Chapter 116: Chapter 16 War Preparation
“Once signed, that settles it.” Richard smiled and signed his na on the other side of the Soul Contract.
As the contract burned to ashes, an invisible soul chain linked Philster and Richard together.
Dispelling the Rune Chain, the Fla Giant Philster silently lowered his head.
“Master.”
“Mm, good,” Richard nodded in approval.
“Gah! This fool is hardly fit for cannon fodder.” Ulysses flew in from the window and landed on Richard’s shoulder, “In the Upper Plane War, cannon fodder is at least of legendary status. Only natives use those below legend as cannon fodder.”
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“That’s true,” Richard’s hand emitted a black fla, “but I have a way to turn it into a Level 1 Creature.”
“Gaah! With ‘Annihilation Fla’?” Ulysses looked at the black fla, puzzled.
He was unaware that his innate flas had this effect.
Richard smiled mysteriously and said no more.
The knowledge of a Pioneer wasn’t limited to just flesh creatures; elental creatures were also included.
With the knowledge about elental creature evolution, combined with Richard’s knowledge of Plastic Energy, it was enough support for Richard to modify Philster.
If the modification succeeded, Richard would gain a Fla Giant wielding Annihilation Fla. Even if it failed, Richard’s loss would only amount to a Soul Contract, and a cannon fodder could be bought in the slave market.
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The modification of the Fla Giant wasn’t complicated; the most troubleso part was continuously improving the Rune Array.
After all, Pioneers were not wizards, and to adapt their knowledge into a wizard’s Rune system required certain modifications.
Fortunately, Richard understood the properties of Annihilation Fla well enough, and had learned sufficient Plastic Energy knowledge while designing the “Heart of Annihilation” spell, which helped him smoothly improve the Rune Array.
In less than six months, Richard had completed the improvents to the Rune Array and rged the Annihilation Fla with the Fla Giant’s Elent Core.
Looking at the Elent Core burning with black flas in front of him, Richard left the laboratory satisfied.
The fusion needed so ti, and there were other things he had to do in the remaining ti.
Entering another room on the second floor, Richard opened a Space Rift and brought out the Alchemy Golem Anna had modified.
Following Richard’s vision, Anna had installed three Magic Equipnt Slots inside the Alchemy Puppet and modified the entire mind core of the puppet, deleting the original master’s commands, adding new data, and changing the master to Richard.
Lifting the back panel of the golem, Richard took out an Annihilation Bomb Launcher used during the Apprentice’s War from his Magic Pocket and installed it.
Richard had modified this device while studying Alchemy chanical Science, increasing its range to five kiloters, and also produced a firing table.
Besides that, Richard made so improvents to the Annihilation Bomb, lowering its cost to one hundred Magic Stones each.
Although compared to a wizard’s spell, this cost still lacked cost-effectiveness, Richard believed that if he continued his research, the price could be further reduced.
After installing the barrel, Richard took a complex chanical device from a shelf in the laboratory and installed it into the golem’s Magic Equipnt Slot in the abdon.
Thanks to Richard’s ticulous design, the slot size was just right to fit the chanical device.
Richard started the machine, and an Annihilation Bomb was pushed out from the device, perfectly loaded into the barrel Richard had installed.
“Heh heh, space magazine,” Richard chuckled as he watched the scene.
Magic Pockets were one of the most common types of Magic Equipnt in the Wizard World, widely used by wizards for storage due to their characteristic of having more internal space than appears externally.
But during his improvents to the Bomb Launcher, Richard suddenly had an idea—if a person could use a Magic Pocket, could a machine use it too?
Then, Richard conducted experints, and afterward, he concluded that by feeding Magic Power into the Magic Pocket, any object could be extracted from the pocket. Since there was no intellect to choose, the Magic Pocket would deliver items to the machine hands in the order they were placed.
So Richard filled a Magic Pocket full of Annihilation Bombs and completed the entire process of taking out and loading using an alchemy chanical device, creating the current space magazine.
With this device, the Alchemy Golem could be directly transford into a small artillery platform.
After installing the Annihilation Cannon, Richard opened the chest of the golem and took out a large Annihilation Bomb from the Magic Pocket and placed it inside.
This Annihilation Bomb didn’t contain any elents and was harmless at the mont.
Its purpose was to self-destruct at a critical mont to buy Richard ti, or to utilize waste.
With the golem modified, Richard filled it with Magic Stones and then closed the lid to start the golem.
Buzz!
A buzzing sound echoed, the entire exterior of the Alchemy Golem began to light up with runes, spreading from the heart to the whole body.
The golem’s eyes lit up with a red light, it scanned Richard, then emitted a chanical voice.
“Master.”
“Walk two steps,” Richard commanded.
The Alchemy Golem moved its feet, thud! Thud! Thud…
The Alchemy Golem was heavy, even though much had been hollowed out of its large body, it still weighed several tons, each step causing the furniture in the room to tremble.
“Stop, use Molten Rock Fist.”
Buzz!
Another faint buzzing sound.
The Alchemy Golem halted in its tracks, its two fists ignited with runes, and a fiery aura instantly filled the entire laboratory.
