CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 76: THE DEFENSIVE LINE

Taking advantage of the gap before reaching the depths of the sea, Lor took out the Continent Communication Board, opened the page, and began searching for suitable Earth and Fire Faction Defense Witchcraft to integrate into the Adaptive Rock Barrier.

"Flame Barrier... increases defense limit, useless."

"Earth Element Shield... adds limit, useless."

"Rock..."

Lor’s gaze skimmed over various Second Ring Fire-Earth witchcrafts, continually searching for a witchcraft model suitable for himself.

"Hmm, this witchcraft seems good." After about ten minutes of flipping through, he suddenly paused.

The witchcraft that caught his eye was called: Wall of Clay.

This was an unoptimized Second Ring witchcraft model, with a defense limit not very high, barely reaching 2.0 rings, but it had a trait, which was its toughness.

As long as the attack intensity doesn’t exceed 2.4 rings, it can self-repair damage, providing perpetual defense.

But the drawback is also obvious: if there’s an attack exceeding 2.4 rings in intensity, it will directly leak the exceeded portion of the power.

Unlike other defense witchcrafts, which can withstand a few hits even when faced with attacks exceeding their ring limitations.

What Lor valued was precisely the toughness trait of this witchcraft model.

"This witchcraft trait combined with virtualization is just perfect."

Lor muttered to himself, "It can both self-repair damage and virtualize part of the attack power. Afterward, as long as I merge in two First Ring witchcrafts to enhance sturdiness, my defensive capabilities will definitely not be inferior."

Having made up his mind, Lor directly bought the Wall of Clay witchcraft model and began memorizing it.

After memorizing it, he fixed the direction of the Black Cliff Spaceship and went straight into a meditative state to begin constructing the witchcraft model.

Two hours later.

After completing the construction of the Wall of Clay witchcraft model, Lor habitually activated the Meteor Witchcraft model, triggered the Perception Module, and scanned the surroundings and beneath the sea.

The depth of this sea area was only a mere 380 miles, sweeping to the bottom in an instant.

As usual, there was nothing unusual.

After that, he started alternating between deducing the molecular intersection points of the Adaptive Rock Barrier and Wall of Clay, and searching for traces of Second and Third Tier Sea Beasts.

...

Time flew by, and seven days passed.

Lor woke from meditation, habitually spreading his perception, only to find that currently, in the Endless Sea, there wasn’t even a single First Tier Sea Fish. There were only some ordinary sea fish and sea beasts swimming at the seabed.

"Hmm, what’s going on?" Lor frowned slightly, feeling a bit puzzled in his heart.

Over the past seven days, he spent most of his time deducing molecular intersection points, so not finding Third Tier Sea Fish and Sea Beast groups was normal.

But this place counted as the central region of the Endless Sea, and not having a single First Tier Sea Fish or Sea Beast seemed a bit off, no matter how you thought about it.

At that moment, the Continent Communication Device in his Space Ring suddenly started ringing urgently.

"Is this... an emergency notification?" Lor took out the communicator for a glance, feeling even more puzzled.

At this point in time, it’s the most peaceful season in the Wizard World, what urgent event could possibly occur?

Could the Faith Wizard’s chaos have erupted early?

Impossible, they haven’t even tried rebuilding the Divine Hall of Faith yet.

Without hesitation, Lor directly opened the emergency notification to see.

[Emergency Notification: A mutation has occurred in the depths of the Endless Sea, Fourth Tier Sea Beasts leading countless Third Tier Sea Beast groups have stirred up giant waves, advancing towards the twelve continents.

The objectives of the Sea Exploration Task have been temporarily changed. It is now amended to proceed to the closest continent at a distance of ten thousand miles away to assist in defense and prevent the tidal waves led by the Third Tier Sea Beasts from striking the continents.

Note 1: Blocking tidal waves led by a group of Third Tier Sea Beasts will earn you 50,000 contribution points.

Note 2: All wizards who have taken up the Sea Exploration Task must refrain from entering the continent’s range until the Fourth Ring Scroll is exhausted; otherwise, all contribution points gained from tasks will be nullified.]

"Sea Beast Uprising..." Lor was taken aback after reading the emergency notification.

