Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 182 - 169: The Work of the Logistics Element (Part 1)

Rewinding time a little, Master Elvin transformed into a stream of light and retreated to the "ship" plane in a sorry state.

His magic robe was charred, and his aura unstable, evidently having suffered significant damage.

Standing on the barren land, Jeming watched this scene, but couldn't help but curl his lips into a slight smile.

He turned and remarked to Viola beside him, "As expected of a veteran wizard, that acting was just superb. It looked like a genuine narrow defeat."

Viola, upon hearing this, also showed a smile in her eyes, "This is the norm in dimensional warfare, luring the enemy deep, depleting their strength, extending the battle line. Every transition between attack and defense is within the calculations of the High Tier Wizards."

In fact, with the wizards' abilities, after encountering stubborn resistance from the indigenous people of the Ice and Flame Plane, they quickly analyzed the current situation from the initial cannon fodder battle stage.

The most obvious point is that although both races launched attacks on the wizards simultaneously, their attack modes and areas are clearly distinct, often obstructing or even accidentally injuring each other.

This exposed a brutal and important fact: the Magma Giants and Yetis should be long-standing adversaries, even sworn enemies.

The reason they joined forces is solely due to the common threat posed by the invaders.

"With that in mind, to completely conquer the entire plane, one must simultaneously consider the thoughts of two Kings of Monsters and their delicate yet complex adversarial relationship."

Jeming, stroking his chin, analyzed the current situation: "The best way, as Master Elvin did, is to demonstrate strength surpassing a single King of Monsters but slightly weaker than the combined might of the two."

"Master Elvin, fighting one against two, seemingly lost narrowly but managed to hold off the two Sixth Level powerhouses for several hours, causing them depletion and retreat," Viola also agreed with Jeming's statement.

"In this way, the indigenous people of this plane see hope in defeating the wizards, but would also fear the strength of the wizards, not daring to launch a mindless full-scale attack easily. They will regroup after resting, but won't recklessly move out with all their forces, giving us wizards enough time."

"More importantly, the hatred between the two races will become our greatest ally. They can't truly cooperate wholeheartedly; every attack, every support might be delayed due to mutual suspicion."

"Such a situation gives wizards ample time to steadily weaken the plane's origin, eventually gaining complete control over it."

This is an open strategy. Even if the Sixth Level powerhouses among the indigenous people see through it, it's difficult to fully neutralize it.

As Jeming and Viola were marveling at the far-reaching plans of the High Tier Wizards and the complex art of dimensional warfare, the magic network terminals they each carried vibrated simultaneously, receiving an emergency pinned message for everyone.

The message had no extra embellishments, just a line of cold text:

[Important Notice: Commander Master Elvin did not pretend to retreat; he genuinely was no match for the combined attack of two Sixth Level indigenous powerhouses. All wizards are urged to heighten their vigilance and act cautiously.]

Upon seeing this message, including Jeming and Viola, all the wizards present were slightly taken aback.

In an instant, everyone's eyes lit up!

The sender of this message was precisely Master Elvin himself, one of the commanders of this invasion.

The purpose is to sound the alarm for the wizards present, reminding them that the strength of the indigenous people of this plane is indeed above the average baseline.

But the reason wizards' eyes lit up was simply that in the midst of crisis, they found more opportunities.

Everything in the universe develops according to certain laws; a plane capable of birthing two powerful races doesn't arise without reason.

This indicates that this plane itself is tremendously resource-rich!

Two Sixth Level powerhouses capable of rivaling Fifth Level Wizards mean this plane holds the abundant resources that can support their advancement, possibly containing rare elements, rule fragments, or even undiscovered mysterious veins!

To wizards, powerful enemies often imply richer treasures hidden behind them.

Having clarified the combat strategy and dimensional value, the wizards' work efficiency reached its peak.

Now, with everyone's efforts, the camp was quickly established.

The defense walls, constructed by alchemy puppets and wizards, rapidly rose from the ground. Energy cores were buried deep within the earth, and the light of the rune arrays danced around the camp, forming visible protective barriers.

The front-line battles, although still ongoing with sporadic counters from the indigenous people and the wizards' fortified lines, have significantly reduced in scale.

It was clear both sides were waiting for the right moment.

Logistics Element Wizards seized this precious opportunity to immediately enter a more routine workflow.

Unlike the experience on the Elorcia Plane, where Jeming was rudely thrown into battle and never got to experience a proper Logistics Element Wizard's work.

