These rats, no longer submissive to Leo, unleashed their Bloodline Power, transforming into massive bodies at Xiao San meters tall, with the leaders even becoming terrifying behemoths fifty meters long.
These rats flew to the base of the starship, each one like a black dot, desperately supporting the starship and preventing it from falling.
"The starship hasn't been activated yet and can't stay airborne; we can only rely on physical strength to support it," Alice explained, knowing that Leo wasn't quite clear about the situation.
"Boom"
Another loud bang, and a spatial rift tore open beside the starship. Before the rift could expand, a pair of hands, each over twenty meters long, reached out.
The large hands gripped both sides of the spatial rift and tore it apart with tremendous force.
"Tear"
The spatial rift in the Wizard World was torn open for hundreds of meters.
Heaving breathing came from behind the spatial rift. Leo looked towards the rift and for the first time felt the terrifying image that the natives of the Jeft World had seen through the spatial rift when they looked at the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard.
A gigantic head was peering into the Wizard World through a spatial rift, its terrifying and savage gaze like that of someone eyeing a cricket in a water bottle.
Even though Leo didn't make eye contact with such a terrifying being, the moment his gaze fell upon that terrifying figure, Leo felt as if struck by lightning. He let out a series of muffled groans, and blood even flowed from his nose.
His breathing weakened by more than 30%, and just from that, Leo will need to rest for half a month!
What terrifying life!!!
"This is too dangerous to look at directly; this is Level-Five Stigmata Wizard, whose life level far surpasses our imagination."
Alice knew what Leo had done just by looking at Leo condition; he had actually used his level one strength to directly confront a level five life form.
Level-Five Stigmata Wizard is a level higher than her teacher, and their life force is immeasurable.
Fortunately, Leo did not make eye contact; otherwise, the moment their eyes met, his soul would have been destroyed by the energy carried by the gaze of Level-Five Stigmata Wizard.
" Level-Five Stigmata Wizard...?"
Leo murmured to himself, "A level four Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard could kill the God of Dark Night from the Jeft World all by himself, what kind of existence is Level-Five Stigmata Wizard?!"
I dared not look directly at it anymore, and could only steal glances at the ever-opening spatial rifts to feel the immense power of that existence.
The spatial strength of the Wizard World is incomparable to that of Jeft's miniature world. Even as this Level-Five Stigmata Wizard continued to tear at it, the spatial rifts continued to heal rapidly.
Leo and Alice stood on the ground, watching the spatial rift constantly tearing and healing. After several hours, it only expanded from one hundred meters to two hundred meters.
But that terrifying Level-Five Stigmata Wizard, based on the glimpse Leo just saw, his true form was estimated to be at least four hundred meters tall. How could he possibly get past him?
Come help me!
The Level-Five Stigmata Wizard was enraged. With a roar, half of the giant rats that had been carrying the starship flew towards the spatial rift.
With less power to lift it, the starship began to fall slowly, and immediately more rats flew up from the ground to join it.
Once the rats had revealed their true forms, they all lay down on the spatial rift and began to frantically tear at it with their sharp incisors.
It may seem that a single rat can't tear open many spatial rifts, but there are so many of them. Hundreds of thousands of rats working together to tear the spatial rift to four hundred meters in less than three hours.
But at this point, even if these hundreds of thousands of rats continued to tear and gnaw desperately, they could only barely keep up with the speed at which the space healed, and could not expand any further!
"Get out of the way, I'm coming."
The Level-Five Stigmata Wizard gave a cold snort, and all the rats ran away.
The next instant, a loud thud was heard, and half of the wizard's figure, whose appearance was completely obscured, was stuck in the center of the spatial rift.
The furious attack from the Level-Five Stigmata Wizard sent a hurricane-like storm, blowing the nearby starship more than ten kilometers away. It was only through the desperate efforts of hundreds of thousands of rats that the starship was barely brought to a stop.
"Snort"
With continuous muffled groans, the Level-Five Stigmata Wizard squeezed forcefully, frantically trying to break into the Wizard World from the outside, his movements like forcibly stuffing an elephant into a refrigerator.
This time, the rats dared not approach, because the boundless energy carried by the Level-Five Stigmata Wizard would crush them all the moment they got close; only the Stigmata Wizard himself could survive.
And so, Leo watched helplessly as this Level-Five Stigmata Wizard spent another three hours squeezing himself into the Wizard World.
The life suppression emanating from the Level-Five Stigmata Wizard made the entire sky seem to sink by more than an inch.
No wonder the Tower of Elements doesn't allow life forms below level one to enter; it's not just the raging elemental energy, but even the true form of this Stigmata Wizard could crush the nearby apprentices to death.
"I am Elemental Esoterica Stigmata Wizard, guided by the Wizard Will, dedicated to spreading the Great Wizard civilization. Now, the evil Stone Light Small World defies the Wizard Will. I am determined to launch a campaign to subdue it, eliminate evil, and rescue the weak. Wizards, for the sake of the Great Wizard civilization, follow me on this expedition!"
