Chapter 316 - 233: Isaac and the 3-Eyed Goblin’s Ritual

Chapter 316: Chapter 233: Isaac and the 3-Eyed Goblin’s Ritual

With Lorna’s dragons and the Silver Knight’s Demonic Puppet Legion joining the fray, the once-precarious situation on the Pioneer Territory’s border was instantly stabilized. In fact, the expansion, which had stagnated for several days, began to push outward once more.

In this way, a week quickly passed, and the Pioneer Territory’s borders expanded yet again.

By this point, however, the outward expansion had come to a complete halt. Isaac’s requirements for the transaction had been met, so there was no need to waste any more energy on it for the time being.

And so, on this day, as Smith and his men battled attacking High-level Demons, shimmering spatial fluctuations materialized high above the center of the Pioneer Territory. Isaac’s figure emerged slowly from the distortion. Looking down at the vast land below, an expression of slight shock appeared on his face.

Although he had long since received reports about the Pioneer Territory from Smith, the Dimension Apostles, and the others, he couldn’t help but be shocked now that he was seeing it with his own eyes.

After all, for Solomon to get this far had taken nearly a hundred years—the lifeblood of two or three generations!

And yet, it had taken Isaac less than a month.

Of course, Isaac knew that his Pioneer Territory was completely incomparable to a normal one. A normal Pioneer Territory was properly managed. After all, a long and intense War of expansion couldn’t be sustained by simply consuming resources without replenishment; there had to be some return on the investment.

Therefore, no matter how militarily focused a Pioneer Territory was, it still needed some economic foundation. At the very least, you had to establish infrastructure.

But Isaac’s was different. He had never intended to manage this territory; it was purely for a sacrifice. As a result, forget infrastructure—even the paths originally worn by the Demons had been completely destroyed in the fighting, leaving behind a scene of utter devastation!

Without a doubt, as a Pioneer Territory, it was a failure.

But as a sacrifice, its value remained completely intact.

Most of the territory’s resources were still present and undeveloped. At the same time, under the power of the Infinite Expansion Decree, it had already become a part of the Real World and possessed the Concept of the Real World. This was the most crucial part of the entire sacrificial ritual.

As long as this aspect remained unaffected, it didn’t matter how ruined or desolate the interior was; it would not affect the sacrifice.

Theoretically, Isaac could have extracted all the resources within the Pioneer Territory before sacrificing it. However, that entire process would have been too time-consuming. Besides, this was his first time pioneering, so he didn’t have much experience.

’So I’ll let it slide this time. Next time, if I scour it clean, who knows? Maybe I can even create a Floating City?’

These stray thoughts flashed through Isaac’s mind for a moment before he pushed them aside, focusing on the task at hand.

Standing in the air, Isaac gently waved his hands. Tendrils of Magic Power drifted from his body, permeating the entire Pioneer Territory in the blink of an eye. Delicate threads of Magic Power delved into every corner of the land, drawing out the Concepts required for the sacrificial ritual one by one, then arranging and combining them.

After his promotion to High-level Mage, rituals had become a rather convenient form of Magic for Isaac. He could lay out many of them directly, without the need for complex materials.

Because Concepts were the best materials of all!

In an instant, a massive, invisible Ritual Array enveloped the entire Pioneer Territory. At that moment, the faces of every living being within the territory—save for the Dimension Apostles—tensed.

They could clearly sense the gaze of an impossibly powerful Existence turning toward them.

In that instant, everyone from the Demons controlled by the Wilderness Will to Smith and his people fled the Pioneer Territory as fast as they could. Even the Dimension Apostles, who could be revived indefinitely, escaped into the Dimension World.

In the blink of an eye, only Isaac and the Three-eyed Goblin remained in the vast Pioneer Territory.

With the ritual constructed, Isaac looked down curiously at the Three-eyed Goblin, wondering why it hadn’t left. After all, the being on the other side of this ritual was an Evil God, whose rank was no lower than that of a Dimensional Demon God.

Before such an Existence, never mind an Apostle from his own nascent Dimension—even an Apostle of a true Demon God would face permanent death.

But when Isaac saw the look in the Three-eyed Goblin’s eyes, he smiled faintly. Instead of ordering it to leave, he tacitly allowed it to remain and observe. He even went so far as to portion off some of the Concepts to protect it from being consumed by the Evil God’s power.

For in the Three-eyed Goblin’s eyes, he saw an intensely fervent gaze. It was...

an unparalleled yearning for Knowledge, for the future, for power!

Isaac had always greatly admired the Three-eyed Goblin for its aptitude for research. He held high hopes for this Miracle of life, eager to see if another miracle would manifest through it. That was why he had given it the Relics: Silver Moon Vine, which he himself had once used.

Admittedly, after receiving the Relics, the Three-eyed Goblin’s power had increased significantly. Its contributions to this pioneering operation were second only to the Saint Master’s, and the Demon Eye between its brows had even evolved again, gaining a Soul-Devouring ability.

A Soul-Devouring Demon Eye was a powerful type of Demon Eye.

But Isaac was not particularly satisfied with this, because these were all conventional improvements—a level the goblin was always capable of reaching, it had just arrived there ahead of schedule.