Chapter 178 One Year

The torrent of time silently washed over the war-torn Flame Frost Plane.

Since the wizard army landed, a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past few days and nights, the war had already entered a tense stalemate.

The once grand plane invasion has now turned into countless bloody battles of varying scales, day after day.

The two sides fought fiercely, and corpses soaked almost every inch of the land.

Jemin breathed a sigh of relief and put down the rune pen in his hand. The last witchcraft model that had undergone complex deduction and simplified transformation was displayed with the word "Completed" on his magic network terminal.

After a year of intensive research, he finally completed most of his research tasks.

From Master Alvin's "Lava Annihilation" to Master Roland Vannar's "Frost Soul Disintegration", these two highly targeted destructive sorceries have been successfully reduced in dimension and modularized with the assistance of many wizards.

According to the level and needs of the combat wizard, different versions can be constructed from level one to level five with gradually increasing power.

This gives the wizard army unprecedented annihilation efficiency when facing these two types of indigenous people.

However, since targeted destructive witchcraft rarely leaves any loot, most combat wizards don't like to use it unless it's a critical moment.

To this end, the camp has launched a series of tasks to transform these targeted destructive witchcraft.

For example, the topic that Jemin is currently working on is to transform Lava Annihilation, which has been degraded to a first-level spell, into a non-lethal but area-of-effect spell that can exert strong suppression.

"Finally, I can relax a little." Benjamin stretched, and his bones made a slight crackling sound.

During this year, the current situation in the Flame Frost Plane is still that the two major tribes, the Lava Giants and the Snow Monsters, are constantly replenishing their troops.

Their respective hinterlands are like inexhaustible sources of troops. Every day, new legions emerge from deep underground or from the end of the ice veins, launching a new round of routine attacks on the wizard camp.

The wizards have long been accustomed to these normalized battles. The camp is like an indestructible nail, firmly nailed at the junction of the two worlds of fire and frost, and battles of varying scales occur with the indigenous people every day.

But there is no longer the scale of the impact of tens of millions of troops approaching. Both sides are carefully balancing consumption and replenishment to avoid over-stimulating each other.

But overall, although the wizards have only occupied the area of ​​the initial camp so far, they basically have an absolute advantage in the battle.

But to be honest, even the knowledgeable Viola was surprised by the fighting spirit of the natives of the Flame Frost Plane.

Throughout the entire year, almost every day there would be thousands or even tens of thousands of monsters attacking the camp.

If it were an ordinary race, they would have lost their will to fight long ago under such a huge disadvantage, and even conflicts would have arisen within the race.

Benjamin, Viola and some other logistics wizards have discussed this and believe that due to the special nature of their life forms, the natives of the Flame Frost Plane are likely to mistake the wizards' cannon fodder units for their own people.

In their eyes, the real main body of wizard civilization should be those strange-looking cannon fodder, and wizards are the elite units in this group.

In addition, whether it is the lava giant or the snow monster, their breeding method is not sexual reproduction, but asexual division by splitting the core and placing it in a high-energy incubator with corresponding energy.

As long as there is enough energy, the larvae can grow into adults very quickly.

So from the perspective of the two tribes, their battle with the wizards should be evenly matched.

But even so, it is still exaggerated that they can still maintain such a strong desire to fight, which also leads to the increasing value of living captives from the two tribes.

After all, this kind of life form with strong combat capability, strong desire to fight, and simple reproduction is simply the best basis for cannon fodder transformation!

"However... these natives have such a strong desire to attack, which saves us a lot of trouble." Benjamin couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

Viola, who had just passed by, stopped in her tracks when she heard this. "Yeah, in the past, after fighting for a few months, we had to find a way to show our disadvantages and boost our opponent's confidence. Now, it's much easier."

After a pause, as if remembering something, Viola's tone dropped again: "But because these guys are so good at fighting, the tasks for us in the logistics department have become much more than before..."

Benjamin nodded with lingering fear, saying that it had been okay in the last few months.

During the busiest period, if he had not strengthened his body with body-building techniques before coming, he would have worried that he would die suddenly during these missions.

Just as he was thinking about it, the wizards next to him suddenly became agitated.

"Huh?! What happened?" Benjamin stood up warily.

He was now too familiar with such commotions and even felt a little stressed.

Every time there is such a commotion, it means that a wizard has made a major discovery, and once there is a major discovery, it means that a bunch of tasks will be assigned.

