Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 159: Chapter 59: The Rain Comes

Eric, as Richard heard this familiar name, he instantly remembered the oppressive Wizard in the reception room on the day he learned of the war news.

Was a Wizard, who was just one ceremony away from becoming a Three Rings Wizard, really dead?

A Black Wizard with a promising future had died so effortlessly behind enemy lines, leaving Richard with an inexplicable layer of emotions.

For a moment, he did not know how to console his mentor.

Jolod sighed, managing a faint smile.

“Death and injury are inevitable in war, Eric wasn’t forced into battle. He was prepared for death before he stepped onto the battlefield.”

“Teacher, didn’t Brother Eric have a Life Box?” Richard couldn’t help asking.

“He did, but his soul could no longer support using the Life Box.”

The Life Box, a resurrection device deemed as a bug-level item, naturally came with a price. Each use inevitably damaged the user’s soul, an injury hard to repair unless one became a Great Wizard or used a large amount of Soul Essence.

Among the Wizard community, there was a rumor that any Wizard who used a Life Box was doomed never to become a Great Wizard.

This rumor wasn’t baseless; among the Wizards who had signed pacts with the Tower of Truth, not one who used a Life Box had become a Great Wizard.

Jolod came over to Richard and gently patted his shoulder.

“Don’t think too much, just do your job well with the active flesh. Everything on the battlefield is illusory; only one’s own strength is real.”

…

After obtaining active flesh from Jolod, Richard immediately headed to the Wizard Commerce to exchange his spoils from over the years for Magic Stones and purchased some alchemy materials.

“Thanks for your patronage, the total comes to two hundred seventy-eight thousand five hundred Magic Stones.”

Hearing the Wizard Commerce’s price, Richard winced, handing over the Magic Essence.

This price was too high, at least fifty percent more than what it would cost in the Wizard World.

However, the Teleportation Gate to the Wizard World seemed not yet complete, and the resources from the Wizard World were dwindling. The Wizard Commerce naturally set high prices.

Richard guessed that when headquarters would issue the retreat order for Black Wizards, the prices would likely spike even more.

Back in his dwelling, Richard immediately began crafting Ulysses’s body. A Second Level Synthetic Beast was not like a First Level one where adding some high-quality active flesh sufficed.

Creating a Second Level Synthetic Beast required constructing an energy cycle for the active flesh and undergoing autophagy, a lengthy process with a high failure rate.

Energy cycle construction had to be handled with utmost care, as a tiny error could cause an explosion. Compared to energy construction, enhancing physique through flesh autophagy was relatively easier.

As long as the formula was correct, continuously adding active flesh would lead to success.

Still, neither process posed any problem for Richard; once he constructed the body, Ulysses could handle the energy cycle himself.

In the laboratory, Richard stood in front of the experiment table and carefully took out a bone block from his pocket, shaping it with the Alchemy Array into thin and sturdy avian bones.

Next came the flesh autophagy.

Richard had inherited a flesh autophagy formula from Jolod, which, through various alchemy materials and stimulation by Magic Power, caused the active flesh to self-digest. The autophagy-induced flesh would become more robust, an essential technique for crafting advanced Synthetic Beasts.

It was said that Jolod had become the head of the War Beast Department as a Second Ring Wizard, relying on a formula capable of creating Third Level Synthetic Beasts.

Flesh autophagy took a long time; during this period, Richard took out the Crystal Fragments he had obtained from Pioneer Relics.

While in the Secret Realm, he had classified these fragments by size and shape to ensure no chip-like objects were overlooked.

So currently, these Crystal Fragments were useful to Richard only because of their unique material.

The material of Crystal Fragments was unique; their internal structure, highly intricate, sometimes caused rapidly diminishing Magic Power upon entry, yet occasionally, Magic Power would refract within them for a prolonged period.

This mystery greatly intrigued Richard.

Even in the simplest Magic Array, there was a loss of Magic Power, but the unique structure of these Crystals reduced the loss of Magic Power to a very low level.

If he could uncover the mystery, Richard would make significant progress both in Shaping Magic and Alchemy.

Many seemingly unfeasible ideas would become viable.

Watching the Crystals refract thousands of rays of light under the Magic Light, Richard was somewhat entranced.

“O Crystals, let me see what secrets you truly hold.”

…

Research time always passed quickly, and before he knew it, half a year had gone by.

During the last three months of this half-year, the Black Wizards who had infiltrated behind enemy lines gradually began to withdraw from the Insect Nest as the looming counterattack from the insect swarm forced headquarters to consolidate every bit of strength.

The logistical Wizards had regularized their exploitation of the Insect Nest World over the years, transforming various minerals and Demonized Plants into Alchemy Weapons and Magic Potions, which were sent to the front lines.

For this, headquarters provided an extraction task to all Alchemy Wizards, who could obtain ore from the logistical Wizards and refine it themselves, delivering the required quota upon task completion.

During this process, if your craftsmanship was exquisite, any extra yield would belong to the Wizard himself.

Many Alchemy Wizards, such as Richard, made a tidy sum during this opportunity.

