Chapter 203

The discomfort brought by plane repulsion, while causing some wizards to feel dejected and restricted in their movements, was synonymous with opportunity for others.

In the Frost Dark Realm, within a deep valley covered by ice and snow.

A Level 2 combat-type wizard clad in armor was currently carefully hunting a rare Frost Giant Lizard within a crevice in the ice.

Following the disappearance of the high-tier snow monsters, almost every snow monster gathering point had become a "treasure" in the eyes of the wizards.

Even areas that one previously dared not hunt in casually due to the presence of high-tier snow monsters could now be explored.

A "logistics-type" wizard like Jie Ming, who mastered core technologies, naturally looked down upon these fragmented benefits.

But for the majority of combat-type wizards who were driven to poverty, such a windfall falling from the sky was something they absolutely could not miss!

This Level 2 wizard nimbly bypassed the lizard's icy crystal claws, and a flame arrow accurately struck the lizard in the eye, killing it completely.

He carefully peeled off the lizard's leather armor and core, storing them in his spatial expansion bag.

During his flight back to the outpost, he tallied the gains from this operation, feeling very satisfied with his adventurous outing. In the few days since Wizard Augusten left, many wizards had felt immense discomfort due to the sudden plane repulsion.

This caused them to restrain their movements significantly; almost no one dared to venture deep behind enemy lines during this period, fearing they might encounter misfortune.

And this wizard had precisely set his sights on this "dormant period"!

He judged that after losing many competitors, this period would be the most fertile time for resources.

So he struck decisively, risking leaving the camp to search for rare resources outside.

The reality was just as he had anticipated; his gains this time far exceeded his previous few trips.

Without those competitors, he not only easily hunted several high-tier magical beasts he wouldn't have dared to think about before, but he also found several rare ice-attribute materials.

This wealth was enough for him to pay for the next stage of knowledge learning.

"After I go back, I will go to the mentor to purchase—"

Just as this wizard was calculating which knowledge he should purchase after returning, or which combat wizardry he should choose to enhance his strength.

He suddenly discovered that on the distant horizon, there seemed to be a massive energy turbulence advancing toward this side at an incredible speed!

"What is that?" His heart skipped a beat, and he immediately mobilized his spiritual power to use Eagle Eye, casting his gaze into the distance.

When he saw it clearly, his heart was instantly occupied by a sense of extreme terror!

Because that so-called "energy turbulence" was not a natural phenomenon at all, but an uncountable army of snow monsters.

The so-called energy turbulence was the terrifying disturbance of the surrounding elemental tides caused by these unimaginably numerous elemental creatures gathering together and moving forward rapidly!

It was a white torrent, sweeping across the ice field with the momentum to wipe out everything!

The most terrifying thing was that among this snow monster army, even the lowest-level ones were at least Level 2 living beings!

"Damn it! How could this happen?!" The wizard's face turned pale as paper.

He was only a Level 2 wizard; facing a normal squad of Level 3 snow monsters would be tough enough, and this nearly endless army of Level 2 snow monsters was simply not something he could handle!

However, at this moment, even if he wanted to run, it was already too late!

Because before he could see the full scope of the snow monster army, in a "moment" the wizard himself hadn't even noticed, several "small dots" had already detached from the main force in the distance, turning into black streaks of light and sprinting rapidly toward his location.

By the time the wizard noticed, several sturdy-looking snow monsters had appeared before his eyes.

He hadn't noticed their flight trajectory at all, as if they had suddenly teleported right in front of him!

The wizard's pupils constricted, and he turned abruptly, triggering his fastest escape wizardry.

However, before his figure could fully turn into a streak of light, a cold aura so massive it suffocated him had already instantly enveloped him!

"Roar!"

Following a massive roar.

One of the terrifying Level 3 snow monsters didn't give him any chance to react, sweeping its hand!

Its icy crystal claws traced a lethal arc!

The moment he turned around, with a soft "crack," the wizard's head was neatly severed in an instant.

The pillar of blood shooting into the sky didn't even have time to spray out in the extreme cold before it instantly froze into blood-red ice crystals!

The headless corpse, like a kite with a broken string, fell powerlessly from the air onto the cold ground, carrying residual elemental radiance.

Facing the wizard's corpse on the ground and the icy crystal head belonging to the wizard that was still slowly congealing, that killer snow monster didn't even have the intention to take another look.

After completing the kill, it had already turned around and merged back into its own team.

Continuing to follow this massive snow monster army, it pressed forward with a resolute momentum.

The calm daily life was completely shattered within a short half-month.

This day, Jie Ming was in his laboratory, burying his head in using high-tier energy crystals to purify new wizardry materials.

