Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 288 - 257: The Plan

In the following days, fortunately, no fatal accidents occurred.

However, everyone clearly felt that the search mission was becoming increasingly difficult.

This area was no longer as smooth and stable as before.

In space, many invisible distortion zones appeared.

Some distortion zones were extremely chaotic, absolutely untouchable. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Previously, an unfortunate scouting mosquito swarm merely got close, and at the moment of contact, the entire swarm was teleported and torn apart by violent spatial power.

Any slightly larger creature that dared to approach would likely be torn into pieces.

Some areas resembled entrances to unknown paths.

Only by entering could one discover what was inside.

It could be a resource-rich "Peach Blossom Spring," or a path leading to death.

According to Levin Mills, this area might be where this "Space Distortion" has "just" formed.

The internal Space Rules were not yet completely stable, causing such chaotic issues.

Because of this, Jeming and the others found themselves in a labyrinth constructed by space itself, filled with deadly traps.

Explorers would never know what they would encounter next.

This not only significantly increased the search difficulty but also took more and more time.

However, the wizards present didn’t have any complaints.

After all, the more unstable and chaotic the area, the more bizarre creatures and special resources could be found.

Although the search was exceedingly time-consuming, the rewards had increased substantially.

Moreover, thanks to the "Luminous Insects" as scouting pioneers, the wizards didn’t suffer major losses.

As collected resources increased, the hired wizards began to generously use Magic Potions to restore their souls damaged by the Psychic Shock from the Soul Contract.

The only troublesome issue was that the plump wizard as the scouting core seemed to be at his limit.

Tonight, during the rest period, the wizards rarely gathered together.

Because Levin Mills, after investigation, discovered a relatively stable large area.

He decided to have everyone search there together tomorrow.

This was the reason why the wizards had to gather for regrouping.

Jeming followed the spiritual navigation between the "Luminous Insects" to the rendezvous point.

At first, he felt everything was normal, until his gaze fell on the plump wizard, startling him.

Strictly speaking, there were no more "plump wizards" in Jack’s team now.

In place, there was a wizard who seemed drained of all Life Energy, emaciated like a skeleton.

If not for sensing the weak soul aura confirming this was the plump wizard from before, Jeming could hardly believe his eyes.

Sweeping his gaze around, Jeming quickly found Jack and quietly approached him.

"You’re here? I thought you’d come later."

Jack saw it was Jeming and instinctively greeted him.

"It’s fine, I encountered a Space Distortion yesterday, and came out very close to the rendezvous point."

Jeming gestured with his eyes to the emaciated wizard and asked, "Senior Jack, what’s the matter with him?"

Jack followed his gaze, shrugged indifferently, and showed a familiar expression: "What else could it be, the ’Luminous Insects’ have consumed too much recently, so his flesh can’t support anymore."

Jeming was shocked upon hearing this!

He had indeed seen the plump wizard create Luminous Insects personally, but he always thought that the way the wizard separated flesh to convert into mosquitoes was merely a special storage method akin to "Flesh Compression."

Similar to how Jack’s armor expanded instantly into a giant humanoid fortress, not due to violating conservation of mass-energy, but through "Mechanical Compression" technology applied to the armor.

Moreover, though the plump wizard had a large body, the amount of Luminous Insects he consumed in these days far exceeded his own weight, so Jeming never considered it.

After all, even in an extraordinarily developed wizard society, spatial equipment capable of holding living creatures was extraordinarily expensive, which ordinary Low Level Wizards couldn’t afford.

Unexpectedly, he was actually separating his own flesh!

Jeming couldn’t help but widen his eyes: "I didn’t expect... someone would use such self-destructive witchcraft. Truly eye-opening..."

Jack couldn’t help but glance at him, with a perplexed expression.

"What’s wrong?" Jeming found his gaze somewhat odd.

"No... nothing." Jack shook his head, not intending to continue the conversation.

Jeming was puzzled, unsure which of his words was inappropriate.

At this moment, Levin Mills also arrived, noticing the former "plump wizard" now looking miserable.

His brow furrowed tightly as he approached with concern: "How’s the situation, can you hold on?"

The former "plump wizard," now the "emaciated wizard," forced a smile uglier than crying.

His voice was hoarse and feeble, with a troubled expression: "If the losses continue like this, I can only hold on for thirteen more days."

Other wizards shook their heads inwardly upon hearing this.

If this was true, their mission this time would fail.

However, the hired wizards appeared calm, even in good spirits one might say.

After all, they had harvested so much during this period, they were quite satisfied despite not receiving the mission reward.

Levin Mills stepped forward, gently patting the emaciated wizard’s shoulder and whispered comforting words.

Then turning, he began explaining tomorrow’s search plan to everyone:

"Everyone, quiet down."

His voice, though small, clearly reached everyone’s ears.

"I have roughly inspected the area we will search tomorrow."

"Unlike regions we’ve explored before, this area’s overall altitude is noticeably higher."

With Levin Mills’ narration, everyone understood the general situation of the area for exploration tomorrow.

If the previous areas seemed more ’flat’, the forthcoming region is like an inverted ’trapezoid.’

Not only did the height increase, but the ’upper’ region widened as well.

Previously, wizards only needed to line up side by side to search and cover all necessary regions.

But with the current situation...