Benjamin floated in a sea of pure white light, his consciousness immersed in the fragments of information gathered by the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique.
Though he had only encountered them once so far, Benjamin had gained quite a bit of intelligence by piecing together the fragmented information.
"Looks like my earlier deduction was correct..."
Basic elemental attacks were indeed effective, and the reason was precisely that these Information Beings were too powerful.
Though those Information Beings could analyze complex information structures, their very existence still relied on the four elements.
Their outer energy was built from elements. Though the information within their cores was abstract, it still needed to rely on elements in order to "exist."
Their technology truly approached the essence of the world, giving them an overwhelming advantage against most systems of civilization.
Put simply, when facing other civilizations, these Information Beings were like privileged users who could directly alter the "game" data from the backend. But for the same reason, their actual combat power was rather worrying—when so-called power was merely data they could manipulate at will, there was naturally no need to develop power. But when facing attacks that were more fundamental and prevented them from modifying the backend data, that advantage instead became a fatal weakness. "Like a hacker encountering a physical power outage."
The image surfaced in Benjamin's mind.
No matter how skilled you were, once the network cable was unplugged, you were still helpless.
The facts proved that the four-element theory Wizard Civilization relied on for survival remained closer to the essence, even when compared with such a bizarre civilization. He suddenly thought of those Level 9 Wizards standing at the pinnacle of Wizard Civilization—controlling laws, freely altering the world, wielding limitless power.
Existences at that level had likely touched upon something deeper