Chapter 216 Exploration, Cattle, Horses, and Debt
"What did you do?!"
The moment when the Living Flame Frost Plane was completely silent under the seal of layers of magic arrays.
Viola almost immediately rushed to Jermyn and stared at him!
Her face no longer showed the previous morbid fanaticism, but an unprecedented shock.
Viola's performance at this moment completely overturned Benjamin's perception of her.
Her pair of silver-grey eyes were now wide open, and her pupils were even trembling slightly with surprise!
A rare expression of near dullness appeared on his cold face. The corners of his mouth were slightly open, as if he wanted to say something, but the word was stuck in his throat due to extreme surprise and no sound came out.
Her breathing became rapid, and a powerful mental wave could not be suppressed and emanated from her, showing her extreme inner restlessness at the moment.
She remembered clearly that the change in timing that ultimately determined the outcome of the earth-shaking plane-level battle just now began after Benjamin asked that seemingly irrelevant question - the question about why the two monster kings surrendered.
If Viola wasn't stupid, she would have realized with her toes that there must be some connection between Benjamin and the final reversal of the battle!
Most importantly, Viola found that she had no idea what Benjamin had done!
A wizard's strength is based on knowledge.
Even though she was a newly promoted sixth-level wizard, much higher in level than Benjamin, the fact that she couldn't understand it meant that Benjamin's knowledge in certain areas far exceeded hers!
This knowledge barrier is sometimes even more difficult to overcome than the gap in level!
However, after a brief moment of shock, Viola quickly reacted and forcibly suppressed the overwhelming waves of shock in her heart.
Looking at Benjamin's calm expression, she hesitated for a moment and finally did not ask any more questions.
After all, for a wizard's power system, knowledge is the most important and core secret of a wizard!
Asking questions casually, especially those that obviously involve advanced knowledge systems, is a taboo in the wizarding world.
Even if the relationship between the two parties is good, if he asks questions rashly, it will only make Benjamin feel resentful towards him.
Moreover, if she asked this question at her current wizard level, it would likely trigger the ban of the Star Track Inquisition.
After Viola realized what was happening, she could only suppress her surprise and countless questions deep in her heart.
"I didn't expect my junior fellow student to be so...amazing." Viola secretly sighed in her heart. Her admiration and surprise even overwhelmed her curiosity about the unknown. "No wonder... old man Clark thinks so highly of this young boy..."
Benjamin knew what Viola had guessed, but he had no intention of explaining.
The reason why he chose to activate the "Forbidden Evil Spell" was purely for the sake of his own life.
After all, if they were defeated in that situation, as the two planes were connected and could not be separated in a short period of time, the high-level wizards would not be in any problem, but these low-level wizards would most likely be doomed.
Moreover, he knew the rules of wizards very well.
As long as he didn't admit it, even if Viola had some guesses in her mind, it would be meaningless without any substantial evidence or personal testimony.
"Who knows?" Benjamin looked at Viola.
Seeing her shocked and utterly stunned expression, he suddenly became intrigued. He imitated her signature, slightly perverted and playful expression and smiled meaningfully, "Senior, you looking so miserable... and slightly shocked and utterly stunned really makes me... feel good!"
"you!"
Viola's expression, which had just calmed down, instantly changed from calm to astonishment.
Viola blinked, then suddenly reached out her hand expressionlessly and pressed it heavily on Benjamin's shoulder.
Under the palm of his hand, a powerful aura carrying the pressure of a sixth-level wizard instantly spread out.
Although there was no physical attack, the oppressive feeling was enough to make Benjamin unable to move!
"It seems that I am too kind, senior sister, and you are a little... floating." Viola's voice was as cold as polar ice at this moment, and every word carried an unquestionable sense of oppression from a superior.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Benjamin felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He admitted his mistake decisively and quickly, instantly putting away the "perverted" expression on his face and apologizing sincerely.
Viola showed a satisfied look when she saw this, and then she withdrew her hand.
The two of them playing around like this actually helped them relax and release some stress after the battle.
With the Living Flame Frost Plane being successfully sealed, this thrilling plane war finally came to an end.
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A few months later.
Jemin appeared in the void again, but he was not in the ship plane. Instead, he was standing on a huge continental fragment that was floating in the air and had a vast area.
This continent is one of the countless floating islands formed after the surface matter of the Flame Frost Plane disintegrated.
At this moment, he was busy bending down, collecting ecological information of the various creatures above.
He carefully placed a piece of moss growing in the cracks of the rock, which glowed with a faint blue light, into the sample bag.
Then, using a specially designed detector, he gently touched a thumb-sized black insect sleeping in the ice, recording its life fluctuations and elemental structure...
