Wizard's Journey

Chapter 526 The Rules of Immortality

"What! The Black Sota Saint-Stigma Wizard... has fallen!"

Having just been casually sent back to the Seventh Ring Tower of the Wizarding World by the One Circle True Spirit Wizard, and before he even had time to adapt to the various new abilities brought by the Nightmare Wizard, Grimm was stunned by the news brought by Soram, and could hardly believe it.

In a world of Flame Souls that was almost completely overrun, the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard actually perished?

How could that Primordial Flame God possess such immense power? It's simply impossible!

Looking at Green's face, which appeared somewhat aged beneath his eyes, and the wisdom in his eyes seemingly amplified by his previous failed advancement, Soram felt a slight unease.

Soram said in a deep voice, "At first, Vicky, Kredia, Millie, and the other wizards who entered the Kingdom of the Locust God with me were also incredulous. It wasn't just the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard; the Dark Realm Saint Mark Wizard also perished in the Flame Soul World. For this reason, a Seventh-Ring True Spirit Wizard forcibly descended upon the Flame Soul World!"

No wonder...

Everything makes sense now that the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard has fallen!

No wonder I was trapped in a nightmare world; it turns out that the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard cut off the source of magic to continue sealing those nightmare shadows.

No wonder the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard summoned me there and was discussing the "Book of Grimm" with me, which I later renamed the "Book of Truth." It turns out that the Black Sota Stigmata Wizard was making amends for my breach of contract.

This Stigmata Wizard, who was obsessed with restoring the glorious days of the ancient wizarding world, showed Grin a great deal of kindness, personally caring for him on several occasions, and even before his complete demise, he did not forget the contract.

Although this brutal ancient wizard was dark, evil, and cruel to alien creatures, he was a spiritual guide for Grimm, who had been greatly influenced by the Black Sota Stigmata wizards, and his position in Grimm's heart was second only to Peranos.

It is precisely because the Wizarding World has so many wizards like Blackthorn that it displays its ruthless, realistic, and majestic side, maintaining its iron-fisted rules and preventing many restless rebellious wills from acting rashly, thus giving the Wizarding World more opportunities to change its fate of destruction!

"Huh? That old guy really died? He died in such a small world? What a pity..."

Compared to Grimm, Xiao Ba, who had witnessed the fall of too many once invincible and powerful creatures and true spirit wizards, was relatively calm, only feeling sorry for the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard's fall in such an unknown world.

Such a powerful Stigmata Wizard certainly has the potential to change the course of the war of civilizations.

"Who is it?"

Green gritted his teeth and emphasized it again, unwilling to give up.

"Who killed the Black Tower Saint Mark Wizard, so powerful that even a seventh-ring True Spirit Wizard's personal arrival couldn't kill him?"

Grimm would never believe that the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard had fallen at the hands of the Primordial Locust Flame God.

"The King of the Infernal Giants, Albada".

Slowly, Soram named a species that Green had never heard of before.

"That was a powerful biological race that invaded the Flame Soul World after the Primordial Locust Flame God rapidly generated a pre-existing world rift. Although I've never seen it myself, it's said that the King of Aibadan, wielding the Infernal Furnace, not only caused the deaths of Black Tower Saint Mark Wizards and Dark Realm Saint Mark Wizards, but also destroyed a spatial fortress, incinerated countless Demon Hunter Wizards into nothingness, and even fought a Seventh Ring True Spirit Wizard across realms, where he was slightly at a disadvantage!"

This!

Grimm gasped, incredulously asking, "This Infernal Giant, King Albadan, really isn't an Endless Ruler?"

It's hard to imagine that a sudden event, a powerful creature appearing from who-knows-where, could cause the Black Sota Saint Mark Wizard to perish like this.

Is this the unpredictable and terrifying fate?

"As you know, I attacked the Primordial Locust Kingdom with you. Later, you fell into the Nightmare World. After the Primordial Locust Kingdom collapsed, all I saw were the craters left behind after that great battle. Those craters easily exceeded 100,000 meters in diameter, comparable to the ancient holy craters in the Wizarding World."

"Um."

Green took a deep breath, nodded somewhat dejectedly, and was in a bad mood.

Even with Green's formal wizarding control, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful at the fall of the Black Tower Saint Mark Wizard.

The path to true spirit is indeed fraught with difficulties. Behind every true spirit wizard's advancement lies the fall of countless holy-marked wizards in their pursuit of the true spirit, becoming a part of history and a memory in the hearts of some.

He himself had to look up to even the most powerful and skilled wizards, and many wizards of the same rank along the way had already fallen.

This is the path of the wizard.

Endless loneliness, arduous journeys and thorns, crossing countless bones, forging the wizard's holy tower, ignorance is ignorance, and will never be understood.

By the way, the timing is just right this time. I'm going to accompany Mentor Peranos to meet Grandmaster Netherheart to participate in the lineage assessment, and then Mentor Peranos and his two uncles will attend the dean's inauguration ceremony at the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy.

