I have a wizarding world

"Commander, look!" A003 pointed ahead.

Following the direction A003 indicated, Fang Cheng saw an ancient gray castle.

The castle's exterior was constructed from enormous stone blocks, covered with a thick layer of gray grime.

As they approached.

The castle came into full view.

"So… so big!"

"It is huge!" Fang Cheng replied, equally stunned.

The castle before him was even larger than the Seth Castle in the Rein Secret Realm that Fang Cheng had visited.

Even more astonishing was that the castle was a sealed structure, with only a massive gate at the front.

If it could be called a gate.

Fang Cheng flew to the castle gate and landed.

Even piloting a 5-meter-tall mech, he felt like a tiny speck before this gate.

Fang Cheng estimated that the giant gate was at least a hundred meters high.

The gate alone accounted for a third of the castle's height.

"Commander!" A003 landed beside Fang Cheng, pointing to the slightly open giant gate, "It looks like someone has gone inside."

"Yes," Fang Cheng nodded, unsurprised. After all, so many wizard apprentices had entered the canyon; it was unlikely that none of them had made it here alive.

"Let's go in. If I'm not mistaken, the Great Demon's corpse is inside this castle," Fang Cheng said, looking up at the giant gate.

With that, Fang Cheng manipulated the mech to slowly push open the giant gate.

"Creak, creak!"

A teeth-grinding sound echoed as the gate opened wider, enough for Fang Cheng and the others to pass through in their mechs.

"Go!"

Fang Cheng took the lead, entering through the opening, followed by the clone soldiers.

As soon as they entered the castle, it was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

"Click!"

Fang Cheng took a searchlight from his spatial ring, and its powerful beam shot into the depths of the castle.

"This is?"

Fang Cheng felt a slight surprise at the sight before him.

The scene was different from what Fang Cheng had imagined; it wasn't a terrifying place at all, but more like an imperial palace.

The floor of the castle's main hall was paved with black glazed tiles, a material reserved for the Eastern Sacred Empire's royalty.

Inside the hall, rows of white marble pillars supported the hundreds-of-meters-high ceiling.

The marble pillars were adorned with numerous exquisite sculptures.

"These sculptures…"

Fang Cheng directed the searchlight at the sculptures and discovered that they depicted scenes of the cosmic starry sky!

"How could this be?" Fang Cheng quickly approached the sculptures for a closer look.

Although the entire castle was protected by alchemical arrays, the sculptures had become somewhat blurred over the long years; some areas were even completely indistinct.

But Fang Cheng could still make out that they were carvings of the cosmic starry sky.

Nebulae and planets were recorded on the stone pillars by master sculptors from countless years ago.

Fang Cheng's mind was in turmoil. "What… what is going on here?"

Fang Cheng had been in this other world for almost a year, but no one, whether in the Black and White Tower or elsewhere, had ever mentioned the concept of planets or stars. Fang Cheng even thought that, despite the strength of the wizard civilization, they had no concept of the universe.

He even thought that the star in the sky was just a giant ball of fire.

But now…

Seeing these sculptures, Fang Cheng realized how narrow his previous understanding had been.

With the wizards' power, how could they not know that the continent beneath their feet was actually a planet?

Fang Cheng hadn't been exposed to the wizard civilization's view of the universe simply because he was too weak. Perhaps, in the eyes of those formal wizards, Fang Cheng simply wasn't qualified to know the secrets of this world.

Furthermore, wizards valued knowledge above all else, and their secrecy regarding knowledge was absolute.

Therefore, it was normal for Fang Cheng not to understand the wizard civilization's view of the universe.

"I still underestimated the wizard civilization!" Fang Cheng thought to himself. "These wizards not only have a view of the universe, but their understanding of the universe might even be beyond that of Earth!"

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng couldn't help but wonder about the reason for the absence of Morning Star wizards on the continent.

Logically, as beings who had broken free from the constraints of lifespan, there should be many Morning Star wizards on the continent.

After all, as time passed, their numbers would only increase.

But in fact, there wasn't a single Morning Star wizard on the entire continent.

"Could it be that they are no longer on this planet?" Fang Cheng was startled by his own bold guess, but then felt that his guess was very likely to be true.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain where such a powerful group of wizards with endless lifespans had gone.

"Perhaps, this starry sky is the true home of those great beings!" Fang Cheng raised his head, but only saw the dark ceiling of the hall.

Fang Cheng shook his head, cleared his chaotic thoughts, recorded the sculptures before him, and continued forward.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The castle hall was too large. As Fang Cheng and the clone soldiers walked inside, the sound of the mechs colliding with the glazed tiles echoed, but no reverberation could be heard.

"Commander, there's a door ahead."

After walking for about half an hour, A003, using the mech's night vision, saw a door ahead and turned to Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng pointed the searchlight at the door.

This door was smaller than the giant gate outside the castle, but it was still tens of meters high. Moreover, this door had also been pushed open, suggesting that someone had entered before.

"Let's go, we're going in!"

With that, Fang Cheng took the lead, pushed open the door, and led the way inside.

Passing through this door, there was another huge hall.

Fang Cheng shone the searchlight into the darkness, but couldn't reach the end, indicating that this hall was no smaller than the previous one.

"Let's go!"

Fang Cheng paused and continued forward.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

"Who～"

"Who… who let you come…"

Suddenly, a mechanical voice echoed, causing Fang Cheng's hair to stand on end in the pitch-black environment.

"Come out!" Fang Cheng shouted.

"Who let you come here～"

The mechanical voice seemed to be adjusting, gradually becoming clearer.

"Listening to this voice, it seems like…" Fang Cheng's eyes lit up. "It's a mechanical puppet!"

"That's right, it's a mechanical puppet!" Fang Cheng suddenly remembered the books about mechanical puppets that he had found in the Rein Secret Realm. The mechanical puppets described in them seemed to speak like this.

Mechanical puppets were a type of alchemical puppet. The power for mechanical puppets was generally provided by high-grade magic stones.

According to records, even the weakest mechanical puppet was comparable to a formal wizard, and some particularly powerful mechanical puppets were even equipped with a ray weapon. It was rumored that this weapon possessed the power to penetrate everything, and even Morning Star wizards had to avoid its edge!

According to Chu Xuan's analysis, this weapon should be a type of energy weapon.