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Rather than competing with other powerful wizards within the wizarding world for limited internal resources, wizards prefer to wage wars of aggression against other realms to plunder resources for growth. This is how the wizarding civilization, which follows the laws of the Black Forest, came to be.
If Earth's civilization is a history of five thousand years of civil war, then the wizards' twenty thousand years of civilization is an outright history of invasion.
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 781 Another World
In the past 20,000 years of invasions, the wizard civilization has personally exterminated countless races and destroyed numerous civilized planets. Not to mention the intelligent races that were slaughtered. It is precisely because they have such abundant resources in the outer realms that the wizards have not exploited the wizard world much. This has led to a situation where wizards and mortals, who originally came from the same source, have eventually become almost two separate races.
After all, apart from apprentice wizards who may need to interact with mortals, formal wizards almost always operate around the Outer Realms—the Wizarding World has everything in the Outer Realms, and the Outer Realms don't have anything in the Wizarding World, so they naturally don't need to have any contact with ordinary people.
Furthermore, as wizarding civilizations explored and expanded into other realms, they discovered many other races with the same potential to become wizards. As a result, the importance of mortals in the wizarding world has further diminished, leading to recent comments that "the wizarding world doesn't need Muggles."
"After rapid development, will militarism and racism emerge?"
He shook his head and shifted his attention to the records further down the list.
As a renowned wizarding organization on the Wizarding Continent, the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy was attempting a solo expedition to another world before its destruction. Although the target was only a low-level world, it was still a remarkable feat for a single academy to confront an entire world. In the past, expeditions of this scale were usually accomplished by either high-ranking Sun Wizards or by a few Moon Wizards leading dozens of Morning Star Wizards. However, Charles, the Moon Wizard of the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy, was highly confident in his abilities and bypassed the process of joining forces with other wizarding organizations to launch the expedition directly. This move may well have been a preparation for his advancement to Sun Wizard.
Judging from the records of the battle, this Moonlit Wizard did indeed possess the power to suppress a low-level world, and had almost completed the takeover of that alien world before the invasion of Earth civilization on the west coast. However, as Earth civilization approached, he was forced to return to the Wizarding World after the Wizard Tower was destroyed, and followed the Wizard Tower to his end... In a sense, Lin Yi did avenge that alien world.
"Another world..."
Lin Yi was somewhat puzzled.
As a typical aggressive civilization, the Wizarding Civilization does not possess a high-precision world selection mechanism like "Fragments". Did it not encounter any difficult worlds during its numerous expeditions to other realms over a period of 20,000 years?
Any mechanism needs sufficient experience and data to grow. Even Lin Yi was able to avoid those relatively dangerous and highly active worlds at the beginning because of the existence of the main god. Otherwise, given his strength as an ordinary person at the start, if he had been directly thrown into those heavenly or purgatory planes, he probably wouldn't even have been able to survive.
However, how did a wizarding civilization that did not possess this ability select suitable worlds to invade in the very beginning?
It's important to understand that the invasion of the wizarding civilization wasn't like Earth's, where the entire race's power was mobilized to invade other worlds as an expeditionary force. Instead, it was carried out by wizarding organizations, simultaneously invading multiple other worlds. Under these circumstances, Lin Yi didn't believe they were so lucky as to randomly launch ten thousand invasions of other worlds without encountering even a single high-energy other world.
If such an event were to occur, given the power displayed by the wizarding civilization in its early stages, it would certainly suffer severe damage even if it were not wiped out; it's unlikely that it would be completely forgotten in history.
In addition, the existence of that "wizard's will" and the means of world transfer also have a subtle sense of déjà vu.
"If it were the will of a planet or a world, it would be impossible for the 'wizard' race to be created out of thin air. The vast majority of ordinary humans are the 'orthodox' beings on this planet. Even if a few pigs were to establish a dynasty in this world, they would be more orthodox than the wizards."
