Chapter 564

In less than a day, the news of the Entropy Brain spread throughout the entire Expeditionary Force as if it had grown wings.

Jie Ming first discovered this situation because there were suddenly over a dozen spying spiritual powers outside his laboratory door.

Those spiritual powers probed over cautiously, seemingly wanting to communicate with him, but shrank back the moment he noticed, and then probed over again after a while.

He opened the door, and there was no one outside.

But the wizards who were gathered in groups of three or five in the distance and looking over from time to time exposed everything.

"What's the situation?"

Jie Ming frowned and stopped a passing Level 5 wizard casually.

That wizard saw him, and his eyes instantly lit up scarily.

"Wizard Jie Ming! You are Wizard Jie Ming, right? The Wizard Jie Ming who killed the information-based organism and obtained the Entropy Brain?"

Jie Ming: "... It's me."

"Great!" That wizard was so excited that he was incoherent, "That... is the effect of the Entropy Brain true? Can it really help comb through knowledge? Can it organize those messy knowledge fragments clearly?"

Jie Ming was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

It seems that the relevant intelligence about the Entropy Brain has already spread throughout the entire Expeditionary Force.

And the reaction of these wizards is even more exaggerated than he imagined.

He waved his hand to dismiss that wizard and turned to open the Magic Net terminal.

Sure enough, the public channel had already exploded.

【Speculating on possible effective uses from the function of the Entropy Brain.】

【On the combined use effect of the Entropy Brain and the origin of the plane—in-depth analysis from an anonymous Level 5 wizard】

【High-price acquisition of Entropy Brain, private chat if interested, price negotiable!】

【Forming a team to brush the Information Plane, seeking experienced teammates, war loot distributed according to contribution!】

【Analysis of the "Information Weaving" spell.】

Jie Ming looked at those crazily refreshing messages, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

These people's news is too well-informed.

He turned off the Magic Net terminal, walked out of the laboratory, and planned to go see the situation outside himself.

Then he saw a scene that shocked him.

On the originally empty wasteland of the ship plane, it was now densely packed with people.

Those wizards who usually buried their heads in research were now gathered in groups of three or five, discussing something excitedly.

Some were arguing with red faces, some were gesturing with hands and feet, and some simply unfolded spell models in public, talking endlessly while pointing at a certain node. These wizards had completely lost their usual calm and rational appearance.

Jie Ming even saw people trading.

A Level 5 wizard holding a pile of materials was bargaining with a Level 5 wizard.

And what that Level 5 wizard was holding was an Entropy Brain the size of a fingernail.

"Fifty thousand high-tier military merits? Why don't you go rob someone!"

"Don't buy it if you think it's expensive, there are plenty of people who want it!"

"Thirty-five thousand, thirty-five thousand at most! I'll add these materials!"

"... Deal!"

Jie Ming: "..."

He withdrew his gaze silently, sighing in his heart.

The charm of the Entropy Brain is much greater than he imagined.

But thinking about it carefully, this is actually not hard to understand.

The power distribution of the wizard civilization is not a traditional pyramid shape, but a gourd shape.

The most numerous are naturally wizard apprentices and Level 1 and Level 2 wizards.

These people occupy the bottom layer of the entire civilization and are the population base for most forces.

But further up, the situation changes.

The second most numerous are not Level 3 wizards, but Level 4 and Level 5 wizards.

The reason is very simple: they live long.

The combat power of Level 4 and Level 5 wizards is enough to guarantee their own life safety in conventional plane wars.

Coupled with the fact that wizards have long lifespans, and even if they are near the end of their lives, they can use biochemical modification or take longevity medicine to extend their lives, it can be said that the lifespans of mid-to-high-tier wizards are almost infinite.

The wizard civilization has developed for a long time that can be called long, and after generations of accumulation, the number of Level 4 and Level 5 wizards has long piled up to a terrifying degree.

In some old-established forces, the number of Level 4 and Level 5 wizards may even exceed that of Level 1 and Level 2 wizards.

Therefore, they are the true "backbone" of the entire wizard civilization.

But further up, the number of Level 6 wizards decreases sharply.

It's not because they don't live long, but because... it's too hard to upgrade.

Level 4 to Level 5 requires law mastery to reach 10%.

Level 5 to Level 6 requires law mastery to reach 100%.

It looks like it only increased tenfold, but in reality, the difficulty from 10% to 100% completely exceeds the sum of the difficulty of all previous level upgrades. And laws are knowledge.

