Chapter 493
Confirming the Search Scope
Chapter 493 Confirming the Search Scope
Jemin didn't want to get entangled with other enemies in the current situation.
After all, there are too many enemies around now, and one wrong move could attract even more.
So he simply moved to the farthest possible area, and after leaving the area of highest intensity combat, he simply flew at high speed.
After ten consecutive hours of extreme flight, with the Tai Xu Step fully activated, his figure almost became a faint shadow blending into the background.
Only when the intertwined and colliding energy fluctuations he sensed became as faint as the distant buzzing of mosquitoes did he slowly slow down and land on the leeward side of a low rocky mountain.
After a quick mental calculation, he realized that his current location was approximately 1.2 million kilometers away from the Norren Workshop defense line.
Jemin raised his head and looked up at the sky.
Even at such a great distance, faint lights could still be seen flickering behind the clouds in the direction of the main battlefield.
The aftershocks of various elements and energies, like a never-ending heartbeat, though faint, continued to emanate intermittently.
"The transmission can actually reach this far; it seems the battle on the main battlefield is quite intense." Jemin clicked his tongue.
But thinking about it, it's quite normal. If Norn Works is planning to give the other side a hard time, who knows if the other side is planning to use those harassing legions as bait to ambush Norn Works instead?
Given the wisdom and cunning of wizards, it's quite normal for them to use their strategies in a nested fashion.
So in the end, it all comes down to the strength of both sides.
“However, the various facilities at the camp have been completed, so it’s practically Norren Workshop’s home ground. We shouldn’t be at a disadvantage.” Jemin stroked his chin, pondering the current situation.
"Moreover, after the previous battles, the high-level wizards on both sides are no longer willing to move around casually. Moreover, the main focus of the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Annihilation alliance should still be on searching and reconnaissance outside. This involves a lot of combat power. If we only consider the combat power below the high level, the workshop may even have the advantage."
However, this also means that even if Jemin leaves the most concentrated combat zone, the probability of encountering hostile wizards is still not small.
"Fortunately, this was my original purpose. As long as I don't encounter a high-level wizard, there won't be any problems."
Next came his real mission for this trip.
Jemin reached out and channeled his mental energy, using Phase Space to shrink himself into the spatial rift.
After finding a temporary safe zone, he began to sort out his thoughts.
This abandoned plane, chosen as a battlefield by the Star Ring Federation, is essentially a "super-large plane" forcibly pieced together from dozens of resource-depleted plane fragments.
Being classified as a super-large plane by the Star Ring Federation means that the size of this plane is quite exaggerated.
Its scale is so vast that it far surpasses that of the ordinary world.
that's the truth.
According to intelligence provided by the Star Ring Federation before the war, this plane is a typical "round sky and square earth" structure - the earth is laid out like a chessboard, and the sky is covered like a dome.
The landmass has a diameter of approximately 15 billion kilometers, which is quite exaggerated.
If compared to our previous understanding, the landmass of this super-large plane could almost fill the entire solar system, with the heliosphere as its boundary.
However, this analogy is not entirely accurate.
Although the solar system in its previous life was vast, its actual matter content was extremely low.
The Sun itself accounts for more than 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system, but if the heliosphere is likened to a football field, the Sun is just a soybean in the center of the field.
If we wanted to fill the entire space of the solar system with matter, without considering gravitational collapse, we wouldn't need to empty the entire Milky Way, but the mass of one or two spiral arms of the Milky Way would probably not be enough.
Fortunately, the laws of physics in the wizarding world are different from those in my previous life, and they also manifest in different ways.
Furthermore, the resources of this plane have long been completely exhausted, and the earth element is extremely scarce, resulting in gravity that is far less than normal, which is why the wizard army can move relatively freely here.
"From this perspective, the Star Ring Federation arranged the landing points of the spatial rifts through which both sides were teleported in with... considerable precision," Jemin said thoughtfully.
Across a vast landmass with a diameter of 15 billion kilometers, the locations where the Norren Workshop and the Allied Forces first arrived were almost "face to face".
This is most likely not a coincidence, but rather the Star Ring Federation's deliberate effort to compress the initial distance between the two armies to the limit, forcing the war to escalate rapidly.
