Arc 20The Gnoll World Conquest

Leo won the tournament, took control of the world, and spent years preparing New Earth’s forces to invade the Gnoll World. He killed the God of Gnoll, then began advancing toward Stigmata as Yaoyao carried him back to the Wizard World.

  • Leo became the sole survivor of the tournament, claimed sovereignty over its world, and returned to Leo Wizard Academy, where he demanded five hundred thousand mechanical slaves from Charlotte before she resigned as vice dean.
  • Leo appointed Meng Jie and Meng Mengmeng to lead the academy, secured control of the spatial passage, and organized New Earth’s resources and forces for a conquest.
  • Leo sent reconnaissance robots into the Gnoll World, and over three years the academy trained its troops, studied the Gnolls, and developed weapons for the invasion.
  • After learning that the Gnoll World had more than fifty million Gnolls, Leo agreed to kill the God of Gnoll to break their unified command and led the campaign through the spatial passage.
  • Leo used the Seven Great Domains to kill a million elite Gnolls, then fought the God of Gnoll and trapped him with Yaoyao’s help and the Tree of Life’s branches.
  • Leo used Atomic Breath at close range to pierce the God of Gnoll’s brain and kill him, then stored the corpse in Shadow Space.
  • As Leo lay gravely injured, his heart began beating violently and he told Yaoyao he was about to advance to Stigmata, and Yaoyao carried him and the remaining male ants through the passage and away from it.
Chapters 476–500 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 476Level-Three Gladiatorial Competition (2)

Over forty thousand level-three competitors entered a miniature world for a battle royale, with the Wizard Will set to teleport out anyone seriously injured. Leo hid using his robe and Shadow Walking while a cunning golden two-headed dragon hunted other competitors, and Kampas wagered that the dragon would beat Leo for first place.

  • A pureblood golden two-headed dragon arrived among the competitors, and Leo studied him and the other powerful rivals.
  • Sword of Nirvana announced that the one-on-one death matches would be replaced by a battle royale, with the Wizard Will rescuing seriously injured competitors.
  • The competitors were transported into a miniature world, where Leo concealed himself and moved into the shadows as others hid.
  • The golden dragon ambushed concealed opponents and scored the competition’s first elimination.
  • The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard wagered a million energy crystals that Leo would win first place, while Kampas, the God of Giants, bet on the dragon.

Ch. 477Level Three Gladiatorial Tournament (3)

Leo struggled to find opponents in the tournament until new rules forced contestants to fight, then defeated a small-world genius who ambushed him with an Earth Lung Worm. After eliminating its master, Leo took the wounded creature’s lower half into Shadow Space.

  • Kampas and Undying Body agreed to a wager about the tournament’s winner, with neither losing if neither contestant took first place.
  • Sword of Nirvana Stigmata Wizard announced that the tournament area would shrink by half every ten days and contestants had to eliminate someone every ten days or be disqualified.
  • Leo revealed part of his aura to attract an opponent, and an Earth Lung Worm erupted from underground and swallowed him.
  • Leo tore his way out of the Earth Lung Worm, struck it hard enough to crack its head armor, and eliminated its master with Flash Thunderbolt.
  • Yaoyao urged Leo not to waste the still-living Earth Lung Worm, so Leo cut off its lower half and stored it in Shadow Space.

Ch. 478Level Three Arena Tournament (4)

Leo confirmed that contestants’ pets and summons were not teleported away when killed, revealing that they could provide clues to other worlds. He then defeated Longliqi with overwhelming ease, leaving the tournament’s search for opponents—and their world origins—ongoing.

  • Leo killed the earth lungworm and confirmed that its corpse remained in the arena, while Yaoyao realized its otherworldly aura might reveal its home world.
  • Leo sensed Longliqi hiding in a tree and confronted the level three Great Wizard, who chose to fight rather than surrender.
  • Longliqi made the first move, causing plants across the area to mutate and attack Leo before hiding among them.
  • Leo unleashed Thunderstorm, destroying the plants and exposing Longliqi, then struck through his protective barrier with guided lightning.
  • Leo’s lightning overwhelmed Longliqi, who was eliminated after only a few seconds of bombardment.

