Wizard's Journey

Chapter 988 Fate's Punishment!?

Thirty years later.

Mining the Sands of Time is far more complicated than mining many other resources; on average, a mechanical golem can only manage to collect one or two grains per day.

Every month, Vine Shackles Waldman would deliver the mined Sands of Time to Waterflame Mountain once.

Of course, each time they secretly leave a small portion behind, their endless greed clearly showing they have ignored Green's warnings.

"So beautiful..."

The sands of time slipped through her fingers and fell into a high-grade sealed vessel. Waldman parted her red lips slightly and let out a soft moan, completely intoxicated, her eyes glazed over.

Whether it's a level 2 wizard advancing to a level 3 grand wizard, or a level 3 grand wizard advancing to a holy mark, the Sands of Time can play an excellent role in assisting the advancement. The Sands of Time are incredibly precious items for low-level wizards, and they are even the reward for the Holy Tower Ranking every hundred years, which shows their amazing value.

For a Saint Mark, which is considered a very precious resource, for a low-level wizard, it only requires Waldman to steal and hand over one or two percent of the Sands of Time each time. If the amount obtained over thirty years were traded back in the wizarding world...

"Unable to suppress his insatiable greed and possessiveness, he can't even fulfill his duties as a trusted wizard in charge!"

On the seabed of the Boiling Sea, among the many mechanical puppets that were mining the Sands of Time from broken rocks, one seemingly ordinary mechanical puppet, with nothing special about it, suddenly turned around and glanced at the Virgin Witch in the far distance while it was chiseling the rock.

This is precisely the wisp of Grimm's soul hidden within the mechanical puppet.

"Well, since that's the case, let's take this opportunity to observe the so-called superconducting time phenomenon properly. It's a rare specimen for observation."

As it spoke, the mechanical puppet continued to carve into the seabed rock, working tirelessly.

More than ten days have passed, and it's the end of the month again.

Thousands of mechanical puppets lined up, some with nothing to show for it, others with a good harvest, handing over the Sands of Time they had mined. The amount of Sands of Time in front of Waldman increased more and more. Adding to the portion of Sands of Time she had previously kept for herself, the total amount of Sands of Time gathered on her was equivalent to three months' worth of mining.

"This is……"

Suddenly, the Grimm Stigmata Soul hidden within the mechanical puppet sensed an unusual fluctuation.

It's an indescribable feeling, like the eerie feeling of suddenly feeling cold all over when walking at night as a child!

On the surface, it seems that nothing has happened, but the absurd worry in my heart is impossible to suppress.

This is a sixth sense derived from the instinct of life, rather than rational cognition. Mysterious and eerie time wizards have been able to explain this strange phenomenon through time-space magic, which is known as the string theory.

The world seen through the eyes of the Time Wizard is different from that of ordinary wizards.

In the eyes of the wizard of time, we are the newborn of the previous second, but in the next second, we will see this moment as death.

Within that three-dimensional spatial system of perception—length, width, and height—a timeline gradually forms as a lower organism progresses towards a higher level of cognition.

In ancient times, there was a period when elemental wizards, in their exploration of the mysteries of truth, believed that the endless world space we perceive is like a closed elevator space. As long as wizards can break through the limitations of time perception and find the power of time to control the forward and backward movement of the closed elevator, they will be able to step into a higher dimension!

Just thinking about it makes me incredibly excited!

Therefore, while the slave legions of the wizarding world continued to explore and invade space, the most elite and outstanding ancient elemental wizards embarked on a path of exploration through time, attempting to break through the dimensional limitations of this endless world with knowledge, rather than those level nine beings who became mysterious forces.

What wizards need is verifiable truths and mysteries, and the power to have absolute control over the endless world!

Not only must they break through this dimension, but they must also return, thereby using the power of a "god" from a higher dimension to shatter any creature, world, or civilization that dares to resist the will of the wizard within the endless world dimensions.

To manipulate time and space in the palm of one's hand, to tease the crickets inside from the perspective of a higher-level being outside the box—what a grand ideal!

Antonio, the greatest and most outstanding figure since the birth of wizarding civilization, seems to have reached the limit of wizarding exploration. He is looked up to by tiny creatures and is no different from the gods described in ancient books and novels.

What was the result?

Even with such power, it ultimately follows the most basic power engineering formula of wizards, using a single energy base to leverage higher-level rules for its own use.

Just as beings in the material world can roam the void, yet are ultimately not void beings, beings living in the real world can also survive in superconducting time, but are ultimately not superconducting time beings and are fundamentally unable to adapt to its rules.

Those wizards who studied the truth of time did not find the gate to higher dimensions. They merely stretched and extended the depth of their understanding of the endless world. The vastness of the endless world seemed to have no boundaries or end. The more they explored, understood, and knew, the more they marveled at its immensity and feared the existence beyond dimensions.

What kind of creature possesses such power that it can dominate this vast and boundless world and treat it as a box?

Nobody knew.

Those beings who advanced to level nine only stayed in the endless world for the time it takes to circulate through an hourglass before transforming into mysterious forces outside the endless world, never to return.

According to Green's speculation, perhaps some information was revealed in the clues left by Antonio, who was closest to the truth in the wizarding civilization. Green knew of three of them.

The Book of Destiny, the Lever of Destiny, and the Handkerchief of Dimensional Gap.

Two of them point directly to fate, while the other is a dimensional gap. There must be some answers that this ancient wizard guessed about the limits of his own cognition.

Greene firmly believed that only a wizard who could stand at the same level as this ancient wizard could attempt to explore deeper truths and mysteries based on his foundation.

Perhaps that wizard with extraordinary wisdom and insight was already planning an exploration of even higher realms, but unfortunately, the ancient war disrupted his plans...

"kindness!?"

The wisp of Grimm's Mark hidden within the mechanical puppet suddenly came up with a bold conjecture that it had never considered before.

Could this be a punishment from fate?

Although it did not reach the level of punishing the Titans of the Xiahe Civilization, it was far more severe than punishing the Dinosaur World. It punished Antonio for daring to challenge it, and even implicated the Wizard Civilization!

This unprecedentedly bold conjecture caused even Green's main body, who was drawing runes on Waterflame Mountain, to gasp and stop.

"If we could know the exact time when the Lever of Fate was created, perhaps we could verify our guesses..."

Just as Green himself was muttering to himself, suddenly, through the wisp of the Holy Mark Soul hidden in the mechanical puppet, Green discovered the anomaly in Aldman, who had become an observation specimen.

(End of this chapter)