On the Wizard "Ship" Plane, the camp's alarm echoed through the cold void like a death knell.
Benjamin, Viola, and more than two hundred other Logistics Department wizards floated silently in the sky above the plane.
Before the vast rift in the sky, their figures appeared utterly insignificant.
The moment the alarm sounded, the commanders had recalled them to the "Ship" Plane.
This was the Wizard Expeditionary Force's final retreat, and also its safest brain.
Above them, through the enormous spatial rift torn across the sky, the war unfolding on the Frostfire Plane was clearly visible, laid bare before every wizard.
At this moment, the Expeditionary Force was already at a complete disadvantage.
The hundreds of millions of Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, relying on their numbers and home-field advantage, were madly squeezing the wizards' battle lines.
The Lava Giants' three strategic volcanoes, charged by underground magma veins, periodically spewed crimson light, turning more than half the battlefield into a thousand-degree inferno.
The extreme heat vastly increased the Lava Giants' power, transforming them into pure liquid magma that was nearly immune to physical attacks and most elemental sorcery.
Meanwhile, the surviving Snow Monsters seized the chance to launch a charge from the other side with ice sorcery. Cooperating with the Lava Giants' assault, they split apart the wizards' cannon fodder legions.
Unlike the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, who fought on their home ground and could continuously gather reinforcements from across the entire plane, with reserve forces numbering in the hundreds of millions and nearly inexhaustible—
The expeditionary wizards' "material reserves" were limited.
Their Biochemical Beast and golem cannon fodder had to be airlifted, cultivated, and manufactured through Alchemy. Once consumed in excessive quantities, they could not be replenished in a short time and could only rely on long-distance transport