Chapter 252 Team Up
When Benjamin finally returned to the huge space crack connecting the "ship plane" and the "airspace plane", the scene before him had changed drastically.
During the time he was away, the command center had already built a huge "floating camp" like a suspended island under the space crack!
The entire camp is made of solid black rock, which looks like it was taken directly from the ship plane.
Various fully functional wizard buildings have been built on it, and energy towers, alchemy workshops, and even trading markets have taken shape.
Countless energy runes flickered at the edge of the camp, forming several solid defenses.
Benjamin controlled his flight trajectory and slowly landed on the central square of the floating camp.
He found that this place was much more lively than he had expected when he came!
Because, in addition to the wizards who returned from all directions, there were also large numbers of local creatures captured by these wizards during the exploration process.
All kinds of strange creatures, driven by powerful wizards with energy chains or soul contracts, came from all directions like escorted goods.
The camp swallowed up all the huge amounts of spoils that were brought in, like a giant beast that was never full.
After landing in the camp, Benjamin easily found the clearly marked "Affairs Center".
He walked forward and recorded on the terminal that he had accepted and would carry out the mandatory mission. At the same time, he also received a large number of marble-sized "signal beacons" that flashed with faint spatial fluctuations from the alchemy puppet next to him.
After completing the preliminary steps of the mandatory task, Benjamin did not leave immediately.
He planned to look for the magic weapon in this temporary camp to see if he could buy what he needed most, which was a magic weapon that could stabilize the surrounding space or mark his precise spatial position to prevent himself from falling into the danger of "spatial turbulence".
Just as he was strolling in the market, a familiar voice came from the side.
"Junior Jieming? What a coincidence, you're back too!"
Jieming turned around and saw that it was Senior Jack.
"Senior Jack, I didn't expect to run into you. Looks like I'm lucky..."
The two greeted each other happily.
After some pleasantries, I saw Benjamin looking for something in front of the stalls, and I couldn't help but ask him curiously:
"Junior Jieming, I noticed you seemed to be looking for something. If it's nothing urgent, tell me. I helped build this place before, so I know it well."
Jieming didn't hide anything and frankly stated his purpose: "I want to find a magical device that can stabilize space or mark my spatial coordinates. This plane of space is too unstable and quite dangerous."
Jack thought for a moment after hearing Benjamin's request, and then his eyes lit up: "I don't have any magical weapons here, but Levin Mills—you should remember him, the only one in our group who was promoted to level three. He might be able to solve your problem."
"Senior Levin Mills?" Benjamin's mind immediately flashed back to someone he had met before, and then he felt a little confused. "If I remember correctly, that senior should be studying Potions, right?"
"It seems you do remember him. Yes, he is indeed an expert in potions. Although Levin cannot create complex magical weapons, he recently successfully created a very special potion using creatures from this world."
"After using this potion, the user's perception of wind and spatial forces will be greatly enhanced! While it won't allow you to move freely in spatial turbulence or be completely immune to it, at least, taking the potion will allow the user to more easily perceive areas of spatial disorder in advance, thereby avoiding danger in advance."
"And according to Levin, this potion's effect on enhancing perception is permanent! It will also be of great help to you in your future studies and research on spatial knowledge!"
After listening to Jack's introduction, Benjamin's eyes lit up!
Is there such a good thing?
He couldn't wait to ask, "Senior Jack, can you sell this to me?"
Jack smiled brightly. "Of course, that's no problem. We were planning to use this to exchange for some needed resources. However... I'm afraid that's not possible now because we're out of raw materials. So I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while."
Seeing a look of regret on Benjamin's face, Jack patiently explained to him, "The core raw material of this potion is a kind of extremely pure 'wind element energy body' that is condensed to a high concentration under high pressure. As you know, this thing is difficult to obtain. It is indeed not easy to obtain..."
Hearing this, Benjamin sighed helplessly.
Energy body sounds very common, but if it is additionally labeled with high concentration and extreme purity, it means that this thing is difficult to find.
