Chapter 497
The Chase
Chapter 497 The Chase
This time, Jemin activated the Light Escape Technique for an unprecedented duration.
A rainbow of light pierced the sky, crossing wastelands, rocky mountains, dried-up ancient riverbeds, and strange landforms that rose up like the skeletons of giant beasts.
Only when his spiritual energy was nearly exhausted and his soul was wracked with a sharp, agonizing pain did he finally let the light fade away, and his figure coalesced again on an unfamiliar plain.
"Huh...ha..."
He knelt on one knee, his hand braced on the gray ground, his chest heaving violently, each breath feeling like a burning sensation.
This time, the light traveled more than 20 million kilometers.
Even with his current physique and the adaptability of his body tempering techniques, the continuous long-distance light escape was nearing its limit.
But when he looked up, a wide, uncontrollable smile spread across Jemin's face.
"Two level six... even if they don't die, they're useless in this war."
That aura of worldly affairs was all the reserves he had accumulated over hundreds of years.
Its weight and the intensity of worldly desires it contains are enough to cause a weak-willed seventh-level wizard to briefly fall into a "worldly tribulation," his consciousness sinking into the delusions of all living beings and unable to extricate himself.
It's incredibly effective for ambushing two level six wizards who aren't properly protected.
He quickly pulled out several high-level recovery potions and tilted his head back to gulp them down.
As the medicinal effects dissipate, the Body Tempering Method and the Qi Cultivation Method operate simultaneously, rapidly transforming the medicinal effects, the scarce elemental energy from the outside world, and even the essence stored in the physical body into nutrients that nourish the spiritual sea and the body.
The feeling of fatigue receded like a receding tide.
"I need to plan my return route." While adjusting his breathing, Jemin calmly considered the situation. "Although we've taken care of two of them, the remaining guy might still come after us... We need to prepare for the worst-case scenario."
If that level six wizard from the Tower of Annihilation truly has a way to track him down again, then continuing to maneuver in unfamiliar enemy territory is by no means a wise move.
The best option is to return to the Norren Workshop defense line—although it is far away now, with the speed of the Light Escape Technique and his own recovery ability, he can adopt a relay mode of "light escape - short recovery - continue light escape".
As long as the escape distance is far enough and the recovery interval is short enough, even if the opponent can track you, it will be difficult to intercept you along the way.
After all, the speed of the Light Escape Technique is the real speed of light.
Just as he had recovered to almost full strength and was about to take out the magic network terminal to confirm his relative coordinates with the camp...
A powerful spatial fluctuation, so strong it could not be ignored, suddenly arose from afar, like a boulder thrown into a calm lake!
The distance... is only a few thousand kilometers!
Jemin suddenly looked up, his pupils shrinking sharply.
Such intense and undisguised spatial fluctuations are clearly not a natural phenomenon, but a sign of the activation of high-level spatial magic!
What made his heart sink even more was that, the instant the fluctuations subsided, a familiar yet icy energy pierced his senses like a needle...
It's that wizard from the Tower of Annihilation!
He caught up!
It used spatial teleportation to cross a distance of more than 20 million kilometers and directly close the distance to such a dangerous area!
"How could it be so fast?!" Jemin's mind raced, instantly deducing several possibilities, and the one that seemed most logical made his face turn extremely ugly.
"He discovered... a flaw in the Light Transformation Technique."
While the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror's transformation into light and flight is unparalleled in speed among its peers, it has an inherent weakness: it can only fly in a straight line.
This is due to the physical properties of light itself; even if it is transformed through cultivation techniques, this fundamental law cannot be violated.
However, this weakness is insignificant in most cases.
After all, the distance advantage brought by the speed of light is enough to overshadow everything.
Unfortunately, the opponent was an experienced and sharp-minded level six wizard who devised a countermeasure after only witnessing the entire escape process once.
After deducing the direction of his flight trajectory, the opponent used ultra-long-distance spatial teleportation to directly jump to a certain point on the extended trajectory to intercept him!
Even if you don't find it the first time, you can always find it by jumping a few times over short distances.
"...This is troublesome!" Just as Jieming figured it out, the cold aura in the distance paused slightly, then suddenly changed direction.
Clearly, the other party had also spotted him!
Without the slightest hesitation, Jemin clenched his right hand in mid-air, and the sorcery model in his mental sea trembled under the support of his immense mental power!
"Space... stable!"
hum! ! !
With him as the origin, the spatial structure of the spherical region with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers in front of him was instantly "locked"!
Layer upon layer of invisible force fields intertwined to form a net, as if casting this space into transparent crystal.
Any attempt to perform spatial jumps, phase shifts, or even high-intensity spatial disturbances within this region will be greatly hindered and backfired.
Almost simultaneously with the solidification of the space, a gray-white figure, as if torn from a canvas, was forcibly "squeezed" out of the void more than a hundred kilometers away in the sky.
It was that level six wizard from the Tower of Annihilation!
He was holding a struggling, dark shadow dog in his left hand. Although he was somewhat surprised by Jemin's reaction speed, his right hand was in a forward grabbing position when it came out.
The grayish-white mist in his palm churned violently, clearly indicating that he was preparing to launch an attack the instant the teleportation was completed.
However, Jemin reacted even faster.
Before the opponent could fully regain his footing, the rainbow light burst forth from Jemin once more!
"Don't think about it!"
The wizard of the Tower of Annihilation let out a cold shout, and his right hand, which had been making a grasping motion, suddenly clenched!
Amidst a sound like shattering glass appearing out of nowhere, a large area of space in front of them collapsed inwards, as if an invisible giant hand was about to crush that area along with the rainbow light within it!
But in the end, we were half a step too late.
The collapsed space only captured the lingering traces of the rainbow light.
The dazzling streak of light, like a bird breaking free from its cage, continued its unstoppable trajectory, disappearing into the horizon in an instant.
The gray-white figure flashed and instantly appeared where Jemin had just been.
He hovered in mid-air, looking down at his slightly trembling right palm.
A few wisps of iridescent light remained, as if mocking his mistake.
“A straight line… Just as I thought.” In the shadows beneath the wizard’s hood, two crimson lights flickered slightly, and a low murmur came from his mind, “The speed is the speed of light, but the direction is fixed… Next time, you won’t be able to escape.”
He released his left hand, and the shadow dog landed, its nose twitching as it quickly locked onto the direction the rainbow light had gone, letting out a low whimper.
Without further delay, the wizard picked up the Shadowhound and used his mental energy to construct a long-distance teleportation spell. After several tens of seconds, his figure became blurry again.
High in the sky, about 1,500 kilometers away, ripples spread out, and the gray-white figure reappeared.
The shadow dog was thrown out by him and sniffed around briefly in the air, but this time it pointed in a different direction.
"Oh? Deliberately shortening the escape distance and turning around midway? Useless struggle!"
The wizard remained expressionless, picked up the shadow hound, and continued to activate the spatial teleportation.
However, this time he deliberately shortened the spatial teleportation distance and reduced the activation time considerably.
Once, twice, three times...
Like a seasoned hunter, he efficiently approaches his prey using short-distance, continuous teleportation.
This tracking method requires extremely high levels of mental strength and control over spatial elements, and it also consumes a great deal of energy.
But he didn't care at all.
The threat posed by that level-five wizard has gone beyond the norm.
He must eliminate them completely before they reunite with the main force of the Norren Workshop, at any cost.
(End of this chapter)