Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 125: Chapter 25: Upgrading Equipment

“Phew, this is probably the last piece,” Richard muttered to himself as he looked at the fist-sized golden blood clot in front of him.

Three days had passed since Richard found the first fragment, and many Black Wizards returning from the front lines had joined the search for pieces of the Mother Worm God’s body.

Information transmitted from the Miracle Furnace.

[Material: Remnants of the Mother Worm God]

[Refinable Substance: Mother Worm Bloodline]

[Refining Cost: 20,000 Magic Power]

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[Refinable Substance: Pure Gold]

[Refining Cost: 20,000 Magic Power]

“Indeed, no rules remnants,” Richard noted as he observed the information transmitted from the Miracle Furnace. In the past two days, he had found two more fragments, which, like this one, had not the slightest trace of rules remnants.

The rules remnants had lasted much shorter than Richard had anticipated.

However, this was a good thing since refining rules would require Richard to use Soul Power, which was not so easily replenished.

If it dropped below fifty in spiritual power, his body would suffer from a mismatch between spirit and flesh, leading to limb imbalance and decreased control, among other negative effects.

If the remnants hadn’t dispersed, deciding whether to refine or not would have been a tough choice.

After searching for the fragments of the Mother Worm God, Richard returned to the Floating City.

By the time he arrived, the Floating City had descended from the sky, transforming into a ground fortress.

The lower half of the Floating City’s metal shell had unfolded to form various defensive structures and city walls.

Inside the walls, many logistical wizards were busy adjusting and repairing the compartments of the Floating City and installing various alchemy weapons.

These logistical wizards were mainly responsible for the maintenance of war equipment, construction of war fortresses and castles, as well as healing and building Teleportation Gates to the Wizard World.

Unless it was the most critical moment, these wizards would absolutely not enter the battlefield.

The descent of the Floating City brought Richard quite a bit of trouble. While sailing through the Star Realm, their rooms had been in the lower hemisphere of the Floating City; now, it seemed that those rooms were trapped below.

Before he found an entrance underground, however, a familiar figure entered his vision.

“Anna!”

Richard descended from the sky and greeted a busy silhouette.

This group of wizards was fabricating metal parts to repair damaged War Airships.

At the sound of his voice, Anna’s eyes lit up. She immediately tossed aside the tools she was working with and excitedly grasped Richard’s arm.

“Richard!? Thank heavens, you’re alive as well.”

Richard grinned, “Just lucky to have bumped into a few reliable teammates.” @@novelbin@@

“Luck is also part of strength,” Anna sighed in relief. “I was fortunate, too; I followed a Three Rings Wizard and managed to survive. Chax, though, wasn’t as lucky; he lost an arm and half his heart and is now lying in the hospital.”

Half a heart…

Richard couldn’t help but feel fortunate for Chax when he heard about his injuries. Losing half a heart was no light matter for a wizard; without prior bodily enhancements, sustaining such damage would only allow a wizard to rely on their physique for some time.

The fact that Chax managed to make it to the hospital was indeed a stroke of great luck.

“It’s good that our senior brother is still alive; the Medical Wizards will definitely ensure he comes out as good as new,” Richard remarked, then turned to inquire about the way underground.

“By the way, elder sister, how do you get to our old dormitories from the Floating City era? I still have stuff left in there.”

“Go south from here to the third spire; the first level has an underground entrance,” Anna pointed to a certain spire. “Once the Floating City unfolded, our previous rooms quickly became storerooms, so if you have things, take them away quickly.”

“Okay, I’ll go now.”

…

Following the underground entrance on the first level of the spire, Richard easily found his room.

At the moment, some wizards were opening the rooms one by one, organizing and packing the items inside.

Richard entered his room and took out the Flesh Tentacles cultivation chamber from the cabinet.

This object was the most precious thing he possessed, an unending source of third-level active flesh, a treasure trove that would please any wizard interested in researching Synthetic Beasts.

Besides the Flesh Tentacles, the other things Richard left in the room were some alchemy materials. After packing everything up, he left the room and returned to the ground.

As the war was going very smoothly and various pieces of intelligence were still under investigation, Richard had no pressing missions at present.

Taking advantage of this time, he planned to upgrade his equipment.

Without dormitories in the ground structures of the Floating City, wizards had to establish their own abodes or wait for logistical wizards to build dwellings.

Richard obviously could not wait for logistical wizards, so he had to build a temporary residence for himself in the Black Bone Plain.

Richard found a level spot outside of the Floating City, his Magic Power surged within him, and with a finger pointed towards the ground:

“Mud to Stone.”

In an instant, a yellow light shot out from his fingertip, hit the ground, and a roughly four square meter area of earth instantly turned into solid stone.

After the Apprentice War, Richard had started to pay attention to these spells that seemed unhelpful in combat.

The long lifespans of wizards could help them become jacks-of-all-trades.

He cast several Mud to Stones in succession, hardening a large enough area of ground. Richard then took out a seed from his pocket and planted it at the edge of the hardened ground, watering it with a few bottles of Alchemy Potions.

In just a moment, trees as thick as bowls sprouted up, forming the walls of a room.

These seeds were Demonized seeds processed by Wizards, and they were quite affordable, Ten seeds for one Magic Stone—ideal materials for setting up a temporary shelter.

