Chapter 148 Demonic Plane
After hurriedly returning to the Golden Garden of the Elosia plane from the graduation ceremony, Benjamin had only one thing on his mind - to go to the demonic plane that belonged to him.
He was full of curiosity and anticipation about the "Purgatory Sulfur Plane" described by his mentor Clark.
That would be the first plane he controlled independently, and it also meant that Benjamin had the initial foundation to build his own "Wizard Tower".
Wizarding civilization has been progressing over time in all aspects, including the names of certain things or the definitions of certain concepts.
For example, in the earliest times, there was an insurmountable gap between formal wizards and wizard apprentices. Formal wizards themselves had many characteristics that wizard apprentices did not have.
However, as wizard civilization evolved over time, the level of wizard apprentices became higher and higher, and gradually some characteristics that were once exclusive to formal wizards were also mastered by wizard apprentices.
At present, the biggest difference between a first-level formal wizard and a wizard apprentice may be the increase in mental power and lifespan, apart from that there is no other difference.
The same is true for wizard towers. The earliest wizard towers were simply tower-shaped buildings.
Because wizards renovate their residences all year round, their combat effectiveness in their own wizard towers can be greatly improved.
Later, with the development of the times, the concept of wizard tower has continued to evolve, from a simple tower-shaped building to a synonym for a base camp.
For example, the later floating city, and now... the plane fortress.
However, generally speaking, one has to wait until level six to be able to perfectly control the plane. Only then can one control the plane by contacting the origin of the plane. This is also an important reason why wizards of level six and above can be called high-level wizards.
After all, a level five wizard is just an individual, while a level six wizard represents an entire war system with a plane war fortress as its core.
Without any delay, he went straight back to the underground laboratory in the mansion.
Jieming quickly walked to the teleportation array, took out a rune core that was gleaming with light, and placed it in the center of the teleportation array.
This is the "key" to the space portal given by Mentor Clark, which connects to the permanent teleportation point set up by the Noren Workshop in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
Jieming took a deep breath and calmed his inner excitement.
He stretched out his hand and injected his mental power into the rune core.
In an instant, the rune core burst out with dazzling light and resonated with the teleportation array base in the underground laboratory.
Space began to distort, a harsh buzzing sound filled the eardrums, and a stable spatial crack slowly tore open, revealing a blurry and hot scene on the other side.
Benjamin cheered himself up, made sure the protective magic on his body was intact, and then stepped into the crack.
In an instant, a thick and pungent smell of sulfur rushed into his nose. Benjamin frowned reflexively and almost sneezed.
This sulfur smell is not ordinary. It carries an almost tangible burning sensation, as if it can penetrate into the lungs and make it difficult to breathe.
Fortunately, the protective magic helped block most of the scorching breath, making it just unpleasant but not harmful to the body.
He looked up, and the scene before him made him deeply understand the meaning of the name "Purgatory Sulfur".
Everywhere you look, there is swirling red.
There was not a trace of blue between heaven and earth; the sky was covered by a thick, dark red sulfur cloud.
Occasionally, lightning flashes deep in the clouds, bringing a moment of paleness.
The air was filled with hot steam and choking smoke, and underfoot was a charred land that looked hard and rough, as if it had been burned countless times.
Jieming's body slowly floated up and he looked up into the distance.
In the distance, huge volcanoes rise from the ground. They are not dead mountains, but living furnaces.
The mountain is as black as charcoal and dark red as rust, and the huge crater is like the throat of a giant beast from the abyss, constantly spewing out boiling steam and hot ashes.
There is even some magma that has not been completely solidified, flowing along the mountain like sticky plasma, converging into red rivers.
The lava river slowly spread across the ground, swallowing and melting everything in its path.
The temperature in the air was incredibly high. Even a formal wizard like Benjamin felt his skin getting slightly hot, as if he was in a huge steam oven.
There was hardly any green in sight, only a few mosses and fungi that had adapted to the extreme heat, appearing dark red or charred black, stubbornly clinging to certain cracks in the stone walls.
"It's worthy of being called the Demonic Plane," Benjamin exclaimed inwardly. "If an ordinary person accidentally came here, they would probably lose their life on the spot."
Following Benjamin's thoughts, an invisible witchcraft shield emerged around his body, completely isolating him from the sulfur smell and high temperature from the outside world.
He did not rush into action, but instead expanded his mental power, which spread out in all directions like an invisible giant net.