In the early stages of dimensional warfare, regular Logistics Element Wizards rarely directly confront the enemy on the battlefield.

In the early stages of the planar war, the primary role of logistics wizards is to analyze the elemental data related to the plane, as well as the various resources and intelligence brought back from the front line.

For the wizard civilization, every newly invaded plane is an unimaginable treasure trove, containing unknown and vast resources and information.

In just these few days, as the frontline troops cleared the area around the landing point and scout wizards brought back samples through space rifts, Jeming himself alone has already analyzed several unique resources.

One of them is a peculiar plant from the Flame Sun Realm.

This plant is named Blazing Grass, resembling a cluster of leaping flames, and grows in the crevices of volcanic rock.

Although the plant itself is fairly fragile, akin to ordinary grass, it possesses extremely impressive resistance to flames and high temperatures.

Through the "All-Purpose Eye," Jeming deeply analyzed its internal structure, discovering that the cell walls of this grass can spontaneously condense fire elements to form a micro-layered barrier.

After a series of tests, unless considering physical shockwaves or space tearing, this plant can even withstand a Third Level wizard's fire attack without any damage!

This is simply an incredible defensive property.

Although due to the short time frame, Jeming has not yet fully researched how to refine it into a corresponding magic potion to achieve a permanent defensive effect incorporated into a wizard's body.

However, through some special methods, he has preliminarily succeeded in using it as a raw material to produce a film.

As long as this Blazing Grass film is applied over the body, it can achieve a similar effect in a short time.

For those wizards who need to engage in close combat or cannon fodder biochemical beasts, this is undoubtedly an exaggeratedly passive defensive material.

There is also a unique mineral from the Frost Dark Realm.

This mineral is named Ice Burst Crystal, and it appears to be just an ordinary transparent crystal with no reaction under normal circumstances.

But after Jeming's analysis, it was found that as long as it is exposed to a high-temperature environment—especially in lava or extremely high flames—its internal ice element structure will undergo violent disorder, instantly releasing unimaginable destructive power!

This destructive power, generated by extreme elemental collision backlash, is even sufficient to destroy a small hill.

This means it is both an extremely dangerous material and a potentially powerful weapon.

And after Jeming discovered the properties of this material, a group of wizards from the Tower of Annihilation immediately sought him out.

After paying a portion of knowledge, these wizards left the camp excitedly, heading deep into the Frost Dark Realm.

Watching the backs of the excitedly departing wizards, Jeming didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You'll get used to it. The wizards from the Tower of Annihilation are best at all sorts of Destruction Element witchcraft. Something like this Ice Burst Crystal is basically their natural casting material," Viola popped up from the side.

Jeming was a bit puzzled: "Aren't they researching materials?"

Viola shrugged without any decorum: "I think you've been in the logistics department at Nolun Workshop for too long, thinking all wizards outside are like that."

"Hmm?"

Viola sighed and explained carefully: "It's not that they won't research it, but the number of logistics wizards specializing in research at the Tower of Annihilation can be counted on one hand. Even though materials like Ice Burst Crystal have good properties, they don't rank in the research sequence... Before delving into deep research, this thing will most likely be used directly as casting material for witchcraft."

"Eh? Why is that?" Jeming was stunned.

Viola shook her head: "I told you, you've been at Nolun Workshop for too long; logistics wizards are not that easy to be."

"With the current accumulation of knowledge, many people struggle just to learn these things. Asking them to explore the principles of this knowledge and further develop it is almost impossible. You should know that Nolun Workshop is named as 'Workshop,' yet the proportion of logistics wizards is only about 2%."

"The disparity between the number of logistics and combat wizards in other wizard influences is needless to say. From what I know, at the Tower of Annihilation, this proportion drops to even 1%, while in the Chaos Secret Sect, except for a few high-ranking founders and their successors, all are combat wizards."

Seeing Jeming finally showing a look of understanding, Viola nodded toward the camp's divided research area with a slight pursing of her lips:

"You can tell by the number of people here."

Jeming instinctively glanced at the slightly empty research area.

Previously, he hadn't paid much attention to this situation. After all, for Jeming, although this area is quite spacious, compared to his own laboratory, it's already considered compact.

Not to mention the lack of various experimental equipment. If it weren't for constructing the All-Purpose Eye, Jeming's research progress might not have been so fast.

But now Jeming realized that this emptiness here is not only to give logistics wizards enough space, but also because the number of logistics wizards is really not high.