Chapter 304

High in the sky, Level 7 Wizard Dixon stood with his arms crossed, like an indifferent god.

Since he used the dream to disintegrate dozens of Level 7 natives, he had not intervened in the battle situation below again.

His gaze was deep, as if piercing through layers of space, overlooking the entire Giant Spirit Realm battlefield, as well as the outline of this continent further away.

He did not make a move, not because of arrogance or slackness.

The primary reason, naturally, was the need to be vigilant at all times against the world master of the Giant Spirit Realm who had never appeared—"Koge."

A sneak attack by a Level 8 existence was enough to cause a devastating blow to the current battle situation.

But the deeper reason was his professional instinct as a Fate-system wizard, which made him perceive a kind of "wrongness" permeating this world.

In his perception, the "fate" of the world could be quantified and observed.

If one set the "total amount" and "activity" of the overall fate lines of the living beings within an ordinary plane that had not expanded on a large scale as a basic benchmark unit of "1."

Then for a world like the Giant Spirit Realm that had conquered dozens of planes and had quite powerful civilization levels and individual strength, its overall fate value should logically be at least "10" or higher, representing the massive potential and variables of its civilization.

But the actual observation result made Dixon feel surprised.

The overall fate value of the Giant Spirit Realm hovered only between "4" and "5."

Compared to an ordinary world, it was indeed much higher, but relative to the civilization strength and expansion history it displayed, this value seemed too "low."

It was as if the "luck" of the entire civilization had been invisibly drawn away or suppressed.

Based on his deep understanding of the law of fate, the greatest possibility immediately emerged in Dixon's mind: facing an unprecedented external threat like the Wizard civilization, the plane consciousness of the Giant Spirit Realm or other similar things, or even the passive fate rules of this plane itself, gave birth to a "child of fate," or rather—a "protagonist."

This individual favored by world fate would gather a considerable part of the world's "luck" in himself.

This led to the "lowering" of the overall fate value and produced a series of unpredictable variables around him.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end of the battle, Dixon spent most of his energy searching for this potential "protagonist."

His perception was like the most precise instrument, scanning every point on the battlefield where fate fluctuations were abnormal.

Logically speaking, the protagonist usually appeared in the area where fate fluctuations were most intense.

So in this war that determined the life and death of the civilization, the "protagonist" should most likely appear at the core of the battlefield where the fate vortex was most intense, turning the tide, or at least showing unique characteristics.

However, no.

Until the landing battle came to an end and the wizards began to clean up the battlefield and establish outposts, Dixon still gained nothing.

He did not discover any individual gathering extraordinary fate power, nor did he capture any trace of that world master "Koge."

Koge had not appeared, which could perhaps be explained as the opponent's strategic judgment, believing that the invasion at the current stage had not touched the foundation, and its main attention was tied up by the other two worlds in the triangle plane cluster.

But not finding the "protagonist" who should theoretically exist made an ominous premonition rise in Dixon's heart.

This did not conform to the common sense of fate evolution.

"This is a bit troublesome..." Dixon furrowed his brows slightly, "I hope it's not the most troublesome possibility."

Various thoughts flashed by, and finally he suppressed this doubt to the bottom of his heart.

In any case, the frontline base must be established as soon as possible.

Under his will, the order was conveyed.

The wizards who had just experienced a bloody battle immediately threw themselves into a new task—building an outpost camp.

Jie Ming followed the instructions and acted together with others.

The construction speed of the camp fully demonstrated the terrifying attainments of the Wizard civilization in engineering.

A large number of pre-made standardized modules were taken out from space equipment or floating fortresses, and assembled by wizards using mental power like building blocks.

Metal skeletons clanged, energy conduits were quickly laid, defensive armor plates were covered layer by layer...

In less than half an hour, the prototype of a metal fortress with a massive scale, complex structure, and sufficient to allow two floating fortresses to dock and resupply stood on this scorched earth that had just been plowed by the flames of war.

Its massive and magnificent appearance formed a sharp contrast with the broken environment around it.

Immediately after, it was another half-day of busyness.

Thousands of wizards joined forces to embed various pre-made array bases and rune nodes everywhere in the camp.

Invisible defensive force fields were activated, ferocious wizardry turrets rose from the edge of the camp, and detection magic arrays spread outward like invisible ripples.

The basic construction of the outpost camp was initially completed.

Of course, this was just a beginning.

As time passed, more defensive magic arrays, attack systems, and resource conversion facilities would be continuously superimposed, turning this place into a truly indestructible offensive bridgehead.

However, these follow-up reinforcement tasks had little to do with Jie Ming.

After completing the assigned construction tasks, he received a new task: patrol and sweep.

Although the visible enemies and buildings on the surface had been cleared, a highly developed civilization like the Giant Spirit Realm must possess a massive and complex underground space network.

Remnant enemies, laboratories, resource warehouses, and even ambush troops could be hidden beneath that cold and hard crust.

Therefore, after the cannon fodder legion established a preliminary defensive line on the periphery, the vast majority of wizards like Jie Ming took advantage of the brief gap when the enemy retreated and reorganized, and began to conduct a dragnet-style search in the area within the defensive line like a comb, clearing any potential threats.

Jie Ming flew at a low altitude, sticking to the scorched black ground that still had residual heat, at a height of less than ten meters.

Several reconnaissance-type seal wizarding tools surrounded him, emitting low-frequency vibration waves that ordinary people could not hear, continuously scanning the geological structure below.

For many wizards who relied on elemental vision or energy sensing, detecting underground areas shielded by thick earth was a troublesome matter, with too many interference factors.

But Jie Ming had his own insights into this.

The core principle of the reconnaissance-type seal wizarding tool "Reconnaissance Eye" he initially designed was "vibration perception."

By analyzing the propagation, reflection, and attenuation of vibration waves in different media, it could quite accurately outline the contours of underground cavities, passages, and even biological bodies.

Suddenly, Jie Ming, who was flying, paused.

He sensed a faint unnatural elemental fluctuation coming from about 100 kilometers to his side.

At the same time, the vibration spectrum fed back by the Reconnaissance Eye also showed that there was an abnormal structure extending downward there.

He immediately adjusted his direction and flew close silently.

What came into view was a hole with a diameter of more than five meters, with edges showing irregular tearing.

The hole was vertical and downward, bottomless.

There was no light inside, emitting a strange smell mixed with machine oil, ozone, and some kind of biomass.

The hole wall was not natural rock, but roughly cut metal layers and composite building materials, clearly man-made products.

Judging from the torn opening, this should be a passage forcibly opened by a wizard.

Just as Jie Ming was observing, another obvious elemental fluctuation came from inside.

(End of chapter)