The magic network terminal suddenly emitted a harsh red emergency alarm, and the warning sound that subsequently echoed throughout the entire camp, accompanied by vibrating rune light screens, instantly triggered the highest level of alert!

【Emergency Alert! All wizards exploring outside must return to the camp at the fastest speed to assist in the camp's defense!】

【Mandatory mission issued! All wizards, please check and execute immediately!】

Looking at the information displayed on the magic network terminal, Jie Ming's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately clicked on his mission.

On the light screen, a dense list of mandatory missions appeared.

He looked at his mandatory mission: 【In the shortest time possible, master the knowledge provided by the camp and assist the camp in building an army of biochemical beasts.】

Jie Ming raised an eyebrow and curiously opened the "knowledge file" that had been bundled and sent over.

He carefully examined this knowledge and found that its content was indeed a full set of technologies related to manufacturing biochemical beasts.

From basic material processing to the construction of core energy circuits, and then to soul anchoring and combat command programming, everything was there.

"This isn't any particularly special biochemical beast knowledge," Jie Ming evaluated silently in his heart.

In his view, while this system was mature, it didn't have any subversive innovations.

The only thing relatively special about it was that this knowledge system mainly described how to use materials native to the Flaming Frost Plane to manufacture biochemical beasts adapted to the local environment.

All biomass was sourced locally, greatly reducing production costs and resource consumption.

There were even several technologies inside specifically for using elemental creatures to create high-tier elemental biochemical beasts.

Clearly, this was likely the camp bringing out all the localization technologies that wizards had researched over these past few years.

Jie Ming flipped through other missions and noticed that many combat-type wizards had received missions to head to a certain frontline outpost located on the dangerous border.

Dismantle the core nodes in the shortest time possible and transport all their defensive materials and energy cores back to the camp.

This was clearly the camp contracting its defensive lines to prevent resources from being acquired by the enemy.

Combining the defensive line contraction missions received by other wizards with this biochemical beast manufacturing knowledge...

"It seems the monsters have already mobilized, preparing to launch a full-scale war against the camp!" Jie Ming's heart sank.

The camp contracting its defensive lines and producing a large number of biochemical beasts as cannon fodder—this was undoubtedly planning for a final decisive battle!

And likely, in the eyes of the high-ranking officials of the wizard camp, this war was expected to be a protracted battle with an absurdly long time span; otherwise, they wouldn't have issued such missions.

Even though he had long anticipated this day, when truly facing the final decisive battle, Jie Ming still couldn't help but feel a bit nervous.

However, the current situation didn't allow him to think too much; although Jie Ming wasn't very familiar with deep-level modification, he immediately accepted the mission and began to learn.

1II

In the blink of an eye, another two months passed in a flash.

During this period, the wizards in the camp had lived quite a fulfilling life, and following the issuance of the emergency warning, there were still a steady stream of wizards flying back to the camp even now.

Jie Ming had good learning ability; he quickly learned the basic knowledge about biochemical beast modification, and all that remained was practice.

So, after learning of his progress, the camp quickly assigned him a new mission.

After the order was issued, Jie Ming quickly left the laboratory.

His mission required him to go to the temporary defensive nodes on the outskirts of the camp to conduct field inspections and collect materials.

Jie Ming flew for several hours and soon arrived at a simple defensive node that had just been built.

This place was still thousands of kilometers away from the core area of the camp and already belonged to the combat frontline.

The surroundings were shrouded by a transparent force field constructed from rune energy; outside the force field was the desolate and vast scorched earth of the Flaming Sun Realm.

Jie Ming exchanged simple greetings with several wizards who were stationed there together, responsible for energy maintenance and daily patrols.

"ROAR!!!"

Just as Jie Ming finished his greetings, a deafening roar, accompanied by violent tremors of the ground, came from outside the defensive force field.

A massive black shadow, like a tank running at full power, slammed violently into the transparent force field!

Bang!

The force field shook for a moment but quickly stabilized.

Jie Ming stood inside the rune field, his eyes calm, his spiritual power already concentrated.

The thing that had just attacked was a magical beast that looked exactly like a wild boar turned into a sphere, its size comparable to a small truck.

Its entire body was covered in charred, rough rock skin, and its four limbs were as thick as pillars.

Most eye-catching was that a row of sharp bone spurs like volcanic rock grew on its back, emitting the heat of magma.

This was a Level 3 magical beast, a Lava Giant Boar!

Jie Ming had originally thought he was prepared, yet he hadn't expected that this war would exceed his expectations from the very beginning.

The first to make trouble for the wizards' camp wasn't the army of lava giants, nor the army of snow monsters, but... the wild animals of this plane!