"So I asked for a planet, the world where humanity once thrived, the Earth I once lived on."
Leo didn't hide his demands; it wasn't a secret at all.
"What? You've taken a planet?"
Upon hearing Leo's words, the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard instantly turned to shock, and his unrestrained voice caused the entire palace to rumble.
The loud noise caught Leo off guard, causing him to cough up a mouthful of blood. His body was on the verge of collapse and could not withstand the pressure of the Undying Body.
"Sorry, I forgot you're too frail, and you asked for a whole planet?"
Seeing Leo coughing up blood, the Undying Body being apologized and immediately suppressed the aura he had released. However, he then asked Leo again, still somewhat incredulous, to confirm his request.
"My lord, what's wrong? Are my demands too high?" Leo asked, looking at the incoherent Undying Body.
"What a load of rubbish! Why don't you take this opportunity to advance to the Stigmata? What do you need a planet for? Once you advance to the Stigmata, you'll have as many of these as you want."
"I really don't know what to say. Didn't Purple Flame tell you?"
"He made you hand over the secret technique in exchange for the Special-Class Wizard Medal so that you could smoothly advance to the Stigmata, but who knew you would... sigh..."
Faced with the heartbreaking state of the Undying Body, Leo was momentarily dazed. It turned out that when the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had seen the Soul-Splitting Secret Technique, he asked him to exchange it for Special-Class Wizard Medal, not for the opportunity to resurrect Alice.
Instead, he was given the opportunity to advance his Stigmata!
Perhaps the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard said so, but when Leo received the memories about the Black Skull, his body was already at its limit, and he fainted before he finished listening, so he didn't get any information about it at all.
" The Stigmata Wizard has reached a level close to the Power of Laws; only Supreme Lord has mastered the rules can provide you with the enlightenment needed to advance your Stigmata."
"Sigh, if I had known you wanted a planet, I should have reminded you sooner. With the blessing of the Special-Class Wizard Medal, your advancement to Stigmata would have been almost no problem. Now that things have turned out this way, it's all up to you."
What a great opportunity, just wasted like that.
The Undying Body's tone was filled with regret and remorse, it was unclear whether he was regretting his oversight in not reminding Leo, or regretting that Leo had missed this most precious opportunity.
The chance of getting the Special-Class Wizard Medal is extremely rare, and when it did happen, Leo wasted it.
Is there any comparison between advancing to Stigmata and acquiring a planet?
Which Stigmata Wizard doesn't rule over several worlds?
"It's alright. I believe that even without this precious opportunity, I will definitely become Stigmata Wizard. It's just a matter of time."
After realizing what he had missed, Leo quickly adjusted his mindset.
Taking Earth and missing the opportunity to experience the rules doesn't necessarily mean it's a loss, since Earth might be more important to Leo.
Without this opportunity, he doesn't know when he would be able to reclaim ownership of Earth, and the nuclear fusion technology on Earth is also related to his promotion.
"What's done is done, there's no point in saying anything now. You should get ready, we should be able to go back within a year."
The Undying Body, who had just been beating around the bush, was probably disappointed because Leo had missed a great opportunity, so he casually revealed the information he hadn't told Leo earlier.
"Don't tell other wizards about this, lest it cause panic."
Leo nodded, understanding the importance of this information and also knowing why the Undying Body hadn't told him earlier—fearing that Leo might let something slip and cause unnecessary panic.
"And regarding your soul-secret technique, you mustn't tell outsiders. Just pretend that technique never existed."
"...??"
Leo was surprised. Five years had passed, and now they were only asking him to keep it a secret? Could they possibly keep it that way?
"Don't worry, everything is under control."
After speaking, the Undying Body vanished again, leaving Leo completely bewildered, utterly confused as to how everything was now under his control.
"Never mind, just one more year and I can... go home."
Leo, hunched over, leaned on an ordinary staff. He tried to straighten his back, but it caused a sharp pain in his spine.
Before, when people talked about going home, there were always people looking forward to it. Now, going home seems to be just an obsession in my heart.
The word "home" has become his most unattainable dream!
Leo didn't know what the Undying Body's claim about being able to go home in a year was based on. After the gag order was placed on the Soul-Splitting Secret Technique, it was clear that they didn't want to popularize this technique. So, what other way was there to deal with the dozen or so World Lord and hundreds of billions of slaves from the Black Skull all at once?
Leo quickly saw how it was solved.
The once clear sky suddenly plunged into darkness. This was not a normal night, because even the starlight was blocked.
It's as if a thick layer of felt is covering the whole world.
