Chapter 469

On the ground, Jie Ming shook his head.

This action was more out of instinct.

With his current physical fitness, even if he fell freely from ten thousand meters without any protection and smashed into this dead earth, he would at most stir up a circle of dust, not even scratching his skin. Reading novels every day is super convenient, 𝔱𝔱𝔨𝔰. 𝔱𝔴 is your choice, providing you with error-free chapters and non-disordered reading experience.

What's more, only the innermost Return to Ruins Armor was broken at that moment.

Although the seven layers of shields outside were damaged due to the strong elemental turbulence structure, they had self-repaired seven or eight out of ten before he fell to the ground, buffering the impact to a negligible degree.

He stood up, and some grey-white dust was stained on his grey wizard robe, which looked particularly conspicuous under the dim sky light.

Jie Ming's first reaction was to look around for vigilance.

There was no trace of any enemy within his line of sight, but many wizards of Plane Nuolun in the high sky saw Jie Ming's state and quickly descended while maintaining vigilance.

But obviously, judging from their performance, they also didn't find any trace of the enemy.

And it wasn't just the traces of the enemy; even the fluctuations of energy residues were so thin that they were almost impossible to perceive—except for the disgusting residual malice in the air that hadn't completely dissipated, like the smell of rotten internal organs mixed with rust.

It didn't look like the enemy had attacked directly.

Jie Ming frowned, and his consciousness sank into his body.

The protective power that erupted at the very last moment just now...

Undoubtedly, it was the Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier.

Jie Ming quickly reviewed.

The Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier targets various curses, prophecies, mind interference, and illusions.

Among the seven layers of protection, the "True Vision" rune array specifically targeting illusions was not triggered.

Prophecy-type attacks usually do not cause this kind of direct destruction.

And the Return to Ruins Armor did indeed take effect—before it shattered, it clearly absorbed some kind of high-intensity energy impact.

Then, there is only one answer left.

"Curse."

And it is a powerful curse with enough power to instantly crush the Return to Ruins Armor.

"It seems I was targeted... no, it should be that all the geniuses of Plane Nuolun were targeted!"

Jie Ming raised his head, his gaze sweeping toward the sky.

Just as he expected, under the leaden grey sky of this desolate plane, light spots kept falling from high places.

Some wizards turned into a handful of flying ash during the fall and were blown away by the wind; some bodies twisted and expanded, like skin bags filled with too much gas, "popped" and exploded in mid-air, and flesh and blood fragments fell like rain; others let out shrill screams, the sound mixed with the pain of the soul being torn apart, and stopped abruptly after a few seconds.

But more wizards stabilized their figures.

They either erupted with dazzling brilliance, or emerged with densely packed protective runes, or directly unfolded some kind of black hole field that devoured all energy—each showing their magical powers, forcibly resisting the sneak attack of the curse.

Jie Ming carefully observed those wizards who were shot down.

Without exception, judging from their residual energy characteristics, the spiritual power intensity displayed before the fall, and the quality of the wizarding tools they wore, these people were all outstanding among wizards of the same level.

"Targeted hunting of geniuses..." He twitched the corners of his mouth.

A very classic tactic.

In the early stages of the war, use high-cost, one-time curses to prioritize clearing the most promising young wizards in the opponent's camp and weaken the opponent's future growth upper limit.

And he, obviously, was also listed as a genius worth killing with a curse.

Thinking of this, Jie Ming subconsciously sensed the consumption inside the Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier and couldn't help but bare his teeth.

Half!

A full half of the incense poison and evil energy was consumed in that instant just now.

You know, for this war, he specifically upgraded the Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier.

Not to mention the high-quality death evil energy and red dust energy, all the Flower God Evil and the incense poison gathered by billions of black giants collected over the years had been filled in.

And now, the stock has been cut in half directly.

Combined with the fact that the Return to Ruins Armor was pierced in an instant, this means a quite terrifying fact: the one who launched the curse on him is likely a Level 7 wizard!

"Looking at the dissipated energy of other unlucky ones, it's at most the work of a Level 6 wizard. How come it's a Level 7 wizard when it comes to me? Are they valuing me too much?!" Jie Ming felt his gums ache a bit.

While standing up from the ground, he cast the Return to Ruins Armor again to put on defense for himself.

"However..."

The expression on Jie Ming's face gradually turned from heartache to a kind of almost cruel smile.

The Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier is a counter-attack treasure.

That half of the poison and evil energy didn't disappear out of thin air.

While blocking the curse, they had already followed the invisible curse connection and poured back into the depths of the caster's soul.

"Hard eating this level of dosage, I hope the other side has something happen."

Even if the other party is Level 7, after hard eating this reverse initiation, they will have to peel a layer of skin if they don't die.

In the most optimistic situation, it is soul damage, combat power plummeting, and basically can be classified into the category of "losing threat" in the subsequent war.

If lucky, that Level 7 on the other side might just be gone directly.