“Even if it’s three wizarding factions fighting each other, the battlefield area is a bit too large.” Jemin frowned slightly.
In theory, a level seven wizard does indeed have the ability to destroy a plane independently.
But that usually refers to planes of normal size—that is, planes ranging in size from the Moon to small stars.
Faced with a world of this scale, a super-large plane, even if all the level seven wizards from both sides joined forces to bombard it, they probably wouldn't be able to cause much damage to the plane itself.
unless……
Suddenly, Jemin looked up at the sky.
Four "suns" hang in the sky.
However, it was neither a real star nor a reflection of the Fire Elemental Plane.
All the resources of this abandoned plane have been extracted by the wizards, and even the coordinates of the reflection of the elemental plane have been moved.
So the four suns overhead are the energy glow released by the four level-eight wizards during their battle.
The terrifying radiation of elemental energy resembled four artificial sun discs suspended in the sky, and wherever the light reached, even space itself appeared to be subtly distorted and wrinkled.
A flash of understanding crossed Jemin's eyes.
"We have never been the main characters on this battlefield."
Everything the wizard legion does—building defenses, scouting and hunting, vying for resources, and deploying their trump cards—is ultimately just to add a tiny bit of "probability weight" to the victory of their level eight wizards.
The true key to victory or defeat in war lies high in the heavens.
"So both sides are so focused on finding out where the enemy has deployed their trump cards, and my next focus..." Jemin withdrew his gaze and refocused on the present, "should also be searching for the location of the enemy's trump cards."
If Jemin wants to test himself, he needs to encounter enough enemies. Since both sides are paying attention to the location of his trump cards, as long as he continues to search, he will definitely encounter a constant stream of enemies.
However, searching for a few hidden points in an area with a diameter of 15 billion kilometers sounds like finding a needle in a haystack.
Fortunately, after a little thought, Jemin realized that the actual search area was not nearly as exaggerated as it seemed.
After all, it takes time to lay out one's trump card, and even more so, it requires secrecy and security.
High-ranking wizards would never waste their precious time on long journeys.
At the same time, in order to be able to quickly deploy the cards into the battlefield after they are deployed, the distance between the deployment point and the main camp must be controlled within a certain range.
"Judging from the speed of the Allied Forces' mobilization and response in recent days, the distance between their main camp and the Noren Workshop's main camp defense line should be within ten million kilometers."
Jemin pulled out a map from his terminal and drew a circle with the Norren Workshop camp as the center.
"Then this range should be the optimal distance for the high-level wizards of the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Annihilation to mobilize and react. In that case..."
Jemin then drew an even larger circle outside the original circle, with twice the radius.
Since the normal movement speed of high-level wizards is fixed, the area where the enemy deploys their trump cards will not be more than this distance from their camp.
“A search area with a radius of 20 million kilometers… is still vast, but at least it’s no longer hopeless.” After thinking for a moment, Jemin erased the outermost circle: “In that case, we can prioritize finding the enemy’s camp, and then, using the camp as the center, we only need to expand the search outwards to an area with a radius of 10 million kilometers.”
This significantly reduces the scope of the search.
As for the exact location of the enemy camp...
Although we haven't been able to find the location because Norren Workshop has been under pressure for a while, we still have a general direction.
After leaving the phase space, Jemin made a quick calculation, selected a direction, and his figure once again turned into a faint shadow and sped away.
Several more hours passed.
As they flew by, a thought suddenly struck Jemin.
His reconnaissance magic detected three grayish-white energy fluctuations rapidly approaching his location about three hundred kilometers ahead.
“This elemental fluctuation… belongs to someone from the Tower of Annihilation.” His eyes narrowed slightly.
What concerned Jemin was that the other party did not change direction because he noticed, and the direction they were heading was exactly where he was.
This means...
“They discovered me before I noticed them.” Jemin couldn’t help but frown.
His shortcomings in investigative methods were now clearly exposed.
Jemin initially thought his preparations were quite thorough, but after arriving at the wizard's battlefield, he realized he had underestimated how formidable the wizards were.
In a battlefield where the thread of fate is completely corrupted, the Causal Tracing Technique is more suitable for tracking existing clues or concealing one's own traces.
In terms of active detection and remote early warning, he still relies on existing technologies.
