Chapter 305

Jie Ming floated above the hole, his Reconnaissance Eye perception spreading downward.

At the same time, he activated alchemy, his mental power exploring downward like tentacles along the metal wall beside him.

The feedback returned by the reconnaissance wizardry was clearly presented in Jie Ming's mind: below was not a simple passage, but a vast underground space.

Its structural layout could vaguely be seen to have once been some kind of commercial venue, but now it had been reduced to a battlefield.

Three wizards in gray robes were supporting themselves against a broken metal load-bearing column, struggling to hold on; the wizardry spiritual light on their bodies flickered, clearly consuming a huge amount.

And their opponents were dozens of Giant Spirit Realm natives of various forms.

These natives mostly presented a semi-fluid slime-like base form, fused with various mechanical parts, brandishing energy weapons or unleashing innate wizardry-like abilities.

Among them, the most eye-catching were four elite individuals whose body size was exceptionally massive and whose energy fluctuations actually reached Level 4.

They were like small leaders on the battlefield, commanding other low-level natives to continuously besiege.

Three Level 3 wizards against four Level 4 elites plus a large number of miscellaneous soldiers, wanting to win was quite difficult.

Jie Ming's undisguised mental power sweeping over was immediately captured by the wizards struggling below.

"Friends above! Help us solve these enemies, and we will split the spoils discovered here equally!" A Level 3 wizard at the head issued a request for help through mental power without hesitation, his voice carrying obvious anxiety.

"Can."

Jie Ming responded concisely, his figure no longer hesitating, diving toward the bottom of the hole.

In the process of his descent, the battle situation suddenly became critical.

A wizard, in order to avoid a corrosive spear wrapped in ominous black smoke shot from the shadows, was forced to unleash an elemental avatar, his whole person turning into a pool of flowing water.

The spear pierced through the water curtain; although it did not cause physical damage, the attached soul erosion power made the wizard's face pale as paper when he re-condensed into a human form.

Immediately, a wave of abnormal flushing surged up, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, his aura instantly wilting, clearly his soul was not lightly damaged.

"Roar!!!"

Just as those few Level 4 natives were preparing to take advantage of the situation to finish off this heavily injured wizard, a roar shook the entire underground space!

A massive black figure smashed into the center of the battlefield like a meteorite; it was a Level 5 black giant that Jie Ming had revived!

As soon as the black giant appeared, the terrifying pressure made all the natives stiffen.

It had no fancy tricks, directly smashing a fist toward the nearest Level 4 native; the fist wind squeezed the air, emitting a blast!

That Level 4 native in slime form reacted extremely quickly, its main body instantly extending several viscous tentacles, rolling up several low-level companions who couldn't dodge in time and throwing them toward the black giant's fist like throwing stones.

It flew backward itself, narrowly avoiding this fatal blow.

"Watch out!"

However, another wizard who had been observing the overall situation suddenly changed his face greatly, exclaiming toward Jie Ming who had just landed.

Almost at the same time he spoke, in the shadows behind Jie Ming's flank, a figure that was almost integrated with the environment suddenly erupted!

It did not wear any external machinery, its body stretching and hardening in an instant, turning into a sharp biological bone spear, stabbing straight at Jie Ming's back heart at an astonishing speed!

The opponent's concealment means were extremely powerful; before making a move, even Jie Ming's reconnaissance seal and his own perception failed to warn him in advance!

However, the scene of the bone spear piercing the body that was expected did not happen.

That erupting Level 3 native only felt a blur before its eyes, the target's figure seemed to sway slightly, and its own thunderous strike actually... missed?!

It couldn't understand; its speed was clearly fast to the extreme, why could the opponent avoid it so lightly?

A proud smile flashed in Jie Ming's heart.

Naturally, he wouldn't tell it that the moment the black giant descended, its self-contained "temporal disorder" domain had already quietly covered a small area around it.

In the enemy's perception, the speed that was fast to the extreme was just an ordinary pounce in Jie Ming's time reference system.

"Want to sneak attack?"

Jie Ming raised his right hand, and the ten special seal wizarding tools worn on his wrist, which looked like they were carved from crystal, instantly lit up with dazzling light.

The next moment, hundreds of dense and scorching energy rays shot out from the crystals!

These rays did not scatter and attack after leaving the seal, but under Jie Ming's exquisite control, quickly gathered and fused in mid-air, finally forming a scorching white light cannon as thick as a water bucket, containing destructive energy!

With an unstoppable momentum, it smashed fiercely toward that sneak attacker who appeared "slow" due to the time-flow difference!

That sneak attacker was in the deceleration force field and couldn't make an effective dodge at all, only able to watch in terror as the light cannon arrived, piercing and vaporizing its protective energy and tough body together!

