I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 255 Search and Battle

I flew a distance with Jack and Levin Mills in this strange world where gravity was upside down and the ground was covered in clouds.

Jemin soon spotted a dozen or so figures floating in mid-air ahead.

He recognized them at a glance; these were the other members of Jack's team he had seen at the intersection plaza earlier.

However, at this moment, these people were all quietly floating in place, each at a distance from the others.

Some had their eyes closed and seemed to be remotely controlling something in some way.

Some of them had their eyes open, but their gazes were vacant, clearly indicating that their main attention was not on this.

After a long while, one of the wizards, who looked quite fat, slowly opened his eyes.

His small eyes were filled with an undisguised sense of loss.

He sighed heavily, and then he noticed that Jack and his companion had arrived beside him, along with the new wizards, including Jemin, who were following behind them.

"Jack, you're back." The fat wizard greeted Jack weakly.

He then glanced at the number of wizards standing behind Jack, and his face showed a clear look of disappointment:

"Why are there so few people?"

"Given the current situation, it's already good enough that we can find someone willing to cooperate..." Jack shrugged helplessly.

“...That makes sense.” The fat wizard considered the situation outside and said nothing more.

After finishing his conversation with the fat wizard, Jack looked at the new wizard behind him and said in a deep voice, "Get ready to get to work."

The obese wizard didn't say much, just nodded silently.

Suddenly, his exposed skin began to writhe violently like ripples in water!

Immediately, a small lump of flesh, about the size of a bean, detached itself from his massive body, like clay that had been forcibly kneaded.

Then, to everyone's astonishment, the writhing mass of flesh rapidly deformed and stretched, transforming into a grotesque creature that looked like an enlarged version of a mosquito.

In the blink of an eye, the fat wizard created a huge swarm of mosquitoes around him!
His already obese body looked noticeably smaller after so much flesh and blood were separated.

Under the control of the obese wizard, the buzzing "mosquitoes" quickly split into twelve groups of varying sizes and flew to the wizards.

When Jack recruited everyone, he had already explained the specific procedures of the mission to them, so the others present didn't say anything more.

Each of them, facing the "mosquitoes" that flew in front of them, mobilized their spiritual power to sign a soul contract with each one.

The swarm of "mosquitoes" in front of Jemin was the largest, even more than the combined swarms in front of his eleven other level-one wizard "colleagues".

He could only patiently mobilize his spiritual power, which far surpassed that of his peers, and weave his spiritual tentacles over the area one by one, like weaving a net.

These reconnaissance-type bio-engineered beasts are different from ordinary cannon fodder units used for charging into battle.

Ordinary cannon fodder units only need to sign the most basic contract to guarantee remote control.

However, these sophisticated reconnaissance-type bio-engineered beasts need to sign a deeper soul contract in order to transmit the reconnaissance footage and information back in a timely and lossless manner.

Although this contract can be dissolved at any time after the mission ends, if you're unlucky, the creatures that have made the contract with you may be killed before it can be dissolved.

Therefore, the soul impact generated upon death will still have a certain impact on the wizard's mental strength.

If too many people die at once, it can even cause permanent damage to the wizard's soul.

With such a fatal flaw, only specialized, soul-hardened "reconnaissance" wizards could survive.

Otherwise, most ordinary wizards would choose to use the safer and more convenient "reconnaissance magic".

However, the advantages of this method are also obvious: it can greatly increase the wizard's detection range and make the intelligence and information obtained more accurate.

After everyone had completed the mosquito swarm agreement, Levin Mills nodded: "We've searched this area. So, we need everyone to move forward for the next round of searching."

The wizards nodded silently.

The experienced Jack stepped forward and left a small, shimmering metal sphere in place as a reference point for the subsequent return.

Seeing this, the other hired wizards also left their own coordinates on the spot using their own methods.

Jemin also raised his hand and flicked, and a tiny "glimmer" that was almost invisible to the naked eye flew out silently and disappeared into the clouds at his feet in an instant.

Feeling the solid connection established between this "Eye of Glimmer" and the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, Jemin nodded in satisfaction.

He then looked at Levin Mills and his group, who had already begun their operation, and asked with a slightly puzzled expression, "They're starting already?" He frowned, but didn't say anything more, and followed Levin Mills's steps.

