Chapter 263 Decision

Jermyn came to Levin Mills, who had completely lost the ability to resist, with a cold look in his eyes.

The two sides looked at each other and saw the murderous intent in each other's eyes.

Without any hesitation, Benjamin punched him down, instantly destroying his body.

The soul of a third-level wizard is strong enough to survive for a short period of time away from the body.

But Benjamin wouldn't give him any chance.

He took out a special fourth-level attack magic weapon from the space in his body - which contained a fourth-level magic spell specifically used to destroy the soul.

Seeing Levin Mills' weak soul flying out of his body and trying to escape, Benjamin immediately activated the magic weapon.

But he deliberately deflected the angle slightly, so that the soul witchcraft did not completely annihilate it, but instead severely injured it to the point of near death.

The result was similar to what Jermyn had expected. Levon Mills' soul was suspended in mid-air, unconscious, and was gradually dissipating.

Seeing this, Benjamin reached out and performed "Soul Search" on it.

After the fourth-level witchcraft attack just now, most of Levin Mills' memories have suffered irreversible damage.

But due to the characteristics of the soul, those fragments of memory that are most persistent and most impressive will still remain.

And it was in these remaining fragments of memory that Benjamin found the information he urgently needed - the truth of the whole matter.

Initially, Levin Mills and his team did accept the camp mission and came to search for the missing wizard team.

Although Levin Mills always claimed that Benjamin was a genius, his own talent was not bad either. After being promoted to level three, he also mastered some basic space knowledge.

That's why he dared to take on this risky task.

Everything went smoothly at first, and they successfully found the wizard team lost in this distorted space.

However, just as they were preparing to lead the other side to evacuate, the team suddenly attacked them without any warning!

Fortunately, that team consisted of only six wizards, and the only high-level combatants among them were two newly promoted third-level wizards who had not even fully mastered their own powers.

In addition, the cunning Levon Mills had made a backup plan before the meeting and hid some players on the periphery to provide support.

Thanks to the tenacious vitality of the "vitality" rule, Levon Mills survived by chance and led his team to kill several opponents with the advantage in numbers.

Seeing that the assassination attempt had failed, the surviving enemy third-level wizard recklessly used the spatial rules he was not familiar with, trying to forcibly tear the space apart to escape.

This action triggered a chain of spatial turmoil in this already unstable area, forcing Levin Mills and others to temporarily withdraw and wait for the space to calm down.

By extracting the memories of the killer's soul, Levin Mills discovered a huge secret that shocked them: the core area of ​​this space-distorted area actually contains an extremely precious free-state "Origin of the Plane"!

In addition to being directly extracted by a seventh-level wizard with great power, the "Origin of the Plane" can also spontaneously condense into specific energy bodies or substances in the plane under certain special conditions, forming valuable resources containing the origin.

Although this naturally formed essence is not as pure as that extracted by a seventh-level wizard, it can still greatly assist the wizard's path to advancement.

What’s more important is that the origin produced here is the rare and precious origin of “space rules”!

This also explains why the third-level wizard is so unfamiliar with his own power - he was able to advance by forcibly absorbing the "Origin of the Plane", but he did not have time to accumulate the corresponding knowledge and control.

As for why they attacked Levon Mills' team?

This is because this area has special characteristics: in order to obtain the origin, special means must be used to "sacrifice" high-quality materials and information.

Due to the violent spatial fluctuations, the origin of this plane is extremely unstable. Through sacrifice, the origin can be "replaced".

Material things are easy to solve, but "high-quality information" is extremely rare.

Although information carriers appear to be everywhere to wizards, pure information itself is very rare.

Apart from the pure plane origin, the most suitable medium for carrying information is the soul.

The so-called "high-quality information" means that the souls of ordinary local beasts are useless. The most suitable sacrifice is intelligent life - especially the highly condensed soul of a wizard that gathers a lot of knowledge!

Therefore, when the team saw that Levin Mills and others were not very strong, they launched an attack, intending to harvest more souls in exchange for the origin.

After all, ordinary wizards simply do not have the willpower to resist high-end resources such as the origin of the plane.

However, they did not expect that Levin Mills had a backup plan, and due to their lack of strength, they eventually failed.

The subsequent developments were what Benjamin experienced personally.

In order to search for the remaining enemies more efficiently and to cover up this shocking secret, Levin Mills' team specially hired a group of low-level wizards as cannon fodder.