Researching knowledge in a field is easy at the beginning, but as the mastery becomes higher and higher, every 0.1% of progress requires huge effort. In the later stages, many people will find that they are stuck at a certain point and cannot go any further no matter what.

After all, their wisdom level is only up to there.

Research depth has reached the limit, and they can only expand horizontally to research laws in other fields.

But the laws in those fields are of little help to promoting to Level 6.

Of course, there are ways to bypass this restriction.

That is the origin of the plane.

This thing can directly indoctrinate the user with a large amount of fragmented knowledge, regardless of whether you can understand it or not, just stuff it in first.

As long as you stuff enough, law mastery will naturally go up.

It sounds beautiful, but there are two problems.

First, the price.

One wisp of plane origin can only increase law mastery by 0.1%. From 10% to 100%, it requires a full 900 wisps.

What is the concept of 900 wisps of plane origin?

It can empty the family fortune of an ordinary Level 5 wizard ten times and still not be enough.

Second, side effects.

That forcibly indoctrinated knowledge is fragmented, chaotic, and unsystematic.

You "know" them, but you don't understand them at all.

Just like a person who has never studied physics being forcibly stuffed with a bunch of formulas; they can recite them, but can only use them very rigidly, and won't know how to use them if there is even a slight change.

Forcibly promoting to Level 6 in this state, combat power will almost not increase at all.

In the future, when encountering opponents of the same level, it is basically being crushed.

What's more fatal is that in the wizard civilization, non-high-tier wizards will be forcibly conscripted to participate in plane wars every once in a while.

If your level is low, the mission is simple; if your level is high, the mission is difficult.

A Level 6 wizard who was forcibly promoted by relying on plane origin has falsely high strength, and if they participate in plane expeditions, they have to face true Level 6 missions. The mortality rate is terrifying just thinking about it.

So many Level 5 wizards, even if they have saved enough resources, dare not easily use plane origin to rush levels.

They would rather be stuck at Level 5, relying on rich combat experience to muddle through, at least it's safe.

As for promoting to Level 6, relying on the privileges of high-tier wizards to no longer participate in war conscription, but staying in the wizard civilization to muddle through. It's not that it's impossible, but for wizards who have already seen the endless chaotic void, this is no different from self-imprisonment.

Generally, only old wizards without ambition will choose this path.

But now...

The Entropy Brain has appeared.

It can comb through knowledge.

Those fragmented, chaotic, and unsystematic knowledge fragments, once combed through by the Entropy Brain, instantly become orderly.

Those things that were originally only known but not understood, in the process of combing, can also resonate with the original knowledge, gradually becoming understandable. Those things that were originally understood but not thoroughly, can now be understood thoroughly.

For those wizards who have used plane origin, this is simply a life-saving straw.

Even if they haven't used plane origin, the Entropy Brain can help you comb through the knowledge you already have again, making understanding deeper and the system more perfect. What does this mean?

It means that law mastery may go one step further.

It means being one step closer to a higher level.

It means that those wizards who have been stuck in bottlenecks for ten thousand years have finally seen the hope of a breakthrough.

Jie Ming finally understood why the eyes of those wizards were green.

If it were him, he would be green too.

But the problem is...

Jie Ming looked up at that huge black crack in the sky.

At the crack, pure white light was still surging.

Behind the plane barrier of the Information Plane, countless information-based organisms were densely gathered, staring at the ship plane covetously.

Any living being that dares to probe in will be locked onto by them in the first instance, and then attacked in groups.

The blockade layer jointly set up by Ma Ding and those high-tier wizards before did indeed block the information-based organisms inside.

But it also blocked the wizards outside.

The situation now is that those inside can't come out, and those outside can't get in.

Both sides are confronting each other across the blockade layer, and neither can do anything.

Jie Ming frowned and pondered.

Those information-based organisms have clearly learned their lesson.

They no longer charge blindly, but guard behind the plane barrier, waiting for the wizards to deliver themselves to their door.

With their computing power network, any intruder cannot escape their perception.

If you want to go in and harvest Entropy Brains, you must first break through this line of defense.

But detached from the blessing of the ship plane magic array, even high-tier wizards dare not say they can survive in this situation.

In fact, because of the thirst for Entropy Brains, in these few days, many wizards have also been constantly discussing how to break through the enemy's line of defense. Just as Jie Ming was thinking, his Magic Net terminal moved.