The core consciousness of the Flame Frost Plane has been sealed, but this does not mean that the work of logistics wizards like Benjamin has ended.
On the contrary, because of the unprecedented existence of the "living plane", the appearance of this group of logistics wizards has made the things they have to do more and more complicated.
The task that Benjamin has received in the past few months is to count the remaining ecological systems and various remaining resources in the Flame Frost Plane.
After all, it was fun to "fight" with the Living Flame Frost Plane, but the price was also extremely heavy.
In the entire Flame Frost Plane, at least 90% of the original surface material evaporated under multiple plane-level shocks!
The remaining land has also turned into floating islands, suspended above the surface of the core that was originally pierced.
These floating islands vary in size, with the smallest being only a few hundred meters and the largest being tens of kilometers.
They are connected to each other by a chaotic and strange force field, floating precariously in the void.
To fully count these fragmented areas, as well as the remaining ecology and resources on them, will undoubtedly take a lot of time, energy, and even require a certain amount of risk.
Benjamin sighed and put away the detector in his hand.
He knew that they would not be able to stop running until these data were analyzed and a new plane transformation plan was formulated.
Including the wizard Augustine, the entire expedition team was busy as hell.
In fact, Benjamin himself is happy to be busy here. After all, compared with others, he can get some extra benefits.
After collecting the information, Benjamin made a hand gesture and stomped his feet slightly.
Then, wisps of black evil energy drifted out and were collected by Jieming into the evil-collecting gourd.
That was his extra bonus.
Although most of the evil energy was consumed by the living plane, a lot of it was also dispersed during the opponent's resistance and scattered on the floating islands on the periphery.
When they gathered together before, Jieming was not able to collect this kind of high-grade evil energy, so now it can be considered a blessing in disguise.
After completing the statistical work on the remaining ecosystem and resources on the floating continent, Benjamin flashed through the stabilized space crack in the sky and returned to the ship plane.
Seeing Jemin landing, several snow monsters beside the space crack showed respectful expressions.
Wizard Augustine would not waste resources. Now that the situation had been determined, he decisively signed a contract with the two monster kings.
After seeing the wizards controlling the battle between the ship plane and the flame frost plane, the monsters of both races now seemed a little flattering when they saw the wizards.
Benjamin didn't care about these things. He went straight to the logistics department of the temporary camp and uploaded all the information he had collected over the past few months to the core database through the terminal.
Having completed his task, Benjamin was about to take a break.
When I left the logistics department, I found that there were many people in the camp gathered in front of an open space, making a buzzing sound of discussion.
Out of curiosity, he went over to take a look and found that in the center of the camp surrounded by a group of wizards was a huge magic circle flashing with mysterious runes.
After identifying it, Benjamin discovered that this magic circle was used to provide spatial coordinates.
A timely notification from Master Augustine came through the magic network terminal: "Dear wizards, please take note that the plane channel has been connected. Welcome colleagues from afar!"
Not long after, as the magic circle emitted a bright light, circles of space ripples spread out in the center of the magic circle.
The sky of the ship plane was once again torn apart by an invisible force.
However, this time the other side of the rift was not some unknown plane, but dozens of figures of various shapes and sizes.
In terms of size, those figures were much smaller than the narrow crack in the sky, which was originally stable but not designed for large-scale group teleportation.
But Benjamin found that the figures seemed to be feeling embarrassed as they couldn't squeeze in.
It seemed that this huge crack could not allow them to pass through at all, as if there was an even larger entity behind that figure.
Several of the figures exuded an extremely powerful aura of strength.
As they exerted their strength, they actually tore the space crack a little bigger!
With their combined efforts, the space crack in the sky eventually reached a terrifying scale of more than ten kilometers long and several kilometers wide.
This allowed the group of people to barely "squeeze" down!
As soon as the wizards crossed the space crack and "landed" on the ship plane, several suffocatingly powerful auras instantly filled the entire ship plane.
The impact, which was a mixture of powerful elemental fluctuations and the aura of rules, instantly made Jieming realize that these people were all level six wizards!
The intensity of some of these auras may have even reached level seven!
"Tsk, look at these lunatics, each of them has the same expression as a hungry wolf seeing fresh meat."
Viola appeared from somewhere nearby and smacked her lips softly. Her silver-gray eyes flickered with a playful amusement.
Without waiting for Jieming to ask, she explained the matter to Jieming in a calm tone:
"After the news of Wizard Augustine's successful capture of the living plane spread, the border area was practically in an uproar. Countless wizards, especially those who focused on plane research and exploration of its laws, frantically applied to come and study this rare living plane."
Jieming's eyes flickered when he heard this: "Oh? If that's the case, then this Augustine wizard is making a lot of money."
