Chapter 194: Abnormal Events

After making his decision, Jie Ming acted decisively, directly lifting his camouflage, and his massive "Great Light Aspect" suddenly appeared in the wind and snow!

Thousands of rune wizarding tools poured down like a violent storm, instantly covering the entire gathering place!

The huge explosion caused by the dense energy bombs, accompanied by the shrill screams of the Snow Monsters, resounded through the ice valley.

Facing the sudden attack, the Snow Monsters didn't have time to organize an effective counterattack before they were wiped out in swathes under Jie Ming's terrifying and precise firepower coverage, turning into ice crystals and dust flying all over the sky.

Without the obstruction of high-tier units, Jie Ming's lethality was maximized.

Just like the previous clearing, Jie Ming ended the battle quickly and efficiently!

In less than five minutes, this Snow Monster gathering place, which had just been noisy and lively, was left with nothing but ice chips all over the ground and a few intact ice crystal cores. Jie Ming seized the time to cast Soul Search again, extracting all the intact Snow Monster souls in this gathering place one by one for deep analysis.

He had to figure out what exactly happened here and where all the strong ones in the entire gathering place had gone!

Soon, from the depths of the souls of these Snow Monsters, especially that only Tier 2 Snow Monster, he got an answer that wasn't really an answer: the memories of these Snow Monsters were filled with a near-fanatical premonition of a "summons."

Previously, in this gathering place, all high-tier Snow Monsters of Tier 2 and above had been summoned by an inexplicable and powerful force to the core area deeper in the Frost-Dark Realm.

The entire gathering place, including the surrounding small strongholds, was left with only a very small number of Tier 1 Snow Monsters.

The reason this Tier 2 Snow Monster remained here was that it had autonomously evolved into Tier 2 only after the summons.

But precisely because this Tier 2 Snow Monster had just been promoted, it had obtained almost no other higher-level core intelligence before being summoned.

In its memory, there was only that vague and irresistible "summons" force, as well as the vague scene of all high-tier Snow Monsters surging toward the depths like a tidal wave.

"Summons order." Jie Ming's heart sank.

This was not good news.

Such a large-scale summons occurring suddenly meant that something major must have happened inside the Frost-Dark Realm!

And it was very likely to be of a significant scale, possibly even affecting the war situation of the entire plane!

Because neither the Frost-Dark Realm nor the Blazing Sun Realm had changes in the brightness of the sky, one could only infer the approximate time through other intelligence.

According to the scattered memory fragments of these Snow Monsters, not too much time had passed since the issuance of this summons order; it might have only been a few standard days!

Quickly finishing the harvest of clearing this gathering place, Jie Ming came outside and looked at the wind and snow filling the sky, feeling slightly bewildered.

Standing in the center of the cleared ice valley and looking around, the vast expanse of white snow and glaciers appeared even more unfathomable.

The intelligence in his hands was extremely limited, and he was completely unable to judge the specific situation of the Frost-Dark Realm now.

If he ventured deep rashly, he would very likely run head-on into the Snow Monsters' core defensive circle, or even into a huge conspiracy!

Most importantly, because the Tier 2 Snow Monster in this gathering place had just been promoted, it knew nothing about the information of other gathering places or the detailed deployment of the Frost-Dark Realm's deeper inland.

"Cannot move forward anymore." Jie Ming made a judgment quickly.

In a situation with insufficient intelligence, blindly moving forward would only put himself in danger.

He didn't hesitate at all, restrained all his auras and energy fluctuations, and turned to retreat from this cleared Snow Monster gathering place.

He quickly categorized all his findings, speculations, and the limited intelligence obtained from the soul of that only Tier 2 Snow Monster.

He prepared to return to the outpost as quickly as possible and report this intelligence.

The cold metal walls isolated the howling wind and snow outside, and the inside of the outpost was as warm as spring.

Jie Ming stood in front of the communication terminal and compiled all his findings from the Snow Monster gathering place—including the bizarre collective disappearance of high-tier Snow Monsters and the vague "summons" information in the mind of that newly promoted Tier 2 Snow Monster—into a detailed intelligence report and submitted it through an encrypted channel.

The person responsible for receiving the intelligence and communicating with him was the same pale-faced Tier 2 Wizard draped in a heavy robe from before.

His name was Edgar, and he seemed to have been stationed in this isolated outpost for too long, appearing somewhat bored.

For Jie Ming, this new "visitor," especially a wizard who could bring back first-hand intelligence, he seemed exceptionally willing to communicate.

"Oh? You discovered it too?" Edgar looked at the intelligence Jie Ming submitted on the light screen, a look of "as expected" appearing on his pale face.

He pointed to the description regarding the "high-tier Snow Monsters being summoned" and said: "Similar intelligence has appeared sporadically since a few days ago. But at that time, it was just an isolated case, and we all thought it was a normal troop movement within the Snow Monsters."

