The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 177 Badge of Courage
The Dream Walker Club is a wizard club headquartered on the fifth floor of the residential layer. According to the Spider Wizard, the minister of this club found research materials about the nightmare wizard world in a coded note from the enlightenment period.

The minister soon became fascinated by the mystery of the nightmare world. In order to better study the nightmare world, the minister established the Dream Walker Club and began to recruit wizards who were interested in the nightmare world to study it together.

"Ten years ago, our club met a three-ring master. With the help of this master, we completed the ritual spell to travel to the nightmare world and truly entered this strange world."

Listening to the Spider Wizard's explanation of the whole story, Richard had a general understanding of this group of wizards.

"With a three-ring master here, how can your companions be captured?" Richard asked doubtfully.

The Spider Wizard sighed and said, "This Three-Ring Master is a loner. After helping us complete the ritual, he has rarely worked with us. In the entire Dream Walker Club, only the Minister can contact him."

Richard raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Without the protection of a three-ring wizard, do you still dare to provoke the magic sword Ahmad?"

With such an unequal combat power, how could this group of wizards have the courage to continue capturing experimental subjects in Ahmad's territory?

"No, no, no," the Spider Wizard denied, "Our operation this time was organized by that Three-Ring Master. The Three-Ring Master has a plan, and we are just his pawns, sharing the soup."

Richard's mind moved, it seemed that the Dream Walker Club was planning to plot against Ahmad.

So could he take advantage of the Dream Walker Club's power and fish in troubled waters?
Seeing Richard's silence, the Spider Wizard felt a little uneasy.

He told Richard so much about the club, but he was not just talking. Richard was obviously also eyeing that group of nightmare creatures. If he could be pulled into the Dream Walker Club, the means of concealing his identity would be enough to make their actions safer.

Even now, he didn't notice anything wrong with Richard.

There was almost no difference between Richard and the group of nightmare creatures standing together.

After thinking for a while, Richard slowly said:

"That's interesting. You're telling me this because you want to get me to join you, right?"

The Spider Wizard smiled ingratiatingly: "Your wisdom is as vast as the ocean."

Richard looked at the Spider Wizard, and suddenly a small clone split out of his body.

"I am very interested in this matter. This is my doppelganger. I hope to meet your minister."

The Spider Wizard looked at the small clones that Richard had split into, and suddenly his heart was filled with shock.

This clone was also exactly the same as the nightmare creature, and even looked more harmonious, without any trace of a wizard.

The master in front of me's research on nightmare creatures is simply terrifying.

"Okay, Master, I'll take you to the Minister right away."

……

Watching the Spider Wizard and his clone leave, Richard began to walk around the cemetery.

The cemetery in front of him was different from other cemeteries Richard had seen. This cemetery was so vast that it was almost as vast as a medium-sized city, with broken tombstones and crosses stretching as far as the eye could see.

Richard has nothing to do now, so studying this cemetery is a good way to kill time. Maybe he can get some unexpected results.

Although the Spider Wizard had left, the gray fog of death in the cemetery had not dissipated. Instead, it became larger and darker due to the special environment of the cemetery.

"Such a large area of ​​death fog will most likely give birth to extraordinary undead spirits in the future." Richard said lightly as he looked at the death fog.

Ulises was somewhat disdainful:
"Gah, it's useless. In the nightmare world, nightmare creatures are real creatures. Even if a demigod undead is bred, a nightmare creature with a nightmare domain can be dealt with without any harm."

"Oh," Richard asked curiously, "I heard you keep mentioning the nightmare realm. What exactly is this nightmare realm?"

"Gah, the nightmare realm is a special space condensed by nightmare creatures using nightmare rules. You can think of this special realm as a small secret realm. In this realm, there are often some extremely absurd rules, such as not being able to breathe or walk.

If these rules are violated, certain punishment mechanisms will be triggered.

However, these rules will not only restrict outsiders entering the domain, but also restrict the users of the domain. Apart from knowing the rules of the nightmare domain in advance, the users have no additional benefits.

I have encountered a nightmare realm, which is an endless plain. The special rule is that you cannot land on the ground and you cannot be in the air above 132 meters.

Once you break the rules, an immortal evil spirit will appear and hunt you down. The punishment mechanism was triggered as soon as I entered.”

"What happened next? How did you get out?" Richard asked curiously.

Ulises said calmly, "Ha, then I used the rules to hedge and tore a hole in the domain and escaped from it. To put it simply, the nightmare domain is a manifestation of nightmare rules. As long as you have the rules, the nightmare domain is not inescapable.

