No Need to Search Far and Wide; It Fell Right into His Lap

As fellow Legendary Wizard organizations, the Flesh Cult had Mad Witches, and naturally, the Mechanical Cult did too.

Mad Witches were dangerous, but one fact was undeniable—they were all geniuses!

Geniuses among geniuses!

After all, without some real skill, they could not survive clashes with Outer Gods.

More importantly, in wars between wizard organizations, Mad Witches were the most unusual existence!

As a highly intelligent group, wizards did not wage war by charging headlong at each other like knights. Of course, there were direct clashes too,

but not many. More often, it was a matter of countering move with move—once one side finished performing, the other took the stage. It all came down to whose ability to crack and counter-crack was superior.

And in this style of warfare, Mad Witches, who possessed vast amounts of Outer God power and knowledge, became the most exceptional bunch!

Because their "weapons" were smeared with shit!

No one wanted to touch that stuff, and if you would not touch it, there was naturally no way to crack it.

That was why this mission had landed on Isaac's desk.

Even Fifth-Order Wizards as powerful as demigods were unwilling to touch knowledge related to Outer Gods. They were not afraid of Outer Gods, but it was disgusting!

Isaac did not really understand what was so disgusting about Outer God power. Aside from its danger, he felt that in every other respect, it was not much different from ordinary spells.

But the thoughts of Fifth-Order powerhouses were naturally beyond a Third-Order Isaac, and he had no desire to guess at them.

In any case, this was good news for him. Missions like this offered extremely high contribution rewards.

After all, only Mad Witches could do them, and Mad Witches—

To be honest, while the Flesh Cult had quite a few, perhaps even one or two at the fourth or fifth order, those big shots might not necessarily put much thought into this. The reward might be generous for ordinary wizards, but to Mad Witches, it was merely so-so. They might as well take a gamble with an Outer God.

Of course, Isaac had overlooked one issue at this moment, namely—

Not every Mad Witch, like him, could obtain the power of Outer Gods so easily, even if they were simply conducting normal transactions!

Thus, when Isaac opened his Magic Book, he was surprised to discover that several Mad Witches had already posted their insights in this specially created communication channel.

One of them was even a Fourth-Order Miracle Wizard!

Looking at that Miracle Wizard's avatar, Isaac scratched his head in surprise. It seemed that... he still did not understand Mad Witches well enough. Already at the fourth order, yet still struggling this badly?

Honestly speaking, if Isaac were Fourth-Order, he would never take on this kind of mission. He would rush straight onto the battlefield, kill that guy, and be done with it!

After all, the Mad Witch currently active on the battlefield was merely a Third-Order High Wizard. He relied on power from an Outer God to make other wizards wary of him, but to Mad Witches like them, it was nothing special.

You were covered in shit?

Sorry, buddy, I had more shit on me than you did!

Shaking his head, Isaac glanced over the insights posted by the others before turning his attention to the data sent by the cult.

As a High Wizard, Isaac had his own pride. Before beginning formal work, he would not allow other people's ideas to contaminate his own thoughts.

Once Isaac focused on the data, the faint light in his eyes flickered. He quickly entered working mode, and his previously casual expression gradually turned solemn.

There was nothing particularly special about that fellow's spell itself. It merely created a rather unusual construct. Inside the construct was a furnace capable of instantly incinerating all matter into violent, twisted Abnormal Divine Power.

Then it fired it out with the properties of a Magic Cannon!

The most troublesome part was that Abnormal Divine Power. This energy possessed extremely strong Erosion and contamination properties and could dissolve many spell structures, making it exceedingly troublesome in siege warfare.

Most critically, the other side had clearly taken the Flesh Cult's Dimension World into account. Unlike Isaac's Dimension World, which had already been turned into a garbage dump, setting aside the God of Blood and Bone's own opinion, the fact that this was the Flesh Cult's headquarters alone meant that this Dimension World could not be treated as a dump.

Furthermore, no one knew whether some nasty thing was hidden inside that Abnormal Divine Power. If they absorbed too much of it, someone might seize their nest from under them. That would be more loss than gain.

However—

For Isaac, solving this problem was not difficult. Nor did he need to take the risk of using his own Dimension World to absorb this Abnormal Divine Power.

From the available data alone, Isaac found two ways to crack it. The first was simple.

He could find the source of that Abnormal Divine Power and obtain a higher-level power from there.

A certain magical girl who had lost her bear once said it—mystery yielded before greater mystery!

For Isaac, the greatest difficulty with this method was not the ritual, but how to find that Outer God. There were so many Outer Gods that he might not know which one it was.

Fortunately, that was not something he needed to worry about, because other wizards in the cult had already identified it—the God of the Alien Star, Gangmis.

