Chapter 191: Chapter 177: One Year

The torrent of time silently swept over the war-torn Ice and Flame Plane.

Since the landing of the Wizard Legion, in the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

In these many days and nights, the course of the war had long entered a stalemate.

The once grand scale plane invasion has now turned into countless battles, varying in size, and daily bloody grind.

Both sides were in a heated combat, with corpses nearly soaking every inch of land.

Jeming let out a long breath, putting down the rune pen. The final witchcraft model, after complex deductions and simplified modifications, displayed “Completed” on his Magic Network Terminal.

After a year of high-intensity research life, he finally completed most of the research tasks.

From Master Elvin’s “Magma Annihilation” to Master Roland Faner’s “Frost Soul Dissolution,” these two highly targeted destructive witchcrafts, with the assistance of many wizards, were successfully demoted and modularized.

They could construct different versions, from First Level to Fifth Level, with gradually increasing power based on the combat wizard’s level and needs.

This gave the Wizard Legion unprecedented annihilation efficiency when facing these two indigenous people.

However, due to the targeted destructive witchcraft rarely leaving any spoils, most combat wizards disliked using such things unless necessary.

For this reason, a series of modification tasks for these targeted destructive witchcrafts were issued in the camp.

For instance, Jeming’s current project is to degrade the Magma Annihilation into a non-lethal but highly suppressive area witchcraft.

“Finally, I can relax a bit.” Jeming stretched, and his bones made a slight cracking sound.

Throughout the year, the current situation of the Ice and Flame Plane still saw the Magma Giants and Yetis continuously replenishing their forces.

Their respective hinterlands were inexhaustible sources of troops, with new legions emerging daily from the depths of the earth or the ends of the Ice Vein, launching routine new rounds of attacks on the wizard camp.

The wizards were also long accustomed to these routine battles, with the camp like an unbreakable nail, firmly positioned at the intersection of the Flame Frost Dual Realm, engaging in battles of varying scales with the indigenous people every day.

However, there were no longer those massive-scale assaults of millions of troops; both sides were carefully balancing the consumption and replenishment to avoid overly provoking each other.

Overall, the wizards, although they still only held the initial camp area, had an absolute advantage in combat.

But frankly, even the well-informed Viola was surprised by the fighting spirit of the Ice and Flame Plane’s indigenous people.

For an entire year, almost every day, anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands of monsters would launch attacks on the camp.

For an ordinary race, such a huge disadvantage should have already led to a loss of fighting spirit, or even internal conflicts within the race.

Jeming and Viola, along with some other Logistics Wizards, discussed, believing that the indigenous people of the Ice and Flame Plane likely considered the wizard’s cannon fodder units as members of the wizard’s race due to the peculiarities of their life form.

In their view, the true essence of the Wizard Civilization should be those bizarre cannon fodders, while the wizards were the elite units of this race.

Additionally, regardless of whether it was the Magma Giant or Yeti, their methods of procreation were not sexual reproduction, but rather splitting a core and placing it in a high-energy gestation field with corresponding energy for asexual division.

As long as there was enough energy, the young could rapidly grow into adults.

Therefore, in the view of the two races, their battle with the wizards should be evenly matched.

But even so, maintaining such a vigorous fighting spirit was still very impressive, which also made the value of live captives from the two races increasingly high.

After all, such a life form, with strong combat capabilities, intense fighting desire, and simple reproduction, was simply the best base for cannon fodder transformation!

“However… these indigenous people’s vigorous attack desires have saved us a lot of trouble,” Jeming couldn’t help but quietly remark.

Viola, who was just passing by, paused upon hearing the words: “Yeah, in the past, after fighting for a few months, we had to think of ways to act vulnerable to boost the opponent’s confidence. Now, it’s saved us a lot of trouble.”

Pausing, as if recalling something, Viola’s tone dropped again: “But because these guys are so good at fighting, our Logistics tasks have become more numerous than ever…”

Jeming nodded with lingering fear; the past few months have been bearable.

During the busiest time, if it weren’t for strengthening his body with the Body Refining Technique before coming, he worried about whether he would suddenly die amid these tasks.

As he was thinking, the wizards around suddenly started to stir.

“Hmm?! What’s going on?” Jeming stood up warily.

He was now too familiar with such disturbances, even starting to get a bit triggered by them.

Every time there was such a disturbance, it meant that some wizard had made a significant discovery, and once there was a significant discovery, it meant a pile of tasks was being assigned.

Viola’s reaction was almost the same as Jeming’s. However, after they both pulled out their Magic Net terminals and took a look, they simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the information provided by the terminal, this time it was because a wizard had discovered the main reason for the mutual hatred between the Magma Giants and Yetis.

