Chapter 849: The Truth Wizard Makes a Move!

In the Dark Great World, the nameless wizard seemed to suddenly remember something. He picked up the Ganoderma magical plant that had been heavily stained with darkness and then tried to use it to contact Locke.

But the next moment, the Ganoderma magical plant reflected his power back.

"This is bad."

The nameless wizard now realized that the Dark Great Villain King's power had invaded the Ganoderma magical plant and had very likely tracked down the Locke Augustine he had previously been in contact with.

"If something happens to my junior martial brother because of this, how would I explain it to the teacher?"

The nameless wizard furrowed his brow.

"Is the Dark Great Villain King trying to force me back into his domain?"

Only then could he possibly recover his own name.

The nameless wizard fell into a dilemma, because he could not judge how much power the Dark Great Villain King had invested into the wizard world. Many materials about the Dark Great World, located along the new navigation route, were still incomplete and in the process of being explored.

This left him in a predicament of choice.

...

Dune Plane, Research Group Two's underground laboratory, inside the dark space.

Locke looked at the Zachary Potter Demon Specter before him. Seeing Locke completely unafraid and actually studying him with curious eyes, the specter broke into a savage grin.

That dark face suddenly had its nose and ears vanish, leaving only eyes, a mouth, and a forehead on the face, the eyes and mouth like black holes.

It erupted in laughter.

Like a shadow stretched and distorted under a lamp's light, it mocked Locke's ignorance.

As a Seven-World Demon Specter, it had already pulled seven worlds into the Dark Great World.

And right now, it could sense the wizard world's power, which was even vaster and more boundless than the Dark Great World itself.

As a Seven-World Lord, even moving around within the Dark Great World would cause ripples in the Dark Great World, because its power was so immense.

But here in the wizard world, the wizard world's reaction to it was as if it were merely an ordinary creature of this world.

This meant the world possessed an unimaginable vastness that defied its imagination.

Although the wizard world's strength alarmed it, being the first time it had encountered a world stronger than the Dark Great World, its goal at that moment was not to pull part of this world's region into darkness, but simply to pull the wizard before it into darkness.

As long as the target died within this dark space, they would be forced into darkness.

Zachary Potter, the Demon Specter, dissolved into laughter as its body disappeared. Its clothes fell to the ground at once, and simultaneously, countless dark flies swarmed in from all directions.

Its magic pressure continued to rise.

Fifteen thousand, sixteen thousand, seventeen thousand, eighteen thousand, nineteen thousand...

The Dark King had sent this creature over precisely because it was confident there was a way to push this creature's magic pressure intensity beyond Locke's.

So this creature's magic pressure rose all the way from nineteen thousand to nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

This was Locke's first encounter with an enemy at the ordinary Second Circle limit.

The next moment, countless swarms of flies surged toward Locke's face.

Those flies struck the permanent defensive field before Locke. The permanent defensive field held for approximately three seconds before suddenly shattering.

'My permanent defensive field shell seems to have degraded to just a permanent defensive field within this dark space.'

'Similarly, I cannot use the Grand Magic here.'

Locke rode the Magical Dragon Rose and flew backward. The three flower bud dragon heads of the Magical Dragon Rose shot Magical Dragon Fire Shadow at the dark fly swarms, but an endless number of flies surged from all directions.

At the same time, countless dark magic sounds appeared at his ears.

Locke glanced at the back of his right hand. For some reason, black spots had appeared on it. The other party's darkness clearly had some means of contaminating him.

The other party had pulled him into this strange space, preventing him from using the Grand Magic and the permanent defensive field shell. At the same time, the other party's main body had a magic pressure of only ten thousand, yet within this space, its magic pressure had inexplicably jumped directly from ten thousand to nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

This meant there was very likely a high-standing entity from the Dark Great World empowering it, and even this dark space might not have been the creature's own creation.

No wonder the Dark King had been so confident in sending this creature to him, certain it could pull him into darkness.

A magic pressure of 19,999. This was very difficult to fight.

The next moment, Locke was just starting to think about how to deal with the enemy, and upon sensing the dark spots that had appeared on the back of his hand, it was as if he could see the Dark Great World spread before him.

It seemed that world was calling out to him.

If he completely fell into darkness, he would likely be pulled into that world.

The next moment, Zachary Potter's magic pressure suddenly deflated like a punctured balloon, dropping continuously from 19,999 to 18,000, 17,000, then plummeting all the way, and finally settling at around 11,000.

Only because of the support of this dark space was it barely boosted by another thousand magic pressure.

Zachary Potter clearly had not anticipated this turn of events. He let out a cry of pain. The entire space was filled with his wailing, and countless flies swarmed in chaotic disarray like headless flies.

