hhnovel Chapter 708: Reinforcements
Chapter 708: Reinforcements
**Chapter 708: Reinforcements**
Dean Avery Knight did not keep Jie Ming waiting long.
Outside the main control room of the Infernal Sulfur Plane, the giant teleportation array slowly lit up.
In the next moment, several figures stepped out from the still-unstable spatial ripples.
Leading the way at the front was none other than Avery Knight.
The dean was still wearing his pure white robe, with no decorations on the cuffs or collar. Yet the moment he stepped out of the teleportation array, the elemental flow across the entire plane seemed to pause briefly.
That was the natural presence formed by a seventh-ring wizard at the level of laws.
Four wizards followed closely behind him, stepping out of the teleportation array in sync.
Without any deliberate concealment, the surrounding elements resonated under the influence of high-level laws.
Four distinct law auras unfolded outside the main control room, and an extremely faint “buzzing” could even be heard in the air. There was no doubt—these wizards were all seventh-ring.
Jie Ming stood at the center of the flat to welcome them. On the other side, Viola leaned against the metal wall with her arms crossed, her long hair gently lifted by the hot wind, a polite smile hanging at the corner of her lips.
The two sides did not even exchange pleasantries. Dean Avery glanced at Jie Ming and went straight to the point:
“Location.”
“It has already been locked.” Jie Ming raised his hand, fingers spread open.
Under the effect of the temporary cross-plane teleportation array, a pitch-black fissure unfolded before everyone.
On the other side of the fissure, a blazing white sea of light formed by three intertwining stars slowly rotated.
Everyone stepped through in one stride.
In the next instant, a stellar storm rushed toward them.
Near the gravitational equilibrium point of the three stars, large stretches of Divine Armament wreckage still drifted slowly in the void.
Dean Avery stood in the void, his gaze slowly sweeping across the surroundings.
His line of sight paused for a moment on the fracture surfaces of those wrecks before shifting to the elemental fluctuations in the distance that had yet to fully dissipate.
Those were the remnants left behind when Viola had previously deployed her Pain Law.
However, Dean Avery’s attention did not linger on this. After a moment, the dean slowly exhaled:
“It is indeed the trace of a Reflection Dimension.”
His voice was not loud, yet it caused the eyes of the several seventh-ring wizards around him to brighten noticeably.
“To recognize a Reflection Dimension creature on first contact and even complete the kill…” Avery looked toward Viola, clear appreciation in his deep brown eyes. “Miss Viola, your Pain Law has matured considerably since the last exchange meeting.”
“You flatter me, Dean.”
Viola smiled and curtsied gracefully, her tone modest and perfectly measured, resembling a well-bred young lady of noble birth. Dean Avery, who knew her true nature well, shook his head lightly and then stepped aside.
“Let me introduce them to you.”
He raised his hand to indicate a wizard behind him who had remained silent the entire time.
This person’s attire differed from ordinary wizards. Instead of a robe, he wore a suit of dark gray scale armor.
The scale armor was not solid metal but seemed more like some kind of living crystal.
Every scale surface was densely engraved with runes that flowed slowly, as if possessing their own life.
Most distinctive were his eyes.
A black cloth strip covered in spell inscriptions blindfolded his eyes, yet even so, a faint green light still seeped out from beneath the strip. “This is Serlas,” Dean Avery introduced. “One of the strongest seventh-ring wizards in Noren Workshop’s perception domain. His perception law has already reached the point where it can touch the dimensional interlayer.”
Viola raised an eyebrow at the words, and Jie Ming also gave the man an extra glance.
Perception law.
Such laws were extremely niche, but Reflection Dimension creatures essentially ran straight into the muzzle when facing them.
Serlas did not speak, merely nodding slightly.
Then, he turned directly and flew toward the distance.
His target was precisely the location where the Reflection Dimension creature had been killed by Viola earlier.
He stopped at the center of the void and slowly raised both hands.
Buzz…
All the runes on the scale armor lit up simultaneously.
green light flowed out from between the scales, converging along his arms to his fingertips, rapidly constructing a three-dimensional rune array in the void. The array was extremely complex, layer upon layer, like a spatial mechanism assembled from countless rotating gears.
The surrounding void began to twist slightly, as if the entire space had developed some strange “folds.”
Jie Ming activated the Fate Subsystem and the All-Purpose Eye, recording the changes around him.
It was clear that this so-called distortion was not a change at the material or spatial level, but the dimensional interlayer being forcibly “pried open.” Serlas’s fingers moved slowly, the motion as light as touching the surface of water.
A few seconds later, his movements suddenly stopped. His right hand clenched fiercely.
Whoosh!
All the green runes instantly contracted!
They compressed in the void and ultimately condensed into a fist-sized sealing orb.
The surface of the orb flowed with patterns interwoven in green and gray-white.
Deep within the orb, an extremely faint dark shadow slowly writhed.
That shadow was not real, more like some kind of “residue.”
“This is…” Jie Ming narrowed his eyes.
