Chapter 254

260. Chapter 260: A Dream of Yellow Millet?

The Wizard World trembled with a great boom.

From the Supreme Council down to ordinary wizard organizations, anyone who understood the prophecy knew what the alarm of the Star Fortress signified.

The special "Outsider" mentioned in that prophecy was undergoing the trial to open the passage behind the Special Ruined World to a parallel universe.

No matter who that special "Outsider" was, which wizard organization they belonged to, or how they bypassed the Star Fortress's surveillance to initiate the trial,

For the Wizard World, this was all good news.

The great change foretold by Nostradamus Saint before his extinction, unseen for thousands of years, had arrived.

All wizard organizations sprang into action, intensifying preparations to welcome the great change foretold in the prophecy, unseen for thousands of years.

Riverside Academy Headquarters World.

In a small stellar system completely infiltrated by the Wizard World's will, only a habitable planet the size of a moon remained.

Forrest Diomand had just seen his grandparents, Riverside Great Sage and Sosi Great Sage, when he received the news that the special "Outsider" had already accepted the trial.

"This news is indeed sudden, but do we really need to be this shocked?"

Sosi Great Sage looked at his young grandson and asked gently, "Also, why are you rushing over to see us in such a hurry? Is there something wrong?"

Forrest replied with a complex mood: "I came to say that I roughly guessed who the special 'Outsider' is?"

"Who?"

Riverside Great Sage clearly cared most about this question and immediately spoke up to ask.

"It's her."

Forrest did not dare delay, nor did he make any gesture; in midair, a detailed introduction of Iris. Ke La Ke appeared.

"Mm…… So it's her."

After reading it, Riverside Great Sage let out a sigh: "No wonder she's the special 'Outsider' in the prophecy—if the timing isn't right, even if she grew up right under my nose, I wouldn't have noticed in time."

Initially, Riverside Great Sage had searched the entire radiation range of Riverside Academy for the special "Outsider" and had also looked at Iris. Ke La Ke's file.

He and the other wizards involved in the search unconsciously ruled out Iris. Ke La Ke, not letting her go to the Special Ruined World for verification.

Looking back now, isn't this exactly the greatest peculiarity?

As an Eighth-Level Great Sage who has traversed the myriad realms for nearly nineteen hundred years, failing to see through this little mist is proof enough.

Sosi Great Sage then said: "So, the one undergoing the trial is her?"

"Or perhaps Lin Ke Grande."

When Forrest sent Lin Ke Grande and Iris. Ke La Ke back to the Wizard World's homeland, he briefly mentioned the sudden attack that plunged them into time turbulence, and added his reasoning for guessing that Iris. Ke La Ke is the special "Outsider".

The teleportation gate exploded; anyone inside it below Level 5 Sage faced near-certain death.

The Level 5 Yin Demon lurking in the Fairy World was killed in just this way.

Therefore, teleportation gates are the most heavily guarded places by every wizard organization and wizard legion, extremely difficult to destroy.

When the news returned to the homeland that the teleportation gate connecting the Paro Sage Legion's forward base and rear camp had been destroyed by an Abyssal Demon, Celine Wushi became that worried.

Flame and Metal Trading Company and White Tower Alliance bypassed Riverside Academy's defenses, ambushed the rear camp of the Paro Sage Legion, and with just a half-powered blast of Annihilation Light easily destroyed several teleportation gates—while bypassing tight surveillance, they precisely controlled the damage range and severity, thus revealing the strength and prestige of these two ancient top-tier wizard organizations.

Like Lin Ke Grande and Iris. Ke La Ke, who did not die on the spot but instead fell into time turbulence—such events are extremely rare throughout the history of the Wizard World.

Every protagonist of similar events has had an exceptionally special encounter closely tied to spacetime existence.

Recently, events strongly tied to spacetime existence are foremost the prophecy of Nostradamus Saint.

Therefore, Dean Forrest concluded that Iris. Ke La Ke is the special "Outsider" in the prophecy.

