Chapter 163: Intersection Point

There are many complex things to do to prepare for participating in a plane war, but the most important one is signing up.

This is not Jie Ming's first contact with plane wars.

At the Nuolun Academy, every five years, when each batch of apprentices graduates, the Nuolun Academy arranges for them to go to planes that need to be conquered.

At that time, this seemed to be the academy's "trial" for graduates, but in reality, this activity was also a type of welfare provided by the academy.

Basically, every selected plane is enough for a batch of academy graduates to complete their military service requirements.

Combat-type wizards are generally responsible for the initial invasion and opening, charging into the fray and finding out the main situation within the plane.

Logistics-type wizards are responsible for the mid-term hard-fought wars, clearing out the most troublesome enemies, assisting in establishing strongholds, and the late-stage plane clearing and reorganization.

Occasionally, when encountering more difficult planes, one plane can even serve as "teaching material" for two batches of graduates, providing long-term training opportunities.

However, after this "welfare time" (i. e., military service obligation) provided by the academy ends, it is not so easy for wizards under normal circumstances to participate in wars.

Because these planes used for expansion are spatial coordinates that high-tier wizards have painstakingly spent huge sums of money and even risked their lives to find.

They are the most core strategic resources of various wizard forces, so naturally, they cannot be easily taken out for ordinary wizards to participate in at will.

Jie Ming's situation is a bit special.

According to common sense, even if the plane used as "teaching material" for graduation is conquered smoothly, after five years of preparation time, new graduates can still return to the previous plane to "work."

After all, even if most of the enemies are solved, the cumbersome procedures such as clearing out resistance forces, resource inventory, material exploration, and plane transformation are enough for logistics-type wizards to spend their long military service time.

But the Elosia plane group was built by the Nuolun Workshop as a new Nuolun Academy, so a large number of high-tier wizards and senior scholars intervened, making the speed of late-stage work quite exaggerated.

The entire plane group was thoroughly sorted out within just a few years, and even the plane origin was branded with the Nuolun Workshop.

If Jie Ming had set off early like Amy and Victor, he could have caught up with the plane war of the previous batch of graduates and participated as an apprentice soldier.

If he were a little later, he could have caught the "teaching material" welfare of the next batch of graduates.

However, his current timing happens to be in the gap between the wars of two batches of graduates, which is indeed quite awkward.

So, he can only learn the method of those senior wizards who no longer have military service obligations and actively participate in plane wars—signing up.

Fortunately, regarding this problem, Mentor Clark provided Jie Ming with a good plan and incidentally introduced him to a wizard familiar with this.

"Lady Wei Ao—la?"

Looking at the familiar figure on the other side of the communication, Jie Ming was somewhat surprised.

He even checked carefully and found that he hadn't made a mistake; the communication target was indeed the serial number given by his mentor.

"Oh my, little brother Jie Ming, I didn't expect to see you again. I didn't exchange communication methods when I made a deal with you back then, which made me regret it for a long time." On the communication screen, Wei Aola greeted Jie Ming familiarly, but compared to the situation when she was trading with Amy and the other party, this one seemed to have become a bit more lively.

"I didn't expect you to also be a student of Mentor Clark; this is truly a coincidence."

"Also?" Jie Ming keenly noticed the information provided in the other party's words. "Is Lady Wei Aola one too? I thought you majored in potion studies."

"Call me senior sister!"

Wei Aola on the screen crossed her arms, looking proud: "Of course, it's a pity that my talent in alchemy is too poor, so I can only affect inorganic matter until now, so I can only turn my attention to potion studies, but at least I count as an excellent graduate."

"It's you, clearly having researched such powerful potions, yet alchemy is what you are best at."

After knowing that Jie Ming was her junior brother, Wei Aola's expression became more lively, and she didn't cover up her emotions much.

When she said this, there was even a clear look of envy and jealousy on her face: "It's truly hateful; you geniuses are just too enviable!"

"Ah... haha..." Jie Ming gave an awkward laugh, not knowing how to answer.

Fortunately, Wei Aola didn't dwell on this matter too much and soon turned the topic to the main point:

"Mentor Clark has already told me about the general situation. You are planning to participate in a plane war now, so you need to sign up first, right?"

"Yes, I don't know what the procedure is." Jie Ming nodded.

Wei Aola waved her hand generously: "No problem, it just so happens that I am also looking for a battlefield recently, so I can take you to sign up together. You don't need to be too nervous; to put it simply, this matter is actually similar to a mercenary system—"

Under Wei Aola's explanation, Jie Ming roughly understood the situation of the so-called "signing up."

Simply put, if a newly promoted high-tier wizard discovers a brand-new plane coordinate, but it just so happens that there are Tier 6 or higher living beings sitting in this plane, or the plane environment is extremely complex.

