A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 1211: Chapter 1212: Piercing Gate

One month later.

Without paying attention to the unknown creatures secretly observing him from all directions, Green walked with firm steps on the land filled with bones, towards the unique rules he sensed ahead.

Finally, an immense Temporal Fault with no perceptible end appeared in Green’s perception.

Ah hu, ah hu, ah hu...

A colossal entity, seemingly like a giant crystal ball about a hundred meters in diameter, was snoring loudly.

But under the perspective of Green Truth Mask’s Three-Colored Light Eyes, penetrating the structure to its essence, this giant crystal ball was actually a coiled massive snake, a Level-6 Peak Creature, with a body nearly a thousand meters long, semi-transparent and gleaming, with two horns on its head, and four pairs of wings wrapping the coiled body.

If not for Green using the Truth Mask to perform structural vision, it would have been impossible to identify this creature as a giant snake, and it would have merely been considered a giant spherical creature.

”Unknown powerhouse, if I were you, I’d change direction. The last time this Turbid Lizard was disturbed during its slumber, it devoured dozens of exiles nearby. Or... do you intend to replace it as the Predator in this area?”

The surrounding creatures had long sensed the aura of power on Green and retreated, except for this monster, a human woman from the waist up and a spider from the waist down, who approached proactively.

Using the Truth Mask’s Three-Colored Light Eyes, Green instantly pierced through this creature, which was only slightly stronger than the Dread Alligator Devourer, identifying it as just a shell connected by a spider thread to a distant controlling source.

As for the colossal entity ahead named Turbid Lizard, according to Green’s sensing, it was indeed very powerful but at most comparable to Green’s current body, and unlike Green who had many Sorcery Instruments as support, this Turbid Lizard had nothing but its primitive pure passive evolution.

”Is this the collapse endpoint?”

Under the influence of the Self-sealing Technique, in the center of light and dark interweaving, the twisted light caused by Green’s fit with Annihilation was much more relaxed than before. A humanoid figure covered in Seven-Colored Runes, with a gray-white face, blinked among numerous compound eyes next to the Three-Colored Light Eyes, eerie to the extreme.

”Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, the collapse endpoint here is formed after the immense energy penetration following the collapse of the World’s Heart of the Endless World. The instantaneous collapse of the World is hard to imagine; the staggering energy twisted the Temporal Space of reality and the Sword of Illusions. Calling this the collapse endpoint isn’t wrong, but we here are more accustomed to calling it the Piercing Gate!”

Speaking, the half-human half-spider shell chuckled low and sinisterly: ”That is to say, at the moment of the material world’s collapse, part of the energy will penetrate reality and illusion, creating a brief channel, theoretically the escape gate of the Dimensional Esophagus that the powerhouses gathered here have been eagerly waiting for!”

Hearing the half-human half-spider’s explanation, Green took a deep breath, hard to believe.

It turns out, this is the reason this place is called the collapse endpoint!

However, the explosion from the collapse and destruction of a world, a world huge enough to bear the Endless Dominators’ battle, how terrifying will the energy released be in an instant?

Enough to penetrate reality and spectral space-time!

The beings gathered here actually dare to dream of traversing this degree of energy ripple back to reality?

Probably even before reaching the shallow spectral, merely approaching... no, even getting close to this Temporal Fault would be impossible, as they’d be obliterated to mere dust by the terrifying energy ripple.

With a cold laugh, Green finally understood why many powerhouses who had previously fled to the Coffin of Hope Gathering Place believed the Coffin of Hope was closer to reality.

At least it’s a path that truly exists, needing only sufficient power to open it.

”Hum hum, piercing reality and illusion, that degree of energy impact, even in the presence of the Endless Dominators would only lead to certain death, with the Omnipotent Soul ground to nothing. You all actually intend to forcefully break through as if it were a path, preposterous!”

”No no no no...”

The head and spider relaxedly laughed.

”Because of the frequent influence of some reality world rules here, the Phantom Rules rarely descend, plus every world collapse leaves behind Shards of the World’s Heart infused with the dimensional esophagus through the Piercing Gate, which are miraculous items for extending soul growth. Thus, even without the escape conditions of the Piercing Gate, it’s one of the safe gathering places of the Dimensional Esophagus! What’s more...”

The tone of the head and spider became mysteriously hoarse, ”Indeed, there are cases of escape from here! Though many generations of exiles have passed, the legend genuinely exists. The Endless World will always have some strange rules worlds reacting strangely with spectral space-time.”

Green stared at the head-spider with his Three-Colored Light Eyes, silent for a long time.

Is there a precedent for escape!?

The Endless World has some strange rules worlds that react strangely with spectral space-time when shattering and collapsing, which aligns with the balance rules of the infinite magnificent main body of the Endless World.

In that case...

”My name is Oblivion Sorcerer; daring to send an avatar near me, the esteemed one must be either the leader within this Piercing Gate or perhaps one of the Predators?”

Green spoke deeply, growing some interest in this head and spider’s true form.

”Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, hardly a leader, but the gathering ground scale of this Piercing Gate within the whole Dimensional Esophagus is probably one of the biggest few. Here, only the most primitive rules of slaughter evolution are followed. This era alone, there are twelve regions ruled by twelve Predators; whether you want to become the thirteenth Predator or replace an existing one, no one will stop you.”

Upon finishing, the head and spider took out a small spider from its mouth, throwing it to Green.

”You can call me the Nether Spider King; when you reach my territory, it will guide you safely, sparing you from the disturbance of some savage exiles.”

”Nether Spider King? I understand.”

Green opened his mouth and swallowed the spider whole, needing only to mimic another using the Source of Oblivion when necessary.

The human-faced spider twitched its eye corner, assuming it was a unique sorcerer’s communication method, said nothing more, and withdrew, saying while backing away: ”According to past years, this Turbid Lizard should be waking up to feed soon; among the twelve Predators of the Piercing Gate, it is not the top Predator, but not weak either. If you’re not sure, choose another.”

Endless skeletal land, shadowy figures of unknown creatures in the distance.

Here, the Piercing Gate has created a massive Temporal Fault region, thus dividing the vast region among the twelve Predators each with their domain.

”Hiss...”

After pondering slightly for a moment, Green suddenly shook his head and smiled: ”No need, let it be this one.”

Saying so, Green Power surged as, under the distant gaze of the human-faced spider avatar and the shadowy weak forms around, six Oblivion Source Avatars split from Green’s body, standing at attention from a hunched state, with varied expressions.

”Is the target this big egg this time?”

One Oblivion Source Avatar asked Green.

”This convergence ground of the Piercing Gate has some research value; maybe there’s a clue to leave the Dimensional Esophagus. Let’s try our luck, take it as accumulating Oblivion Fit.”

Green spoke, as the core of light and dark intertwining, leading the six avatars towards the distant slumbering Turbid Lizard, step by step.