Chapter 37: Next Sandbox Era Outlook

Xu Zhi picked up the watering can, delivering a rain of blood as a send-off, then plucked flowers to form a floral tombstone. With the mobile phone still playing music beside the sandbox, he quietly returned to his chair.

He picked up his lunchbox again and ate bite by bite, murmuring, "You pioneered a cultivation method for me, enabling me to practice successfully. Then the雏形 of alchemy appeared, giving me hope for a cancer cure. The era of you three witches has brought me too many surprises. These three miracles, as your lives come to an end, shall serve as your final journey."

Rumble!

Golden beams of light pierced through the heavy clouds, accompanied by a magnificent downpour of crimson rain.

On the ground, people gazed up at the sky.

"As the three witches pass, heroes in their twilight, the gods above send them off! A majestic rain of blood falls from the heavens, floral monuments rise, and a mournful song of destiny plays! Three great miracles have descended upon the Kingdom of Babylon! What incredible achievements the three witches made, acknowledged even by Hermes, the God of Wisdom in the heavens!"

Tears streamed down their faces as they frantically praised the great God of Wisdom, Hermes.

"This is a dirge, and also a hymn!"

The people of the Kingdom of Babylon loudly sang praises, listening to the music that cut through the sky.

As the music echoed across the land, something seemed to stir deep within them. Their hair stood on end, and their bodies trembled with emotion, as if from this ancient, profound, and stirring divine melody, they heard the struggle against fate, the battle against nature, the fight against beasts, and the defiance against time.

In a trance, they recalled the history of their arduous rise.

They saw Gilgamesh, a great hero-king as handsome as a Nordic god, holding the Sword of Damocles, roaring at all the giant beast species in the world:

"The history of humanity's struggle against nature is a history of courage and hymns!"

"I command that history be compiled and left for future generations, so that they may understand the courage of our ancestors who defied nature!"

As the vision blurred, they seemed to glimpse the mountain of corpses and sea of blood from when the three witches and many other women consumed the Evil Eye's blood. They heard their hymn of destiny, a testament to their struggle against the giant beast species:

"Death! It cannot break our arms! It cannot shatter our spines!"

In the Kingdom of Babylon, countless merchants, craftsmen, elders, nobles, and mysterious witches holding wooden staffs on the streets seemed to have their eyes wet with tears, silently weeping.

"We..."

"Our lives of struggle..."

"This is our era."

"This song is a hymn to humanity's courageous struggle against fate."

"Great God of Wisdom, thank you, thank you for all you have done for our kings."

The elders of the Kingdom of Babylon, who best remembered those difficult times of slash-and-burn civilization, slowly prostrated themselves on the ground, their trembling, aged bodies weeping profusely.

Before the temple.

"It is enough, quite enough... The falling blood rain, the floral monument, the song of praise."

Medea offered a satisfied smile, her face radiant as a flower.

She exchanged a look with Cassandra beside her, both smiling contentedly. Hand in hand, they faced each other before Hermes' Temple of Wisdom, slowly closed their eyes, spread their arms, and their weakened bodies gradually fell backward.

Two slender, upright, beautiful figures

Fell amidst the vast blood rain,

Fell before the giant floral monument,

Fell within the mournful song of destiny that echoed through the heavens and earth.

This scene was beautifully etched into glorious legends, imprinted on stone walls, and rendered eternal.

"The Kings have fallen."

In the next second, wails echoed through the heavens and earth, and the entire world wept.

The Kingdom of Babylon had lost two peerlessly invincible legendary witches. The three witches had suppressed the world for over two hundred years, protecting all the human tribes in the west. No one knew how Babylon would endure in the days to come.

Later generations, *The Spear of Flourishing Witches*, recorded this moment of national grief in history:

Deep within the Balkech Mountains.

Circe watched the three magnificent divine miracles descending from the heavens and the nation's lament with a shocked smile. "You two, the gods above have sent you off. What a glory that is! But you still walked faster than me. I am still a cut above you two. You were willing to die, but I am not."

Even if she was stronger than the two great witches, it wasn't by much, and her life would soon end. She sat on her throne, looking at the group of evil witches serving her.

