Unstoppable (VIII)

Every Black Wizard had to undergo the arduous journey from a penniless Black Wizard apprentice to possessing a complete laboratory for harvesting human despair.

Human reproduction required both a man and a woman to begin with, but where did the initial experimental materials come from?

First, raid the Wizard Continent.

Second, complete Black Wizard Tower missions.

Third, trade other resources for them from the laboratories of higher-ranking Black Wizards.

Fourth, search the wilds around the Black Region and hunt for possible wild humans.

The growth of every Black Wizard was accompanied by the expansion of their laboratory. The instruments of torture used to harvest human despair became ever more refined, while the assembly line for breeding and reproducing humans became ever more practiced.

Perhaps at the very beginning, when a Black Wizard apprentice had only a few male and female test subjects—or even more pitifully, only a single woman—they had no choice but to count themselves among the breeders of the test subjects, painstakingly tending to them and carrying out the work of reproducing experimental materials.

Toronto, a Black Wizard nine hundred years old, had gained his freedom from the Black Wizard Tower two hundred years ago. After countless hardships and meticulous care, the original six humans in his crude laboratory cages had multiplied through several generations into a population of more than three hundred, and he had begun preliminarily harvesting their despair.

In truth, Toronto's path of growth had not been easy.

Unlike the Black Wizards of the past, ever since Nightmare Wizards had emerged in the Wizard World, these eerie Wizards who roamed nightmares had begun using nightmare laws to absorb the power of fear in great quantities within the illusory Black Region of the Nightmare World. Thus, they had completely eliminated the method Black Wizards of the