Chapter 91: Adaptation

**Chapter 91: Adaptation**

Jie Ming couldn’t help but want to laugh. To maximize resource and knowledge gains, wizards went to great lengths, even accounting for the psychological state of the invaded plane.

“It’s like playing with children!”

He shifted his gaze, observing this unfamiliar yet vibrant plane.

The air was thick with dense, chaotic energy.

Traces of wizardly runes lingered, but they were overshadowed by Elosia’s native natural and divine energies.

Like intertwining rivers, they clashed and merged, forming a unique energy field.

Clearly, after prolonged conflict, the plane’s rules were beginning to be eroded by the wizards.

Even without significant apprentice contributions, a few more years of stalemate would see this plane fall to the wizards.

Strange vines, like giant pythons, coiled around the trunks, their leaves broad and oddly shaped.

In the distance, unfamiliar beast roars mingled with the screeches of raptors and the heavy footsteps of massive creatures, signaling the land’s wild and dangerous nature.

The sky above was a spectacle.

Part of it held rune fortresses, built by wizards’ potent Alchemy Technique and runes, floating high and emitting their cold, orderly glow, like scars in the sky.

The other part was the radiant, dreamlike projections of Elosia’s divine kingdoms, holy and colorful.

These opposing forces, like a vast canvas, carved the sky into distorted, clashing yet coexisting scenes, silently proclaiming this land as the heart of a war.

Tearing his gaze from the chaotic sky, Jie Ming flipped his hand, producing several protective artifacts.

Buzz…

With a series of glowing flashes, multiple layers of protective sorcery enveloped him.

Narrowing his eyes, he activated the sorcery models in his mental sea.

Invisible waves of Alchemy Technique spread outward, meticulously probing the surroundings.

Simultaneously, Analysis Technique activated, the two sorceries working in tandem like countless micro-probes, greedily absorbing every environmental detail.

The chaotic energy in the air was no longer merely mixed. In Jie Ming’s perception, it had distinct flow patterns and densities.

Unlike the “tamed” elemental forces of Noren Plane 13, refined over generations, Elosia’s energy was primal, wild, and subtly infused with a “vitality” unique to this plane, born from its natural forces and the gods’ faith, creating an unprecedented, highly active energy field.

“Compared to Noren, the elements here have lower mental affinity and are harder to control, but their activity is higher…” Jie Ming’s mind stirred.

This difference meant casting sorcery here might face delays or reduced efficiency.

Using standard artifacts could make sorcery unstable, increasing destructive power but weakening defenses.

For sorcery cast directly by wizards, the environment would extend casting time, but successful casts would be more potent than at Noren Academy.

This elemental environment was an advantage for Jie Ming. His runic artifacts relied on runes to draw external elements, with sorcery formation depending on the rune system rather than mental force.

However…

“While traditional artifacts have limited uses, their design ensures they can cast stored sorcery in any environment. No wonder wizards favor them.”

Stability was paramount for wizards waging wars across planes.

But Jie Ming wasn’t rigid. If traditional artifacts were effective, he didn’t mind acquiring some to complement his runic artifacts.

The protective sorcery around him now was cast using orthodox artifacts.

Children make choices; adults take it all!

Using the incoming data, he made slight adjustments to the core runes of his stored runic artifacts in his inner space.

By subtly altering parts of the rune structure and energy channeling methods, he optimized them to adapt to this new world’s rules, ensuring each energy bolt retained its full power.

This was the result of years of refining his runic artifacts. Compared to traditional artifacts, runic ones had greater sustainability but were more susceptible to environmental influence.

In this environment, standard artifacts might only face slight casting delays, but runic artifacts, constantly linked to the external environment, risked overloading and exploding without a single cast.

Jie Ming’s solution was “modularization.”

He pre-carved most of the main and non-essential runes, leaving the core runic imprints incomplete.

In each new world, he used Alchemy and Analysis Techniques to collect elemental activity data, adjusting the core imprints accordingly.

The principle was simple, but finding materials suitable for rapid alchemical engraving took significant time.

Later, to centralize all core imprints and runes in a small area, he redesigned the entire runic artifact structure.

After confirming the modular design’s feasibility, Jie Ming had an epiphany.

He had thought he only possessed knowledge from two worlds, but this adjustment reminded him he held knowledge from the third world!

Though his previous life’s technological world lacked transcendent power, some of its concepts were universal.

In moments, a full set of combat runic artifacts was adjusted.

Splitting his focus to continue refining the remaining runic artifacts in his inner space, Jie Ming summoned more, arming himself to the teeth.

Buzz…

With a hum, he replaced the protective sorcery around him with that cast by his runic artifacts.

Setting the protective sorcery to invisible, Jie Ming felt the energy fluctuations around him, finally gaining a sense of security.

Just as he prepared to deploy scouting runic artifacts for data collection, a loud noise interrupted him.