"What a pity!"

Riverside Great Sage let out a long sigh: "It's a pity this was discovered late; otherwise, we wouldn't have needed to make a deal with that dead old man from Mesopotada University."

Sosi Great Sage gave him a white-eyed look: "I told you initially not to rush, not to rush, but you wouldn't listen."

"Hehe……"

Riverside Great Sage gave an embarrassed smile: "This isn't me rushing to gather promotion resources for you."

"Hmph!"

Sosi Great Sage rolled her white eyes even wider: "Saying it's for me, but in the end it's still for yourself? You've wanted to beat that Michelle guy for ages, but you can't do it alone, so you have to drag me along."

Forrest lowered his head, eyes to nose, nose to heart, ignoring the warm interaction between his grandparents who have lived nearly nineteen hundred years.

Riverside Great Sage noticed this somewhat awkward grandson and said: "Go back and organize your materials, make the evidence chain regarding Iris. Ke La Ke, uh…… and Lin Ke Grande undergoing the trial solid, form a report, then I'll submit it to the Supreme Council—first get this resource in hand, then we'll talk."

After a moment's thought, Riverside Great Sage continued: "As for the cooperation plan with Mesopotada University, continue it, make two-handed preparations."

"Understood, I'll go do it now."

Dean Forrest accepted the task, disposed of it neatly, and vanished.

Leaving this couple who have lived together for nearly nineteen hundred years without growing tired of each other, they continued their sweet daily life.

Wizard World Homeland.

West Coast, Tudor Region, Michelle District, Rivors District.

Advanced Academy, Library.

Mo Li, who was reviewing Beast-Taming Wizard-related materials and documents, suddenly felt her heart clench violently, as if she had lost something very important.

Soon she recalled that premonition from over a month ago.

Mo Li immediately understood: this sudden impulse was still about Lin Ke.

Mm……

Through an unexpected gain in the Cultivation Secret Realm, Mo Li knew her suddenly heightened intuition and precognition came from the "God-Eater Insect".

As the natural enemy of the deities of the God World, the "God-Eater Insect" inherently possesses two traits: one is concealment, the other is precognition.

The function of the concealment trait is to avoid being detected and located by deities in charge of control, searching, fate, and prophecy;

The function of the precognition trait is to facilitate predicting the movements and states of deities destined to become insect prey, facilitating trap setup or targeted measures.

At that time, still in the form of a worm egg, the "God-Eater Insect" did not recognize Mo Li as its master, becoming a symbiotic spirit beast.

However, after a long period of coexistence, the "God-Eater Insect" generously "shared" its newly awakened bloodline trait with the resident Mo Li.

If one considers from the perspective of the "God-Eater Insect"'s extremely strong survival desire and capability, it can be understood as not wanting the parasitic host to die prematurely, which would affect its own birth.

After the "God-Eater Insect" became Mo Li's symbiotic spirit beast, Mo Li fully shared the two major traits of the "God-Eater Insect", as well as other yet-unawakened racial abilities.

The recent whim was precisely the precognition trait taking effect.

"Where on earth did you go?"

Mo Li closed the ancient book in her hands, murmuring to herself.

With her current relatively basic intuition and precognition ability, being able to produce such a strong sensation, something extremely serious must have happened on Lin Ke's side.

His whereabouts must necessarily be a place that the current me cannot reach.

This feeling is very helpless, and painful.

Because I am willing but unable, I cannot do what I most want to do.

Taking a deep breath, Mo Li suppressed the chaotic thoughts in her heart, yet could not muster the mood to continue reading.

She simply summoned the Silkworm Baby "God-Eater Insect", which spends all day eating and sleeping, and took out a chunk of Standard Level 2 Magic Stone that had been gnawed more than halfway, conducting the once-daily feeding.

The food of the "God-Eater Insect" is very simple: high-quality, high-purity energy.

After breaking out of the shell, slowly absorbing free-floating magic power, it can no longer satisfy the needs of the "God-Eater Insect" juvenile.

