Chapter 887: Going Away
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“They’re dead?” The Three-headed man and the giant tortoise exchanged a glance, each noticing the astonishment in their partner’s eyes. The Honorable God Blackfrost and the Violetfire King had died without any resistance, their forces gradually vanishing.
Those were two formidable existences at the ultimate third-grade!
Merlin cast a glance at the Void Zone. The Illusory World beside him was shrouding his side at all times. Thereafter, he retracted the Illusory World into his body once more.
The loss he had suffered from his body being destroyed was undoubtedly the Matrix. Currently, he could no longer contact the Matrix. Without the Matrix, Merlin had no way of using the Golden Ray Armor.
Fortunately, by now the Golden Ray Armor was dispensable to Merlin. Even if a genuine Golden Ray Warrior were to appear, Merlin would not be inferior by much. His Illusory World was accomplished, its forces were consolidated, and it was difficult to defeat.
As for the Matrix, for a long time, Merlin did not understand it deeply but he had a general feeling that the Matrix was no longer as it was in his past life. It was able to devour other intelligent programs. The Matrix might ultimately slowly grow into a special life form which had reversed the natural order, even more powerful than the black cat Didimoss, but that would take a long time.
Merlin looked at his surroundings. After his body crumbled, the threads of the natural order attached to his body had mostly disappeared. Now, there were only very few left.
These threads meant that Merlin was still linked to the Void Zone and not completely cut off. Unless the Illusory World was materialized as reality, this connection would always exist.
Considering the Void Zone’s attitude toward Merlin now, this connection was fatal. In the following period, Merlin would endure the rejection or the abandonment of the Void Zone. In other words, the current Merlin was an enemy of the entire Void Zone, just like the Vestigial Tribe of the past.
He would encounter various outrageous difficulties. This was an instinctual response of a Latitude Cosmo. Perhaps when the Vestigial Tribe created the Virtual Wonderland, they only wished to understand the Void Zone’s mysteries. However, it was a shame they had never met Aruba. Naturally, they did not know this was merely the Void Zone’s instinct.
“Swoosh.”
Titus appeared from Merlin’s Illusory World. After the Illusory World was perfected, Titus received many benefits. His Mind Power was more solid, condensing in the Illusory World just as if it was real.
If Merlin could materialize illusions as reality, Titus who was dead for who-knew-how-many years would be resurrected, completing the path he had never walked before.
“Merlin, you’re able to perfect the Illusory World. Is this how a perfected Illusory World looks? Haha, now I’ve experienced how a refined world feels like. If I can be resurrected, who knows, I might be able to create a perfect world too!”
Titus finally had hope once more. He had seen the light. Ever since he was in the Slothful Beast, following Merlin step by step to this current stage, Titus had witnessed Merlin’s every upgrade – from the constant expansion of the Illusory World to the time Merlin was at a loss – to Merlin’s enlightenment in the end.
Titus had personal experience, so he was truly blessed with an exceptional advantage.
If he could be resurrected, he had a chance of creating a perfect world. Nonetheless, Merlin knew that his success could not be replicated. In truth, each Mind Power Master, though they walked a similar early path, would diverge from each other when they had reached the step of condensing the Illusory World, which was the stage of the Tenth-level Mind Power Master.
In condensing an Illusory World, no one could create the same world. Even if Titus had witnessed Merlin’s Illusory World and personally gone through what Merlin had experienced, he still had no way to condense an Illusory World similar to Merlin’s.
Therefore, it was immensely challenging for a Mind Power Master to perfect their Illusory World. Perhaps the Tenth-level was the most difficult juncture for a Mind Power Master. Other than Merlin, it was unlikely for another Mind Power Master to perfect their Illusory World.
“Merlin, what are you going to do about those two?”
Titus directed his gaze at the faraway Three-headed man and the giant tortoise.
“Them?”
Merlin frowned. These two foreign creatures were rather special. Earlier, they had not attacked nor aided him. He did not know what their motives were.
“Swish.”
With one step, Merlin immediately came before the Three-headed man and the giant tortoise, gazing calmly at these two foreign creatures. Although his eyes were placid, these two would not be that calm, having witnessed Merlin easily slay the Honorable God Blackfrost and the Violetfire King.
“Wizard Merlin, we mean you no harm.”
“I know. Earlier, you didn’t join in the attack.”
Merlin also wished to hear what these two were up to. They had gone to the trouble of coming to the remote Spell Caster civilization. Merlin did not think they were here just to take a look at him.
Both of them drew in a deep breath. Although currently they were affected by the Void Zone too, feeling a sense of “hatred”, “dread”, and even “anxiety” upon seeing Merlin, they did not lose their rationality. They knew that it was best to state their purpose now or they might end up just like the Honorable God Blackfrost and the Violetfire King.
