Chapter 97: Chapter 97: Mission Settlement
"Second Ring?!" The Elder Wizard was stunned upon hearing it, forgetting to cast his witchcraft.
Fortunately, the demons’ attack intensity had decreased by several levels, so even without him as a main force, the other wizards could easily cope.
"Men... Mentor, he really is wearing a Second Ring Wizard Robe." Julian’s tone became more resolute.
She was sure she hadn’t seen wrong, and the person had admitted it himself.
"It seems this person who came to support us is a remarkable genius." The Elder Wizard snapped back from his shock, sighed in amazement, and continued casting witchcraft outside the Defense Magic Array.
Each of his spells could dissolve a torrent of Abyssal Energy, terrifying in the extreme.
...
Inside the black spaceship, Lor refilled the Elemental Energy once more.
Mark, converge, dive.
Gravity Technique boost!
"Whoosh—"
One Meteor Technique after another was hurled, causing immense distress to the Eye Demons.
These ones, who still retained some rationality, genuinely wanted to flee.
Two indeed began to escape, but after just three hundred miles, they were directly taken down by the Meteor Technique.
For Eye Demons, serving as the brains, scouts, and turrets among Abyssal Demons, Lor prioritized their elimination.
The difference between a demon horde with Eye Demons and one without is significant.
After consecutively casting seven Meteor Techniques, and ensuring all Eye Demons were annihilated, Lor paused his spellcasting.
The battlefield was not as tense as before, allowing his Spiritual Power to take a break.
During the respite, Lor glanced at the energy contribution entry page on his panel.
[Absorbed a large amount of negative Elemental Energy, energy contribution +1852]
"This thing is barely useful only after reaching a higher level." Lor shook his head and closed the energy contribution notice again.
Gaining energy contributions from other creatures is only useful during the initial period of primitive accumulation and when developing the Sixth Ring Continent Witchcraft and Seventh Ring Dimensional Witchcraft.
At that time, one spell can cover an entire dimension, and the energy contribution can soar dramatically.
However, even if it reached that stage, Lor wouldn’t easily resort to this method unless absolutely necessary.
Capturing a dimension for its sustainable production is much more cost-effective than a one-time energy contribution.
"If, in the future, I can truly develop Dimensional Truth Witchcraft, that would be ideal."
Lor envisioned in his heart, "Once Dimensional Truth Witchcraft is unleashed upon a dimension, deities, resources, or oddities all become mine."
Other wizards’ Truth Witchcraft can destroy or create dimensions.
But, the Spatial Mage’s Truth Witchcraft can ’acquire’ dimensions.
Unfortunately, without any clear direction, he’s unsure if he can replicate this witchcraft in the future.
After daydreaming for a while, Lor felt his Spiritual Power had recovered and immediately focused his senses on a Winged Demon he had been eyeing for a while.
This creature is swift, with third-tier peak Winged Demons capable of unleashing 3.5-ring ranged attacks, second only to Eye Demons as priority targets.
Mark...
Just as he marked it and was about to gather the Meteor, he suddenly noticed a white flame emerging from another direction, engulfing a large portion of the battlefield.
The Winged Demon he had marked was within the covered area of that white flame.
"Another colleague has arrived, quite fast indeed." Lor raised an eyebrow, directly canceling the Winged Demon mark and began sensing elsewhere.
Soon, he sensed another Winged Demon, eyes brightened, he immediately hurled a Meteor Technique with a Gravity Technique.
"Boom—"
The Winged Demon, realizing the Meteor targeted it, decisively dragged several other demons to perish together, resulting in five demon deaths.
As time passed, the demons grew fewer and fewer.
Subsequently, four powerful Third Ring Great Wizards arrived for support, ending the battle even quicker.
"Whew—"
Lor drove the spaceship, scanning the rugged battlefield with his perception.
After confirming no residual demons remained, he immediately took out the Continent Communication Device, browsed to the mission panel, and clicked to complete the support mission.
After clicking, he had no intention of mingling with others and directly piloted the spaceship away.
Other places are likely also swarming with demons now; he needs to roam around quickly; perhaps he’ll run into another distress mission en route.
The war mission does not require his participation in verification but is assessed by the stationed wizards.
After evaluation, someone specific will connect with him to confirm the evaluation’s accuracy and the allocation of contribution points.
This time, Lor was sure he played a crucial role in turning the battle and must have received the most contribution points.
...
Inside the Defense Magic Array Group.
"Quickly send a message to invite the wizards who just came for support to come in and rest, especially that genius Second Ring Wizard who cast the Meteor Witchcraft." The Elder Wizard sighed and said to the student beside him.
"Yes, Mentor." Julian nodded, clicked into the emergency support mission list, wanting to contact Lor first.
However, just as she accessed it, she found that the task representing Lor in the mission list had already turned blue.
This signifies the task as completed and pending settlement, making it impossible to enter and send a message.
"Mentor, the genius Second Ring Wizard’s mission has turned to pending settlement." Julian raised her head, a bit helpless.
"What a pity." The Elder Wizard sighed, "Since he’s eager for settlement, I’ll send the battlefield recording up first."
With that, he directly flew up, heading towards the kingdom’s capital in the rear.
It’s no exaggeration to say that that genius wizard saved his life, so naturally, he must handle things promptly.
...
Ten minutes later.
Having piloted the spaceship over a lake, Lor found the Continent Communication Device in his Space Ring vibrating and quickly took it out.
"Has it been settled already?" Lor’s lips curved slightly, "That’s quite fast."
He lightly tapped the communicator, connecting the transmission, and a red-haired young man’s face appeared on the light screen.
"Mr. Lor, your battlefield contribution has been settled."
The red-haired young man respectfully said, "According to the contribution conversion, you can receive 1.2 million contribution points, would you like to extract them?"
"Extract." Lor nodded.
Contribution points can be extracted or accumulated.
Accumulating contribution points is convenient for deduction use.
If a Support Wizard receives a task but hasn’t arrived yet and the garrison is breached, contribution points are deducted as a penalty.
If insufficient, it remains in debt, to be repaid gradually later.
"Understood." The red-haired young man responded and began operating the Continent Communication Device again.
Soon, he looked up and said, "The contribution points have been successfully transferred; wish Mr. Lor success in your task."
"Hmm." Lor smiled and nodded, directly cutting off the communication.
Receiving 1.2 million contribution points in just one mission, he was quite satisfied.
If every mission henceforth yielded as much, it wouldn’t take long for him to gather the Divine Power Crystal needed for his Third Ring advancement.
Unfortunately, he knew well this was unlikely.
If other Third Ring Great Wizards arrived first, it would likely result in a sharp decrease in his received contribution points.
Or if he arrived late and the outpost was breached, he might end up in debt with contribution points.
War missions require strength and luck as well.