At the same time, he activated the flying technique, transformed into a stream of light, and made a rough observation above the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
The purgatory sulfur plane appears quite desolate.
During the flight, Benjamin saw many rough-shaped and somewhat dilapidated man-made caves or stone palaces.
Most of them are built against the mountains or directly carved out of the mountains.
However, at this time, these buildings had a lot of damage on them, and there was no sign of any living creatures inside, making them look empty and dead.
This is not surprising. Mentor Clark has already mentioned that the upper demons who originally lived in this plane were "packed up and taken away" when the wizards were cleaning up the plane because they were intelligent creatures.
I'm afraid that now those higher demons have become research materials or enslavement objects of some wizards, and naturally only these relics are left.
But he soon discovered the biggest feature of this plane: the fire element was extremely active!
The fire element in wizard civilization represents more than just the fire element.
Among the four basic particles that constitute the foundation of the world, the "fire" in earth, fire, wind and water represents "energy".
Therefore, the activity levels of various energies in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane are also quite exaggerated.
The density of free energy particles in the air is simply staggering.
Moreover, the energy appears to be more agitated and aggressive than in other planes.
"This means that the energy reserves of this plane are extremely rich." Jieming was ecstatic. "I'm afraid the reason why those active volcanoes have been active is because the energy of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane is too abundant."
Although it had been stated before that the demon plane was rich in energy, Benjamin had not expected it to be so abundant.
And although the environment is extremely harsh, Jemin discovered that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has a fairly complete and cruel ecological system.
He stopped at the edge of a volcanic crater that was emitting thick smoke.
Looking through the gray-yellow sulfur smoke, he saw a cruel picture of survival.
On the edge of the magma lives a creature that is at the lowest end of the entire plane's food chain—a creature similar to a red maggot.
They have plump bodies, dark red all over, and their skin is covered with rough wrinkles. They have no eyes and no obvious mouthparts, as if they were made of solidified lava.
They rely on absorbing the energy of lava to survive and reproduce. Countless such maggots densely wriggle in the cracks of solidified magma, forming a creepy "red carpet".
Just as Jemin was observing these strange creatures, a lizard-like creature that was dozens of times larger than these maggots quietly poked its head out from a lava crack.
Its skin is covered with thick volcanic scales, its limbs are strong and powerful, and its mouth flows with corrosive saliva.
A gleam of greed flashed in the lizard creature's eyes, and it pounced on the "carpet" of red maggots.
It devoured the maggots in big mouthfuls, and the chewing sound was particularly clear amid the roar of the crater.
To it, each of these maggots looks delicious and juicy, as if it is the ultimate delicacy.
However, as a wizard, Jemin was able to sense the energy composition of these creatures.
He was surprised to find that even though these maggots themselves had no biological level, they contained a large amount of highly concentrated energy in their bodies.
Their bodies seem to splash out a lot of juice when squeezed, but in fact, these juices are body fluids containing intense energy.
If splashed on an ordinary person, it would cause quite terrible burns, enough to easily burn through flesh and even melt steel plates.
But for the creatures of this plane, this juice only makes the taste a little more stimulating, just like mortals eating spicy food.
Their bodies have fully adapted to this high-energy diet and have absorbed this energy perfectly, integrating it into their own evolution.
Just as the lizard creature was feasting on the food, a black shadow fell from the sky and pounced down like lightning!
It was a gigantic winged demon, with its wings spread out to a length of ten meters. Dark red flames surrounded its body, and its sharp claws flashed with cold light.
You can tell at a glance that this guy is the top predator in this area!
The winged demon didn't hesitate at all and tore the eating lizard creature into two halves, then devoured its flesh and blood in big mouthfuls.
A large amount of juice containing heat and energy also gushed out of the torn lizard's body, but the winged demon didn't care at all, obviously he was already used to it.
Benjamin was watching this scene from the air, and his joy was even greater.
Because the environment is extremely harsh, the combat effectiveness of the creatures here is also quite strong.
Even the creatures at the bottom of the food chain contain energy far exceeding that of other dimensions, and the top predators in an area are surprisingly all second-level creatures.
Such naturally strong creatures are very good research subjects for wizards.
Its unique life structure, energy conversion mechanism, and evolutionary way of adapting to extreme environments all contain huge research value.
After measuring the ecological environment and energy conditions, Jieming also tested the mineral resources of the plane.
(End of this chapter)
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