The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 172 Nightmare Body Evolution
"Nightmare monster? This thing looks quite powerful."

Richard looked at the nightmare beast that was constantly transforming in front of him, and the staff in his hand gradually took shape.

The power of nightmares can create real illusions, Richard can create flesh, and naturally he can create a wand.

However, this production is not without limitations.

When making man-made objects, Richard must have a good understanding of the object, its materials, and production methods. When making certain materials, Richard must know the physical properties of the material.

And there is another condition, that is, Richard has seen this thing.

Richard couldn't hypnotize himself and use the power of nightmares to create an illusion material or an artifact.

"Ha, the most troublesome thing about this kind of thing is not its strength, but the fact that once it appears, it means the emergence of a beast tide." Ulysses looked at the nightmare beast with disgust in his eyes. The taste of these things is worse than that of nightmare spirits.

In order to collect nightmare power, he ate a lot of this stuff, which made him feel sick.

"These beast waves can be large or small. The small ones may have one or two demigods, while the large ones may have nightmare lords or even nightmare king-level nightmare beasts."

Richard looked at the energy light paths on the ground. These energy light paths were buried deep underground, but they could be seen by Richard through the thick strata.

I think this beast tide will not be too small.

As Richard was thinking about this, the nightmare monsters in the forest finally formed a group and let out a dull roar.

This monster has a human-like appearance, about two meters tall, and a very strong body. Standing in the forest, it looks like a black tower.

The monster's body was covered in a layer of black full-body armor with raised vein-like patterns on it. His face was completely covered by a helmet, revealing only a pair of blood-red eyes and a large scarlet mouth full of fangs and drooling.

After roaring, he galloped towards Richard. As he moved, streams of nightmare power flowed out from under his crotch, and he gradually turned into a nightmare horse, and a black lance appeared in his hand.

"Knight? Then I'll call you Nightmare Knight for now."

Richard looked at the Nightmare Knight charging towards him, and with a flick of his staff, the ground in front of the Nightmare Knight suddenly turned into soft mud. The charging Nightmare Horse's feet were empty, and it fell to the ground with the Knight in an instant.

Then Richard waved his staff again, and the soft mud turned into hard stone, instantly trapping the Nightmare Knight in it.

Wizards have many ways to deal with such brainless things.

The Nightmare Knight trapped in the stone wanted to break free, but because the stone fit his body very closely, his space for exerting force was extremely limited.

Although his strength has reached that of a first-level creature, he is temporarily trapped in the stone.

Richard walked up to him, and tiny runes appeared in his palm. His spirit followed the alchemy array into the stone. In an instant, the stone seemed to have life, and it quickly spread along the body of the Nightmare Knight, enveloping the Nightmare Knight in the blink of an eye.

Then, Richard used the power of nightmare to condense a feather pen and began to carve runes on the stone.

The function of these runes is very simple, mainly to reinforce this stone cage.

A dull sound came from the stone, and fine cracks began to appear on the stone.

But as the number of runes increased, the cracks stopped getting bigger and even began to heal under Richard's manipulation.

The Nightmare Knight's struggle was useless in the face of the rune.

"Gah, you're planning on dissecting this thing?"

Ulysses looked at the stone that wrapped around the Nightmare Knight and said in amazement.

The wizards had the most means among all the races he had ever seen. It was hard to imagine that one race could use such a variety of abilities.

"This kind of thing must be studied." Charlie said as a matter of course.

As a wizard, any opportunity to gain knowledge is precious.

"Gah, what about these?"

Richard looked deep into the forest and saw black figures gradually taking shape.

"Then of course kill them all." Richard said calmly.

……

boom!
A black fireball exploded in the forest, and the splashing flames instantly blew the two Nightmare Knights into black fragments.

Since he had no magic stones as a supply, Richard did not use magic recklessly, but was very calculating.

Never use two fireballs to solve something that can be solved with one.

A black crow flew through the forest, constantly carrying fragments of the Nightmare Knight to Richard for him to devour.

I have to say, Ulises has reason to hate this thing.

The taste of Nightmare Knight was ten times worse than that of Nightmare Spirit. When Richard devoured the fragments of Nightmare Knight, he felt like he was drinking slop. A nausea from the bottom of his soul made him very painful.

But for the power of nightmares, Richard had no choice but to endure it.

Who made him not a nightmare creature? Nightmare creature?

Richard paused the staff in his hand, and a fireball dissipated into the air before it took shape.

He seemed to have done something stupid.

