This crazy wizard is quite stable

Chapter 22: God Species: Demon Rat!

What is the difference between the Old Gods and ordinary creatures?

The answer is faith!
The Old Gods can absorb the power of faith to increase their strength or even gain new abilities.

As for the power of faith, Isaac knew of three types. The first was the most conventional power of faith, which came from the belief of all beings in the gods and was justified by faith, and was the power of [faith]. The second was the power of faith collected by wizards, which was born from the spread of stories and was the power of [observation]. The third was the power of faith of the noble knights, which came from the people living in their territory and was the power of [existence].

The Gods can absorb the power of faith from [Faith], which is a privilege that belongs only to Gods!
Because the power of faith that comes from [faith] contains too many visions, only God can ignore these countless distractions.

If you are an ordinary person, you will take it for granted. After all, he is a God. If he is not special, how can he be called a God?
But from the wizard's point of view, the question is why, why can the gods absorb the power of faith so easily? If it is a problem of strength, then why can the weak gods also absorb it?
And it’s not affected?
Questions emerged one after another in my mind, and slowly, an outrageous idea was born...

Of course, the original owner of Isaac's manuscript was not strong enough to kill gods, so he chose to dissect the divine species that were of the same origin as the gods, and finally successfully found the answer in them - a special energy network!

This energy network is spread throughout the body of the god species and is the key to its ability to sense and absorb the power of faith. According to the manuscript's conjecture, this network is the most elementary form of godhood, and may become the godhood that brings great power to the gods in the future!

But this is just a guess, without any basis, so Isaac just took a look at it and put it aside, focusing his attention on that special energy network.

The first step in refining a totem is to use the power of faith to create this energy network on the target.

Isaac is currently stuck at this step. Since he doesn't know alchemy, he can only use surgery, which he is good at, but...

Failed.

Because this operation requires almost complete cutting open of the entire body!

Including important organs such as the heart and brain!
Normally this is not called surgery, but intentional killing of rats.

However, there is a magical spell that will not kill it immediately.

Let it go through a painful dissection and die on the sixth occasion...

Cause of Death—Autopsy…

Hehe ~
Whether it was the demonized rat or the devil rat, their vitality was too weak to last until the operation was completed.

"Increase the number of life-sustaining spells?"

“No, carving the divine network requires chanting spells to guide the power of faith, and there is no extra time to allocate to the life-sustaining spell…”

"Segmented depiction of the Godhead network?"

"No, the Godhead Network is a whole..."

"..."

"..."

Ideas one after another popped up in Isaac's mind, and then he rejected them one by one.

In this way, with the sacrifice of batches of brain cells, the entire experiment proceeded in an orderly manner...

As the sun sets, golden light shines into the laboratory, illuminating the manuscript in front of Isaac, bringing him back to his senses from his meditation...

"Hey~"

Sighing heavily, Isaac stood up, stretched by the window to relax his muscles, then walked to the crucible, lit the fire, and threw a few handfuls of Silver Moon Grass into the pot to boil.

The Knight's Secret Medicine is a necessity for the Knight's training. It is not difficult to refine and can be made even without magic power.

Although he himself did not drink it, Patton and his team needed it for training. Perhaps the reward to Patton motivated the others. The training intensity of the guard team has increased significantly recently, and with it came a high consumption of the knight's secret medicine.

Originally, these should be purchased from outside. After all, no matter how small a master is, he is still a master. How can a master be served by a servant?
However, on the one hand, the Silver Moon Grass Territory has output, so making it yourself will save a lot of money. On the other hand, it is said that the crucible used by wizards to make medicine needs to be nourished by occasionally boiling some potions, which can effectively increase the success rate of brewing potions.

Therefore, it is said that wizards generally do not leave the crucible idle for a long time. Even if it is a potion to feed the magical pet, they will cook some extra for backup.

Because it is said that the process of wizards boiling medicine is actually a weak ritual. Under the influence of this ritual field, the crucible will naturally become...

Ok?
Isaac, who was stirring with a spoon, was suddenly stunned. An idea flashed through his mind: ritual...

"Yes! A ritual! Since the process of boiling the medicine is a ritual, why can't the process of surgery be a ritual? Use a ritual to complete the totem? Or cast a life-sustaining spell?"

