Chapter 607: Light
Thousands upon tens of thousands of emerald green vines extended from the earth core. Observing from space, one could see the earth core as if it had been pierced by thousands of slender wooden needles.
With greenery brimming, the Elven Gods, who had been suppressed by Ace and hiding in the Reflection World, not daring to show their faces, actually walked out. Some deities shouted: “It’s Hope! The crown of the World Tree, the legal wife of His Majesty the Overgod Ao, the power of Hope!”
“But didn’t we confirm that the power of Hope was stolen by that Kaya deity at the North Pole?”
“But this is undoubtedly the power of Hope, and it has the favor of the World Tree. This shouldn’t be wrong.”
The anomaly of the World Tree’s power caused an even more violent reaction between the two worlds. The crystal walls on the outer side of the worlds had already collided, emitting a massive sound of squeezing.
On the four-dimensional level, Ace raced against time to activate the spell model, completely fixing the four-dimensional particle corresponding to the artificial sub-plane.
“Curvature determined, energy prepared, gravity ready: Hyperspace Jump Spell!”
Hum!
Before the greenery rippled to the four-dimensional particle, Ace jumped the entire artificial sub-plane, instantly leaving Kaya, this land of the vortex.
On the three-dimensional level, the artificial sub-plane suddenly burst with brilliant light, disappearing from the inner side of the world and appearing not far from the Kaya World and the Giant Tree World.
At the same time, the four-dimensional Ace did not hesitate, continuing to activate the Hyperspace Jump Spell, pulling the four-dimensional particle to continuously jump along the four-dimensional space-time curvature to the curvature ravine between the Level 4 and Level 3 Astral Plane layers.
The so-called curvature ravine was akin to a fault line. If compared using two dimensions, it was the gap between sheets of white paper.
“This kind of jump requires energy. The jump of an entire sub-plane requires massive energy as thrust. Passing through the Astral Plane boundary membrane from three dimensions is much better than crossing the ravine from four dimensions. It’s like solving a math problem: using the geometric method will be much faster than using equations.”
Ace quietly down-dimensioned, appearing in the Golden Starlight Hall of the Mobile Fortress sub-plane, where the Legendary Immortal Wizards were waiting.
“Lord Ace, this is the specific data of the twenty-three jumps we just recorded. Please review it.”
The Ninth Ring Legendary Immortal Wizard Warren stepped forward and handed a magic parchment scroll to Ace.
Ace glanced at it casually, confirmed there were no problems, and casually opened a spatial vortex, sending the magic parchment into the Archives and Records Room. After the Golden Wizards in the Archives and Records Room filed the paper data, they entered the data into the magical computer.
In the Starlight Hall, Ace looked around at everyone and said with high spirits: “The two hundred years in the Kaya World were two hundred years of high-speed development for our magic, two hundred years of prosperity for the High Tower Wizards. But at this moment, I made a decision in a very short time to immediately launch the jump plan. Except for the eleven Legendary Immortal Wizards staying behind, our forty Legendary Immortal Wizards and a portion of highly potential Mythical Wizards and Legendary Wizards all left Kaya.
“I didn’t explain the reason to you, yet you followed voluntarily. Here, I want to thank everyone for your trust.”
Following Ace’s bow, the Legendary Immortal Wizards present also bowed one after another. Daina said even more emotionally: “Lord Ace, we have always trusted You. You will always be our guide.”
Ace smiled and said gently to everyone: “You must be very curious why I immediately implemented the jump plan, implementing it almost like fleeing, right?”
The wizards looked at each other. Bayen suddenly said: “Lord Ace, did You also foresee it?”
Ace looked at Bayen and asked in return: “What did you foresee?”
Dense starlight suddenly rose around Bayen, almost blending with the background of the hall. He spoke in a very blurry and ethereal voice: “Hopes clash, the Supreme awakens. Yesterday, I suddenly had a dream. I dreamt of an indescribable scene: a great existence will completely overturn the entire landscape, and in this future, I did not see wizards!”
Bayen spoke of a terrifying premonition. Everyone knew that as a Legendary Immortal Wizard, it was almost impossible for Bayen to dream. For Bayen, who was proficient in prophecy, a dream was often a kind of omen.
