What are they trying to do?
In the Shadow Space, Yaoyao frowned.
Even a slow-witted creature like him could sense that these Body Refinement Wizard were acting strangely, but he didn't know what they were up to. In short, it all felt very odd.
" Golden Eye Piercing Illusions's status is clearly extraordinary; he even dares to interrupt the Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard, Blue Dragon Bloodline Stigmata Wizard is obviously very afraid of him."
"He wants to recruit you, but the Blue Dragon Bloodline isn't very friendly towards you. Their situation is really complicated," Yaoyao said.
Even after ten years of space travel, despite some degree of control, they still couldn't shake some of their everyday habits.
That usually smiling, Golden Eye Piercing Illusions Stigmata Wizard definitely has a problem with his identity; he doesn't seem like a normal Level Four Stigmata Wizard at all.
That's how it was back in the Tower of Elements. With just a word from him, all the Body Refinement Wizard listened to him. At the time, Leo didn't think much of it. He simply believed that the Golden Eye Piercing Illusions could see through the hidden Lord of Souls, which was why he was respected by those Body Refinement Wizard. Now, it seems that's not the case at all.
The respect the Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard held for him, and the fear the Blue Dragon Bloodline Stigmata Wizard harbored towards him, were things that could not be concealed.
This Level Four Stigmata Wizard holds an absolutely pivotal position in the body-refining school of thought.
"Let's ignore them for now and conceal our presence. With those two around, it doesn't matter whether we kill a few Lord of Souls or not."
Those two Stigmata Wizard are definitely not as simple as they appear on the surface; either of them possesses top-tier strength among level four wizards.
The Purple Gold World only has six Level-Four Lord of Souls. Let alone the three of them, even just one appearing here would be a disaster for these Lord of Souls.
"Want to keep slacking off?" Yaoyao asked with a smile.
How can you call it slacking off?
"I want to try and advance to level five when my clone advances to level four. That's more important than anything else."
"Time is limited, I need to seize the time to study the rules of the microscopic world."
Although the struggle between the body refinement and elemental sides has not yet manifested itself openly, Leo has already deeply sensed the crisis.
They have been behind everything that has happened over the years. Although they haven't directly taken action, the losses from the hidden struggles have been more severe than if they had directly engaged in combat.
Just like when the academy was being rebuilt, a level four Guardian Wizard came to the academy, saying that the Guardian Wizard could compensate the academy for the losses it suffered, on the condition that he could see Leo, but Leo refused.
He didn't want to drag the Guardian Wizard into the conflict between the elemental and body-refining schools, because he might be caught in the crossfire and be reduced to nothing.
Only when you have sufficient strength can you avoid these disputes.
In the shadows, Leo took out the materials he had bought from the Fate Wizard Book and immersed himself in studying again.
Of course, the task of finding the Level-Four Lord of Souls still needs to be done. With Yaoyao and Three Thousand Shadows around, the task of finding him can be left to them.
If we happen to encounter them, killing a few would be a way to give that ill-tempered Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard some closure.
Leo never stayed in one place, lest the three-eyed, Golden Eye Piercing Illusions Stigmata Wizard see him slacking off.
I stay in one place for a few days, and then move on to another place.
During this process, it was discovered that, as previously stated, the Lord of Souls's power in the Purple Gold World was indeed in a completely passive state, occupying only one-fifth of the world's territory and struggling to defend against the wizard army's attack.
The way the Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard does things is perfectly in line with his identity Body Refinement Wizard —swift and decisive.
The wizard army is attacking the puppet army with the most frenzied attacks, and their daily achievements are now equivalent to the results of the previous shift of wizards over a month.
Of course, under such a frenzied attack, not only did the puppet army suffer heavy losses, but the wizard army also suffered considerable losses.
But the Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard completely ignored all of this, asking about the progress of the attack almost every ten days and issuing a dissatisfaction-based accountability notice once a month.
Under his frenzied commands, the wizard army, like a car at full throttle, launched a furious attack on the puppet army's defenses.
The slaves, controlled by the wizards, no longer cared about their own lives. Under the wizards' cold commands, they could only risk their lives again and again to charge into the puppet army, unleashing all the attacks they could muster, and then dying on the path of attack.
Some slaves even had self-destruct arrays set up on them. When their life force reached the point of near death, they would instantly detonate, causing self-destruct damage to the surrounding area with an attack intensity of level two to three.
The Qi and Blood Frenzy didn't care about the deaths of the frontline wizards; all it cared about was progress. Just like Leo and his group, they were required to kill the entire puppet army within twenty years.
If it is completed within twenty years, everyone will receive high military merits; if it is not completed, no one will escape punishment.
The Purple Gold World is a massive world, with an area so vast that the puppet army occupies one-fifth of its area.
