Chapter 372 The Middle World <TOC> Chapter 374 Another Magic Garden
Translator: SumTLMan
In the three-layered world, according to the wizards’ preference, the Inner World is the best. However, in terms of human adaptability, the Outer World is the most comfortable.
The Middle World, on the other hand, lies in between.
As Shadow chatted, he led Angel along the underground path back to the surface.
As they passed the “secret chamber” corresponding to the Outer World, the Gami brothers opened a dark, small door, and entered the Middle World in a single-file from the Outer World.
Looking at the familiar door, Angel asked, “If we don’t go through the magic energy formation, can we enter the Middle World through their door?”
Shadow frowned, “It’s so small, how can we enter?”
Seeing Angel’s “looking at an idiot” expression, Shadow suddenly realized, “You mean using transformation magic to change our size? I don’t know if it’s possible, but it should be. However, transformation magic is not easy to learn. With the dwindling number of Transformation Worms, the art of transformation has almost vanished among wizard apprentices.”
Transformation magic, a trick that changes one’s appearance, can make one as small as a mosquito or as large as a titan. It is considered one of the most difficult tricks in the apprentice realm.
However, this most difficult trick is difficult in the orthodox learning sense, as the orthodox route requires learning a lot, such as biology, mimicry, magic manipulation, and dozens of other subjects. Only when mastering them all can one be qualified to learn transformation magic. Even with the qualifications, you might not necessarily learn it, so it is called the most difficult trick.
For those who take shortcuts, however, it is much easier. All they need to do is transplant the skin of a Transformation Worm to perform transformation magic. However, due to the demand for transformation magic by wizards, Transformation Worms have become increasingly rare in the world, almost extinct in the last 500 years. Whenever they are found, they fetch astronomical prices.
As they talked, they arrived at the cave entrance.
“You wanted to know if the Middle World has been occupied by the Kulakuka clan, didn’t you? Go outside and see for yourself,” Shadow said with a sly grin, urging Angel to leave the cave.
Angel looked deeply at Shadow, making sure he hadn’t triggered any backlash from the “contract,” and figured there should be no danger outside.
So, Angel was the first to climb out of the “Corpse Hiding Cave” in the Middle World.
On the way, Angel noticed that the underground caves in the Middle World corresponded exactly to the Corpse Hiding Caves in the Outer World. He thought that when he reached the surface, he would see a forest similar to the “Gloomy Woods”… but that was not the case.
Angel looked at the surrounding environment, and indeed, it resembled the “mountainous” terrain of the Bajon Mountains, but the ground was bare, brown soil, without a single blade of grass.
At first glance, the entire undulating mountain range was devoid of any signs of life or greenery, completely barren and exhausted, like a wasteland from a post-apocalyptic film.
As Angel observed the surroundings, he suddenly felt a surge of palpitations, as if he had been targeted by some kind of supercreature, sending chills down his spine.
Angel trembled, silently raising his head…
A colossal eye hung high in the night sky, with a blood-red pupil swirling in the whites, constantly following Angel, its gaze filled with greed and bloodlust. Seeing Angel’s trembling and fearful expression, the eye seemed to mock him before finally closing.
As it closed, the night sky reappeared, bathed in boundless moonlight.
Where was the giant eye now? The previous experience seemed like a dream.
But Angel knew it was not a dream. His legs were still trembling, and his entire body was shivering from head to toe.
Only when “it” closed its eyes did Angel collapse onto the ground, gasping for breath, his back, wrapped in clothes, now soaked with cold sweat.
When Shadow emerged from the corpse storage cave, this was the scene he saw. He chuckled, “Oh my, what did you see that has frightened you so much? A Magic Source Giant? A sky ghost ship? Or a group of greedy Fiery Molten Birds?”
Angel gasped, “What are these?”
“These are all beings coveting the Kulakuka tribe. So, do you think the Kulakuka tribe can dominate the Middle World on their own?”
Angel was silent for a moment, “I saw a gigantic eye with a blood-red pupil, hanging high in the sky.” Recalling the massive eye in the sky, Angel still felt cold sweat forming.
After listening to Angel’s description, Shadow pondered for a moment before saying, “No wonder you’re so terrified. I didn’t expect your luck to be so bad. Instead of seeing common low-level monsters when you first stepped out, you saw a creature standing at the top of the Middle World… Cersabiras.”
“Cersabiras?” Angel felt that the name sounded familiar. After thinking for a moment, he asked, “Is it related to Abiras?”
Many wizard apprentices might not have heard of Abiras, but they should have seen the talent orb used to test their aptitude. The scientific name for the talent orb is actually: Abiras’ Eye.
Abiras is an abyssal behemoth, and talent orbs are made from its eyes.