Viola had almost the same reaction as Benjamin, but they both breathed a sigh of relief after taking out the magic network terminal to check.

Judging from the information provided on the terminal, this time it was because a wizard discovered the main reason why the lava giants and the snow monsters hated each other.

Most of the information about the two tribes has been searched out from the souls of the indigenous people of the two tribes who were killed or captured.

However, there are some special questions whose answers only exist in the higher-level souls of the two races, so the wizards don’t know them for the time being.

The most widespread doubt is about the reason why the two races are hostile to each other.

The hatred between the lava giants and the yetis has a long history. To wizards as outsiders, the hatred between the two tribes is simply incomprehensible.

After all, the two ethnic groups are completely different in terms of ecological habits and living environment. Although they are on the same plane, they can be said to be living in completely different worlds.

It is understandable if the other group holds precious materials from the other group.

But according to the various intelligence collected by the wizards, even if the two ethnic groups do not interfere with each other, they will not have any impact on each other's survival.

It is outrageous that the two ethnic groups can communicate with each other in such an environment where they cannot live in each other's environment and there is no actual conflict of interest, let alone be hostile to each other.

But the reality is that before the wizard arrived, there was a huge war between the lava giants and the snow monsters almost every few years.

The indigenous people at the bottom don't know the reason, they only know that every few years they will leave their comfortable environment and go to the energy-challenged area at the junction of the Flaming Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm to fight each other to the death.

And just recently, a logistics wizard who was good at resource surveying finally discovered the possible reason while detecting the geological environment: the war between the two tribes was not meaningless, and the territory of the losing side would be compressed and reduced.

"I never thought that the border between the Flame Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm would change depending on the outcome of the two races?" Benjamin was a little surprised when he looked at the conclusion on the terminal.

"But... what's the underlying principle? Isn't the Flame Frost Plane's unique climate due to the illumination from the projections of the Fire and Water Elemental Planes?"

"It's really hard to understand, but according to the sampling results of geological drilling, the border between the Flaming Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm is indeed constantly moving, and its changing trend is positively correlated with the results of the annual war between the two ethnic groups..." Viola was also very interested in the data on the terminal.

"It's likely that the leaders of these two tribes possess special means that can have a certain impact on the elemental plane projection after victory in battle..."

Hearing Viola's analysis, Jieming couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This thing can still have an impact?!"

"Yes, it is possible, but this is a relatively high-end technology. Even those in our wizarding school who are best at this technology can only do it after reaching level six..." Viola couldn't help licking her lips as she spoke.

"If an indigenous civilization could possess such technology, then this Augustine wizard would have made a fortune."

Upon hearing this, Benjamin nodded in agreement.

There is no doubt that knowledge of this level must be concentrated in the hands of the leaders of the two tribes, that is, the two level six monster kings.

In other words, the only person who is likely to obtain this knowledge is the initiator of this mission, the sixth-level wizard Augustine.

With the treaty of the Star Orbit Arbitration Tribunal, no one dares to forcibly seize the knowledge of other wizards by defying the pressure of a ninth-level wizard.

If surrounding forces including Noren Workshop want to obtain this technology, they can only purchase it from Augustine.

However, the other party will need a lot of resources to build his own plane in the future, so he will definitely not be reluctant to trade this thing.

Perhaps with just this piece of knowledge, the Augustine wizard could earn back all his early and late investments.

Benjamin was also someone who had half built a plane, so he certainly knew how much resources it would take to build an entire "Wizard Tower".

Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but feel a little envious.

"But those are still too far away. The most useful information for us at this stage should be here behind..." Benjamin shook his head and looked at the geological survey data below.

Due to the lack of people and time, the data of this wizard is relatively simple, but there are some very important points.

After drilling, he found that the fluctuation range of the boundary line was actually quite exaggerated, and the deepest place had even penetrated more than 80% of the area on both sides.

Benjamin couldn't help but touch his chin: "Even after losing 80% of the territory, we still have to fight to the end? This is really..."

"Great!" Viola continued Benjamin.

The two looked at each other and then smiled knowingly.

Wizards never worry about the enemy's strong will to resist. What they worry about is what the enemy will do out of despair.

The stronger the enemy's ability to withstand pressure, the less likely they are to die together with you. By the time the enemy really feels that the situation is hopeless, they have already lost the qualifications to die together with you.

(End of this chapter)