Wizard's Journey

Chapter 868 The Navel of the World

three days later.

All around him was scorching hot magma, surging in all directions with the turbulent flow. At this moment, Green finally realized that the method of finding ley lines from magma layers was unwise.

With a roar, Grimm and the Nine-Headed Wrathful Saint Mark Wizard both activated their true forms and elemental bodies to protect themselves from burns in the intensely high-pressure magma.

"I'm afraid it's already more than three hundred times the gravity of the wizarding world."

Greene made his calculations in his mind, but dared not linger. He kept judging the direction of the lava flow and controlled his two-hundred-meter-tall Black Flame Soul Giant elemental body to swim towards the ley lines.

Although he didn't sense it, Green vaguely felt that the gods of the underworld hadn't let him and his group of four go, and had also rushed into the lava veins.

"Is there no guardian in this world?"

Suddenly, Green turned to the Nine-Headed Wrathful Saint Mark Wizard behind him and asked, seemingly trying to distract the two from their pain.

"My mentor told me that the guardians of this world are the Behemoths, the earth walkers, but they have been relentlessly slaughtered by the Dragon God lineage for some reason, and now ley lines are extremely rare."

Nine-Headed Wrath spoke irritably. In this lava environment, the true form of the Nine-Headed Giant Serpent was constantly being burned and injured, and it was not completely immune. Green's attempt to distract it had no effect.

They actually turned against the Guardians of the World?!

Upon hearing this answer, Green was truly incredulous. The historical background, current state of civilization, and biological level of this world far surpassed any world Green had explored before. It truly deserved to be called a great world!

The world's guardians were completely wiped out, which suggests that this world has hardly faced any insurmountable external threats and that something has happened in its history.

"If I have the chance in the future, I really hope to continue exploring this world, and even conquer it completely!"

Green's mutterings only fueled Nine-Headed Angry's low murmur: "Hmph, if you can completely conquer this leyline world and transfer its leylines to the heart of the wizarding world, thus slowing its self-destruction, this true spirit is enough to make you a worthy offering!"

The true form of the Green Element opened its mouth, but in the end only gave a bitter smile.

This vast world likely contains no fewer than ten Level 6 beings and hundreds of world lords. Even if a true spirit wizard from the wizarding world were to personally lead his numerous holy-marked wizards on a long expedition across the void, he probably wouldn't be entirely confident.

This shows that the difficulty of offering one's true spirit through force is far beyond what ordinary holy-scarred wizards can imagine.

……

One day later.

Um! ?

Sensing the disappearance of the mysterious will locking onto him from the distant, intensely pressuring magma flow behind him, Green breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems those underworld gods have finally given up the pursuit."

At this moment, Green was in a terrible state. Under the scorching heat of the magma, which had reached an unbelievable intensity, Green's elemental body was riddled with holes, and the internal Sun Chaser body had even been damaged.

"Hmph, they're definitely lurking above. Even we couldn't withstand such intense pressure from the lava for long. Fortunately, the balance of power has begun to exclude us, these stowaways from time and space."

While the Nine-Headed Wrathful Saint Mark Wizard felt fortunate, he also felt a trace of fear.

The repulsion of the balance rules will inevitably throw everyone back to their original spacetime without mercy. This kind of crossing of world clusters is already enough to cause some trauma to everyone, and may even cause some magical backlash. Now that they have already suffered these burns in this world, their resistance will be even lower, and the trauma they suffer will be even greater...

With a sigh, I realized that there are gains and losses; this is the most fundamental principle by which wizards use their knowledge and magic to leverage the rules of leverage.

Suddenly, the nine-headed serpent stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"I asked through a soul communication with Green ahead."

"We don't know how long it will take to reach the ley lines. If we don't arrive before we return, all our efforts will have been in vain."

Nine-Headed Wrath added, "I know this choice is foolish, but it's the one I've come to after the most rational judgment. I don't intend to go any further. The War of Civilizations is imminent, and this will cause us even greater backlash and trauma upon our return to the wizarding world. I cannot take the risk. Tower of Annihilation, if you choose to continue, please never tell me your answer."

The struggle was arduous, the pain was extreme, and it felt like a gamble.

The Nine-Headed Wrathful Stigmata Wizard's insistence on not revealing the answer was whether Grimm had actually found the ley lines after that.

"knew!"

Ultimately, Green continued to plunge into the deeper lava flow without hesitation, enduring the scorching heat of the lava under even stronger pressure.

At this moment, every bit of Green's injury would be amplified several times over after being reflected back into the Wizarding World by the future balance rules of spacetime. Yet Green did not hesitate at all, as if there was no way back.

The intense heat scorched through Grimm's savage giant Sunstrider's prized skin defenses, causing him immense pain.

However, Green discovered that his fiery body seemed to possess some deeper potential, but because he had embarked on the path of researching the power of annihilation, he would never be able to discover it again...

Between gains and losses, Green couldn't help but think that perhaps Mina, the Son of the Sun, could become the Guardian of the Wizarding World after less than a thousand years of dedication as a devotee, and then, in just two thousand years, take another step forward on the path of the Guardian of the Wizarding World, becoming a high-level world guardian comparable to a Saintly Wizard.

Besides Mina's own rapid accumulation of world contributions, this is also due to her "loyalty" to the fiery body and the fire element!

despair!

Just as Green was almost instinctively drifting along the lava flow towards the lower space, he was startled by something hard under his feet.

Gradually, the surrounding magma began to decrease, and the scorching heat decreased from an almost unbearable level to just warm. The immense gravity seemed to have doubled again, but for a Saint Mark wizard like Grimm who had achieved mastery of body tempering, it could no longer pose an obstacle.

"This...this is the earth vein of the ley line world?"

Beneath Green's feet, a vast and colossal Taiyi magnet, which runs through the continent of gods, floats in the underground lava. This is the true heart of the earth vein world!

The astonishing spacetime mass of the ley lines world attracts the surrounding smaller worlds. The super-strong gravitational weight inside causes only level three beings to have the ability to fly. All of this is because of it!

Crackling sounds!

With the electric arcs extinguished, Green, lacking professional mining skills, could only use the most rudimentary method to cut off a tiny, insignificant piece of the vast ore—more than ten meters long—after nearly exhausting his magic power. He excitedly stored it into the dimensional gap.

If Vivian and Raffi were still alive, offering this piece of Taiyi Lodestone to the Heart of the Wizarding World would have been enough to save them both.

It's just a pity...

As Green waited dejectedly for the final repulsion time of the spacetime balance rules, he suddenly discovered something, and his face showed disbelief!

"This seems to be a world node... the navel of the world!?"

Generally speaking, the world guardians will arrange to protect all the special nodes within the world. For some stowaways from other worlds, these special time and space nodes will be invaluable treasures!

However, the guardians of the continent of gods have not received enough respect from the life forms in this world.

If some Shadow Wizards can install time-space positioning devices at specific points, the number of positioning devices required to complete a mission will be reduced by more than half.

"This is... truly unbelievable! It seems this ley line world will inevitably return in the future. With the positioning device installed at the coordinates of this world's navel node, we only need to set up a few more coordinates next time it visits, and we will be able to utilize the lever of fate..."

On the surface of the earth, the usual world nodes are where temples are located. The temples on the continent of gods are not built arbitrarily.

In his unexpected and exciting state, Green began to quickly install the Shadow Wizard spacetime coordinate positioning device at this umbilicus node of the world. Finally, at the last moment before the spacetime balance rules rejected it, the positioning device was successfully activated.

(End of this chapter)