Three hundred years later!
Splash, splash...
Black smoke billowed as the Yellow Springs Netherworld River surged and roiled. On one side, the Yellow Springs Netherworld River summoned by the Book of Life and Death flowed along Green's arm extended into the Despair World. On the other, the Yellow Springs Netherworld River that had swept through the Despair World carried its fundamental laws back out. An unending stream of Despair Tadpoles transformed into threads of light and merged into Green's elemental true body.
Opportunities to directly plunder a world's origin were rare indeed.
Three hundred years was worth mentioning for a Stigmata Wizard like Milly, but for a Sovereign like Green, standing at the pinnacle of the Endless World, it was no more than an instant. Even for the Despair World, which Green had continuously plundered all this time, the true loss to its essence was not much.
Wizard World.
Ordinary creatures might not have noticed anything unusual. Even low-level Guardians had detected nothing. Yet the Spring Guardian, whose avatars stood watch throughout the Wizard World, keenly sensed subtle changes in the world origin will. Then came the Winter Guardian, the Summer Guardian, and the Autumn Guardian, each sensing the changes in the Wizard World's origin will in turn.
To use an image, the rate at which world origin leaked through the blockage of the Dimensional Gap Sealing Art was being replenished by an unknown origin will. The two had achieved a certain balance, effectively delaying the Wizard World's destruction by more than three hundred years for no reason at all.
"The First-generation Wizard King?"
Thus far, the only wizard capable of directly influencing the will of the Wizard World was the First-generation Wizard King.
A tender shoot slowly unfurled its leaves beneath the feet of the first Spring Guardian. The