The wizarding army has a very tight timeframe of twenty years to completely eliminate the puppet army, a task that the previous wizards failed to accomplish in a hundred years.
Under the guise of searching for Level-Four Lord of Souls, Leo wandered around aimlessly. Because the situation on the front lines was quite tense, he even went to check on the wizards in his academy, worried that they would suffer heavy losses under the brutal and tyrannical orders of the Qi and Blood Frenzy.
On such a large battlefield, the 50,000 wizards of the Atomic Control Academy were practically the smallest combat unit.
When Leo appeared in the shadows above them, he didn't see a heavily damaged wizarding force, but rather a battle formation with a very impressive record.
With the addition of artificial intelligence, the mechs can maximize their functionality within a small combat area.
For short distances, there's no need to consider interference from high-energy sources on signal propagation, nor is there any loss during signal transmission. Moreover, only 50,000 and some Gulu Beast are equipped with artificial intelligence assistance systems, greatly reducing the amount of computation required during combat.
Looking down from his vantage point, Leo could clearly see the gap between his own academy and those of the other academies.
During the battle, the wizards from the Atomic Control Academy displayed perfect teamwork, which went beyond mere tacit understanding.
With perfect understanding, every attack is a flawless collaboration.
Many of their attacks seem inexplicable to outsiders; they attack even when there are no enemies in sight. But when an attack is launched, a puppet will inevitably crash into it.
The artificial intelligence system is not only directing the wizards, but also simulating and calculating the puppets' movements and predicting their attack patterns.
A normal wizard could do this too, but on such a terrifying battlefield, a wizard's brain has to receive too much information and cannot process and calculate it as quickly as artificial intelligence.
It can be said that building artificial intelligence is like adding the equivalent of a Level Three Wizard's brain processing power to the wizards' brains.
They possess an incredibly formidable ability to calculate and respond in their use of energy and their choice of magic; they would never use half their power in an attack if they could use only one unit of their strength.
Their precise control allowed this small team of wizards, whose highest level was only level two and whose number was no more than 50,000, to achieve a terrifying number of kills, and they even managed to kill level three puppets several times.
Not only were their kill counts impressive, but their casualty rate was also incredibly low. While other wizarding teams had casualty rates reaching 5%, theirs was less than 2%.
This is still due to their weaker strength; if their strength were equal, their casualty rate could be reduced to below 1%.
Leo and Yaoyao both witnessed the 50,000-strong puppet army chasing Hu Jianxing and his group. While the other wizards opted for a massive, all-encompassing attack with their slave armies, they continued their ranged attacks from behind.
The attacks released by Hu Jianxing and his group, along with the Gulu Beast, were all seemingly insignificant. These attacks, when they struck the puppet army, only killed some low-level puppets in inconspicuous locations.
Within minutes, the effectiveness of their attack became apparent: they had eliminated all the puppets at their weakest points in the puppet army.
Without them noticing, they completed the division of this puppet army, whose strength was almost equal to their own.
When they broke through the gaps in the puppet army, a simple coordinated attack annihilated all 50,000 puppets with zero casualties.
"The AI's performance in the practical application was excellent. We need to increase our investment in AI when we get back," Leo said with satisfaction.
"It's a pity it only works for low-level wizards. I wonder when it will be developed to a higher level, so it can be used for support at the Stigmata Level," Yaoyao said regretfully.
"The wizards researching artificial intelligence are only at the first level. How can you expect them to research artificial intelligence that can assist Stigmata Wizard level? It's too much to ask of them."
As they were talking, Leo suddenly stopped and looked into the distance.
"What's wrong?" Yaoyao asked.
"There are fluctuations of Level-Four Lord of Souls,"
Leo gazed into the distance and could sense a terrifying aura surging outwards from afar. The energy in that area of the sky was churning, as clearly as a dark cloud in a clear sky.
"That's strange. These Lord of Souls have been hiding for decades and haven't shown up. How come one of them suddenly appears without hiding himself?" Yao Yao asked Yaoyao confusion.
"A trap, what else could it be?"
"So, can we get through?"
"Of course we'll go. How will we know what's in the trap if we don't go?"
Leo lightly touched the ground with his feet, Shadow Walking, he arrived at the distance of the Level-Four Lord of Souls in just a few steps.
This is the rear of the battle line. This strange Level-Four Lord of Souls is unleashing his full power, commanding his puppet army to charge onto the front lines.
"This is truly the first time I've seen Lord of Souls expose themselves behind the battle lines. The trap is way too obvious."
"And being so close to you, it's obvious they knew your approximate location beforehand and set this as a trap specifically for you."
"Someone leaked your whereabouts to the Lord of Souls; there's a traitor in the group," Yao Yaoyao.
"Only the two of them know my whereabouts, and we can't be sure who leaked it yet," Leo said, his brows furrowed in thought.