Chapter 208

A huge rift, as if coming from the abyss, stretching across the sky, slowly opened in the sky!

The originally blue sky was now dyed into a strange nothingness by that rift, as if it were a land of death swallowing all light!

"The sky—. collapsed?!"

That void rift stretching across the sky was like a wound from the beginning of creation, swallowing light and hope.

Gao Jie Ming's brain fell into a crash in an instant, his pupils contracted to the limit, and the hair all over his body stood on end.

He hadn't seen high-tier great power, but such a magnificent scene capable of easily tearing the plane.

Even when witnessing a Tier 7 wizard forcibly tearing the plane barrier during the trial in the Elosia Plane, it was far less shocking and desperate than what was before his eyes. However, Gao Jie Ming quickly recovered from the extreme shock.

Because he noticed that in the center of the sky that was tearing apart, a quite familiar "round ball" had actually appeared!

That was precisely the... ship plane where he had once been, which he was incomparably familiar with!

"So that's how it is." Gao Jie Ming immediately understood.

It turned out that the movement in the sky was not "the sky collapsing," but the ship plane and the Flame Frost Plane, under the manipulation of Master Augustine, undergoing an earth-shattering process of "mutual contact and collision"!

This was ten thousand times more terrifying than the scene he had seen in the Elosia Plane before.

At that time, Gao Jie Ming had also seen the scene of a Tier 7 wizard forcibly tearing the plane sky, and originally thought that was shocking enough.

But witnessing the collision between planes with his own eyes in such a barbaric and direct way was even more terrifying and unforgettable.

"No wonder Instructor Clark said that some plane natives automatically surrendered as soon as wizards invaded. With such an invasion movement, those who can really be tough and resist are the minority, right?"

This thought flashed through his heart, and then Gao Jie Ming immediately realized another important thing:

"Wait a minute, doesn't this mean Master Augustine manipulated the ship plane and came back?"

This fact caused many questions to surge in Gao Jie Ming's heart.

But the most fatal one, and the one he thought of first, was "Wait! The problem is, why could Augustine come back so timely?!"

Gao Jie Ming's heart was spinning rapidly.

He recalled the intelligence he had collected about the Flame Frost Plane in the past:

As everyone knew, because of being illuminated year-round by the "Water Element Plane Projection," the periphery of the Flame Frost Plane had a relatively high-speed time flow.

This time-domain distortion made wizards located in the chaotic void face a huge problem when traveling to and from the Flame Frost Plane—even if they just left and came back, the interior of the Flame Frost Plane would probably have passed for several years, or even decades!

And Augustine had only used a short few months to drive the ship plane back to the intersection point, mobilize reinforcements from the main plane, and then return by way of plane collision...

This was simply too fast!

From the perspective of the wizard world, this was of course godspeed.

But in terms of the high-speed time flow of the Flame Frost Plane, this was simply impossible!

"Wait—high-speed time flow?" Gao Jie Ming was stunned when he thought of this term.

His vision instantly locked onto those lava giants that were still surging over endlessly but were isolated outside by the node.

More accurately, it was those energy fields that could form a "time pause domain" covering these lava giants!

Gao Jie Ming felt some facts becoming as clear as peeling away layers of fog.

Lava giants and snow monsters, these two mortal enemy races, started from the ends of the plane and headed toward the center of the plane to meet.

The point was that they both carried energy fields capable of stilling time.

When they met in this way in an instant, it meant that the entire Flame Frost Plane was completely shrouded by this strategic-level "time-still energy field" at this moment!

Although the wizards, because they had preparations in advance and had the protection of the "Time Sequence Stability Anchor," were temporarily not affected by any "time stop" and could operate normally.

But the entire Flame Frost Plane itself was indeed already "time-stopped" at this moment!

And the time in the chaotic void sea was relatively chaotic, and the time flow between various planes was relatively independent.

When the Flame Frost Plane was time-paused, the time of other planes did not stop.

By the time standard of the ship plane, Augustine drove the ship plane from the Flame Frost Plane to the intersection point to mobilize reinforcements, and a round trip only took less than an hour.

But!

In terms of the time span of the Flame Frost Plane, this bit of external time often took at least ten years, or even longer!

But when the entire Flame Frost Plane was completely covered by that strategic-level time-pause domain, the situation was reversed.

No matter how much time passed in the outside world—that is, other planes in the chaotic void sea—here, it would only stay at that moment of being time-stopped.

