novelraw Chapter 573 371: The Plan
Chapter 573 371: The Plan
The Second World, Lor's private space, top floor of the Space Wizard Tower.
Lor's expression was solemn as he opened the communication list, just about to tap the name at the very top.
Right at this moment, he suddenly noticed a message sent by the Feather Sky Leader.
"An Alliance?"
Lor casually opened the message and glanced at it, seeing that it was about forming an Alliance in Plane Sea No. 758 to jointly face the crisis.
He did not rush to reply, but instead tapped the contact representing Blood and sent a communication request.
If the Ninth Ring powerhouses of the other two Domains were to take the field, then even with the Manager and the Butterfly Emperor propping it up, all the Plane Seas in the entire Crystal Domain would very likely be breached in an extremely short time.
Lor was absolutely sure that wherever Ninth Ring beings clashed, there was no way any trace of life could remain in that entire Plane Sea.
The reason he was so certain was that, during his venture into the Vortex Plane Sea, he had discovered the terrifying truth of that Plane Sea.
The entire Vortex Plane Sea was the main body of a single Ninth Ring existence.
Under the battle of such terrifying beings possessing power at that level, even Overlord Level existences probably could not withstand the slightest scrap of the aftershock.
At that time, the only way for beings of the Crystal Domain to preserve their lives would be to have Spatial Law Cultivators stay constantly on guard.
So long as they detected the slightest anomaly, they would immediately perform a random relocation with the Plane Group and run, continuing until the war ended.
The so-called Alliance would be utterly meaningless.
Half a second later, the communication connected.
Blood's figure appeared on the emerald-green light screen. It looked at Lor with a 'serious' expression and said, "Little guy, what do you want from me right now?"
"Greetings, Manager." Lor bowed and respectfully asked, "May I ask, in the upcoming war, will you and those Ninth Ring Cultivators like the Butterfly Emperor personally take the field?"
"Of course—" Blood looked at the nervous Lor, the corner of its mouth imperceptibly lifting before it quickly pressed it back down, putting on a pensive posture and dragging its tone out to an exaggerated length.
Seeing this, Lor's heart instantly sank to the bottom.
If Blood and the others truly intended to join the battle, what awaited him next would not be war, but a grand melee slaughter.
"We won't." At this moment, Blood finally uttered the last two words.
"Huh?" Lor stared straight at Blood, almost thinking he had misheard.
"Sigh~"
Blood let out a deliberately theatrical sigh and explained, "Butterfly has already discussed things in advance with the Managers of the other two Domains. However the collapse of the Three Domains' barrier ends this time, it will all depend on you little guys."
"As for us, we're all forbidden from entering the field, otherwise we might directly shatter the Three Domains, and no one would come out well from that."
Hearing this, Lor finally let out a breath of relief. His expression improved considerably as he bowed and said, "So that's how it is. Thank you, Manager, for clearing my doubts."
Since the Ninth Ring would not take the field, then there was still room to maneuver.
"Actually, my being unable to take action is a bad thing for you."
Seeing Lor like this, Blood immediately started to coax him, "Because this means that when you encounter danger, I can't step in to save you. Everything will have to depend on you yourself."
"And don't go thinking that just because you dual-train the Space Law you'll be safe. That Devouring Spirit Race, once they gather in sufficient numbers, can completely create a Spatial Absolute Territory, sealing the space of dozens or even hundreds of Plane Seas at a time."
"Within that Absolute Territory, the Space No-Distance Layer Rules will be greatly weakened."
"When you perform a Space Jump alone, at most you'll only be able to jump across a hundred space nodes at a time. If you're bringing along a Plane Group, you might not even be able to jump one percent of a space node's distance."
"There's only one way to break it—kill as many Devouring Spirit Race as possible, weakening the sealing power of that region of space."
In truth, whether Lor faced a certain-death crisis, or the remaining population of the Wizard Civilization fell below five percent, this 'gift' of a war would be terminated.
Because the Wizard cultivation system relied heavily on civilization. The Sovereign could resurrect Lor, but could not resurrect the entire Wizard Civilization again, so the bottom line had to be crystal clear.
Moreover, this war had another very important purpose: to test Lor's fundamental nature.
To see whether this chosen one, whose Time Talent was astonishingly brilliant, would, when facing true danger, choose to abandon his civilization and survive alone, or choose to live and die together with his civilization.
Lor's choice would directly affect the attitude of the Three Domains' Sovereigns toward him and the Wizard Civilization after the River of Time was broken open.
Lor's eyelids twitched. He hastily asked, "Manager, do you know how the overall strength of our Crystal Domain below the Ninth Ring compares to that of the other two Domains?"
"And also, do those Giant Sources possess such methods of sealing Space as well?"
The Devouring Spirit Race having spatial sealing methods was extremely bad news for him.
Even though, even with Space sealed, he could still perform a Space Jump of a hundred space nodes at a time, so escaping should not be a problem.
But he could escape; the Wizard Plane Group could not.
If the Wizard Plane Group were gone, then his future upper limit, his closest friends, and his family would all be gone as well.
Faced with such a hopeless future, he felt it would be better to die in battle together with everyone else.
"In terms of overall strength, our Crystal Domain is naturally the strongest." Blood replied without hesitation, "But if you add the other two Domains together, you'll find them somewhat difficult to withstand."
"The Devouring Spirit Race's combat power is mediocre; they just have a lot of numbers."
"Giant Sources are few, but their combat power is extremely strong, they're very hard to kill, each of them as tough as a Gold Element Law Treasure. As for spatial sealing methods, those they do not have."
At this point, Blood paused slightly, then suddenly changed the subject: "In short, whether it's the Devouring Spirit Race or the Giant Sources, they're all quite troublesome for you. I estimate this war won't be over within a million years."
"That's all I can tell you. Go."
With that, it directly cut off the communication.
Lor looked at the communication list that had returned to its original state and slowly exhaled. "Fortunately, it's not the worst result."
The Ninth Ring would not take the field. And from what Blood said, the Crystal Domain might be at a disadvantage in this war, but at least it could hold out for a million years without completely collapsing.
With such a long buffer period…
Lor clenched his right hand into a fist, his ten fingers turning white from the pressure.
So long as he achieved the Eighth Ring, even if he could not guarantee the safety of the entire Crystal Domain, at the very least it would not be a big problem to ensure Plane Sea No. 758 survived.
Right now he was facing two problems. First, to achieve a perfect breakthrough to the Seventh Ring, he still needed over nine thousand years.
Second, after breaking through to the Seventh Ring, although he could immediately reach the peak of the Seventh Ring, the path to the Eighth Ring had yet to be explored.
Not only had he failed to figure it out in this life, but the Wizard Civilization in his previous life had probably failed to figure it out as well.
Anyway, as far as he knew, in his previous life no Wizard had broken through to the Eighth Ring.
No matter which problem he wanted to solve, he needed time.
Yet right now, time was what he lacked most.
"The Feather Sky Leader and the others just happened to invite me to join the Alliance of Plane Sea No. 758, maybe…"
Lor's gaze fell on the communication list as he pulled up the message the Feather Sky Leader had just sent him and read it through carefully again, a rough plan taking shape in his heart.