Chapter 502: Fleeing

This part of the ability also required the wizarding tool to produce subtle resonance with his own spiritual power and perform dynamic adjustments, which belonged to the "semi-manipulation" category.

And now, his damaged soul simply could not provide this stable resonance support.

The good news was that the "acceleration" ability at the core of the Grand Void Step, as well as the "basic secret field" that interfered with energy detection that came with the acceleration state, belonged to the trigger-type automatic effect, which only needed to consume energy to maintain, without fine manipulation.

"At least... can still run." Jie Ming breathed a sigh of relief; this was already the greatest fortune in misfortune.

He activated another wizarding tool storing 【Gui Xu Armor】.

The transparent armor micro-light began to circulate on the body surface, and the basic protection was finally available.

As for how to cover his tracks, Jie Ming thought about it slightly.

Then, he endured the discomfort and summoned a Black Giant Priest from the cave heaven in his body.

This six-stage existence, pitch black all over and holding a staff, just appeared, and the spiritual fire light jumping in the empty eye sockets clearly perceived the abnormality of Jie Ming's soul.

Jie Ming didn't explain, just passed a simple instruction through the remaining soul connection, and then handed a wizarding tool to it.

The Black Giant Priest nodded silently, mobilized spiritual power, and activated the wizarding tool Jie Ming handed over.

Soon, the wizarding tool released an invisible force that spread toward the surroundings.

The Causal Tracing Technique was engraved on this wizarding tool; Jie Ming was letting the Black Giant Priest cast this spell on his behalf.

Although the effect was not as exquisite and thorough as Jie Ming casting it himself, it was enough to disturb and cover various relatively obvious information left by Jie Ming in this area on a large scale.

With the release of the spell, ripples appeared in the space around, and some "existence imprints" belonging to Jie Ming began to become blurred and mixed.

After the spell was cast, the Black Giant Priest's spirit was obviously withered.

Jie Ming nodded at it and took it back into the cave heaven.

In this way, although this place would leave a trace of the obscure energy fluctuations unique to the Black Giant Priest, after being taken back into the cave heaven by Jie Ming, this wisp of energy fluctuation also became a rootless source, basically no need to worry about the enemy relying on this energy fluctuation to find himself.

But this was not enough.

Jie Ming waved his hand again, and ten thousand 【Shuttle Patrolers】 roared out from the cave heaven entrance like a hive.

These were the air combat cannon fodder units he designed in the early stage, shaped like shuttle darts, with a streamlined metal structure, and the tail spraying faint blue ion flow.

Unfortunately, Jie Ming advanced too fast, but his knowledge reserve did not keep up, so that this cannon fodder unit he designed himself withdrew from the battlefield.

On the battlefield where Tier 5 and Tier 6 wizards fought, their once-proud speed and firepower were long outdated.

But at the moment, they had a new use.

Jie Ming took out the induction substance he specially reserved, mixed with a little of his own breath, and injected a tiny portion into each Shuttle Patroler.

Then, he gave the final instruction.

Swish swish swish!!!

Ten thousand faint blue streams of light were like flowers scattering from the sky, speeding toward all directions at an extreme speed of over fifty times the speed of sound!

They would fly as far as possible before the energy was exhausted, spreading those induction breaths along the way, creating a large number of chaotic false traces.

After doing all this, Jie Ming didn't dare to delay any longer, turned around, pushed the speed of the Grand Void Step to the limit he could bear in his current state toward the direction of the Plane Nuolun camp, and began to flee for his life.

In the boring and painful journey, time seemed to be infinitely stretched.

Every step across was accompanied by the dull pain of the soul being torn, every breath needed to fight against the pervasive sense of weakness.

Jie Ming's brain, in severe pain and sluggishness, couldn't help but churn up a long-standing doubt.

The wizard's spell system is complex, but if roughly divided by manipulation mode, it can be classified into two categories.

One is "Hand-off type."

Such as fireball, ice cone, and even the Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light he often used.

This type of spell is basically independent after completing the model construction and injecting energy to release, although it can also be manipulated later, even if the fireball is played out with flowers, its core power and effect will not change too much.

The quality of manipulation is more reflected in the grasp of hit rate and timing.

The other is "Manipulation type."

Typical such as soul searching, alchemy, precision elemental plastic, high-stage curse implantation, etc.

This type of spell requires the caster to continuously invest spiritual power for fine regulation from release to end, and its final effect is directly linked to the caster's manipulation level, and may even be worlds apart.

What Jie Ming has always found strange is that in the vast wizarding tool system of the wizarding world, the vast majority of those solidified and recorded are "Hand-off type" spells.

More scouting, control, and auxiliary spells that require continuous operation often exist in the form of "blessing oneself" or "triggering effect" automation or semi-automation, rather than types that require the wizard to be distracted and continuously manipulated.

The manipulation-type wizardry that is relatively common in wizarding tools is probably only soul searching; apart from that, Jie Ming has almost never seen wizarding tools recorded with other manipulation-type wizardry.

Not until this moment, with the soul broken, computing power almost zero, and even maintaining his own consciousness barely, did Jie Ming suddenly realize.

This is the battlefield wisdom tempered by blood and fire.

Wizarding tools are not only an extension of power, but also the last guarantee in a desperate situation.

When a wizard is seriously injured, his spirit is on the verge of collapse, and he cannot perform complex thinking and high-precision manipulation, those "Hand-off type" wizardries that only need to be triggered to operate automatically and provide basic attack, defense, movement, and concealment capabilities become the last straw to maintain survival.

"So that's it... not for convenience, but for 'guarantee'." Jie Ming sighed in his heart, "In this way, even if a wizard is in an extreme disadvantage, he can maintain the most basic combat capability."

He could ignore this "common sense" all along, perhaps because he had never really fallen into such a complete disadvantage before.

Fortunately, he was not a stubborn person.

Even if he didn't understand the deep meaning behind this universal choice at the beginning, based on the premise that wizards are smart people, he also subconsciously followed this potential rule.

Even when choosing spells for modification, in terms of the most basic attack and defense, whether it was Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light or Gui Xu Armor, its core was "Hand-off type."

In terms of movement, the Grand Void Step also did not need deliberate operation in the pure acceleration field.

Now it seems that this unintentional move has become the key to his struggle for survival at the moment.

Fleeing continuously for more than ten days.

Jie Ming's injury showed no signs of improvement.

His soul damage was like a bucket full of holes at the bottom, the Qi Refining Method mobilized essence to transform into divine soul power, like continuously injecting water into the bucket, but he could only watch it leak away rapidly.

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