The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 871 Misfortune, Fighting Alone Against Limits

Endless dimensions.

The boundless void, like the stomach of a giant monster, swallowed Richard's body.

Looking ahead, Richard didn't hesitate and flew directly towards the Wizarding Alliance.

Since misfortune has already been prepared, he should face it head-on.

The void was silent. Richard's body transformed into a stream of light, streaking across the dark space like a shooting star.

After incorporating the rules of gravity, Richard's speed was increased again, and he has now reached 15,000 times the speed of light.

Of course, this is under full-speed flight conditions; speed during combat is a different story.

Meanwhile, misfortune was also silently at work.

……

The material world, occupied by civilization devourers.

The dark fleets moved through the world like ghosts, each fleet laden with cargo.

Some of the cargo on these fleets consisted of astral specialties—substances not covered by the rules of the four elements—while others were unique products from other dimensions.

Compared to the civilization devourers, the Wizard Alliance's vision was somewhat narrow.

The understanding of resources by civilization devourers has long since moved beyond the material world; endless dimensions are also their resource base.

These illusory dimensional resources from other dimensions each possess unique and wondrous uses. In the hands of the artisans of the Hearthkin and the Titans, these materials were transformed into numerous war machines, which were placed in the world at the front lines.

This is also the reason for the generational gap in equipment between the two sides.

Materials from endless dimensions often possess very special properties. These properties cannot be replicated by combining materials from the material world in any way.

However, after the Wizarding Alliance exchanged ideas, its technology has also made rapid progress.

With the legacy of previous civilizations superimposed on it, it's only a matter of time before it catches up with civilization devourers.

Suddenly, a tremor shook the world.

In an instant, hundreds of fleets laden with materials disintegrated in the astral plane, turning into a viscous black slime. The materials carried by the fleets also drifted into the astral plane, rapidly decaying under the corrosive influence of the aether.

Such tremors have occurred several times recently.

Each time, it results in huge material losses.

In the vast universe of the Milky Way, a thick, asphalt-like black ocean churns and surges.

From the sky, the waves of the black ocean cleverly formed a human face.

"Hehehe, you can't shake me off."

The face emitted a grotesque laugh that sounded like that of a demon.

“Your fate is sealed. Richard will defeat you, and I will take your place…”

Before the human face could finish its rant, a vast consciousness filled the entire world, and the turbulent black ocean instantly calmed down.

There were no curses, no retaliations, not even mockery or responses.

The vast consciousness of the civilization devourer seems to lack the negative emotions that belong to mortals.

His entire consciousness was as cold as a dead void, and he could always make the judgments that were most beneficial to his own survival.

Suddenly, the black ocean churned again, and an eye, larger than any ordinary small world, appeared on the surface amidst the turmoil.

This eye looks at the sky, but it is not looking at the sky. Its gaze passes through the curtain, through dimensions, and directly into endless dimensions.

Eyes like these exist in every world devoured by the civilization devourers.

The duty of these eyes is to monitor endless dimensions.

Although compared to the vastness of endless dimensions, the range that these eyes can monitor is very small.

However, surveillance itself is the goal.

Monitoring endless dimensions is not difficult for civilization devourers, and monitoring is certainly better than not monitoring.

The gaze of the giant black eye swept across endless dimensions, and suddenly, a streak of light flashed past its field of vision.

The figure, which had only lingered in the giant eye's field of vision for a few nanoseconds, was magnified and analyzed by the civilization devourer behind the giant eye.

Soon, a black-robed figure flying appeared before the civilization devourer.

Boom!
A deep, resonant war drumbeat suddenly echoed throughout the Star River World.

The Devourer of Civilization recognized Richard, recognized the creature destined to defeat him.

In an instant, the Black Sea throughout the entire Star River World began to swirl ceaselessly. Countless pieces of information flowed within the Black Sea as the civilization devourers rapidly analyzed whether or not to take action against Richard.

He knew Richard's fate; he couldn't kill Richard now if he tried anything.

However, not being able to kill Richard doesn't mean He can't severely injure him. As long as He can keep Richard in a deep sleep for hundreds of years, Richard's fate will be irrelevant to Him.

At that time, He had definitely recovered enough strength to break free from this fate.

However, He also knew this.

The pursuit of Richard could very well become the fuel for Richard's evolution.

If He could not seriously injure Richard, then His pursuit would be tantamount to advancing the course of fate.

To kill or not to kill.

This is a problem.

The Black Sea churned continuously, and various information about Richard, the Wizard Alliance, and even the Spirit Desert Civilization were comprehensively analyzed by the Civilization Devourers.

In just a short time, the civilization devourer had simulated hundreds of thousands of battles.

