Chapter 487: More Enemies

The two Plane Nuolun workshop wizards were stunned for a moment, and it wasn't until Jie Ming's sentence "you can retreat" echoed in the air that they woke up like a dream.

"Thank... thank you, my lord, for saving our lives!"

The female wizard reacted first, respectfully saluting Jie Ming, only then feeling the sharp pain coming from her brain.

Just now, in order to maintain the barrier to resist the violent attack of the Tower of Extinction wizard, her spiritual sea had already developed subtle cracks.

The male wizard who had completely turned into a tentacle monster also struggled to make a saluting posture, opening his mouth with difficulty:

"Thank... your excellency... for the help..."

His voice was extremely weak, clearly on the verge of death.

Jie Ming just nodded calmly without speaking.

The two wizards looked at each other, both seeing a hint of realization in each other's eyes.

In the wizard world, there is no helping hand without reason.

Equivalent exchange is a criterion engraved deep in the soul of every wizard.

The female wizard raised her right hand without hesitation, pressed her index finger on her temple, closed her eyes and concentrated.

A pale blue data stream composed of countless runes flowed from her fingertips and condensed into a crystal the size of a fist in the air.

"This is the 'Multi-layer Barrier Nesting Optimization Algorithm' I specialize in, which can realize the synchronous construction and linkage adjustment of up to seven barriers of different attributes under limited spiritual power."

She pushed the crystal towards Jie Ming, her tone respectful:

"Although it is only Tier 5 technology, its practicality is very high in positional defense and small-scale encounters."

The male wizard also supported himself to raise his tentacles, and also condensed a dark red spiritual power crystal.

"Mine is... 'Water Element Shaping and Energy Compression Technology'..." He had to pant for every word he said, "It can allow water-type wizardry to maintain fluidity while... gaining impact force close to solid matter... and... high-concentration corrosive characteristics..."

Two crystals hovered in front of Jie Ming.

Jie Ming took a look and took them away.

He didn't say "you're welcome," nor did he say "this is not enough."

Because in the wizard's world, this kind of transaction is the default rule.

You saved their lives, and they handed over the technology they were best at as a reward.

Very fair.

Seeing Jie Ming accept the crystals, both wizards breathed a sigh of relief.

The male wizard lowered his head, his body tissue collapsing rapidly, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.

"My physical body... can't hold on."

He looked at the female wizard:

"Help me... bring a section back."

The female wizard nodded.

The male wizard closed his eyes, and his body surface began to deform again.

One of the tentacles on the right side expanded and deformed at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into a fleshy tentacle about half a meter long, dark red all over, covered with spiral textures on the surface.

At the end of the tentacle, there was still a soul mark belonging to the male wizard.

And his main body completely lost all life aura, turning into a rapidly decaying dry corpse, falling to the ground.

The female wizard stepped forward, carefully picked up the tentacle, and put it into a metal tube engraved with full of preservation and soul stability runes.

After doing all this, she looked at Jie Ming and saluted again:

"My lord, we are retreating now. You... please be sure to be careful."

Jie Ming nodded.

The female wizard did not hesitate, formed seals with both hands, and a silver-white space door unfolded in front of her.

She stepped in, her figure disappeared, and the space door closed accordingly.

In place, only Jie Ming remained, and... that dry corpse that was collapsing rapidly.

Jie Ming did not leave immediately.

He just stood in place, looking down at the lava basin that was still steaming under his feet, his eyes calm, as if thinking about something.

The wind blew across the wasteland, rolling up grey-white dust, making a sobbing sound.

"It's the Law of Pain... but the direction is a bit different."

Jie Ming actually didn't care about the departure of the two wizards, because in his mind, he was replaying the various curses and hallucinations cast by the Chaos Secret Sect wizard just now.

"Senior sister Wei Aola's Law of Pain is more biased towards 'mental torture'—amplifying existing painful memories, implanting false painful hallucinations, and even directly attacking the soul's pain perception center."

"And that guy just now..."

Jie Ming touched his chin, closing his eyes and thinking.

"His Law of Pain is more biased towards 'transformation of flesh and energy'."

"Directly converting painful emotions into substantial damage, using the enemy's pain to strengthen his own wizardry, and even being able to use pain as a 'binder' to forcibly fuse different energy systems..."

A flash of interest flashed in Jie Ming's eyes:

"Interesting. Although the overall level is much worse than senior sister's, this idea of 'energizing emotions' is worth reference."

His gaze moved to the position where the Tower of Extinction wizard finally disappeared.

"As for that guy playing with light and dark annihilation..."

Jie Ming recalled the opponent's simple, rough, yet terrifyingly efficient attack method.

"On this path of 'positive and negative energy annihilation', he has indeed gone quite far. The ratio of light and dark, the degree of compression, the timing of release... are all controlled quite precisely. The energy utilization rate of each attack is at least 35%."

