"The council has received reports from the front line, the World Purifying Fire Five Rings Great Wizard of world 03245 has already sacrificed. After the council’s discussion, the wizard to take over this world is you."
Listening to the message coming from the Crystal Ball, Richard’s eyes were dazed for a moment, feeling like he was still dreaming. But soon he came to his senses and replied to the Crystal Ball:
"Where should I go next? What should I do?"
"You should come to the City of Eternal Truth right now, someone will give you the handover documents. After the handover is complete, you should immediately proceed to world 03245. At that time, you will be the highest commander of world 03245, overseeing the wizard operations in an entire world."
Jimmy’s voice was heavy and solemn, war is not child’s play. While becoming the leader of millions, Richard also has to take on the corresponding responsibilities.
After disconnecting the communication, Richard took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp, like an unsheathed war knife, almost too intimidating to look at directly.
On his shoulder, Ulysses murmured, "The war has begun, hasn’t it."
"This day was bound to come sooner or later."
Richard’s expression was calm, apart from the change in his eyes, there was no other ripple in his emotions.
Half a year of self-training had already made him almost numb to the battlefield. He had hypnotized himself with Soul Witchcraft countless times, initially, each failed simulation would only leave him frustrated, regretful, ashamed, and even frightened.
Yet, he did not stop.
Eventually, he adapted to it all.
"Do I need to participate in this war?" Ulysses asked.
Richard shook his head, "My friend, this is a war of wizards."
Civilization war is not like the previous Plane War, facing a World Master of civilization, even Richard, a creature like Ulysses, would be at risk of perishing.
Unless the situation became irretrievable, Richard was unwilling to let Ulysses get involved.
Moreover, Ulysses is currently a Gods Civilization ambassador. It’s understandable to help Richard in a Plane War out of friendship, after all, the danger level of Plane War is obvious to everyone. But in a Civilization War, having an ambassador go into battle is somewhat unreasonable.
"Ha, I understand." Ulysses realized Richard’s consideration and said no more. He only used a tone humorous yet self-deprecating to advise Richard:
"But my friend, as someone who’s been through it, I must give you some advice. Don’t follow your kind in playing the game of mutual destruction. If we can run, then run, go to the rear, and you can continue to be a commander. Even if you run to other civilizations, you might encounter someone with extraordinary treasure inviting you to join."
The two exchanged smiles, and amidst the laughter, Richard turned and flew towards the City of Eternal Truth.
Looking at the name written on the documents, the Working Wizard was momentarily stunned.
How could there be a Great Wizard at Five Rings who doesn’t have a title yet?
But these are not the important things; what matters is the person has arrived, so he must hurry to hand over the documents.
The front line war does not wait for anyone; the longer the delay, the greater the risk of the frontline positions being overrun. In the post-mortem summary, he would bear more responsibility.
"Please follow me." The Working Wizard respectfully said to Richard in front of him.
After the war started, the City of Eternal Truth was no longer merely a council hall but had become the administrative center of Wizard Civilization.
All government decrees involving every aspect of Wizard Civilization were issued from here. On normal days, tens of thousands of Working Wizards moved back and forth in this Floating City, like worker bees in a hive, providing necessary information to the "queen bee" who made the decisions.
Following the Working Wizard, Richard entered the depths of the City of Eternal Truth. Here, a beehive-like archive was "running at full speed."
Richard touched the wall; based on his experience, he can confirm that this archive shell is made with extremely solid materials.
The intricate enchantments, even for a Great Wizard, are hard to break.
"Why was this archive built so solidly?" Richard asked somewhat curiously.
The City of Eternal Truth is the core of the Wizard World, and frankly speaking, this place doesn’t need any security measures.
Unless the Wizard World is occupied, no one can threaten this ancient Floating City.
"This." The Working Wizard paused, answering with a tone of lightness, "It’s so it can be preserved for millions of years within the sea eye.
The upper echelons say if the Wizard World falls and Wizard Civilization perishes, this archive will be thrown into the Wizard World’s sea eye, awaiting millions of years later when a new civilization emerges to bring it to light.
This way, Wizard Civilization can continue within the new civilization."
Richard paused slightly, then fell silent.
This topic should not be delved into, especially when the situation is unfavorable.
Arriving at the corresponding archive room, the Working Wizard opened the archive room’s doors with his Crystal Ball and took out three Crystal Balls.
"These are all the information of world 03245, this one involves the wizard’s study of the world’s rules, and terrain, climate, and other such trivial statistics. This one contains the battle records of world 03245.
And this one represents all current data of world 03245.
Of course, there will be considerable discrepancies between this data and the frontline data, as information update takes time."
Receiving the Crystal Balls and absorbing the information, moments later, Richard opened his eyes, and his brows deeply furrowed.
"Why is the personnel arrangement so sparse?"
According to the records, world 03245 is a small world, yet it only has a mere four million wizards, including numerous filling wizards, the Elite Wizards who possess real attacking abilities numbering less than six hundred thousand.
For a small world, these numbers are truly too few.
Normally, the world should have ten million wizards, and two hundred thousand Elite Wizards.
"Obviously the Master is not very familiar with the battle situation." The Working Wizard sighed, "World 03245 is not very important strategically, so in terms of personnel and resource allocation, this world has a very low priority.
For worlds , having four million wizards is already quite impressive. Many worlds don’t even have this number, relying entirely on the Slave Clan and Synthetic Beasts to barely hold out."
Richard froze slightly; apparently, he had gotten a fairly decent world.
Shaking his head to dismiss the absurd thoughts from his mind, Richard returned the Crystal Ball to the Working Wizard and then quickly left the archive.
The data had already been received, now it’s time to head to the battlefield.
However, before entering the battlefield, he had to make some preparations.
Using Power to contact Ulysses, Richard thought for a moment and said, "Ulysses, govern the goblin world and Immortal Country. Have them train their armies and report immediately once they’re qualified."
The situation on my battlefield isn’t very optimistic; the main forces will probably rely on them."
"Ha, understood. What about the weapons?"
"Manufacture individual weapons; large war machines are not needed for now."
After notifying Ulysses, Richard arrived at the One Ring Tower of Truth. Guided by staff, Richard found the Teleportation Gate leading to world 03245, or to be precise, the Teleportation Gate to the Hub World leading to world 03245.
Even though quite a few worlds have already been compromised, the Wizard World has existed for thousands of worlds. There are numerous Hub Worlds between these worlds, strategically ranked as the highest level among them.
Through the space corridor, a distance even requiring years to traverse at the speed of light was compressed into a journey completed in a few days.
After continuously crossing four Hub Worlds, Richard arrived in world 03245.
This world, named Wilderness in the wizard’s records.