Floco shivered and instinctively hid behind Peiâer, not wanting to make eye contact with her.
The Abyssal Eyeâs aura had completely disappeared, and Douglas still hadnât appeared until now, not even a corpse.
Thinking of where Peiâer had come from, Gorsa glanced at Floco, who was trying hard to minimize his presence, and suddenly realized the truth.
âDouglas will die soon, wonât he?â
âHe has already reached the end.â
Gorsaâs muscles tensed. âThank you for taking action.â
He understood that Peiâer must have done something after Saul left. Otherwise, the Abyssal Eye and Douglas wouldnât have disappeared so completely.
But he hadnât even noticed what Peiâer had done.
Moreover, Gorsa suspected that the Peiâer before him wasnât actually Peiâer.
Floco had likely discovered this much earlier.
He remembered that Floco had just said that the Death Demonâs ability was observation. But this observational ability could make the observed directly walk toward their end.
As if once the Death Demon saw your demise, you would skip all processes and directly arrive at lifeâs endpoint.
And Peiâer had just said she was watching Douglas.
At this moment, Byron, who had just swum out of the sea, flew to Peiâerâs front with the half-elf and several consciousness bodies.
Byron directly asked, âMay I ask, where did Saul go? Is he alright?â
Peiâer was unexpectedly patient, perhaps because she originally had nothing urgent to do. âHe needs to go out and clear his head, to digest knowledge that doesnât belong to his current level.â
After speaking, her eyes became vacant, revealing a hint of confusion. âClearly, everything would be solved by just becoming us⌠why arenât they willing?â
Hearing that Saul should be fine, everyone finally felt relieved.
Seeing that Peiâer had answered Byronâs question, Herman also mustered courage to step forward. âMay I ask, when will master be able to return?â
âWhen he feels he can.â
The Wind Sprite, who had been following Byron, finally couldnât hold back.
She looked at that face identical to her own yet utterly unfamiliar. âAre you Peiâer?â
Peiâer turned her head. She looked at the Wind Sprite, and facing this identical face, Peiâerâs gaze showed no difference from how she looked at Gorsa, Byron, and the others.
âI am Peiâer, yet not Peiâer, not entirely Peiâer.â Not knowing what she thought of, she suddenly smiled. âFate lines have always been a whole. Only Saul is a separate individual. Isnât that interesting?â
The Wind Spriteâs expression changed as she stepped back two paces.
Flocoâs long-standing worries had come true. He groaned inwardly, âHavenât you asked enough? Still asking? Canât you let her go back? You called her over, made her work hard to save the situation, and now wonât let her return to rest quickly? My god, thatâs a Death Demon! Why is a Death Demon so gentle? It doesnât make sense!â
From the moment Peiâer appeared, many people realized this Peiâer was unusual and noticed the mismatch between her actions, abilities, and identity.
But because the situation was urgent, everyone tacitly assumed the person before them was Peiâer. Now that the truth was revealed, silence spread among the crowd.
So Peiâer had been devoured and assimilated by the Death Demon the instant she entered the Prismatic World?
This assimilation was silent and invisible, completed before consciousness could react, without even a chance to struggle.
If this assimilation was also considered pollution, then the Death Demonâs pollution was hundreds of times that of abyssal anchor points!
All talk of recuperation, adaptation, and taking another path was false.
As for why she had lied before, only the Death Demon knew.
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Douglas would never have thought that he had merely wanted to sacrifice the wizard world and endure until the Abyssal Eyeâs demise to extract some key knowledge for advancing to sixth-rank, only to end up being the one sacrificed.
He also couldnât have imagined that in this small wizard world, he would encounter a pervert and a group of madmen, and that he would be counter-schemed by these low-rank beings.
What he could imagine even less was that encountering one Death Demon was already a near-zero probability event. Yet the little Death Demon could actually call over an old one? This led to him barely surviving the Abyssal Eyeâs final eruption, only to fall under the gaze of a true Death Demon.
Douglas had only heard about Death Demonsâ deeds before but had never truly seen one.
Only when he weakly escaped from the Abyssal Eye and was gazed upon by those eyes did he realize what it meant to âsee oneâs own endpoint.â
Most terrifying was that when he saw his own endpoint, his life, his soul, his consciousness also reached their true endpoint at the same moment.