This data is already quite good, after all, the energy that annihilates each other is too manic and difficult to control, and at least 100% energy utilization rate requires a Tier 6 wizard to do it.

"Unfortunately..."

Jie Ming shook his head:

"The final move 'Energy Overload' is clearly an unfinished technology. Forcibly injecting two conflicting energies into the body, seemingly powerful, is actually full of loopholes. The energy flow path is chaotic, the law resonance frequency is unstable, and even the most basic 'energy cycle self-consistency' has not been achieved."

"If he could be given another fifty years, perhaps he could perfect this technology and turn it into a stable explosive means. But now..."

"The level is still a bit worse."

While thinking, Jie Ming raised his left hand casually, five fingers spread, and gripped lightly towards the void around him.

Hum...

Invisible fluctuations spread out with him as the center.

Space began to "solidify."

Not solidification in the physical sense, but "anchoring" at the law level.

Within a radius of a hundred kilometers, all spatial folds, layers, cracks, and transition nodes were forcibly smoothed and fixed by an overbearing force.

It was as if a piece of paper that had been crumpled was ironed hard by someone, becoming as flat as a mirror.

And as space solidified...

"Uh!"

A muffled grunt came from the void about three hundred meters to Jie Ming's left.

The space there suddenly "squeezed" out a figure.

That was a wizard wearing a dark green robe with a wooden mask on his face.

At this moment, he was awkwardly maintaining a half-formed space jump posture, but his body was like a bug trapped in amber, deadlocked in place by the solidified space, unable to move.

His eyes were full of horror.

Seeing that Jie Ming had no follow-up actions, he burst out with strength and broke free from the solidified space.

Jie Ming seemed to have recovered from his thinking at this time.

He raised his head slowly and looked at the wizard who was forced out.

Then, his gaze turned to the surrounding distance, scanning the grey-white wasteland that seemed empty, the craggy rocks, and the low mounds.

The corners of his mouth hooked into a cold arc.

"All come out."

The voice was not loud, but it clearly spread to every corner within a radius of ten kilometers.

"Hiding in the dark and watching the show, aren't you tired?"

The moment the words fell—

The dark green robed wizard who was forced out by spatial solidification couldn't help but take a step back.

It wasn't until he noticed that he realized he had done so instinctively.

Because the "momentum" emitted by this grey-robed wizard in front of him was too terrifying.

It was not oppression in energy intensity.

Judging from perception, the other party was indeed only at the peak of Tier 5, the same level as himself.

But it was a kind of... deeper level of oppression.

It was as if a mouse facing a cat, a rabbit facing an eagle, an ant facing a giant elephant.

It was a kind of biological instinct telling him: cannot be resisted, cannot be opposed.

And with Jie Ming's words, the "environment" around began to change.

Behind the rocks, three figures stood up slowly.

On the side of the mound, the air twisted, revealing four wizards.

In the mid-air further away, where there was originally nothing, like water ripples, five or six floating figures appeared one after another.

A total of thirteen people, all Tier 5 wizards.

They wore wizard robes of different styles—some belonged to the Chaos Secret Sect, some belonged to the Tower of Extinction.

At this moment, everyone was staring at Jie Ming in the center with a solemn face, their eyes full of vigilance, dread, and disbelief.

They didn't witness the whole process, but at least they observed the process of Jie Ming dealing with the energy giant incarnation of the Tower of Extinction wizard just now.

From the dark golden light that Jie Ming used to kill the same level in seconds, to him forcing his companion out of the spatial interlayer lightly, to his attitude of being terrifyingly calm while facing the siege of thirteen wizards of the same level at this moment, all showed one situation.

This guy... is very strong!

Jie Ming glanced at these thirteen people slightly.

Spiritual power intensity, all between mid-Tier 5 and peak.

As for elemental fluctuations, they were very complicated, and it seemed that what they were good at was different.

But none of them could arouse his interest.

Jie Ming knew his positioning very well.

In terms of the accumulation of "wizard knowledge," he indeed belonged to the bottom tier among Tier 5 wizards.

After all, the time he truly focused on the wizard system was only about a thousand years.

And most Tier 5 wizards, which one is not an old monster who has lived for three or four thousand years or even longer?

But in terms of "actual combat power"...

A flash of indifference flashed in Jie Ming's eyes.

Relying on the alien knowledge provided by the Great Dao Book Pavilion, as well as the rune wizardry and modified spells he developed himself...

Ordinary Tier 5 wizards are no longer enough to attract his attention.

Just like now.

These thirteen wizards, although they hid well and had different means.

But in front of Jie Ming's "Causal Tracing Shadow Technique," their positions were as clear as bonfires in the dark night.

The fate lines of the entire plane were indeed polluted, and large-scale causal divination was difficult to carry out.

But just using the Causal Tracing Shadow Technique to detect "information residues" in a small range, tracking the positions of a dozen wizards of the same level...

Too simple.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 488 =====