Ch. 479Level Three Gladiatorial Competition (5)

Leo searched for opponents in the Level Three Gladiatorial Competition, using Yaoyao’s shadows to locate and defeat a powerful Dragon-Winged Giant wizard. As the competition area began shrinking, Leo recognized the change as the power of a world rule and grew eager to reach that level himself.

  • Leo tried to lure opponents out by flying openly and releasing his aura, but the contestants hid from him, so he returned to find a wizard he had spotted and discovered the man had left.
  • Yaoyao released three thousand shadows from the Godslaying Wizard Robe to search for hidden contestants, and they found a Level Three Body Refinement Wizard on the fifth day.
  • The Dragon-Winged Giant wizard activated his bloodline and fought Leo, who defeated and eliminated him with repeated electric attacks before taking his greatsword.
  • A vast darkness advanced across the competition world, and Leo realized that anyone caught in it after five days would be eliminated as the competition area shrank.
  • Leo recalled how the Sword of Nirvana Stigmata Wizard had changed the world’s rules and became intensely eager to attain the power of rules.

Ch. 480Level Three Arena Match (6)

Leo realized the competition world's rules had changed to match the Sword of Nirvana Stigmata Wizard's rules, then hurried toward the new competition area. He eliminated Camille with a single punch and faced Yarisha, who prepared to fight him at full strength.

  • Leo understood that the competition world's rules had changed after the Sword of Nirvana Stigmata Wizard announced them, and he hurried toward the new competition area as contestants emerged from hiding.
  • Leo detected a battle between Yarisha, a level three body-refining wizard, and the elf Camille, then appeared and suggested they attack him together.
  • Camille shot an energy-laden arrow at Leo while Yarisha charged, but Leo caught the arrow and avoided their combined attack.
  • Leo appeared behind Camille and punched her, shattering half her body and causing her elimination; he also took the arm holding her verdant bow.
  • Yarisha activated his enhancements and readied himself to fight Leo after seeing the power of his punch.

Ch. 481Level Three Gladiatorial Tournament (7)

Leo eliminated Yarisha with his seven-domain bracelet and hurried toward another battle, while a rival’s attempt to lure him into the advancing darkness nearly worked. After the competition zone shrank, Pisi Li warned other Level Three wizards that the Legendary Wizard Leo was too powerful to ignore.

  • Leo weakened Yarisha with his domains, pierced his head with lightning, and eliminated him; Yaoyao noted they had gained the elf’s arm and weapon.
  • Leo sensed a distant battle and rushed toward it, while Undying Body celebrated his wager on Leo and Kampas refused to concede the tournament’s outcome.
  • Leo escaped the advancing darkness after chasing a Level Three Elemental Great Wizard who had tried to lead him into it, then entered the shrunken competition zone to search for more opponents.
  • Pisi Li also escaped the darkness and contacted other wizards, warning them that Leo was a Legendary Wizard and too powerful to leave undefeated.

Ch. 482Level Three Gladiatorial Tournament (8)

Pisi Li gathered a force of contestants to ambush Leo, while Leo encountered a shadow walker and helped Yaoyao obtain his dagger. The chapter ended as Leo faced twenty opponents surrounding him.

  • Pisi Li persuaded more than a dozen contestants to join forces against Leo and arranged an ambush.
  • Leo found a shadow walker, whose attacks could not pierce his defenses, and Yaoyao communicated with the creature.
  • The shadow walker gave his dagger to Yaoyao and eliminated himself from the tournament, fulfilling Leo's quota for the ten-day period.
  • Leo sensed an ambush and used the Godslaying Staff to expose five hidden wizards, while twenty opponents emerged to surround him.
  • Pisi Li introduced himself and the other attackers, and Leo prepared to fight the sixteen level three great wizards and four other world powerhouses.

Ch. 483Level Three Gladiatorial Competition (9)

On the fifteenth day of the competition, Leo’s opponents ambushed him, but he unleashed his vengeance giant Bloodline True Body and overturned their attack. The chapter left Leo crushing Anchiro’s claws after Yaoyao’s Seven Great Domains weakened the lesser dragon.

