Three years later.
An evil taro flower wandered across the seafloor.
Green used the Source of Annihilation to disguise himself, then used a self-sealing spell to suppress the manifestation of his magical fluctuations to the absolute minimum. Moreover, as creatures who leveraged higher-order rules through the exquisite application of energy knowledge, wizards' energy manifestations were not particularly powerful compared to other beings of the same rank. Thus, Green had reduced the world's rejection of him to nearly its lowest point.
So long as he did not fight creatures on the level of the Eight-Scale Giant Serpent again, even a World Guardian would be utterly unable to sense this foreign invader from beyond a certain range.
In this manner, Green roamed the oceans of the Parasitic Spore World for three years. He investigated more than twenty world nodes of varying sizes and tested two of them, both ending in failure. Then, on this day, he arrived at a place called Kanoman Valley.
As a corner extending from the continent, where ocean currents crashed against it, this place followed a cycle of seven hundred and fifty years. For three hundred and seventy-five years, it belonged to the continent; for another three hundred and seventy-five years, it lay submerged beneath the sea. Only an ancient Heaven-Piercing Pillar stood eternally, thrusting straight into the clouds, one of this world's ancient relics.
Now that Kanoman Valley was land, after more than a century of development, the plantfolk had built a vast and prosperous city around the Heaven-Piercing Pillar. Its scale was dozens of times that of Pearl of the Sea City, making it one of the major cities second only to Domain King's Governor City.
Splash!
"This feeling... the World Eye!?"
The moment the evil taro flower's head emerged from the seafloor, Green sensed something