Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 408 - 28 Scouting Array

"Support battalion, prepare, distance thirty-five, staggered release, fire!"

Behind the fortress group, a huge number of Magic Support Vehicles gathered together, silent and oppressive, like a slumbering Giant Dragon.

And with the command of the Legion Commander, this slumbering Giant Dragon abruptly awoke and spewed destructive Dragon Breath into the sky.

Countless Fireballs shot from the artillery behind the support vehicles, tracing fiery arcs in the air as they plummeted into the Insect Tide.

In an instant, a vast amount of Fire Element converged, making the power of the spells secondary.

The Fire Element Storm was what the Wizards truly needed.

The scorching Burning Wind, exceeding one hundred thousand degrees, swept over the Insect Tide, turning the insects into char and ash.

And this was merely the aftermath of the Fire Element Storm.

At the center of the battlefield, the Fire Element Storm, like a merciless Melter, indiscriminately incinerated anything daring to enter.

Insects within the range of the Fire Element Storm, even if they were third-level creatures, were instantly turned to ash. Even the sturdier ones lasted only a few seconds longer.

Under the erosion of the massive Fire Element, what should have taken thousands of years to crystallize was drastically accelerated.

At the center of the Fire Element Storm, subpar Fire Element Gems the size of sesame seeds even began to form.

Then came the second wave of Fireballs.

This wave instantly caused the already dwindling Fire Element Storm to swell once again.

The Wizards within the fortress saw, at the center range of the explosion of the Fireballs, a Fire Tornado had formed.

And this tornado was gradually expanding with each strike of the Fireball Technique.

The fierce Fire Element turned into Burning Wind, slicing the Insect Tide in half.

"Goodness, what is there left for us to do?"

Inside the fortress, an old Wizard watched the distant Fire Tornado and unconsciously muttered to himself.

But soon, he noticed something amiss.

The Fireballs stopped.

"Something’s not right, prepare to attack!"

Behind the fortress group, the Legion Commander of the Netherfire Army listening to his subordinate’s report fell into thought.

"Ah, I forgot about this."

He took out a Communication Crystal Ball from his pocket and after connecting, Jimmy’s voice came from the Crystal Ball.

"What’s the matter, Adams?"

"We may need to alter our strategy, Jimmy," the Legion Commander Adams said in a low voice, "I overlooked something.

Using the same Spell so densely will lead to a free Element vacuum.

So, the decision we made needs minor adjustments."

"Elemental vacuum?" Jimmy expressed surprise, "Indeed, I forgot about that too."

Elemental Magic requires a large amount of Elements for filling, and these Elements obviously cannot be conjured out of thin air by Wizards.

Free Elements are the source of Elements in Elemental Magic.

But the free Elements in a unit space are limited; using a large scale, repeated use of a certain Elemental Magic can lead to a deficiency of that Element in the unit space, hence leading to an Elemental vacuum.

Once an Elemental vacuum occurs, any spell involving that Element will fall into a state of non-functionality.

On the battlefield, the White Wizard Army, because of their range issues, basically don’t encounter Elemental vacuum. However, the Spells shot from the Magic Support Vehicle at the action site are too far from the area of effect, making the Elemental return flow much slower than the usage rate of the Magic Support Vehicle, which causes the Elemental vacuum.

"I will find a few Wizards who are knowledgeable about Elements to calculate the carrying capacity limit of a unit space on Magic Support Vehicles. You first lead the convoy back, leaving two battalions as support.

This wave of Insect Tide isn’t big, the fortress should be able to withstand it."

"Okay."

Hearing Jimmy’s response, Adams immediately issued the retreat command to the convoy, leaving only the first and second support battalions for emergency needs.

"Ah, there indeed was a problem," Adams murmured as he watched the distant rising flames.

He couldn’t help but feel a headache as he thought of those troublesome insects in the Insect Tide.

"We can’t rely purely on the suppression of magic; this battle isn’t going to be easy."

...

Within the Star Realm Fortress, Richard and his party were traversing through the Black Crystal Channel.

Garon the Great Wizard’s task, although challenging, was not unachievable. Richard learned from the main control that this Star Realm Fortress had a Detection Array, similar to radar.

The Detection Array had been damaged when the fortress fell, but it could still be powered on at low levels.

If it could be activated, Richard should be able to find the way back.

As the Snake King’s ancestor had once visited the Ancient Battlefield, it wasn’t far from the Poison Swamp. Once they found the Poison Swamp, the Snake King could lead everyone back to the Crystal Tower.

Then Richard could use the previously recorded map to return to the Floating City.

As for why he didn’t use the Transmission Array to go back, Richard simply thought to let those who wanted to use that darn Transmission Array use it.

It was just his and Ulysses’ luck that they were merely separated during the transmission. If their luck had been a bit worse, not to mention the possibility they might have been teleported to some random mess of a place, just the potential of falling into a time-space turbulence was enough for Richard to avoid it.

So, it was better to honestly make his way back.

Dada dada...

Accompanied by a series of crisp footsteps, the long-sealed information hall was opened by a black-robed Wizard.

