Wizard's Journey

Chapter 502 The Shadow of Nightmare

Green did not attack immediately.

The reason was that these feet were completely white, seemingly just the feet of an ordinary human baby in the wizarding world, kicking and struggling in the narrow crack of the world.

It seemed that Green's voice was not heard at all, and the woman's weeping from the crack in the world grew more and more sorrowful.

After thinking for a moment, Green realized something. He put the Awakening Lamp into the dimensional gap and then hid the original will of the Wizarding World. His body gradually changed from solid to a distorted and illusory image, exuding a strong nightmare aura, and looked at those feet again.

Where are the feet now?

It was just a wisp of eerie gray mist floating around, trying to penetrate into the wizarding world.

At this moment, the crack in this world on the wooden bed was larger than the crack in the world in an ordinary commoner's home. Clearly, the owner of this three-story stone castle in the wizarding world was not an ordinary commoner, but a wizarding apprentice!

At the very least, he is a wizarding apprentice with potential wizarding aptitude.

"Hmph, finally found a Nightmare Shadow."

In order to distinguish the nightmare creatures of the Nightmare World from those that wizards of the Wizarding World have been talking about and have invaded the Wizarding World, Green named them Terror Creatures.

These ordinary nightmare creatures that usually parasitize others were named Nightmare Shadows by Green.

Currently, all Green knows about Nightmare's Shadow's immortality is its ability; he knows nothing else.

To venture into the Nightmare World, or even find the Saintly Wizard of the Staff of Judgment hidden within it and leave the Nightmare World, one must first understand the dominant species of this world, the Nightmare Shadows.

"gravitational!"

With Green now transformed into a nightmare creature and becoming one of the nightmare beings, he can now launch real attacks against these creatures, instead of the previous penetrating attacks.

"Yay yay..."

A piercing scream rang out.

In Green's eyes, the gray mist gradually transformed into an ugly monkey with long red fur, which he dragged out bit by bit from the crack in the world.

The deformed face was mostly covered by long red hair, and a few strands of a woman's hair were stuck in its long, scarlet tongue. After swallowing it greedily, it looked angrily at Green.

"So weak."

Green's intuition told him that, aside from its unique life form, this Nightmare Shadow was, to a wizard, practically just a knight.

A hand swiftly grasped the Nightmare Shadow by the neck. Just as Green was about to control it and examine it properly, the Nightmare Shadow suddenly "poof"ed and turned into a cloud of black smoke.

"Um?"

Green sensed that the nightmare shadow was trying to burrow into his body.

The shadow of nightmares burrowed into Green's body through his mouth, nose, ears, and every orifice, but the twisted wizard's shroud held it back.

"How is that possible!"

Grimm was shocked. The Nightmare Shadow, which was so weak, could cause such distortion to the Wizard's Barrier. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Grimm would have been unable to believe it.

If it were to crawl into his body, Green didn't know what would happen, but he figured it would be something like influencing and controlling Green through some means.

Could it be that this is Nightmare's innate ability, and that this is the only ability that has evolved to its peak?

The reason why the Stigmata Wizard said that the Stigmata Wizard could be invincible in the Nightmare World was that, apart from the fact that the Stigmata Wizard had mastered the method to leave the Nightmare World, the creatures in the Nightmare World could not pose a threat to any Stigmata Wizard.

Crunch!

The wizard's shield, twisting almost to its limit, emitted a piercing noise as Grimm shouted, "Repulsion!"

With a scream, the ugly monkey was thrown back. Then, a ball of flame erupted from the Grimm Horned Skull Magic Wand and hurled it at the Nightmare Shadow that had failed to invade Grimm's body.

boom!

A large area of ​​flames spread out, and the ugly monkey once again turned into a sky full of black smoke. However, this time it did not attack Green, but instead flew slowly towards the clock that kept ticking, as if it was not exhausted.

Beneath the surface of truth, Grimm's eyes narrowed as he looked at the ground where his magic wand had struck.

The high-density shockwave combined with the power of the flames did not cause any damage to the ground or any items in the room?