"I declare! My death will not be the end of life! When I die in this life, you shall carry on for me, enabling me to return hundreds of years later and live a second life."

She, too, lay down in a coffin, silently closing her eyes.

Inside the mysterious black evil palace, the walls were covered in blood and painted with grotesque tentacled Evil Eye monsters. It resembled a terrifying, eerie infernal lair. Countless evil witches, holding scarlet staffs and dressed in vibrant rose wizard robes, knelt and sang a lament:

"When our King returns, she will rule the world and achieve true eternal life."

Xu Zhi sat in the courtyard eating. After playing music for a while, he turned off his phone.

The flowers were picked, and that was that. After all, using flowers as a tombstone was eco-friendly.

The watering can, which had been filled with rose essential oil to create the blood rain, had only sprayed for a short time, leaving a lot of liquid. He quietly poured the remaining liquid into the toilet.

This water wouldn't do for watering flowers.

"I didn't expect that I only began cultivating the path of the wizard yesterday, and this morning, I'd have to send off the three witches, the benefactors who pioneered this path."

After eating breakfast and washing the dishes, Xu Zhi went out to return the lunchbox to Chen Xi, the girl next door.

He paused for a moment, then looked at the miniature sandbox.

"However, now that the three witches are gone, there are no invincible kings to suppress an entire era within the vast sandbox world. This is the perfect time for me to research and introduce new extraordinary species."

Xu Zhi murmured, adding, "This is the best opportunity!"

It wouldn't work if invincible kings suppressed the world; other extraordinary species wouldn't be able to flourish.

When the three witches were in power, the Evil Eyes always cowered in the swampy mud, kept in captivity, killed for their blood, and used in continuous death rituals to create new witches.

The Evil Eyes lived a miserable existence!

They had become mere blood supply packs!

Now that the three witches were dead, they should live a more comfortable life.

According to their cultivation levels—apprentice wizard, first-level wizard, second-level wizard—the three witches were Sixth-level Wizards, incredibly powerful. As for the path beyond Sixth-level Wizard, they hadn't yet pioneered it before their lifespans ended.

The newly appointed Lilith, however, was only a Fourth-level Wizard, and she was already their strongest existing being.

There was no other way; the times created heroes. Monsters emerged during chaotic periods. The three witches possessed terrifying talent, far surpassing others. Otherwise, how could their combined efforts have opened up an entire cultivation path?

"This is a good opportunity to introduce other species. I can't let one faction dominate anymore."

Xu Zhi, who wasn't quite a complete slacker as a wizard apprentice, silently observed the sandbox. "Early this morning, the second beta test for the Land of Origin of Life has begun. I hope you'll take this chance to create some good things, enriching the species, allowing me to secretly introduce them into this period of transition."

After all, the Sumerian and Babylonian eras were basically histories of tribal people fighting against nature, in their initial struggles, which was too monotonous.

For them, countless dark times had been endured, and they were almost at the "cleared" level, almost ready to officially rise. Their system for cultivating extraordinary power, wizardry, had already begun to spread.

After all, the giant beasts were just ordinary large animals, similar to the giant beasts of the Tyrannosaurus Rex era. They were large in size but no longer posed a threat to them.

"I need to enrich the sandbox's ecological world and put them into 'hard mode'."

Xu Zhi's idea was simple: in the next era, as the mastermind, he would secretly push the world's civilization to evolve completely, forging it into a mysterious extraordinary sandbox world where various bizarre species and terrifying supernatural beings from Western mythology would emerge, instead of just the Cthulhu-like Evil Eye.

Mystery, strangeness, gore, the unknown, death.

This was the wizarding world he desired, a world where great wizards, seeking truth, wielded wooden staffs.

"Just thinking about it is exciting."

Xu Zhi's cancer couldn't be prolonged much longer. It was time for alchemy, pharmacology, and a splendid wizarding civilization to fully emerge and help him research a cure for his cancer.

"I need to see what kind of extraordinary species the players of the second beta test for the Land of Origin of Life will evolve. They will determine the ecosystem and the level of extraordinary power in the next sandbox world era."