Chapter 307 Void Architecture Institute and Research Missions
"These original books are yours to keep."
The lead wizard pointed to the bookshelf: "It is enough that we have copied the information. These physical books may still contain some details that the scan cannot fully capture, or they may be some kind of special medium in themselves. They are most suitable for your research, Alchemist."
Jemin nodded without refusing.
The very carriers of knowledge sometimes contain secrets; this is almost common knowledge for wizards.
The fact that the other party gave him the physical book can be considered as compensation in another way.
The three wizards did not linger. With their abundant spoils, they quickly retreated along the route they had come from, presumably eager to return and digest their gains and exchange them for military merits.
The vast treasure vault was soon reduced to just Jemin and the silent black giant beside him.
The once-mountainous resources have been emptied, leaving only a few rows of heavy bookshelves and the lingering energy and spiritual essence in the air.
After storing all the books in the treasure vault into his internal space, Jemin showed no reluctance whatsoever.
He ordered the Black Giant to set up several high-energy explosive points, and then quickly withdrew.
As he flew out of the cave and landed on the ground, a muffled thud came from behind him, and the ground trembled slightly.
The underground complex that concealed wealth and knowledge was completely collapsed and buried in the series of explosions, eliminating any possibility for any enemy to use it again.
For the next three days, Jemin continued to patrol the outer cleaning area.
With their keen observation skills and natural senses, they managed to find some scattered resource points and hidden small warehouses, and harvest some local specialty metals and energy blocks.
But compared to the amazing haul from the treasure vault on the first day, these were merely a minor bonus.
In his spare time, he skimmed through the books he had acquired.
As he expected, most of them were ancient texts used by the powerful natives of the Giant Spirit Realm for cultivation, recording how they tempered their spirit (or core consciousness), manipulated energy, and deeply integrated with various mechanical and biological limbs.
These ancient texts are clearly of high quality, containing the unique power system and wisdom of the Giant Spirit Realm civilization.
For Jemin, the value of these texts lies not only in the cultivation methods they record, but also in the fact that they serve as a window into the world.
Through these ancient texts, he was able to reverse-engineer the deeper physiological structure, soul characteristics, and energy operation patterns of the natives of the Giant Spirit Realm.
This has immeasurable significance for any potential targeted strikes or technological confrontations that may follow.
Three days later, he received a recall order from the outpost camp, and a new mission was assigned to his and other logistics wizards' magic network terminals.
The mission content was familiar; it was the "old business" of a logistics-oriented wizard: [Research the physiological characteristics of the creatures and servant races of the Giant Spirit Realm and its subordinate planes, and based on this, develop targeted witchcraft.]
However, unlike previous missions that typically required "preserving valuable samples as much as possible" or "controlling the scope of the witchcraft's destruction," the notes for this mission clearly state that the primary objective is "annihilation," with no restrictions placed on the power of the witchcraft, aiming only for the most efficient killing and destruction.
In addition to these, the time requirement is even more pressing.
The camp command ordered that results must be achieved as soon as possible, preferably before the enemy launches its next large-scale counterattack.
According to intelligence from forward reconnaissance units, the Giant Spirit Realm is frantically mobilizing its local army and urgently recalling powerful warriors who are fighting in other planes.
It is expected that a massive attack, far exceeding the scale of a landing operation, will arrive within a month at most.
In other words, the logistics wizards have less than a month to research, analyze, and develop effective targeted weapons!
This is almost an impossible task.
Complex biological research, magical configuration design, testing optimization... which step doesn't require a lot of time?
However, when Jemin returned to the camp, he saw the "help" that command had provided to solve the problem.
In the center of the camp, where the area was originally empty, a magnificent building with a distinctive style now stands.
It is made entirely of some kind of dark silver metal, with intricate and complex rune lines flowing across its surface like clockwork. Its overall shape resembles a slightly flattened giant egg, radiating a strange force field that distorts the surrounding light.
"What is this thing?"
Looking at the building, which was in its final testing phase, Jemin couldn't help but ask a logistics manager wizard next to him who was in charge of registration and coordination.
With a hint of pride on his face, the managing wizard explained, "This is the 'Time Acceleration Space.' The command center explained the situation to the Star Ring Federation, so the Federation specially allocated and assembled a time acceleration field from the 'Void Architecture Institute.'"
"The internal time flow rate of this thing can be stably accelerated by more than ten times! In this way, you all have the equivalent of ten months of research time."
Upon hearing this, Jemin couldn't help but feel amazed.
It's not just about the technical level of this thing, but also its origin.
Simply accelerating time is not difficult, and even if we extend it to the realm of time acceleration, there are plenty of wizards who can do it.
The key point is that, as something used to develop new witchcraft, it must be able to accelerate time without affecting the data of each element compared to normal conditions.