Eating Standard Level 1 Magic Stone also works, but requires a large quantity and consumes a long time.

Mo Li simply switched to Standard Level 2 Magic Stone, giving the "God-Eater Insect" juvenile some to gnaw each day.

At this stage, the food intake of the "God-Eater Insect" juvenile is limited; one chunk of Standard Level 2 Magic Stone can be gnawed for three days.

When it grows a bit larger, it is estimated that gnawing one chunk per day will still leave it hungry.

If the "God-Eater Insect" continues eating like this, the little rich lady Mo Li will sooner or later become a poor ghost like Lin Ke.

"Silkworm Baby, hurry up and grow."

Stroking the jade-like warm and white body of the "God-Eater Insect" juvenile, Mo Li murmured to herself.

Sensing the urgent emotion of its master and "mother", the "God-Eater Insect" accelerated its eating speed, then returned to Mo Li's Sea of Consciousness, comfortably lying down in its nest to fall asleep.

For the "God-Eater Insect", the best way to grow is to eat and sleep.

Eat your fill, sleep soundly, and grow naturally.

After the "God-Eater Insect" fell into a peaceful slumber, Mo Li spread open the ancient book, looked at it for a while, found she still could not calm down, so she simply stopped reading. She stood up, passed by the librarian who was a senior Level 2 Wizard, entered the secret room that over 99% of wizards who studied at the Advanced Academy had not discovered, and placed the ancient book back on the bookshelf.

Then she exited the secret room unhurriedly, walked leisurely past the librarian, walked out of the librarian's office, and walked out of the library.

During this time, not a single wizard discovered Mo Li's presence.

Mo Li seemed like a ghost, wandering through the Advanced Academy, yet no one noticed her.

Those who could detect Mo Li's existence, such as instructors of Level 3 Wizard rank, naturally assumed her presence was perfectly reasonable.

This is the effect of the concealment trait shared by the "God-Eater Insect" with Mo Li.

After repeated practical tests, Selin Sage determined that below Sage-level, including those undergoing the Transformation Period as Level 3 Wizards, cannot detect Mo Li when she actively hides herself.

Moreover, this hiding method is not concealment in the conventional sense of invisibility, silence, or shielding against detection and perception.

Rather, it is concealment at the level of rules.

When the "God-Eater Insect" grows a bit more, and Mo Li's wizard level rises a bit, perhaps even Level 4 Sages will not be able to detect the hidden Mo Li.

With concealment and precognition, survival and assassination capabilities are directly maxed out.

Selin Sage could not help but sigh: "You can now, like Lin Ke, easily instant-kill a Level 1 Wizard. With sufficient preparation, even a Level 2 Wizard is not unkillable."

"But, it's still not enough!"

On the way to the headquarters of "Do Whatever Is Free", Mo Li thought to herself.

Compared to the Lucia Family, compared to certain high-level figures in the Academy, this strength is far from enough.

Mo Li's heart is now set on a grand scale.

Moreover, she has conceived an idea to further enhance her own strength.

This idea is very bold and requires taking risks.

When Lin Ke returns, Mo Li will try to persuade Lin Ke to accompany her in realizing this idea.

"Lin Ke, Lin Ke..."

Before entering the headquarters of "Do Whatever Is Free", Mo Li involuntarily muttered.

"Lin Ke, Lin Ke, wake up, wake up, don't sleep anymore!"

A jolt, a familiar voice, woke up Lin Ke, who was sleeping soundly.

Lin Ke stretched out his arms wide in a big yawn, let out a comfortable groan, "So refreshing!"

"Refreshing?"

Like the roar of a cannonball explosion, it suddenly boomed above Lin Ke's head.

A man with a full beard, looking like a burly Zhang Fei, with a beer belly, stood to Lin Ke's side-rear, face dark, shouting angrily: "Not listening in class, sleeping on the desk, is it refreshing? Want it even more refreshing? Go, stand at the back of the classroom for me, stand and listen to class!"

