Chapter 178

The torrent of time washed over the war-torn Flame-Frost Plane silently.

Since the wizard army landed, in the blink of an eye, a year had passed.

In so many days and nights, the direction of the war had already entered a scorching stalemate stage.

The once magnificent plane invasion had now turned into countless bloody grindings of various scales, day after day.

Both sides fought fiercely, and the corpses almost soaked every inch of land.

Jie Ming took a long breath, put down the rune pen in his hand, and the last wizardry model in front of him, which had undergone complex deduction and simplified transformation, displayed the word "Completed" on his magic network terminal.

After a year of high-intensity research life, he finally completed most of the research tasks.

From Master Aierwen's "Lava Annihilation" to Master Roland Vannar's "Frost Soul Disintegration," these two highly targeted destruction wizardries, with the assistance of many wizards, had been successfully reduced in dimension and modularized.

Different versions of gradually increasing power from Tier 1 to Tier 5 could be constructed according to the level and needs of combat wizards.

This allowed the wizard legion to have unprecedented annihilation efficiency when facing these two indigenous people.

However, because targeted destruction wizardry was difficult to leave any spoils, most combat wizards did not like to use this thing unless it was a critical moment.

For this reason, a series of transformation tasks for these targeted destruction wizardries were released in the camp.

For example, the topic Jie Ming was working on now was to turn the Lava Annihilation, which had been degraded to Tier 1 wizardry, into a non-lethal but wide-range wizardry that could perform strong suppression.

"Finally, I can relax a little," Jie Ming stretched, and his bones made a faint clicking sound.

During this year, the recent situation of the Flame-Frost Plane was still that the two major groups of lava giants and snow monsters continuously replenished troops.

Their respective hinterlands were like inexhaustible sources of troops, and every day new legions would emerge from the depths of the earth or the end of the ice veins, launching a routine new round of attacks toward the wizard camp.

Wizards had long been accustomed to these normalized battles, the camp was like an indestructible nail, firmly nailed to the junction of the Flame-Frost dual realms, and battles of varying scales occurred with indigenous people every day.

But there was no longer the large-scale impact of millions of troops like the beginning, both sides were carefully balancing consumption and replenishment, avoiding over-stimulating the other side.

However, overall, although wizards only occupied the area of the initial camp until now, they basically occupied an absolute advantage in the battle.

But to be honest, even Wei Aola, who was well-informed, was surprised by the fighting will of the indigenous people of the Flame-Frost Plane.

In the whole year, almost every day there would be thousands to tens of thousands of monsters launching attacks toward the camp.

If it were an ordinary race, under such a huge disadvantage, they should have already lost their fighting will, and even contradictions should have appeared within the race.

Jie Ming and Wei Aola and some other logistics wizards discussed and believed that because of the special nature of the life form of the indigenous people of the Flame-Frost Plane, they probably regarded the wizard's cannon fodder units as the wizard's clansmen.

In their eyes, the real main body of wizard civilization should be those strange-looking cannon fodder, and wizards were elite units in this group.

Plus, whether it was lava giants or snow monsters, their breeding method was not sexual reproduction, but splitting out cores and placing them in high-energy breeding grounds with corresponding energy for asexual splitting.

As long as there was enough energy, the young could rapidly grow into adults.

So in the eyes of the two races, their battle with wizards should be evenly matched.

But even so, being able to maintain such a vigorous fighting desire was still very exaggerated, which also led to the value of living captives of the two races becoming higher and higher.

After all, this kind of life form with strong combat power, strong fighting desire, and simple reproduction was simply the best base for cannon fodder transformation!

"But these indigenous people have such a strong desire to attack, which saved us a lot of trouble," Jie Ming couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

Wei Aola, who had just passed by, stopped: "Yes, in the past, we had to find ways to perform a disadvantage after fighting for a few months to give the other side confidence, now it saved a lot of trouble."

Pausing, seeming to remember something, Wei Aola's tone became low again: "But also because these guys are too good at fighting, it made the tasks of us logistics types much more than before." Jie Ming nodded with lingering fear, the recent months were okay.

During the busiest period, if it weren't for strengthening his body with body-tempering methods before coming, he would have worried about whether he would die suddenly in these tasks.

Just as he was thinking, the wizards beside him suddenly became restless.

"Hmm?! What happened?" Jie Ming stood up somewhat vigilantly.

He was too familiar with such restlessness now, and even somewhat stressed.

Every time there was such restlessness, it meant that some wizard had made a major discovery, and once there was a major discovery, it meant a pile of tasks were assigned.