Then, when their own war system is not yet fully formed and not enough to conquer it independently, the high-tier wizard who discovered the plane can only rely on issuing tasks, inviting other wizards to help, and gathering strength.

This is the main way for normal low-tier wizards to participate in plane wars; just as Wei Aola said, it is similar to mercenaries.

As an "old" wizard who has been mixing for many years, Wei Aola is naturally very clear about the ins and outs here.

Through her guidance, Jie Ming learned that the nearest plane war sign-up point is not within the sphere of influence of the Nuolun Workshop, but is located at the intersection point of the Nuolun Workshop and two surrounding wizard forces—the "Kemeili Society" and the "Hundunmi Sect."

Although these three major forces compete fiercely with each other, they often choose to cooperate when facing external plane expansion.

Therefore, once a large-scale plane war task appears, it is also a joint expedition by wizards from all three sides, sharing the spoils of war.

Giving face to Mentor Clark and the friendship of fighting side by side in the Elosia plane, she took the initiative to offer to take Jie Ming to that special location at the intersection of the three forces.

It just so happens that Wei Aola is still staying in the Elosia plane, and the two soon met up.

The two passed through the cross-plane teleportation array of the Nuolun Workshop, went through several complex spatial jumps, and finally arrived at their destination.

When Jie Ming stepped out of the teleportation array, the perception transmitted back by his spiritual power made him feel a trace of something wrong.

Subconsciously opening the Eye of Omnipotence, through the observation of the surrounding energy environment and spatial coefficients, Jie Ming reached a shocking conclusion.

This is not a complete plane at all, but a large piece of spatial debris floating in the endless void!

This piece of spatial debris is huge in area, enough to accommodate a kingdom, but its edges show irregular tearing marks, and it is surrounded by twisted and changing stars and void storms, appearing both spectacular and eerie.

"Oh? Eye of Omnipotence?"

Wei Aola noticed Jie Ming's energy fluctuations, and what surprised Jie Ming was that she actually recognized the wizard spell he was using.

"Nothing to be surprised about." Wei Aola looked at Jie Ming and waved her hand. "This wizard spell is considered a quite famous observation method for research-type wizards. Even if they cannot construct it autonomously, many people will specifically purchase wizard spell models to construct it. However—"

She narrowed her eyes and touched her chin, bringing her face close to Jie Ming's body, carefully observing his spiritual fluctuations.

That look of looking up and down made Jie Ming couldn't help but associate it with the pet dog of his previous life.

Fortunately, the surrounding wizards were not surprised by this, and even a few wizards noticed the anomaly, and after approaching, they soon became the same as Wei Aola.

"Oh my? Is this Eye of Omnipotence constructed by yourself?"

The person who spoke was not Wei Aola, but a wizard who ran to Jie Ming's side to watch.

This person was covered in a black wizard robe, and faint black mist permeated his whole body, completely shrouding his figure.

However, listening to the voice, it seemed to be an old man with a somewhat advanced age.

Not just him, the few people around observing him were basically dressed like this, and it looked like they should be from the same force.

Hearing him ask this, Jie Ming couldn't help but raise his arm to make a resistant posture.

However, sensing the Tier 3 wizard fluctuations emanating from the other party, Jie Ming still restrained himself a bit and did not show too much hostility.

Seeing that he was somewhat vigilant, the old man who had just asked and the other few wizards who had gathered to observe all backed away a little.

"This Eye of Omnipotence was actually constructed by yourself?!" Wei Aola's voice finally sounded at this time, but the tone was slightly distorted.

Looking at the situation around her, she was stunned for a moment, and also reacted, immediately protecting Jie Ming behind her like an old eagle protecting its chicks:

"What are you doing, what are you doing? Go, go, go, all go to the side! Don't gather here!"

Seeing Wei Aola like this, the surrounding wizards wrapped in faint black mist not only did not retreat but instead gathered around with a smile.

"Oh my, don't be nervous; we just want to make a friend."

"That's right, that's right, it's been a long time since we've seen someone who can autonomously construct the Eye of Omnipotence; we were a bit excited for a moment."

"Little brother, little brother, what observation system did you load into your Eye of Omnipotence? Did you load a destiny-system observation system? If you did, I'll spend a high price to buy your construction model!"

"Are you stupid? This little guy is only a Tier 1 wizard; how could he load a destiny-system observation system!"

"Then adding a friend is fine too! When you load a destiny-system observation system in the future, you must sell the wizard spell model to me!"

"Yes, yes, the wizard spell models of the Eye of Omnipotence in the database haven't been updated for hundreds of years; using them is really too troublesome..." ===== CHAPTER 164 =====