In this way, even if the plan is exposed, they can kill them at any time, or even use these wizards as "high-quality resources" needed for sacrifice to exchange for the origin of space.

The third-level wizard who had managed to escape was left with nowhere to go after discovering that Levin Mills and others had been blocking the exit.

He had no choice but to sacrifice all his dead companions in exchange for a massive amount of plane origin to forcibly upgrade, trying to fight for a chance of survival by relying on his level advantage.

Browsing these incomplete memory fragments, a glimmer of understanding flashed in Benjamin's eyes.

He finally understood Levin Mills's true intentions, and also knew why the fourth-level wizard was so weak - in essence, he was just a second-level wizard who relied on his origin to forcibly increase his level.

Having only the fourth-level mental strength and physique, but without the corresponding knowledge and skills, one is naturally vulnerable.

But Benjamin quickly turned his attention to the most critical part of the intelligence: the treasure land that could replace the "origin of the plane"!

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind rapidly.

After a long time, Benjamin made up his mind.

He turned around and looked at the fourth-level wizard who was still lying weakly on the ground.

The other party had just witnessed the entire process of how Benjamin dealt with Levin Mills. When he saw Benjamin's gaze, there was only bitterness on his face.

The forbidden magic field had not yet completely dissipated, and he himself was seriously injured and on the verge of death. He chose to surrender without hesitation: "Don't kill me... I am willing to accept the camp's trial and review."

Benjamin nodded without saying anything, he just condensed a new contract and handed it over.

The fourth-level wizard smiled bitterly, but ultimately imprinted his mental power on it.

For Jemin, this is the safest way to deal with the situation at the moment.

On the surface, wizard civilization strictly prohibits killing within the same race.

As long as they are not discovered, there is no harm. But on the other hand, if the evidence is conclusive, the violators will face severe punishment.

Unless the circumstances are extremely serious, the death penalty is usually not imposed. However, wizards have plenty of ways to squeeze the criminal wizard's value to the extreme, forcing him to pay for his crimes with the rest of his life.

As the person who exposed and escorted the wizard, Benjamin will permanently enjoy a portion of all the benefits extracted from this fourth-level wizard - whether it is resources, knowledge or military merit.

In other words, this fourth-level wizard will become a "living mineral deposit" under Jemin's name for the rest of his life.

Of course, the premise of all this is that he can pass the so-called "review".

Unlike the relatively open "trial", the "review" is more secretive.

It is usually only activated when the camp or higher-level forces suspect that the wizard has abnormal conditions such as "mind pollution", "soul replacement" or "spiritual incubation".

This method of forced promotion by relying on a single source of plane origin is one of the key situations to be examined.

In theory, wizards can indeed be promoted with pure "plane origins", but the prerequisite is that these origins must come from different planes.

This is because the essence of the plane's origin is the aggregation of information, and consciousness and spirit are also a form of information.

If a high-level being is willing to decompose its own soul information into basic origins and have it completely absorbed by others, it can perfectly replace the other party's underlying consciousness without causing abnormal soul fluctuations!

In fact, this situation is also the most common situation during audits.

As long as the Lord of a world (the most powerful being in that world) is wise enough to see through the true power behind the wizards, he will easily understand that there are only two paths facing him: death, or becoming a "trophy."

Although there are many people with strong personalities who decide to drag the enemy to death, there are also many who do not want to die and will find ways to save themselves.

This method of possession is easy to think of for creatures that can communicate with the origin of the plane.

Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but remember that before he was officially promoted, he met a legendary senior who returned from the "Shadow Plane" before going to the Elosia plane - he was promoted five levels in five years.

Later, after learning the inside story of the relevant knowledge, he specially checked the college archives and found that the name of that "senior" had been quietly included in the list of casualties.

There is no doubt that the "lucky guy" has already been "possessed" by the Lord of the World in the Shadow Plane.

But it was precisely because of such a price that the shadow plane, which was originally extremely difficult to deal with, was quickly pacified by the strong men of the Noren Workshop.

Now that I think about it, the reason why my mentor Clark smiled like that was probably because he had received the news in advance, so he smiled so playfully.

“…Let’s go.”

Jemin withdrew his thoughts and glanced at the pale-faced fourth-level wizard and the group of frightened survivors.

He said no more, cleaned up the spoils on the ground, and flew back in the direction he came from.

(End of this chapter)