A rare Mechanical System Star God.

However, compared with obtaining power from this one, Isaac, who had begun to grow picky about Outer God powers, preferred the second method—fighting poison with poison!

Was its Abnormal Divine Power highly corrosive and difficult to clean up?

Then he would create an energy even more corrosive and even harder to clean up!

Isaac already had a ready-made foundation for this method—the Dimension World.

The Dimension World's magic power had always been extremely troublesome. After he integrated the authority of the Deep Sea Corroder into it, it became even more difficult to deal with. More importantly, he had a large number of Dimension Apostles who feared no death and could work for him. Choosing this method meant he could take all these missions for himself!

Why make money doing odd jobs when contracting the whole thing paid faster?

And the ones doing the work would be Dimension Apostles. He only needed to complete the preliminary preparations. He could practically lie at home and make money!

These preparations were not difficult either. He merely needed to collect more Outer God power. What truly made Isaac's expression turn solemn was that he had spotted traces of another Mad Witch in the data provided by the cult!

And it was traces of the Mad Witch he had been searching for all along!

Prank Master!

The culprit who had cursed Isaac's mother and caused her to die in childbirth!

Over the years, Isaac had always wanted to find his traces. He had even prepared a share of Outer God power for him, waiting until he had some free time to obtain power from that one and then locate him.

But too many things had happened recently, causing the matter to be delayed again and again.

Of course, another reason was that he had previously learned that this fellow had appeared on the battlefield between the Flesh Cult and the Mechanical Cult, so he had planned to take care of it while he was there.

Yet after so long, there had not been the slightest trace. Isaac had nearly given up and planned to return to his original plan to find him. He had not expected to discover his traces at this moment. What a—

A cold glint flashed through Isaac's eyes. As Authority Analysis activated at full power, his mind split into multiple streams, issuing orders to his familiars and the wizards under his command, telling them to stop everything they were doing and carry out Isaac's orders!

The Dimension Apostles all surged into the various battlefields of the Flesh Cult and the Mechanical Cult, gathering more data and intelligence for Isaac. Soren, the Magic Eye Wizard, put down his research project and restarted the Dimension Magic Power enhancement plan. The Holy Lord halted his cultivation of the new Demon God Secret Technique and joined Little Mouse, who had likewise stopped researching, in gathering materials for Outer God transactions across various regions.

Smith and Rona led Mad Heart's members through Lake Town, the Truth Association, the Flesh Cult, and trading markets established by various organizations, frantically buying everything in sight and collecting every ritual material that could be used!

This time, Isaac was preparing to go big!

With such a hard-won opportunity, he hoped to strike true in one blow!

In an instant, every force under Isaac's command sprang into motion, operating like a massive machine and continuously delivering materials and data to him.

When he threw himself into it wholeheartedly, time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

Over those three days, Isaac successfully found more traces of Prank Master within an ocean-like mass of data and roughly pinpointed his location—the Star Sea!

A sea formed from the corpses of several Star Gods. Within it were extraordinarily complex energy fields that greatly interfered with detection spells. It was no exaggeration to say that even Fifth-Order Wizards who entered would be little different from blind men without special detection methods.

And aside from an environment as silent as Black Night, what made it even more troublesome was the vast number of star beasts roaming the Star Sea, born from the corpses of gods. It was said that there were even divine abominations comparable to gods among them!

One could imagine just how high the risks of operating within it were!

But as the saying went, the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish!

Despite the Star Sea's dangers, it remained a focal point of contention for every faction, simply because it contained divinities!

And more than one!

"Star Sea."

Looking at the dense network map in his hand, Isaac narrowed his eyes. Even he found a place like the Star Sea somewhat troublesome, but—

Only somewhat.

Isaac shifted his gaze toward a thick small stack of parchment beside him. It was filled with ritual materials gathered over the past three days by the familiars and wizards he had worked to the bone, all usable for transactions with Outer Gods.

There were five Outer God rituals for improving detection ability alone. Four could collect powers from the prophecy system, while one could collect a power that enhanced the Dimension World's sensory abilities. There were even more rituals for strengthening the Erosion capability of Dimension Magic Power—twelve in total!

However, if he wanted to maximize their effects, he could not collect all twelve at once. He needed to carefully choose several combinations, maximizing their efficacy while ensuring they did not interfere with the sensory ability granted by the Dimension World...

After all, this would be his greatest reliance in traversing the Star Sea!

"Crack, crack~"

Isaac twisted his neck, a fierce smile appearing on his face. For him, this sort of thing was the simplest!

Very soon, while Isaac was immersed in the ritual data, someone both unexpected and expected arrived in Isaac's territory—Caesar Solomon!