Boom!
With the Arch Druid's declaration, the gray barrier shrouding the ruins shattered with a bang. Golden-red sunlight once again washed over the broken blue bricks and scorched earth. Six enormous figures rose from the ground, blotting out the sun and casting heavy shadows across the ruins.
As if it were a signal.
The Misty Captain laughed wildly, transforming into a grayish-white giant snake and lunging at Dean Atlas, who stood closest to it. The other Great Sea Demons and the two liches moved at the same time.
"You've crossed the line!"
Sun Qi, dean of Starry Sky Academy, sent the Iceberg Captain flying with a punch and shouted sternly, "Those two Black Goats are still on the battlefield! They are enemies of our world!"
Whether Wizards and Demons, their essential natures might differ, but the Path of Magic they traveled gradually converged. Both began from the small to comprehend the great. At the Archwizard stage, they forged their true forms; after breaking through Legend, they transcended dimensions and evolved worlds. Upon becoming Ancient Wizards, they began the process of reducing themselves to emptiness, continuously casting away everything they had taken from the universe, concealing themselves, and obtaining new Spiritual Energy from other dimensions to feed back into this universe, allowing it to keep expanding and growing.
The Outer Gods who had embarked upon the Starry Sky Path, on the other hand, greedily seized everything—from matter to energy, then spirit. Their Path of Magic was to see the small through the great, achieving their own might through taking everything and devouring everything. They did not even hesitate to reveal their true forms before ordinary life, allowing their immense, starlight-bright "information" to spread throughout the entire universe.
This was also the original reason behind the saying in many ancient legends that