Chapter 455: Chapter 74 Rushing to the Battlefield
Richard stowed the notification carefully and released the ssenger owl into the sky.
“Is the war finally going to begin?”
He sighed softly and casually opened the Secret Realm Rift.
Inside the Secret Realm, the modified Fire Lizard Warriors were conducting recovery training at the Martial Arts Arena.
Their suddenly enhanced bodies, although drastically boosting their theoretical combat strength, would be of uncertain practical use if they couldn’t control their bodies precisely.
In the Alchemy Workshop, the Fire Lizard Craftsn were working overti to upgrade the Single Soldier Armor.
Even so, a year’s ti was still a bit too short.
Up to now, only one hundred sets of armor had been upgraded completely. As for the rest, it seed they would have to be upgraded slowly on the battlefield.
Richard entered the Martial Arts Arena, and the Fire Lizard Warriors, sensing Richard’s arrival, ceased their training one after another.
They gathered around Richard, a thousand dragon eyes flashing with fervent golden light.
Richard slowly began, “The war is about to start, don’t train too intensely during this ti.”
Hearing this news, the Fire Lizards instantly erupted in excitent.
Contrary to what Richard had imagined, the Fire Lizards did not have an aversion to war. Whether it was the veterans who had experienced the Green Forest World or the new recruits, their reaction to war was strikingly similar.
Zeal, these Fire Lizards were extrely fervent about war.
This reaction made Richard subtly feel that sothing was off.
“How do you feel?”
Ulysses’s voice suddenly rang in Richard’s ear; he turned his head slightly and saw Ulysses flying into the Martial Arts Arena from outside.
“Did you preach to them?”
Richard imdiately connected the unusual reaction to fanatics.
Ulysses didn’t refute, but added, “I didn’t preach to them, I just gave them so guidance. They established sothing similar to a secret society on their own.”
“A secret society?”
Richard glanced at the excited crowd of Fire Lizards, then turned his head back.
“There’s no such effect from a secret society.”
The essence of a Wizard’s secret society is a social convention as well as a particular thod of trading.
But the reaction of the Fire Lizards at this mont seed more like that of human secret societies. Such societies often have a specific goal, and their mbers work towards that goal.
Yet even for mortal secret societies, this kind of fervor was a bit too much.
“I never said it was the secret society that did it,” Ulysses replied with a sly smile, “Their zeal for war is a kind of atavistic phenonon.
You should still rember that Giant Dragons are the Supre’s biological weapons, right?”
“But the Dragon Blood in these Fire Lizards has been suppressed… No, you an!”
Richard’s eyes suddenly widened. The Dragon Blood in these Fire Lizards had indeed been suppressed, but there were two Giant Dragons in his Secret Realm.
The offspring of the Six-headed Dragon King, Hog, along with the Snake King, which held unique heritage. These two together could not be ruled out from stirring up sothing.
“Right, just what you’re thinking,” said Ulysses, sowhat smugly, “Hog and the Snake King cooperated to re-administer the blood to these Fire Lizards.
Now although their Dragon Blood remains suppressed, the Dragon Blood they have awakened has been enhanced.
And as biological weapons, the Giant Dragons are destined not to fear war.
So after enhancing the Dragon Blood, that’s why the Fire Lizards have beco what they are now.”
Richard turned to look at the self-satisfied crow.
“Did you arrange this?”
“Hehe, it was a mutual idea between and the Snake King.”
Richard nodded slightly, pleased, “It’s rare that you help to bolster strength aside from sleeping.”
As he spoke, he took a tightly sealed bottle out of his pocket and threw it to Ulysses.
“What is this, sealed so tight?”
Ulysses caught the bottle and curiously broke the seal.
As soon as the bottle was opened, a wave of soul-level “fragrance” imdiately made Ulysses’s eyes widen.
“Soul Essence!”
Richard laughed, “I originally planned to give you this after the war was over. But I’m in a good mood now, so let’s give it in advance.”
Soul Essence was undoubtedly the best dicine to recover soul injuries for Ulysses.
Even though Ulysses’s soul injuries were healing bit by bit on their own, consuming a large amount of Soul Essence would still accelerate the recovery.
If he ingested this Soul Essence, Ulysses could very well recover to the level of the World Master.
“Ah, isn’t giving this now a bad thing?” Ulysses feigned difficulty.
“If I swig this thing, I will surely fall into a deep sleep. Then I won’t be of any help in the upcoming war.”
Richard glanced at him, pretending to be serious, “You remind , give it back to now.”
“Don’t, don’t, I’ll just eat less of it,” Ulysses surrendered.
