Chapter 170: Logistics Department Work (I)

Going back a little in time, Master Alvin turned into a streak of light and retreated back to the "ship" plane in embarrassment.

His robes were charred and his breathing was unstable, obviously he had suffered considerable damage.

Standing on the barren land, Benjamin looked at this scene and couldn't help but smile.

He turned to Viola beside him and said with emotion: "As expected of a veteran wizard, his acting is really good. It looks like he really barely managed to lose."

Viola's eyes lit up with a smile upon hearing this. "This is the norm in dimensional warfare: luring the enemy deep into our territory, wearing down their strength, and spreading the battle lines. Every shift in attack and defense is calculated by the high-level wizards."

In fact, with the wizards' abilities, after encountering the stubborn resistance of the indigenous people of the Flame Frost Plane, they quickly analyzed the current situation from the initial cannon fodder battles.

The most obvious point is that although the two tribes launched attacks on the wizards at the same time, their attack patterns and areas were clearly distinguished, and they would restrain each other or even cause accidental injuries from time to time.

This reveals a cruel and important fact: the two groups of lava giants and snow monsters should have been in opposition for a long time, and even have irreconcilable feuds.

They joined forces simply because of the common threat posed by the invaders.

"In this case, if we want to conquer the entire plane intact, we have to consider the intentions of both monster kings at once, and also take into account the subtle and complex hostile relationship between them."

Jieming stroked his chin and analyzed the current situation. "The best approach is to do what Master Alvin did, showing that we are stronger than a single Monster King, but slightly weaker than the combined strength of two."

"Master Alvin fought one against two, and although he seemed to have lost, he successfully held up the two level six warriors for several hours, causing them to be exhausted and retreat." Viola also agreed with Jermyn's statement.

"This way, the natives of this plane will see hope of defeating the wizard, but they will also be wary of the wizard's strength and will not dare to launch a mindless general attack. They will regroup after resting, but will not risk coming out in full force. This gives us wizards enough time."

"More importantly, the hatred between the two tribes will become our greatest hindrance. They will be unable to truly cooperate sincerely. Every attack and every support may be delayed due to mutual suspicion."

"Such a situation will give wizards ample time to continuously weaken the origin of this plane and eventually completely control it."

This is an open conspiracy. Even if the sixth-level indigenous strongman sees through it, it is difficult to completely resolve it.

When Benjamin and Viola were marveling at the far-reaching plans of the high-level wizards and the complex art of plane warfare, their respective magic network terminals vibrated at the same time, and they received an urgent top message announced to everyone.

The message contained no unnecessary embellishments, just a line of cold text:

[Important Notice: Commander Master Alvin did not retreat deliberately; rather, he was truly defeated by the combined attack of two Level 6 Aboriginal warriors. All wizards are urged to remain vigilant and proceed with caution.]

Upon seeing this message, all the wizards present, including Benjamin and Viola, were slightly stunned.

Then, in an instant, everyone's eyes lit up!

The publisher of this message was none other than Master Alvin himself, one of the commanders of this invasion.

Its purpose is to sound the alarm to the wizards present, reminding them that the natives of this plane are indeed stronger than the average level.

But the reason why the wizards' eyes lit up was simply because they found more opportunities in the crisis.

The development of all things must follow certain laws. The birth of two powerful races in one plane would never happen out of thin air.

This means that the resources of this plane itself must be extremely abundant!

Two level six warriors who can compete with level five wizards means that this plane has rich resources that can support their advancement, and it is very likely to contain rare elements, fragments of laws, and even undiscovered mysterious mineral veins!

For wizards, powerful enemies often mean that there are richer treasures hidden behind them.

After clarifying the combat strategy and plane value, the wizards' work efficiency reached the extreme.

Now, the camp was quickly established thanks to everyone's efforts.

The defensive walls built by alchemical puppets and wizards quickly rose from the ground, the energy core was buried deep in the earth, and the light of the rune array flowed around the camp, forming a series of protective barriers visible to the naked eye.

Although fighting continued on the front lines—sporadic counterattacks by the indigenous people and the consolidation of the front lines by the wizards—the scale had been greatly reduced.

It is clear that both sides are biding their time.

The logistics wizards took advantage of this precious opportunity to immediately enter into a more routine work process.

Different from his experience in the Elosia plane, Benjamin was thrown into the battlefield roughly at that time and had no experience of the work of a proper logistics wizard.

