Chapter 176

Wei Aola, who was entangled with the Tier 4 lava giant general, saw Jie Ming completely submerged by the concentrated firepower from the corner of her eye, and her heart tightened.

She even saw several low-tier combat wizards affected by the aftermath start to forcibly retreat, fearing being implicated by Jie Ming's "suicide truck" behavior.

However, Wei Aola soon noticed something unusual, and the worried look on her face turned into surprise involuntarily.

Because Wei Aola found that the lava giants on the field were still very uncomfortable, which meant that the high-frequency sound waves released by Jie Ming had not stopped.

"How could he still be alive?!" Some wizards also discovered this point and couldn't help but shout in shock.

As the smoke in mid-air dissipated, Jie Ming's figure slowly emerged, and only then did everyone see clearly that he was still wearing an energy shield.

Although the energy shield had become flickering and unstable, Jie Ming himself was intact and had not suffered any damage.

Looking at Jie Ming's appearance, the shock in the wizards' hearts was even greater than that of those lava giants.

They could clearly feel that the shield on Jie Ming was only in the category of a Tier 1 energy shield; even if he had set up other layers of defensive wizardry around his body, how could a mere three or four layers of Tier 1 wizardry withstand so many attacks?!

There was no time for the wizards to ponder the reason, because the lava giants, seeing that the attacks were ineffective, launched another round of attacks without hesitation.

But in the sky full of fire and earth spikes, the shield light constantly flashing around Jie Ming never stopped!

On his right wrist, he didn't know when he had also worn a bracelet inlaid with defensive rune wizardry tools.

Whenever an attack approached him, the runes at the bottom of the rune wizardry tools would flash at high speed, and visible defensive wizardry—either elemental shields, or force field barriers, or atmospheric distortion—would be released from Jie Ming one after another, blocking them all!

Each layer of shield could not last long, often shattering after resisting the impact of dozens of magma bombs.

But the speed at which the defensive rune wizardry tools on Jie Ming's right wrist released defensive wizardry was even faster than the speed at which the wizardry was broken!

Old shields shattered, new shields immediately materialized out of thin air, continuous, layered, light flowing.

Jie Ming just floated in mid-air like this, submerged by the light and shadow of magma bombs and earth spikes all over the sky, but his figure remained motionless, resisting damage like a reef.

"This kid... has some skills."

Wei Aola's worry turned into incomparable surprise and exclamation in an instant; she had never seen any wizard who could fight in such an outrageous way!

However, since Jie Ming's safety had been confirmed, she no longer had any scruples, turned around and exploded with power, dragging the Tier 4 lava giant to death.

Not only Wei Aola, but other Tier 2 wizards who were entangled with Tier 3 lava giants also exerted force at the same time, completely pulling the attention of their opponents, so that they could not participate in the siege of Jie Ming.

The wizards saw very clearly that the contribution Jie Ming made alone far exceeded all other low-tier wizards.

With him helping to suppress, winning was only a matter of time, so absolutely no lava giant exceeding a certain limit could be allowed to disturb him.

On Jie Ming's side, facing the continuous attacks that covered the sky and the earth, he didn't even have the intention to dodge.

He completely gave up flexibility and just stood in the sky, attracting the hatred of all lava giants present.

On one hand, he continuously released wide-range high-frequency sound waves, effectively suppressing enemies for other wizards.

And he also attracted almost most of the firepower of the lava giants, guiding their attacks to himself, this "sandbag."

With Jie Ming helping to suppress here and attracting most of the firepower, other wizards instantly felt their pressure lighten!

Moreover, Tier 2 and Tier 1 lava giants were now sluggish in action and stiff in defense under the wide-range sound wave suppression, almost like "living targets."

Combat wizards immediately seized this opportunity, wizardry poured down, efficiency soared, and they quickly cleared the enemies restricted by Jie Ming!

Just over ten minutes later, this huge lava giant defeated army was completely defeated under Jie Ming's assistance and firepower attraction.

Except for the Tier 4 lava giant general who was still entangled with Wei Aola, and a few scattered lava giants who saw that the situation was not good and escaped decisively, the remaining thousands of lava giants were either killed by wizards or successfully captured.

When the battle finally settled, Wei Aola, after exhausting most of her spiritual power, finally severely damaged and suppressed the Tier 4 lava giant general.

But all the wizards around did not look at Wei Aola for the first time after the battle ended; their eyes subconsciously focused on mid-air.

On Jie Ming, who was still floating quietly in the sky full of dust and elemental aftermath, with the light of the rune shield around him flickering weakly.

They saw Jie Ming raise his wrist, and the light on the defensive rune wizardry tool finally returned to calm, no longer flashing frequently.