Viola couldn't help but sigh, her tone filled with a hint of complexity and helplessness. "Yes, originally, developing a plane required a considerable initial investment. Many ordinary sixth-level wizards, wanting to start a plane development project, would need to incur billions of military merits in debt to barely complete the initial development of the plane."
She looked at the wizard Augustine in the distance, her tone filled with a hint of uncontrollable envy. "But with a rare resource like the Living Plane, Augustine might be able to fully recoup all his initial investment just by collecting the 'entrance fees' from these wizards, and even make a profit!"
Benjamin also sighed, but he also felt a little regretful.
He is afraid that he will not be able to see such a precious resource as the living plane again in the near future.
Unfortunately, the outer core of the Flame Frost Plane is covered with densely packed maple leaf-shaped translucent runes.
Those runes formed a powerful isolation force field, which not only sealed the consciousness of the living plane, but also isolated the outside world from exploring the eyes.
Unless Wizard Augustine agrees, no one can enter the core, let alone conduct research.
Moreover, with his current technical level, he couldn't even get close to those runes, let alone touch the core, let alone study existence of this level.
He was still a low-level wizard, and was still far from being able to freely access and study the core of the plane.
Jie Ming suddenly felt strange again. He turned to look at Viola: "Senior sister, why did you come here?"
After all, with Viola's personality, she would not be interested in watching such excitement, unless the excitement could make many people feel painful.
Viola was about to answer when a familiar voice beside her answered Benjamin's question for Viola.
"Because... I want to capture her and repay my debt."
Benjamin turned his head suddenly and found that the person coming was actually Mentor Clark!
The other person was still as unkempt as before, and even his signature messy hair seemed to have become a little balder.
The whole person still looks like a tired old ox or horse.
With two big dark circles under his eyes, he looked as if he had just crawled out of a laboratory.
Viola couldn't help but sigh when she heard this.
Knowing he couldn't escape, he explained to Benjamin with a hint of helplessness, "Back then... I had to borrow money from my mentor to buy that 'Soul Sublimation Potion'!"
The helplessness and frustration in her tone almost overflowed: "The price is... I need to work for him for over a thousand years! It's like selling my body!"
Clark gave her a blank look and said, "Given your earning power, it's a very reasonable price to have you work for only a thousand years."
He paused, then added, "Of course, at this stage you have only just been promoted to a sixth-level wizard. If you can hone your potion skills and become a Potions Master, the time you spend working here should be shortened to less than a hundred years."
Viola sighed when she heard this, and even Benjamin next to her couldn't help but shrink his neck.
Even if it is shortened to a hundred years, for Benjamin, this is still a very exaggerated and "astronomical" debt!
Recalling that he also seemed to have a loan to repay from his teacher, Benjamin suddenly felt a sense of sympathy with his senior.
He immediately understood that Mr. Clark came here just to capture Viola, the "priceless" sixth-level wizard, and use her as a slave!
Teacher Clark looked at Benjamin again and nodded to him as a greeting.
Jieming straightened his clothes slightly and saluted Mr. Clark solemnly: "Mr...."
"Yeah, not bad." Clark nodded slightly. "I can actually encounter something like this on my first independent expedition. My luck is truly enviable."
Benjamin smiled, not knowing what to say.
This kind of thing is indeed good luck for a high-level wizard, but for a low-level wizard like him, it should be considered bad luck.
Clark ignored what Benjamin was thinking. He just turned his head and glanced at the high-level wizards who were still falling from the sky.
"In addition to researching the living plane, I'm here at Augustine's invitation to help him install an inter-dimensional teleportation array. I guess we'll be working together soon."
When Benjamin heard this, his face lit up with joy, but then he suddenly thought, if that was the case, wouldn't he have to "repay the loan" again?
The problem is that although wizards can still provide the power of the mortal world in an endless supply, the quantity is not too large.
Judging from the collection results of the past few months, it may not be easy to provide two tubes of Red Dust Potion on time every month.
Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but grit his teeth, and his face fell slightly.
Clark seemed to see through his thoughts and couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, at least you don't have to worry about the debt problem before the space teleportation array is completed."
Then, regardless of Benjamin's relieved expression, Mr. Clark skillfully grabbed Viola by the back of her collar as if she were a chick.
Ignoring Viola's helpless and powerless look, Clark directly carried her towards the wizard Augustine, who had been waiting for a long time and was about to burst into laughter.
Benjamin smacked his lips, shrank his head and left.
Obviously, before returning to school to be Professor Clark's "cow horse", Viola will probably have to stay here and help Professor Clark for a long time to earn "interest"!
If he didn't quickly gather the resources to pay off his debts, he would probably become a working beast of burden like Viola.
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