Vitalized World had once been a weak and humble world in the Wizard Alliance's frontline camp.
It had been so weak that it did not even qualify as a world for cultivating slave resources. Its status within the Wizard Alliance had been inferior even to those covenant worlds without a World Lord, such as Shadow Enigma World.
Thus, joining the Wizard Alliance had not earned it recognition through a formal Destiny Contract, nor had it gained any protection or benefits. Instead, countless obligation clauses and burdensome tributes had been imposed upon it.
Such was the sorrow of weakness. Even if one exhausted every ounce of strength shouting and roaring, using the loudest voice to fight for one's interests, one would forever be ignored—without diplomacy, without dignity.
Had that been all, it would have been bearable.
More terrifyingly, some wizards had gradually discovered that this world possessed a strange rule: the rule of vitalization!
This rule allowed native creatures to contain energy that stimulated cell proliferation. Consumed over a long period, it could gradually restore youth to one's cells. For body-refining wizards, passively evolving creatures, and especially creatures whose physical evolution had slipped down from its peak like a boulder tumbling from a cliff, it was nothing less than a blessing fallen from the heavens.
Even Green, during certain battles or experiments, had often sacrificed long-term potential in exchange for greater power over a short period. As the days accumulated into years, further advancement had gradually become difficult.
The fungal creatures within this world were the perfect tonic for salvaging such potential!
Once the Wizard World learned of this, its relentless and wanton plundering of Vitalized World had never ceased. Especially after the War of Civilization began, even slightly higher-grade vitalized fungi had all been seized by high-grade wizards.
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