After catching this sudden inspiration, Isaac became extremely excited. He even ignored the failed attempt to brew the Knight's secret medicine. He threw the spoon aside, turned around and sat back at the desk, continuing to write furiously!
"Tear~"

The devil's claws emerged from the back of Isaac's neck, and the palm cracked, revealing a scarlet eye. The evil eye looked at Isaac for a while, and after confirming that he had no intention of going to eat, it slowly floated out the door.

As soon as he walked out of the laboratory, the claw saw Smith guarding the door and waved his claw at him. Then the claw continued to float towards the restaurant as if it was familiar with the place. Smith also stood there as if he was used to it, guarding Isaac.

Although Isaac is now as strong as him, Smith has become accustomed to this kind of life. He has been taking care of Isaac in this way for the past decade, and will be no exception in the future.

Until he couldn't stand anymore.

On the other side, the devil's claws floated into the restaurant, glanced at the maid who was frightened and frozen, grabbed the grilled meat and fruit on the table, and retreated to the laboratory.

During these days, whenever Isaac was immersed in his magical studies, it was the Claw that delivered food to Isaac.

However, because of its ferocious appearance, even though the maid had seen it several times before, she was still not used to it. She froze every time she saw it...

……

The next day.

"Haha! I'm done!"

Isaac looked at the demon rat on the operating table, whose body was covered with stitches, with a look of delight and a somewhat crazy expression on his face.

It is too difficult to use a ritual to directly complete the totem refining. Isaac cannot do this with his current understanding of ritual studies, but it is not a big problem to use it to replace the life-sustaining spell.

As long as the vitality of the demon rat is strong enough, he will have enough time to guide the power of faith to carve the divine network for the demon rat. At this time, in Isaac's sight, he can clearly see dots of light floating from the demon rat in the corner to the demon rat.

This is a basic spell included in the witchcraft manuscript, called the Faith Catalyst Spell.

Just as the name suggests, it can forcibly strengthen the target's faith and forcibly give birth to the power of faith. However, this power of faith is very rubbish and also hurts the believers' brains.

Therefore, normal gods generally do not use this spell.

Of course, wizards don’t care, since they don’t absorb the power of faith anyway.

For example, the original owner of the witchcraft manuscript.

But at this point the witchcraft is not yet complete.

Because the demon rat has not yet developed its own divine arts, it is now only relying on the divine network in its body to instinctively absorb the power of faith. It has no means of using it. Currently, the power of faith in its body is just a decoration.

However, this is only temporary. As time goes by, the network of divinity engraved in its body will slowly merge with it, making it a true divine species!
Of course, this process will be long and require a lot of watering from the power of faith.

Therefore, a second step is needed - to accelerate the integration with the divine network and guide it to condense divine arts.

Only after completing this step can it truly be called a divine species - a totem!
However, the second step is much simpler. To accelerate the fusion, you just need to take some magic potions regularly and cast some spells to reduce the rejection function. To condense the magic, you just need to choose one of the three basic magics and then use the power of faith to engrave it in its divine network.

However, although there are three basic divine arts, unfortunately, his witchcraft manuscript is limited in length and only records two basic divine arts, namely [Command Fellows] and [Blessing].

Very basic magic, and very practical.

Of course, in addition to these two basic divine arts, you can also engrave witchcraft models into the divine network, which have a certain probability of being assimilated into divine arts, but its success rate is very touching.

However, Isaac did not do so. He chose the basic divine spell [Blessing] for the demon rat.

The reason is very simple. It’s not because of fear of failure, but because of lack of money…

He is so poor now. He has not seen any return on his demon rats and has already lost two...

Therefore, he could only choose two basic magic arts with a success rate of almost 100%, and he chose the one he was most curious about, [Blessing].

He was very curious about what the demon rat, whose ability pool was so scarce, could bestow upon its "believers" after receiving the [Blessing].

But unfortunately, all of these take some time, so we have to wait~
"Whoo~"

After locking the demon rat into the iron cage, Isaac walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside, and felt particularly relaxed.

The devil's claws quietly emerged from behind his head, and the sharp thumb and index finger gently picked up a peeled apple from the desk and handed it to Isaac, rubbing it against his face.