“Dimensional ripple.”
Dean Avery walked over.
“After a Reflection Dimension creature dies, it leaves an extremely brief dimensional remnant trace in the main world. Ordinary wizards cannot perceive it at all, but Serlas can.”
As he spoke, his gaze remained fixed on the sealing orb, his interest almost undisguised.
“Because they are not in the same dimension, both research and sealing require special methods.”
“Normal sealing techniques or research methods are meaningless against them—spells would simply pass right through.”
He extended his hand and made a gentle slicing motion in the void: “To catch them, you must first locate the dimensional ripple, then peel off that entire section of dimensional interlayer as a whole.” Jie Ming listened quietly, then suddenly asked with some confusion:
“Since the dimensions are different, why can they attack the main world?”
Dean Avery smiled and shook his head upon hearing this: “Because they are not actually ‘attacking.’ They simply open an extremely brief dimensional channel.”
He raised his hand and drew a circle in front of everyone.
“Imagine the hull of a submarine deep in the ocean being drilled with a pinhole. What would happen?”
Jie Ming’s eyes flickered.
“There is a similar ‘pressure difference’ between the Reflection Dimension and the main world.”
Avery continued:
“When the channel is opened, the pressure of the main world surges into the Reflection Dimension in an instant. Thus, all matter along the channel’s path is directly erased—it is crushed away at the root level by the dimensional pressure difference. In theory, aside from an eighth-ring wizard’s law fixation, almost no individual can withstand it.”
Viola’s originally polite smile stiffened slightly upon hearing this, her gaze subconsciously drifting toward Jie Ming.
Clearly, she was recalling the earlier battle scene.
Jie Ming nodded slowly. His mind had already quickly completed the analogy.
Simply put, the attack principle of Reflection Dimension creatures was almost identical to that of a Spatial Slash.
The only difference was that Spatial Slash utilized the spatial difference between phase space and the main world, while Reflection Dimension creatures utilized a higher-level dimensional difference. No wonder both the Return to Ruins Armor and the black giant’s energy absorption talent had completely failed.
It was also no surprise that his current body-forging method was adapting so slowly…
At this moment, Avery suddenly spoke again:
“In fact, the Reflection Dimension was not always like this.”
Everyone turned to look at him simultaneously.
Dean Avery stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze directed toward the distant stretch of metal wreckage.
“According to the records of wizard civilization, tens of thousands of years ago, although the Reflection Dimension and the main world did not interfere with each other, they would occasionally produce some harmless contacts.”
“Until later…”
He paused here, his brows furrowing slightly:
“A portion of the creatures in the Reflection Dimension suddenly began to crazily attack the main world. The reason remains unknown…”
“At least, several ninth-ring wizards have yet to find the cause.”
The void fell silent for a few seconds. Jie Ming’s eyes flickered.
If even ninth-ring wizards did not know, then this matter was not something he could ponder at his current level.
“Fortunately, the number of Reflection Dimension creatures capable of perceiving the main world is itself very small. Otherwise, the entire Endless Chaotic Void would have turned into a disaster.” After finishing, Avery Knight turned to look at Jie Ming:
“But it is indeed rare for someone like you, at a level below seventh-ring, to directly encounter an actively attacking Reflection Dimension creature.”
Serlas had flown back by this time. He handed the sealing orb to Dean Avery.
Avery accepted the sealing orb, pondered for a moment, and finally got to the main topic.
“Since the target has been confirmed, the next step is allocation.”
The gazes of the several seventh-ring wizards simultaneously grew serious.
Reflection Dimension creatures.
The research value of such things was outrageously high.
For seventh-ring wizards, it could even be directly linked to future rank breakthroughs.
Avery spoke calmly: “We already had a simple discussion before coming. Now we will confirm it once more. Any Reflection Dimension creatures discovered within the plane will be prioritized for allocation at one per seventh-ring wizard present.”
“If the number exceeds the number of people present, the excess will belong to Jie Ming, and we will assist in capture for free.”
“But if the number is insufficient…”
“The person who obtains the first sample must compensate the other wizards.”
At this point, he looked at everyone.
“According to Noren Workshop’s standard for trading rare research materials.”
No one objected.
This plan was fair enough, with very clear division of interests.
The several seventh-ring wizards exchanged glances with one another, then nodded simultaneously.
“Acceptable.”
“No problem.”
“Agreed.”
Dean Avery stored the sealing orb into his sleeve: “Then I’ll shamelessly take the first harvest.”
He then raised his hand: “Begin the operation.”
In the next instant.
Multiple law domains unfolded simultaneously, and lights of different colors lit up one after another in the void.
Serlas and another combat-oriented seventh-ring wizard formed a team and flew toward the core of the star system first.
The other two headed separately toward the outer star domains and the dense stellar regions.
Clearly, each team was equipped with at least one perception-type wizard and one seventh-ring existence skilled in direct combat.
In the blink of an eye.
The high-rank wizards who had gathered together disappeared in different directions.