“Didn’t expect your associative ability to be quite strong. Cersabiras is indeed somewhat related to Abiras, as they are close relatives. However, its strength is much more formidable than Abiras, probably reaching the level of a second-level wizard.”
“Cersabiras is an enormous creature, its true body incredibly massive. A single movement can cause cataclysmic consequences. For the sake of life in the Middle World, it has been ordered by wizards not to move. Therefore, it usually can only patrol the Middle World using its eyes. What you saw just now should be its eye.”
After Shadow finished speaking, he suddenly pointed at the sky, “Look, the Fiery Molten Birds are here.”
Angel looked up and saw a fire cloud suddenly flying across the sky at the edge of the solitary moonlit night, flapping their fiery wings, circling the sky several times before slowly disappearing into the twilight.
“These Fiery Molten Birds are all half-step wizard-level magical creatures, but even official wizards do not dare to provoke them because there are too many… They are gregarious birds and never appear alone.”
“They must have noticed us? Why haven’t they attacked us?” Angel curiously asked.
“Attack us? They can’t.” Shadow mysteriously smiled and pointed to a location in the northwest, “That’s a Magic Source Giant. Observe carefully, and you’ll understand why.”
A Magic Source Giant? Angel followed Shadow’s finger and saw a colossal figure, over a hundred meters tall, lying in the sky, curiously gazing at a spot on the ground.
Wait, lying… in the sky?
Angel blinked, and looked intently towards the Magic Source Giant, indeed lying in the sky!
The good-natured Magic Source Giant seemed to notice Angel’s gaze, turned its head to stare at Angel for a moment, showed no interest, and turned back to keep watching a certain spot.
As the Magic Source Giant turned its head, Angel faintly saw a thin, glass-like dome that seemed to separate the Magic Source Giant’s form, allowing it to lie in the sky.
“You see? That’s why they can’t attack us… There is a bowl-shaped dome covering this place, blocking the monsters’ advance, and they can only secretly observe from outside the dome…”
“Here, the Kulakuka tribe’s territory, is the only race under the dome!”
As Shadow said this, he suddenly sighed, “The Black Castle wizard who protected the Kulakuka tribe was truly a great figure. The dome he created allowed the Kulakuka tribe to live in peace without being disturbed by the outside world.”
Shadow said this and pointed to the spot where the Magic Source Giant had been staring, “That’s where the Kulakuka tribe lives. Want to take a look?”
“How do you know the Kulakuka tribe lives there?” Angel remembered that Shadow had said no one had been below the dome before, so how did he know the current settlement of the Kulakuka tribe?
“Although I haven’t been in, I have observed the situation inside the dome while riding the Sky Ghost Ship outside the dome.”
Outside the dome?
Angel looked at Shadow with a puzzled face, were there more than one entrance to the Middle World?
“Do you think the Middle World only has the Corpse Hiding Cave’s magic formation entrance? Of course not. The reason you rarely see transcendent beings in the Outer World is that most of them are in the Middle World. The Middle World is as vast as the Outer World, and most wizard organizations in Fairytale Town are established in the Middle or Inner World. Even Silent Hill is in the Middle World, so I said, even if you reach Silent Hill, you may not be able to find it.”
As Shadow walked towards the Kulakuka tribe’s territory, he explained, “But the dome is too sturdy; no creature can break through and enter. I could only observe the Kulakuka tribe like that Magic Source Giant from outside the dome, without a way to enter. If it weren’t for the Gami brothers telling me about the magic formation in the Corpse Hiding Cave of the Outer World, I would estimate that the only way to break through and enter would be to wait until I become a wizard on the Path of True Knowledge.”
Angel scoffed, “You certainly have confidence in yourself, speaking as if the Path of True Knowledge is just a fork in the road, depending on whether you choose it or not.”
Shadow didn’t take Angel’s ridicule to heart, but instead confidently said, “As long as I can obtain that item in Black Castle, I will definitely become a formal wizard! Once I become a formal wizard, I will have the confidence to embark on the Path of True Knowledge!”
Seeing Shadow’s confident appearance, Angel didn’t continue with the mockery, as having confidence was much better than being constantly worried.
Angel: “Since there are so many entrances to the Middle World, as you said, many wizard organizations are also located in the Inner World. There should be ways to enter the Inner World, so why did you choose to enter from here?”
Shadow laughed, “You’re right, but I’m not going to the Black Castle wizard organization, but the ‘Real Black Castle’!”
“There are only two ways to enter the ‘Real Black Castle’: either teleport from the hinterland of the Black Castle organization or enter from here! In the hinterland of the Black Castle organization, there are many apprentices and wizards, and I dare not barge in, so the only path in front of me is this one.”
Chapter 372 The Middle World <TOC> Chapter 374 Another Magic Garden