The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 175: Traces of the Wizard

Entering the mansion, the environment around Richard suddenly changed. The feeling of being in a nightmare and the surroundings full of hostility once again enveloped Richard's perception.

Richard turned on his energy vision, and in an instant, the bright light from the energy light path almost blinded his eyes.

Dense energy light paths basically covered any area that Richard saw. These light paths flashed an ominous bright red, like blood vessels flowing with blood.

And this official residence is a terrifying nightmare monster.

But soon, Richard noticed something wrong in these light paths.

Why does the distribution structure of these energy light paths look a bit like a wizard's magic circle?

As an alchemist, Richard had a considerable understanding of magic circles. Although he could not understand the whole structure composed of these densely packed light paths, he could vaguely see the shadows of several magic circles in some parts.

"Is this Nightmare Knight collaborating with the wizard? Or has this Nightmare Knight eaten a wizard before and gained the wizard's memory? Or is it just a coincidence?"

A guess flashed through Richard's mind, but he remained expressionless. Of course, it didn't matter even if his expression changed, because the puppet Billy couldn't see his true face at all.

Crossing the front yard, Richard followed the puppet Billy into the main building of the official residence - the City Hall.

In the hall, a luxurious hexagonal coffin was placed in the center of the hall.

From the perspective of energy, this coffin is the core of the entire residence, and all energy light paths are emitted from this coffin.

The coffin is dark red in color and appears to be made of wood. On the coffin, fine golden lines have etched intricate and exquisite patterns, as if telling a story.

Richard switched his vision back to normal and lowered his head to avoid looking at the coffin.

These strong men are extremely sensitive to prying eyes. When he used his energy vision to look at Ulysses, he was able to sense the prying eyes at just one glance.

Puppet Billy walked steadily to the coffin, then bowed and said:
"Lord Amade, your most loyal subordinate, the puppet Billy, completed your mission. During this process, I met a little nightmare who was attracted by your brilliance. He killed three black knights single-handedly in the wild, and his strength is quite impressive.

I think he is qualified to be your subordinate, so I came here to introduce him to you."

The voice of the puppet Billy was extremely humble, as if he was praying to a god. After he finished speaking, a trace of energy fluctuation suddenly came from the coffin.

This energy wave swept past Richard quickly, as if testing Richard's strength.

But under the influence of the cloak, this detection was greatly weakened, and the things that could be detected were also greatly reduced.

Suddenly, a dull voice sounded in Richard's ears.

“Interesting talent.”

A strange sound came from the dark red coffin, like the sound of the coffin lid moving.

When the puppet Billy saw this scene, his face suddenly changed.

How did Lord Ahmad open the coffin?

Fortunately, the coffin lid only moved a tiny bit and then stopped, and a stronger probe was released from the coffin.

This time, even if he was weakened by Richard's talent, Ahmad got what he wanted.

"Nameless Nightmare, tell me your name."

Ahmad's dull voice sounded in Richard's ears again, but this time it was different from the previous voice.

This voice carried a strange power that seemed to penetrate into Richard's heart, making him tell Amade any information he wanted to know without any defense.

"My lord, my name is Charlie the Black," Richard said calmly.

Ahmad's methods are very similar to those of soul wizards. As a wizard, Richard had done mental resistance training a long time ago.

This kind of training is very common among wizards and can be obtained by spending some magic stones. Its function is to allow wizards to have some resistance to soul spells.

This resistance is not high, and the soul wizard can break it easily, but if he does so, the soul wizard's magic fluctuations will become obvious, thus making the wizard under the spell realize that something is wrong.

However, this method can only provide early warning against wizards, but it is obviously enough to deal with the nightmare knight in front of him.

After hearing Richard give his name, Ahmad's coffin lid was closed again.

"Billy the Doll, take him to see the officer."

When Puppet Billy heard the voice, he bowed to the coffin again and said:
"Your will."

……

After leaving the official residence, the puppet Billy took Richard to find the officer. On the way, Richard got a lot of internal information of the territory by asking questions.

Demon Sword Amade is the strongest nightmare knight under the Nightmare Lord Wuxin. His territory is also the largest among the five knights under Wuxin.

Under Ahmad, there are more than 500 nightmare commanders at the minor nightmare level, and only dozens of great nightmares that have reached the second level of strength. Among them, there are twelve personal guards named by Ahmad.

In addition, the entire territory's annual nightmare power tax is five million, of which three million are from the Nightmare Lord and two million are from the Nightmare Knight.