From a realistic perspective, these wizards are the outliers in the wizarding world because they were not born from this world, but rather transformed from humans into another form of existence. However, they seized ownership of this world through some means, and even a "wizard's will" similar to the will of a planet was born and revolves around the wizards.
This also resulted in the fact that the mortals who truly belonged to this world were unable to achieve any leap in civilization for 20,000 years. They remained the same as they were 20,000 years ago.
Thinking about this, Lin Yi was lost in thought. If he hadn't chosen to invade other countries after obtaining the God of God, but instead stayed on Earth and infiltrated it, perhaps Earth would have one day given birth to the "Will of the God of God" and become like this?
"Father?"
"...It's alright, go back."
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Considering the existence of the "Tower Organization" whose intelligence had just been obtained, the expeditionary force did not waste any more time on the territory of the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy. Instead, after hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield, they returned to base with "Prometheus" at the head.
On the way back, Lin Yi also detected several tracking auras, but after Eve activated the space-based particle orbital cannon and vaporized two of them, they all fled.
One week later, on the West Coast.
The anti-gravity engine slowly shut down with a low hum, and the ship came to a stop at the temporary port where a large number of people were taking over.
The data needs to be deciphered, the wizard's power needs to be reassessed, the damaged parts need to be replaced and repaired, and the soldiers who have been sacrificed or lost need to be replenished... Earth civilization is not the Main God Space, and their wars are not just for victory, but for the many benefits that victory can bring. This determines that they cannot fight endlessly as long as there is still one individual left in the Main God Space.
After resolving the pressing issue of the Five Rings Tower, Earth's civilization needs time to heal its wounds and fully exploit these "spoils of war." During this period, it is impossible for them to rashly launch another invasion.
During this lull, Lin Yi did not intend to continue the invasion with the automaton. Compared to the wizarding world, which he already had a preliminary understanding of, Lin Yi was now more curious about the "otherworldly" worlds they had come into contact with.
Coincidentally, Lin Yi had the coordinates of such an alien world in his possession.
—A crumbling alien world, recently invaded by the Five Rings Tower.
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 782 The Grey World
Hollow valley.
As a sudden surge of blazing white energy coursed through the valley, the unfamiliar "visitor" rose from the melting lava and surveyed the unfamiliar surroundings.
"Oxygen content is low, gravity index is 0.73, and active energy concentration is extremely low..."
"Click"
Through the reddish-brown soil, one can vaguely see the pale white skeleton buried beneath: "Carbon-based life form."
A gray world.
This is the name given to this alien world by the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy. Since the wizards on the war fortress are mainly responsible for following up and managing this world, there isn't much information recorded about it on the wizard tower except for basic coordinates. However, one thing can be confirmed.
"A war fortress?"
The anti-gravity field surrounding him slowly activated, propelling his body upwards.
Intelligence from the Wizard Tower revealed that the expedition to the Gray World was led by a Moon Wizard, a Morning Star Wizard, twelve Archmages, nearly two hundred Level 1 and Level 2 Wizards, and over a thousand wizarding apprentices. In addition, the wizards of the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy brought ten times that number of contracted creatures as "soldiers" to fight in this world, which constituted over 80% of the Bauhinia Wizarding Academy's main force.
If it weren't for the Moonlit Wizard's desperate move of leading most of the academy's forces to storm the alien world, even if the Earth Expeditionary Force had achieved victory, it probably wouldn't have been so simple.
With the collapse of the Wizard Tower, the wizards who had also signed contracts with the Five Rings Tower were naturally not going to fare any better. In addition, the Radiant Moon Wizard, who was supposed to be in charge at the time, suddenly disappeared. One can imagine what kind of fate awaited these wizards who were forced to remain in the alien world...
Of course, Lin Yi did not come specifically for those wizards in dire straits. If we're talking about dire straits, this invaded world is a hundred times more desolate than theirs, as can be seen from the valley piled high with corpses at his feet, since these are not human bodies.
The reason I came to this world was solely for the "war fortress" that the Moonlit Wizard hadn't had time to bring back to the wizarding world.