After a bit of trimming and adding wood to form a roof and some furniture, Richard’s temporary shelter was complete.

Entering the room, Richard placed the Demon Eater Sword on the table and fell into deep thought while looking at the large and small notches on the blade.

The bodies of the Mother Worm Guards contained a small amount of Pure Gold, which made their Blade Arms far harder than the Demon Eater Sword. If he didn’t upgrade and modify the Demon Eater Sword, it wouldn’t be long before it was scrapped.

“Upgrade and modify…”

Richard’s fingers tapped incessantly on the tabletop as countless ideas collided in his mind.

He was planning to make a minor modification to the Demon Eater Sword.

Given the current situation, the shape of the Great Sword was somewhat unsuitable for the upcoming battlefield.

The blade of the Great Sword was too thin, prone to chipping and even nearing damage to the Core Runes along the notches on the blade in battles with the insects.

Therefore, Richard intended to transform it into a Magic Wand while retaining the three Core Magic spells of the Demon Eater Sword.

What Wizard could be without a Magic Wand?

Moreover, Richard possessed knowledge about amplifying Fire Element Spells, which a Magic Wand could effectively enhance.

With a plan in mind, Richard promptly set in motion.

However, before making the Magic Wand, he needed to extract the Pure Gold first.

Pulling out the bodies of insects from the Magic Pocket, Richard had collected a total of seven bodies of Mother Worm Guards during the war. Due to the power of the Heart of Annihilation, most of the bodies were incomplete, severed in half, and many were lacking Blade Arms, which had the highest content of Pure Gold.

“Ga, we had an agreement,” Ulysses suddenly spoke up from Richard’s shoulder, “Leave a bit for me to eat.”

Richard gave him a glance; even a World Master still had desires for taste.

“Ga, you young ones who haven’t reached a hundred years old wouldn’t understand,” noticing Richard’s glance, Ulysses said disdainfully, “When you reach my age, you’ll realize how important the senses you presently neglect are.

Thousands of years are enough to try all kinds of flavors, but once you tire of them, you’ll find that eternity is also a form of pain.

At that point, you’ll come to understand the importance of new sensations.”

Richard responded with a hint of mocking smile:

“If eternity is such a pain, why don’t you resolve it once and for all?”

“Ga, that’s because death is even more painful.”

Although Richard somewhat looked down on Ulysses’s behavior, he still needed Ulysses’s help, so he had to give up the insect bodies.

Fortunately, Ulysses wasn’t asking for much. Of the seven bodies, he only took one, leaving the rest for Richard.

After refining with the Miracle Furnace, Richard extracted about a kilogram of Pure Gold from these bodies.

This left Richard slightly disappointed.

Though Pure Gold was on par with Mithril and Ao Steel as top-tier Alchemy materials, unlike these metals sold by the gram, Pure Gold was sold by volume.

Five thousand Magic Stones for one cubic centimeter.

This pricing was primarily because Pure Gold’s density was so high that selling by weight would make Cutting extremely troublesome.

Looking at the tiny piece of Pure Gold the size of half a finger in his hand, Richard complained:

“All these bodies, and there’s only this little Pure Gold?”

“Ga, you’re still not satisfied with that much?” Ulysses retorted from the side, “Pure Gold in our place, even a little mixed in, would be considered a Legendary weapon, and if there’s more, it could even reach a Demigod Artifact level.

If you have a weapon made purely of Pure Gold, some impoverished Divine beings would have to step down.”

“But this is still too little; it can only make an alloy,” Richard said helplessly.

“Ga, the insects only did a plating; you shouldn’t be so ungrateful.”

Having refined the Pure Gold, Richard proceeded to disassemble the Demon Eater Sword.

The material of the Demon Eater Sword was not bad either. The excess parts, once removed and stripped of Runes, could be remelted and used as material for the Magic Wand.

After disassembling, the original Demon Eater Sword was transformed into a metal bar adorned with Runes.

With the insertions complete, Richard began drafting the design for the Magic Wand.

He designed the shape of the Magic Wand to be a short stick level with the eyebrows, with the headpiece temporarily vacant, and various Rune Arrays neatly arranged inside the staff.

These Rune Arrays were mainly to harmonize the three Core Magic spells and establish a Fire Element amplification Array.

After the design was set, it was time for production.

The parts removed from the Demon Eater Sword were melted down into liquid metal, and Richard added a touch of alchemy materials mixed with Pure Gold to make a much harder alloy.

Next came the shaping of the staff, Engraving Runes, constructing the Magic Conducting Circuit… and other intricate steps.

The entire production process took Richard nearly a month. During this time, the White Wizard Army’s war efforts had paused, focusing on fortification construction, while the Black Wizard start to assign tasks based on strength to infiltrate behind enemy lines.

With the last Rune engraved, the metal Magic Wand with slight gold patterns emitted a faint Magic Fluctuation from the table.

This was the sign of a successful creation.

Richard sat back in the chair and let out a long breath, having finally completed the Magic Wand before the command post assigned him a task.

But before he could catch his breath, the command from the communications Crystal Ball beside him came through.

“All One Ring Black Wizards are to immediately come to the Floating City.”