  • Kampas and Undying Body watched Leo and the golden two-headed dragon come under attack as contestants began targeting powerful rivals.
  • Pisi Li ordered his group to attack Leo, while Anchiro, Alva, Alvin, eight body refinement wizards, and elemental wizards launched a coordinated assault.
  • Leo activated his vengeance giant Bloodline True Body, becoming a hundred-meter giant whose defenses repelled Alva and Alvin’s attacks.
  • Pisi Li realized the weakening spells had failed and called for Anchiro to retreat, but Anchiro had already charged Leo.
  • Yaoyao activated the Seven Great Domains, reducing Anchiro’s strength by seventy percent, and Leo seized and crushed the lesser dragon’s claws.

Ch. 484Level Three Gladiatorial Match (10)

Leo defeated Anchiro and the two orc brothers with overwhelming force, while the remaining wizards analyzed his abilities and prepared to counter him. Magma giant Andrew tried to withdraw from the fight, but Pisi Li challenged his attempt to leave.

  • Leo pierced Anchiro with the Godslaying Staff, eliminating him before he could attack.
  • Leo used the seven domains and lightning to eliminate the two orc brothers who had tried to retreat.
  • Leo replenished his mana with the Godslaying Staff as the remaining wizards assessed his powers and discussed how to counter them.
  • Andrew recognized that he had been used to test Leo and volunteered to leave for the new competition area.
  • Pisi Li challenged Andrew, asking whether he thought he could come and go as he pleased.

Ch. 485Level Three Arena Match (11)

Pisi Li’s team eliminated Andrew and used a coordinated barrage of seals and curses to trap Leo, then attacked him with eight Body Refinement Wizards. Leo emerged unharmed from thousands of blows, and the team launched a stronger close-range assault while their mana rapidly drained.

  • Andrew protested that Pisi Li had deceived him and tried to leave, but the wizards froze and eliminated him.
  • Pisi Li’s sixteen remaining wizards surrounded Leo and combined six spells, amplified by a seventh, to seal his senses, mana, movement, and access to elemental energy.
  • The four attacking Body Refinement Wizards battered Leo into a trench with thousands of strength-based blows, but he stood up without a visible injury.
  • Pisi Li ordered the four Body Refinement Wizards guarding the Elemental Wizards to join the attack as the team struggled to maintain its spells.
  • All eight Body Refinement Wizards surrounded Leo, and one struck his chest with a close-range heavy-sword attack exceeding 50,000 points.

Ch. 486Level Three Arena Match (12)

Leo’s Vengeance Giant fought off the Body Refinement Wizards despite being blinded, sealed, and cursed, while Yaoyao used the Shadow World to guide his counterattacks. The remaining opponents realized they needed a powerful joint spell, but releasing their suppression risked letting Leo strike first.

  • The Vengeance Giant eliminated the Body Refinement Great Wizard with a single punch, and the remaining wizards realized Leo’s attack power exceeded 55,000 points.
  • The Body Refinement Wizards attacked from changing positions as Leo blocked with the Godslaying Staff and tried to locate them by sensing their strikes.
  • Yaoyao contacted Leo from the Shadow World and identified a wizard charging an attack, allowing Leo to interrupt him and leave him seriously injured.
  • Using Yaoyao’s shadow coordinates, Leo kicked and eliminated Gael, prompting the remaining Body Refinement Wizards to retreat and call for stronger spells.
  • The wizards debated having all eight Elemental Great Wizards combine their offensive magic, knowing that ending the suppression could leave them vulnerable to Leo.
  • Leo’s defenses totaled 72,000 points from his Indestructible Body, Godslaying Wizard Robe, and bone armor.

Ch. 487Level Three gladiatorial tournament (13)

Leo’s overwhelming defenses forced Pisi Li’s team to flee, but Leo used the Godslaying Wizard Robe to follow them and ambush them with nuclear blasts. The attack reduced the fourteen wizards to eight, with only seven still able to fight.

  • Leo’s defenses endured the team’s attacks, so Gael and Pisi Li agreed to retreat through a spatial teleportation array.
  • Pisi Li’s team teleported away while Leo let them go, secretly marking Pisi Li as an anchor for his final long-distance teleportation point.
  • Leo prepared twenty-five electric currents and used the Godslaying Wizard Robe to teleport after the team.
  • When Pisi Li’s team said they wanted to avoid Leo, his voice came from behind them, and they prepared to fight.
  • Leo attacked first with nuclear explosions, eliminating six of the fourteen wizards and leaving only seven able to fight.