Ace nodded and said: “I do not know what will happen. But when the greenery was brimming, when I saw a massive amount of Law of Hope fragments surface, a wave of despair and unease rose in my heart. It’s hard to explain, but after ascending to four-dimensional space-time, I could feel that we had to flee Kaya.
“This change was so fast, there wasn’t even time to make any plans. My sub-plane, everyone’s sub-planes, and the wizards who didn’t leave Kaya, all stayed there.”
Ace looked back in the direction of Kaya and waved His right hand, bringing up a holographic scene.
The crystal wall of the Kaya World had already shattered, and the Giant Tree World was also pulled deep into it by the World Tree. The two worlds were accelerating their merger.
“This is the scene scanned by the Eye of the World, the external mega-structure of the Mobile Fortress. Without a doubt, the merger of the two worlds has accelerated. The remaining one hundred years we estimated might be gone. And I have neither permeated the entire Kaya World with the Magic Net nor advanced my Eleventh Ring spell model. This means it will be very difficult for us to survive the great upheaval.
“In the blink of an eye, it was difficult for us to mobilize other wizards to evacuate. Moreover, you should have also felt that diffusing emerald green. If we were enveloped by it, we might never be able to escape again.
“This is the direct reason for this operation. And right now, we are not out of danger yet. We must immediately cross the Astral Plane boundary membrane, arrive at a lower Astral Plane layer, and welcome the descent of the Wizard World Cluster there.
“Immediately activate all controllable nuclear fusion kinetic engines at full power, cross the Astral Plane boundary membrane!”
Following Ace’s command, the Mobile Fortress, like a precision instrument, immediately took action. The Artificial True God, or rather the canned True God “Alpha One,” began to issue orders. The entire sub-plane began to tremble slightly; like the first gear moving, the entire sub-plane machine began to move.
This rhythm gradually reached its peak. The runes engraved for Astral Plane shuttling were lit up one by one. Right below the core area, runes surfaced one by one, gradually forming a three-dimensional, highly complex, and aesthetically pleasing spell model.
It was exactly the mysterious spell from the Dragon race: Astral Plane Shuttling. The entire Mobile Fortress was gradually shrouded by this bizarre power. Like a television with a poor signal, the Mobile Fortress continuously flickered, ultimately disappearing. It entered the Astral Plane boundary membrane, passed through the dividing line of the Astral Plane via three dimensions, and entered a lower Astral Plane layer.
Forty Legendary Immortal Wizards at Level 5—among them Ace, a Legendary Immortal at the pinnacle of the Tenth Ring—and over a thousand Mythical Wizards: a force nearly invincible in the Level 3 Astral Plane layer, just appeared like this in the seemingly eternally silent void of the Astral Plane.
“Mana concentration is Level 3, spatial position completely changed. There should be no mistake: we have arrived at the Level 3 layer of the Astral Plane.”
“Immediately activate the information flow to establish contact with the Wizard World Cluster.”
In the Wizard World Cluster, an exceptionally brutal war was coming to an end.
The descenders from the True Name World had just been repelled. Ace’s Demi-god projection was bathed in blood. Behind Him were one hundred and twenty-one Mythical Wizards.
“The Holy Light that fled over a hundred thousand years ago has returned after all. And our location has already been pinpointed. Even if we ascend to a higher Astral Plane, we will be found by the other party. We’ll either be in perpetual, bloody battles descent after descent, or thoroughly exhaust the world’s foundation.”
“Lord Ace, we must contact the wizards in the Kaya World! Only they can save the Wizard World Cluster!”
“It’s been nearly a hundred thousand years. We have also fought with that group of angels descending from the True Name World for almost seventy thousand years. We really can’t hold on anymore. In the surrounding explorable Astral Plane void, we have conquered every world that could be conquered. But even so, our resources still cannot compare to an upper-layer world.”
“Yes, our Wizard World Cluster has completely evolved into a multiverse. It has a core Wizard Main World, an internal one thousand one hundred stellar systems, an external three hundred and twenty-one native realms, and over a hundred demi-planes of Mythical Wizards.
“But even this power, invincible in the Level 2 layer, finds it hard to resist the invasion of the True Name World!”