After pondering for a moment, Green acted swiftly and decisively, attempting to smash the hanging clock with his Ram Horned Skull Magic Wand.

boom!

The high-density shockwave caused flames to scatter, but the hanging clock remained undamaged.

Tick, tick, tick...

The clock's pendulum swung ceaselessly, and the hands had resumed their normal rotation, no longer running backwards. After observing for a while, Green bent down and picked up a few strands of long black hair from the ground.

This is indeed the long hair of a woman in the wizarding world.

"It seems that the Nightmare World is not without influence on the Wizarding World."

Green held the few strands of the woman's black hair and muttered to himself.

After glancing at the clock, which had returned to normal, Green stared at it intently for a while, but found nothing else unusual.

Green still cannot determine the true source of the Nightmare Shadow.

After a while.

In this dilapidated room, Green imagined what the wizarding world would be like in its original form—a woman's room with a unique charm. Green simply sat down on the wooden floor of the room, took out his experimental notes and books on ice crystallization knowledge again, and fell into deep thought.

We can only wait until the next nightmare world's darkness to see what happens in this room.

As the black, round sun gradually rises, a new day dawns in the dream world.

The cracks in the world on the wooden bed in the room began to gradually heal, seemingly indicating that the sleeping wizard apprentice was slowly waking up.

"Ugh... I'm so sleepy. It's that nightmare again. Anya, did I do something wrong?"

The sound of a woman yawning came from the crack in the healing world, followed immediately by the cheerful voice of another girl beside her.

"What do you mean, right or wrong? We're wizards, you know. Hehe, having nightmares all the time is the enemy of our beauty. Sister, you'd better watch out, look at all the hair you're losing."

Only during this brief period can Green hear the true and beautiful sounds of the wizarding world and imagine everything that happens there.

As the rift in the world heals and the "daytime" of the nightmare world arrives, the world gradually becomes illusory and distorted, replacing decay, misfortune, and oppression. The ticking of the clock in the room gradually disappears, leaving only silence.

In the utter silence, Green focused intently on the preparations he needed for his first attempt to advance to the level two wizard.

Seven hourglasses have passed.

Night falls once more in the nightmare world. As the nightmare fog once again envelops the world, the entire world returns from its distorted illusion to a dilapidated reality, with the distant horizon shrouded in thick fog.

Green was still focused on studying the professional knowledge described in the magic books and making deductions based on his own situation.

About another hourglass time later.

It was probably late at night in the wizarding world. As cracks gradually formed in the world above the wooden bed in the room, the ticking of the clock became clearer.

Green slowly closed his experimental notes and the book on ice crystallization, stood up, and stared intently at the clock hanging on the wall, his eyes fixed on the truth.

Gradually, in Green's eyes, the constantly swinging pendulum seemed to grow heavier and longer. After stretching significantly, a stream of black liquid flowed down the clock face.

And the hands of the clock began to turn backward.

"Yay!"

With a "poof," the black liquid turned into a cloud of black smoke and rushed towards Grimm. The wizard's shield also emitted a grating, screeching sound.

"Repulsive force!"

After Green blasted the Nightmare Shadow away again, the Nightmare Shadow transformed into the image of an ugly red-haired monkey.

This time, Green did not choose to kill the Nightmare Shadow immediately. Instead, he took out the Awakening Lamp and summoned the original will of the Wizarding World to solidify his body.

At that moment, the ugly, nightmarish shadow in Green's eyes changed.

A hideous baby appeared in Green's field of vision.

The baby had long black hair on its head, like the hair that Grimm had collected yesterday, or perhaps the long hair of that woman from the wizarding world.

The doll's hair suddenly curled towards Grimm as if in an attack, and Grimm swung his magic wand down.

With a "poof," the Nightmare Shadow once again escaped into the clock hanging on the wall.

Green's doubts deepened. What exactly was the Nightmare Shadow? Was it really just a life form that appeared out of nowhere in the Nightmare World?

(End of this chapter)