Before that, there were two other things.

Beside the Seven Rings Heart on the Tree of Life, Solem looked at Grin and said, "I'm going back to the Witcher Castle. I just returned to the wizarding world and was pulled into the Nightmare World. One of my experiments has just begun, and I don't know if I can make up for it."

"What experiment can't compensate for the magic spirit rewarded by the True Spirit Wizard?"

Green had regained his calm tone on the surface, and after thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "I need to go to the Seventh Ring World first."

"Um."

After bidding farewell to Grin, Solem casually drew a seven-ring bubble and flew towards his demon hunter castle.

"Young master, you attempted to advance once in the nightmare world?"

Xiao Ba, perched on Green's shoulder, sensed the loss of a portion of Green's life force and asked.

Green stepped onto the Heart of the Seventh Ring. The appearance of the Wizarding World's primal will caused the surrounding wizards to reveal their covetous eyes, but Green was already used to it and didn't care at all.

"Yes, it failed."

Green nodded, his voice tinged with regret.

"Even with the assistance of Ice Marrow Crystallization and the research on the Ice Spinning Top by the King of Snowworms, it's still not enough. On one hand, the short burst required by the Elemental Jar is higher than that of the Elemental Body. On the other hand, the fundamental reason is that in the years since I became a formal wizard, I have devoted most of my energy to the annihilation power of the opposing elements of ice and fire, and I have not devoted myself to the research on the ice element."

The hexagonal seven-ringed heart surged toward the clouds within a pillar of energy, accompanied by a constant buzzing sound as it broke through the air.

"Oh, it's nothing. Hehehe, young master, your 'Book of Truth' can actually connect to the Forgotten World, that's quite interesting. But you have to be careful, the illusory world is extremely dangerous, a slight mistake can lead to eternal damnation. I don't want to end up like those two times. Last time was a little better, but this time, do you know how I spent those decades in the dimensional gap?"

"Alright, alright, the Forgotten World is still a long way off. Don't even think about it for the next few hundred years; the door hasn't even opened yet."

While dealing with Little Eight, Green began to quietly sense the rules of the Nightmare Wizard.

First, immortality.

It seems that immortality comes at a price; wizard apprentices expend power of fear to maintain their immortality, gradually extinguishing their hopes of becoming full wizards.

Formal wizards expend mental energy to maintain their immortality. If their mental energy collapses too many times, it will decrease. If they do not spend a long time meditating to replenish their mental energy, it will be extremely dangerous if their mental energy drops below five and they are targeted by the demon king's servant in the nightmare world.

Or perhaps... other nightmare wizard apprentices took advantage of the situation and entered!?

This is no joke. Behind the seemingly powerful and glamorous facade lies even greater danger, sacrifice, and numerous difficulties. Everything in the world has its own rules of balance.

As for the extreme fear of sealing, this is also an absolute weakness of the Nightmare Wizard. Worlds like the Shadow Mystery are extremely effective against the Nightmare Wizard.

Because of his talent for communicating with Hachi's time and space, Green can ignore any sealing ability other than the time-space sealing technique unless the level difference is too great or Green and Hachi are sealed at the same time.

Second, the Nightmare Bloodline.

Unlike Soram, who was parasitized by a dreadlord and thus protected by the rules of judgment, Green did not acquire the dreadlord's original alien bloodline magic.

However, as the first official Nightmare Wizard to advance to the level of the Dreadlord, the lonely and fearful rules of the Nightmare World filled with countless white bones also brought Green his own unique abilities.

When Green is in a large group of wizards, the speed at which meditation stimulates mental energy increases significantly!

This ability may seem useless, since generally only newly promoted wizards pay attention to the speed at which meditation stimulates mental power. However, for a nightmare wizard like Grimm, it complements his immortality!

In other words, if Green uses his immortality once during his demon-hunting expedition, reducing his mental strength by twenty points, it's equivalent to all witchcraft reducing the attack power increase of mental strength by twenty points, thus reducing his combat ability and significantly increasing the possibility of Green dying again.

Generally speaking, depending on the wizard's aptitude, it is possible that meditation will only stimulate a slight increase in mental power after one, two, or even several years of meditation.

In this way, Green can greatly improve the speed of mental energy recovery, and the benefits are self-evident.

As for the path to advancement for Nightmare Wizards, from Green's initial perspective as a low-level elemental wizard, there seem to be two options: one is to combine with elemental wizards, and the other is to utilize Nightmare Bloodline Wizardry to become a Body-Refining Wizard.

Of course, this was merely the wisdom of a low-level elemental wizard like Grimm.

Glug! Glug! Glug...

Suddenly, Green felt the Dream Heart pounding within his body and asked in surprise, "Could this be considered my Nightmare Bloodline Sorcery?"

The heart that enters dreams, delves into the dreams of others.

(End of this chapter)