“Yes, according to the soul mark statistics of the Detection Department, there are already nearly four hundred and eighty Demi-god-level descenders of different types. Among them, over a dozen might be Demi-god projections of True Gods. They can unleash the power of a True God’s strike at critical moments. If Lord Ace hadn’t mobilized the Source Power of the entire Wizard Multiverse to resist, we might have long been turned into the enemy’s colony.”
“This Astral Plane is purely a dark forest. We have wiped out every world we could see in this layer to maintain our own survival. But ultimately, we were discovered by an upper-layer world. The other party has supernatural methods we cannot understand; no matter how we hide, they can find us.”
“Perhaps this is a kind of destination, the destination of a world.”
For a moment, all the Mythical Wizards looked somewhat downcast. They had fought for too long, too long. A bloody war of nearly seventy thousand years; they had used every method they could use. Being able to hold on until now and develop—developing from a single world into a multiverse—had already reached the limit allowed by this Astral Plane layer.
The world’s Great Source and the layer had already produced natural omens multiple times, attempting to make the Wizard Multiverse ascend.
In the City of Academia in the Celestial Realm, the Starry Sky Hall of the Central High Tower. All the Mythical Wizards of the Supreme Council who stayed behind gathered here.
A Mythical Wizard with a full beard stood up:
“I am Lucilu, from the Salia region of the Kaya World. When Lord Ace convened the wizards, I chose to return to the Wizard World Cluster, attempting to escape the terrifying chaos of the Kaya World.
“But after thirty thousand years of peace, the cruel reality shattered all of this. This world, this Astral Plane, although so vast, peace cannot possibly exist forever. Every world is a hunter with a gun. As long as coordinates are exposed, they will fall into the vortex of war.
“Either we wipe them out, or they wipe us out.
“Seventy thousand years of bloody war prove that we can no longer escape. We should choose ascension, ascend to a higher level. The True Name World might not immediately pinpoint us. Just like in this layer, every descent of theirs requires time.
“Using this time difference, it’s entirely possible for us to take a step further. You must know, we have relativity!
“Special Relativity has pointed out our path to immortality. The future is not bleak; we should not continue to escape.”
His remarks spoke the minds of many Mythical Wizards. Seventy thousand years, a full seventy thousand years. They had escaped for too long, and had already done everything possible in this layer. But the upper limit dictated that they could never defeat the enemy, which was simply despair-inducing.
Another Mythical Wizard also stood up and shouted loudly: “Such hiding and bloody battles are to no avail. Seventy thousand years of time and three hundred million casualties have proven that we can never win in the lower layer. This is a war that was unbalanced from the start.
“We cannot escape anymore! Seventy thousand years! Seventy thousand years! We absolutely cannot flee anymore.
“Ascend to the upper layer, concentrate all resources, and cultivate several Legendary Immortal Wizards in a short time. Lord Ace’s projection should also be able to directly advance. As long as we are not discovered in the first few days of just ascending, we can gain a qualitative advantage.
“Moreover, we can entirely continue to execute the fleeing strategy in the upper layer, constantly moving, mobilizing the enemy, even encountering other worlds, adding variables, thereby making it more possible to achieve success!”
“Your idea is too simple. If the other party has supernatural abilities we cannot comprehend and descends directly, what do we do?”
Yet another Mythical Wizard stood up, questioning loudly.
“That is also just one possibility. Any possibility is better than being endlessly hunted down like this.”
…
The discussions continued. Ace’s projection quietly looked at these over a hundred Mythical Wizards. A hundred thousand years of time, seventy thousand years of bloody war—everyone was thoroughly exhausted. And the volume of the Wizard Multiverse had indeed reached the layer limit; perhaps they truly had to ascend.
Ace’s projection tilted His head up and looked at the sky. How exactly was the true body doing? Ever since returning from the Kaya World, that soul frequency of the true body that allowed for real-time communication had disappeared. He could only confirm one thing: the true body shouldn’t have perished, otherwise, He, as a projection, would directly perish.
“It seems we have reached the limit. We cannot wait any longer. Although the safest method is to strike from the higher level of the Kaya World, ideally triggering an invasion by the Kaya Gods, there’s no time.”
Having made up His mind, Ace stood up from the main seat. He raised His hands high and pressed down in the air. Everyone stopped their discussions and looked expectantly at Ace.
