A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 1425: Chapter 1426: Summer’s Blessing

Green could no longer descend to the Wizard World as casually as when he was just a Low-grade Stigmata Wizard, with only a simple application and note.

At this point Green’s Strength was simply too overwhelming. Every casual gesture might trigger temporal distortions and wreak massive havoc on the ecological balance of lower beings. If it were a Different World, that would be one thing, but in the Wizard World, if the True Spirit Wizards all roamed around as they pleased, ordinary Humans probably wouldn’t even be able to proliferate on a large scale. The fragile bodies of ordinary Humans even needed the careful cultivation of the Wizards in the Sorcerer’s Towers before they could reproduce in villages and towns across the Wizard World.

This was the limitation of the Wizard World.

Thus, wanting to descend to the Wizard World, Green pondered over and over and finally decided to seek out the Summer Guardian Mina to place an external Seal upon himself. Only then could he, for a period of time, suppress his damage to the Wizard World to the minimum and let his True Body descend to the Wizard World.

Taking out the Crystal Ball, Green sat inside the Void Mothership with Xiao Ba perched on his shoulder. A ripple spread out, and through the Wizard’s Will he contacted Mina, who was currently guarding near the Abyssal Underworld entrance by the Oblivion Tower in the 22nd District of the Sorcerer Continent.

Fiery crimson light, incomparably scorching!

"Green?"

Mina peered out suspiciously from the Crystal Ball at the space beside Green, confirmed that only Green was in the room, and then revealed a playful, wicked grin.

"Yo, brother-in-law, big sis isn’t around, huh? Humph, humph, humph, I might have gritted my teeth and handed you over to my sister, but that was only because there was nothing I could do. You clearly know I was the one who had my eye on you first. Now that you’ve already promised my sister yet still contact me in private like this, looks like you’re not as faithful as you pretend to be, are you? Trying to dig up a bit of fun for your endless years from between our two sisters? Heh heh, I don’t mind at all."

Her dazzling, blazing red eyes and graceful, voluptuous figure were covered by only a few thin veils, an endless temp+tation that nonetheless left one not daring to harbor the slightest profane thought. That single "brother-in-law" instantly made Xiao Ba, who was staring at the Crystal Ball wide-eyed, burst into uncontrollable "gagagagaga" laughter.

"Wagagaga, this is so spicy!? Mina, you really know how to play, I like it, Master Eight likes it!"

Green shot Xiao Ba a glare, then snorted at Mina’s phantom in the Crystal Ball. "You’re already the Summer Guardian of the Wizard World now, the life and death of the Wizard World rests on your shoulders, yet you still act so improper. We’re no longer those clueless Junior Wizards who don’t know how high the heavens are."

"Hey, Stigmata Sorcerer of the Oblivion Tower, it’s not your turn to lecture me yet!"

Mina widened her eyes. The Crystal Ball in front of Green erupted with a piercing radiance, as if the blazing heat of the Wizard World was about to pour straight out from within. If it had been any ordinary Stigma Sorcerer facing this kind of world-level intellectual intimidation, they would’ve long since been on the back foot. But Green, standing within his own dimensional rift sealing technique Secret Realm, showed no reaction at all.

Seeing that Green still wore that cold, unresponsive expression, Mina said irritably, "All right, tell me, what do you want with me? I’m busy right now preparing for the Metal Destroyer Legion that could appear any moment. There may be plenty of Wizard World Guardians, but what we’re dealing with is the Metal Destroyer civilization’s final desperate counterattack. I don’t want any oversight on my part exposing a loophole."

Guardians were even more mysterious than True Spirit Wizards. If Green didn’t already know Mina well, he never would have imagined that the awe-inspiring, domineering, enigmatic new Summer Guardian in the eyes of the masses actually had such a temperament.

"I’m going to descend to the Wizard World now. I need you to help me suppress the diffusion of the Force of Nature a second time. This concerns True Spirit Dedication, and there are also a few other matters I must attend to. I’ll be troubling you."

Green’s expression was serious, a look of urgency about him.

"Tch, got it. Wait for me in your Secret Realm. I’ll come over in a bit."