……
As the altitude increased, allowing the main god to scan the terrain, Lin Yi also gathered information about the native races of this alien world from the valley that had just appeared.
Unlike most of the worlds Lin Yi had encountered that had intelligent life, the Gray World, although also inhabited by intelligent life, was very different from humans in appearance.
The world is ruled by a creature called the "Grey."
The term "grey pig" sounds a bit hard to understand, but another way to describe it should be easier to imagine: pig.
That's right, the creatures that rule this world are "pigs"—at least in appearance they look very much like the livestock in Earth and the Wizarding World, only they are relatively small in size.
The civilization of the Gray World is relatively recent. Its barren environment, harsh climate, and limited living space have constrained its growth. According to data scanned by the Main God Space, the entire Gray World is less than half the size of Earth's moon, and nearly half of it is covered by toxic swamps and lava, making it a typical inhospitable area for life. The space truly suitable for the Gray World to grow is only about one-third.
Due to external constraints, the members of the Gray Raven civilization were always limited to a relatively small number, and the small number of members, in turn, restricted the growth of the civilization. It was not until the Gray Raven civilization was discovered and invaded by the Wizarding Civilization that it finally grew into an imperial feudal era.
Of course, that's all history now.
Moving under the gloomy and oppressive sky, Lin Yi arrived above a pile of ruins.
Traces of civilization could still be faintly discerned on the scorched earth. Numerous corpses were scattered from the edges towards the center, their exposed parts seemingly corroded by something, emitting a pungent stench. The residual radiation in the air allowed Lin Yi to identify the root cause of the deaths of these gray creatures.
The massive cannon muzzle protruding from the H-84 folded space beside him was aimed directly below. As a deep roar spread, a vast underground structure appeared before him beneath the falling sand and gravel.
There were dozens of times more corpses piled up inside than on the ground. Faced with the radiation infection from the Moonlit Wizards, the Grayling civilization, powerless to resist, could only choose to escape in this way, but the outcome remained unchanged.
For the Greys, whose very survival in this harsh world is a challenge, they were simply struggling to continue their civilization, neither provoking nor offending anyone, merely existing. However, the arrival of the wizard destroyed everything they had fought so hard to achieve...
Poor?
It's pitiful, but that's civilization.
Kindness and compassion are the surplus of the victors. Imagine if humans on Earth were still fighting with wild beasts for food in the jungle, trying every means to survive from sharp teeth and claws, then who would say that we should protect rare animals?
The essence of civilization has always been no different from life itself: to plunder the nutrients of the outside world in exchange for its own continuation. It's just that the wizard civilization, which also has the ability to interfere with other worlds, is more straightforward than the Time and Space Administration.
Following the lingering traces of radiation in the air, and pulled away by the anti-gravity force, we left this ruined civilization.
……
【drop--】
In the dim, enclosed space, Yosafat felt exhausted upon waking: as if he had been forced to perform the Morning Star spell a hundred times after a hundred years of tireless, high-precision wizarding research.
As expected, Yosafat discovered that his mental energy was depleted, including the "mana" he had stored up to deal with the alien world.
"It's not the worst-case scenario yet, is it?"
Panting, the Morning Star Wizard rose from the cold ground.
The magical array that maintained the constant temperature inside the war fortress had stopped. At best, it was due to energy depletion; at worst, it had been damaged in the previous crash—meaning not just a temperature-regulating array, but the collapse of a large number of intricate structures, including those that had torn apart the world barrier.
This isn't the worst.
Wiping away the blood that had seeped from his face—whether from his eyes, nose, or somewhere else—Yosafat calmly assessed his current situation.
The collapse of the Five Rings Tower was already a foregone conclusion; otherwise, the Radiant Moon Wizard would not have forcibly extracted the wizards' mental energy to construct a world-class teleportation spell just after destroying the last Gray Raven stronghold—indirectly causing the wizards maintaining the war fortress to lose consciousness and fall directly from the sky at a height of five thousand meters.
