The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 120 Upgrading Equipment
"Huh, this is probably the last piece." Richard muttered to himself as he looked at the fist-sized golden blood clot in front of him.

At this moment, three days have passed since the first fragment was found. Many dark wizards who returned from the front line have also joined the team to search for the fragments of the Queen Insect God's body.

A message came from the Miracle Crucible.

[Materials: The remains of the mother insect god]

[Substances that can be extracted: Queen's bloodline]

[Refining consumption: 20000 mana]

[Refinable materials: refined gold]

[Refining consumption: 20000 mana]

"Sure enough, there are no rules left."

Richard was looking at the information coming from the Miracle Furnace. Two days ago, he found two more fragments, but like this one, those two pieces did not have any rules left.

The rules would last much shorter than Richard had imagined.

But this is a good thing. Refining the rules requires Richard to consume soul power, and soul power is not so easy to replenish.

If his mental strength falls below 50, his body will suffer from a mismatch between mind and body, leading to negative effects such as limb imbalance and decreased control.

If it is not dispersed, it will be difficult to decide whether to refine it or not according to the rules.

After searching for the fragments of the Queen Insect God, Richard returned to the floating city.

When he arrived at the floating city, it had already fallen from the sky and turned into a ground fortress.

The metal shell of the lower part of the floating city also unfolded and turned into various defense facilities and city walls.

Inside the city walls, a large number of logistics wizards were busy adjusting and repairing the various cabin components of the floating city and installing various alchemical weapons.

These logistical wizards are mainly responsible for the maintenance of war equipment, the construction of war fortresses and war castles, as well as treatment and the construction of portals to the wizarding world.

These wizards will never go to the battlefield unless it comes to the most critical moment.

The landing of the floating city brought Richard a lot of trouble. When they were sailing in the astral world, the rooms they lived in were all in the lower hemisphere of the floating city. Now it seems that those rooms seem to have sunk downwards.

But before he could find the entrance to the underground, a familiar figure came into his sight.

"Sister Anna!"

Richard fell from the sky and greeted a busy figure.

This group of wizards are making metal parts to repair the damaged war airship.

Anna's eyes lit up when she heard the voice. She immediately threw aside the tools at hand and grabbed Richard's arm excitedly.

"Richard!? Thank god you're still alive too."

Richard smiled and said, "I was just lucky. I met some reliable teammates."

"Luck is also a part of strength." Anna sighed, "I'm lucky too. I followed a senior wizard who is a three-ring wizard, so I managed to survive.

It's just that Chucks was in a bad situation, his arm was chopped off and half of his heart was destroyed, and he is now lying in the hospital."

Half a heart...

When Richard heard about Chucks' injuries, he couldn't help but feel fortunate for him. An injury like half a heart loss is not a light injury for a wizard. If the body has not been transformed, a wizard can only rely on his physical strength to hold on for a period of time with an injury like a damaged heart.

And it was definitely a great fortune that Chucks could survive until he could get into the hospital.

"It's good that senior brother is still alive. The level of the medical wizard is definitely enough to allow him to be discharged from the hospital in the same condition as before." Richard sighed and turned to ask about going underground.

"Oh, Senior Sister, how do I get to the dormitory in our floating city? I have some stuff in there."

"There is a third spire to the south from here. There is an underground entrance on the first floor." Anna pointed to a spire. "After the floating city is deployed, our previous room will soon become a warehouse. Take away anything you have as soon as possible."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

……

Richard successfully arrived at his room through the underground entrance on the first floor of the spire.

At this moment, some wizards were opening the rooms one by one and sorting and packing up the things inside the rooms.

Richard entered the room and took out the flesh and tentacle culture chamber from the cabinet.

This thing is the most valuable thing on him, a treasure trove that continuously produces level 3 active flesh and blood. If it were a wizard who studies synthetic beasts, I wonder how happy he would be.

Apart from the flesh tentacles, the only things Richard left in the room were some alchemical materials. After packing up everything, he left the room and returned to the ground.

Since the war is going very smoothly and various intelligence is still being investigated, Richard does not have any mission at the moment.

He plans to use this time to upgrade his equipment.

There are no dormitories in the ground buildings of the floating city, so wizards must build their own residences or wait for logistics wizards to build residences.

Richard obviously couldn't wait for the logistics wizard, so he had to build a temporary residence in the Black Bone Plains by himself.

Richard found a flat ground outside the floating city, with magic power surging in his body, and pointed his finger at the ground.

"Turn mud into stone."

In an instant, a yellow light flew out from his fingertips and fell to the ground, and the surrounding four square meters of land instantly turned into hard stone.

After the Apprentice War, Richard began to pay attention to these spells that seemed to be of no help in combat.

The wizard's long lifespan helps them become versatile.

He cast several spells to turn mud into stone, hardening a large enough piece of ground. Richard took out a handful of seeds from his pocket and planted them on the edge of the hardened ground. After planting, he poured a few bottles of alchemical potion on the seeds.