Against wizards of the same caliber who specialize in reconnaissance, this weakness is particularly glaring.
"We need to find a way to make up for it after the war." Jemin made a mental note of this.
In my perception, the three waves were getting closer and closer, showing no signs of slowing down or dispersing.
"Very confident, huh?" Jemin sneered.
Instead of retreating, he suddenly increased his speed and charged towards his opponent!
Since it can't be hidden, there's no need to hide it anymore.
"The target is accelerating... Instead of fleeing, it is preparing to engage!"
Among the three Tower of Annihilation wizards, the one in the middle held a constantly spinning gray-white crystal ball, the surface of which reflected the afterimage of Jemin rushing towards him.
"Be on high alert. They dare to charge at three people... They either have an ambush or they're overconfident in their strength." The wizard on the left said in a low voice, "Send a signal to have nearby squads move closer to this area."
Without hesitation, the person in the middle took out the Magic Network terminal and sent out a short distress message.
But instead of retreating, they began casting various protective spells on themselves and accelerated their approach to their target.
From the perspective of the three wizards in the Tower of Annihilation, both sides were of the same level, and the numerical advantage of three against one was real.
Even if the other side is truly exceptional, it wouldn't be difficult for them to stall for time and wait for reinforcements.
Thus, with this tacit understanding, the distance between the two sides rapidly closed.
Soon, the distance between the two sides was reduced to one hundred kilometers.
This distance is quite close for a level 5 wizard. If most offensive spells are cast at this distance, an ordinary level 5 wizard simply cannot dodge them!
"Attack!" the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation roared.
The three of them simultaneously mobilized their mental energy, and the annihilation energy, interwoven with gray and pitch-black hues, began to converge...
But Jemin was faster.
He simply raised his right hand and pointed his index finger in the air.
Under the shocked gazes of the three wizards opposite, the surrounding atmosphere and light began to distort.
A glimmer of dark golden light quietly appeared at the fingertip, then transformed into a slender beam of light that silently shot out.
The beam expanded rapidly during its flight, reaching a width of over a hundred meters by the time it struck the three people.
Wave!
With a sound as light as a bursting bubble, the defenses cast by the two hit wizards shattered instantly.
The seemingly harmless light instantly enveloped their bodies.
After the dark golden light disappeared, there was no trace of the two people in their original location, as if they had been erased from thin air.
Upon seeing this, the third person's pupils constricted sharply, and he was horrified and wanted to retreat.
However, Jemin had already begun preparing spatial magic when he released the Divine Light of Annihilation.
As soon as the Divine Light of Annihilation ended, he used a spatial jump, his figure appearing like a ghost before the horrified wizard.
Then, one punch!
A simple, unadorned punch was thrown.
Wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed into visible cone-shaped ripples. With the help of the spatial distortion caused by the breakthrough in spatial jump, tiny spatial cracks flashed around the fist.
The wizard only had time to cross his arms to protect his chest. Grayish-white annihilation energy frantically condensed on his arms, forming an arm shield containing high-intensity compressed annihilation power.
The fist and the shield made contact.
Click!
The black arm shield shattered like fragile glass, its extinguished energy attempting to corrode Jemin's body, but it couldn't break through the protection of the Void Armor.
The force of the punch continued forward, piercing through the protective energy and smashing into the chest.
The wizard's body suddenly arched, and then his entire body exploded into a pool of blood mist.
Jemin mobilized elemental energy and casually annihilated the soul of the opponent who was trying to escape.
Jemin withdrew his fist, shook his hand, and dispersed the blood mist that had stained it.
"Unfortunately, we can't get any information from these people." There was a hint of regret in his voice.
Even during the period of coordinating the war, the injunction issued by the Orbital Tribunal remained in effect.
Unauthorized soul searches or memory theft of wizards, once discovered, will be considered as the theft of another wizard's knowledge and may even invite direct intervention from the Sanctions Court.
He dared not take the risk.
“However…” Jemin looked up in the direction the three of them had come from, “Since there’s a patrol team here, it means we’re on the right track.”
Ahead, we should have entered the outer reconnaissance zone of the enemy camp.
His figure faded again, blending into the environment, and he continued to stealthily move towards that unknown area.
(I've been a bit busy these past few days, so this is the only chapter I can update today.)
(End of this chapter)