Void Worm

"Very surprising news."

A moment later, after Belle committed the name Green to memory, she left the sphere of influence of Lafi's squad.

"Tch..."

Lafi curled her lip in displeasure.

She really did know a few things between Belle and Amland, after all. Although Lafi was not familiar with Belle at all, she truly could not stand some of Belle's ways of doing things.

As Lafi saw it, before wizards, everything apart from strength was a vain delusion. Yet this Belle, because of matters of fame and reputation, did not dare make her relationship with Amland public. Lafi truly found that somewhat impossible to understand.

However, very soon, Lafi stopped paying attention to Belle's affairs. After cautiously arranging their formation, one of her eyes turned into an eagle pupil, and she began observing the invisible "guardian" near the altar.

A little later, Lafi ended the Eagle Pupil sorcery.

"No good. My Eagle Pupil can't discover this guardian. Maybe this guardian is hidden underground, or maybe it's a completely invisible creature. I can't determine it."

Lafi frowned, then looked at Robin and said, "Have your green-eyed macaque try. Its eyes react strongly to certain spirit-medium, ghost, and mysterious kinds of things."

Robin shook his head.

"I already tried. The green-eyed macaque had no reaction either."

Now Lafi was put in a difficult spot. Binhanson suddenly said, "How about I sneak over and take a look?"

"No!"

Lafi and Robin stopped Binhanson's idea almost at the same time.

What kind of joke was that? Facing this bizarre, unknown guardian on the other side, how could they let Binhanson risk himself?

Green suddenly said, "I'll go try."

"You?"

Lafi glanced at Green suspiciously and said in surprise, "You have a scouting-type sorcery?"

"Uh..."

Green truly did not know how to put it. Was he supposed to say in front of all these people that he had cultivated the Hunting Nose Modification she had thrown away back in Bissell City?

After hesitating for a moment, Green simply nodded without speaking. To others, Green seemed as if he was very confident in himself.

Green walked forward. After approaching the rune pillar of the confinement magic array at close range, he fully activated his Hunting Nose, capturing every trace of scent in the air.

This was the smell of green grass, the smell of mushrooms, rotting branches, body odor, bird droppings...

After a full small half-hourglass of time, the motionless Green finally gave up. Through Hunting Nose, Green had gathered the scent molecules in the air, yet no matter what, he could not capture any scent related to the guardian.

At this moment, from deep within his heart, Green could not help feeling somewhat afraid of this hidden guardian.

Just like Green, the other wizard apprentices could not gather information about the guardian no matter what they did. Yet through some scouting-type sorceries, they truly and genuinely sensed that a guardian did indeed exist inside the confinement magic array. This made everyone feel even more wary of this mysterious and bizarre guardian.

Right, try the Pale Mask's ultrasonic positioning sorcery!

Thinking it, Green did it. He simply closed both eyes and fully activated the mask's ultrasonic sorcery. As the mask's single horn released rounds of invisible sound waves, very soon, an incomparably enormous thing appeared hazily in Green's field of vision.

"Hiss..."

After sucking in a breath of cold air, Green could not help exclaiming, "What the hell is this thing?"

In Green's ultrasonic perception, a colossal thing resembling transparent liquid occupied almost all the space within the entire confinement magic array, surrounding the altar in the middle.

Although Green sensed that this thing truly existed, he was not observing the thing itself, but rather the layer of "membrane" wrapped around it, which seemed to be an aggregate of certain natural energies.

Moreover, this colossal thing seemed to be constantly writhing. Yet because of the confinement magic array, it could not get out at all. Around the colossal thing, there were faintly some tentacle-like things slowly swaying.

As for those detection sorceries, rather than saying they had been attacked by this guardian, it would be better to say they had delivered themselves into this guardian's body.

Even with ultrasonic detection, his sense of this colossal and strange guardian was still extremely blurry.

And when Green opened his eyes, through the spectral detection of normal human vision, the magic array was still a stretch of nothingness.

This was Green's first time encountering such a bizarre creature. Before this, he had simply never heard of it, never seen it.

His expression somewhat gloomy, Green, just like the other failed scouts, silently returned to his own team, then told the other five the results of his detection.

