Xu Zhi used the Watering Can to send them off with Heavenly Blood Rain, plucked flowers, and set up a Flower Monument. Then, while his phone continued playing music beside the sand table, he silently returned to his chair.
He picked up his lunchbox again and ate bite by bite, murmuring, "You opened the path of cultivation for me and allowed me to cultivate successfully. Then the beginnings of alchemy appeared, giving me hope of curing cancer. Your era, Three Witches, has given me far too many surprises. These three miracles, with your lifespans now at an end, can be considered my farewell gift to you."
Rumble! Amid heavy clouds, beams of golden light descended, followed by vast torrents of scarlet rain.
On the earth below, people looked up at the sky.
"When the Three Witches died, heroes at the end of their days, the gods in heaven sent them off. A torrential blood rain fell from the sky, a Flower Monument rose, and the Elegy of Fate played. Three great miracles descended upon the Babylon Kingdom. What incredible achievements the Three Witches had, to be acknowledged by the God of Wisdom in heaven!"
With tears in their eyes, they wildly praised the great God of Wisdom Hermes.
"This is an elegy, but also a hymn of praise!"
The people of the Babylon Kingdom sang loudly as they listened to the music that pierced the heavens.
The music resounded between heaven and earth. It was as though something had stirred deep within them; every hair stood on end, and their bodies trembled with excitement. From that ancient, stirring divine melody, they seemed to hear the struggle against fate, the battle against nature, the fight against beasts, and the resistance against the passage of time. In a daze, they remembered the history of their own painful rise.
They saw the great hero king Gilgamesh, as handsome as a Norse god, roaring at every Giant Beast Species in the world as he raised the Damocles Sword high overhead.
"The history of humanity's struggle against nature is a history of courage and hymns of praise!!"
"I ordered history to be compiled and left to future generations so they would understand the courage of their ancestors in struggling against nature!!"
As the image blurred, they seemed to see the Three Witches of old, along with mountains of corpses made of countless women who had consumed Evil Eye Blood. They heard the hymn of fate in their struggle against the Giant Beast Species. The three of them stood together, raising blazing Torches high.
"Death! It cannot crush our arms or break our spines!!"
Across the streets of the Babylon Kingdom, countless merchants, craftsmen, elders, nobles, and mysterious Witches holding wooden staffs seemed to have tears filling their eyes. They silently wept.
We... our lives of struggle... this was our era.
This song was a hymn to humanity's courage in struggling against fate.
"Great God of Wisdom, thank you. Thank you for everything you have done for our kings."
The elders of the Babylon Kingdom understood those bitter years better than anyone—the backward civilization of slash-and-burn cultivation. Their frail, trembling bodies slowly prostrated themselves on the ground, tears streaming down their aged faces.
Before the temple.
"Enough. The Heavenly Blood Rain, the Flower Monument, the musical hymn of praise... it is already enough."
Medea revealed a satisfied smile, beautiful as a flower.
She exchanged a glance with Cassandra beside her, both smiling in contentment. Hand in hand, they looked at each other before Hermes's Temple of the God of Wisdom, slowly closed their eyes, spread open their arms, and let their powerless bodies gradually fall backward.
Boom! Two slender, straight, beautiful figures fell amid the blood rain that filled the sky, before the massive Flower Monument.
They fell within the Elegy of Fate that resounded throughout heaven and earth.
That scene was so beautiful that it was engraved into dazzling legends, branded upon stone walls, and painted into eternity.
"The kings have fallen."
The next moment, wails echoed through heaven and earth as the whole world mourned.
The Babylon Kingdom had lost its two peerless legendary Witches.
The era of the Three Witches had suppressed the world for more than two hundred years and sheltered the entire Western Human Tribe. No one knew how Babylon would survive the days ahead.
Later generations recorded this moment of national grief in the "Spear of Flourishing Witchcraft": In the year 198 of Babylon, the great Three Witches reached the end of their lifespans. Before the temple, they prayed to God of Wisdom Hermes. The god sang an elegy for them and bestowed Fragrant Blood Rain, a Flower Monument, and heavenly mournful music to send them off.
Deep within the Balchik Mountain Range.
Circe watched in shock as the vast three great miracles descended and the entire nation mourned. She revealed a stunned smile. "You two, the god in heaven sent you off. What an honor that is. But in the end, you still left before me. I am still slightly stronger than the two of you. You were willing to die, but I am not willing!"
