This wizard only wishes to be a teacher
Chapter 248 - 226: Ecological Box

Chapter 248: Chapter 226: Ecological Box

"Ah..."

As the Knight’s sword pierced into the giant heart, a shrill howl resounded in Hercules’s mind.

The sound was sharp and piercing, irritating to listen to the point where one couldn’t help but feel agitated, and bloodshot eyes would emerge involuntarily. If the owner of that scream were to appear before one’s eyes, there would probably be an impulse to beat him to death. However, outside the howling, Hercules vaguely heard some special sounds.

These sounds were exceptionally vague under the camouflage of the shrill howls, like some insignificant noises that an ordinary Cultivator might subconsciously ignore. But for Hercules, taking advantage of the special nature of the Mechanical Wizard’s cultivation system, he acutely registered these faint special noises.

"It... seems to be trying to say something, I heard a few blurry words, but these sounds are all mixed together, and I simply can’t separate them completely."

There was a hint of frustration in Hercules’s eyes, but as the giant heart had completely stopped beating, the piercing howl, along with the faint speaking sounds, also ceased abruptly.

He could only unwillingly withdraw the Knight’s sword from the heart. As the sword was withdrawn, the once swollen and full giant heart deflated rapidly, like a punctured ball losing air.

"Hmm?" However, at this moment Hercules suddenly felt a particularly pure energy seeping into his spirit core, rapidly refining his spiritual power, causing a sudden sharp increase in the purity of his spiritual power.

The sensation was somewhat similar to the rewards obtained after killing other players, but the magnitude of improvement was much greater than the reward for killing a player of the same rank.

"Is this the reward for demolishing a Demon Nest?" Hercules opened his eyes coldly sweeping over the thoroughly deflated heart. With a light flick of his Knight’s sword, he split open the heart that now seemed to be nothing but a layer of skin, revealing a few Awakening Stones still smeared with some impure blood and debris.

"Captain, these are all good things; we don’t have to hand them all over to those greedy parasites in the Temple..." Several Knights, upon seeing these Awakening Stones, could not help but show a hint of eagerness in their eyes.

"Handle the rest as you see fit," Hercules narrowed his eyes, and after taking out two larger Awakening Stones, waved his hand to indicate that they could deal with the remaining items themselves.

"Long live the Captain!" The Knights cheered.

But Hercules did not pay them any attention. After sorting through his possessions, he moved to an unoccupied area and then started to check the messages in the Communication Magic Cube.

Inside were all the messages Lucien had sent him during the time he cleaned up the demon race and destroyed the Demon Nest, amounting to over twenty messages in total. Among them, there was one message that Lucien seemed particularly concerned about whether he had received, sending it as many as five times because there had been no response.

The content of the message was very simple, just one sentence: "Be wary of coincidences!"

"Be wary of coincidences?" Hercules’s eyebrows knitted together deeply. He thought of the High Altitude Eye that had been destroyed by a flock of demon beasts, and his whole body involuntarily shuddered.

Coincidences?

Hercules hurriedly checked the previous messages Lucien had sent him. When he saw that Lucien had "accidentally" encountered a second-rank Wizard-level powerhouse and was obstructed from his original investigation by an "accident," his mind went blank for a moment.

What an extraordinary coincidence that a peak-level second-tier Wizard from a different race, who might even be particularly capable of suppressing Lucien in combat, happened to hunt near the Mondok family’s residence at night and met Lucien at exactly the right time.

And what’s more, was it also a coincidence that a bolt of lightning appeared at that very moment, allowing them to discover each other, and fatefully sparking the strongman’s interest in hunting Lucien?

Impossible for such a coincidence to happen!

Moreover, Hercules had also experienced similar coincidences while investigating Rafael.

He had previously decided to use the High Altitude Eye for a remote reconnaissance of Rafael, as a precaution, and had not used the High Altitude Eye to observe anyone within the Dream World before.

Logically speaking, even if Rafael was on guard, it would be improbable for him to just happen upon a High Altitude Eye’s blind spot and converse privately with that Knight. It was also a coincidence that the Demon Nest, which was supposed to mature completely today or tomorrow, matured early, and the first batch of demon beasts to emerge just found the High Altitude Eye.

It should be known that if those demon beasts flew elsewhere first, once past their "newborn phase," with the Demonic Qi retracted into their bodies and no Demonic Qi to probe their directions, they wouldn’t be able to detect the concealed High Altitude Eye in midair.

The demon beasts’ newborn phase is very brief—from emerging from the blood cocoon to full maturity, it takes at most an hour!

"It’s as if... the whole world is assisting them." Hercules’s voice was a bit low, he took a deep breath, and many thoughts raced through his mind.

His experience was broader than Lucien’s. After all, he had a being close to him capable of rivalling a deity, so he was well aware of the "gods’" might.

For instance, a Dawn Wizard could, within his own half-plane, be likened to one whose words become the laws; even the entire half-plane may seem to him like a large Ecosystem Box.

Within it, any life that has grown from the soil, as well as terrain, landforms, the weather, and other natural phenomena, are subjected to their constraint and manipulation. Just with a single thought, everything can "naturally" move toward the outcome they desire.

And the "coincidences" Hercules and Lucien were facing now seemed very much like the work of such beings.

It was like a being standing outside the Ecosystem Box, finding amusement in setting up "obstacles" for the two ants inside the box that had realized their large prison and were attempting to escape for the sake of "observation" or simply for fun.

It was like a child using water or urine to create mazes for the ants. And they, or rather the "players" entering this Dream World, are the "bugs" in this large Ecosystem Box.

"Heh, bugs in an Ecosystem Box, huh? Quite an unpleasant truth." Hercules shook his head lightly, a bitter smile in his heart.