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

Chapter 263 Decision
Jemin stood before Levin Mills, who was completely powerless to resist, his gaze icy.

The two exchanged a glance and both clearly saw the murderous intent in each other's eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, Jemin unleashed a punch that instantly destroyed his physical body.

A level three wizard's soul is strong enough to detach from the body and survive for a short time.

But Jemin won't give him any chance.

He took out a special level-four attack artifact from his inner space—it contained a level-four spell specifically designed to destroy souls.

Seeing Levin Mills' weakened soul fly out of his mangled body and try to escape, Jemin immediately activated the sorcerer's artifact.

However, he deliberately changed the angle slightly, so that the soul magic did not completely annihilate him, but instead severely injured him to the point of near death.

As expected by Jemin, Levin Mills' soul was suspended in mid-air, unconscious, and gradually dissipating.

Seeing this, Jemin reached out and used "Soul Search" on him.

After being struck by the fourth-level sorcery, Levin Mills suffered irreversible damage to most of his memories.

However, according to the nature of the soul, the most deeply ingrained and memorable fragments of memory will still remain.

And it was precisely in these remaining fragments of memory that Jemin found the information he desperately needed—the truth of the whole thing.

Initially, Levin Mills and his group did accept the camp's mission to search for the missing wizard squad.

Although Levin Mills repeatedly claimed that Jemin was a genius, his own talent was not bad either, and after advancing to level three, he also mastered some basic spatial knowledge.

That's why he dared to take on this risky task.

Everything went smoothly at first, and they successfully found the wizard team that was lost in this distorted space.

However, just as they were preparing to lead the enemy to their retreat, the squad suddenly launched an attack without warning!
Fortunately, the team consisted of only six wizards, two of whom were only recently promoted to level three wizards and had not even fully mastered their own powers.

In addition, the cunning Levin Mills had prepared a backup plan before the meeting, hiding some of his team members on the perimeter to provide support.

Thanks to the tenacious vitality of the "Vitality" rule, Levin Mills miraculously survived and led his team to a counterattack, eliminating several opponents with their numerical advantage.

The surviving enemy level three wizard, seeing that the assassination attempt had failed, recklessly manipulated the spatial rules he was not familiar with, attempting to forcibly tear through space to escape.

This move triggered a chain reaction of spatial turmoil in this already unstable region, forcing Levin Mills and others to temporarily withdraw and wait for the space to calm down.

Through the extraction of memories from the killer's soul, Levin Mills discovered a shocking secret: the core of this spatial distortion zone contained an extremely precious free-state "plane origin"!
Besides being directly extracted by seventh-level wizards using their great power, the "Origin of the Dimension" can also spontaneously condense within specific energy bodies or substances in a dimension under certain special conditions, forming a precious resource containing the origin.

Although this naturally formed essence is not as pure as that extracted by a seventh-level wizard, it can still greatly assist a wizard's path to advancement.

More importantly, the source of this place is the rare and precious source of "spatial rules"!
This also explains why the third-level wizard was so unfamiliar with his own power—he was able to advance by forcibly absorbing the "plane's origin," but he had not had time to accumulate the corresponding knowledge and control.

As for why they attacked Levin Mills' squad?
This is because this region has special characteristics: to obtain the source, one must use special means to "sacrifice" high-quality matter and information.

Due to the violent fluctuations in space, the origin of this plane is extremely unstable. Through sacrifice, the origin can be "replaced".

Material resources are relatively easy to obtain, but "high-quality information" is extremely rare.

Although information carriers are ubiquitous in the eyes of wizards, pure information itself is extremely rare.

Aside from the pure origin of a plane, the most suitable medium for carrying information is the soul.

The so-called "high-quality information" means that the souls of ordinary local beasts are useless, and the most suitable sacrifice is intelligent life - especially the soul of a wizard, which is highly concentrated and has gathered a lot of knowledge!

Therefore, seeing that Levin Mills and his group were not particularly strong, the squad launched an attack, intending to harvest more souls in exchange for the source.

After all, ordinary wizards simply don't have the willpower to resist such high-end resources as the origin of a plane.

However, Levin Mills had a backup plan, and due to insufficient strength, they ultimately failed.

What followed was everything that Jemin personally experienced.

To search for the remaining enemies more efficiently, and also to cover up this shocking secret, Levin Mills' squad specifically hired a group of low-level wizards as cannon fodder.