"Boom"
The heavens and earth trembled once more, but this time Leo saw nothing unusual; he only saw the starship suddenly flash by.
Leo knew that this expedition had already caught the attention of the Wizard Will 'Wizard Will, which had been empowered on the starship to ensure that the wizards on the expedition would not be affected by the rules of other worlds and could unleash their full power.
The next second, countless dark figures flew up from the ground and entered the starship. Each dark figure was a wizard, along with a large number of slaves and companions.
The starship seemed to have no limit to the number of people it could hold, taking three days to finish. Leo calculated that there were probably over a million wizards accompanying the expedition, and the slave army exceeded ten million. This did not even include the slave legion of this Elemental Esoterica Stigmata Wizard.
Outrageous numbers, outrageous strength—a legion of tens of millions, all at level one or higher—who could resist?
With a flash of light, the massive figure of the starship vanished into the sky. The empty space created by its sudden disappearance made the elemental energy even more violent, and Leo could even hear the friction and roar caused by the churning of elements.
Before the Wizard Expedition, led by the Stigmata Wizard and using the Star Mothership as their vessel, they would travel through space at high speed, leaping like frogs, by harnessing the energy of stars.
The starship carries tens of millions of wizard legions and can reach the target world in a few years or a decade or so. Then, after decades of conquest, it will completely conquer that world.
Then they can build a teleportation array to completely connect this small world with the Wizard World.
This is the normal procedure for a wizard's expedition, while the method of sneaking over to open a spatial portal in the Jeft World is simply taking a huge risk.
"A hundred years from now, we'll also embark on an expedition. Let's do our best!!"
Alice, who was in the mood to discuss planting something with Leo just a few days ago, has lost that interest now.
Expeditions are not easy. Although the Wizard World is powerful, it doesn't mean that every wizard is so powerful that they are invincible.
Every expedition results in the loss of numerous wizards. Even in a microcosm like Jeft, wizards still perish, let alone in other worlds!
Therefore, improving one's own strength is the only way to ensure survival during the expedition!
The dinner party ended abruptly due to the unexpected expedition. Leo also felt the pressure from the expedition mission. The fastest way to improve his strength now was to complete the first-level elemental advancement as soon as possible. As long as he could evolve into Level-One Elemental Body Refinement Wizard, Leo believed that with his strength, he would have no problem surviving.
Leo entered the library again, but the 'Level 1 Element Advancement Knowledge' and 'Element Resistance Experiment' he had exchanged for required a lot of time to study.
It wasn't until Benji reminded Leo that he realized another nine years had passed, and this was already Leo's tenth year living in the Tower of Elements.
"It's time; I should go pick up the customized equipment."
"The medicinal herbs from these ten years can be sold for a good price, the subsidy from the Third-Class Wizard Medal is 200 energy crystals, and I don't know how much the 1% revenue from the Jeft World will amount to."
Leo returned to the Tower of Tower of Elements office after ten years, and was greeted by the same rat as before.
The familiar flattery, the familiar flavor— Leo still doesn't know why this rat is treating him specially.
He had noticed that even Level-Two Elemental Wizard didn't receive the same treatment as him. To insist that it was due to the Third-Class Wizard Medal was a bit of a stretch!
After all, these Jerry are slaves of the Supreme Lord; they can't be so easily fooled by a mere Third-Class Wizard Medal!
But when he tried to subtly inquire why he was being treated so specially, Jerry remained silent.
Helpless, Leo could only first retrieve the equipment he had ordered from Green Cottage, and then sell all the medicinal herbs to the old shopkeeper. Over the past ten years, the two wizard towers had produced a total of 41 energy crystals.
Half of them belonged to Alice. Alice originally said that each person should have half, and the same applied to Benji. So, Leo didn't do anything for ten years and just got 20.5 energy crystals for free.
After Leo contacted the Purple Flame Wizard Academy through the service hall, in addition to the subsidy of two hundred Third-Class Wizard Medal energy crystals, he also received one hundred energy crystals.
In Alexander's words, the Jeft World has produced little in the past ten years, but when it truly begins to produce in a few decades, the returns will be more than ten times what they are now.
When Leo heard this number, he was so excited he almost went crazy. Now, even if there are no production outputs, there are still ten energy crystals to be settled, which means that the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard can now earn a thousand energy crystals a year.
The future returns will be more than ten times the current amount, which means that the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard can harvest more than 10,000 ability crystals from the Jeft World in a year.
With over ten thousand energy crystals a year and the long lifespan of Stigmata Wizard Stigmata Wizard, Leo could instantly imagine the immense value such a miniature world could bring to them.
"This is incredibly profitable!!!"
For the first time, Leo saw the benefits of his increased strength, and his eyes instantly turned red. He also wanted to conquer several worlds to make money for himself.