In just a few moments, green trees as thick as bowls grew out and became the walls of the room. These seeds were magical seeds processed by wizards and were sold at a relatively cheap price, with ten seeds for one magic stone, making them the best material for building a temporary residence.

After trimming some branches, building a roof with wood, and making some furniture, Richard's temporary residence was complete.

Entering the room, Richard placed the Demon Eater Greatsword on the table, looking at the large and small gaps on the blade and fell into deep thought.

The Queen's Guards' bodies contain a small amount of adamantium, which makes their blades much harder than the Demon Eater Greatsword. If the Demon Eater Greatsword is not upgraded, it will soon be scrapped.

"Upgrade and transformation..."

Richard's fingers kept tapping on the table, and countless thoughts kept colliding in his mind.

He planned to make some minor modifications to the Demon Eater Greatsword.

Judging from the current situation, the shape of the greatsword is somewhat unsuitable for the upcoming battlefield.

The blade of the greatsword is too thin, and it is easy to break the blade in the battle with insects, and even the core rune will be damaged along the gap of the blade.

So Richard planned to transform the Demon Eater Greatsword into a staff while retaining its three core spells.

What's a wizard without a staff?

And it just so happened that Richard had the knowledge about amplifying fire spells, so a staff could effectively increase the power of his spells.

With the idea in mind, Richard quickly took action.

But before making the staff, he had to extract the refined gold first.

Richard took out the insect corpses from the magic pocket. During the war, he collected a total of seven corpses of Queen Insect Guards. Due to the power of the Heart of Annihilation, most of these corpses were incomplete, with only half of the body, and many of them had lost the blade arms with the highest content of refined gold.

"Hey, it's a deal." Ulises on Richard's shoulder suddenly said, "Leave some for me to eat."

Richard rolled his eyes at him. It seemed that the ruler of the world still had appetite.

"Gah, a kid like you who is not even a hundred years old won't understand." Ulises noticed Richard's look and said with some disdain, "When you reach my age, you will know how important the senses that you don't care about now are.

Thousands of years are enough for you to try all kinds of tastes, but when you get tired of it, you will find that longevity is also a kind of pain.

That’s when you’ll realize how important fresh senses are.”

Richard smiled mockingly when he heard this:

"Since immortality is a pain, why don't you solve it once and for all?"

"Gah, of course it's because death is more painful."

Although Richard looked down on Ulysses' behavior, he had to give him the bug since he still needed Ulysses' help.

Fortunately, Ulysses didn't ask for much. He only wanted one of the seven bodies, and left the rest to Richard.

After refining in the Miracle Furnace, Richard obtained about one kilogram of pure gold from these corpses.

This made Richard a little disappointed.

Although Adamantite, like Mithril and Visteel, is a top-grade material for alchemy, unlike these metals which are sold by gram, Adamantite is sold by volume.

One cubic centimeter sells for five thousand magic stones.

This selling method is mainly because the density of refined gold is too high. If it is sold by gram, it will be very troublesome to cut.

Looking at the half-finger-sized nugget of gold in his hand, Richard complained:

"So many corpses, but only this little refined gold?"

"Ha, you think this much is not enough?" Ulises on the side complained, "In our place, even a little bit of refined gold is considered a legendary weapon, and if you add too much, it can even become a semi-divine weapon.

If you had a weapon made of pure adamantium, some poor gods would be in trouble."

"But this is too little. We can only make alloys out of it." Richard said helplessly.

"Gah, the bugs are just making a coating, don't be so ungrateful."

After refining the refined gold, Richard began to disassemble the Demon Eater Greatsword.

The material of the Demon Eater Greatsword is also quite good. After removing the excess parts and removing the runes, it can be recast and used as the material for a staff.

After some disassembly, the original Demon Eater Greatsword turned into a metal strip with runes.

After the connection was completed, Richard began to draw the design of the staff.

Richard designed the staff to be a short stick that reached his eyebrows, with the head of the staff temporarily left empty and various rune arrays neatly arranged inside the staff.

These rune arrays are mainly used to harmonize three core spells and construct fire element amplification arrays.

After the design is completed, it is time to produce.

The disassembled parts of the Demon Eater Greatsword were melted into gold liquid, and Richard added some alchemical materials and refined gold to it to make it into a harder alloy.

What follows is the tedious steps of shaping the staff, engraving runes, constructing the magic circuit... and so on.

The entire production process took Richard nearly a month. During this period, the White Wizard Legion stopped its war and began to build fortifications, while the Black Wizards began to be assigned tasks to infiltrate behind enemy lines according to their strength.

As the last rune was engraved, a subtle magical fluctuation came from the metal staff with a few gold patterns on the table.

This is a sign of a successful production.

Richard sat in the chair and took a long breath. He finally completed the making of the wand before the command department assigned him the task.

But before he could catch his breath, the communication crystal ball beside him conveyed orders from the command center.

"All first-ring black wizards, come to the floating city immediately."

(End of this chapter)