The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 170 The Mutated Nightmare Body

Nightmare Body is the name Richard gave to this body.

The power of nightmare is a magical power that can turn imagination into reality. Richard used the power of nightmare to weave a body, and at the moment of completion, Richard imagined it.

Yes, it’s imagination.

The power of nightmare can be changed by consciousness.

In Richard's imagination, the body woven by the power of nightmare turned into real flesh and blood.

This flesh and blood looked and felt exactly the same as in the material world. However, when Richard expanded his energy vision, he saw that this body was covered with dense light paths.

The power of nightmare did not transform into flesh and blood. Flesh and blood were just a real illusion.

This speculation was also verified when Richard tore off a piece of flesh and blood, and the flesh and blood turned into black nightmare power and entered the earth.

But although the transformation was an illusion, the illusion was realistic enough. When Richard entered the nightmare body, he really felt that he had entered a physical body. After running naked in the cold wind for a long time, a feeling of warmth after putting on clothes instantly enveloped Richard.

Richard sighed from the bottom of his heart:

“It’s great to have a physical body!”

In the nightmare body, the cycle of nightmare power and the cycle of magic power are clearly separated. The two cycles do not interfere with each other and form their own system.

Richard tried to use the strengthening spell on the nightmare body, and the results were quite satisfactory.

The spell's amplification still works on the body.

After making the body, Richard walked out of the room.

At this time, the black sun had risen, the dream rifts brought by the blood moon had disappeared, and the nightmare spirits had returned to various hidden corners of the village.

Richard walked in the village. Although the black sun was scary, there would be no danger as long as he didn't look directly at it intentionally.

Its sunlight shone on Richard's nightmare body, giving him a warm feeling.

After obtaining the Nightmare Body, Richard also began to explore the area around the village.

There are still too few nightmare spirits in a village. To compile a body that can exert Richard's full strength, at least 50,000 nightmare powers are needed. If you catch a whole village and pull them out, I don't know how long it will take.

The right way is to expand the scope of the territory.

Moreover, in the wizarding world, human villages would not exist alone in the wilderness. The existence of a village must mean that there are human cities, human countries, or even wizarding academies nearby.

Although there must be nightmare lords in those crowded places, Richard can still get some leftovers in these remote villages.

The fact was just as Richard expected. Ten kilometers away from the village, Richard found another village. And from Ulysses's investigation, there were no nightmare creatures more advanced than the Nightmare Spirit in this village.

"Huh, it seems that this place is a new human gathering place," Ulysses walked around the village and then landed on Richard's shoulder. He was just a soul projection now, and even if he died, it would not cause any harm to the original body, so he was just right for exploration.

"It is estimated that this place has existed for no more than fifty years. Otherwise, these villages should have been led by Little Nightmares."

"Little Nightmare?" Richard asked curiously.

"Ha, Little Nightmare is the name of the evolved Nightmare Spirit. The strength of these little guys has reached that of first-level creatures. Their specific combat power depends on their combat experience and the amount of nightmare power." Ulysses explained.

Richard nodded: "It seems that these nightmare creatures are divided into feudal systems."

"Well, that's about right. The world is so big, if a nightmare lord can personally find each nightmare spirit to collect nightmare power, then he won't have to worry about anything else in his life. After the division, he only needs to find the commander of the corresponding territory to ask for nightmare power.

The lords enfeoffed the knights, and the knights enfeoffed the nightmares, layer by layer. This is the case in the nightmare crow world, and it is probably the same in the wizard world."

After leaving the village, Richard discovered several more villages, which also had no leaders.

When the blood moon rose, Richard followed his example and plundered a wave of nightmare power from these villages.

Over the course of one night, Richard plundered four villages and obtained nearly five thousand nightmare powers.

Looking at the ball of nightmare power the size of a human head in his hand, Richard nodded with satisfaction.

This night's work was not in vain.

Returning to the original village, Li Zhao found a secluded room and tried to merge this ball of nightmare power into the nightmare power cycle of the nightmare body.

The Nightmare Body is a body that Richard made based on the Nightmare Spirit, and it is also an experiment on nightmare creatures. Since the Nightmare Spirit can be strengthened by absorbing the power of nightmare, this Nightmare Body should also be able to be strengthened after obtaining the power of nightmare.

The integration of nightmare power was very smooth, and the whole integration process was not awkward at all. But after all five thousand nightmare powers were integrated into the circulation, Richard did not feel anything special.

The nightmare body was not strengthened.

Richard emerged from his nightmare body and fell into deep thought as he looked at the body in front of him.

"It seems that my idea was wrong. The strengthening of nightmare creatures is not only related to energy circulation."

In the energy field of vision, the cycle of nightmare power looked extremely large, with tiny light paths spreading from the cycle and then connecting with the outer shell of the body. However, this connection only maintained the existence of the outer shell, and did not strengthen the outer shell due to the increase of nightmare power.