Therefore, at the "same time" that the entire Flame Frost Plane was time-stopped, Master Augustine manipulated the ship plane and returned calmly with a large number of reinforcements.

Regarding this question, not only Gao Jie Ming, but other wizards also understood it immediately after a little thought!

But what followed was a deeper level of thinking.

"This—doesn't this mean?!" A Tier 2 wizard at the same node as Gao Jie Ming widened his eyes violently, "Augustine actually had already allied with the monsters of the Flame Frost Plane?!"

"Damn it! This old fox!!"

The surrounding wizards immediately realized the truth of the matter.

After all, wizards were not fools; on the contrary, they were very smart.

Looking at the "perfunctory" performance of both sides in this battle, as well as Master Augustine's precise return action with the ship plane and reinforcements.

All of this had clearly pressed the fact that "both sides had already allied" onto everyone's faces.

Although the wizards were extremely dissatisfied with being played like monkeys, they quickly shifted their attention to new questions:

Since Augustine and the monsters had already allied, then—who exactly was their enemy?!

Without a doubt, since the two mortal enemy races could put down their hatred and even betray their own plane to "cooperate" with the wizard civilization, combined with their such cautious actions...

It was very obvious that they were indeed facing an enemy far more terrifying and powerful than the wizards!

But up to now, the wizards had stepped all over the entire Flame Frost Plane, but had not found any traces of other intelligent life!

This strangeness and unknown cast a heavy shadow over the hearts of all wizards.

Compared to other wizards, Gao Jie Ming thought even more at this moment.

At this moment, he immediately understood why the lava giants and snow monsters could not produce "Red Dust Qi."

"Truly... the most troublesome situation—" Gao Jie Ming couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Before, when he discovered that these two monster races could not produce Red Dust Qi, Gao Jie Ming had actually thought of many possibilities.

After all, there was a lot of content about this in the Dadaoshuge, and by referring to it a little, one could think of various possibilities.

For Gao Jie Ming, the best possibility for this matter was that these two races themselves were actually one or two "shared consciousness" life forms.

Every individual lava giant or snow monster was just a part of the cells of this massive life form.

An individual naturally could not form the concept of "society," and naturally could not produce "Red Dust Qi."

If this were true, then as long as the "main body" was found, everything would be solved.

And the worst possibility was the current situation: the monster community of the Flame Frost Plane was "owned"!

On this point, one could refer to other races conquered or enslaved that survived under the wizard civilization.

These races also could not provide Gao Jie Ming with Red Dust Qi.

It was because, conceptually, they did not form a "society in the true sense," but were in a state of being "kept," "colonized," or rather—a state of being "farmed."

Now, Wizard Augustine's alliance with the two monster races, and the monsters' abnormal actions, had clearly indicated—behind the two monster communities, there was a more powerful "ruler" existence!

Therefore, Gao Jie Ming could be considered to have thought one step further than the surrounding wizards.

But in this way, the worry in his heart deepened instead.

Because, the existence capable of enslaving two such powerful and numerous monster races, regardless of whether it was a civilization or an independent individual, its strength would definitely not be weak.

At the same time, Gao Jie Ming was also very curious, where exactly was that mysterious enemy hiding?

So many wizards had almost turned the entire Flame Frost Plane upside down before, but had not found any traces of other civilizations or their rulers!

This was the most hair-raising part!

However, it was not Gao Jie Ming's turn to continue thinking.

Hum hum hum—

From the magic network terminal and the communication devices of each node, a unified order from the three Tier 5 wizards suddenly sounded, carrying unprecedented solemnity and seriousness:

"Everyone! Toward the camp direction!! Prepare for impact!!"

Although this order came very abruptly.

But all wizards did not hesitate.

They were already battle-hardened troops and could understand the commander's intentions.

What's more, since Augustine had already shown his cards that he had cooperation with the two monster groups, then this order was not impossible to obey.

Almost at the same time, all nodes contracted the energy originally dispersed around them.

Immediately afterward, in the direction facing the camp, they unfolded an incomparably thick energy shield!

Runic light screens overlapped, as if casting an elemental steel wall!

And those wizards who were not operating the nodes also retracted their attack power one after another, each unfolding their strongest defensive means.

Magic shields, force field barriers, spatial distortions—colorful defensive wizard spells lit up instantly.

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