Even though she was stronger than the two great Witches, she was not much stronger. Her own life was nearing its end as well. Sitting upon her throne, she looked at the group of evil Witches serving before her.
"I declare that after I die, it will not be the end of my life! When I die in this life, you will continue onward for me and allow me to return hundreds of years later, to live a second life."
She too lay down in a coffin and silently closed her eyes.
Within the black, mysterious evil palace, the walls were covered in blood and paintings of Evil Eye Demon Monsters with wicked tentacles. The place resembled a terrifying, bizarre hellish lair. Countless evil Witches, holding scarlet staffs and wearing vivid Rose Wizard Robes, knelt on the ground and sang mournfully. "When our king returns, she will rule the world and obtain true immortality."
Xu Zhi sat in the courtyard eating. After playing music for a while, he turned off his phone.
The flowers had been picked, but that was fine. Using flowers as gravestones was environmentally friendly enough.
As for the Watering Can filled with rose essential oil to create the blood rain, it had only sprayed for a while and rained for a short time. There was still plenty left, so he silently poured the remaining liquid into the toilet.
This water could not be used to water flowers.
"I never expected that I only began cultivating the Wizard path yesterday, yet early this morning, I would have to send off the Three Witches, the teachers who opened this path."
After finishing breakfast and washing the dishes, Xu Zhi went out and returned the lunchbox to Chen Xi next door.
He fell silent for a moment and looked toward the miniature sand table.
"However, now that the Three Witches are gone, there is no invincible king suppressing an entire era within the vast Sandbox World. This is the perfect time for me to research and introduce new extraordinary species."
Xu Zhi murmured, then added, "This is the best opportunity!"
It would not do to have an invincible king suppressing the world. Other extraordinary species would never be able to reproduce and develop.
While the Three Witches were in power, the Evil Eye had remained huddled in swamp mud, raised in captivity and killed for their Evil Eye Blood, which was constantly used in death rituals to create new Witches.
The Evil Eye had it miserable! It had become nothing more than a blood supply pack! Now that the Three Witches were dead, it should finally live a little more comfortably.
According to their realm classifications, there were Apprentice Wizards, First Grade Wizards, and Second Grade Wizards. The Three Witches had been Sixth Grade Wizards, terrifyingly powerful. As for the path beyond Sixth Grade Wizards, they had not yet opened it before reaching the end of their lives.
Meanwhile, the newly appointed Lilith was only a Fourth Grade Wizard, yet she was already their strongest existence.
It could not be helped. Times created heroes, and every chaotic age gave birth to monsters. The Three Witches' talent had been too terrifying, far surpassing everyone else's. Otherwise, how could the three of them have opened an entire path of cultivation?
"This is the perfect time to introduce other species. I cannot let one family dominate alone anymore."
Xu Zhi, who could barely even be considered a Wizard apprentice, was not quite a hopeless couch potato. He silently looked at the sand table. "The Second Beta Test of the Land of the Origin of Life begins early this morning. I hope you can come up with something useful and enrich the species so I can secretly insert them into this transitional era."
After all, the Sumerian era and the Babylon era had largely been histories of tribal peoples fighting nature in their earliest struggles. They were far too monotonous.
For them, they had already endured countless dark times and were nearly at the stage of "clearing the game." They were about to truly rise, and their extraordinary power cultivation system—the Witch path—had already begun to spread.
After all, the Giant Beast Species were merely ordinary giant beasts, similar to the monsters of the Tyrannosaurus era. They were huge, but could no longer threaten them.
"It is time to enrich the sand table's ecosystem and put them into 'hard mode.'"
Xu Zhi's idea was simple. In the next era, as the Black Hand behind the scenes, he would secretly and thoroughly drive the evolution of the world's civilization, forging it into a mysterious extraordinary Sandbox World. All manner of bizarre species and terrifying supernatural creatures from Western mythology would emerge, rather than there being only an Evil Eye resembling something from the Cthulhu Mythos.
Mystery, strangeness, bloodshed, the unknown, death.
That was the Wizard World he wanted—the great Wizards seeking truth with wooden staffs in hand.
"Just thinking about it is exciting."
Xu Zhi's cancer could not be delayed much longer. It was time for alchemy, potion-making, and a dazzling Wizard civilization to fully emerge and help him research a cure for cancer.
"It depends on what kind of extraordinary species the Sandbox Players in the Second Beta Test of the Land of the Origin of Life evolve for me now. They will determine the ecosystem of the next Sandbox World era, as well as the level of its extraordinary power."
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