Chapter 245

A few months after signing up, Jie Ming's personal terminal received a system notification from the "Junction Point."

The short information stream informed him that a new plane war was about to begin, and all wizards who had signed up must go to the assembly point within the specified time to prepare to participate in the plane war.

Having learned the lesson from the last plane war where he had to stay outside for decades because he encountered a living plane, Jie Ming made many preparations in advance this time.

Before setting off, he spent a lot of time arranging his "Golden Garden," the underground laboratory, and the incubation pool inside the Purgatory Sulfur Plane in an orderly manner.

He not only upgraded all defensive magic arrays and stored enough energy to last for hundreds of years, but also issued a series of automated instructions to those Lava Giants he had previously incubated and the Black Giants that had not fully grown when they were incubated.

In this way, Jie Ming ensured that even if he left for hundreds or even thousands of years, his rear area would have no problems without him as the backbone.

After everything was arranged properly, Jie Ming stepped into the teleportation array with peace of mind.

With the experience from last time, Jie Ming came directly to the giant plaza outside the Junction Point Affairs Center this time.

There weren't many people assembled on the large plaza at this moment; looking around, there were only a few thousand people sparsely, appearing somewhat empty.

Around the space teleportation arrays that were densely packed like spider webs, lights of various colors were constantly flashing.

Wizards of various forms were coming out one after another, assembling towards the plaza.

Jie Ming found a corner with relatively few people, leaned against a cold metal pillar, and began to close his eyes to rest, adjusting his mental state.

At the same time, he sank his mind and once again counted and organized the various combat reserves in the space within his body.

I don't know how long it had been, just as Jie Ming was planning rows of magic potions, wizard tools, and spare energy pools into categories, he suddenly felt as if a gaze with a bit of curiosity and exploration was constantly cast towards him.

The other party should have no malice, and there was no intention to hide it; Jie Ming could feel the other party's gaze very clearly even with his eyes closed.

Jie Ming's heart moved, he opened his eyes and looked towards the source of that gaze.

Not far away, a wizard wearing alchemy armor who looked particularly young was poking his head and looking over here.

Seeing the other party, Jie Ming's brows couldn't help but wrinkle.

Because he felt the other party looked somewhat familiar, but when he thought back carefully, he didn't seem very familiar.

In fact, it wasn't just this wizard staring at him.

Even the other wizards in the small squad of seven or eight wizards where the other party was located all brought Jie Ming a sense of familiarity, more or less.

Noticing the scrutinizing gaze cast by Jie Ming, this wizard looked even more carefully.

After seeing Jie Ming's appearance clearly, the wizard who had been staring at him suddenly had his eyes light up!

Jie Ming saw him say a few words to his companions beside him, and then he and several other companions rushed through the crowd and ran straight towards Jie Ming.

"Kid! Long time no see!"

Watching the other party greet him in a familiar way, Jie Ming was slightly guarded out of a wizard's instinct.

However, that wizard didn't care at all about Jie Ming's guarded state, and he still had a hearty smile on his face.

Seeing that Jie Ming didn't seem to have remembered him yet, he couldn't help but remind him: "What? It's only been a few hundred years, have you forgotten the senior who was there when you enrolled?"

Jie Ming, reminded by him, felt as if a dust-sealed memory gate in his mind was instantly opened!

Only then did he suddenly realize, overlapping this wizard who seemed much younger in front of him with a certain figure in his memory!

The face shape of this person in front of him was very similar to that senior from the Alchemy Department—Wizard Jack—whom he met next to the exhibition stand of the Logistics Department at the enrollment plaza when he first enrolled.

At the same time, Jie Ming also remembered.

These people around Wizard Jack were actually the graduated seniors from the Logistics Department who were beside him at that time!

It's just that when they met again, the other party's face shape was much younger compared to the slightly vicissitudinous appearance at that time.

What he was wearing wasn't the simple wizard robe from back then, but a set of mechanical exoskeleton armor full of cold technological sense and flashing with energy light.

More importantly, their levels were not like what Jie Ming saw back then.

He could clearly feel that the auras on these people generally had firmly reached the level of Tier 2 wizards.

"Senior Jack?" Jie Ming asked tentatively.