“Good, stop, enter hibernation mode.”
Richard waved his hand, the red light in the golem’s eyes disappeared, and its entire body instantly turned into a human-shaped boulder.
Richard checked the energy consumption of the golem; in just a minute, the golem had consud nearly one Magic Stone.
“The energy consumption is still acceptable,” Richard muttered as he closed the cover.
Although the strength of the Alchemy Golem was not comparable to Richard’s, compared to a typical One Ring Wizard, its strength was quite impressive.
Its enchanted stone exterior, whether facing physical or elental attacks, provided considerable protective effects, and it was also not difficult to repair.
Now that Richard had equipped it with the Annihilation Cannon, it was excellent whether acting as a guard or clearing out lesser troops.
For new wizards, the first Plane War was the deadliest war. During this period, the wizards had neither sufficient resources, nor sufficient knowledge, nor adequate experience; they were utterly defenseless wizards compared to those who had experienced war, making them more likely to die at the hands of the natives of the Plane.
With this Alchemy Golem now, Richard effectively had a loyal wizard guard.
This greatly increased his chances of survival.
Moreover, Richard also possessed weapons like the Heart of Annihilation and the help of Ulysses, the World Master of the Otherworld.
For this Plane War, Richard was very confident.
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“Gah! You’ve finally agreed to heal my wounds.”
Ulysses landed on the table in front of Richard, which held three Soul Crystals and a large piece of active flesh.
The Soul Crystals contained pure Soul Power, one of the redies for healing soul injuries, while the active flesh was used for breaking through physical limits.
Ulysses’s current body was a Synthetic Beast, and it could only grow through such ans.
Richard nodded slightly, since he was going to the Upper Plane Battlefield, and Ulysses was such a great help, he naturally needed to use it.
Over the last few decades, due to Richard’s prohibition, Ulysses’s soul injury had remained unchanged, only slightly recovering during the periods when Richard needed the Annihilation Fla.
The main reason for this was the vast difference in their strengths; even with a Destiny Contract in place, Richard was afraid this World Master would play tricks on him.
Now, with the upcoming Plane War, Richard couldn’t help using Ulysses’s assistance.
Ulysses opened its mouth and swallowed the three Soul Crystals, the next mont, the Magic Power in the room began to crazily flow towards its body.
Ulysses’s current body, previously Wuni, was not very large.
But after devouring the Soul Crystals, it swallowed the nearby active flesh as well and began to rapidly increase in size; its feathers also ignited in black Annihilation Flas.
“Gah!”
With a loud caw, Ulysses’s daily strength returned to that of a Level 1 Creature!
“Gah, regaining strength feels really good.”
Ulysses flew a few circles in the laboratory before landing on Richard’s shoulder, its voice sowhat ingratiating: “Gah, my dear master, if you bring so Soul Crystals, I promise you won’t suffer a scratch in this Plane War.”
But Richard clearly wasn’t buying it.
“Wait till I beco a Second Ring Wizard, then you can beco a Second-Level Creature.”
“Gah, my master, we do have a Destiny Contract between us, I’ve been your loyal servant for ten thousand years, why be so guarded against ?”
Ulysses shifted its eyes as it spoke, only it knew what it was thinking.
“A contract isn’t omnipotent,” Richard said coldly, “If you want to regain your strength early, then provide with so new knowledge.”
“Gah, knowledge? My master, we Annihilation Crows are not like you wizards; our growth relies on fighting and devouring. According to your terms, we follow the path of Physique Evolution, and it’s the most primitive kind.
If you want new knowledge, all I can offer you are the secrets of becoming a Divine.”
Ulysses spoke enticingly:
“The secrets of becoming a Divine, master, do you want them now?”
Richard’s heart stirred; in the Wizard World, how to beco a Great Wizard was a deep-seated secret, held only by so age-old Wizard Families and the Tower of Truth.
For the hope of advancing, Three Rings Wizards had to sell themselves to the Tower of Truth, exchanging the benefits they would gain after becoming a Great Wizard for a chance to advance.
Ulysses’s words, however, opened up another path for Richard.
Gods Civilization was a diversified civilization, encompassing multiple races, indicating that their thods for advancing to World Master didn’t involve bloodline restrictions.
If Richard could acquire this knowledge, then he could bypass the Tower of Truth and beco a Great Wizard on his own, or even… cultivate his own Great Wizards.
At this thought, Richard’s heart pounded rapidly.
“Sigh…” Richard suddenly let out a long breath, turning to look at Ulysses, his eyes cold, “Ulysses, if you try to influence ntally again, you will never regain your status as a World Master in this lifeti.”
His recent thoughts were overly greedy and arrogant, contrary to his character; they must have been influenced from the outside.
“Gah, I haven’t done anything!” Ulysses protested loudly, “The voice of an Annihilation Crow naturally arouses people’s greed; those were your own desires!”
“Your current body isn’t that of an Annihilation Crow!”
Now Ulysses was left speechless.
“Gah, just my luck. But what I said is true; I really do possess the secrets of becoming a Divine. And I can also use so items to wield so of the Divine’s powers ahead of ti.”
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