Chapter 170: Logistics Work (Part 1)

Time retreated a little bit, and Master Alwin turned into a stream of light, retreating back to the "ship" plane in a sorry state.

His magic robe was scorched black, and his aura was unstable, clearly suffering no small damage.

Jie Ming, who was standing on the desolate land, couldn't help but hook a trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth looking at this scene.

He turned to Wei Aola beside him and sighed: "

Upon hearing this, a smile also appeared in Wei Aola's eyes: "This is the norm in plane wars—luring the enemy deep, exhausting their strength, and stretching the front lines. Every shift in offense and defense is within the calculations of high-tier wizards."

In fact, with the wizards' capabilities, after encountering the stubborn resistance of the indigenous people of the Flame-Frost Plane, they quickly analyzed the current situation from the initial cannon fodder skirmishes.

The most obvious point was that although the two clans attacked the wizards simultaneously, their attack patterns and zones were clearly distinct, and they would occasionally restrain or even accidentally injure each other.

This exposed a cruel and important fact: the Lava Giant and Snow Monster clans must have been in opposition for a long time, perhaps even being irreconcilable blood enemies.

The reason they joined forces was simply because of the common threat brought by the invaders.

"In this way, if we want to conquer the entire plane completely, we must consider the thoughts of two monster kings at once, and also take into account the subtle and complex hostile relationship between them."

Jie Ming stroked his chin, analyzing the current situation: "The best method is to do as Master Alwin did—demonstrate a level of strength stronger than a single monster king, but slightly weaker than their combined force."

"Master Alwin fought two against one and seemingly lost by a narrow margin, but he successfully held off two Tier 6 powerhouses for several hours, causing them to expend energy and retreat." Wei Aola also agreed with Jie Ming's assessment.

"This way, the indigenous people of this plane see hope in defeating the wizards, yet they are wary of the wizards' strength and dare not easily launch a mindless all-out attack. They will regroup after resting, but they won't risk sending out their entire force, which gives us wizards enough time."

"More importantly, the hatred between the two clans will be our greatest helper. They cannot truly cooperate sincerely; every sortie and every reinforcement may be delayed due to their mutual suspicion."

"Such a situation can give the wizards sufficient time to continuously weaken the origin of this plane, eventually bringing it completely under our control."

This is a calculated strategy; even if the Tier 6 powerhouses of the indigenous people see through it, it is difficult to fully resolve.

Just as Jie Ming and Wei Aola were reflecting on the far-reaching layout of high-tier wizards and the complex art of plane warfare, their respective magic network terminals vibrated simultaneously, receiving an emergency pinned message announced to everyone.

The message had no extra embellishments, just a line of cold text:

【Important Notice: Commander Master Alwin did not intentionally retreat, but was truly unable to withstand the combined attack of the two Tier 6 indigenous powerhouses. All wizards are advised to remain vigilant and act with caution.】

Seeing this message, all the wizards present, including Jie Ming and Wei Aola, were slightly stunned.

Then, in an instant, everyone's eyes lit up!

The sender of this message was none other than Master Alwin himself, one of the commanders of this invasion.

Its purpose was to sound an alarm for the wizards present, reminding them that the strength of the indigenous people of this plane was indeed higher than the average baseline.

But the reason the wizards' eyes lit up was simply because they had found more opportunities within the crisis.

The development of all things must follow a certain law; a plane capable of birthing two powerful races could never have appeared out of thin air.

This meant that the resources of this plane itself must be incredibly abundant!

Two Tier 6 powerhouses capable of contending with Tier 5 wizards meant that this plane possessed rich resources capable of supporting their advancement, highly likely containing rare elements, law fragments, and even undiscovered mysterious mineral veins!

For wizards, powerful enemies often mean that even richer treasures are hidden behind them.

After clarifying the combat strategy and the value of the plane, the wizards' work efficiency reached its peak.

Now, the camp was quickly established through everyone's efforts.

The defensive walls constructed by alchemy puppets and wizards rose rapidly from the ground, energy cores were buried deep into the earth, and the light of rune arrays circulated around the camp, forming layers of visible protective barriers.

Although the fighting on the front lines remained constant—sporadic counterattacks by the indigenous people and the consolidation of the front lines by the wizards—the scale had been greatly reduced.

It was clear that both sides were waiting for an opportunity.

The logistics wizards took advantage of this precious opportunity to enter their standard work processes for the first time.

Unlike his experience on the Elosia Plane, where Jie Ming was crudely thrown into the battlefield, he had never experienced the work of a proper logistics wizard.

Regular logistics wizards generally rarely go directly onto the battlefield to confront enemies during the early stages of a plane war.