"That bizarre? Just what kind of monster did those wizards arrange for us as a guardian?"

Binhanson looked at the others in some astonishment.

The Yorkris siblings and Lafi also had extremely ugly expressions. Faced with something that exceeded the level of their knowledge, these wizard apprentices truly had been stumped.

Only Robin frowned, seeming somewhat hesitant. Only after quite a while did he slowly say, "Maybe... I know what the creature Green described is."

The other five were greatly shocked and all looked toward Robin. "You know?"

"Uh... when I was studying contract summoning, I once saw a creature similar to what Green described in a book I obtained by chance. Wizards call it a Void Worm."

After pausing, seeing that everyone else looked puzzled, Robin began explaining again.

"According to what the book said, our endless world is actually a conceptual world of three-dimensional dimensions. This conceptual world is divided into the three bodies of length, width, and height. What restricts the creatures of our world from entering higher-dimensional dimensions is time; what restricts lower-dimensional creatures from entering our three-dimensional conceptual world is the boundary of space."

"Because creatures of different dimensions have different understandings of space and time, even though they might live in the same region, they simply cannot affect each other. Right, according to the deductions of some wizards, certain sealers with rare talent will occasionally see certain dimensional creatures in dreams, or in illusory and unreal spaces."

Lafi, Green, the Yorkris siblings, and Binhanson looked at Robin, dumbstruck.

Such profound wizard knowledge was something they had simply never heard of before. This already touched upon the fields of worlds and dimensions; that was absolutely high-end knowledge that only wizards above level four would study and come into contact with!

Robin saw the five of them—Green included—staring blankly at him, and a sense of accomplishment could not help but well up inside him.

"According to wizard knowledge, this three-dimensional endless world of ours is actually divided into two parts: the material world and the void world, much like an object's true body and its shadow. As for the material world, that is the endless world we wizards explore and conquer. The void world, meanwhile, is an additive that maintains the stability of the material world. As for what it is exactly, the book doesn't give too specific an answer either."

Yorkris asked, "Then what kind of creature is this Void Worm you're talking about?"

"The Void Worm's function in relation to the material world is much like the rules of the world. The difference is that the rules of the material world perfect themselves from within and patch up loopholes, while the Void Worm continuously secretes the power of the void from outside the material world, severing the connections between each material world and maintaining the stability of the endless worlds."

"So, if the void world no longer had its almost infinite number of Void Worms, our endless material worlds would very likely all link into one whole in an extremely short time."

Hearing Robin speak so profoundly, Binhanson and Yorklianna could not help sucking in a breath of cold air. Lafi, however, only frowned slightly before asking, "Then how do we deal with this Void Worm and obtain the treasure on the altar?"

Clearly, what Lafi cared about was the practical issue. She was a woman who started from reality.

"As for that, void creatures cannot survive for long in the material world, just as material creatures cannot survive in the void. If there really is a Void Worm inside the magic array, then it is dying almost every moment. It's just that its way of dying is different from ours. It isn't the extinction of soul, spirit, and flesh, but the constant annihilation of its own existence."

After thinking for a moment, Robin said, not entirely certain, "Theoretically speaking, if a wizard communicates with the power of natural rules in the material world, they can greatly accelerate this process. As for wizard apprentices, perhaps we can throw matter at this Void Worm to speed up its annihilation."

Lafi was still pondering the feasibility of this matter, but Green immediately asked, "Uh... I have a request. That book you read—could you lend it to me? I'm willing to pay the price for obtaining knowledge."

Robin was stunned for a moment, then said, "Of course."

At that moment, Binhanson suddenly wrapped his arms around Robin, seeming very astonished as he said, "Wife Moon, you're truly amazing. I never thought you'd be so learned."

"Bastard, I haven't agreed to marry you yet!"

Robin once again answered with painstakingly feigned anger.

After a while, Lafi finished formulating the plan and said in a low voice, "Then we'll first pretend to casually throw matter inside and have Green continuously observe the degree of annihilation of this Void Worm. Once the critical moment arrives, we'll seize the consumable treasure on the altar in one stroke!"