Isaac smiled and clapped his claws, took the apple, put it in his mouth, and enjoyed this leisurely time~
If only this kind of day could continue forever...

pity……

Isaac shook his head helplessly. He was a greedy man. The manor was too small to satisfy him. Sooner or later, he would have to go out and explore!

But before that, I need to grow up well, so...

"Hey~ Let's go and see how the little ones are growing." With his hands behind his back, Isaac walked out of the laboratory and went to the farm behind the castle with Smith who was standing at the door.

"Currently, both the demon rat and the dragon lizard are doing fine. Both their size and the level of magic power in their bodies are steadily improving. The dragon lizard's growth is the most obvious. In three days, it should be able to reach the standard you mentioned, young master."

On the way to the farm, Smith gave Isaac a brief introduction to the current situation.

Isaac nodded. It was not bad. It looked like he might be able to make it to the small exchange meeting of the Crazy Witches' Council in three days. He was very curious about this.

Although he was immersed in magic research during this period, he would occasionally turn his attention to the chat group of the Crazy Witch Society. Unfortunately, these people were probably just tech geeks and basically said nothing, and he didn't know why.

The dragon lizard that has awakened the dragon bloodline may be able to exchange for some good things?
Isaac wasn't quite sure. After all, those who could enter the Crazy Coven were those who dared to make deals with the Outer Gods and escaped unscathed. Who wouldn't have some skills?

But even if he doesn't like it, it doesn't matter. He goes there just to show it to the world. If he sells it, he'll make a lot of money. If he doesn't sell it, he won't lose money. After all, a dragon lizard with awakened dragon blood is very good whether he uses it himself or sells it to the Tower of Flesh and Blood.

When he arrived at the farm, Isaac saw his little cuties. After actual observation, he found that the effect of the farm was better than he thought. The dragon lizards could drink the potion and awaken their bloodline in about two and a half days, while the demon rats would be even faster. They would probably be ready for slaughter tomorrow, and they were all fat.

Isaac picked out four that looked good and put them aside to sell, leaving two pairs of demon rats for breeding. As for the dragon lizards...

He did not move. The growth cycle of dragon lizards was much longer than that of demon rats. Even with the breeding farm, it would take at least a year for them to meet the reproductive conditions...

It would be better to sell it and buy a new one to raise, which is much more efficient.

Isaac then used the ordinary flesh and blood produced by the flesh and blood gems in recent days to replenish the food of the demon rats and dragon lizards, then turned and left, and came to the training ground, sat down on the grass, and read the "Introduction to Arcane Energy, Volume 1" given by the eldest sister.

He has read this book sporadically over the past few days. Although it is very basic, it has helped him a lot. Just some of the small tricks mentioned in it can greatly improve his casting speed of the three basic spells. After reading it in its entirety, he will surely gain more!
Just like that, in a blink of an eye, Isaac spent another fulfilling three days. During these three days, he successfully sold four demon rats and a demon rat corpse, and earned ten gold coins. It was a little less than the high consumption of a wizard, but it was stable. After all, there was no difficulty or risk in raising demon rats.

For novice wizards, this is a sure win business.

However, Isaac did not keep the ten gold coins. He placed an order for ten more demon rats. Anyway, he could not do anything with this little money, so he might as well continue to expand the scale of production.

For other transactions, Isaac might hesitate and calculate the profit and loss, but as for raising mice, he could just go in without thinking. He could digest it himself anyway, so he could just treat it as magic materials bought at the original price.

No. 1 is a special day for the members of the Mad Witch Coven. On this day, crazy wizards from various cities, countries, continents and even worlds who are keen on making deals with the Outer Gods will gather in a special dimension to exchange knowledge, materials and intelligence.

In the basement, Isaac stood in the middle of a hexagram magic circle with a skull in the middle, holding the magic book of the Mad Witch Society in his arms, closing his eyes and chanting the door-opening spell.

"Tear~"

As Isaac was reciting, suddenly, the shadows from all around him pounced on him and swallowed him whole!
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself on a pure white stone pillar. There was nothingness all around him except for the pure white stone pillars. It was a rather primitive dimensional world.

(End of this chapter)