Chapter 159: Chapter 59: The Rain Cos
Eric, as Richard heard this familiar na, he instantly rembered 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 mont, he did not know how to console his ntor.
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.”
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“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 deed as a bug-level item, naturally ca with a price. Each use inevitably damaged the user’s soul, an injury hard to repair unless one beca 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 dood never to beco 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 beco a Great Wizard.
Jolod ca 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 imdiately headed to the Wizard Comrce to exchange his spoils from over the years for Magic Stones and purchased so alchemy materials.
“Thanks for your patronage, the total cos to two hundred seventy-eight thousand five hundred Magic Stones.”
Hearing the Wizard Comrce’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 seed not yet complete, and the resources from the Wizard World were dwindling. The Wizard Comrce 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 imdiately began crafting Ulysses’s body. A Second Level Synthetic Beast was not like a First Level one where adding so 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 experint table and carefully took out a bone block from his pocket, shaping it with the Alchemy Array into thin and sturdy avian bones.
Next ca 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 beco more robust, an essential technique for crafting advanced Synthetic Beasts.
It was said that Jolod had beco the head of the War Beast Departnt as a Second Ring Wizard, relying on a formula capable of creating Third Level Synthetic Beasts.
Flesh autophagy took a long ti; during this period, Richard took out the Crystal Fragnts he had obtained from Pioneer Relics.
While in the Secret Realm, he had classified these fragnts by size and shape to ensure no chip-like objects were overlooked.
So currently, these Crystal Fragnts were useful to Richard only because of their unique material.
The material of Crystal Fragnts was unique; their internal structure, highly intricate, sotis 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 beco viable.
Watching the Crystals refract thousands of rays of light under the Magic Light, Richard was sowhat entranced.
“O Crystals, let see what secrets you truly hold.”
…
Research ti 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 imdiately 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 ti, 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 mont, 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 flas, 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 ti, he had managed to refine a substantial amount of ore ingots. Among these ores was one called Blue Mushroom Iron. This ore had diocre 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 sa 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 glimred on the Blue Mushroom Iron shell, significantly enhancing the overall protection compared to before.
Of course, this was an extrely 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 diocre quality, Blue Mushroom Iron was a bonafide alchemy material, a tal 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 so Earth Elent 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 Elental Torrents, but we have no way back now.
If we fail this ti, 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 ti, 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 fragnted voice erged from the insect crowd, gradually spreading until it finally converged into a mighty shout.
“Reclaim our world!”
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