Wizard: Starting With the Knights Breathing Method Chapter 3019: 616: Joy of Harvest

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Previously on Wizard: Starting With the Knights Breathing Method...
The astral world contemplates a potential invasion of Nora, aiming to capitalize on the exhaustion following the recent war. While strategists debate the timing and the potential for a larger conflict between rival factions, the fallout from the battles reaches a peak. Across Nora, the heavy toll of the conflict is revealed through significant casualties among high-level wizards and the dissolution of long-standing organizations. As survivors rebuild and heroes reincarnate, major players across the multidimensional plane watch and wait for an opening to secure their own power.

The fortunes of war shift without warning.

What a challenge it proves to defeat a superior adversary!

In the annals of the Age History Book, such casualties may fade into mere numbers after millennia, yet for the Nora Wan Clan, they remain etched in eternal memory.

From the Nightmare forces' perspective.

The clash wiped out 51 Monarchs altogether, among which the Dusk Palace Master slew 7 outright and aided in 10 more, making 17 in total—one-third of the tally.

A fitting title for Nora’s ace.

Of the Nine-level Nightmare Overlords, 455 met their doom. Levi’s summons, including the Shadow Dragon Group and Blood Battle Spirit, claimed 50, roughly one-ninth.

Losses of this magnitude.

Nightmare won’t rebound without an epoch’s passage.

As Sauron vowed to the Netherworld Ancestor, this clash marks a pivotal moment in Nora’s ascent, the defining day in Nora Civilization’s chronicles.

On the Abyss front.

The fight eradicated 15 ten-level demons entirely.

The Dusk Palace Master personally dispatched 10 from the seven prime elements, such as Surgard, the Shadow Demon Queen, and the Lord of Earthquakes.

Gondor’s Three Heroes snagged 1 through a lucky, higher-level ambush.

The Primordial Demon Lord took down 2 solo, including the Furious Monarch.

The remaining 2 retreated to aid Nora and perished at ten-level.

Level 9 demons numbered 111 among the slain.

All told, the Abyss endured far lighter blows.

After all, Nightmare bore the brunt as the primary foe here.

In sum, Nora curbed its ten-level losses, capitalizing on the breach by the Dusk Palace Master to eliminate 66 ten-level foes!

Solo kills by the Dusk Palace Master: 17.

With help factored in, a grand total of 27!

In the ten-level domain, such feats.

Earn the accolade of "unprecedented and unmatched."

During the 2300th year of the Blood Battle, Edmund addressed the masses from the Tower of Heaven, declaring this epochal upset where the underdogs triumphed.

His oration repeatedly hailed the Dusk Palace Master.

Through his might alone, he staved off disaster.

Without his brilliance, Nora’s victory would have slipped away.

All know that upon Lord Emmon’s retirement, the next Grand Council Chairman stepping forth will surely be the eagerly awaited "Dusk Palace Master."

He hasn’t claimed legendary rank yet.

Yet his renown rivals Edmund’s.

The world anticipates his legendary breakthrough.

...

Aboard the Ancient Dragon Continent.

Reviewing the postwar tallies left Levi with a heavy heart.

The Ancient Dragon Continent mourned many losses too, from promising talents to scions of elite families and even peak prodigies among the dead.

Windwalker Lisa, rescued by Levi from the ancient tower long ago and disciple to the Wind Witch, stood out among them.

Freshly promoted to eighth-circle, she fell leading her squad to reinforce distant fronts, devoured whole by demons with no trace left.

Grief consumed the Wind Witch.

War’s whims are fickle; this conflict’s vast scope and twists dwarfed all priors. In typical skirmishes, the continent’s aces would thrive.

Casualties struck the Eighteen Riders’ lineage as well.

Levi ached most over the fallen retired Snow Dragon Knight and Pheasant Knight, lost on remote battlegrounds.

For the first time, founding Eighteen Riders members passed. Conflict spares no mercy, and Nora faces graver trials ahead, with more losses looming.

Despite Levi’s arsenal of techniques, mass warfare defied cloning himself for rescues. True salvation lies in powering up.

Over a hundred Level 6+ powerhouses from the Ancient Dragon Continent perished here. Levi decreed honorable burials and generous aid for their kin.

Mortals fared better, shielded deep in Star Castle with scant harm as they played no frontline role.

Stowing the grim casualty roster, Levi directed swift postwar rebuilding and rallying, bracing for imminent fresh assaults.

He ascended to White Emperor Sky.

Beneath the white imperial star, dread presences lay shackled.

"Dusk Palace Master, set us free at once!"

"We Four Great Calamities rank as high Nightmare lords. Slay us, and the Master of Horror will hunt you down."

"Give back my Sword of World Destruction!"

Captured demons and Monarchs raged on.

Ancients of billions of years they were, yet death stripped their poise, outshone by mere ten-thousand-year wizards.

Giants indeed, Levi sneered within.

Mighty by birth, brittle at core.

"Red Land Calamity Monarch and Deep Cold Demon King suit as fodder for the Holy Infant’s future legendary artifact... Skyfire Monarch, Ghost Wind Dominator, and Master of Deep Diving let Gandalf forge his Body Refining Artifact via [All Saint Kings Relics] fusion—he just needs an earth demon for Chaos. Sealed Sovereign’s crystals and stuff pack solid spatial essence for supreme treasures and divine arms... Remaining ten-levels fuel my Chaos Artifact forge."

Levi plotted his captives’ fates with precision.

Beyond corpses, the fray yielded ample loot.

First off, Four Disasters Sword and Black Coffin Illusion Device—shattered, so nourished to Seven Treasures, still assimilating toward supreme treasure status.

Second, dual ten-level Magic Tools.

[Shadow Whip] and [Sky-shattering Worm Armor].

Harvested from Shadow Demon Queen and Lord of Earthquakes.

The first stayed pristine and prime; Levi eyed it as Shadow School of Thought’s "Sect Treasure" on Ancient Dragon Continent post-tweaks. The second, cracked by Levi, would merge with ten-level stuff to rebirth [Golden Dragon Heavenly Shield].

Third, prime prize: [Sword of World Destruction].

Levi probed it still, set to dismantle and recast with [Crimson Dragon Slash] into ultimate divine weapon—his signature blade.

Oh, and [Sunset Moonfall Halberd] supreme treasure got trashed beyond mending, fed to Seven Treasures.

Other war hauls included Divine Iron [Black Demon God Gold].

Perfect match for [Invisible Shadow] divine weapon reforging. Post-battle, each ten-level Breathing Technique Bloodline Divine Weapon hits ten-level.

Nightmare Helmet and Undying Armor materials? Covered—congress Nightmare Creature bits plus apt Divine Iron enable reforging.

Rest of the spoils? Priceless, details aside.

The bout brought hefty secret boons too.

Blood Battle Spirit hit Level 10 Middle Stage; Shadow Army refined further, elites now with 500+ monsters and 56 demon kings.

Aided by allies, Levi racked kills, hitting 30 Demon Emperors—staggering, though just 2 pack ten-level punch.

One: [Old Sea Dominator], Level 10 Early Stage.

Other: [Holy War Monarch], Level 10 Early Stage. Prior Dusk Sun God kill yielded no shadow, mere incarnation lost.

Of 28 leftover Demon Emperors, all linger at level 9.

Level 10 upgrade demands oceans of resources; Levi’s spirit can’t sustain that horde yet.

"For a full Level 10 force, I’ll spearhead invasion of Giant World, tapping its riches to breed my legions."