Reconnaissance and the Unexpected

A few days later, Benjamin hid within a layer of Phase Space, like a shadow submerged beneath the water, silent and invisible.

Through the blurred scene transmitted by the spatial membrane, a squad of wizards flew overhead.

They were a full fifteen Level 5 Wizards from the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence Coalition, arranged in a rigorous search formation and led by a Level 6 Wizard whose aura was distinctly heavier than the rest.

They did not use large-scale detection sorcery. Instead, they scanned every inch of space with some precise energy resonance field, overlooking not even the slightest anomaly in elemental flow.

"Tsk! Didn't I only kill three people?" Benjamin muttered soundlessly within Phase Space. "Why are these guys acting like I poked a hornet's nest?"

But he knew perfectly well that he really had poked a hornet's nest.

After that previous encounter, his location had effectively thrust him into the Coalition camp's alert perimeter.

The destruction of that three-man patrol had clearly triggered some sort of warning mechanism.

Since then, the search density in this region had abruptly climbed to a suffocating degree.

Even more troublesome was the terrifying quality of these searchers.

Not only were they genuine elites—well-trained, seamlessly coordinated, and individually formidable—but every few squads had a Level 6 Wizard stationed at the center to lead them, ready to provide timely support at the first sign of trouble.

Several times, Benjamin had nearly been detected by passing sensory-type wizards merely because the tiniest spatial ripple had arisen during a Phase Space transition.

It forced him to change his hiding strategy.

Benjamin now dove deep into the layers of space through Phase Space, then relied on the computational power provided by the spirituality of the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror Dharma Treasure to multitask, weaving a "Spatial Stabilization"