Chapter 291

Golden Garden, inside Jie Ming's private wizard tower.

He was fully focused on analyzing the complex data stream flowing on the light screen, which was research data related to the divine power belief network of the Elosia plane.

Just at this moment, the magic net terminal placed in the corner of the experimental table emitted a prompt sound different from conventional communication requests.

Jie Ming was interrupted, his brows slightly furrowed, and his gaze swept toward the terminal screen.

It was not someone's communication request, but an automatic notification from the official magic net system.

The information content was concise, cold, and did not carry the slightest emotion:

Jie Ming's fingers holding the data board paused slightly, and his gaze stayed on those few lines of text for about two seconds.

Immediately, he gently placed the data board back on the table and shook his head helplessly.

His face finally returned to a state of peace, as if he had just seen an insignificant weather report.

He refocused his attention on the complex divine power belief network model, as if nothing had just happened.

Regarding Anita's ending, he had long anticipated it.

An apprentice who was not firm in will during the academy period, put main energy into flashy techniques, and lacked awe for knowledge itself and deep cognition of power, suddenly threw herself into the cruel plane battlefield; her survival probability was pitifully slim to begin with.

Since opening his heart back then, Jie Ming only sighed at most for this kind of result.

Regretting the premature passing of a young life, other than that, there were no too many waves; it was not that he was naturally cold-blooded, but that the time scales of official wizards and wizard apprentices were already different.

Looking back, the so-called "master-disciple fate" between him and Anita was only a few years of time at most.

This bit of time was truly insignificant in his long life now calculated in units of hundreds or thousands of years.

In his long memory scroll, Anita was more like a morning-born and evening-dying creature that flew by in a hurry, leaving only a shallow trace that could almost be ignored. In fact, the impression that many high-level wizards give of being emotionally indifferent is rooted in this; not entering the door of official wizards, the mere sixty years of natural lifespan of an apprentice is just a snap of the fingers in the eyes of official wizards who possess thousands or even more distant lives.

Perhaps after a deep retreat research ends, the apprentices recognized back then have already changed several generations and turned into historical dust.

Even for official wizards, if they cannot continue to promote, in the eyes of high-level wizards, their life span is equally short.

Unless it is the kind of genius who shines brightly and is destined to step into their same level, otherwise, high-level wizards rarely have too deep private intersections with low-level ones.

After all, that is destined to be an unequal investment full of parting sadness.

Anita's death was like a small stone thrown into a calm lake; the ripples were short and slight, but it did remind Jie Ming of one thing.

After thinking about it, Jie Ming called up his research log and added a new to-do item in an inconspicuous corner.

After adding it, he put the matter aside for the time being and re-immersed himself in the research of the divine power belief network of the Elosia plane.

Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon move like a shuttle.

Unknowingly, three hundred years had passed since he returned from the expedition to the airspace plane back then.

Over these three hundred years, Jie Ming's life had been regular and fulfilling.

Because teaching tasks were still ignored, they had long become insignificant interludes, and his energy was almost entirely devoted to endless research.

Finally, on this day, he completed the analysis work of most of the non-special biological samples brought back from the airspace plane.

Massive amounts of data were organized and archived, and countless unique biological structures, energy usage methods, and adaptive evolutionary strategies were understood and absorbed by him, becoming part of his knowledge system.

The old chapter turned over, and new creation began immediately.

On the special experimental table in the center of the laboratory, a creature with an extremely strange shape was currently fixed.

It presented a smooth spindle shape, more like a carefully polished metal shell than flesh and blood.

The body surface was covered with a smooth and dense biological cuticle, flashing with cold metallic luster.

There were no obvious facial features on the head position, only a pair of compound eye-like crystal structures and a sucker-like mouthpart used for ingesting energy.

Short but structurally precise fin-like appendages extended from both sides of the body, and the tail was muscle tissue similar to a vector nozzle.

This was precisely the airspace-exclusive cannon fodder unit Jie Ming tailored for himself based on the airspace plane biological samples—he named it "Patroller."

Its design prototype mainly came from those strange creatures born for high-speed flight that he encountered when exploring the space distortion area with Wizard Jack (Chapter 254).

Their biggest characteristic was that extreme speed that made people tongue-tied!

After Jie Ming's deep optimization and genetic enhancement combining alchemy and biological transformation technology, the performance of the new generation of "Patroller" achieved a leap-forward improvement.

The growth lower limit was greatly increased; once incubated, it could stably grow into a Tier 1 living being at the lowest.

And the promotion potential also exceeded that of the same clan under natural conditions, possessing a higher probability of naturally promoting to a Tier 2 living being, and even a small probability of giving birth to Tier 3 living individuals.

Most importantly, the speed of this race was also greatly improved after Jie Ming's targeted transformation.

The cruising speed of a Tier 1 "Patroller" could easily break the sound barrier, the normal speed of a Tier 2 individual could exceed ten times the speed of sound, and a Tier 3 individual could erupt with a terrifying thirty times the speed of sound!

In short distances, its penetration capability could be called a nightmare.

Besides this, Jie Ming also loaded them with a controllable self-destruction system inherited from the black giants.

At critical moments, they could accelerate themselves to the limit, turning into the most resolute weapons, combining massive kinetic energy with the biological energy instantly released in the body to produce a destructive impact explosion.

To put it plainly, these "Patrollers" were less like combat creatures and more like a group of "living missiles" that possessed basic biological intelligence, could autonomously find enemies, and proliferate infinitely!

The core purpose for which they were designed was consumption.

For this reason, Jie Ming integrated the reproductive measures of most low-level creatures in the airspace plane, making the Patroller's reproduction speed shockingly fast.

This thing is hermaphroditic, and can lay eggs anytime, anywhere, and the meat-to-material ratio and development speed are also shockingly fast.

It only needs to provide the most basic biomass and energy to form a scale in a short time.

They don't need complex tactics, don't need persistent entanglement; their mission is only one—use unparalleled speed to break through the enemy's defense network.

Then, bloom the most brilliant, and also the most fatal, destructive light at the target point.

"Things like air cavalry have long been outdated; the dominance of the airspace should be seized by such 'meteors'." Jie Ming stared at the finished product on the experimental table, his eyes full of scrutiny and praise as a researcher seeing a perfect work.

He checked the creation in front of him again, tapped lightly on the control panel with his fingertips, and began to record the combat simulation parameters.