In this way, even if the plan is exposed, they can silence them at any time, and even take advantage of the situation to use these wizards as "high-quality resources" for sacrifice, in order to replace the source of space.

The level three wizard who had managed to escape found himself with nowhere to go after discovering that Levin Mills and the others had kept the exit blocked.

He had no choice but to sacrifice all his fallen companions to obtain a massive amount of dimensional origin to forcibly advance, attempting to gamble on a sliver of hope by leveraging his level advantage. Browsing through these fragmented memories, a knowing glint flashed in Jemin's eyes.

He finally understood Levin Mills' true scheme and why the fourth-level wizard was so weak—in essence, he was just a second-level wizard who had forcibly increased his level by relying on his innate abilities.

Having only level four mental strength and physical prowess, but lacking matching knowledge and skills, one is naturally vulnerable.

But Jemin quickly turned his attention to the most crucial part of the intelligence: the treasure land that could replace the "dimensional origin"!

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

After a long time, Jemin made up his mind.

He turned around and looked at the fourth-level wizard who was still weak and collapsed on the ground.

The other party had just witnessed the entire process of Jemin disposing of Levin Mills, and now, seeing Jemin's gaze sweep over, only bitterness remained on his face.

The magic-suppressing field had not completely dissipated, and he was critically injured and on the verge of death. Without hesitation, he chose to submit: "Don't kill me... I am willing to accept the camp's judgment and review."

Jemin nodded without saying anything more, and simply conjured a new contract and handed it over.

The fourth-level wizard smiled bitterly, and in the end, still imprinted his mental energy on it.

For Jemin, this is the safest course of action at the moment.

On the surface, the wizarding civilization strictly forbids killing within its own kind.

As long as they are not discovered, there is no problem. However, if the evidence is conclusive, violators will face severe punishment.

Unless the circumstances are extremely heinous, they are usually not put to death, but wizards have plenty of ways to squeeze the value of criminal wizards to the extreme, making them spend the rest of their lives paying for their sins.

As the one who exposed and escorted him, Jemin will permanently enjoy a portion of all the benefits extracted from this fourth-level wizard—whether it be resources, knowledge, or military merit.

In other words, this fourth-level wizard will remain a "living mine" under Jemin's name for the rest of his life.

Of course, all of this is predicated on him passing the so-called "review".

Unlike the relatively public "trial", the "review" is more secretive.

It is usually activated only when the camp or higher authorities suspect that the wizard has an abnormal condition such as "mind contamination", "soul replacement" or "mental incubation".

This method of forcibly advancing based on the origin of a single dimension is one of the key areas for review.

In theory, wizards can indeed advance by using pure "plane origins," but only if these origins come from different planes.

This is because the fundamental nature of a plane is the aggregation of information, and consciousness and spirit are also forms of information.

If a high-level being is willing to decompose its own soul information into its fundamental essence and have it completely absorbed by another, it can perfectly replace the other's underlying consciousness without causing abnormal soul fluctuations!
In fact, this is the most common situation during the review process.

If the ruler of a world (the strongest being in that world) has enough wisdom to see through the true power behind the wizards, then he will easily understand that he faces only two paths: death, or becoming "trophy".

While many strong-willed individuals might decide to drag their enemies to their deaths, many others who don't want to die will try to save themselves.

Such a method of possession is easily conceived by beings who can communicate with the origins of different planes.

Thinking of this, Jemin couldn't help but recall that before he had officially advanced, he had met a legendary senior from the "Shadow Plane" before going to the Erosian Plane—who had advanced five levels in five years.

After learning the inside story, he specifically checked the college archives and found that the "senior's" name had already been quietly added to the list of the dead.

Without a doubt, that "lucky one" had already been "possessed" by the world lord of the shadow dimension.

But it was precisely because of this price that the Shadow Dimension, which was originally extremely difficult to deal with, was quickly pacified by the powerful figures of Norn Workshop.

Looking back now, I realize that the reason my mentor Clark smiled like that was probably because he had received advance notice, which is why he smiled so knowingly.

"...let's go."

Jemin snapped out of his thoughts and glanced at the ashen-faced Level 4 wizard and the group of terrified survivors.

Without saying another word, he swept up the spoils on the ground and flew back the way he came.

(End of this chapter)