Wizard's Journey

Chapter 524 Nightmare Wizard

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Green's body had swelled to a height of 100 meters.

Conversely, most of the demon king's servants, who had been repeatedly defeated by the three-ring true spirit wizards, had fallen to below ten meters.

Finally, after his body swelled to such an extreme, Green felt the black and gray cloak outside his body. It was the Nightmare Shadow that an ancient fear demon king, who was parasitizing an alien and sealed away, had cast upon him in the ancient laboratory of the Black Tower Secret Realm.

Roaring and struggling.

The giant ape that Green had transformed into gradually began to develop dense cracks, from which dazzling light burst forth, as if something was about to be born from within.

The secret to how the power of fright transforms into the power of fear, and how the Demon King's servant ascends to become the new generation of the Dreadlord, lies in finding the source of fear of the creatures that parasitize the world—that is, the source of fear of humans in the wizarding world!

Generally speaking, this requires continuous accumulation and testing through creating nightmares time and time again.

Withered decay represents the irreversible passage of time; the fog of nightmares represents darkness and the unknown; the mud of nightmares represents filth and backwardness; the worms of nightmares represent dense distortion; spying and eavesdropping represent the theft of privacy; and lies and deception represent the fear of the truth.

As a human being, Green was acutely aware of the source of human fear!

Bang!

Suddenly, as the giant ape's outer garment tore away, the image of a 100-meter-tall, ugly, red, long-haired monkey, the rarest and most common creature in the nightmare world, appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the rules of the nightmare world seemed to change drastically, and from the churning mud, one after another, human skeletons materialized.

Centered on Green, these human skeletons spread in all directions of the nightmare world like nightmare worms, and will soon cover the entire nightmare world!

The source of human fear: loneliness after the death of a companion!

Whether they are wizards or ordinary humans, the smaller the population, the more they will feel this fear of loneliness.

When there are few wizards of the same rank, wizards who lose the ability to replenish each other's knowledge will lose the help to advance to higher wizard ranks. When there are too few ordinary humans, they will lose the social and cultural life of working independently and will be reduced to beasts constantly trying to survive by filling their stomachs.

In the nightmare world, the Nightmare Bone Fear Demon Lord has been born!

The fear demons who were rushing from the dark realm of the nightmare world, along with their servants who were holed up in their own nightmare domains, stopped in surprise as they watched the new rules of fear appear in the nightmare world, quietly sensing them.

"Tell me, did you feel the rule of adjudication?"

Faced with the solemn and expectant question from the third-ring True Spirit Wizard, Green's gaze, guided by his Nightmare Hunter talent, seemed to see something. A wicked smile appeared on his large mouth, which was hidden by long red hair, like a blood-red crescent moon in the night of a nightmare world, revealing his neat and white teeth.

Green exclaimed excitedly, "Yes, I felt it!"

Green saw it.

That is indeed the rule of judgment, the rule of judgment of the wizarding world, the rule of judgment that spans between the Dark Realm and the Wizarding Continent!

Humans possessing magic power and a mental strength not exceeding ten were the rebirth criteria for the Demon King's servants when the Nightmare World first parasitized the Wizarding World in ancient times.

However, with the weakening over the years, the standard for the Nightmare World has been lowered to having magic power and a mental strength of no more than five.

How is that possible?

For humans, having a mental strength of no more than five is already extremely rare, let alone leading him down the path of a wizard.

The very rules of judgment are a judgment upon the dark wizards of the Dark Realm!

The Dark Wizards of the Dark Realm possess countless human slaves as materials for collecting the power of despair; the slaves there spend every day in nightmares.

Correspondingly, the center where the Nightmare World's Fear Lords gather is precisely in the Dark Domain of the Nightmare World.

That place is a paradise for collecting the power of terror in the nightmare world, a place beyond the reach of the fairy tale rules of the tricolor elves. The fear lords monopolize the most important resource for nightmare creatures, which is the Dark Domain.

