The Great Mana Tide was coming!
What was the Great Mana Tide …
Less than half a day after the Crimson Conference ended, this magical term had spread like a plague to every corner of the central continent.
However, the news did not spread limitlessly. Its range was limited to the Magi community!
The common folk and the nobles who thought themselves superior were still clueless. They lived as usual, hunted, traded, and busied themselves with the major events of their lives. Yet, they did not know that a terrible calamity was about to befall this world.
The Magi sealed off all information to avoid undue panic in the mortal society.
However, when the news spread like wildfire among the Magi families, many Magi who heard of it were equally bewildered.
What was the Great Mana Tide? Where did it come from? What kind of harm would it bring to us? Why did the legendary Fire Magus who ruled the central continent gather all the Grade 4 Magi to the Crimson Wing and spread the news? Was the Great Mana Tide really that terrifying? …
The endless questions and puzzlement left most Magi families scratching their heads. All they could do was to rush into old books and search for information about the Great Mana Tide from the vast collection of magic texts.
Once in ten thousand years … Mana Explosion … Dimensional Rift Opening … Magical Assault … Astral Beast Invasion …
Glaring words popped out one after another, each of them so bloody, so chilling. Ten thousand years was undoubtedly too long for them. It was so long that they treated history as a myth and truth as a legend.
Now, when the world showed them the true face of history in another bloody way, all the wizards were shocked and once again felt their own insignificance.
Though they were nobles above all others and enjoyed the most glorious and extravagant lives, they could not even make a ripple in the long river of history of the Multiverse. At best, they were just a tiny droplet that drifted along with the flow, muddleheadedly completing their own 'brilliant' and 'glorious' lives.
Just like how summer insects cannot talk about ice, they flew over so many places and visited so many gardens and meadows, believing that they had fully understood the world. They lived freely and naturally, burning up their lives brilliantly in just a short summer.
Little did they know that after leaving the scorching summer and the rustling autumn wind, there was still a snowy winter and early spring in the world of reincarnation …
Those who were able to become wizards had a much longer life dimension than mortals. In their eyes, mortals were like summer insects that were unable to comprehend the truth and cruelty of the world.
They understood the plane and extended their vision and perception to places beyond the plane. There, they peeped at the grander and more glorious scenes of the world. However, just when they thought that they had grasped the pulse of the world again, a sudden name dragged them back into a completely unfamiliar and unknown territory.
In the eyes of mortals, they might already be as powerful as gods. But in the eyes of powerful existences of a higher level, they were weak and tiny like ants, and it was even to the extent that they weren't worth mentioning at all.
With their mere few hundred years of life, they originally wouldn't have been able to touch such a cosmic level calamity. But now, be it luck or misfortune, they were very 'honored' to personally experience the profound and mysterious Great Mana Tide that could engulf the entire Multiverse in ten years.
Wrinkled and yellowed ancient books were dug out from the pile of old papers, and top-secret information was dug out from the ancient books … When the detailed contents were gathered together, when the incomplete information was pieced together, what was presented in front of them was a bloody reality!
The Great Mana Tide was terrible … it was so terrible that it had exceeded their imagination!
According to the incomplete records, the last time the Sorcerers World experienced a Great Mana Tide was 8,500 years ago. That meant that the current Great Mana Tide was brought forward by 1,500 years.
The last time the Mana Sea was in turmoil, it had lasted for a hundred years and over a dozen waves of Great Mana Tide attacks. The damage they brought to the Sorcerers World was unimaginable as well. The population of the central continent was reduced by more than half, and even thirty percent of the sorcerers were lost.
Of course, that wasn't the worst!
According to ancient records, the Sorcerer Union's domain had suffered the greatest casualties.
A giant Space-Time Fissure had appeared there, and an alarming number of terrifying Star Beasts swarmed out of it. It was because of their rampage that the population of the Sorcerer Union's domain was reduced by two-thirds, and the Sorcerers' casualty rate reached an astonishing fifty percent.
It had to be said that the Great Mana Tide that lasted for a hundred years had deeply changed the appearance of the Sorcerers World.
It was said that the Black Ink Valley in the Sorcerer Union's domain was a terrifying scar left behind by the Association's super experts in a bloody battle with the invading Star Beasts. Thousands of years had passed, but the scar had not completely disappeared.
From this, one could see how cruel and terrifying that battle was!
The Space-Time Fissure in the Arden Family's domain in the central continent was also a scar left behind by the previous Great Mana Tide, and the Sorcerers World had yet to completely heal it.
Along with the arrival of the Great Mana Tide came the powerful voice of the Crimson Conference.
