Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 88: Chapter 88: Apprentice War (Part 7)

Construction was no difficult feat for a wizard.

Building walls required a large amount of materials such as bricks, stones, lime, and more for common people, but for a wizard, an Earth Wall Skill coupled with some reinforcement enchantments were enough to get the job done, and the effect was even better than what mortals could build.

Following the plan, the apprentices cleared all vegetation within a two hundred meter radius of the resource point and leveled the ground using Mud to Stone and Fossil to Mud. Then they built a rough wall at the edge with Earth Wall Skill.

The large trees that had been cleared were used by the apprentices to construct wooden huts, as accommodations were essential since the war was expected to last for some time.

Meanwhile, the battle with the Flame Giant came to an end; it had grabbed the neck of the Flame Monster Bird and extracted the Element Core hidden inside its body. @@novelbin@@

The Element Core was greatly beneficial to elemental creatures, speeding up their growth. After devouring the core of the Flame Monster Bird, the Flame Giant’s strength surged and almost reached the standard of an Advanced Apprentice.

Once the wall was completed, those from the Alchemy School began to reinforce it with enchantments to ensure it wouldn’t succumb to the Elemental Magic of the White Wizard Apprentices.

Next was the trap setup.

Three kilometers out from the resource point’s center, the apprentices from the Alchemy School began laying out Arrays.

As Black Wizards, these apprentices had a knack for setting traps. Various devious and covert Magic Arrays were densely positioned in the forest, and once activated, they were guaranteed to make any trapped White Wizard beg for mercy.

During the deployment of the apprentices, Richard gained a deeper understanding of warfare.

He also realized the limitations of Black Wizards.

Since Black Wizards focused too much on boosting their own power, this led to a complete ignorance of some auxiliary spells. In the process of building walls, out of over three hundred apprentices, they found only around thirty who knew the Earth Wall Skill.

And that was at least somewhat useful Earth Wall Skill.

When Richard planned to construct a reservoir within the wall for water supply, not a single person in the entire camp knew the Clear Water Creation spell.

If Richard had been looking for lethal spells like Ice Cone Skill, Blizzard, Ice Fog Skill, he was sure this group of apprentices would have provided plenty, but not a single one knew the non-lethal Clear Water Creation spell.

This meant that part of Richard’s planning had to be declared a failure. For the water supply issue, they could only rely on the rivers in the forest.

In light of this, Richard deduced some advantages of the White Wizards by comparing their flaws.

White Wizards conducted warfare in a regimented manner, which meant that they had specialists trained in certain aspects, such as construction; they should have wizards who specialized in building fortifications. And for combat, they had wizards specializing in warfare.

The advantage of such training was evident: it was convenient to specialize, and with the Wizard Academy’s selection process, apprentices with talents in certain areas would be deployed where they could best utilize their gifts.

Secondly, wizards trained this way might initially be very specialized, but they would surpass Black Wizards in their specialized areas.

Even if Black Wizards worked themselves to death, they couldn’t beat a White Wizard who specialized in constructing fortifications.

“If this reasoning holds, then the Void and Annihilation Academies might be in some danger,” Richard muttered as he watched the directions in which those two academies had gone.

Unlike the Black Tower Wizard Academy, the Void and Annihilation Academies had gone to attack the White Wizards.

And they were White Wizards with defensive structures.

Even if the White Wizards were incompetents, with fortifications to aid them, they would certainly put up a strong resistance.

This was definitely not good news for Black Wizards.

Fortifications could effectively reduce casualties among White Wizard Apprentices, and the war would temper them, maturing them and building up their teamwork in the process.

If the two academies failed to take down their targets, it would be akin to training troops for the White Wizards.

“No, I must take a look. If the White Wizards are anything like I suspect, then I’ll have to change my strategy,” Richard frowned and switched his view to Wuni, preparing to observe the battle from the sky.

…

“My lord, we are just one kilometer from the White Wizards’ resource point,” a scouting Black Wizard reported. “The White Wizards have already built their wall and now seem to be laying out Magic Arrays and traps.”

“Good, halt the advance,” Anderson ordered.

While Anderson had his doubts about Richard’s intelligence,

out of an inherent Black Wizard instinct, he was skeptical about information from strangers. But the corpses scattered across the resource point didn’t lie, and neither did the number of Black Tower Wizard Academy apprentices.

If the White Wizards were not as weak as Richard had claimed, such a victory could not have been achieved.

But…Anderson always felt that something was off inside.

Like him, Aldo from the Annihilation Academy had the same feeling in his heart.

“It’s not right, we have to prepare for retreat when we attack later,” Aldo muttered to himself as he looked at the distant White Wizard resource point.

Having said that, he called over a few Apprentice Wizards from the Alchemy School.

“You guys, prepare some triggerable Magic Arrays.”

“Yes, boss.”

As both parties arrived at the location, Anderson and Aldo had their people agree on the time for the battle and the offensive front lines.

The Void Academy, led by Anderson, would attack from the north, while the Annihilation Academy, led by Aldo, would attack from the south.

The Magic Array traps from these two directions were not yet completed, many Apprentices were still setting them up.

Now was the perfect moment to strike unexpectedly.

Watching the time on his pocket watch, Anderson pulled out his longsword, thrust it into the ground, and then clasped his hands together in prayer.

“My Lord, today I offer this victory to You, may You bless me with Your favor.”

After the prayer, Anderson seemed like a transformed person, becoming like a fanatic, his eyes filled solely with zeal and devotion.

“Void Academy, follow me, today I shall dedicate victory to my Lord!”

At the same time, Aldo from the Annihilation Academy also began his attack.

As an Apprentice of the Undead School, Aldo was most skilled at summoning the Undead.

In his Magic Pocket, he always carried the bones of three Level 1 Creatures. He had bought these corpses at a high price from the Wizard Commerce, and once resurrected, their strength would certainly be at the level of an Advanced Apprentice, which even a High Advanced Apprentice had to be careful to handle.

For this battle, Aldo brought all three corpses back to life.

With the eerie blue soul fire igniting in the eye sockets, three corpses once Level 1 Creatures were resurrected, coming back to this world.

“My Lord.”

The three skeletons bowed slightly to Aldo.

Aldo nodded in satisfaction and immediately commanded the three skeletons to rush to the front of the troop.

At this moment, the White Wizards were completely unaware of all this, still peacefully setting up their Magic Array traps.

Until the flames of war descended.

“Master! Conqueror, Sir!”

A White Wizard Apprentice found Orey, who was in his room devising strategies.

“What’s the matter, why are you so flustered? Don’t tell me the Black Wizards have broken in,” asked Orey, frowning.

The reporting White Wizard Apprentice nodded and shouted loudly:

“Master, it’s the Black Wizards! They’re attacking!”

“What!”

Orey instantly stood up, pushed aside the reporting White Apprentice, and went outside.

The sounds of spell bombardments were incessantly coming in, the White Wizards at the resource point were once again thrown into chaos.

“Damn it, everyone stop!”

Orey flew into the sky and bellowed down to the Apprentices below, who were scurrying about like headless flies.

“Now! All Apprentices listen to my command! Form up in Number One Array, ready to meet the enemy!

Any Apprentice who runs now will be treated as a deserter!

As the Commander, I have the right to execute them!”

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