Saying that, Mina cut off the Crystal Ball connection.

"Dammit, this woman is a born Summer Guardian, this is her true nature showing. The previous Summer Guardian was a short-tempered shorty, and compared to her he might even be slightly inferior."

Xiao Ba murmured as he recalled the Wizard World’s heyday, when there were the six great Guardians of spring, summer, autumn, winter, day, and night.

...

Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss...

The dim Oblivion Tower Secret Realm was lit up by a blazing sun-like fireball. Scarlet clouds of flame spread to the ends of the sky. The ground, illuminated by the scorching sun, steamed as the muddy soil was heated. Green’s Screaming Cockroach Legion suffered again, screeching and scrambling to burrow into the earth.

The fireball was like a meteor. After circling briefly in the high sky, it squeezed aside the Elemental Cloud Groups in all directions and shot toward the Void Mothership.

"You make a scene this big every time you come. It’s a critical prep period right now, these Screaming Cockroach Legions are very useful. Who knows what impact your little stunt is going to have."

She had barely entered the room when Green’s complaining voice came.

"Spare me that act. Before you came back, my sister and I had no idea how many times we came to this Secret Realm. The Vitality of your cockroach legions is frighteningly tenacious. If they died that easily they wouldn’t be worth my sister and me paying any attention to them. Hmph."

Mina practically treated this place as her own home. She casually took the coffee from the tray that Lab had brought over and lounged in the seat opposite Green. A faint heat spread from her hand through the coffee cup in an instant, yet didn’t harm the cup itself at all, merely bringing the coffee within to a rolling boil as its rich aroma filled the air.

"How long are you descending for? You’d better calculate it properly. If anything goes wrong, don’t expect me to do it a second time."

With a soft "whoosh," she blew on the scalding coffee in her hand and said blandly.

"Six months."

Green thought through his itinerary and replied.

"Six months, that’s not short. Then I’ll use the strongest Summer Blessing to bind your radiation ripples. Mm... what are you dodging for?"

With his Three-Colored Light Eyes, Green could see the slyness in Mina’s gaze and the playful curl of her lips. How could he not dodge? Mina had walked straight up to him, bold to the extreme, her breath already blowing against his face.

"What are you doing?"

Green frowned and asked.

"Didn’t you say you’re descending to the Wizard World? I’m giving you the Summer Blessing to bind your radiation ripples! What, having second thoughts? Or... are you afraid of my sister?"

Mina was a bit taller than Mili and her figure was even more explosive, carrying a kind of playful yet unrestrained dominance. Right now she was only a little shorter than Green, almost looking at him levelly, yet her eyes teased him with a gaze like she was looking down from above.

Closer and closer, closer and closer—"smack"—their lips met. Neither of them closed their eyes; they just stared straight at each other, as if this were something not worth caring about, something taken for granted, not worth hiding at all.

After quite a while, their lips parted. Mina, like a cat that had just stolen a bite of fish, grinned wickedly. "Not bad, tastes like the tender, sour tang of citrus. You’ve got pretty good taste."

As she spoke, Mina ran her tongue around her red lips, then turned and walked away without looking back. "I’m leaving. This is our little secret. If my sister finds out... hehehehe."

After Mina left, beyond Green’s Self-sealing Technique and his absolute control over his Strength, there was now an additional layer of Wizard’s Will restraints, enough to ensure he wouldn’t cause large-scale destruction to the Wizard World.

"That was way too exciting! Dammit, that was way too awesome! I gotta ask Leafy if she has any distant younger sisters. Damn, Green Beast, drop the act already. Master Eight doesn’t believe for a second you didn’t realize Mina was sneaking a bite. Since when did descending to the Wizard World require such a formal blessing every time? I saw the look of pure enjoyment on your face just now."

Xiao Ba hopped up and down on Green’s shoulder, practically going insane from excitement.

"Come on, tell Master Eight—seeing how serious you looked just now, was it especially good, were you so excited inside you were about to explode... hm, hmm?"

Xiao Ba kept waggling his brows, looking utterly improper.

"Boring..."

Green ignored the chatterbox, left the Void Mothership, and prepared to descend to the Wizard World.