Locke was surprised to find that from his star-realm ring, a Ganoderma magical plant floated out on its own.

This Ganoderma magical plant was continuously dripping a black liquid.

The black liquid fell to the ground and took root on the spot, transforming into three pine cones.

Locke looked with astonishment at the Ganoderma magical plant floating in midair on its own, sensing the great force behind it.

The Ganoderma magical plant was standard equipment for wizards of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, because of the need to stay in contact with other wizards. The Ganoderma magical plant was provided by White Wizard Association breeders, and only breeders with specific authorization held the ability to grow this plant and possessed its related seeds.

"Wait. The Ganoderma magical plant is backed by the Truth Wizards of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands. The wizard who built the water hyacinth network."

"The Dark Great World has invaded the Ganoderma magical plant with its power. Although this demonstrates that world possesses enormous potential, it also means they have angered the Truth Wizards of the wizard world."

"Is this a Truth Wizard making their move right now?"

...

Cloud Marsh Wetlands, above Cloud Lake, mist rolling in endless waves. A small boat, a straw rain cape, a bamboo pole, two or three lotus flowers, and an old man standing on the small boat, punting with the bamboo pole. He smiled amiably at the water hyacinth ecological system floating on the Cloud Lake's surface before him.

This cluster of water hyacinths was the very foundation upon which the Cloud Marsh Wetlands' communication system had been constructed.

It was also one of the most important infrastructures of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.

The old man was the maintenance keeper of the water hyacinth system and a gardener of this aquatic botanical garden.

The old gardener chuckled. "What on earth are these youngsters getting up to? Just managed to find a retirement job, and now I have to work again."

"Allowing the power of a colonial world to enter the water hyacinth system."

The old gardener smiled pleasantly and said, "The young wizards of this generation really are something else."

"If someone from our generation had encountered a situation like this..."

The old gardener's smile carried the coldness of someone who had destroyed planes between casual conversations, a terrifying habit left over from a past era.

"We would absolutely never have allowed any existence that challenged our civilization to get away with it. Unfortunately, since the Age of Enlightenment, the cost of humanitarianism has grown higher and higher. That group of madmen on the Ethics and Morality Review Committee is not to be trifled with either."

"And wizards today are different from before. Old fossils left over from an era like myself do not have many years left. Better to cause less trouble, not to exhaust the remainder of one's lifespan."

"I truly cannot keep up with this era anymore. My magic has fallen far behind the times."

"Let this living relic lie flat in this water hyacinth botanical garden. All I need to do is tend to this garden. Anything beyond that, I do not wish to bother with."

He extended one finger and gave a slight tap forward. A spell traveled through the water hyacinth system across time and space, forcing out every trace of dark power hidden within the water hyacinth system, and used the Fourth Circle spell Root and Grow to transform the other party's power into three special magical plants.

...

In Research Group Two's laboratory, the dark space Locke was in lost the power that the Truth Wizard had severed from the water hyacinth system, the power the Dark King had been channeling into Zachary Potter. This caused the Dark King to be unable to channel any further support to Zachary Potter.

Zachary Potter's expression changed drastically, because this was his first time encountering a situation where the Dark King could not bestow the dark blessing upon him.

The Nightmare Legion...

This place was different from other worlds.

At the same time, the entire dark space, having lost the Dark King's dark blessing, could no longer sustain itself. The entire space's phase began to tip and collapse.

In that instant, Locke immediately sensed something was wrong.

He finally understood why he had been unable to use the Grand Magic and the permanent defensive field shell within this dark space.

It was simple.

First, this dark space had not been created by the opponent. It had been created by the Dark King.

That was why he had been at a disadvantage from the start.

But because an unknown Truth Wizard from the wizard world had suddenly intervened, the situation had changed.

Second, the entire dark space was not truly real.

It was like a phase parallel space, nothing more than a shadow-puppet theater.

Like an object's shadow cast onto a white cloth under the projection of a light source.

His situation right now was similar.

He himself at this moment was not his true main body. He had only been pulled into the dark space and had fallen onto the white cloth of the shadow-puppet theater, a body that had been reduced in dimensionality.

His permanent defensive field shell was a four-dimensional structure.

Reduced by one dimension, it had simply become an ordinary permanent defensive field.

For existences from other civilizations of the infinite void that fell into this world, it was likely they could not even maintain this kind of three-dimensional permanent defensive field within this dark space.

The fact that he could deploy a permanent defensive field in this space was already quite impressive.

Because the essence of this was the Dark King using the demon specter to simultaneously reduce himself and Locke by one dimension, pulling them both into a two-dimensional world to fight.

