Five years later.
After bidding farewell to Xiweiernis, who was still researching the mysteries of the Balance Sealing Art, and briefly touring several major cities of the Spiritfolk World, Green returned to the Annihilation Tower Secret Realm through a spacetime rift.
If not for the Spiritfolk World's resource support, Green's frequent spacetime travels between world clusters would likely have driven him into a dead end over energy alone.
"Thousand-Eyed Crab, select three million elite Screeching Cockroach slave legions for requisition within ten years."
To assist Soul-Devouring Kiss in invading the Mountain World, Green naturally did not need to bring a slave legion. However, apart from Soul-Devouring Kiss, the District Twenty-Two group under the Two-Ring Holy Tower to which Green belonged had also invited him to join the expedition, to gain the necessary mutual understanding before the War of Civilization.
Over the years, aside from the Stigmata Wizards who contacted Green directly through crystal balls, quite a few lower-level wizards with some ties to Green had come to the wizard tower seeking an audience. After failing, they had more or less left behind tokens.
Green casually looked through them for a while. Some even belonged to wizards he had occasionally met during his time as a Rank Two Wizard at the Seven-Ring Holy Tower.
"It seems the frequent wars have made even these lower-level wizards realize that a crisis is approaching, and they have begun seeking Stigmata protection. What a pity... in a War of Civilization, even Stigmata Wizards cannot dictate the course of the battle. Beneath Stigmata, all are but ants."
With a sigh, Green took out a list containing large quantities of precious Black Region materials and contacted the Purple Gold Fragrance Family, the Isha Family, and several families with cooperative interests tied to the academy.
The number of