In this case, this magical potion might be of no use to him.
After all, the danger of space turbulence is always present.
If we have to wait for them to find new raw materials and then prepare them, the opportunity will be lost.
At this moment, Jack suddenly changed the subject and revealed his true purpose.
He looked at Jie Ming, his expression becoming more serious: "Jie Ming, do you want to join us on an urgent rescue mission?"
Before Benjamin could ask, Jack quickly explained, "Our team previously accepted one of those urgent missions, one of which was to 'rescue lost wizards.' We needed to go to a marked area of 'space turbulence' to rescue several wizards lost within it."
"But the distorted space within that spatial turbulence is unexpectedly large, far exceeding our initial estimates. Therefore, we need more manpower to help with the search."
"Don't worry, this mission isn't very dangerous. After all, once we're inside, the main searchers will be our specially modified reconnaissance cannon fodder. The wizards will only need to operate from the outside. Moreover, our team has already found a stable entrance and exit to the spatial turbulence, so we can evacuate safely at any time."
"If you're willing to help us complete this mission, then in addition to the reward for this mission, I can also give you a bottle of the potion I mentioned before, which can permanently enhance your spatial perception!"
Benjamin's eyes lit up; this deal was quite tempting.
However, he was a little confused: "Is the area inside that spatial distortion very large? If we're really short on manpower, can't we send in some more cannon fodder for reconnaissance?"
Jack gave a helpless smile. "The area within that space distortion is incredibly large. Honestly, the number of cannon fodder that each wizard on our team can manipulate with their soul contracts has reached its limit. That's why we need to recruit more new wizards and deploy more cannon fodder to expand the search area."
After hearing this, Benjamin became even more confused. He had also seen the emergency mission and felt that their investment had exceeded the reward for the mission.
"The wizards in there are important to you?"
Jack whispered mysteriously into Jemin's ear, "Those wizards aren't important. What's important are the space distortion nodes themselves. While these 'space distortions' are difficult to handle, they usually contain vast quantities of high-value resources!"
"After all, to form such a stable 'space warp' requires a large amount of pure elements to gather within it. And with such a large amount of elements gathering over a long period of time, all sorts of rare, high-value resources or creatures will surely emerge!"
"Including that... the raw materials for the potion, they were actually obtained from another similar 'space distortion' node."
After listening to what Senior Jack said, Benjamin quickly weighed the pros and cons in his mind.
He agreed to Jack's proposal without much hesitation.
"Okay, if it's really as you said, I should probably thank you for giving me this opportunity, Senior."
After all, Jack's proposal has very little risk for him, but the benefits are extremely high.
And besides those resources and that potion, Benjamin had another idea.
He wanted to follow these experienced "veterans" and learn from them.
See if you can accumulate some experience and knowledge in dealing with and handling dangerous situations such as "space distortion".
"Everyone gets what they need, and wizards from the same academy are always more reassuring than other outsiders." Jack laughed.
So the two quickly decided on the time and place to meet again.
Then Jack said goodbye to Benjamin in a hurry and left.
Judging from his appearance, he should be going to continue recruiting other people.
After saying goodbye to senior Jack who was in a hurry, Benjamin did not go back to rest immediately, but strolled around this temporary square full of noise and vitality.
After all, the potion only provides a passive "early warning" method, which can be regarded as an alternative method at most.
It would be best if we could find a powerful magical weapon that could directly calm the local space turbulence in times of crisis.
The square was crowded with people and the atmosphere was lively.
In addition to the wizards who sell their homemade potions, magic tools and other products at the stalls, there are also many wizards who sell various fresh biological materials and even rare living animals that they obtain from this plane.
After all, the official purchase price of the camp is still too low and can only be regarded as a bottom line.
If I could find a suitable buyer here and sell it to other wizards, I could make a little more profit than the official purchase price.
As Benjamin was walking between the bizarre stalls, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a creature trapped in a cage in a stall and stopped.
(End of this chapter)
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