Chapter 255: Search and Combat

Following Jie Ke and Levin Mills, Jie Ming flew for a distance through this strange world where gravity was inverted and the sea of clouds served as the ground.

Jie Ming soon saw, far ahead, a dozen figures suspended in mid-air.

He recognized them at a glance; these were the other members of Jie Ke's squad he had seen earlier at the junction plaza.

However, at this moment, these people were all floating quietly in place, separated by some distance.

Some had their eyes closed in concentration, seemingly conducting remote control through some method, while others had their eyes open but vacant, clearly indicating their primary focus was not here.

After a long while, one wizard with a stout, corpulent figure slowly opened his eyes.

His small eyes were filled with undisguisable disappointment.

He let out a heavy sigh, and only then did he notice Jie Ke and his companion, as well as the new wizards like Jie Ming following behind them.

"Jie Ke, you're back." The stout wizard greeted Jie Ke with a listless tone.

He then glanced at the number of wizards standing behind Jie Ke, his face also showing a clear look of disappointment:

"How come there are so few?"

"Given the current situation, it's already not bad to find people willing to cooperate," Jie Ke said, shrugging helplessly.

"—That's true." The stout wizard thought about the situation outside and said nothing more.

After finishing his chat with the stout wizard, Jie Ke looked at the new wizards behind him and said in a deep voice: "Prepare to get to work."

The stout wizard said nothing more and nodded silently.

Suddenly, the skin exposed on his body began to squirm violently like water ripples!

Immediately, a small mass of flesh about the size of a bean, as if it were plasticine being forcibly rubbed off by someone, actively detached itself from his massive body.

Then, in the astonished eyes of everyone, this squirming mass of flesh rapidly deformed and stretched, turning into a ferocious creature that looked like an enlarged "mosquito."

In the blink of an eye, the stout wizard had created a vast, sky-covering swarm of "mosquitoes" around himself!

And his already stout body looked noticeably a size smaller after separating so much flesh.

Under the control of the stout wizard, these buzzing "mosquitoes" quickly divided into twelve groups of varying sizes and flew in front of the wizards.

Jie Ke had already explained the specific process of the mission to everyone during the recruitment, so the others present said nothing more.

Each of them mobilized their spiritual power toward the "mosquitoes" that flew in front of them, signing a soul contract with them one by one.

The number of "mosquitoes" in front of Jie Ming was the largest, more than those in front of the other eleven Level 1 wizard "colleagues"

combined.

He could only calm his temper, mobilize his spiritual power—which far surpassed his peers—and, like weaving a net, dye his spiritual tentacles into them one by one.

This type of reconnaissance biochemical modified beast is different from ordinary cannon fodder units used for charging into battle.

For ordinary cannon fodder units, as long as the most basic contract is signed, remote control can be guaranteed.

But for this kind of precise reconnaissance biochemical modified beast, in order to transmit the reconnaissance images and information back in time and without loss, a deeper soul contract needs to be signed.

Although this type of contract can be terminated at any time after the mission ends, if you are unlucky and these creatures you signed a contract with are killed before termination,

then the soul shock generated at the time of their death will still cause a certain impact on the wizard's spiritual power.

If too many die at once, it can even cause permanent damage to the wizard's soul.

With such a fatal flaw, unless they are those specialized "reconnaissance-type" wizards with resilient souls,

otherwise, the vast majority of ordinary wizards generally choose to use safer and more convenient "reconnaissance-type wizardry."

However, the advantages of this method are also obvious: it can greatly increase the wizard's reconnaissance range, and the intelligence and information obtained are more precise.

Seeing that everyone had contracted the mosquito swarms, Levin Mills nodded: "The area nearby has been searched by us. Therefore, next, everyone needs to move forward for the next round of searching."

The wizards nodded silently.

The experienced Jie Ke stepped forward and was the first to leave a small, shimmering metal ball on the spot as a reference point for the subsequent return.

The other hired wizards, seeing this, also used their own methods to leave their respective coordinate points on the spot.

Jie Ming also flicked his finger, and a grain of "faint light," almost invisible to the naked eye, flew out silently and instantly disappeared into the clouds and mist under his feet.

Feeling the stable connection established between this "Eye of Faint Light" and the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction.

Then he looked at Levin Mills and the others who had already begun to move, his expression slightly puzzled: "It's starting already?"