In the early stages of a plane war, the main role of logistics wizards is to analyze elemental data related to the plane, as well as the various resources and intelligence brought back from the front lines.

Every newly invaded plane is an unimaginable treasure trove for the Wizarding World, containing unknown and vast resources and information.

In just these few short days, with the front-line troops clearing the area around the landing point and the samples brought back by scout wizards through spatial rifts, Jie Ming alone had already analyzed a variety of unique resources.

One of them was a peculiar plant from the Flame-Sun Realm.

This plant was named Blaze-Light Grass, and its appearance resembled a cluster of leaping flames, growing in the crevices of volcanic rock.

Although the plant itself was relatively fragile, about the same as ordinary grass, it had extremely astonishing resistance to fire and high temperatures.

Jie Ming used his "All-Purpose Eye" to deeply analyze its internal structure and discovered that the cell walls of this grass could spontaneously condense fire elements to form a layer of ultra-microscopic barrier.

After a series of tests, if one did not consider physical shockwaves or spatial tearing, this plant could even withstand the fire attacks of a Tier 3 wizard without suffering any damage!

This was simply an incredible defensive property.

Although because the time was too short, Jie Ming had not yet fully figured out how to refine it into a corresponding magic potion to achieve a permanent defensive effect integrated into a wizard's body.

But through some special methods, he had initially succeeded in using it as a raw material to create a thin film.

As long as this Blaze-Light Grass film was covered on the body, it could achieve a similar effect in a short time.

For those wizards or cannon-fodder biochemical beasts that needed close-quarters combat, this was undoubtedly an extremely exaggerated passive defensive material.

Additionally, there was a unique ore from the Frost-Dark Realm.

This ore was named Ice-Burst Crystal, and its appearance looked like an ordinary transparent crystal, with no reaction under normal circumstances.

But after Jie Ming's analysis, he discovered that as long as it was exposed to a high-heat environment—especially lava or extremely high-temperature flames—its internal ice-element structure would undergo violent disorder, instantly erupting with unimaginable destructive power!

This destructive power, generated by the backlash of extreme elemental collision, was even enough to destroy a small hill.

This meant that it was both an extremely dangerous material and a potentially powerful weapon.

And after Jie Ming discovered the properties of this material, a group of wizards from the Tower of Extinction immediately sought him out.

After paying a portion of knowledge, these wizards left the camp in high spirits, heading toward the depths of the Frost-Dark Realm.

Looking at the backs of those wizards leaving in high spirits, Jie Ming didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You'll get used to it. The wizards of the Tower of Extinction are most skilled in various annihilation-type wizardry; materials like this Ice-Burst Crystal are simply their natural spellcasting materials." Wei Aola popped up from the side.

Jie Ming was somewhat puzzled: "Isn't it for research materials?"

Wei Aola spread her hands without any image: "I think you've stayed in the logistics department of the Plane Nuolun workshop for too long, thinking that wizards outside are all like that."

"Hmm?"

Wei Aola sighed and explained carefully: "I can't say they won't conduct research on it, but the number of logistics wizards in the Tower of Extinction who are good at research can be counted on one hand. Although materials like Ice-Burst Crystal have good properties, they don't rank high in the research sequence... Before conducting in-depth research, this thing will most likely be used directly as a spellcasting material for wizardry."

"Eh? Why is that?" Jie Ming was stunned.

Wei Aola shook her head: "I told you, you've stayed in the Plane Nuolun workshop for too long; it's not that easy to be a logistics wizard."

"As knowledge becomes more and more abundant, many people find it quite strenuous just to learn this knowledge. It is almost impossible for them to study the principles of this knowledge on this basis and develop it further. You must know that the Plane Nuolun workshop is named after a workshop, and even then, the proportion of logistics wizards is only about 2%."

"Needless to say, the gap between the number of logistics and combat wizards in other wizarding factions. As far as I know, this proportion in the Tower of Extinction even drops to 1%, and the Chaos Secret Sect even consists entirely of combat wizards, except for a few high-ranking founders and their successors."

Seeing that Jie Ming finally revealed a look of realization, Wei Aola shook her head and curled her lip at the research area divided in the camp:

"You can tell just by looking at the number of people here."

Jie Ming subconsciously looked at the slightly empty research area.

He hadn't really paid much attention to this aspect before. After all, for Jie Ming, although this area was empty enough, it could already be considered compact compared to his own laboratory.

Not to mention the lack of various experimental equipment; if he hadn't constructed the All-Purpose Eye, Jie Ming's research progress might not have been this fast.

But now Jie Ming realized that the emptiness here was not only to make enough space for each logistics wizard, but also because there really weren't many logistics wizards.

(End of chapter)