Clear the Dark Forest … Search for the weak points in the space … Relocate most of the population to a more stable region in the dimension … Build more War Wizard Towers …
This was a war preparation guide from the Crimson Family, as well as a strategic defense plan for the entire central continent for the next ten years!
After the Sorcerers of the central continent digested and absorbed the information about the Great Mana Tide, the entire central continent was immediately filled with cries of discontent.
It had to be known that after every level 4 Sorcerer was born, they would seize the most fertile land for themselves and their family to set up their base. Such a base would naturally be located far away from the Dark Forest, in a safe zone surrounded by other regions.
Hence, many small and medium-sized Sorcerer families and factions were pushed to the borders of the central continent. Without exception, they all faced the danger of being attacked by the ferocious Beast Tide in the Dark Forest.
These small and medium-sized Sorcerer families had many hunting teams that specialized in hunting those high-value Magical Beasts and rare beasts in the depths of the Dark Forest. At that time, not only was the Dark Forest not a threat, it was instead a treasure trove of resources that they could excavate.
But once the Great Mana Tide descended, the entire situation would be reversed.
The past hunters would become the prey, and the scattered Magical Beasts would gather together, driving the large number of beasts and birds to launch a fierce counterattack against the human bases.
Without the deep foundations of the large families, it was uncertain if the small and medium-sized families could withstand the attack of the Great Mana Tide!
Once a Wizard's Pagoda fell, it would not just mean the loss of a dozen Sorcerers or hundreds of apprentices. The human towns and inhabited areas under the protection of the Wizard's Pagoda would also be affected, becoming food for the tens of thousands of Ferocious Beasts.
With the brains of the Sorcerers, they could quickly come up with a general conclusion based on the current situation.
If the Great Mana Tide was as terrifying as described in the ancient scrolls, the Sorcerer Families in the central continent would welcome an unprecedented reshuffle. Most of the Sorcerer Families or factions that did not have the ability to protect themselves would be annihilated by the Great Mana Tide.
As for the remaining Sorcerer Families, as long as they could survive the first few waves of the Great Mana Tide and protect their Wizard's Pagoda and territory from being destroyed by the Great Mana Tide, what awaited them would be a great upgrade.
Everything had a beginning and an end. There were pros and cons!
Even though the Great Mana Tide was terrifying and would bring about great disasters, it also brought about many indescribable benefits.
The first benefit was naturally the overflow of resources from the Magical Beasts.
Ferocious Magical Beasts that were hard to come by in a hundred years and terrifying Star Beasts that were hard to come by in a thousand years would all appear on the scene, hoping to tear enough flesh and souls from the humans to fill their stomachs. And the Sorcerers that survived after defeating them would undoubtedly reap a huge amount of resources that were unimaginable in the past.
With the help of resources and the stimulation of slaughter on the battlefield, the chances of a Sorcerer leveling up would increase by more than a few times. From a certain point of view, this could also be seen as a meaningful guidance and feedback from the consciousness of the dimension!
If one were to help the Sorcerer World kill the enemies and destroy the invaders, then the consciousness of the dimension of the Sorcerer World would give them a formless feedback, allowing them to improve their souls in the shortest amount of time possible and evolve their lives.
This … was actually a matter of complementing each other, two sides of the same coin!
The second benefit was that the change in the Magical Energy environment would stimulate the creatures of the dimension to give birth to more, stronger, and better descendants.
In the words of the Sorcerers, during the Great Mana Tide, the ratio of human babies born with the talent of Sorcerers would increase by ten times, or even a hundred times. If they were nurtured, the entire Magus community would undoubtedly welcome an explosive growth.
As for the deeper benefits, only high-ranked Magi would be able to enjoy them.
When the world was in chaos, it was the best time for them to fish in troubled waters!
The World of Gods was usually guarded like an iron bucket, and there were not many opportunities for them to infiltrate or destroy it. Now that the Great Mana Tide had come, all the barriers between planes were riddled with holes and were no longer as secure. It was the best time for them to take revenge and plunder resources.
At the very least, Grimm had the intention to go to the Faern Plane for a stroll!
Due to the death of Endor, Alice had begged Grimm to help her destroy the entire Faern Plane. With Grimm's current strength, it was obvious that he could not do this. However, taking advantage of the chaos in the Faern Plane, there was no problem in finding a few 'old friends' to reminisce about the past.
This was especially so for the Elven Swordmaster Agassi, who had forced Grimm to flee in a sorry state and even killed Endor with his own hands … He would remember all of this!
Of course, if he had the time, he could go back to the Paladin Plane to reap some harvest. More than two hundred years had passed, and a new batch of Paladins had probably grown up.
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