Wizarding Academy, panting heavily.

"That guy actually wants to use my body to achieve some kind of rebirth!"

Green gritted his teeth and muttered hatefully.

The Nightmare World is just a fictional world, not the real material world that exists in the Endless World.

In this illusory world, a group of terrifying nightmare creatures were born. They used nightmares to parasitize, influence, and control real creatures in the endless world, forming a symbiotic relationship, thus allowing the illusion to influence reality.

They cannot be killed unless someone can destroy the Nightmare World!

The terrifying creatures in the nightmare world have a history even longer than that of wizards.

Before the ancient mechanical wizards were born and began to fight against the ancient sea creatures of the wizarding world, the nightmare creatures had already gone through a long history of biological evolution, parasitizing one world's biological groups to another more powerful biological group. No biological group in any world has ever been able to resist the erosion and parasitism of this terrifying world.

Gradually, as the creatures parasitized and controlled by the Nightmare World grew stronger, an alien world possessing the ability to curse, sense the power of nature, and forcibly evolve by devouring the bodies of stronger beings was parasitized by the Nightmare World, becoming an incomparably powerful alien Nightmare civilization.

Finally, after conquering world after world, this powerful civilization discovered the ancient wizarding world that was gradually beginning to control the surrounding world.

A massive ancient war naturally broke out between the two worlds.

Ancient mechanical wizards, ancient dark wizards, and ancient sea creatures joined forces and, relying on their wisdom, successfully found the weakness of the aliens' forced evolution, thus defeating the alien nightmare civilization.

The wizarding world seems to have reached a historical turning point with this.

According to the official history of the wizarding world, ancient mechanical wizards developed elemental wizards based on the characteristics of alien creature groups, initiating a completely new mode of biological evolution. This gradually transformed the wizarding world into a vast and prosperous civilization spanning countless worlds, creating the glorious legends of the ancient wizards.

However, the hidden history of the wizarding world is that the wizarding civilization only defeated the alien shell of the nightmare world. From then on, the wizarding world was parasitized by the nightmare world, becoming its new target and host. The two worlds became an inseparable whole.

Just when the terrifying creatures thought a new era was about to begin... the wizarding nightmare civilization was about to arrive, it was actually the beginning of a dark history.

Ordinary humans are far too weak to allow terrifying life forms to cross the world rift, while the evolutionary method of wizards gradually increasing their spiritual power and knowledge is the natural nemesis of the terrifying life forms in the nightmare world!

From that moment on, the Nightmare World seemed to disappear from the Endless World, leaving only legends about it in some smaller worlds...

It seems that the ancient wizards not only defeated the alien world, but also inadvertently sealed away all the creatures born from the bizarre and terrifying illusory world of the endless world.

Defeating the Wizarding World would be the release of the Nightmare World's seal, almost equivalent to the Wizarding World's suicidal revenge.

In other words, during the Second Civilization War in the Wizarding World, the Wizarding World was just one step away from destruction, and the Abyss World would be transformed into the Abyss Nightmare World from then on!

All of history was changed because of that supreme true spirit wizard who wielded the lever of destiny.

At this moment, the Nightmare World, along with the Wizarding World, has begun to gradually move towards destruction. Every terrifying life in this illusory world is constantly weakening and truly dying...

"The Saintly Wizard of the Staff of Judgment!? The Nightmare World is so vast, where can I find that Saintly Wizard of the Staff of Judgment!?"

Green gritted his teeth and muttered to himself.

Before Grimm was trapped in the Nightmare World, he was briefly pulled into the mental space of the Ruined Tower by the Black Tower Stigmata Wizard. When giving him the Wizard's Book, the Wizard mentioned that Grimm's only hope of leaving the Nightmare World was the Stigmata Wizard of the Judgment Staff.

The Nightmare World is an invincible and wondrous world for Stigmata Wizards, but for low-level wizards, it is a terrifying and illusory world that is completely equivalent to a time-space seal!

Green took out the Wizard's Book.

The moment Grimm opened the Wizard's Book, he saw the writing on it crumbling away, turning into wisps of black smoke, much like the dilapidated mental space of the Tower of Destruction that Grimm had seen collapsing before.

Each line of writing tells of the experiences of the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard's Path, revealing a yearning to restore the glory of ancient wizards and save the wizarding world from its ever-decreasing fate.

Meanwhile, the writing was gradually disappearing.

There was no time to read the exact words; Green could only sense the will emanating from them and quickly looked at the cover of the Wizard's Book.

The Book of Blacksota is now reduced to the last "Black" character in the final ancient wizarding script, which is slowly dissipating.