When Richard asked how much nightmare power these little nightmares could have, the puppet Billy smiled mysteriously and said:

"It all depends on your ability. Pay enough tax to Lord Ahmad, and the rest will be yours."

Following the puppet Billy, Richard soon found the agent, who looked like a huge book with a cover covered with hideous faces.

The faces struggled on the cover, trying to break free, but every time one tried to break free, the other faces would bite him and drag him back into the cover.

When the agent found him, he was stuffing a little nightmare into the pages of the book.

In a few seconds, the little nightmare turned into a blank sheet of paper and then merged with the book. "Sir, this is a newcomer who has come to seek refuge with Lord Amade." The puppet Billy bowed slightly to the officer.

"A newcomer, right? Lord Amade has already told me."

The official opened the book and a huge map appeared in front of Richard, marking all the villages and cities in the territory.

"The fiefs of the territories are gone. If you want to have fiefs, go and fight with those who have them. Lord Ahmad does not forbid fighting, but the prerequisite is to pay enough taxes every month."

After saying that, the map fell out of the book and flew in front of Richard.

"Sir, this newcomer has his own fiefdom, and a new village has appeared." said the puppet Billy.

"Oh? No wonder you lured him in." The officer showed the map again, and a pen suddenly appeared next to the puppet Billy.

“Mark the location.”

After the puppet Billy marked the location, the map in Richard's hand changed accordingly. A symbol representing the village suddenly appeared at the edge of the territory.

Richard glanced at the puppet Billy, and the puppet Billy happened to look at him.

The two looked at each other and nodded in tacit understanding.

"It looks like these nightmare creatures are hiding information from the village," Richard thought to himself.

After marking the villages, the officer suddenly said:

"This place... Black Robe Richard, I have a mission, would you like to do it?"

"What is the mission, sir?"

"Nothing. Recently, a few lawless people have been harassing villages on the edge of the territory. One Little Nightmare from the attacked village died and three others are missing."

"Missing?" Puppet Billy suddenly asked, "Could it be that the lawless ones have appeared again?"

The officer flipped through the pages of the book and said in an irritated tone:

“I don’t know either. Back then, those lawless ones kidnapped dozens of our little nightmares and disappeared without a trace.

Now this happens again!
At the beginning, Lord Ahmad was so angry that he wanted to massacre the lawless people. If he knew about this now, our taxes would double. "

As he spoke, a page fell out of the officer's book.

"I won't let you go in vain. This piece of paper will allow you to temporarily use my nightmare realm. It is your protection and also your reward.

If you have the nerve not to use it, the paper will be yours."

Richard was silent for a moment, then took the page.

"Sir, I accept this mission."

"Okay, this is the intelligence that the group had back then. Although it's not much, it can be used as a reference. If it's that group of lawless people, you can just flee and come to the territory to report the news to me."

After saying this, a series of constantly changing words appeared on Richard's page.

From wizard language, to the language of gods, to Chinese characters, English... these words seem to be able to change into any language that Richard can understand based on Richard's understanding.

The information was very simple. It said that ten years ago, a group of lawless people invaded the territory and kidnapped dozens of little nightmares within a few months.

The talents of these lawless ones are very strange. They seem to be able to attack and defend at the same time, and they are very similar.

The most obvious sign is the fireball.

Almost everyone in this group of lawless people can use fireball.

After seeing this message, Richard couldn't help but grin.

He was 100% sure that these so-called lawless ones were wizards from the material world.

After putting away the pages of the book, Richard left the city of Amade.

The puppet Billy had no intention of sending him back, so Richard had to walk back alone.

"A wizard entering a nightmare world... this accident is becoming more and more interesting."

……

Three days later, Richard followed the map and arrived at the village that had been harassed by wizards.

This village is not far from Richard's village, which is why the officer assigned the task to Richard.

The little nightmare of this village has been kidnapped, and now the well-informed little nightmare has occupied the village.

Richard greeted the little nightmare that occupied the village, explained his purpose, and then walked around the village.

The damage caused by the shaping magic in the village has been erased by the rules of the blood moon - the village in the nightmare world reflected by the material world is also an illusion. No matter how thoroughly the village in the nightmare world is destroyed, the village will return to its original state when the blood moon rises the next day.

But the traces of their remaining magic still exist.

These wizards had not removed the traces of magic, which stood out like the North Star in Richard's energy vision.

Based on these traces, Richard quickly found their retreat direction.

Richard looked at the direction the wizard retreated and muttered to himself:
"You'd better go and say hello, before they catch me in the end."

(End of this chapter)