Ace said slowly and firmly: “Immediately proceed with the World Ascension Ritual. I will communicate with the Great Source as the World Controller. You all return to your own demi-planes. Thirty seconds from now, our entire world will ascend.”
Massive cheers erupted. The wizards disappeared one after another, all returning to their respective demi-planes, waiting for the world’s ascension.
Ace’s projection also disappeared. He appeared in the world’s rule layer, communicating with the Great Source of Dreams. The entire world began to boil and cheer, countless powers surging. The Wizard Multiverse vibrated at a high frequency and gradually disappeared.
Boom!
A million times more powerful than a thunderbolt, as if splitting heaven and earth, the entire Wizard Multiverse began to cross the Astral Plane boundary membrane. Its crystal wall gradually became thicker and sturdier during this ascension. A mysterious rhythm seemed to be injected, and the essence of the Wizard Multiverse began to slowly elevate.
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“Unable to contact the Wizard World Cluster, its coordinates seem to have completely disappeared?”
The wizard operating the instrument said somewhat in disbelief.
“Did you forget to turn on curvature observation? We have a Great Source sample of the Wizard World Cluster. No matter where it is, as long as it’s still in that layer, it’s impossible not to find it.”
Another wizard laughed and snatched the observation instrument, his eyes going wide.
“The Wizard World Cluster was annihilated? How could it completely disappear?”
The news was quickly reported up. Ace and the other Legendary Immortal Wizards were somewhat dumbfounded.
“The dynamic coordinates of the Great Source disappeared?”
Bayen said suspiciously.
“Could the entire Wizard World Cluster have already been annihilated? We clearly contacted them during the early stages of the Godfall Storm.”
“That time, converted into the time of the Wizard World Cluster, is also eighty thousand years from now. It’s too long ago, I fear…”
Ace suddenly interrupted everyone’s discussion and said solemnly: “Impossible. My projection is in the Wizard World Cluster. If the projection disappeared, I would have sensed it immediately after leaving the Godfall Storm. Therefore, there is only one possibility.”
“What?”
The Legendary Immortal Wizards asked together.
“Do you know when curvature dynamic coordinates will hide? When the curvature approaches infinity! And there is one such place where the curvature is infinite!”
Thales clapped his hands and said loudly: “I know! It’s the Astral Plane boundary membrane! From a three-dimensional perspective, it’s a boundary membrane, but in four dimensions, it’s a curvature ravine, approaching infinity, difficult to cross.”
Ace nodded: “Correct. We will begin searching non-stop; we will find them sooner or later.”
…
Somewhere in the Level 3 Astral Plane layer, an extremely vast world had just defeated another newly ascended world. Angels flew out from it one by one, recovering the resources of that world.
An orb of light full of radiance emerged, transforming into a ray of brilliance, and extracted the Great Source core from the wreckage of the world that had already been breached.
An angel with sixteen wings on its back approached the orb of light, bowed respectfully, and said: “Respected Majesty Radiant Sun, the sensing of the Wizard World has disappeared.”
The orb of light emitted a mellow voice. One couldn’t distinguish if it was male or female, but it was magnetic and pleasant to hear.
“It seems we have another new prey that couldn’t endure it anymore. You did very well, Angel of Holy Light. I originally thought the world where you failed was just a small fish, but I didn’t expect it to grow into a behemoth, actually holding out under our continuous invasions for four thousand years.
“This made the other Majesties look at it with new eyes as well.”
The angel named Holy Light knelt on one knee and said in a gentle voice: “It was my poor management that brought shame to Your Majesty. Please punish me, Your Majesty.”
“Hahaha, what crime is there? You are my Named One, sharing the radiance with me. All decisions were approved by me. In the nearly two million years of the True Name World’s history, this is the first time encountering such a lower-tier world. It added a lot of joy for me; I really couldn’t bear to just crush them like that.”
The orb of light actually trembled slightly as it laughed.
“We must not be careless, my Majesty. Although our Radiant Sun Church has eighty Named Ones and one thousand and one Pseudonymous Ones, this Wizard World is truly extraordinary. They actually held out for nearly four thousand years, and continuously grew stronger during these four thousand years.
“Their strength expanded too fast; they actually already have nearly a hundred so-called Mythical Wizards, equivalent to Pseudonymous Ones.
“If left unchecked, we might even be counter-killed by them!”
(Chapter finished)
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