Under Locke's orders, the three Vaporization Wizards of the Illusion School stood on the projection platform of the Exploration Pioneer. Immediately afterward, their wizard robes began to flow, resonating with their respective Permanent Defense Fields.
At the same time, their bodies began to blur. Like writhing phantoms, they split apart, turning from one person into two, then from two into four, from four into eight, and from eight into sixteen.
This was the First-Ring Illusion spell model: [Phantom Clone]!
The defining characteristic of this spell model was that each clone had very low precision and could easily be distinguished by a wizard. Its advantage, however, was that it produced a great many clones. It had been specifically designed to deal with non-wizard enemies.
When Locke had recruited them, he had required all three to learn this First-Ring Illusion School spell model, because it was extremely useful during Plane exploration.
At the same time, since all three were members of Mind Corridor, a medium-sized wizard organization in the Golden Crown Mountain District, they had all chosen Mind Corridor's standard Permanent Defense Field, [Inverted Thought Barrier].
The effect of this Permanent Defense Field was to provide a certain degree of basic force-energy protection. Its main defensive power lay in the fact that when an intelligent life-form wanted to attack you, its thought process would be forcibly reversed by the Permanent Defense Field, halting the attack command.
In other words, it was impossible to select a wizard protected by this Permanent Defense Field as a target.
It could be considered a special magical inheritance of Mind Corridor, a rather distinctive spell.
Locke said to the three, "That's enough. Enter the Three-Cave Plane now."
After the three Permanent Defense Fields resonated with their wizard robes, they were immediately strengthened. At the same time, they