"Is this the information hall, what a pity."

Richard looked at the damaged Crystal Creations in the hall and couldn’t help but feel a bit heartbroken. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

These things, if intact, one couldn’t imagine how much knowledge could have been refined.

Although that knowledge might not necessarily be useful, no wizard would ever consider too much knowledge a bad thing.

In the center of the hall, there existed an enormous milky-white crystal platform.

This crystal platform served as the control platform for the detection array and was the only crystal creation in the hall that wasn’t completely damaged.

Richard approached and saw, under the main control’s operation, that the milky-white control platform suddenly displayed an interface.

"Goodness, I didn’t expect the Pioneer to have specifically made an operating system compatible with different species."

According to Richard’s judgment, the Pioneer probably didn’t have eyes, so this visual interface was clearly designed for giant dragons.

Following the interface information, Richard quickly found a reconnaissance option.

The Pioneer had designed ten levels for the reconnaissance array, and Richard decided to start with the smallest.

[First Level Reconnaissance Array Enabled]

As the main control announced, surging energy from the power furnace instantly flowed into the long-dormant energy transmission pipeline of the Star Realm Fortress.

In an instant, quite a few transmission pipelines shattered immediately.

But this didn’t affect the activation of the reconnaissance array.

With a "buzz" sound, a broken outer shell somewhere around the perimeter of the Star Realm Fortress suddenly lit up with a blue-purple glow.

A strong wave of energy was instantly released from the array, sweeping across hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land around the fortress in a flash.

Next to the control panel, a projection appeared in the air.

With the Star Realm Fortress as the center, a map within a 400-kilometer radius appeared in the projection in an instant.

Upon seeing this, Richard quickly recorded the map with his crystal ball.

According to the map, they only needed to walk more than 300 kilometers toward the north to reach the Poison Swamp.

"What a powerful reconnaissance array," Richard sincerely exclaimed, "and this is only the first level; if it was set to five or six, I’m afraid it would encompass the whole world."

After securing the map, Richard began to fumble over the control console.

Eager to see what good technology this console could refine.

But when he saw the information provided by the Miracle Furnace, he suddenly lost interest.

[Material: Supreme Projection Device]

[Refinable Information: Three-dimensional Projection]

[Refinement Cost: 5 spiritual power]

[Material: Supreme Control Strip]

[Refinable Information: Touch Screen Imaging Technology]

[Refinement Cost: 5 spiritual power]

"What a piece of junk."

Richard looked at the information given by the Miracle Furnace, and he couldn’t help but shake his head.

These two pieces of technology were of no use to him, as such technology had long been available in the Wizard World.

If Richard wanted, he could buy them anytime.

"It seems the items here are just the front end; the real deal is still in the reconnaissance array and the main control of the fortress."

Leaving the information hall, Richard turned and asked the main control how to get to the reconnaissance array.

With such a good thing at hand, Richard naturally wouldn’t let it go.

After getting the answer, Richard quickly reached the outside of the fortress.

Due to design issues, the reconnaissance array could only be accessed from the outside, so Richard had to endure the energy radiation and reach the exterior of the Star Realm Fortress.

In the Ancient Battlefield, the yellow sand was vast, and the greenish radiation aurora sifted through the cracks of the Star Realm Fortress, gradually diluting to invisible energy radiation.

Richard activated the Transformation Battle Body and with a magic barrier, reached the location of the reconnaissance array.

The reconnaissance array was located in the middle of the fortress, one of the less damaged areas of the fortress module.

Furthermore, what pleased Richard was that the reconnaissance array was not a single complete device, but consisted of individual parts approximately one cubic meter in size each.

This meant that the refinement cost of this array wouldn’t be particularly extravagant.

Richard fumbled around within the reconnaissance array for a while until he finally found a usable module and removed it from the main body of the fortress.

[Material: Reconnaissance Array Module]

[Refinable Information: Reconnaissance Array Module Manufacturing Technology]

[Refinement Cost: 200 spiritual power]

Seeing the information given by the Miracle Furnace, Richard satisfiedly put the module into his pocket.

But just as he was returning to the interior of the fortress along his original path, he suddenly followed a long, slender crack spreading down to the bottom of the fortress and saw many crystal-like objects in the bottom chamber.

Richard was startled by this sight.

Could it be that the interior of this fortress housed a material warehouse, used for the fortress’s routine maintenance and upkeep?

Thinking this, Richard hurried to the crack and closely examined the objects inside.

If it was truly so, he estimated he was about to make a small fortune.

This Star Realm Fortress contained not only crystal parts but also numerous metal parts.

If these really were materials, there would definitely be many valuable alchemy materials.

But after looking, Richard somewhat dizzily stepped back two paces. He waved his magic wand and cast a Spiritual Identification Technique on himself.

After confirming he wasn’t in a hallucinatory state, he murmured to himself,

"Goodness, I’ve really struck it rich."

Behind that crack wasn’t material for repairing the fortress, but rather thousands of armed puppets of the Pioneer.