Under Levin Mills's arrangement, Jack's team and the new wizards, including Jemin, began to gradually separate.

Depending on the number of "mosquitoes" they each contract with, they fly forward in a safe range of tens to hundreds of kilometers, forming a huge fan-shaped group, while scattering the "mosquitoes" that have signed contracts with them like dandelion seeds.

Each person conducted a thorough, net-like search of the cone-shaped area in front of them.

The search process is actually quite boring.

The scenery here is so monotonous it's almost unbelievable; there's hardly anything different.

Occasionally, you'll encounter some strangely shaped creatures that have spontaneously sprung up in this area.

The attacks they launched, ironically, became "toys" for the group to amuse themselves during the search.

As Jemin flew forward, he suddenly noticed, through the shared vision of a "mosquito" flying at the very front, that a group of extremely fast creatures were flying straight toward him from a great distance!
Those creatures were extremely fast.

Judging from the sonic boom clouds they emitted, their speed has easily surpassed the speed of sound!
Because they were moving so fast, Jemin could barely make out the mosquitoes' exact shapes.

It was only barely discernible that every inch of those creatures was perfectly streamlined, like living white cannonballs flying at high speed through the air!
Two minutes later, when the creatures entered his regular reconnaissance range, Jemin was able to clearly see their specific figures thanks to his extraordinary eyesight.

After doing some calculations based on his reconnaissance range and the approaching speed of the creatures, Jemin was surprised to find that the average speed of these creatures had easily exceeded three times the speed of sound!
Fortunately, the moment Jemin discovered them, he activated the "acceleration" rune artifact in advance.

By "accelerating," he greatly improved his neural reaction speed, so that he was no longer unable to even see the other person's figure clearly, as he had done before.

Seeing the rapidly approaching swarm of creatures, which showed no sign of slowing down, it was clear that being hit by these things would be extremely unpleasant.

He stretched out his finger and aimed it at the creatures that were rushing towards him at high speed in the distance.

Jemin tentatively fired a fireball that was compressed several times over.

The fireball grew larger the moment it left Jemin's fingertips.

What was originally only the size of a fist has expanded into a "mini sun" with a diameter of over 100 meters, burning with red flames, after flying hundreds of meters!
It pierced the sky at a speed faster than those creatures, leaving a long, crimson trail of flame in mid-air.

Finally, just as the two sides were about to make contact, they exploded with a deafening roar!

Boom! ! !

A terrifying force suddenly exploded!

A massive, tumbling fireball, over a kilometer in diameter, formed in mid-air at the moment of impact!

Infinite light and heat were released in that instant!
It even instantly evaporated the surrounding clouds and mist, creating a brief "vacuum" zone!
This is the true destructive power of a normal level two wizard.

Its power was enough to easily destroy a village from Jemin's previous life.

And it's not just the kind of destruction that kills living things, but a true destruction that completely razes an area, including the land and buildings, to the ground!

Suddenly attacked head-on, these high-speed flying creatures suffered heavy casualties.

However, a few creatures at the head of the group, whose strength had reached the peak of level two, managed to withstand the aftershocks of the explosion thanks to their sturdy shells and powerful vitality, and still retained their ability to move.

They merely adjusted their posture slightly before charging towards him again at an even faster speed.

Jemin couldn't help but frown.

"This is really troublesome. We can't use 'matter manipulation' magic or 'force field' magic. It's not easy to capture these things alive without killing them."

After thinking for a moment, Jemin glanced at the talismanic artifact on his wrist but chose not to use it.

Instead, he raised his fingers again and began to gather elemental power at his fingertips.

The two sides fought for a while longer.

In the end, with his destructive magic that he controlled, Jemin blasted these creatures, which were like "living missiles," into serious injury one after another.

Only after rendering them incapacitated can they be successfully captured.

At the same time, Jemin also keenly sensed various intense energy fluctuations coming from afar.

It seems that the other wizards, like him, must have encountered an attack from the enemy.

"However, since no one has asked for help in the team channel, we shouldn't worry for the time being."

With that in mind, Jemin stopped and continued to explore further ahead.

(End of this chapter)