Ch. 488Level Three Arena Competition (14)

Leo defeated Pisi Li’s team and learned that Pisi Li’s ring could track every participant by their aura. Using it, Leo began hunting down hidden opponents, leaving the competition with his first new targets captured.

  • Leo used Atomic Breath and seven domains to eliminate the remaining members of Pisi Li’s team, then demanded to know how they had located him.
  • The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard argued that Leo’s performance surpassed the golden dragon’s, while Kampas resisted conceding that Leo would win.
  • Pisi Li gave Leo an emerald-set ring that tracked participants, explained how it worked, and voluntarily withdrew from the competition.
  • Leo used the ring to locate two opponents hidden underground and blasted them out with ten nuclear explosions.
  • Leo captured the two Earth Kui People and added their arms to his Shadow Space as research samples.

Ch. 489Level Three Gladiatorial Tournament (15)

Leo used Pisi Li's ring to locate contestants and accelerated the tournament by eliminating thousands of them. He then fought the golden dragon Hadesang, who was eliminated after Leo tore off one of his wings, leaving Leo to collect the dragon’s materials.

  • Leo used Pisi Li's ring to find contestants and bombarded their hiding places, rapidly eliminating them and reducing the tournament field to a little over three thousand by day twenty.
  • The Undying Body celebrated Leo’s overwhelming progress while Kampas insisted the tournament’s final outcome remained uncertain.
  • Hadesang, a two-headed golden dragon, challenged Leo, but Leo weakened him with seven domains and transformed into a Vengeance Giant.
  • Hadesang tried to flee, but Leo caught him and tore off one wing while Yaoyao collected his scales and blood.
  • Hadesang vanished from the tournament after being judged severely injured, and Leo packed the dragon blood, wing, scales, and meat he had collected.

Ch. 490Level-three gladiatorial tournament (conclusion)

Leo won the level-three gladiatorial tournament and received sovereignty over the competition world. After returning to his academy, he confronted Charlotte over his betrayal and demanded five hundred thousand level-one mechanical slaves as compensation.

  • Leo eliminated every remaining contestant and became the sole gladiator left in the competition world.
  • The Sword of Nirvana Stigmata Wizard awarded Leo sovereignty over the world and offered help with his conquest of it.
  • Leo returned to Leo Wizard Academy and found Charlotte still managing its affairs as vice dean.
  • Leo demanded five hundred thousand level-one mechanical slaves from Charlotte’s backers to settle the betrayal.
  • Charlotte agreed to the demand, handed Leo the academy records, and left his post as vice dean.

Ch. 491Preparations for the great war (1)

Leo appointed Meng Jie and Meng Mengmeng as acting deputy headmasters and tasked them with preparing New Earth’s forces to conquer the world beyond the spatial passage. He then met Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich, who honored his promise and relinquished the world to Leo.

  • Leo made the reluctant Meng Jie and Meng Mengmeng acting deputy headmasters, persuading them that New Earth's people had to control their own future.
  • Leo ordered the siblings to assess the academy's and New Earth's forces for a gradual conquest without help from other wizard academies.
  • Leo reflected that he could not risk appointing an outsider because the Wizard World’s hidden struggles might involve Stigmata Wizards and infiltrators.
  • Leo traveled to the spatial passage and found Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich still guarding it after more than a year.
  • Garijivich acknowledged Leo’s victory and handed the world over to him, while Leo thanked him and invited him to rest at the academy.

Ch. 492Preparations for the great war (2)

Leo secured a five-year seal on the spatial passage and gained a free force of two thousand Body Refinement Wizards from the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard. After Meng Jie reported the academy’s forces, Leo prepared to conquer the God of Jackals’ world with millions of apprentices and Gulu Beasts.

  • Leo persuaded Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich to seal the spatial passage for five years, preventing creatures from entering the Wizard World while allowing Leo’s forces to pass through.
  • The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard offered Leo two thousand Body Refinement Wizards for free, and Leo apologized for the earlier conflict and restored their academies’ cooperation.
  • Leo told Yaoyao that he was laying the groundwork for future strength despite having to flatter powerful figures.
  • Meng Jie reported that the academies had 5.23 million registered apprentices, hundreds of wizards, and more than 3.5 million Gulu Beasts, including eighteen at level three.
  • Leo reviewed the army’s numbers and resolved to rely on the Gulu Beasts as the main force in the coming conquest.

