"Why? Does your Mirage Realm have some grievance against wizards?"
Though this Mirage was powerful, its essence was merely that of a Level Six creature. It could only summon a measure of sovereign power. To Grimm, it posed no threat whatsoever.
As the legendary monster of the deepest layer of the Dimensional Esophagus, the nightmare shadow that hunted other monsters, Grimm feared nothing beneath the sovereign level.
"Hmph, the Chaos Disaster erupts unpredictably, yet only the Dark World Cluster and the Mirage World Cluster suffer its effects. Isn't that the work of you wizards? You wizards used the power of unknown time and space to twist the direction of the chaos outbreaks, weakening the surrounding world clusters and buying time for yourselves to develop and grow stronger!"
The Mirage's answer left Grimm dumbfounded.
Almost immediately, Grimm thought of the Fate Lever!
The First Ring True Spirit Wizard had already influenced the workings of the surrounding world clusters without the lower-ranking wizards ever noticing.
As one of the Wizard World's ultimate civilizational foundations, the Fate Lever stood, in Grimm's view, on a level that the Metallic Flame could never compare to. Its carrying capacity was almost limitless.
It bore the wizards' faith in using themselves as fulcrums, using endless knowledge to pry open the Endless World.
Grimm had also come to understand a little about the rules of the Chaos World Cluster.
The Chaos World Cluster itself was nothing particularly unusual. It was composed of large, medium, and small worlds with all manner of bizarre rules. Only at the very center of this world cluster lay a spacetime anchor point. Only when the chaotic mist at that spacetime anchor erupted would the creatures living within the chaotic mist follow it out.
Generally speaking, chaotic creatures were broadly similar in nature to