Richard looked at the shell and thought for a moment, then an idea suddenly occurred to him.

“Maybe I can add something.”

He searched the room and soon found the black dust left by the nightmare spirit that died during his experiment.

The composition of the dust was unknown, and Richard couldn't find any use for it, so he just threw it aside like a specimen.

Richard sprinkled these dusts on the Nightmare Body. These dusts came from the remains of dead nightmare creatures. Perhaps the Nightmare Body did not change because of the lack of these things.

As the dust came into contact with the Nightmare Body, the energy circulation inside the Nightmare Body suddenly changed.

The energy light path where the dust touched instantly became thicker, and the nightmare power cycle was constantly delivering nightmare power. In this process, the real illusion of nightmare power suddenly disappeared, and Richard could clearly observe that the black dust merged into the nightmare body.

"It really is this thing." Richard couldn't help but smile.

Sometimes you just need luck when doing experiments.

As the black dust completely merged into the body, the true illusion of the nightmare body returned.

But just as Richard was about to enter the nightmare body and experience the changes of the nightmare body.

Something happened.

The nightmare body, which had no intelligence at all, suddenly opened its eyes.

"Hmm! He's pretending to be dead!"

Richard's heart raced upon seeing this, and he immediately controlled his magic power to prepare for the sealing technique.

Green rune chains flew out from Richard's hands and quickly sealed the nightmare body into a piece of amber wrapped in green ice.

After being modified by Richard, the Rune Chain Sealing Technique's sealing ability has been greatly improved, and the appearance of the seal has also changed.

It looks a bit like a smaller version of the Deathly Silence Iceberg Sealing Technique.

Looking at the ice amber in front of him, Richard's face looked a little gloomy.

"I worked so hard to create a body, I don't think this little bit of powder will create a nightmare creature for me."

Through the seal, Richard began to use his mental power to explore the condition of the body. If the Nightmare Body really turned into a nightmare creature, then his internal structure should change.

At least that disgusting black slime is bound to appear.

After investigation, Richard got two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The bad news is, that black goo did show up.

The good news is that, seemingly because of the sealing technique, the transformation of the body has stopped, and because Richard sealed it very quickly, the degree of transformation of the body is not high.

And in the part where the body was transformed, Richard also found something similar to a core.

This is something that has never appeared before when dissecting nightmare spirits.

Richard looked at the nightmare body, touched his chin, and the gloom on his face turned into thought.

It is rare for a new experiment to succeed at first. Most experiments succeed only after countless failures.

"It seems that the secret of the nightmare creature is not as simple as I thought."

Richard noted this change, and then used the seal-breaking technique to quickly take the core out of his body, and then quickly sealed the core in his hand.

At the moment, Richard is not sure whether the body can be restored to its original state. Rather than sealing the nightmare body, Richard would rather preserve this new experimental material.

But the outcome was somewhat beyond Richard's expectations.

After the core was taken out by Richard, the transformation of the nightmare body stopped.

Richard looked at the core with a slight surprise on his face.

"It seems that this thing is the reason for the body transformation."

This is a new discovery.

After taking out the core, Richard explored the remaining nightmare power in the nightmare body and found that there were about three hundred nightmare powers missing from the circulation.

I think all the nightmare power was used to transform the core and the black mucus that it sealed.

At this moment, Ulises just flew in from outside the house. Richard showed him the core and told him what had just happened.

"Ulises, do you recognize this thing?"

Ulises looked at the core and shook his head:

"Gah, I don't know. I usually eat nightmare creatures whole. But I once heard a rumor that the Nightmare King will not die. If you want to defeat a Nightmare King, you can either trap him in a fear realm or hide his heart."

After listening, Richard looked at the core in his hand and had an idea in his mind.

He extracted a portion of the nightmare power from the nightmare body as insurance, then unsealed the core and put it back into the nightmare body.

"Huh, what are you going to do? Take over the body of a nightmare creature?" Ulysses asked curiously.

Richard shook his head: "It's just an experiment. I have a guess and want to see if it's true."

After the core returned to the nightmare body, the transformation began again. Soon, the entire nightmare body completed the transformation, and a new consciousness was born in the nightmare body.

And at the moment of completion, Richard suddenly inserted his hand into the nightmare body, and a series of rune chains instantly sealed the core again.

After the core was sealed, Richard nervously watched the changes in the nightmare body.

If his idea was correct, then the body would not have turned to dust.

Time passed minute by minute, and the transformed nightmare body showed no signs of turning into dust.

Seeing this, Richard tried to enter the body, but he did not feel any residual consciousness during the process.

“Hehehe, Ulysses, you’ve done a great job!” Richard said to Ulysses with a strange smile, “The consciousness and body of these nightmare creatures are separate. The core is where their consciousness is. As long as the core and the body are separated, these nightmare creatures will turn into vegetables!”

(End of this chapter)