There are very few things in this world that are truly unsolvable. As long as you are strong enough, these twists and turns cannot trap you at all.

So, young man, hurry up and get stronger. If you get stronger, I can recover as well."

Richard: "..."

……

Most of the tombstones in the cemetery are in ruins, but there are some with recognizable words.

For example, the one in front of Richard.

"Richard, date of birth unknown, died in the year 51845 of the wizarding calendar."

Richard read the words on the tombstone, and suddenly felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.

Wizarding Calendar 51845, isn’t this year?
And the owner of this tombstone is called Richard. Putting all these things together, it is hard for Richard not to think that this is his own tomb.

"It's quite interesting that my tombstone actually appeared there." Richard looked at the tombstone and smiled. There was neither fear nor anger in his heart.

He came to the tombstone, used the power of nightmare to condense a shovel, and dug his own grave.

Under the moist soil, a coffin with Richard's name on it appeared in front of Richard.

Richard opened it and found nothing inside.

"It seems that the time has not come yet. I haven't gone in yet." Richard joked to Ulysses.

Ulises commented speechlessly: "Gah, you are really ruthless. If an ordinary person saw this scene, they would be terrified, but you dug it out directly."

Richard put the shovel aside and said in a relaxed tone:
“First, according to the theory proposed by the Great Wizard of Truth, there is no definite future in this world.

All predictions and divinations are essentially assumptions.

This theory is the basis of free will theory, without which everyone’s fate is predetermined.”

Richard looked at Ulises, his eyes revealing a sharpness that made people dare not look directly at him.

"Ulises, do you think your fate is predetermined? From your birth, to your becoming the master of the world, to your falling into my hands.

Do you think all this was destined before you were born?"

Ulises looked at Richard and suddenly shuddered.

He had never thought about what Richard said, but after hearing what Richard said, he suddenly felt uneasy.

If destiny really exists, then aren't all creatures in this world puppets?

Richard put the coffin back to its original place and then lay down in it alone.

I have to say that the size of this coffin fits Richard's body shape better, and he didn't feel any discomfort lying in it.

Just as he was about to get up, a star-like speck of light suddenly appeared from the void.

These light spots gathered into a ball of white light in front of Richard. When Richard touched it with his hand, the white light entered Richard's soul.

Afterwards, the tombstone with Richard's name engraved on it became a blank tombstone, and the coffin no longer had Richard's name on it.

"Badge of Courage, a reward for warriors who can break through fear."

After Richard received the white light, information about the white light automatically appeared in his mind.

"It seems that what I just did accidentally conformed to certain rules of the nightmare world, so it triggered this badge of courage." Richard murmured.

The function of this Badge of Courage is simple. It can help Richard overcome most fear spells.

For example: spells of intimidation, fright, spooky magic, etc.

"This is good stuff." Richard said excitedly.

But at the same time, a guess came into his mind.

There are some absurd rules in the nightmare realm. So does this nightmare wizard world full of nightmare rules also have some absurd rules?

Richard suddenly thought of the black sun in the sky that could not be looked directly at. Perhaps this was one of the absurd rules of the nightmare wizarding world.

After receiving the Badge of Courage, Richard made no more valuable discoveries in the cemetery.

After collecting some demonized plants that had mutated due to the rules of nightmare, Richard left the cemetery and prepared to explore the wilderness.

The Badge of Courage is probably not an isolated case. It is possible that the discordant scenes that Richard saw in the wilderness contained such treasures.

While Richard was exploring the wilderness, the Spider Wizard also found the minister of the Dream Walker Club.

The minister of the Dream Walker Club is a second-level soul wizard. When the Spider Wizard found him, he was dissecting a little nightmare, trying to figure out the secret of the core of the nightmare creature.

However, after the nightmare creature reaches level one, the nightmare core will have extremely strong defense against external mental power, and the minister of the Dream Walker Club has no way to explore the secret of the nightmare core without destroying the core.

"Forsi, why are you back? Have you completed the mission?" The minister asked in surprise when he saw the Spider Wizard coming back.

"Not yet, Minister." Firth said somewhat awkwardly, "But I met a master in the wilderness, and this master wants to join our plan."

"Oh?"

The minister looked even more surprised. The nightmare wizard world was so vast, but studying the nightmare world was so niche.

It is an extremely rare event to encounter a wizard who studies the nightmare world in the wilderness.

"Where is that master? Why don't I see him coming?"

The minister looked around Firth, and apart from a captured nightmare creature, there was no sign of any wizard.

Firth pointed to Richard's clone beside him and said respectfully:

"Minister, this is the master's clone."

(End of this chapter)