The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 125 Underground World (V)

Richard was preparing the poison slowly when some noises were heard at the entrance of the cave.

Richard looked over vigilantly and began to gather elements with the staff in his hand. He saw a beautiful figure with sparks on her body walking out of the tunnel and waving at him.

"Richard, I'm back."

Richard felt relieved when he saw who it was. It was Ellie who came back to report the intelligence.

"How's it going? Did you get the reward?"

Richard stopped what he was doing and looked at Ellie with some anticipation.

"Hey, we are the first to encounter this kind of bug. The command center gave us a reward of 500 magic essences."

Ellie smiled proudly, took out a bag of magic essence from her pocket and handed it to Richard.

Fortunately, she was the one who went back to report this time. On the way, she used the communication crystal ball to report the information directly to the headquarters. If she had been a little slower, the reward for this information would have been taken away by other wizards.

Richard took the magic essence and put it into his magic pocket, then continued to prepare the alchemical poison.

Ellie's expression suddenly tensed when she saw two Spider Knights not far away.

"Richard, what's going on with these two half-spider black crystal insects?" Ellie gripped her staff tightly, her voice a little nervous.

"The insects that attacked me just now had their nerve centers damaged by me. I am preparing poison to knock them out."

As he spoke, smoke came out of the beaker in Richard's hand, and a cup of thick liquid in the beaker gave off a strange stench.

This alchemical poison can paralyze the nerves of a living being. It is very effective against flesh and blood creatures, but has no effect on elemental and semi-elemental creatures.

Richard waved his staff, and the liquid in the beaker turned into black smoke that enveloped the two spider knights.

This poison can be absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes, so it will be useless even if the Spider Knight doesn't breathe.

The Spider Knight let out a few sharp chirps and tried to swing the blade arms on his upper body but to no avail.

After struggling for five or six minutes, the two spider knights finally fell into a state of nerve paralysis.

Richard stepped forward and cut off their nerves, then injected new poison into their bodies.

This is a recovery inhibitor. In the next half month, the bodies of these two spider knights will be suppressed to negligible levels.

"You picked up Potions again?" Ellie asked in surprise.

She knew a lot about Richard's research. In recent years, Richard had been studying magic equipment, alchemical machinery and some transmutation, but now it seemed that Richard had picked up potions again and had achieved some results.

An alchemical poison that can paralyze a first-level creature is not something that can be prepared casually.

Richard smiled faintly. With the help of the Miracle Furnace, he gained a lot of blind box knowledge from the cipher notes. Although this knowledge was not systematic and difficult to study in depth, it greatly increased Richard's means.

After putting the two Spider Knights into his pockets, Richard took out a pocket watch and checked the time.

Now, nearly ten hours have passed since Lawrence left, far exceeding the six hours he said.

He hasn't been back for such a long time. Is it because he encountered some great benefit or some danger?

"Where's Lawrence?"

Ellie used her mental power to explore the surroundings and finally found that someone was missing.

"After you left, Lawrence went to explore the lower dungeons. He said he would be back in six hours, but now nearly ten hours have passed." Richard explained to Ellie.

"So what should we do, continue to wait for him?"

Richard frowned and shook his head slowly.

"Wait a moment, I've also sent something down to scout the route."

The two waited for another hour, and finally, a dark shadow flew out of the cave.

"Gah, I'm back."

Ulises flew out of the cave, clutching in his claws a shadow creature that Richard was very familiar with.

"What's that in your claws?"

Ulises flew to Richard and threw the object in his claws to the ground. Richard took a closer look and found it was Lawrence's shadow bat.

"How did you catch Lawrence's bat?" Richard asked in confusion.

"Gah, you mean that wizard? He's in big trouble." Ulises landed on Richard's shoulder and communicated with Richard using his mental power, "The wizard was surrounded by a group of bugs and was sealed by a white bug.

It has probably been eaten by bugs now."

"What's going on? Tell me in detail." Richard was shocked.

As an old wizard who had experienced two plane wars, how could Lawrence be surrounded so easily?

“Gah, I’m not sure, I was exploring the tunnels as you said, and then I flew into a cave like yours and saw that little guy being besieged by a group of bugs.

The little guy seemed to see me, and when he was sealed by the white bug, he threw this little bat at me.

When the bugs saw me, they wanted to keep me as well. It was a crazy idea. I dodged and…"

The rest of Ulises' words were just self-flattery, and Richard had no interest in listening. He picked up the shadow bat from the ground, and the moment he touched the shadow bat, the bat suddenly opened its eyes and spit out a contract.

Richard picked up the contract. The content was very simple. Lawrence wanted to pay Richard and Ellie one thousand magic essences to rescue him.

"Huh, what's written on it?" Ulysses asked curiously.

"Nothing, just asking for help." Richard handed the contract to Ellie beside him calmly, "Ellie, do you think we should go save him?"

"Me?" Ellie took the contract and looked at it, then shook her head and said, "I definitely won't go there by myself, the space in this crypt is too small, and I'm a little afraid of getting buried.

Why, you want to save him? We have to give half of our profits to the academy." Richard looked at the contract, somewhat hesitant.