Thus, the Three-headed man said, “Wizard Merlin, to be honest, we came to borrow your strength to go to a mysterious place. That place has a relationship to Wizard Merlin’s Golden Ray Armor. If both of us go in alone, it’d be dangerous but with the Golden Ray Armor, it’d be much safer. Who knows, we might be able to enter that wondrous place.”
“Borrow the Golden Ray Armor’s power? Is it a place of the Vestigial Tribe?”
Merlin’s heart leaped and immediately thought of the Vestigial Tribe.
Back when the Vestigial Tribe swept over the Void Zone, they had affected the Void Zone tremendously. Merlin’s present situation was similar to the Vestigial Tribe’s situation. Therefore, understanding the Vestigial Tribe better might help Merlin’s materialization of the Illusory World.
After all, Merlin’s only path was to materialize the Illusory World. This was an untrodden path. Even if Aruba came again, he could not assist Merlin. In the end, this was a different path. Back when Aruba was in his own Latitude Cosmo, he had used absolute force to overcome the natural order, destroying the Latitude Cosmo he was in, and thus escaping that place.
Nonetheless, Merlin was unlike this at all. He was giving birth to another Latitude Cosmo, which even Aruba would not comprehend. After all, everyone had different ways of overcoming the natural order.
At this point, Merlin could only rely on himself!
“That’s right, it’s linked to the Vestigial Tribe. However, I wonder if Wizard Merlin is still able to mobilize the power of the Golden Ray Armor?”
The Three-headed man and the giant tortoise stared at Merlin in slight worry.
“I’m incapable of activating the Golden Ray Armor’s power. Do you think that the current me is unable to compare to an actual Golden Ray Warrior?”
A confident smile tugged at the corner of Merlin’s lips.
The hearts of the Three-headed man and the giant tortoise trembled slightly. That was right. They could not see through this present Merlin but the ultimate third-grade was no match for him. One had to at least be an existence of the ultimate fourth-grade, the Emperor-level.
If he was an Emperor-level contender, then even without the Golden Ray Armor, entering that place was not a problem at all. It was even an assurance.
“Wizard Merlin, have you decided to go?”
“Sure, why not? By now, there isn’t much that’d interest me. I believe anyone would be interested in anything to do with the Vestigial Tribe.”
Merlin could not even judge his own capability now but the Void Zone’s origin of the natural order was powerless against him. He did not know how he would fare against the Thirty-six Emperors since he had never fought them.
“Wizard Merlin, do you need to make arrangements for your civilization? That mysterious place is way too distant, and might take over ten thousand years with just one trip.”
The Three-headed man could tell that Merlin cared for the Spell Caster civilization. Otherwise, he would not spend so much time staying in the Spell Caster civilization.
“More than ten thousand years…”
Merlin fell into contemplation. He would leave the Spell Caster civilization sooner or later. After all, even if his current abilities had not reached a bottleneck, staying on in the Spell Caster civilization was meaningless.
Moreover, because of the Illusory World, Merlin was now repelled by the entire Void Zone. Merlin could not guarantee that what happened to the Vestigial Tribe would not happen to him.
At that point, the countless civilizations of the Void Zone would join forces. If existences like the Thirty-six Emperors appeared once again, Merlin might be fine, but the Spell Caster civilization would surely be doomed.
Thus, Merlin certainly would not stay in the Spell Caster civilization anymore. If he did, he would only bring catastrophe down upon the Spell Caster civilization. That would be an extinction event that Merlin would be unable to resist by himself.
“To think that things would develop to this stage… However, I still have to inform them.”
Merlin unleashed a long sigh. He had never thought that after the Illusory World was perfected, he would be rejected by the Void Zone, even rousing the origin of the natural order. He had no choice but to leave the Spell Caster civilization. Otherwise, the rejection of the Void Zone was not something a mere Spell Caster civilization could withstand.
“Whoosh.”
Merlin took a step out and quickly searched for Arcane Wizards Augustus and Ceci. In so many years, the Spell Caster civilization’s growth was rapid, even producing quasi-ultimate existences.
Merlin briefly instructed Wizards Augustus and Ceci. In truth, there was nothing much to tell them. The Spell Caster civilization was on the right track long ago. All he had to do was hand over the controlling rights of Glory City to Wizards Augustus and Ceci.
Wizards Augustus and Ceci only knew that Merlin was going away on a journey, but did not know the present extent of Merlin’s growth. Nonetheless, it was just as well. Let the Spell Caster civilization develop slowly. With the things Merlin had left behind, even if the Spell Caster civilization encountered any dangers, they could get through it safely.
Having done all this, Merlin did not delay any longer. Together with the Three-headed man and the giant tortoise, he boarded the Aurora warship and swiftly left the Spell Caster civilization, flying into the depths of the boundless Void Zone…
