Chapter 53

Jie Ming was somewhat blank now.

Starting several days ago, elemental fluctuations had been continuously coming from that direction.

The elemental fluctuations coming with the passage of time were becoming more and more intense; even across a long distance, Jie Ming could feel that unusual violent aura.

Because the purpose of participating in this trial was mainly to develop and test seal wizarding tools, Jie Ming didn't intend to cooperate with other wizard apprentices from the beginning, and naturally didn't buy things like communication wizarding tools.

Because of this reason, he naturally didn't know what had happened over there.

But it wasn't a big problem; if he was curious, he could just go over and take a look himself.

After these few days of testing, Jie Ming was quite confident in the combat power of the seal wizarding tools, feeling that ordinary apprentices shouldn't be able to do much to him.

If there was some big event over there, he wouldn't get involved, just watching the fun should be fine.

Having made his decision, Jie Ming immediately adjusted his direction and headed toward the source of the fluctuations.

He still maintained the mindset of a hunter, moving forward while using Alchemy and Analysis to sweep along the way, collecting any materials that piqued his interest.

Just as he approached that area, his peripheral vision caught several disheveled figures.

It was several wizard apprentices, stumbling and fleeing.

Their faces were pale, their wizard robes were tattered, and their magic shields flickered unsteadily, like candles in the wind.

And behind them, a native team of about a hundred people was in hot pursuit.

This team of natives was equipped with more refined armor and weapons, and the strengthened power erupting from within their bodies was more surging; they were clearly elite troops.

"Run! They're catching up!"

"Damn it! My mental power can't hold on!"

"As long as we break out of the range of the space-locking around them, we can leave!"

Accompanied by noisy shouts, from time to time, wizard apprentices would suddenly erupt with extremely high speed to break away from the team, and then their figures would twist and disappear on the spot.

Looking at that, it should be that they had activated the escape ring.

In the end, only two unlucky ones remained, because they had exhausted their trump cards or had insufficient mental power, unable to break free from the pursuers behind them.

Desperate roars came; those two apprentices had already reached their limit, their steps staggering.

The native soldiers behind them flashed with bloodthirsty light, the spears and knives and axes in their hands pressing in.

Jie Ming frowned slightly; these pursuers were wrapped in a trace of familiar energy fluctuations—the same kind as those ambushers he had encountered before.

Judging from the direction these wizard apprentices were fleeing, they should have fled from the direction of the elemental fluctuations.

Out of curiosity, Jie Ming decisively took action.

Chi! Chi! Chi!

Several fireballs popped out from his fingertips silently, carrying terrifying high temperatures, instantly locking onto the several native soldiers at the very front.

Those natives with supernatural power didn't even let out a single exclamation before being swallowed by the fireballs, turning into twisted charcoal.

Immediately after, more fireballs descended from the sky like a rainstorm, covering the remaining native pursuers.

Boom, boom, boom!

Continuous bombing cleared most of the pursuers in an instant.

Some pursuers who were lagging behind and those two apprentices hadn't even had time to react before they were dazed by the shockwave of the explosion.

The few surviving natives stopped in terror; they hadn't seen where the attack came from at all before their companions instantly lost their vitality.

The overly terrifying scene made them subconsciously want to flee.

Boom!

The earth shook violently, and over a dozen massive rock spikes broke through the ground, instantly piercing through all the remaining native soldiers.

"The effect of using Alchemy to control matter to launch attacks is still a bit lacking..."

Jie Ming curled his lips, slowly landed, and walked toward the two surviving wizard apprentices.

From the moment he launched the attack to the end, the whole process didn't exceed ten seconds.

That team of aggressive pursuers was completely wiped out under Jie Ming's casual attack, without leaving a single survivor.

Those two fleeing apprentices stopped blankly on the spot, looking at the native corpses falling behind them, and Jie Ming slowly approaching from afar, as if he were just passing by and swatting a few flies, their faces filled with unbelievable shock.

"You... you..." one apprentice stammered, unable to speak.

Jie Ming walked in front of them; he didn't pay attention to the apprentices' shock, directly asking: "What happened in the distance? The elemental fluctuations are very abnormal."

The apprentices then came to their senses, telling Jie Ming everything that had happened in the valley in a jumble of voices.

"One-kilometer-diameter space-locking?" Jie Ming's eyes flashed with a hint of interest.

His Analysis had already discovered before encountering the natives that they carried a special energy fluctuation source, which seemed to be able to disturb space.

But the range was so huge, that was something he hadn't expected.

To be able to do this, even a wizard would have to reach Level 4 or above, right?

But if there really were Level 4 wizards among these natives, then these apprentices couldn't have held on for so long.

"Yes! We also risked our lives to rush out from the edge, thinking we could escape, but didn't expect them to have a team specifically for pursuit..." The apprentices said with lingering fear, while carefully observing Jie Ming.

This person in front of them, casually wiping out a team of elite natives—this kind of strength was definitely not something ordinary apprentices could possess.

Fortunately, Jie Ming didn't make things difficult for them; seeing this, the two apprentices breathed a sigh of relief, thanked Jie Ming, activated their escape rings, and left the Greyrock Realm directly.

"War, huh... sounds like a very dangerous thing."

After learning the ins and outs of the matter from these apprentices, Jie Ming didn't intend to get involved in this affair.

To him, the life or death of those thousands of apprentices had nothing to do with him; after all, everyone was in a competitive relationship in this trial; he was more concerned about how many valuable materials this plane could provide.

Moreover, intervening in such a large-scale war had too high a risk and not much reward.

With this spare time, he might as well find more rare materials.

"Slip away, slip away." Jie Ming decisively turned around, preparing to continue his treasure hunt.

Unexpectedly, he didn't go looking for the other party, but the other party came looking for him.

Just not long after Jie Ming turned and left, Alchemy and Analysis captured more and stronger life and energy fluctuations, rapidly approaching him from different directions.

Not one team, not two teams, but dozens of teams, who knew when they had formed an encirclement with him as the center.

Among these teams, there was no lack of powerful "knights" and "shamans," clearly the main force of the native coalition!

He stopped his steps, looking sharply in all directions.

"What's going on? Did they discover me?" Jie Ming frowned slightly.

He didn't remember leaving any traces, and the previous skirmishes were all handled cleanly and neatly, without alarming the main force.