Being plotted against just after entering the field, but turning around and using a protective treasure to trade for a Level 7 wizard's combat power on the other side...

"Earned."

Jie Ming patted the dust on his robe, and his mood inexplicably improved.

Tens of kilometers away, high sky.

Mentor Ke La Ke stood in the air, his black robe motionless in the chaotic elemental airflow.

Seeing Jie Ming lose control and fall to the ground, a faint silver-white light that was almost invisible in the palm of his right hand was slowly dissipating.

That is the aftermath of "Fate Interference" type wizardry.

The moment Jie Ming encountered the curse, he had already prepared three different intervention plans.

But in the end, he didn't make a move.

Because that kid held on by himself.

On Ke La Ke's indifferent face, the corners of his mouth raised an arc extremely subtly, and then returned to normal.

Almost at the same time, a spiritual fluctuation came from diagonally above, carrying obvious surprise and appreciation:

"Amazing, Junior Brother!"

The messenger was Dionysus Spencer.

He was wearing a silver-blue magic robe, and at this moment was floating at a higher place, his hands forming a complex magic seal.

A translucent light screen with a diameter of more than ten meters unfolded in front of him, with tens of thousands of data streams flowing on the light screen.

A distance of tens of kilometers is no different from face-to-face for a Level 7 wizard.

"I didn't expect your apprentice to have such a move." Dionysus's spiritual fluctuation carried a smile, "The intensity of that curse just now has already touched the threshold of Level 7 Mid-tier. If it were a normal Level 5 wizard, even with a high-tier wizarding tool specifically for defending against curses, they would be seriously injured and fall. Your apprentice is good, not only held on, but it seems like there is not even a minor injury?"

Ke La Ke didn't look up, his gaze still calmly scanning the battlefield below, but in the returned spiritual fluctuation, there was a rare trace of irrepressible, almost showing off meaning:

"It's okay. This kid's strength is quite solid, it's just that like his Senior Sister, he always likes to rush to advance without being prepared."

"Ha!" Dionysus laughed, "Anyway, it seems it didn't affect his combat power, advancing fast doesn't affect anything."

At this time, another spiritual fluctuation intervened, coming from a female Level 6 wizard wearing dark green vine-wrapped combat armor, her tone carrying obvious envy:

"Lord Ke La Ke, your apprentice's technical level is really exaggerated... That protective treasure, was it refined by combining divine technology? When counter-attacking just now, I monitored the fluctuation of high-purity faith power."

Ke La Ke was noncommittal, just lightly changed the subject:

"How are the battle results statistics?"

Turning the topic back to business, the spiritual fluctuations of all high-tier wizards instantly became serious.

A Level 6 wizard had just finished releasing the curse resistance wizardry, helped a targeted genius block the attack, and after calculating the result, quickly reported:

"Our first round of curse attacks released a total of 3,742, all targeting the detected enemy 'high-potential seeds.' Hit rate... 89.3%."

A quite astonishing number.

This means that in those short few seconds just now, more than three thousand young genius wizards on the side of the Chaos Secret Sect and the Tower of Annihilation suffered fatal curses.

"What about the enemy's interception?" Ke La Ke asked.

"The interception efficiency on the Tower of Annihilation side is relatively low." Another Level 7 wizard took over, his voice carrying a bit of pride, "Their curse protection technology focuses on physicalization and energy deflection, and they have insufficient resistance to our new type of curse that mixes soul attacks and concept anchoring. According to feedback, they only intercepted about 20%, and the remaining 80% of targets... are either dead or disabled."

"What about the Chaos Secret Sect side?"

"More troublesome." This time it was a Level 6 wizard who was good at prophecy and anti-prophecy who spoke, his tone somewhat heavy, "They seem to have made targeted preparations in advance, it seems that a Level 7 wizard presided over the release of 'Causality Confusion' type wizardry. Nearly 50% of our curses were misled or weakened in power, and only about 50% truly achieved kills or heavy damage."

On the light screen, the data continued to scroll.

High-tier wizards in various areas sent real-time battle reports one after another:

"Seventh team, completed 60% clearance."

"Eleventh team, the enemy has two Level 7 wizards who set up a group purification barrier in advance, only completed 40%."

"Third team, didn't intercept all of them just now, casualties are a bit heavy... sorry."

"Ninth team, perfectly executed, all twelve enemy targets were annihilated."

Information was quickly summarized.

Finally, Dionysus gave a preliminary assessment:

"Overall, we used curses to complete the killing of about 50% of the enemy's high-potential seeds in this round. And the similar curse attacks launched by the enemy against us... according to monitoring, we intercepted about 50%."

50% to 50%.

On the surface, it seems like a tie.

However, considering the gap in the total number of participants on both sides, using the same exchange ratio, Plane Nuolun Workshop is actually making a small profit.

Using fewer troops to trade for the same proportion of high-value targets on the other side.

Although a bit cruel, this can indeed be counted as a small tactical advantage.

(End of chapter)