Land of Darkness. noveℓ
Sauron Plane.
Far from Nora, this is a place of spatial distortion, creating a graveyard for travelers akin to the Bermuda Triangle.
Since ancient tis, countless black beasts and travelers from alien races have accidentally entered this place and vanished without a trace.
"Caw caw caw!"
An ice blue crow passed by, diving into the Dark Rift and disappeared.
When it opened its eyes, it was already in an unknown world.
The sky was azure, and the sunlight was splendid.
"Caw caw caw."
On the ground, an extrely fierce battle was erupting.
In an oasis, a group of green-skinned beings were using various primitive and wild tools to fend off an invading army of black beasts from the desert.
These green-skinned beings had diverse forms, including giants with towering physiques up to a hundred ters tall, their skin dark green and textured like tree bark, without legs but with roots anchored to the Earth.
The giants had branching limbs that joined hands with the surrounding giants, encircling the oasis to form a "Giant Wall."
The weaker black beasts that could not penetrate this wall were impaled by the suddenly extending branches from the giant’s body, their flesh lting away like ice and snow.
Behind this Giant Wall.
There were delicate-bodied green-skinned beings with large heads and mouths, capable of spitting green viscous projectiles.
These gluey projectiles landed among the black beast horde, exploding and killing many.
There were green-skinned beings covered with Frost, who with each breath could exhale nurous ice arrows.
And there were also groups of tiny beings similar to green potatoes, less than one ter tall, seemingly with low intelligence.
These small green beings chanted jibberish slogans with devout faces.
"Mother Goddess above!"
"For the Mother Goddess!"
The small green beings were launched into the black beast horde by the branches of the giants, exploding ferociously, leaving no black beasts within a hundred ters radius!
In the center of the oasis, rising from the fertile soil, was a giant tree that reached a height of a kiloter. Under the green canopy, a shrubby plant sprouted from the ground, those tiny green beings from before nested underground.
Ayak wandered around this world, discovering that this oasis was the only place where life still thrived.
It was quite interested in the branches of the kiloter-tall tree.
Those would certainly make a fine nest.
In the oasis.
The green-skinned beings continuously fought to protect the giant tree, their ho.
But unfortunately, there were too many black beasts.
Ayak, like a traveler, silently watched the grand battle unfolding below.
After roaming the Land of Darkness for ten years, it was not the first ti it had witnessed such a scene.
In the distance.
Two black beast lords, emanating a level 6 upper-level aura, joined the battle.
In the oasis, the green-skinned beings fell into despair.
On the trunk of the kiloter giant tree, a pair of old, dim yellow eyes opened, filled with reluctance.
For the wizard civilization, two black beast lords could be dealt with effortlessly.
But for this little civilization on the oasis, it spelled the doom of their world, a calamity of extinction.
After the great battle.
The Giant Wall collapsed thunderously with roots torn from the ground, and the last of its life force slowly ebbed away into a true Dead Wood.
The other green-skinned beings also vanished amid the sea beast tide.
The giant tree was overwheld by the black beasts, erupting with a strong green light.
"Caw caw caw!"
High in the sky, a miraculous Cold Crow flapped its wings, and snowflakes began to fall above the oasis.
Black beast after black beast was frozen within, utterly devoid of life.
Where Ayak passed, a sweep of icy light turned the black beast lord into solid ice.
Its claws made a grasping motion in the Void, and a crunching noise ca from the body of the giant beast.
After a bitter fight.
One black beast lord fell thunderously to the ground. The other, heavily injured, fled in panic.
The tide of black beasts receded, and Ayak circled above the oasis, cold eyes watching the giant tree below.
"Traveler, can you do a favor?"
Ayak, as Long, naturally couldn’t speak.
With a sigh, the giant tree said:
"I am about to die. Inside , there is a fifty thousand-year-old Tree Core, a rare and precious material... You can pull it out and take it away. I only hope that you can carry these seeds and leave this world, forgotten by the Mother Goddess."
Ayak cawed in response.
The giant tree took it as an agreent.
Soon after, it closed its eyes, its verdant branches and leaves instantly withered yellow, completely lifeless.
Ayak spread its wings, transforming into a blade of Frost.
Crack crack crack!
The tough bark of the giant tree was sliced open.
Before long, a kiloter-long, Divine Light beaming green column erged.
The column slowly shrank and was swallowed by Ayak.
Colorful seeds, exuding exotic fragrances, floated in the Void.
Ayak swallowed them as well.
It looked down at the oasis, gradually buried by the winds and sands, then broke through the crystal wall, continuing to wander in the Darkness, searching for the exit from the rift.
Another flicker of civilization’s light vanished in an obscure corner of the Land of Darkness. Ayak was the sole witness.
...
Three years later.
Year 30 of Nora.
Endless Sea, Witch’s Family, Triss Wizard Tower.
On this day, rolling seven-colored clouds brewed high up in the sky.
One after another, primordial souls flew out.
"This is the Triss Wizard Tower... What’s going on? Wasn’t Triss a primordial soul long ago?"
"It must be her son, Anya. Recently, the Wizard World has been unsafe, and she’s worried about Anya secluding himself in the Nether Capital."
"I see, remarkable indeed. Triss has actually cultivated a primordial soul wizard."
"Yes, it feels like just yesterday when Anya was still a little boy being teased by the witches with his bare behind... And now in the blink of an eye, he has beco a primordial soul wizard."
The group of old folks sighed incessantly.
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