That's quite an exaggeration.
As we all know, time belongs to the water element branch. Once it is accelerated by time, it means that the element itself will be affected by the basic water element.
Eliminating this influence involves distorting the rules of the four fundamental elements.
Maintaining elemental stability while simultaneously achieving ten times the time acceleration and covering such a vast area requires truly ingenious technology at the level of laws.
This ability is beyond the reach of ordinary level eight wizards; it can be considered a near-level nine skill.
On the other hand, the Void Architecture Institute is a force on par with the Star Ring Federation and the Crimson Court, and is one of the four major forces of the Wizarding Civilization.
"To mobilize the Void Architecture Institute to attack such an insignificant civilization... it seems the Wizard Civilization truly goes all out against threatening civilizations." Jemin couldn't help but silently mourn for the civilization of the Triangular Plane for three seconds.
A day later, all the logistics wizards who received the mission, including Jemin, stepped into the "Time Chamber" with anticipation and a sense of urgency.
The interior space is more spacious than it appears from the outside, and is divided into tens of thousands of independent laboratory units.
A slight sense of stagnation permeated the air, a subtle experience brought about by the distortion of time.
Through the specially treated observation window, the outside world appears as if it has been paused.
In the laboratory assigned to Jemin, several samples of the Giant Spirit Realm natives—slime-like creatures whose bodies were semi-fluid—had already been prepared and sealed by a high-intensity binding force field.
Upon closer inspection, Jemin discovered that the basic form of these creatures vaguely resembled a human shape, but the number of limbs was extremely inconsistent.
Some have several tendril-like structures, while others only have a vague torso and head protrusion.
The research progressed rapidly, and through a series of complex anatomical studies, energy probes, and scans at the soul level, preliminary conclusions were quickly reached:
These inhabitants of the Giant Spirit Realm are genderless and can produce new offspring by exchanging life information with any of their kind—similar to fusion and re-division at the cellular level.
Their most distinctive feature lies in the fact that their semi-fluid body tissues have unimaginable compatibility with various mechanical devices and the limbs and organs of other organisms!
Its cells can secrete a special biological enzyme and energy field that can almost completely neutralize rejection reactions between different organisms and energies.
Furthermore, as mucus-based organisms, they naturally possess an extremely strong ability to manipulate their own cells...
This means that once they encounter a creature with powerful physical abilities, they can directly disassemble and transplant its limbs or organs for their own use!
Even more terrifying is that, thanks to its unparalleled biomimetic mechanical technology, the Giant Spirit Realm civilization was able to mass-produce mechanical prosthetics with almost identical functions after obtaining the "blueprint" of a certain biological limb, and quickly equip the entire army with them!
This is the root of the terrifying evolution and adaptability of the Giant Spirit Realm—they are a terrifying existence capable of rapidly iterating the military power of an entire civilization by "plundering" and "copying" the physical talents of others!
After reaching this conclusion, Jemin fell into deep thought.
"So... in some ways, our wizarding civilization is actually quite restrained by them?"
The core of a wizard's power lies in knowledge; it is through knowledge that power is leveraged.
Physical strength is important, but it is not the decisive factor.
The only thing the Giant Spirit Realm can plunder is physical talent.
Wizards' physical talents are often not outstanding among their peers, and compared to the power they rely on to leverage knowledge, they can even be described as "weak".
If the natives of the Giant Spirit Realm go to great lengths to seize a wizard's physical body, only to find that they gain nothing but a weak husk and not particularly outstanding elemental affinity, wouldn't that be a "negative improvement"?
But Jemin quickly shook his head, dispelling this thought of underestimating his opponent.
"We cannot underestimate the enemy. What if they possess the means to directly read or copy memories?"
"Furthermore, according to intelligence, the 'Mind Realm' in the Triangular Plane is adept at manipulating thoughts and illusions. After such a long competition among the three parties, it's impossible that the Giant Spirit Realm doesn't have some ability to deal with souls and acquire knowledge."
“However…” Jemin’s gaze refocused on the constantly writhing semi-fluid tissue of the experimental sample, and his thoughts gradually became clearer, “Perhaps we can start with their inherent ‘strong compatibility’.”
"The fact that they can connect to and control the bodies of alien creatures so easily means that there must be some unique structure or pheromone within their bodies that I don't yet fully understand, used to coordinate, control, and 'translate' alien life signals. If we could disrupt that..."
Having found a potential research direction, Jemin was invigorated and immediately threw himself into more in-depth research at the microscopic level.
Not only him, but the other logistics wizards in the surrounding laboratory units, after completing the preliminary physiological characteristic analysis, also began intensive research along different lines of thought based on their own professional judgment and inspiration.
(End of this chapter)
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