Only at that moment, because the Dark King's link had been severed by the Truth Wizard, it was equivalent to the shadow-puppet theater's light source being knocked over. The dark space's phase had inverted and shaken, which was why he had been able to perceive this point through the Three-Eye Tiger Cat bloodline's power of insight.

At that moment, Locke's forehead looked toward the very center of this dark space, where he spotted a dark egg. The dark egg was absorbing the energy radiating from his magical radiance, nurturing something within.

Locke instantly realized that if he had continued fighting Zachary Potter just now, he would not only have been at a disadvantage from failing to notice he had been reduced in dimensionality by the Dark King, becoming entangled in combat with Zachary Potter. Zachary Potter's true goal also seemed to be to hatch that dark egg.

Only once that dark egg successfully hatched would it be the moment Zachary Potter was completely certain of victory.

The methods of the Dark Great World were truly alarming.

Worthy of being a world along the new navigation route.

Had it been anything other than a wizard from this wizard world, most other worlds would have been thoroughly devoured.

Zachary Potter, the Demon Specter, unleashed countless black flies toward Locke. Within this shadow-puppet theater, all existences were shadows within the show.

So as long as Locke remained here for an extended period, he would be assimilated by the dark power.

And Zachary Potter clearly grew very tense after Locke noticed the dark egg. He had not expected that what had seemed like a very sure-handed plan would in an instant turn out this way.

The wizard world was too dangerous.

He had to make one final gambit.

The dark soul had to be protected. As long as the dark soul could successfully hatch, he could still win.

The young wizard before him clearly had no ability to resist the energy of that dark soul.

But the next moment, Locke summoned a climbing fern and used the Lone Tree Cannot Form a Forest technique. A strike of thunder and fire descended, and in just an instant, it pierced straight through the dark egg.

An incompletely hatched dark egg was extremely fragile. In just an instant, it shattered directly into fragments.

Locke seized the opportunity and clamped the Bronze Cauldron over the dark egg.

"Hmm? This is also a Second Circle level spirituality, and the magic pressure has even reached the ordinary Second Circle limit."

"This spirituality could be used to make two doses of the Zero Potion?"

Locke fell into thought. It was clear he had been in danger just now. Had that dark egg been allowed to hatch successfully, he truly did not know what would have happened.

Zachary Potter saw this and immediately tried to flee.

The wizard world was too terrifying.

But the next moment, Locke summoned a Golden Spike Wheat plant. Countless magical radiance converged toward the plant, and Locke used the Lone Tree Cannot Form a Forest technique. In an instant, the Golden Spike Wheat lashed out like a whip, striking Zachary Potter in a single blow and splitting him in two.

Zachary Potter was gravely wounded. His body dissolved into a swarm of flies reduced by several orders of magnitude and tried to escape.

But Locke's next move was to pick up one of the pine cones that had grown from the three drops of dark power that had fallen to the ground, use the Peach Bow and Thorn Arrow technique to transform it into an arrow, and send it slamming into his body.

In just an instant, the pine cone transformed into a radiance of light, completely disintegrating the demon specter's body.

Zachary Potter cried out in despair, "No, could it be that I am the one who will be buried in darkness?!"

The next moment, he was destroyed.

His seven small-scale dark worlds were all destroyed in an instant.

His spirituality was absorbed by Locke into the Bronze Cauldron.

Locke clicked his tongue in wonder.

"The Truth Wizard's methods truly are impressive. These pine cones seem to completely counter the power of the Dark World."

"But the power of the Dark World is also quite peculiar. A Second Circle being actually pulls worlds into the Dark Great World, and then the Dark Great World grants that Second Circle being all the power of those worlds that it pulled into darkness."

"The fundamental nature of this Second Circle being is those seven small-scale worlds."

Locke immediately realized that this kind of creature's characteristic meant that even if he had killed Zachary Potter, Zachary Potter would have been able to resurrect within the Dark Great World through those seven small-scale dark worlds.

Only that was no longer possible.

Because the Truth Wizard's single Fourth Circle spell had made resurrection impossible for this creature.

Locke thought: "It seems the lords of the Dark Great World possess powerful resurrection capabilities. Extremely difficult to kill completely. Never mind. This has nothing to do with my current situation. I have no plans to visit the new navigation route for now. At the very least, moon ring level is needed to have even a modicum of safety there."

Even Senior Martial Brother Trajan had encountered such danger going there, which was saying something.

At that moment, the dark space shattered, and Locke returned to the mortal world. He had to immediately refine the Zero Potion, then complete the growth of the Second Circle Large Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow before him, and verify the results of his finite element cultivation method combined with spirituality cultivation method.