After returning to the mage tower, Melvin's previously amiable and kind professor image disappeared, replaced by deep fatigue and worry on his face.
He quickly walked to a place similar to an observatory at the top of the mage tower.
This was the most epoch-making magic he had researched and was most proud of back then.
It could break through the barrier of the 'native world'.
It allowed him to glimpse the other worlds that belonged to the "outside."
Melvin vaguely remembered that when he first released this magic, he was extremely excited, gazing at the cosmic planes with anticipation and eagerness.
However, the dazzling and colorful universe he had imagined did not exist.
What he saw was a desolate scene.
It was...
A dark forest.
If it were just that, it would have been fine.
But in his arrogance and ignorance, he made a fatal mistake, a mistake that could bring destruction and calamity to their world.
He... Sent a communication magic to this Dark Forest plane.
Melvin's original intention was to find other civilizations and communicate with other worlds.
However...
What responded to this "communication magic" was not any world.
But...
A symbol of destruction.
A reason why the cosmic planes were so "desolate."
The most powerful hunter in the dark forest.
The demon race.
Melvin knew so much, including the name of the demon race, thanks to another kind race, the elves.
Fortunately, the kind elves also received Melvin's communication magic and took the initiative to contact Melvin, which made this legendary human mage realize that he had caused trouble.
It was also from the elves that Melvin saw the worlds and civilizations destroyed by the demons one by one, including the powerful elf race.
Unfortunately... Because of his previous communication magic, the coordinates of his world, the human world, were captured by the demon race, and now the demon race was... rushing towards their world at full speed.
Shock, panic, confusion, and... anxiety.
"Why..."
"How could this be? Yesterday when I observed, the shadows of those demons were still very blurry, and they were at least ten years away from our world, but... but now, no... could I have seen it wrong?"
Muttering to himself, Melvin immediately rearranged the observatory, preparing to perform the observation magic again.
However...
"No, no, no, no! They accelerated, the demon race accelerated? This... this is..."
Melvin sat down in the mana pool, a bit of a breakdown.
Now, this legendary human mage, with disheveled hair and a face full of despair, because no matter how many times Melvin observed, the answer was always the same.
The demon race was indeed getting closer and closer to their world. From the original arrival in at least ten years, it had now been shortened to possibly descending in eight years.
The time left for their human race was already short enough.
As a result, this number was still accelerating. What Melvin feared was not that ten years would become eight years, but that tomorrow's observation might change from eight years to six years, and then shorten again with the next observation.
This almost shattered his original plan of trying to catch up and narrow the gap between human civilization and the demon race within ten years.
What to do!
What to do!
Melvin, who was anxious as if on fire, could only think of one solution now.
Seek help from his only ally, the elves.
At least he had to find out from that great elder Nazha the reason for the demon race's acceleration.
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In the vast and boundless cosmic planes...
A star raft made entirely of ancient trees floated in the darkness.
They were the last survivors of the elf planet, the only group of elf refugees who had escaped the calamity of the demon race's descent.
At this moment, in the great elder's room...
A young barefoot little loli, who was also the last young princess the elf race had sent out with all their might, Vielsia, was now running towards the depths of the star raft.
Her childish and anxious voice called out to a figure meditating in the depths of the room.
"Grandma! The human... the human world has sent another communication, it's red, the most urgent communication!"