Ch. 493Preparations for the Great War (3)

Leo prepared for a war against the God of Jackals’ world by redirecting the academies’ resources toward building an army and obtaining weapons and reconnaissance tools. After exhausting his own and Yaoyao’s wealth, he left the Green Cottage with a thousand reconnaissance robots despite being unable to repay his debts.

  • Leo ordered New Earth’s weapons inventoried and developed, and redirected both academies’ resources toward training apprentices for the expedition.
  • Leo invested more than five hundred thousand energy crystals’ worth of his own materials in the academy, and Yaoyao added a collection worth nearly six hundred thousand more.
  • Leo visited the Green Cottage to seek a loan, but learned that Charlotte had already borrowed in his name and that the academy’s interest payments were overdue.
  • Leo offered two golden dragon scales in exchange for a thousand reconnaissance robots and their intelligence collectors.
  • The Green Cottage’s shopkeeper accepted the scales and offered to take more rare materials against Leo’s loans.

Ch. 494Preparations before the Great Battle (4)

Leo used reconnaissance robots to study the primitive Gnoll tribe and its world while preparations for the coming expedition continued for three years. New Earth developed mobile elemental-bullet weapons capable of severely wounding level-one beasts, and Leo ordered their full-scale manufacture.

  • Leo sent one thousand reconnaissance robots through the spatial passage, then left Meng Jie an intelligence receiver so people could analyze the footage.
  • The robots found a primitive Gnoll tribe that worshipped the God of Jackals, and Leo studied its inhabitants and daily life over more than ten days.
  • Over the next three years, Wizard Apprentices trained for the expedition, Official Wizards analyzed the Gnoll World, and Gulu Beasts practiced coordinated combat.
  • New Earth developed a compact close-in weapon system that fired elemental bullets, and Leo watched it shred captured beasts in a live-fire exercise.
  • The modified weapon battered a level-one beast into near death after five seconds of concentrated fire, and Leo ordered the weapons manufactured at full capacity.

Ch. 495Preparations Before the Great War (5)

Leo and the academy prepared for war against Gnoll World while struggling with scarce elemental ammunition, exhausted resources, and an enemy with more than fifty million level-one combatants. After the combat command devised a plan to disrupt the Gnolls’ unified command by killing their god, Leo agreed to take on the World Lord, while Yaoyao privately questioned whether he could do it alone.

  • Leo halted production of improved close-in weapon systems and ordered elemental bullets reserved for critical moments while ordinary bullets and mobile Gulu Beast units handled weaker Gnolls.
  • During three years of preparations, the army and High-Rank Wizard Apprentices grew, but the academy ran out of resources and borrowed supplies from students in exchange for repayment after the war.
  • Leo learned that Charlotte could provide only ten thousand of the promised mechanical puppets and that intelligence reports revealed more than fifty million Gnolls at level one or above.
  • After three months of debate, Hu Jianxing presented a battle plan to divide the Gnolls along tribal lines by killing their god and breaking their unified command.
  • Leo said he would kill the God of Gnoll before the war began, and Yaoyao later privately asked whether he could really do it alone.

Ch. 496Campaign against the Gnoll World (1)

Leo led the Wizard forces and Gulu Beasts into a campaign against the Gnoll World, intending to kill the God of Gnoll alone before the main army invaded. He emerged from the spatial passage to find a million elite Gnolls waiting, gathered there because of the pressure his preparations had put on their god.

  • Leo calculated that his domains and nuclear attack might let him defeat the Level-Four God of Gnoll, despite facing him without outside help.
  • The academy mobilized three thousand Official Wizards, 1.2 million High-Rank Wizard Apprentices, and four million Gulu Beasts for the campaign.
  • Leo transformed into his Vengeance Giant form, declared the war, and ordered the army to advance according to their rehearsed plan.
  • Leo entered the spatial passage ahead of the army, planning to kill the God of Gnoll before the invasion began.
  • Leo emerged into the Gnoll World among a million elite Gnolls, whom the God of Gnoll had gathered in response to Leo's pressure.