In these battles, Richard managed to escape, but he was always severely wounded. The probability of escaping with only minor injuries was almost negligible.

However, these conclusions are based on known information. If we include many hypothetical unknown factors, the probability of Richard escaping with minor injuries increases dramatically, from negligible to almost one in a thousand.

This probability is enough to make the civilization devourers think.

Misfortune passed by silently.

And as it affected the civilization devourers, the ancient monster sensed it almost instantly.

Although He didn't know the source of this misfortune, He could sense that it was aimed at Richard. And with the addition of this misfortune, Richard's chances of escaping with minor injuries dropped to a negligible level once again.

And with this data, there's no reason for Him not to pursue and eliminate it.

The black ocean began to churn, and a colossal body, exceeding 100,000 meters in length, slowly emerged from the sea. Then, a fragmented soul was cast into the body as its core.

In just a short while, a Titan with a limit broken appeared on the sea surface.

At the same time, the Titan Overlord, who was fighting Samael on the front line, suddenly collapsed.

After Richard dealt with one Overlord who had broken through the limits and three ordinary Overlords, even the puppet Overlord of the Civilization Devourer was somewhat stretched thin.

Although He has the ability to create Sovereign minions without using the Sovereign's soul, He is not yet able to create a Sovereign-level clone that has broken through limits.

The Civilization Devourer issued a command, and the Titan Overlord immediately entered the endless dimension to intercept and kill Richard.

Meanwhile, the black ocean began to churn once more.

After the appearance of the Limit Break Titan, three more Titan bodies that had reached the limits of ordinary Overminds emerged from the sea.

Although one Overlord with a broken limit is enough to intercept Richard, it would be safer to add three ordinary Overlords as support.

In his calculations, even if Richard broke through to the limit and became a Dominator on the spot, he would still be seriously injured by this lineup's encirclement and kill.

Continuing to increase the number of rulers is not only meaningless, but will also lead to errors in the soul cognition of rulers who have exceeded their limits.

After all, using a Limit-Breaking Ruler plus three ordinary Rulers to surround and kill an ordinary Ruler is already an excessive scale. Adding another Ruler would definitely make the Limit-Breaking Ruler's soul sense that something was wrong.

Once the three rulers had finished their preparations, the black ocean fell silent once more.

However, the magnificent consciousness of the civilization devourer did not fall silent.

Under His will, countless fleets crisscrossed the world like swarms of insects.

In many of these worlds, the interior is filled with machines that resemble propulsion systems.

The civilization devourers seem to be... manipulating the world.

……

Endless dimensions.

Richard's sense of foreboding grew stronger.

His intuition told him that misfortune was about to befall him.

boom!
Suddenly, Richard abruptly veered off course, his once straight flight path instantly turning into an obtuse angle.

At the same time, a jet-black spear grazed Richard's body.

Richard sensed a chilling killing intent emanating from that spear.

If he had deflected the spear even a nanosecond later, it would have pierced his chest instantly, and his soul would have been corrupted by the killing intent carried by the spear.

"As expected, the greatest misfortune I could ever encounter is you all."

Richard stopped. A split second away, a Titan, over 200,000 meters tall, holding a jet-black spear, was silently gazing at him from the void.

In those eyes, Richard could only see a chilling killing intent.

"Traitor, today is your death day."

Titan raised his spear, and a chilling killing intent instantly enveloped Richard.

This killing intent wasn't a feeling, but a real mental attack. If it were a world ruler, or even a quasi-ruler with the rudiments of a dimension, they would be completely disoriented at this moment, and at the very least, their soul would collapse.

Even a ruler with a fragile mind might panic in the face of such killing intent.

In previous civilizations, there was only one Titan Overlord with this ability.

"Coron Peak".

Richard uttered the name of the Titan Overlord.

"Very good. Now that you know my name..."

Kolon Peak's figure suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, his spear was less than ten meters away from Richard's head.

"Then begin to pray!"

boom!
The jet-black spear, carrying a torrent of killing intent, was like a chain of death piercing out of hell, and it slammed into Richard's head.

In an instant, the tip of the spear collided with Richard's hooded head, producing a sound as if the sky had fallen and the earth had caved in.

An invisible ripple spread outwards from Richard into the void.

Even this aftershock was enough to annihilate some newly promoted rulers.

However, Coron's expression did not improve as a result.

“A beautiful stab.” Richard’s voice was perfectly calm.

"But unfortunately, it's still not enough."

Richard removed the hood, revealing the true form beneath.

On Richard's enormous body, which was over 100,000 meters tall, the dark mountains and seas acted like armor, enveloping Richard's entire body.

And the tip of that jet-black spear was now resting within the keyhole of the mountain and sea...

Not an inch can be advanced.

(End of this chapter)