Jie Ming's figure was no longer shrouded in wizardry light; he appeared somewhat tired, but his eyes were flashing with excitement.

The eyes of all the wizards looking at Jie Ming were filled with unbelievable shock!

Although the number of lava giants Jie Ming killed and captured was not many, all the wizards knew who the greatest contributor to this battle was.

At this moment, what was revealed in their eyes was pure shock and awe for power.

The embers of the battle had not yet completely dissipated, and the scorched smell still permeated the air, but the atmosphere of the wizard team had already turned from tense slaughter to relaxed victory.

Wei Aola restrained the arcane light around her body and landed lightly beside Jie Ming.

She raised her hand, carrying a trace of residual rune electric light, and patted hard on Jie Ming's shoulder, which was protected by the shield and had not suffered substantial damage.

The force was unexpectedly large, enough to see how shocked and admiring she was inside.

"Jie Ming, you kid is really... surprising me." Wei Aola's voice carried a trace of exclamation that even she herself had not noticed, looking at him with complex eyes, as if meeting this junior for the first time.

"To be able to do this step, I'm afraid it won't be long before I won't be able to lead you..."

Jie Ming smiled slightly, shook his head, and the fatigue on his face was swept away: "All thanks to researching a little more about lava giants before, fortunately it came in handy."

Wei Aola's admiration was even greater; she patted Jie Ming on the shoulder, signaling the counting of the harvest: "Anyway, your performance today is enough to get a lot of military merit. Alright, now is the time to divide the spoils, let's talk when we go back."

The high rationality and order of the wizard world made even things like the distribution of spoils that were easy to cause disputes managed through a rigorous system.

The magic network terminal Jie Ming got when he signed up was not only used to receive orders and contact companions, but it was also an authoritative system that automatically recorded everyone's contribution.

The intensity of wizardry used by every wizard, the number and level of enemies killed, the evaluation of auxiliary effects, and even the value of living captives would be automatically identified by the magic network and converted into "merit."

The division of spoils was also based on these contribution data recorded by the magic network terminal.

"This Tier 4 lava giant general, and those few Tier 3 lava giants, are naturally owned by Master Wei Aola and the few Tier 2 wizards who came to support." A Tier 2 wizard responsible for counting the results reported respectfully to Wei Aola.

These high-tier captives and corpses were quite good resources even if they were just used as raw materials, not to mention that with the particularity of lava giants, this level of lava giant was a biological material that every wizard dreamed of.

There was no point in dividing Tier 3 and Tier 4 lava giants; what they cared most about at this moment was the distribution of the remaining huge number of Tier 2 and Tier 1 lava giants.

These living captives and intact corpses were the hard currency with the greatest value on the battlefield at the current stage for low-tier wizards.

"Jie Ming's contribution is outstanding; according to the proportion of merit, he should get most of the Tier 2 and part of the Tier 1 lava giants." Wei Aola made a decision without any hesitation.

As soon as these words came out, although the low-tier wizards around inevitably had some small unwillingness in their hearts, there was no objection on their faces.

After all, Jie Ming's own contribution was obvious to all—that kind of miraculous "human fortress" style assistance was enough for him to share a harvest far exceeding the ordinary in this battle.

More importantly, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he and Wei Aola, this Tier 3 wizard, had an unusual relationship, and could even hear some unusual closeness from their conversation.

Wei Aola had a deep background in the Nuolun Workshop, and no one dared to embezzle Jie Ming's merit at this time and ask for trouble.

Thus, Jie Ming obtained the largest share of this harvest without any obstruction, including more than a dozen Tier 2 lava giant living captives in the best state, as well as a large pile of Tier 1 lava giant corpses for him to continue research.

When Jie Ming took back his spoils into the space expansion bag, he noticed that for the distribution of the remaining Tier 2 and Tier 1 lava giant living captives and corpses, the remaining few wizards immediately had a long argument.

"I just killed a Tier 2 lava giant, the battlefield contribution should be about 5% higher than his." A Tier 1 wizard argued.

"But I suppressed dozens of Tier 1 on the other side throughout the whole process, my auxiliary contribution should be converted into a higher captive share!" Another Tier 2 wizard immediately retorted, "My wizardry consumption is also much larger than yours!"

"Fart! You assisted a fart! If I hadn't been at the front, you thought your spell could have been released a second time?!"

Although they didn't fight, the harshness and sarcasm in their words, as well as the hidden sparks in their eyes, had already indicated their true emotions inside.

Their argument, starting from the calculation of merit and spoil distribution in the battle, soon evolved into questioning and attacking each other's performance in the battle, and the atmosphere gradually became tense and stiff as the argument deepened.

(End of chapter)