After firing a few more shots to confirm that the enemy had been killed, Jie Ming carefully collected the tissue wreckage left in place with his mental power, collecting it as a trophy.

On the other side, with the addition of the Level 5 black giant, the battle situation instantly reversed.

The black giant was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep; its strong physical resistance and energy absorption characteristics made it almost ignore most attacks, and the temporal disorder domain made the enemies besieging it miserable.

The remaining three wizards had their pressure greatly reduced, their spirits boosted, and they cooperated with the black giant to quickly clear out the remaining enemies.

Before long, the battle ended.

Those three wizards, including the companion who had barely stabilized his injury after taking medicine, all leaned toward Jie Ming.

When they saw the Alchemy-system badge on Jie Ming's robe, expressions of joy couldn't help but appear on their faces.

The injured wizard, while tearing open his damaged wizard robe and applying a green ointment emitting a cool breath to the strange black corrosive mark on his chest, took the initiative to introduce the situation to Jie Ming, his tone carrying the relief and excitement of surviving a disaster:

"This friend, thank you for the help! We are the 'Gray Tower' squad. We discovered that deep in this underground building complex, a well-preserved treasure vault is hidden! Looking at the structure and energy response, there should be quite a lot of resources hoarded inside. But..."

He paused, a trace of helplessness appearing on his face: "That treasure vault was locked by a special seal. We tried to forcibly crack it, triggering the advance warning of the self-destruction mechanism, which attracted the guards and subsequent reinforcements just now."

"The original fixed guards of the treasure vault have been solved by us, but it seems there are natives who are unwilling to give up here, and have been sending people to try to retake it or stop us."

Jie Ming nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this.

That natives would spare no cost to repeatedly sneak back and attack sideways proved that the value of this treasure vault was probably extraordinary.

No wonder they were so happy to see him, an Alchemy wizard—cracking this kind of seal with technical nature was precisely one of the specialties of an alchemist.

"I can try." Jie Ming was concise and comprehensive, immediately proposing conditions, "If the cracking is successful, I need to have the priority qualification to choose one trophy."

The other two wizards looked at each other, then looked at the leader; the leader nodded without hesitation: "It should be so! If you hadn't arrived in time, let alone the treasure vault, even our lives would have been hard to save."

Reaching an agreement, Jie Ming, under the protection of the black giant, came to a thick metal door located in the deepest part of the underground building.

The surface of the door was engraved with complex energy patterns, and there was a circular depression in the center, emitting hidden and dangerous energy fluctuations.

Jie Ming stretched out his right hand, pressing lightly on the cold metal door, closing his eyes to perform alchemy, his mental power slowly seeping into the seal structure.

In his perception, the interior of the seal was like a precise trap.

Several strange energies were like "leads," winding and connecting to a massive and violent energy source.

Any attempt to forcibly change the material form or energy state inside the treasure vault would instantly snap these "leads," detonating that massive energy source and destroying everything inside along with the cracker.

"Very exquisite design, using the power characteristics unique to the natives as a key..." Jie Ming thought to himself.

He thought for a moment and decided to adopt the safest way.

While maintaining alchemy, Jie Ming also performed extraction.

His mental power turned into invisible hands, carefully bypassing those sensitive trigger points, acting directly on those strange energies acting as "leads."

Relying on the ability of extraction, he stripped and drew these energies from the seal structure bit by bit, introducing them into an energy container temporarily constructed in his body space.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

The moment the last "lead" was drawn away, the patterns on the treasure vault door suddenly lit up with dazzling red light, emitting a sharp and piercing alarm sound!

The sound echoed in the empty underground space, spreading far away.

However, that was all.

Losing the "leads" to detonate the massive energy source, this alarm, except for making noise and possibly attracting more enemies, was useless.

Jie Ming was unmoved, his movements not stopping.

Although there were no leads, this treasure vault was probably already safe.

But just in case, he performed extraction again, this time locking directly onto the silent yet massive energy source at the core of the seal!

Under his efforts, that terrifying energy capable of blowing up a thousand meters was completely extracted.

Turning into a light ball that constantly twisted and flickered, it was carefully sealed into his body space.

"Just enough to replenish the previous consumption..." Jie Ming felt slightly relieved in his heart; this high-quality energy could be called an unexpected joy.

After doing all this, he took a step back and issued instructions to the black giant standing like a black iron tower beside him.

The black giant roared low, and two giant palms covered with liquid metal slammed into the gap of the treasure vault door!

Creak—Boom!!

An ear-piercing sound of metal tearing rang out, and that thick metal door, which had lost its energy protection and only had its physical structure left, was forcibly pried open by the black giant's terrifying giant force like paper, revealing the pitch-black treasure vault interior behind.

A rich energy breath and a strange smell mixed with some kind of metal and unknown compound instantly permeated from the opened treasure vault.

(End of chapter)