[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots":3,"chapter-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-252":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wizard: Unlimited Profession Slots",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},226415,494,"Chapter 252 - 73: The Wasteland Where the Gods Died (Part 3)","wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-252",252,"\u003Cp>The first and second floors are called the \"Bloody Shallows,\" which on the surface appears to be just a wilderness under a perpetually blood-red sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the book reveals that beneath this seemingly ordinary surface lie thousands of \"Space Bubbles,\" each with its own unique ecosystem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boundaries between these bubbles are blurred and unstable; one misstep, and the explorer might step into a completely different environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third floor, the \"Black Sand Wilderness,\" where the Scorpion hails from, is described as a cursed desert on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But deeper analysis reveals a more shocking truth: the \"grains of sand\" here are actually tiny life forms, each with its own consciousness and purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire desert is essentially a massive intelligent cluster that expands by continuously devouring and assimilating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, what truly made Ron feel creepy were the descriptions of the fourth floor and below, these levels began to diverge from forms of existence that mortals could comprehend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth floor, the \"Twisted Jungle,\" is an ecosystem that defies the laws of nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lines between plants and animals are blurred, life forms reproduce and evolve in incomprehensible ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trees there may suddenly turn into animals, and animals may take root and grow into plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some creatures possess traits of both plants and animals, and there are even unclassifiable forms of existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifth floor, the \"Sea of Eternal Night,\" is a region of distorted space filled with fluid...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sixth floor, the \"Maze Domain,\" is a multidimensional space-folding structure, a maze not only of physical space but of cognition and logic as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, the most basic causal relationships are broken; outcomes may precede causes, and paradoxes are the norm rather than the exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book states:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The real danger starting from the sixth floor, the Maze Domain, does not lie in its complex spatial structure but in its erosion of an explorer’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prolonged exposure to such an environment will cause one’s thought patterns to align with the logic of the Abyss, gradually losing understanding of the concept of ’normal.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This transformation, once begun, is almost irreversible, as those affected will assume the world around them has become ’abnormal,’ rather than recognizing the problem lies within their own thinking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ninth floor, the \"Soul Abyss,\" is even more abstract and difficult to describe, defined as the \"intersection between existence and non-existence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, thoughts and emotions become visible entities, and fragments of memories and dreams float in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Souls can be directly observed and manipulated, much like objects in the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the deepest level, the thirteenth floor, the \"Void Boundary,\" is almost entirely beyond the scope that language can describe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This part of the book is filled with blotches and blanks, as if the author found it difficult to convert what was seen and heard into words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The few existing descriptions are filled with contradictory and disjointed expressions, such as \"infinite narrow space,\" \"burning ice,\" and \"noisy silence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The following Chapters delve into the effects of Abyssal Curses, more detailed and shocking than anything Ron had previously learned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Abyssal Curse is not just an influence on the body and spirit but a transformation of an existence form. Every creature residing in the abyss is unknowingly redefined, written into the ’dictionary’ of the Abyss, becoming part of its grammatical system.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The curses from the first to the third floor mainly manifest as physical changes—skin hardening or softening, sensory distortion or enhancement, organ position change or function conversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These changes can indeed partially reverse after leaving the abyss, but there has never been a recorded case of complete recovery.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The fourth to the sixth floor start to affect mental structure—the way of perception, thought patterns, and emotional responses undergo fundamental changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those affected may begin to understand time, space, and causality in entirely new ways, even developing new kinds of thinking that cannot be expressed by mundane language.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From the seventh floor onward, the curse directly reconstructs the essence of the soul—not merely ’infection’ or ’influence,’ but a complete ’rewrite.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explorers who linger too long are no longer creatures altered by the abyss but become conscious fragments of the abyss itself, a living embodiment of the abyss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book especially emphasizes a disturbing phenomenon—the irreversibility and contagiousness of the Abyssal Curse:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even explorers who have had brief contact with the deeper Abyss will unconsciously bring the ’logic’ of the abyss back to the Surface World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their thoughts, words, and even presence become tendrils of the abyss extending into the Surface World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An individual affected by the seventh floor curse, just through prolonged conversation, can cause the interlocutor’s thinking to begin aligning with the abyssal mode.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This description made Ron inevitably think of the various Black Wizard Organizations and the Abyss Sect not tolerated by the mainstream Wizard World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps they are the collective manifestation of this infectious process, a group of individuals reshaped by the abyss, secretly spreading the abyss’s influence in the Surface World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The subsequent Chapters specifically describe the biomes of each layer of the abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most common category of abyssal creatures is \"Mutants,\" those originating from the Surface World, later transformed by Abyssal Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mutants\" seem like a further evolution of these external aberrant creatures, which he could barely comprehend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What truly perplexed him was the description of the native abyss creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These entities, belonging to the abyss from the moment of their birth, completely escape the framework of mundane biological understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book meticulously records more than a dozen such native abyssal creatures, each possessing traits that defy the laws of nature:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Void Wanderer\"—an energy aggregate with no fixed form, capable of existing in multiple spatial locations simultaneously, unimpeded by physical barriers;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mind Swarm\"—a collective consciousness creature, composed of thousands of tiny entities, each possessing a fragment of collective thought, but only the collective can exhibit complete intelligence;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time Devourer\"—a peculiar being that feeds on time, gnawing at an object’s \"timeline,\" causing the attacked to experience accelerated aging or degeneration...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most terrifying native abyss creature is the \"Soul Eater\"—a being that exists solely in the ninth layer, the \"Soul Abyss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book provides an extremely detailed description of them, occupying almost an entire Chapter:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Soul Eaters do not exist on the material plane but as ’conceptual beings’ in the realms of soul and thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their most terrifying trait is not their destructive power but their infectiousness—any soul influenced by a Soul Eater will gradually develop the traits of a Soul Eater, eventually fully transforming into a new Soul Eater.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This transformation process is gradual and imperceptible. The victim usually does not realize they are changing until it is too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The initial symptoms are small voids in memory, followed by dulling emotional responses, then an abnormal perception ability of others’ souls, and finally an uncontrollable ’appetite’—a craving for other souls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The most horrifying aspect is that even in the Surface World, once this transformation begins, it is almost impossible to reverse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only known ’treatment’ is the Soul Splitting Technique, to sever and seal the infected portion, but this itself is an extremely dangerous Forbidden Magic with a very low success rate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as the dangers of the abyss increase exponentially with depth, so do the treasures and opportunities contained within equally multiply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron turned to the Chapter titled \"Abyssal Materials and Wonders\" and found this section far more systematic and detailed than he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Abyssal Material should not be simply understood as ’materials’ but rather viewed as ’solidified distorted fragments.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The book explains:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Each type of Abyssal Material can to a limited extent interfere with or overwrite the physical laws of the Surface World.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is currently the content Ron is most interested in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as he was about to continue reading, he suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and quickly reached out to support himself on the table...\u003C\u002Fp>",1315,"2026-05-29T14:43:43.888Z","2026-06-01T04:29:33.427Z",1,"novelbin.me","ae6c0bd843bff2601239e518ab0b150ac8adf71d702d58a1fc02003c7e128df4","wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-253","wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-251",911,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwizard-unlimited-profession-slots-cover.jpg"]