A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 688: Chapter 688: Ancestral Blood

Until the end of the centennial Seven Rings Holy Tower rankings, both Yachi, who ranked second, and the challenger in third had yet to decide a victor.

By such calculations, it was natural to consider the challenger’s challenge a failure.

After all, with just a few hundred Witch Essence, Yachi obtained the time-related treasures from the second-place rewards of the Seven Rings Holy Tower rankings, making a huge profit.

At the same time, Green had spent several months entangled with solicitations from various factions, completely exhausted and unable to focus on completing his witchcraft experiments wholeheartedly. Even though Green was indifferent, he still found himself unwittingly embroiled in a whirlpool of diverse factions.

At least some factions, Green simply couldn’t respond to with a straightforward rejection, like Mili, Mina’s father, mother, or his Demon Hunting achievements. Even later, he couldn’t ignore the invitations from Dawn Wisdom.

Since the relationships were ambiguous, these factions would inevitably be involved with Green in the future, advancing to the next stage, where Green couldn’t avoid being entangled and influenced by various limitless possible events.

Perhaps it’s time to start living a life of his own...

Demon-Hunting Sorcerers and the Demon Hunting Expeditions are obligations for low-grade wizards. Once becoming a Third Level Great Demon Hunter Wizard, they’ll become reserve wizards within the depths of the Holy Towers, the foundational strength of the Wizard World. For each Demon Hunting Expedition, the Stigmata Wizards must issue specific tasks to recruit the highest-level Demon-Hunting Sorcerers.

They would be the core force driving the Wizard World forward, expanding and developing.

Among these core forces, most are in the depths of the Holy Towers, conducting their research on wizard knowledge year after year. On a public transaction platform for high-order wizard knowledge, they attempt to purchase the knowledge they need from Stigmata Wizards and True Spirit Wizards, accumulating wealth and waiting until they’ve accumulated enough strength to participate in the Demon Hunting Expedition, aiming for the First-Level Honor Medal, advancing to Stigmata Wizard rank.

A smaller portion of the most elite Demon-Hunting Sorcerers operates between various factions, completing special tasks that Stigmata Wizards find inconvenient and low-grade wizards cannot complete, traveling between worlds, upholding the Wizard’s Will, and maintaining the governing rules of the Wizarding Alliance.

The last part of the Third Level Great Demon Hunter Wizards returns to a more original state, becoming a free and distinct kind of Arcane Wizard.

They no longer pursue stronger power through endless tasks, slaughter, or research, but aim to explore the deepest recesses of the wizard’s heart for knowledge, attempting various transworld travel methods, enriching themselves.

Such Demon-Hunting Sorcerers have a nickname: Stray Sorcerers!

Stray Sorcerer is a title for certain Third Level Great Demon Hunter Wizards, who pursue wizardry and slaughter with equal passion, traveling between worlds without fearing any being beneath the Lord of the World level, seeking exploration and discovery as their thesis, finding their own way of sublimation and evolution as wizards, unrestricted by any so-called evolutionary rules.

In the ancient period of the Wizard World, there were only Dark Sorcerers and Mechanical Wizards. How did the first Elemental Wizard emerge?

Perhaps like the pioneering creation of a First-Circle True Spirit Wizard, but more likely than not, those unrestricted sorcerers found an evolutionary method suitable for themselves amid constant research and development, inadvertently opening the door to a new sorcerer system.

"Young Master, it seems our reward lies deep within the Seven Rings Holy Tower. I wonder if we’ll face the Seven Rings True Spirit Wizard directly."

Xiao Ba sat on Green’s shoulder, quietly asking.

The Seven Rings True Spirit Sorcerer ascended after the ancient civilization war in the Wizard World. Previously, they unexpectedly acquired the Ring of Titan in the Tidal World. Though calm among low-grade wizards nowadays, a storm of chaos likely brews among high-order wizards!

Symbolizing the inheritance of ancient Titan civilization among this world’s community, it fell into the hands of the Seven Rings True Spirit Sorcerer, becoming their personal Sorcery Instrument!

The importance of this could likely elevate the Elemental Wizard status significantly, allowing the Wizard Continent to continue leading the whole Wizard World and even the Wizarding Alliance.

Do the Abyssal Physical Cultivators wish to surpass the Elemental Wizard status?

It’s still an indefinitely distant unknown.

"Probably not..."

Riding the Heart of the Seven Rings, led by four Seven-ring Snail Messengers and a True Spirit Subordinate Stigma Sorcerer, Green entered the Seven Rings World—an expanse of gray sky, drifting space airships, innumerable slave monsters, and Demon-Hunting Sorcerers surrounding the towering Seven Rings Holy Tower.

"Follow me."

With golden pupils, this Seven Rings True Spirit Subordinate Stigma carried an unfathomable pressure visible to Green.

Based on Green’s estimate, the Seven Rings True Spirit Subordinate Stigma was either a Fifth or Sixth Level Wizard; it’s precisely because of this sorcerer’s high status that Green suspected the Seven Rings True Spirit Wizard wouldn’t personally appear.

The mechanical arm of the Seven Rings Holy Tower transported Green into the fusion body of flesh and energy, as if entering a whole new world, with fundamental rules changes so that they hardly affected the Wizard World anymore—an endless plaza filled with bustling elite sorcerers, high-level Soul Slaves, Synthetic Beasts, dazzling mechanical objects.

Blue skies and white clouds, the winds gentle and days glorious.

This seemed an entirely new world when Green noticed that around the sun in high skies, a light ring appeared, probably wave oscillations from... the Ring of Titan.

"This way!"

Inside the Seven Rings Holy Tower, even the appearance of this Stigmata Wizard didn’t cause much of a ripple; casually commandeering a massive metal mechanism, the Stigmata Wizard led Green and Xiao Ba onboard.

Green noticed the energy baryte required for riding the metal mechanism was merely a crystal quickly conjured by this Stigmata Wizard’s Magic Power; to put it in the perspective of a Wizard World commoner: the Stigmata Wizard casually exercised "money."

Crackle, crackle, crackle...

This was a giant metal centipede, seamlessly transitioning from running on the ground to flying through the sky, not feeling any turbulence at all; the body exceeded two hundred meters, an enormous figure in any world during Green’s Demon Hunting Expedition, yet here it was simply an experimental product.

In the sky, a large shadow slides leisurely, some constructs on clouds likely created by those Dawn Sages Demon Hunting Sorcerers, harnessing elemental effects to form eternal clouds, or perhaps special elemental creatures from some world.

After half an hourglass of time, the metal mechanism stopped.

"Arrived, Shadow of Despair Grimm. Before establishing a Sorcerer’s Tower upon advancing to Stigmata Wizard rank, this will be your eternal demon hunting laboratory, where you won’t be obligated to execute any demon hunting tasks."

Saying this, the Stigmata Wizard extended his palm, causing a light spot to dazzle.

"This is the top reward for achieving first place in the Seven Rings Holy Tower rankings!"

A small experimental crystal vial emerged, holding red liquid within, yet Green felt indescribably close and heavy as if supporting the Awakening Light once before!

"Blood!?"

Green was astonished.

"You’re quite lucky; the Seven Rings True Spirit Wizard recognized your participation in the Tidal World Demon Hunting Expedition and personally bestowed this highest reward: Ancestral Blood!"

As the Seven Rings True Spirit Subordinate Stigma finished speaking, his body gradually faded away. (To be continued. If you enjoy these works, feel free to visit Qidian () to vote recommendation tickets and monthly votes, as your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m..)