"But in the last two days, the number of such reports has been increasing rapidly; almost all wizard squads performing tasks outside have fed back similar situations."

He swiped a few times on the light screen, pulled out several processed intelligence summaries, and showed them to Jie Ming.

The content above was much the same, all discovering the phenomenon of high-tier combat power being abnormally empty in Snow Monster gathering places in different areas.

"So, the command center already issued corresponding exploration tasks two days ago," Edgar continued to explain, "letting all wizards active in this area focus their attention on investigating this matter. Your intelligence report can be considered an additional powerful piece of evidence for this task."

Edgar picked up a cup of steaming beverage and took a sip, seemingly in the mood for conversation: "Moreover, I happened to be communicating with colleagues from several other outposts just now."

"Judging from their feedback, the scope of this matter is quite large, covering almost all the explored border areas of the Frost-Dark Realm. So we are all privately guessing that this can even be assumed to be something that has happened throughout the entire Frost-Dark Realm."

"The entire Frost-Dark Realm..." Jie Ming repeated thoughtfully.

If this were true, then the significance behind it would be too major.

This was definitely not a simple military movement, but more like a huge event affecting the entire Snow Monster civilization.

"Yeah," Edgar shrugged, "so, it is estimated that in another two days, when the elite squads that went for deep investigation bring back more definitive intelligence, the camp should officially issue a full-army notification or issue large-scale strategic tasks. By then, we stationed personnel will probably have to get busy too."

After listening to Edgar's analysis, Jie Ming thought of another matter.

Now that such a bizarre change had appeared in the Frost-Dark Realm, although the specific reason was unknown, had the Blazing Sun Realm, which had always coexisted with the Frost-Dark Realm, also experienced something?

A bold guess arose spontaneously in his heart.

Jie Ming pondered for a moment, then walked back to the communication terminal and applied for permission from Edgar:

"Lord Edgar, can I use the equipment here to send a short message to the wizards in the camp? I want to confirm some things."

"Of course, please go ahead," Edgar agreed readily. "This thing was originally a benefit for you wizards who go out."

Jie Ming operated it skillfully and sent an encrypted message to Viola, who was far away at the main camp on the border line, through the outpost's more powerful long-range communication equipment.

The content of the message was very simple; he briefly described the collective disappearance of high-tier Snow Monsters in the Frost-Dark Realm and then asked her to help confirm whether a similar situation had appeared in the Lava Giant camp in the Blazing Sun Realm.

After sending the message, Jie Ming did not just wait idly.

He communicated with Edgar again, and the topic turned to a field both were quite interested in—biological research on Snow Monsters.

Jie Ming verified some of his previous dissection findings and energy structure analyses in the laboratory with the practical combat experience of Edgar, a wizard who had been stationed on the front line for a long time; the two talked happily, and time passed unknowingly.

Just as they were discussing the energy conversion efficiency of the Snow Monster ice crystal cores, the communication terminal suddenly made a soft "beep."

Viola had replied!

Jie Ming's heart stirred, and he immediately stepped forward to check.

On the light screen, a line of concise text emerged, instantly confirming the bold guess in his heart.

"Already confirmed from the task center. High-tier units of the Lava Giants have also appeared in large-scale disappearances; the situation is exactly the same as the Snow Monster camp you described! Currently, only a large number of low-tier Lava Giants are active in the Blazing Sun Realm!"

"As expected..." he muttered to himself.

It was not a one-sided abnormal movement, but a dual-world linkage!

The Lava Giants of the Blazing Sun Realm and the Snow Monsters of the Frost-Dark Realm, these two civilizations that were mortal enemies to each other, had actually made almost identical strategic deployments at the same time!

They had coincidentally withdrawn all high-tier combat power from the vast border line and gathered them all toward the deepest parts of their respective planes!

This was definitely not a coincidence!

"The Flame-Frost Plane has indeed experienced some earth-shattering major event." Jie Ming could confirm this 100% at this moment.

But he still didn't know what this major event was.

Was it that both sides were preparing to conduct a final decisive battle with the wizards to determine the ownership of the plane?

Or had they jointly discovered some deeper-level threat that required them to join forces to deal with?

Or was it some periodic ritual or event related to the plane itself?

Countless possibilities flashed through Jie Ming's mind, but he knew that with his current authority and amount of intelligence, he simply couldn't infer the truth.

However, for Jie Ming personally, this was instead a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Before the storm of the entire plane officially broke out, and before the Wizard Legion made a large-scale response, the entire border area would fall into an unprecedented "power vacuum."

A large number of Snow Monster gathering places were currently in a leaderless state, and their defensive power had dropped to a historical low point. ===== CHAPTER 195 =====