The Nightmare Knight, sensing the flaw, leaped and performed a leaping chop on Richard. The pitch-black sword shrieked in the air, but Richard only glanced at it, and the staff in his hand turned into a fine golden spear.

Then he turned his body to the side and thrust his spear upwards, and the Nightmare Knight was tortured by Richard with the sandalwood punishment.

After dealing with the last Nightmare Knight, Richard crawled out of the Nightmare Body and controlled the Nightmare Body to devour the fragments of the Nightmare Knight.

Then, a miracle happened.

The disgusting feeling as if drinking slop disappeared instantly, replaced by a tasteless feeling and a sense of satisfaction while eating.

These feelings made Richard, who had just swallowed so many Nightmare Knight fragments, feel like a big idiot.

He should have thought of it earlier, it was all in vain.

But it’s not too late to discover now, there are still many fragments in the forest that have not turned into dust.

An hour later, Richard finally devoured all the Nightmare Knight fragments in the forest.

Although a lot of the nightmare power in the Nightmare Knight's body dissipated during the battle, the remaining nightmare power reached nearly 40,000.

When all of this nightmare power is integrated into the energy cycle of the nightmare body—

A change has occurred!
The large amount of nightmare power exceeded the limit of the simple energy circulation within the nightmare body. The newly-influx of nightmare power instantly made the energy circulation of the nightmare body precarious.

It was at this time that a tributary suddenly emerged from the energy circulation of the Nightmare Body, and the excess nightmare power instantly poured in, turning this tributary into a smooth road.

With the emergence of this tributary, the entire energy cycle began to undergo earth-shaking changes.

The energy cycle, which was originally as simple as a child's sketch, was transformed into the work of an art student within a few minutes.

At the same time, the core of the nightmare body also underwent a change. A force of rules from the nightmare world invaded Richard's core from the void, leaving a mark of rules in the core.

And under the imprint of this rule, the nightmare core began to grow rapidly and continuously produce mental power.

These mental powers should have made the consciousness in the core of the nightmare stronger, but at this moment, all these mental powers were controlled by Richard's soul seed.

After the nightmare core completed its growth, the rule mark suddenly dissipated and turned into a force of nightmare world rules that merged into the nightmare body.

Richard felt that this mark was a license, and only with the license could the Nightmare Core grow.

When all this was done, Richard's soul seed suddenly felt an itch, and the real illusion of the nightmare body suddenly disappeared at this moment, and the human-shaped nightmare body began to change in shape.

A black cloak rose from the nightmare body, covering the entire nightmare body. From the outside, the inside of the cloak was pitch black. Even if Richard used his mental power to explore, he could not detect any scene inside the cloak.

"Gah, it seems this is your nightmare talent." Ulises looked at the nightmare body and said in surprise, "A cloak that cannot be detected, this is quite in line with your personality."

"What does this mean?" Richard frowned slightly, "What is the nightmare talent?"

"Gah, these nightmare creatures will gain a nightmare talent when they become little nightmares. The abilities of this talent are all kinds of strange and varied. But what is certain is that this talent should be related to the personality of the nightmare creature.

Talents with hot tempers are of the attacking type, talents with cautious personalities are often of the supporting type, and some talents with crazy brains depend on their owners, highlighting a...what's that word called? The adjective you usually use to describe behaviors that are difficult to understand."

“Abstract, huh?”

"Gah, it's just abstract. I once ate a nightmare creature. Its talent was to make people fall down when they walked, and there would be a pile of feces where they fell. The whole talent was useless except for disgusting people."

"So you fell?"

"Gah, of course not. I flew down from the sky and ate it."

With the cape complete, it looked as though the Nightmare Body's evolution was over.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Richard entered the nightmare body again. The strength of the evolved nightmare body has reached the level of a first-level creature. According to Richard's self-perception, the physical fitness of the nightmare body should be between 51 and 53, which belongs to the category of just entering the first-level creature.

But the gap between a first-ring wizard and a high-level wizard apprentice is too big.

Before the evolution, Richard controlled the nightmare body like an adult wearing a child's clothes, fearing that if he used too much strength, the clothes would be broken.

But now, Richard finally has the right clothes.

"This body is much more comfortable." Richard stretched his body and said with satisfaction.

"Gah, don't be so happy yet. Nightmare creatures have their own means of detection. In a few days, the nearest nightmare lord will send people over. What are you going to do then?"

"What should we do?" Richard smiled slightly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, "Of course, we should 'recruit'."

(End of this chapter)