Such an event of Sea Beast Uprising definitely didn’t happen in the previous life, or such a grand scene at least would have been depicted in historical cutscenes.

"Has the butterfly effect I brought already started taking effect?" Lor had a sudden realization in his heart.

Because he went to meet Yasen, Yasen pushed for the birth of this task.

The Sea Beasts felt uneasy due to this task, hence they initiated this unexpected turmoil.

"The uncertainty of the future is growing larger, but fortunately, I already possess some means for self-defense." Lor’s Spiritual Power swept over the various witchcraft models in his Sea of Consciousness, a confident expression emerged on his face.

As long as the future doesn’t become too ludicrous in a short period, he now has some ability to cope.

He didn’t pay much heed to the counterattack initiated by the Sea Beasts.

The notice might sound serious, but in reality, it’s just an attempt to increase their training difficulty using this opportunity.

As for submerging the twelve continents...

This trick would work against the gods because there were only so few of them, with a gap below, lacking mid-level force similar to Second and Third Ring Wizards.

While the gods were alive, the strongest the Temple Knights could achieve was only a First Tier life level.

Gods could block Fourth Tier Sea Beasts, disperse the waves they raised, but couldn’t stop the dense waves raised by countless Second and Third Tier Sea Beasts, nor shield the entire continent.

Because each continent was too vast to possibly manage.

But using this trick against wizards, that would be targeting the wrong group.

"My Meteor Technique has just been upgraded, and now there’s an opportunity to show it!" Lor chuckled, directly steering the spaceship to turn around and fly back.

He still had two Guardian Tree Scrolls on him, and after using them up, there’s still Levan, making him unafraid of encountering any danger.

This was actually a great opportunity to earn contribution points, easier than marking Sea Beast groups for faster gains.

...

Seven days later.

"Whoosh—— Whoosh——"

Lor had just arrived at the sea area ten thousand miles away from the Betula Continent when he saw waves over a hundred miles wide and more than ten miles high surging up ahead.

Amidst the waves were countless sea fish and sea beasts, maintaining the waves’ continued expansion and surging towards the Betula Continent.

These waves rolled on endlessly, seemingly uncountable at a glance.

In the sky, about ten thousand miles away from the Betula Continent, there were over a hundred Third Tier ships suspended in the air.

"Boom Crash—— Boom Rumble——"

Beneath the Flying Ships, a line of defense about ten thousand miles formed by over a hundred wizards of the Second and Third Ring was diligently casting all kinds of wide-range witchcrafts, smashing some waves heading towards the Betula Continent.

This was just the first line of defense.

In the sea area five thousand miles away from the Betula Continent, another line of defense composed of innumerable First to Third Ring wizards encircled the whole continent, blocking all the waves.

Further up on the battlefield, were four beings, more than ten miles tall, transformed into Elemental Giants, and five other beings whose bodies were engraved with terrifying blood-colored patterns, over a hundred miles tall, scattered to different areas above the mainland’s sky, overlooking the battlefield.

These people, of course, were the Fourth Ring Elemental Mages and Bloodline Wizards.

If a place had waves a thousand miles high, the Elemental Mages, who transformed into various Elemental Giants, would release a Celestial Calamity Witchcraft covering over a thousand miles, shattering the waves in a single strike.

Any sea fish or sea beast within the waves, whether Third Tier or Fourth Tier, was wiped out.

The Bloodline Wizards, covered with a sanguine aura, would either transform parts of their flesh into various bizarre forms, breathing attacks, or directly transform into terrifying giant beasts, colliding with the waves in countless ways.

However, the result was essentially the same, with all Fourth Tier sea fish and sea beasts perishing.

"You guys are delivering a bit too fast!" Lor couldn’t help but feel heartbroken watching the sea fish and sea beasts meet tragic ends.

For every wave, to him, represented 50,000 contribution points.

Each broken wave meant a loss of 50,000 contribution points for him.

He didn’t dare to procrastinate any longer and directly steered the Black Cliff Spaceship towards the first defense line, about ten thousand miles away from the Betula Continent.

A delay of even a second would mean a huge loss.

After finishing this wave, it’s likely until the Faith Wizard’s chaos begins, he won’t be able to gain a large number of contribution points again, so he naturally had to cherish the opportunity.