novelraw Chapter 563: Disadvantage
Chapter 563: Disadvantage
Chapter 563: Disadvantage
Jie Ming walked out of the command center and looked up at the sky.
To be honest, when he saw the scene before him, Jie Ming could hardly believe it, because the situation on the battlefield was completely different from what he had imagined. He had originally thought that with so many wizard legions, plus the various super arrays arranged on the ship plane itself, no matter how frenzied the information beings were, they would only be sending themselves to death.
But what appeared before his eyes now was a evenly matched battle… no, a war in which the wizards’ side was faintly falling into a disadvantage!
In the sky, pure white light had almost occupied half the firmament.
Those information beings were no longer passively charging the arrays.
They had begun to mobilize all surrounding elements, whether the elements within the ship plane or the endless chaotic elements in the void outside the plane, were all being stirred by their information control.
The endless chaotic void, which was difficult for other civilizations to access, was extremely uncomfortable for these information beings, yet it also served as an inexhaustible reserve of energy.
Those twisted chaotic elements were forcibly gathered and integrated by them. All elements were forcibly ordered, then transformed into streaks of white light pillars that bombarded the ship plane’s defensive arrays in reverse.
Even after coming into contact with the endless chaotic void, these information beings did not retreat. Instead, they rapidly expanded. Seeing this scene, Jie Ming’s pupils shrank slightly.
From the current situation, quite a few of those information beings were actually charging directly toward the endless chaotic void.
Weren’t they the ones who most revered order and hated chaos the most?
But he quickly understood.
It was precisely because they hated chaos that they wanted to turn chaos into order.
The twisted void energy, after being “purified” by them, instead became the purest weapons.
The power of a single information being indeed could not withstand the elemental assault of large-scale arrays.
The problem was, there were simply too many of them.
And their numbers were still increasing.
At the fissure, pure white light poured down like a waterfall.
Every second, thousands upon thousands of information beings leaped out from within the plane and joined the battlefield.
They were blasted apart, resurrected, blasted apart again, and resurrected again.
Each resurrection consumed energy, but what the endless chaotic void lacked the least was energy.
And as their numbers increased sharply, their computing power was stacking.
Jie Ming could see that between the scattered information beings, countless subtle information links were forming.
Once their numbers exceeded a certain threshold, these information beings that had left their original plane seemed to have constructed a temporary network within the group. They were no longer fighting as individuals but had formed a massive computing network.
At this stage, the information beings no longer needed to return to the Information Plane to resurrect; they could resurrect directly within the regional network. That network was slowly analyzing the ship plane’s defensive arrays, searching for vulnerabilities and eroding them in reverse.
Jie Ming’s expression grew grave. The situation was changing too quickly. He had only observed for such a short while, yet the scene before him had already taken a sharp turn for the worse.
And besides the current frontline, what was even worse were the cannon fodder units.
On the periphery of the ship plane, large numbers of cannon fodder creatures originally stationed for probing and reconnaissance, elemental puppets, summoned beasts, and artificially bred war beasts, were now losing control in droves.
Those information beings didn’t even need to attack directly. They only needed to sweep past nearby, and the souls and brain domains of those cannon fodder creatures would instantly turn blank, like hard drives that had been formatted.
Then new information was injected, and they turned around to attack their original masters.
Jie Ming personally witnessed a hundred-meter-tall elemental giant suddenly stop in its tracks. The firelight in its eyes extinguished, replaced by pure white. The next second, it opened its massive maw and spewed scorching lava toward the cannon fodder positions behind it.
Miserable screams rose and fell continuously.
“Hold the line! Hold the line!”
Angry roars from wizards came from afar.
But the chaos continued to spread.
More bad news followed one after another…
“Not good! The control hub of the No. 3 Elemental Pool has been invaded!”
Jie Ming abruptly turned his head toward the eastern side of the ship plane.
There, a massive elemental pool was flashing with unstable light.
The core hub that should have been steadily outputting energy was now covered by a layer of eerie white light.
Although streams of wizards kept trying to change the situation, it had no effect at all. Quite a few wizards even fell into silence because their spiritual force couldn’t withdraw in time.
A few seconds later, that elemental pool shifted direction. A thick elemental torrent blasted directly toward the nearby No. 6 defensive array.
Boom!
The No. 6 array trembled violently, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of its light shield.
Jie Ming activated his Return to Ruins Armor to block the scattered energy fluctuations. Seeing the scene before him, he couldn’t help but draw in a cold breath.
“This is going to be troublesome…”
This meant the enemy had already breached the outermost layer of defense. Given enough time, they could turn all defensive facilities inside the ship plane into their own weapons.
At that moment, powerful auras rose one after another from the direction of the command center.
Martin had made his move.
The eighth-ring wizard floated in midair, his gray-white short hair unmoved by the energy storm.
He did not release any flashy spells. He simply raised his right hand and gently pressed downward.
In an instant, the entire battlefield situation changed.
An indescribably vast power descended from the sky like an invisible mountain, smashing directly into the network formed by the information beings. The madly stacking computing network instantly stalled.
Following that were the auras of over a dozen seventh-ring wizards.
They were scattered across various parts of the battlefield, each casting high-level information-type spells that Jie Ming had never seen before.
Some held their hands in a virtual embrace, a cluster of twisted light continuously expanding in their palms before exploding.
The moment it exploded, all information beings within several tens of thousands of meters fell into chaos. Their outer energy convulsed wildly, and even their resurrection became intermittent.
Some drew runes in the air with a raised hand. The moment the rune took shape, it transformed into countless light points that precisely sank into the core of every information being.
Then, those cores began to “dissolve.”
Jie Ming watched in dazzlement.
In terms of effect alone, every spell cast by these high-ranking wizards was stronger than his Pain Corruption.
That level of control over the information layer and that effortless ease were realms he was still far from reaching.
Under the joint suppression of Martin and over a dozen seventh-ring wizards leading nearly a hundred sixth-ring wizards, the offensive of the information beings’ army was finally contained. The information beings that had been frantically pouring out began to retreat, and the massive computing network was slowly compressed.
The tampered control hubs were reclaimed, and the formatted cannon fodder units were purged.
The battle situation temporarily stabilized.
But the gravity on Jie Ming’s face did not fade.
He looked up at the sky.
At the fissure, pure white light continued to pour out without end.
Although the information beings had been temporarily suppressed, they did not retreat. They were only regrouping, waiting for new reinforcements to stack their computing power.
And although Martin and those seventh-ring wizards were powerful, their spiritual force was limited.
Jie Ming could see that Martin’s frequency of action was slowing down.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go faster, but maintaining that scale of computing suppression consumed too much.
As for the information beings…
They had an entire plane as their backing, possessed infinite resurrection ability, and were developing increasingly skilled coordination.
If the goal was not to destroy the plane, then as time passed, this battle would inevitably tilt toward the other side.