He frowned, but said nothing more, and followed Levin Mills's pace.

Under Levin Mills's arrangement, Jie Ke's squad and the new wizards like Jie Ming began to gradually disperse.

According to the different numbers of "mosquitoes" contracted, they formed a huge fan-shaped collective flying forward with a safe range of tens to hundreds of kilometers apart, while dispersing the "mosquitoes" they had contracted like dandelion seeds.

Everyone conducted a thorough, net-like search of the conical area in front of them.

The search process was actually very boring.

The scenery here was so monotonous it was outrageous, with no changes.

Occasionally, they would encounter some strange-looking creatures that spontaneously derived in this area.

The attacks they launched instead became "toys" for everyone to relieve boredom during the search process.

While flying forward, Jie Ming suddenly discovered, through the shared vision provided by a "mosquito" flying at the very front, that a group of extremely fast creatures was flying straight toward here from far away!

Those creatures were extremely fast.

Judging from the sonic boom clouds trailing from them, their speed had easily exceeded the speed of sound!

Because the speed was too fast, Jie Ming couldn't even see their specific appearance clearly relying on these mosquitoes.

He could only barely tell that every inch of those creatures' figures was very "streamlined," as if they were living white shells flying at high speed in the air!

Two minutes later, when those creatures entered his conventional reconnaissance range, Jie Ming could already clearly see the specific figures of those creatures relying on his extraordinary vision.

After calculating slightly based on his reconnaissance range and the speed at which the opponent was approaching, Jie Ming was surprised to find that the average speed of these creatures had easily exceeded three times the speed of sound!

Fortunately, the moment Jie Ming discovered them, he had activated the "Acceleration" rune wizard tool in advance.

Relying on "Acceleration" to greatly increase his neural reaction speed, he was saved from being unable to even see the opponent's figure clearly like before.

Looking at the rapidly approaching creature group, the opponent had no intention of slowing down at all; undoubtedly, if one were hit by these things, it certainly wouldn't feel good.

He extended his finger and aimed it into the air at the high-speed incoming creatures in the distance.

Jie Ming tentatively blasted out a fireball compressed several times over.

This fireball grew against the wind the moment it left Jie Ming's fingertip.

The fireball, which was only the size of a fist originally, had already expanded into a "small sun" with a diameter of over a hundred meters, burning with red flames, after flying out for hundreds of meters!

It tore through the sky at a speed faster than those creatures, dragging a long, crimson tail flame in mid-air.

Finally, the moment the two sides were about to make contact, it exploded with a bang!

Boom!!!

A terrifying force exploded!

In the mid-air where the two sides collided, a huge, rolling fireball with a diameter of over a thousand meters was formed!

Infinite light and heat were released in this instant!

It even evaporated the surrounding clouds and mist instantly, forming a brief "vacuum" zone!

This is the true destructive power of a normal Level 2 wizard.

Its power was already enough to easily destroy a town from Jie Ming's past life.

And it wasn't the kind of destruction that only kills creatures, but true destruction that levels an entire area, including land and buildings, to the ground!

Suddenly suffering such an attack head-on, these high-speed flying creatures suffered heavy casualties.

But there were still a few creatures at the head of the team, whose strength had reached the peak of Level 2, that relied on their sturdy shells and powerful vitality to forcibly withstand the aftermath of the explosion and still had the ability to act.

Seeing them just slightly adjust their posture, they rushed toward him again at an even faster speed.

Jie Ming couldn't help but frown.

"This is really a bit troublesome. Unable to use 'matter manipulation' wizardry and 'force field' wizardry, it's really not easy to capture these things alive without killing them."

After thinking for a while, Jie Ming looked at the rune wizard tool on his wrist and chose not to use these things.

Instead, he raised his finger again and began to condense elemental power at his fingertip.

The two sides fought for a while longer.

Finally, Jie Ming relied on his destructive wizardry, while controlling the power, to blast these creatures, which were like "living missiles," into serious injuries one after another.

After causing them to lose their ability to act, he was able to successfully capture them.

At the same time, Jie Ming also keenly sensed various violent energy fluctuations coming from the distance.

It seems that other wizards should have encountered enemy attacks just like him.

"However, since no one is calling for help on the team channel, there should be no need to worry for the time being."

Thinking of this, Jie Ming stopped lingering and continued to explore deeper forward. ===== CHAPTER 256 =====