However, after the joke, he imdiately beca serious, “You must carefully consider my injury.
My slumber is inevitable, and you must be prepared for it early.”
Richard nodded solemnly.
“I know.”
After leaving the Secret Realm, Richard sent news of his joining the war to a few people close to him via the Communication Crystal Ball.
Then he tidied up the laboratory, neatly placing various equipnt and activating all the Magic Arrays.
He feared that this departure would an a long ti before he could return.
At last, he walked out of the Wizard Tower’s great door and added a layer of Sealing to it.
In the air, Richard took one last look at the Wizard Tower, which was about to disappear from view, and sighed softly,
“Ah, I hope I can co back.”
…
The wizards of the Tower of Truth had recently sensed sothing amiss.
A pressing sense of impending doom had begun to envelop them, seemingly from nowhere.
Even though the Military Departnt had banned the spread of news, many astute individuals had picked up on inklings from changes in the marketplace.
The first to notice were employees of the Wizard Comrce.
As sellers, they naturally noticed market changes before buyers did.
The price of Fire Elent Gems continued to fall in the market. The quality of inferior Fire Elent Gems used for fuel was improving.
Furthermore, prices for alchemy materials had fallen and had not rebounded for a long ti.
This situation alerted many experienced wizards.
That’s because the prices of alchemy materials were controlled by the Truth Council’s macro-managent. Previous price fluctuations had always quickly stabilized. But this ti, the prices of these materials were steadily declining at an incredibly slow pace.
It was almost as if overnight, all the Great Wizards had ramped up their efforts to exploit every resource within their worlds.
The abnormal market phenona fueled wild speculation amongst wizards, and guesses spread rapidly like a plague through pubs, gatherings, societies, and clubs.
Many optimistically estimated that the golden age for wizards was beginning.
But very few guessed that the Wizard World was on the brink of a great war.
Because according to common sense, if a war were imminent, the prices for alchemy materials should be rising.
But only a few wizards who were very familiar with the resource developnt of the Wizard World knew that the commodity prices in the Wizard World were artificially propped up.
If the Great Wizards were to fully utilize their resources, the unit price for many alchemy materials would switch from Magic Essence to Magic Stone.
Recently, however, speculations about a major conflict began to erge amidst the rumors.
This was because many well-known Three Rings Wizards had disappeared.
These masters were successful wizards who had joined the Military Departnt. According to those who cared to keep count, almost all wizards who had recently joined the Military Departnt had been conscripted.
This sign made the wizards of the Tower of Truth feel so panic.
What kind of war would necessitate the Military Departnt to mobilize so many elite wizards?
…
Changes were apparent in the expedition layer of the Tower of Truth when compared to before.
A host of enormous Teleportation Gates, resembling tombstones, were erected on the cold, steel plains of the working layer.
Giant cargo Flying Airships were tirelessly transporting materials through the Teleportation Gates into the Hub World. From there, they were relayed to the Galaxy Worlds where war was raging.
Among these airships, there was one that looked a bit special.
“The current situation is as such, everyone please brace yourselves ntally.”
Inside the airship, Richard was sitting in the corner of the room, quietly reviewing the docunts at hand. Not far from him, a wizard from the Military Departnt was explaining the information in the docunts through various projections.
“So you’re saying that we are at a comprehensive disadvantage, right?”
A wizard, who was covered in black Flas, suddenly spoke up.
“You could understand it that way,” the instructor nodded.
“A comprehensive disadvantage, I’ve never seen such a thing before,” a wizard, who looked much like a stone man, continued the conversation.
“These Galaxy Mayflies are deploying troops directly into the worlds from the Star Realm, and we have no ans of retaliation except for defense.”
The voice of the stone man wizard was filled with rage. When had wizards ever been so suppressed by another creature—let alone a suppression that couldn’t be countered?
But behind this anger, Richard detected a hint of powerless rage stemming from shattered illusions.
The wizard couldn’t accept that in this war, wizards were at an overall disadvantage.
His resolve was faltering.
The wizards in the room were surprisingly quiet about the stone man wizard’s outburst.
The news of the war had indeed hit them hard—everyone except Richard.
“Fellow wizards, there’s no need to panic like this. This is just a temporary disadvantage due to differences in warfare habits between civilizations.”
Richard stood up silently with the docunts and walked out from the corner.
Among these Three Rings Wizards, Richard was the most knowledgeable about civilizational warfare.
After all, he had a witness of such wars right on his shoulder.
The wizards in the room were the elite of the Three Rings Wizards, and a significant number of them would beco Great Wizards in the future.
And now, all of them turned their gaze toward Richard.
Just like stars surrounding the moon.
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