In the Secret Realm, Richard retrieved a raven body from an incubator; this body had a basic ** Physique of one hundred points, reaching the lowest threshold of a Second-level Creature.

For Ulysses, this body was barely acceptable.

Releasing Ulysses from his pocket, he immediately flew around the Secret Realm twice before landing in front of the raven body.

“Gaah, is this my new body?”

Richard nodded. “We’re short on time, the insects are about to retaliate, so make do with this for now.”

Ulysses glanced at his body, then a stream of light burst out of the black crow and entered a new black crow body.

The next moment, the flow of magic power throughout the Secret Realm changed. It was as if a magic black hole had appeared in the realm, incessantly devouring magic power.

Taking advantage of this, Richard used his energy vision to closely observe Ulysses’s energy circulation.

A good Wizard never misses any opportunity to acquire knowledge.

A few minutes later, a black crow ablaze with black flames, about the size of a golden eagle, landed on Richard’s shoulder.

“Gaah, a Second-level body is indeed more efficient. The previous one was stifling, I was always worried it would break if I exerted too much.”

“As long as it works,” Richard said indifferently.

The battle was about to begin, and he would definitely need Ulysses’s aid during this period.

After switching bodies, Richard moved to a corner of the Secret Realm and dragged out the Alchemy Golem.

During this time, he had managed to refine a substantial amount of ore ingots. Among these ores was one called Blue Mushroom Iron. This ore had mediocre hardness, toughness, and magic conduction, even slightly poor, but it had one outstanding feature—its incredibly low density.

The density of Blue Mushroom Iron was almost the same as that of granite.

This inspired Richard to consider making Alchemy Golem shells out of enchanted Blue Mushroom Iron shells.

No matter how poor the properties of Blue Mushroom Iron were, it was still stronger than the enchanted stones used for the Alchemy Golem.

Richard dismantled the Alchemy Golem’s shell and installed the pre-made enchanted Blue Mushroom Iron shell. After integrating the magic circuits, Richard activated the golem.

Buzz!

The golem’s eyes lit up with red light.

After the modification, the Alchemy Golem’s exterior had shifted from the original granite shell to a pale blue Blue Mushroom Iron shell. Runes faintly glimmered on the Blue Mushroom Iron shell, significantly enhancing the overall protection compared to before.

Of course, this was an extremely lavish modification.

If it weren’t for the impending battle and his ample resources, Richard would never have opted for such a modification.

Despite its mediocre quality, Blue Mushroom Iron was a bonafide alchemy material, a metal conducive to magic.

“Gaah, from a stone lump to an iron lump. I seriously suspect that if you had enough Pure Gold at hand, you’d turn this thing into a Pure Gold lump,” Ulysses said, watching the golem with a slightly mocking tone.

“But no matter what kind of lump, the brain is always dead.”

Ulysses had always despised Alchemy Puppets, yet he never disclosed the reason.

Richard suspected that this guy must have been severely beaten by some Earth Element Lord in the past, which was why he harbored malice toward the Alchemy Puppets, which looked like Stone Giants.

Richard ignored him, stuffed him into his pocket, and then walked out of the Secret Realm with the Alchemy Puppet.

Upon exiting, Richard noticed that the Communication Crystal Ball he had left on the laboratory table had lit up, bearing a command from headquarters.

“Wizard 7531, the insects’ counterattack is imminent. Your task is to assist in the defense of War Fortress 372 in the Third War Zone.”

…

White Fungus Worm Country.

As the main direction of the Wizards’ attack, nearly one-third of the territory of the White Fungus Worm Country had been conquered in just three years.

This was even with the Wizards intentionally slowing down their attack.

The constant rumbling of spells and Alchemy Weapons, the ever-present shadow of death looming over the heads of the White Fungus Worm Country’s insects.

But today, everything was set to change.

In the Mother Goddess Temple of the White Fungus Worm Country, thirty-five High Priests of the Worm Country gathered together.

Beneath the Mother Goddess Temple, a vast sea of insects stretched as far as the eye could see.

A High Priest adorned with a golden crown shouted to the insect swarm below the Mother Goddess Temple:

“Fellow beings! Today, the elite of the thirty-five Worm Countries have all assembled!

This is a historic event that has never occurred in the history of the Black Crystal Worm Clan!

We are about to counterattack, to reclaim our land, our world!

I know, this is an unfair war.

The Wizard Monsters have steel war machines and powerful Elemental Torrents, but we have no way back now.

If we fail this time, we will never be able to gather such a vast counterattack force again. Once the Wizard Monsters’ Teleportation Gate is constructed, allowing them an endless supply of resources and troops… At that time, slavery is the only path waiting for us.

So, fellow beings!

Fight with your last ounce of strength, even if it’s with teeth or stones, drive these Wizard Monsters out of our world.

The Mother Worm God is with us!”

With that, a grand Holy Light shot from the Mother Goddess Temple, enveloping the entire sea of insects.

A fragmented voice emerged from the insect crowd, gradually spreading until it finally converged into a mighty shout.

“Reclaim our world!”

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