Within the energy world visible to Leo at his Level 3 vision, all the energy within the energy world was like a suspended Milky Way, flowing upstream and rushing outwards.
It's as if there's a gaping maw outside the world, frantically sucking in the energy of the entire world and drawing it into its body.
"Here we go."
The Undying Body returned at some unknown time, and like Leo, it looked up at the sky. Its tone was calm, but it concealed a deep longing. An unusual ambition appeared in its eyes, which usually seemed indifferent to everything.
His entire body exuded an icy aura that kept people at a distance, plunging the entire palace into a deathly silence.
But the change in his aura was only momentary, and he returned to his usual indifferent attitude.
Seeing the Undying Body expression changed faster than flipping through a book, Leo, with his keen insight, didn't ask what had started.
He knew that with his Undying Body and the strength of Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard, he definitely knew what was happening, but since he didn't say anything, Leo had no way to ask.
The rapidly dissipating energy stirred up a raging storm that swept across the entire world, with flying sand and stones creating an atmosphere reminiscent of a catastrophe.
These catastrophes that are devastating to ordinary life have little effect on wizards; the changes in energy have a greater impact on them.
The energy in the air has become thinner, falling below the energy concentration of the large world and descending towards the energy concentration of the medium and small worlds.
Rapidly decreasing energy fluctuations will reduce the damage of a wizard's spells and may also cause some spells to fail.
At this point, faced with such a terrible anomaly, the war can be said to be over.
One day later, the global concentration dropped to the level of a small world.
Two days later, the global concentration dropped to the level of a microworld.
Leo had no choice but to lock away the magical power within his body, fearing that in the end even the magical power within his body would be absorbed.
If we stop now, and give the world tens of thousands of years to recover, it can return to the energy concentration of the greater world.
Unfortunately, no, because by this point, even the meager energy was still rising into the sky.
The greedy suction force will suck away the last bit of energy in the entire world.
Leo sighed slightly. Such reckless absorption of energy was completely depleting the world's resources, which could very well lead to frequent disasters and turn the world into a truly apocalyptic place in the future.
A magnificent, large-scale world was easily ruined.
Such terrifying behavior and unprecedented phenomena could only be the work of Supreme Lord.
Extraordinary, terrifying, utterly astonishing!
This was the second time Leo had witnessed the magnificence of the Supreme Lord.
The first time was when the Undying Body beside me drew the Sword of Winter, shattering the Homo Sapiens World with a single strike and scaring away the level seven life form of the World Tree.
To be precise, that was merely Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard wielding Supreme Lord's magical artifact; it wasn't the actual Supreme Lord making a move.
This is the second time that the Supreme Lord has drained the energy of the entire world without even using any magic.
"Click click"
A clear sound of shattering came from within the world, not the sound of the porcelain bowl breaking beside me, but the sound of shattering echoing throughout the entire world.
The ground beneath their feet began to tremble, and the enormous palace itself also shook slightly.
But soon, the earthquake's fluctuations grew stronger and stronger, and even the ground within Leo's perception range was trembling.
This was an earthquake that affected an incredibly large area!
"This is..."
Leo could no longer hide her doubts and asked in surprise.
"That's the sound of the earth's crust being torn apart."
The Undying Body uttered the most terrifying words in the most indifferent tone.
"The entire Earth's crust was torn apart?"
Leo repeated the words of the Undying Body as if in disbelief, his still somewhat cloudy eyes flashing with shock.
Is this the method of the Supreme Lord?
The earth's crust is torn apart; isn't that like tearing the entire world apart?
Leo's understanding of the word "tear" was limited to tearing apart ordinary objects; this was the first time he had ever heard of tearing apart the entire world, let alone a large world!
Don't even mention Black Skull and hundreds of billions of slaves; even trillions of slaves couldn't withstand such a terrifying attack from a lower dimension!
"After this world is torn apart, it will be reduced from a large world to a medium-sized world. During this process, some rules will change, so keep an eye on it."
The Undying Body spoke up to remind him that even he wouldn't want to miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, let alone a wizard like Leo who was destined to advance to the Stigmata Level. As long as Leo could gain something when the world's rules changed, it would be of great benefit to his advancement to the Stigmata.
Having missed the chance to Special-Class Wizard Medal, this opportunity is one I cannot afford to miss.
"Thank you, sir."
Upon hearing the Undying Body speak of the changing rules, Leo's eyes widened, and he unleashed all his spiritual power, striving to perceive the changes in the entire world.
At the Stigmata Wizard and above, rules become involved. Now, with the world downgrading and causing rule changes, this is the rarest opportunity.
If the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard hadn't told him, he wouldn't have known about this opportunity.