Yosafat was certain that at that altitude, no one but himself could survive, thus confirming his own predicament.
Alone, stripped of his magical powers, and with a dilapidated and powerless fortress, he finds himself stranded in a completely desolate world.
"...Oh, the worst-case scenario. [Unintelligible characters]"
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 783 Click
Dragging his exhausted body, Yosafat barely managed to move to the main control switch, took a high-grade magic stone from his pocket, and threw it into the energy pool on the side.
"Om-"
A dim purple glow shone on the Morning Star Wizard's face, giving off an eerie atmosphere.
"Fortunately, the energy pool was not damaged."
This discovery gave the Morning Star Wizard a slight boost. If the energy pool were also damaged, there would be no way to repair it in this alien world that lacked even the most basic maintenance facilities. At that point, Yosafat would have no choice but to wait for death.
Fortunately, some of the energy pools continued to operate even though the main body had been impacted and collapsed.
"The separation mechanism is still relatively intact. If it's just a partial repair, it shouldn't be a problem. The main issue is energy. The mana concentration in this world is less than one percent of that in the Wizarding World. If we rely solely on natural extraction, it will take at least three hundred years..."
Three hundred years is not a long time, at least not for the Morning Star Wizards who spend hundreds of years on a single experiment. However, Yosafat cannot guarantee that he can hold out until the energy pool is full enough to activate the separation mechanism in his current state.
"I'll have to use magic stones instead. I remember I have three hundred high-grade magic stones in the storage area. Hopefully that'll be enough."
Just as I was about to get up, a sound suddenly came from outside the command area.
The sound wasn't particularly loud, yet within the deathly silent war fortress, it was clearer than anything else.
Yosafat's movements stiffened slightly. As he turned around abruptly, he instinctively tried to cast a spell, but his depleted mental energy prevented him from even completing the most basic reconnaissance spell. Helpless, he could only rely on his own vision to observe the pitch-black area in the distance.
"Del?"
Del, a level three archmage, was in charge of controlling the levitation magic outside the war fortress when the accident occurred. If he were still alive, he would be near this side.
However, there was no response from the outside.
The knocking sound vanished as if it were an illusion, and the fortress fell into cold, deathly silence once more.
half an hour.
"Perhaps some part is damaged."
After giving himself a reasonable explanation, Yosafat breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to the faintly glowing energy pool. However, the knocking sound rang out again as he turned around.
It's getting close.
"Damn it!"
He pulled a dark blue magic stone from his pocket and held it in his hand. Despite his pale face, the Morning Star Wizard still walked step by step to the outer edge.
……
The microparticle decomposition rays irradiated the gray-black metal shell, forcibly cutting a hole with a radius of two meters into its surface before Lin Yi stepped inside.
Upon entering, one is immediately struck by a pungent odor mixed with a strong, pungent smell of blood. Light emanating from within the folded space illuminates the surrounding traces, revealing a scene of corpses scattered across the ground.
They mostly died from the impact of the fall—which is easy to spot because their bones and all were crushed by the pressure.
After confirming that there were no survivors, the invisible force field pushed aside the wreckage blocking its way and bypassed the obviously impassable areas to go deeper inside.
As Lin Yi got closer to the central area, he discovered a strange mark.
Inside the narrow metal passage, remnants of what looked like "tunnels" formed by the movement of soft-bodied creatures remained on the ground, and the earthy smell still seemed quite fresh.
The position constrained the placement of a portion of the viscous liquid left on the "passage" in front of them, and the analysis results were quite interesting.
"leech?"
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"click"
The thirteenth ring brought the distance to a very short distance, just across a wall.
Taking a deep breath, Yosafat used the last bit of mental energy he had managed to gather to pry open the mana contained within the high-grade magic stone in his hand. With a murmured incantation, he performed a simple detection spell, using the unique penetrating power of the spell to seep into the other side of the metal wall.
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