Even if half of the profits were given to the academy, there would still be 500,000 magic stones, which is no small number.

If Lawrence talked about feelings and friendship, Richard would definitely not save him, but the tangible benefits did make Richard interested.

"I do have an idea, but I'll have to wait until I see the situation more clearly before deciding."

Richard put the contract in his pocket and planned to go see what was going on with Lawrence.

If the guards there were not very strict, Richard would go and rescue him. But if they were strict, or he was already dead, Richard would just walk away.

A wizard whom Richard had just met for a short time was not worth risking his life to save.

"Are you tempted?" Ellie was a little surprised. She remembered that Richard never liked taking risks.

"There's nothing I can do. I'm too poor." Richard spread his hands. All his strength was gained by exchanging magic stones.

The Adaptive Body is a bottomless pit, which has swallowed up most of the magic stones that Richard has earned in the past few decades. No wonder Joe Lord stopped training after he could resist a thousand energy levels of damage.

In addition to the adaptive body, he also needs magic stones for his daily research, and magic stones are needed to add a staff head to his magic armor. Moreover, when he returns this time, the free residence period given by the Tower of Truth will expire. If he wants to stay in the residential floor, he will have to spend a sum of magic stones.

He had not yet taken into account the start-up capital for his Wizard Chamber of Commerce, the shaping of Ulysses' body, and the recovery of his soul injuries.

Richard felt his scalp tingling when he thought about consuming so many magic stones.

"Okay." Ellie shrugged, "I'll go with you, and I'll give you 200,000 magic stones."

"Hmm?" Richard was stunned. "Don't you need the magic stone?"

Ellie made a face at him and said, "Someone is risking his life just for the magic stone.

Besides, my abilities cannot be fully utilized in this underground nest, so I am being shameless enough to take 200,000.

If it were any other wizard, they would probably give me 100,000."

"Then... one hundred thousand too?" Richard said for some unknown reason.

Ellie was stunned when she heard that, then she waved her wand angrily.

"Go to hell! Two hundred thousand dollars a piece cannot be less!"

……

Lawrence left a lot of magic marks when he was exploring the way. These magic marks were very conspicuous to wizards. Following these magic marks, Richard soon came to the cave that Ulysses mentioned.

It was a medium-sized settlement. Judging from the remaining buildings, it was once quite lively, but now it was deserted.

Richard did not rashly enter the dungeon. Needless to say, Lawrence was very vigilant and his strength was among the strongest among the first-ring wizards. The possibility that he was caught was most likely due to a trap.

"Go and check it out," Richard ordered Ulysses.

"Gah, my life is so miserable. I haven't recovered much from my injuries since I fell into your hands, and I have to go to your traps every day."

However, although Ulises complained, he still spread his wings and entered the cave.

The cave was silent and silent, with huge luminous fungi emitting a faint blue light.

Ulysses flew around the cave and confirmed that there were no traps or alarms in the entire cave.

Richard and the other man entered, and judging from the traces of fighting on the ground, it seemed that Lawrence was sealed in starlight by the sacrificial insect after only a few struggles.

"Isn't this a trap?" A guess flashed through Richard's mind.

Before the war, several insect countries had no idea of ​​defeat, so many treasures were left in the upper insect nest.

As the wizards were advancing on the front line and due to the complex structure of the hive, they were unable to conduct a complete search of the hive, so a lot of things should still remain in the hive on the ground.

Now that these insects have been defeated, the remaining troops have entered the underground insect nests to resist. Combining the above information, Richard made a bold guess.

This group of insects was most likely going to the upper insect nest to look for supplies, and Lawrence was just unlucky and happened to encounter this group of insects.

Richard told Ellie about this idea, and she thought it made sense.

"Who knows, we might make a lot of money this time." Ellie's eyes sparkled with excitement.

Richard took out the shadow bat and gave it to Ellie to use to divine Lawrence's approximate current location.

As a dual-school wizard, Ellie can do more than just throw fireballs. She can also curse and divine.

Ellie took out an altar from her magic pocket, drew a disc on it with blood, placed a cursed worm with two stripes in it, and then placed a bone on it as a pointer.

Then, Ellie placed the shadow bat on the altar and chanted an ancient spell.

With the infusion of magic power, black lines began to appear on the originally ordinary stone altar, and an ancient and strange aura emanated from the altar.

"Ha, boy, you are not a simple woman. I have seen a god in our place who can use similar methods. That guy is a god and even the main god has to give him some respect. Their race is also one that we pay great attention to." Ulysses communicated with Richard through his mind.

"This is a curse spell from one of the five major schools." Richard introduced.

"Gah! Do you have a God King who is proficient in this stuff?" Ulysses said in shock, "Anyone who starts a civilization war with you will be in big trouble."

Richard didn't say anything else. According to rumors among wizards, the Truth Wizard of the Curse School had not appeared for a long time.

There are even rumors that He is dead.

As Ellie's spell came to an end, the bone pointer on the altar began to shake slightly, and finally pointed in one direction.

"It's done." Ellie picked up the pointer and held it in her hand. "This pointer will show us the approximate location of Lawrence within three hours!"

(End of this chapter)