"Hey! Fortunately, you kid didn't really forget me, otherwise we seniors would be too disappointed." Jack grinned.

After receiving a positive answer, Jie Ming hurriedly bowed and greeted Jack and the other seniors.

After recognizing the old friend, a trace of a sincere smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

The two of them weren't actually very familiar; strictly speaking, they had only met once when Jie Ming first stepped into the wizard world.

But regardless, this person could be considered one of the few "acquaintances" Jie Ming had met in this cold and cruel wizard world.

"I really didn't expect to meet you seniors here..."

While talking with them, Jie Ming calmly looked at the number of people in this reunited "senior" squad.

He clearly remembered that back at the plaza, this squad had at least a dozen people.

And now, it was much less than what he saw when he started school back then, and there were even many new faces among them.

It seems that there were some losses in the plane wars over these years.

But those who survived were much stronger than back then!

Jie Ming was even surprised to find that the senior from the Magic Potion Department, who was only a Tier 3 wizard apprentice and looked the most inconspicuous back then.

Now, he had become the existence with the highest level in this squad—a genuine Tier 3 wizard!

After seeing that Jie Ming had really reacted, Jack and the other wizards in the team also showed gratified smiles.

After all, for wizards who never know when they will experience something, even if they have only met once, if they can meet again in the future, it can be considered a happy event worth celebrating.

Jack looked at Jie Ming carefully again and couldn't help but sigh:

"I really didn't expect it! When we met back then, you kid were just an ordinary person who knew nothing about wizards. I didn't expect that in just a few hundred years, your level has already caught up!"

"My eye was indeed right; you kid are a genius!" The senior from the Rune Department on the side said triumphantly.

"Cut! You say that to everyone you see, what kind of eye do you have!"

"You're not convinced?!"

Two people in Jack's team habitually started arguing while talking, and others didn't step forward to stop them, and many even happily fanned the flames on the side.

The commotion here attracted the attention of many wizards; after all, in the wizard civilization, wizards as active as this are indeed not very common.

Jie Ming looked at this team with some envy, exchanged with Jack for a while, and the two shared some of their experiences over the years.

Although the two sides weren't very familiar, they at least had some social relationship.

At this moment of rushing to the battlefield, meeting an old friend is always a pleasant thing.

When they were about to disperse, they exchanged their contact information.

And agreed that if they encountered any problems that were difficult to solve in this plane war, both sides could seek support from each other.

Jie Ming knew that this was Senior Jack taking care of him; after all, judging from the number of people, he alone had no ability to support them.

After saying goodbye to Senior Jack and the others, Jie Ming waited for a while.

Not long after, Jie Ming was surprised to find that the number of wizards on the plaza had reached a staggering level.

He estimated slightly and felt that it should have exceeded one hundred thousand!

This was much more than the number of wizards participating in the Flame Frost Plane war when he last participated!

Just at this moment, a huge shadow covered the entire plaza, blocking the sky light.

All the wizards looked up in unison.

Between them, the sky artificially simulated by the Junction Point was completely covered by a huge, boundless black land!

Jie Ming knew in his heart that this should be the "ship plane" they were going to take for this expedition.

Judging from the size and the color of the land revealed, this was not the "ship" he took last time to conquer the Flame Frost Plane.

However, Jie Ming was no longer the newcomer who didn't understand anything back then.

He had also learned a lot of information about the "Junction Point" by checking materials.

For example, within the "Junction Point," there was more than one such ship plane used as a "ferry."

The so-called "ship plane," its essence is those that have been excessively squeezed of plane origin and various core resources, and have completely lost the value of continuous development.

Finally, they were waste-utilized by wizards and transformed into mobile war fortresses through various technologies—abandoned planes.

These planes were already on the verge of being scrapped, and using them as tools for sailing in the endless chaotic void could be said to be quite cost-effective.

As far as Jie Ming knew, the three major forces that established the Junction Point, including the Nolen Workshop, had arranged at least hundreds of such ship planes on the Junction Point side as strategic reserves.

According to the calculation that the Junction Point sets out once or twice a year, and the average conquest of a small or medium-sized plane takes twenty to one hundred years, the speed varies.

With so many "ships," there is no need to worry about the "transportation tools" being insufficient.

(End of chapter)