Ch. 497Conquering the Gnoll World (2)

Leo drew out the God of Gnoll by provoking him, then used the Seven Great Domains to annihilate the million Gnolls gathered by the spatial passage. He began fighting the God of Gnoll, suppressing him with the domains and landing the first strike as Yaoyao joined the attack.

  • Leo provoked the God of Gnoll while evading the Gnolls pursuing him, until the enraged World Lord came to the spatial passage.
  • Leo unleashed the Seven Great Domains on the million Gnolls, killing them before the God of Gnoll arrived.
  • The God of Gnoll demanded to know why Leo had killed his people, and Leo insulted him until he attacked.
  • Leo dodged the God of Gnoll's claw with Shadow Walking and enveloped him in the Seven Great Domains, suppressing his strength by 17%.
  • Leo struck the God of Gnoll with the Godslaying Staff, while Yaoyao sent a mass of electricity toward the World Lord's head.

Ch. 498Conquest of the Gnoll World (3)

Leo, as the Vengeance Giant, battled the God of Gnoll, whose enhancement weakened the Seven Great Domains and whose strength gradually overwhelmed him. After Yaoyao warned that only four uses of the Domains remained, Leo followed their final plan and let the God of Gnoll impale him, leaving them locked together as danger finally registered in the Gnoll’s eyes.

  • The God of Gnoll neutralized Leo’s nuclear attack and reduced the Seven Great Domains’ weakening effect to 10%, then the two began a devastating battle that reshaped the surrounding terrain.
  • The God of Gnoll struck the Vengeance Giant hard enough to send him crashing into a deep crater, while Yaoyao reported that Leo had only 40% mana left for four more uses of the Seven Great Domains.
  • Leo told Yaoyao to carry out their final plan and challenged the God of Gnoll to fight again; the God of Gnoll revealed that fear of a powerful figure had kept him from killing Leo until then.
  • When the God of Gnoll aimed a claw at his heart, Leo used the Seven Great Domains to redirect it, but the claw pierced his abdomen instead.
  • Leo grabbed the God of Gnoll’s arm and pulled him close, then used the Domains again to redirect a strike from his neck into his shoulder before wrapping his arms around the Gnoll and declaring that neither could escape.

Ch. 499Conquering the Gnoll World (4)

Leo’s Vengeance Giant trapped the God of Gnoll with help from Yaoyao and the Tree of Life, then used Atomic Breath at point-blank range to attack the god from inside his mouth. The chapter ended as the blast struck, with Leo’s strongest attack unleashed and the God of Gnoll’s fate still uncertain.

  • The Vengeance Giant trapped the God of Gnoll’s arms in his body while the god battered him with vibrations and scorching energy.
  • Yaoyao used the Tree of Life’s branches to bind the God of Gnoll and the Vengeance Giant tightly to its trunk.
  • The Vengeance Giant forced the God of Gnoll’s mouth open with help from the vines, despite his desperate resistance.
  • Leo’s Vengeance Giant unleashed Atomic Breath into the God of Gnoll’s mouth at close range.
  • Leo’s plan relied on the Tree of Life to immobilize the god and on 112,500 points of attack power to deliver a potentially fatal internal strike.

Ch. 500Conquering the Gnoll World (5)

Leo killed the God of Gnoll but suffered catastrophic injuries and exhausted his mana. As his heart began pounding and he sensed an imminent advancement to Stigmata, Yaoyao rushed him back to the Wizard World and moved him away from the spatial passage so he could advance safely.

  • Leo pierced the God of Gnoll's brain with Atomic Breath and killed him, then stored the corpse in Shadow Space.
  • The Vengeance Giant collapsed, and Yaoyao used the Godslaying Staff to replenish Leo's mana while he lay gravely injured.
  • Leo's heart began beating violently, reopening his wounds, and he told Yaoyao he was about to advance to Stigmata.
  • Yaoyao placed Leo on Benji's back and led the remaining male ants through the spatial passage to the Wizard World.
  • Leo directed Benji several dozen kilometers away from the passage to avoid disrupting it during his advancement, and Yaoyao asked what he needed.
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