In the early stages of a plane war, regular logistics wizards rarely go directly to the battlefield to fight the enemy.

In the early stages of a plane war, the main role of logistics wizards is to analyze elemental data related to the plane, as well as various resources and intelligence brought back from the front lines.

For wizard civilization, every newly invaded plane is an unimaginable treasure trove, containing unknown and vast resources and information.

In just a few days, with the front-line troops clearing the area around the landing point and the samples brought back by the reconnaissance wizards through the space cracks, Jemin himself had analyzed a variety of unique resources.

One of them is a strange plant from the Yanyang Realm.

This plant is named Blazing Grass. It looks like a ball of leaping flame and grows in the cracks of volcanic rocks.

Although the plant itself is relatively fragile, roughly the same as ordinary grass, it has extremely amazing resistance to fire and high temperatures.

Through the "Eye of All Uses", Jeming deeply analyzed its internal structure and found that the cell wall of this grass can spontaneously condense fire elements to form an ultra-micro barrier.

After a series of tests, if we don't consider issues such as physical shock waves or space tearing, this plant can even withstand the fire attack of a third-level wizard without any damage!

This is simply an incredible defensive property.

Although due to the short time, Benjamin has not yet fully researched how to refine it into the corresponding potion to achieve the defensive effect of permanent integration into the wizard's body.

However, through some special methods, he has initially succeeded in using it as raw material to make a thin film.

As long as you cover your body with this film of glowing grass, you can achieve a similar effect in a short time.

For wizards or cannon fodder biochemical beasts who need close combat, this is undoubtedly a very exaggerated passive defense material.

There is also a unique ore from the Frost Dark Realm.

This mineral is named Ice Explosion Crystal. It looks like an ordinary transparent crystal and has no reaction under normal circumstances.

But after analysis, Jemin found that as long as it was exposed to a high-temperature environment - especially lava or extremely high-temperature flames - the ice element structure inside it would become violently disordered, and it would instantly erupt with unimaginable destructive power!

The destructive force generated by the backlash of extreme elemental collisions is even enough to destroy a small hill.

This means it is both an extremely dangerous material and a potentially powerful weapon.

After Benjamin discovered the properties of this material, a group of wizards from the Tower of Annihilation immediately came to him.

After paying a portion of the knowledge, the wizards happily left the camp and headed towards the depths of the Frost Dark Realm.

Looking at the wizards leaving happily, Benjamin didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You'll get used to it. The wizards of the Tower of Annihilation are best at various annihilation magics. Ice crystals like this are simply their natural spellcasting materials." Viola appeared from the side.

Jieming was a little puzzled: "Isn't it research material?"

Viola spread her hands without any dignity: "I think you have been in the logistics department of the Norn Workshop for too long, and you think that all wizards outside are like this."

"Um?"

Viola sighed and explained carefully, "It's not that they won't research it, but there are only a handful of logistics wizards in the Tower of Annihilation who specialize in research. Materials like Ice Explosion Crystal, while having good properties, aren't high on the research priority list yet... Before in-depth research is conducted, it's likely to be used directly as a spellcasting ingredient."

"Huh? Why is this?" Benjamin was stunned.

Viola shook her head. "I've already told you that you've been in the Norn Workshop for too long. Being a logistics wizard isn't easy."

"With the increasing amount of knowledge available today, many people struggle just to learn it. It's almost impossible for them to study the principles of this knowledge and advance further. You have to remember that the Norn Workshop is named after its workshop, yet even then, the proportion of wizards specializing in logistics is only around 2%."

"The disparity between the number of logistics-type and combat-type wizards in other wizarding factions is even greater. From what I know, the ratio in the Tower of Annihilation is even lower than 1%. And even the Chaos Cult, with the exception of a few high-ranking members and their successors, is entirely composed of combat-type wizards."

Seeing that Benjamin finally showed a look of enlightenment, Viola shook her head and curled her lips towards the research area designated in the camp:

"Just look at the number of people here."

Benjamin subconsciously glanced at the somewhat empty research area.

He really didn't pay much attention to this aspect before. After all, for Jemin, although this area was spacious enough, it was already compact compared to his own laboratory.

Not to mention the lack of various experimental equipment. If it weren't for the construction of the Universal Eye, Benjamin's research progress might not have been so fast.

But now Benjamin realized that the spaciousness here was not only to make enough space for each of the logistics wizards, but also because there were really not many logistics wizards.

(End of this chapter)