Lin Ke was startled, instantly sobered, hurriedly pulled back his hand, clutching his textbook, and ran awkwardly to the back of the classroom, standing straight.

Standing there, standing there, listening to the familiar voice, the familiar course, Lin Ke's eyes suddenly became dazed.

A feeling arose that what he saw before his eyes was not the real world, but rather like a string of strings of 0s and 1s forming a data stream, an absurd sensation.

He blinked his eyes, as if the data stream that had truly appeared in his field of view had disappeared.

The scene before his eyes was still the familiar classroom, familiar classmates, familiar teacher.

Even the college entrance exam countdown hanging above the blackboard was still the familiar sight.

What data stream?

"Am I just sleeping in a daze?"

Lin Ke shook his head slightly and found that he was still quite clear-headed.

What on earth just happened?

His brow furrowed involuntarily as he fell into deep thought.

He suddenly recalled the dream he had after dozing off in class just now.

This dream was truly long and incredibly bizarre.

He actually dreamed that he had transmigrated into a Wizard World, and through his own relentless efforts, without any help, he became a powerful wizard.

Defeating opponents of the same level was as easy as eating and drinking.

He could even surpass his level to violently beat incompetent, furious villains.

Moreover, his romantic fortune was not shallow—from the very beginning, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed loli followed him closely.

As he thought, Lin Ke suddenly felt drowsy again, let out a big yawn, and standing straight, he was about to fall asleep.

"Lin Ke! You rascal!"

The black-faced, bearded English teacher, resembling a furious Zhang Fei, roared angrily and hurled a piece of chalk with force.

The chalk was about to hit Lin Ke's forehead.

Lin Ke glared with both eyes, and the chalk hovered suspended in midair, less than a hair's breadth from his brow.

"This..."

Startled in his heart, his gaze scattered, and the chalk fell with a patter onto the ground.

"Stand properly for me!"

The bearded English teacher continued to roar.

That dense black face with a thick beard, in Lin Ke's eyes, began to look abstract.

It resembled extremely the self-portrait of an elderly Picasso.

However strange it was, it simply did not look like a person.

Lin Ke shook his head, looked again at the English teacher, and found that he now resembled a person once more.

"Really strange."

Muttering, he lowered his head, Lin Ke gazed at the chalk on the floor, focused all his attention, silently recited in his heart, trying to make the chalk float.

Just like little wizards shouting "up!" at their brooms.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Lin Ke seemed to see the chalk move slightly.

But before Lin Ke could confirm it, a large leather shoe ruthlessly crushed the chalk.

The English teacher, who alternated between resembling a person and not, left a cold "huff" and walked past Lin Ke's front.

Things can be tolerated once or twice, but not a third time.

Lin Ke thus stopped daydreaming in English class and began to listen attentively.

As he listened, he felt that the content seemed familiar and very simple.

The very simple English class ended quickly after half a period.

During the break, Lin Ke did not go out for fresh air but sat in his seat, staring blankly at the empty neighboring desk.

He had heard that a transfer student would arrive today, and she was a girl; he did not know her personality, whether she would be easy to get along with, or if she would draw a line.

Most importantly, was she beautiful or not?

Lost in thought, the ten-minute break passed, and the class bell rang.

The homeroom teacher, who also taught Chinese, led in a girl who looked very quiet and refined at first glance.

"Classmates, everyone welcome our new classmate to our class family."

The homeroom teacher finished speaking and led the applause.

The classroom immediately erupted in thunderous applause, welcoming this righteous and beautiful new female classmate.

"Let the new student introduce herself."

The applause died down, and the homeroom teacher continued with the welcome procedure.

The quiet and beautiful new female student smiled sweetly, introduced herself gracefully: "Hello everyone, my surname is Ai, I am called Iris, I have a relatively quiet personality, I like some cute little toys, I hope to get along harmoniously with everyone and become close."

Looking at the new student and listening to her self-introduction, Lin Ke suddenly recalled: "This little sister seems familiar to me."

It just felt somewhat off.