Wei Aola had almost the same reaction as Jie Ming, but after the two took out the magic network terminal to check, they breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

According to the information provided by the terminal, this time it was because a wizard discovered the main reason why lava giants and snow monsters were hostile to each other.

Most of the intelligence about the two races had already been searched from the souls of the two indigenous races killed or captured.

However, there were still some special problems, the answers to which only existed in the souls of the relatively high-level of the two races, so wizards did not know for the time being.

Among them, the most widespread doubt was about the reason why the two races were hostile to each other.

The hostility between lava giants and snow monsters had a long history; in the eyes of wizards as outsiders, it was simply incomprehensible that these two races were hostile to each other.

After all, these two groups were completely different in ecological habits and living environments; although they were on the same plane, the two groups could be completely called living in completely different worlds.

If it were said that in the two groups, the other party held precious materials of their own side, it could be understood.

But according to various intelligence collected by wizards, the two groups actually would not cause any impact on the other's survival even if they did not interfere with each other.

Neither could live in the other's environment, nor was there any actual interest conflict; in this environment, it was outrageous for the two groups to communicate, let alone be hostile to each other.

But the actual situation was that before the arrival of wizards, lava giants and snow monsters almost had a huge war every few years.

The indigenous people at the bottom did not know the reason, only knowing that every few years they would leave their comfortable environment and go to the area where energy was chaotic at the junction of the Flame-Sun Realm and the Frost-Dark Realm to fight to the death.

And just recently, a logistics wizard specializing in resource surveying finally discovered the possible reason when detecting the geological environment: the territory of the losing side would be compressed and reduced.

"I really didn't expect that the boundary between the Flame-Sun Realm and the Frost-Dark Realm would change with the outcome of the two races?" Jie Ming looked at the conclusion on the terminal, somewhat surprised.

"But what is the internal principle? The reason why the Flame-Frost Plane has such a unique climate is not because of the irradiation of the fire element and water element plane projections?"

"It is indeed impossible to understand, but according to the sampling results of geological drilling, the boundary between the Flame-Sun Realm and the Frost-Dark Realm is indeed moving constantly, and its change trend is positively correlated with the war results of the two groups every year—" Wei Aola was also very interested in the data on the terminal.

"It is estimated that the leaders of these two groups have special means, and can have a certain impact on the elemental plane projection after winning the battle—"

Hearing Wei Aola's analysis, Jie Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This thing can still be influenced?!"

"It can be, but this belongs to relatively high-end technology, even in our wizards, the school most proficient in this technology can only do this after Tier 6—" Wei Aola said and couldn't help but lick her lips.

"If an indigenous civilization can have such technology, then this Wizard Augustine is really making a lot of money."

Jie Ming nodded in agreement when he heard this.

Undoubtedly, knowledge of this level must be concentrated in the hands of the heads of the two groups, that is, the two Tier 6 monster kings.

That is to say, the only one who could obtain this knowledge was probably the initiator of this task, Tier 6 wizard Augustine.

With the treaty of the Star Orbit Tribunal, no one dared to forcibly seize the knowledge of other wizards under the pressure of resisting Tier 9 wizards.

Surrounding forces including the Nuolun Workshop wanting to obtain this technology could only buy it from Augustine.

However, the other party also needed a lot of resources to build their own plane later, so they would definitely not be stingy to trade this thing out.

Perhaps just relying on this one item of knowledge, this Wizard Augustine earned back all his early and late investments.

Jie Ming could also be considered half a person who had built a plane, of course he knew how many resources it took to build a whole "Wizard Tower."

Thinking of this, Jie Ming really couldn't help but feel a little envious.

"But those are still too far away, the intelligence most useful to us at the current stage should be here behind—" Jie Ming shook his head,

Looking at the geological survey data below.

Because of the lack of manpower and time, the data of this wizard was relatively simple, but there were some very important places.

He discovered through drilling that the variation range of the boundary line was actually quite exaggerated, and the deepest place had even penetrated more than 80% of the area on both sides.

Jie Ming couldn't help but touch his chin: "Still fighting to the end after losing 80% of the territory? This is really—"

"Great!" Wei Aola took Jie Ming's words, the two looked at each other, and then smiled tacitly.

Wizards never worried about the fierce resistance will of the enemy, what wizards worried about were things done by the enemy falling into despair.

The stronger the enemy's pressure resistance, the less likely they would perish together at will; when the other side really felt that it was impossible, they had already lost the qualification to perish together.