Battle Again, Crushing Victory

Richard's journey this time had taken nearly half a year. Most of that time had been wasted in the struggle between two dimensions, while very little had been spent on evolution.

Half a year was not long. Under normal circumstances, the situation on the front lines should not have changed much.

But this time, the Star River Mayflies' assault had been exceptionally fierce. In barely half a year, the Wizards had been forced to surrender one-fifth of their world.

With an endless Insect Tide, the Star River Mayflies had gnawed a hole straight through the Wizards' Ironclad Defense Line.

"Just how many insects do these Star River Mayflies have?"

Richard stood at the headquarters of the western front, frowning deeply as he reviewed the recent battle reports.

Beside him stood the Commander-in-Chief of the western theater, Great Wizard Annihilation Storm, a Sixth-Ring Wizard whose form resembled a cloud of smoke. He was quietly studying this newcomer who had risen to fame among the Great Wizards.

As a Great Wizard who had undergone spiritual evolution, he possessed a systematic set of criteria for assessing a creature's combat strength.

For creatures that evolved physically, the two most important measures were life radiation and energy capacity.

As long as those two figures were high enough, that creature's combat strength would have a guaranteed baseline.

Yet at this moment, he found himself wavering in his faith in those standards.

"Strange. Could this kid also cultivate Soul School wizardry and interfere with others' perception?

Otherwise, how could his numbers be so absurdly beyond the limit?"

Although Great Wizard Annihilation Storm had not used any detection methods, his mental power of 699 was enough to make his basic perception outrageously sharp.

In his perception, Richard's life radiation had already reached the limit of a Level 5