Regarding the two clans’ intelligence, most had already been extracted from the Souls of the slain or captured indigenous people of both tribes.

However, some special issues, whose answers only existed in the higher-level Souls of the two tribes, remained largely unknown to the wizards for the time being.

Among the widespread puzzles was the reason for the enmity between the two races.

The animosity between the Magma Giants and Yetis has long existed. From the perspective of an outsider wizard, it seems utterly irrational for the two tribes to harbor such enmity.

After all, these two tribes have completely different ecological habits and living environments. Although they exist on the same Plane, the two tribes can be said to live in entirely different worlds.

If it were said that the two tribes held each other’s precious resources, it might be understandable.

But based on the various intelligence the wizards had gathered, even if the two tribes left each other alone, they wouldn’t disrupt each other’s survival.

Unable to live in each other’s environments and having no actual interest conflicts, the fact that the two tribes could communicate at all seems absurd, let alone harbor mutual enmity.

Yet in reality, before the wizards arrived, the Magma Giants and Yetis would engage in a grand war every few years.

The indigenous people at the lower levels knew nothing of the reasons, merely knowing they were compelled every few years to leave their comfortable environments and engage in deadly battles at the chaotic energy zones on the borders of the Flame Sun Realm and Frost Dark Realm.

And just recently, a logistics element wizard skilled in resource surveying finally discovered a possible reason while detecting the geological environment: the wars between the two clans were not meaningless, as the territory of the losing side would be compressed and reduced.

“Who would have thought that the boundary between the Flame Sun Realm and Frost Dark Realm would actually change based on the victories or defeats of the two clans?” Jeming looked at the conclusion on the terminal, a little surprised.

“But… what is the underlying principle? Isn’t the unique climate of the Ice and Flame Plane due to the illumination of the Fire Element and Water Elemental Plane projections?”

“It’s indeed incomprehensible, but according to the sampling results from geological drilling, the boundary between the Flame Sun Realm and Frost Dark Realm is indeed constantly moving, and its variation trend is positively correlated with the annual war outcomes of the two clans…” Viola also showed a keen interest in the data on the terminal.

“I guess the leaders of these two tribes must have some special means to influence the projections of the Elemental Plane after winning battles…”

Hearing Viola’s analysis, Jeming couldn’t help but widen his eyes: “This thing can even be influenced?!”

“It can be, but that belongs to more advanced technology, even among the wizards, it’s only doable after reaching the Sixth Level…” Viola said, subconsciously licking her lips.

“If an indigenous civilization has such technology, then this Augustine Wizard would have hit the jackpot.”

Jeming nodded in agreement at these words.

Without a doubt, knowledge of this level would definitely be concentrated in the hands of the leaders of the two tribes, namely the two Sixth Level Kings of Monsters.

In other words, the only considerable chance of acquiring this knowledge is through the initiator of this mission, Sixth Level Wizard Augustine.

With the treaty from the Star Orbit Arbitration Court in place, no one dared to risk the wrath of a Ninth Level Wizard by forcibly seizing the knowledge of another wizard.

Surrounding forces, including the Nolun Workshop, hoping to acquire such technology, could only purchase it from Augustine’s hands.

However, since the other side would also need a vast amount of resources to build their own Plane, they certainly wouldn’t be stingy about trading this knowledge away.

It’s possible that just this single piece of knowledge could allow Augustine Wizard to recoup all of their investments from early to late stages.

Jeming, being somewhat experienced with Plane construction, naturally knew how much resources it took to construct an entire “Wizard Tower.”

Thinking of this, Jeming indeed couldn’t help but feel a bit envious.

“But those things are still too far off. What should be most useful to us at this stage is the following information here…” Jeming shook his head, turning his gaze to the geological survey data below.

Due to the lack of manpower and time, this wizard’s data was relatively simplistic, yet included some very important points.

Through drilling, it was discovered that the boundary line’s motion range was actually quite exaggerated, with the deepest parts already penetrating over eighty percent into both sides.

Jeming couldn’t help but touch his chin: “Losing eighty percent of the territory yet still resisting to the end? This really is…”

“Fantastic!” Viola continued Jeming’s words.

The two exchanged a glance and then shared a knowing smile.

Wizards never worried about the fierce resilience of their enemies; they worried about what desperate measures the enemies might take.

The stronger the opponents’ resilience, the less likely they would recklessly opt for mutual destruction. By the time they truly realized the futility, they would have already lost the chance for mutual demise.

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