The rules of judgment span between the Wizarding Continent and the Dark Realm. At the cost of the people enslaved by the Dark Wizards of the Dark Realm having nightmares day and night and releasing a huge amount of terrifying power, the judges use themselves as a fulcrum to pry open the nightmare shadow of the Wizarding Continent. After the humans are caught in the nightmare world, they will have the talent of hunters and the ability to return to the Wizarding World.

This is the Nightmare Wizard!

Once you become a Dreadlord in the Nightmare World, you will be released from your status as a Nightmare Wizard apprentice and promoted to a full-fledged Nightmare Wizard.

Using his hunter abilities, and with the help of a third-ring True Spirit Wizard, it took Grimm over forty years to become the Dreadlord.

Based on this reasoning, even if nightmare wizardry develops further and acquires many basic and convenient rules, it is normal that the vast majority of nightmare wizard apprentices will never become formal wizards in their lifetime.

Nightmare Wizard Apprentices who aspire to become Dreadlords and advance to full wizard status must inevitably venture into the Dark Realm, the heart of the Nightmare World, to gather power of terror amidst fierce competition among fellow Nightmare Wizard Apprentices, thereby gaining insight into the inhuman cruelty of the Dark Realm's dark wizards.

Perhaps in the unknown future, the mission to eradicate the dark side of the wizarding world will fall on the shoulders of the Nightmare Wizard.

It's not that the Wizarding World and Wizarding Continent don't want to completely eliminate the Black Wizards of the Dark Domain, but rather that the Black Wizards, who wield the power of human despair, are simply too powerful for other human wizards.

If a war were to break out between the Wizarding World and the Dark Wizards, the cost to the Wizarding World would be equivalent to a war involving half a civilization, given the Dark Wizards' all-out resistance. Furthermore, there would be no subsequent benefits after the victory.

In order to avoid their own demise, dark wizards can only desperately collect and absorb the power of human despair in an attempt to protect themselves, and they become increasingly adept at suppressing other human wizards.

Thus, the Dark Domain has become an intractable cancer in the wizarding world, yet it has maintained relative peace by working together to save the wizarding world from destruction due to numerous external conflicts.

"Hmph hmph hmph hmph, hmph hmph hmph hahahahaha..."

The Three-Ring True Spirit Wizard laughed heartily, his laughter filled with unbridled joy.

"The first Nightmare Wizard in the Wizarding World has finally been born! Staff of Judgment, you have succeeded!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Suddenly, a flash appeared in the sky above the nightmare world, and five ugly, hairy monkeys appeared.

Green knew perfectly well that they came from the wizarding world and had come together with him, each representing one of the six stages in establishing the rules of the Nightmare Wizard's Judgment.

The fifth long-haired, ugly monkey was none other than Sonam!

The top three hairy, ugly monkeys were already Stigmata Wizards, and tens of thousands of years had passed since the establishment of the first three Nightmare Wizard Apprentice Rules.

There is a time difference of nearly a thousand years between Green and Solange.

The six individuals represent the following stages: the Free Return to the Wizarding World stage of Nightmare Wizarding Rules, the Nightmare Wizard Hunter Talent stage, the Nightmare Wizard Immortal Body stage, the Nightmare Wizard Nightmare Bloodline Wizarding stage, the Nightmare Wizard Apprentice stage, and the Formal Nightmare Wizard stage.

The six people exchanged glances and almost instantly understood each other's intentions.

It is time to condense and elevate the Sacred Mark Wizard, who has dedicated the True Spirit to the Staff of Judgment, into a True Spirit Wizard!

From this day forward, following the mechanical wizards, dark wizards, elemental wizards, and body-refining wizards, the nightmare wizard was born in the wizarding world.

This wizard, who has dedicated tens of thousands of years to the True Spirit in the Nightmare World and is considered by the Black Sota Stigmata Wizards to be able to rival the King of the Infernal Furnace, is finally about to be promoted to a new True Spirit Wizard.

Moreover, he was an extraordinary, groundbreaking true spirit wizard!

(End of this chapter)