Douglas, who had been one step away from sixth-rank, officially took his curtain call in a theater performance he had never expected.
He didnât even get exit lines.
Peiâer, or rather the Death Demon, smiled with satisfaction after seeing Douglas completely die, as if having watched a good show. She transformed back into a light arc and disappeared at the horizon.
Leaving this world riddled with holes.
And at the instant the Death Demon left, the restraints that had covered the wizard worldâs sky for hundreds of years, blocking all wizardsâ advancement paths, silently shattered.
The fragments of broken restraints fell into the starry sky or onto the wizard world, bringing new rounds of disaster or opportunity.
Although Douglasâs plan to stuff the Abyssal Eye to death with an entire continent had failed, it still brought unimaginably terrible disasters to the entire wizard world.
The most severely injured was Iskaper.
The consequence of over a hundred storm eyes erupting was that nearly half the land instantly became uninhabitable polluted territory.
Even after the Abyssal Eyeâs death, those areas hadnât recovered.
To restore them to a state where life could inhabit would require another century of cycles.
The second most severely damaged was the Chaos Realm. Through the Tribunalâs research, it had been confirmed that it was the Desedil Continent that had once been devoured, but ultimately people decided to use Chaos Realm as the new continentâs name.
Perhaps they feared that a certain someone, after wandering the stars, wouldnât recognize this land.
Keli had already emerged from the Chaos Realm, but they hadnât brought out all the original inhabitants. After all, these people had grown accustomed to a nearly magic-free environment and couldnât adapt to the outside world in a short time.
As for Stat and Nephret Continents, they suffered the least damage but also endured considerable losses in the fluctuation storm when the Abyssal Eye disappeared due to elemental particle chaos. They then faced new disasters when the restraints shattered afterward.
But at least they hadnât become dead lands like Iskaper.
So the two continents accepted large numbers of refugees from Iskaper, licking each otherâs wounds together in post-war tranquility.
At the same time, the number of second and third-rank wizards plummeted.
When confronting the Abyssal Eyeâs anchor point monsters, although red worms served as meat shields, the more agile anchor point monsters could still easily take the lives of large groups of wizards in a single encounter, completely mutating them into monsters.
If the Abyssal Eye itself hadnât also wanted to restrain its power and leave later, the wizards who could have survived in the end wouldnât have exceeded three hundred.
But what was gratifying was that this wizard world finally had a future to speak of.
Of course, after the worldâs restraints were unsealed, the wizards here would inevitably face the impact of outside civilizations again, but this was a necessary path for progressâboth opportunity and challenge.
As for how far they could ultimately go, that would depend on their individual efforts.
The wheel of time kept rolling forward.
The once barren land sprouted tender green shoots.
The clouds overhead were finally no longer pitch black.
Byron stepped onto the damp earth, his shoe sinking into the mud.
With a stunningly beautiful face, he forcibly maintained a dead-fish-eyed expression.
âThe pollution index has dropped to levels that second-rank wizards can tolerate. Although we canât relocate populations yet, having some wizards come explore and seek rare resources is still possible.â
On Byronâs shoulder crouched a chubby red worm with over a dozen snail-like tentacles on its head, continuously receiving and sending signals.
âJust being able to tolerate pollution is still very dangerous,â the half-elf said.
âIf youâre afraid of danger, why be a wizard? Opportunity and risk coexistâthatâs the meaning of equivalent exchange.â
Byron lifted his foot. Black mucus oozed from the sunken soil, sticking to his shoe sole and stretching into threads with his movement.
Before Byron could touch it, a brown tree root suddenly emerged from soil in another direction, directly piercing into that pool of black mucus and draining the liquid clean.
The black mucus immediately became dried black earth chunks.
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Byron continued forward as if he hadnât seen anything. âHas Shaya advanced to fourth-rank?â
The half-elf chuckled. âJealous? But donât worry, youâre almost there too.â
Byron shook his head. âIf not for Saul, I couldnât have broken through third-level wizard apprentice at all. Being able to come this far, Iâm very satisfied. As long as thereâs still a path ahead, I wonât stop. Whether faster or slower doesnât matter.â
(End of Chapter)
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