"Hessata said before that this would be my Book of Grimm. However, the name of this wizarding book is the Book of Hessata, which is the wizarding book that Hessata named after himself after he advanced to the rank of Stigmata Wizard. What it exudes is his will as a Stigmata Wizard, not the will of his entire wizarding career."

The will and perception of people at different levels of life are different.

If this wizarding book becomes Grimm's Book, then it represents the wizarding book of Grimm's formal wizarding career, rather than the Stigmata Wizarding Book named after the Wizarding Tower after he advanced to the Stigmata Wizarding rank.

The difference is quite significant.

After a moment of random thoughts, Green watched as the will of Black Sotha in the Wizarding Book gradually dissipated, and each page was returning to its pristine white state. With a sigh, he put the book away again.

What happened to the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard?

These sudden changes were a disaster for Green.

With a "whoosh," a fireball suddenly appeared at the tip of Grimm's magic wand, burning fiercely and radiating light and heat.

After a slight fluctuation of magical energy, the fireball transformed into a firebird, a fire bat, and a fire bee.

Green quietly sensed his own magic and the rules of the world, both so clear and real, as if this were truly an endless real world, yet it was indeed just an illusory nightmare world.

"We can't give up!"

Grimm clenched his teeth, his eyes beneath the mask of truth revealing an unwavering pursuit of the path to becoming a higher wizard.

From the moment I chose to become a wizard, all the intertwined emotions, twists of fate, and experiences in my life have become part of the scenery along my wizarding path.

It is precisely because life's journey is filled with so many beautiful moments that are fleeting, and so many unknown and cruel fates that humanity's ancestors chose the path of wizards as their mode of evolution.

Wizards represent an ideal of humanity's ancestors: the ideal of "gods".

The "god" who sees through all the rules of the endless world, changes all the rules, and leaves behind the rules that conform to the good will—this is the almost omnipotent "god" described in the biographical novels and hymns of all life forms in the endless world.

"Even if I never find that Saint Mark Wizard of the Staff of Judgment, even if I'm eternally trapped in this illusory world, even if I face the eternal search of those terrifying beings, I will continue on the path of the wizard! Since advancing to the Saint Mark grants me freedom to roam the nightmare world, then I will advance to the Saint Mark right here!"

Greene encouraged himself to never give up, spouting some irrational, wizarding hysteriac rhetoric.

Compared to the otherworldly realms, where powerful rulers forge their supreme thrones from countless bones beneath their feet, the wizard towers of the Saintly Mark Wizards are filled with nothing but low-level wizards who accumulate knowledge and endure endless tedium and loneliness.

The more tedium and loneliness a wizard endures, the higher they can reside in the wizard tower, until they reach the very top floor after achieving the Holy Mark.

Squeak!

Green suddenly opened the wooden door to a room in the harbor, the creaking sound of the door against the floor so clear in this silent world.

There was no human presence in the room; all the objects exuded a suffocating, ominous aura and emitted dark red tobacco smoke.

Green's thinking shifted, and his imagination filled in the gaps in the wizarding world, suggesting that this was just an ordinary knight's family.

Those who can live in the port behind Blacksor Tower are all humans who have intricate connections with the Blacksor Tower Wizarding Academy.

Green's gaze naturally fell on the bed in the room, and under the mask of truth, he suddenly gasped for breath, his eyes filled with unbelievable surprise!

A vortex of distorted world rifts lies right above the wooden bed in the room!

"This really is... a rift in the world!?"

Every bed in the wizarding world is an entrance to the nightmare world—this is something all wizards familiar with the nightmare world know!

Green just wanted to try and see if the reverse was also true...

Overwhelmed by endless surprise, Green recklessly burrowed into the crack in the world. Although the crack was pitifully small, Green didn't care at all and, after unleashing his wild instincts, he went crazy and burrowed into it.

"It really is the Wizarding World! It really is the Wizarding World!"

Green could even feel the moisture in his eyes.

Everything seen through the narrow crack was so familiar; it was the wizarding world, a world where cruelty and peace coexisted under the rules of the Holy Tower.

However, the crack was too small, and Green was unable to squeeze through it successfully.

With a "poof," Green was forced out of the gradually healing rift in the world. In that instant, Green seemed to hear the "wailing" of a little girl.

Immediately afterwards, a comforting voice of a mature woman came from the last part of the healed crack.

"Don't be afraid, it was just a nightmare. Don't cry..."

As the rift in the world healed, in the silence of the nightmare world room, Green stood there, trembling.

Am I already a terrifying being in a nightmare world?!

If you want to find a larger rift to the wizarding world, you can only search among wizards, but the mental power of wizards...

In the suffocating despair, Grimm's hand, gripping the ram's horn and skull magic staff, his knuckles and veins bulging, silently closed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)