Cultivating in the Wizard World

Chapter 657: Chapter 559: New Witchcraft Design

A dozen days later.

Jeming stood in front of the lab bench, piled high with Record Crystals and data Scrolls.

These were the results produced by the specialized testing group over the past dozen days.

The Wizards recorded attacks from over ten thousand different materials and Magic spells, all documented.

Looking at the results recorded in front of him, Jeming couldn’t help but smile slightly. He was almost certain that his initial thoughts were correct.

The Magic Network Terminal suddenly lit up.

[Summoned by Lord Martin]

Jeming raised an eyebrow, gathered his things, and left the laboratory.

It was still the same core camp, the same three levels of security, the same enormous fortress expanded by spatial techniques.

But this time, the atmosphere in the command room was noticeably more relaxed.

Martin still sat in the main seat, and upon seeing Jeming enter, he rarely showed a hint of a smile.

"Alright, now that everyone is here, let’s start this meeting. I suppose you have already guessed, yes, the experiment results are out."

He waved his hand, and a dense array of data projections unfolded in the air.

"Testing each of the ten thousand different informational materials," Martin’s voice carried a trace of appreciation, "Ultimately, we can confirm, Jeming, your original theory is completely correct."

Jeming became energized, his gaze swept over the data.

All test results pointed to the same conclusion—the information creatures highly revered logic and order.

Any information that was well-structured, logically sound, and orderly was considered "friendly" by them.

Conversely, chaotic, unstructured, and random information would elicit a strong rejection.

"So what they revere is..." Looking at the data, Jeming couldn’t help but think of a word, "entropy reduction?"

"Yes."

Martin nodded: "That’s our conclusion: entropy reduction. Moving from chaos to order, from disorder to law. This is not only their preference but seems to be the fundamental of their existence."

"The reason these information creatures can manipulate underlying information to make changes is essentially because they are specific organisms born in an extreme entropy reduction environment. Therefore, extreme order feels as necessary to them as oxygen does to ordinary humans."

He paused and added, "According to the test results, the more chaotic the information, the more they despise it. Conversely, if an entropy reduction state can be maintained, even external invasions won’t bother them."

Jeming comprehended.

This explained why those information creatures usually "turned a blind eye" to intruders.

As long as your information structure is sufficiently orderly, in their view, you are either "kin" or at least "harmless."

But once fighting begins, or when being in the plane for too long leads to too much information dispersion causing chaos, they will immediately lock onto you.

"This species has great potential."

"Heart of Ashes," Martin suddenly said, with evident admiration in his voice.

Upon hearing this, all Wizards present looked toward the commander.

"I intend to assimilate them."

Jeming and the other High Tier Wizards were slightly startled, then quickly understood.

This Plane War was initiated by Martin.

As an Eighth Level Wizard, he discovered this unique plane, naturally qualifying him to claim it as his own.

These information creatures possess such unique traits—their talent on the information level, their near immortality, their extreme pursuit of order—that it’s indeed tempting for this High Tier Wizard.

Not to mention other yet undiscovered traits of these information creatures, even their existing traits could suffice as a data processing center, offering future benefits to attract many High Level Wizards.

"But there’s a problem." Martin shifted his tone, looking at Jeming, "We currently have no way to truly ’settle’ them."

Jeming understood what he meant.

In order to assimilate a species, you either have to subjugate them through strength or offer them what they desire.

The current issue is, they can’t be defeated, nor does anyone know what to offer—since their need for order is innate, not requiring external provision.

Without the means to leverage, assimilation remains out of reach.

"So." Martin tapped on the Magic Network Terminal, "From now on, I will assign tasks to all Expeditionary Army Wizards."

Jeming looked down at his Magic Network Terminal, a new message popped up on the screen.

[Expeditionary Army Command Task]

[Task Content: Find methods that can effectively damage the Information Plane creatures, or any means that may assist in assimilating the Plane’s creatures]

[Task Reward: Based on result value, reward of one hundred thousand to one million High Level Military Merits]

[Deadline: None]

"Effective damage..." Jeming murmured repeating.

If it’s possible to break their near-immortal state, and make them feel "threatened," there would be leverage in negotiations.

But finding effective damage methods or assimilation aids are indeed complex tasks.

Because despite several rounds of testing, true death of these information creatures has not been discovered.

Though these creatures react very intensely to overly chaotic information, it remains just at the level of intense reaction.

If necessary, they can commit suicide and reform their information in another place, making it impossible to achieve a kill.

"Your previous use of those Imaginary Materials was very effective." Martin looked at Jeming, "If you can develop similar methods or find more stable solutions, the highest reward for this task is yours."

Jeming had to admit, he indeed felt tempted.

One million High Level Military Merits... that’s not a trivial figure.

"I will do my best." He nodded solemnly.

Soon the meeting was over, and leaving the command center, Jeming swiftly returned to his laboratory.

Closing the door, he stood in front of the lab bench, looking at the heaps of data, a thoughtful gleam in his eyes.

In fact, he already had some ideas on how to "truly" kill information creatures.

"With a clear conclusion, my modified spell has a direction now."

Jeming raised his hand and swiped through the air, simultaneously unfolding two spell models: the Cause and Effect Tracing Technique, and the Void Step spell model.

The Cause and Effect Tracing Technique had always failed before, but now Jeming knew the reason.

The essence of this spell is to "trace cause and effect through existing information," and its operation process is inherently logical and orderly.

The reason those information creatures can resist is because they maintain a high level of "orderliness" on the information level, making the spell ineffective.

But what if we abandon this part’s strength and instead seek another aspect of information manipulation?

Focus on the information manipulation aspect of the Cause and Effect Tracing Technique and strengthen the abilities related to information collection and information shielding as much as possible...

Jeming’s finger quickly moved across the model as he began to deduce a new rune structure.

As for the missing part of these spells, naturally, Void Step will be used to supplement.

After all, the essence of Void Step is "virtualizing the flesh to resonate with the environment," and the environment of the Information Plane itself is highly orderly.

Thus, one can simulate the environment, resonate with the same frequency, and naturally also reverse the operation to simulate a trace of "chaotic fluctuation" to achieve the desired goal.

So strictly speaking, Jeming is actually trying to create a new witchcraft.

Relying on numerous data provided by the wizards’ experiments during this period, Jeming can completely modify this new witchcraft.

But the most crucial part is the "weapon" in the framework of this witchcraft model specifically aimed at information creatures.

He needs something that can inject chaos and disrupt the state of entropy reduction: an "information toxin."

"The problem is..."

Jeming stopped his actions and furrowed his brows.

His stock of chaotic materials was indeed running low.

Although he took all his inventory when he left, after all, it has only been accumulated for a century, and the actual amount of the Incense Fire Poison is not much.

Moreover, part of it was used up in the tests over the past ten days, leaving very little left.

If he wants this witchcraft to be widely promoted, he must choose information that can be similarly replicated.

Jeming began to think about various experimental data he had seen before: "From the data, if we really want to achieve the goal of killing, the sheer level of chaos doesn’t actually need to be very high, only a certain threshold needs to be exceeded. The most important thing is still the integrity and accessibility of this information data..."