The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 181 Opening the Treasure Box
After the Demon Sword Amade left with a group of nightmares, the entire Amade City and even the entire territory fell into an undefended state.

It's not that they are not cautious enough. On the contrary, Ahmad's decision to let all the nightmares go out is a cautious act.

But he could never have imagined that there was such a person as Richard.

In the eyes of nightmare creatures, Richard's clone technology is simply unbelievable.

There is no male or female in nightmare creatures, and they do not reproduce. All nightmare creatures grow from basic nightmare spirits.

How can one nightmare creature be distinguished from another nightmare creature?

Moreover, even if another nightmare creature is born, the fact that nightmare creatures have no souls means that they cannot create clones, and can only create a new one of the same kind.

Moreover, Ahmad's order for all personnel to go out on the expedition can effectively prevent people from neighboring territories from taking advantage of the situation.

The Black Tide is a disaster for all nightmare creatures. I fought against it with all my strength, but you took advantage of the Black Tide to rob me. Even if this matter is brought to the attention of the Nightmare Lord, Ahmad is in the right.

And the Kuroshio brings not only disasters, but also potentially huge benefits.

If Ahmad returns victorious by then, the Nightmare Knight who took advantage of the situation will be held accountable.

But he never expected that there would be a person like Richard.

Richard used the power of nightmare to condense the Cloak of the Hider, and then put on the cloak and entered the inner city of Amade.

In the inner city, countless bizarre nightmare spirits were running around in the streets. These little guys were all new nightmare spirits. When faced with the coming of the black tide, they had no idea how to deal with it and could only keep running away to vent their fear.

Richard walked among them, moving silently through the city.

And in the sky, Ulysses was watching any possible hiding place for the treasure.

The Black Tide occurred so suddenly that Richard was forced to take action before he had time to find his feet. Now he can only rely on Ulises to make up for it.

Soon, Ulises landed on Richard's shoulders.

"Gah, there is a place without nightmare spirits, you can go and have a look."

"lead the way."

Following Ulysses, Richard kept walking through the city and soon came to a quiet street.

In this panic-stricken city, there was not a single nightmare spirit on this street. It seemed that all nightmare spirits avoided this place.

Richard took a step in, and all of a sudden, a fear that came from nowhere instantly struck Richard's heart.

It felt like the investigator was facing an ancient god directly, and unspeakable fear immediately began to erode Richard's sanity.

But the next moment, a warm white light spread in Richard's soul. Under the influence of this white light, Richard suddenly felt a courage as surging as the sea.

In the face of courage, this inexplicable fear disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Intimidation? No, it should involve the nightmare rules, otherwise it wouldn't be so effective."

After the fear subsided, Richard calmly analyzed the current situation.

"But the effect of the Badge of Courage is somewhat unexpected. It doesn't isolate fear, but instead inspires my own courage.

Does strength come from within? "

Richard had just obtained the magical item, the Badge of Courage, and he had not yet experienced its effect. But now, he saw that the effect of this badge was indeed amazing and worthy of the name of the Badge of Courage.

With the help of the Badge of Courage, Richard walked on the street without any discomfort and soon found a special house.

This house is a toy store, filled with all kinds of toys.

Among them, a huge box looks particularly conspicuous.

"Huh, it looks like a trap." Ulises said as he looked at the treasure chest. "I bet this treasure chest must be a treasure chest monster. The real hidden box is somewhere else."

"is it?"

Richard looked at the treasure chest and walked into the store quietly.

The toy store is spotless, which is unusual in the nightmare world. There is dust in the nightmare world, and if no one takes care of it, the room will also be covered with dust.

In fact, most of the rooms in the nightmare world are covered with dust, and the furniture and floors are full of footprints left by nightmare spirits.

Richard looked at these toys but did not reach out to touch them. At this moment, he had converted his vision into energy vision. In his vision, these toys were connected to energy light paths. If he touched them rashly, it would definitely trigger something.

Among these toys, the only one that was not connected to the energy light path was the huge wooden box.

But that doesn't mean the box is harmless.

In Richard's vision, the wooden box was covered with energy light paths and looked like a nightmare creature.

In Richard's hand appeared a fine golden spear condensed with the power of nightmare, and he casually engraved a few runes on it using battlefield alchemy.

Then he knocked on the box.

Boom boom boom!
The box didn't react at all. "Gah, are you sure you want to open this box? Let's look for it again." Ulises urged again, "This box looks like a trap no matter how you look at it."

Richard glanced sideways at the military crow who was giving him advice, and asked casually:

"Ulises, have you ever been tricked by a treasure chest monster before, so when you see a treasure chest you think it's a treasure chest monster?"

Ulises' eyes widened, and he immediately argued: "Gah, as the great Lord of Crows, how could I be deceived by such a simple trap?"

But Richard, who was already familiar with him, knew that this guy was being stubborn again when he heard him call himself the Lord of Crows.

Richard took the spear and opened the wooden box.

The next moment, a bloody mouth full of fangs appeared in front of Richard, and a scarlet tongue licked Richard at lightning speed, trying to tie him up and swallow him into the treasure chest in one gulp.

But at the same time as the tongue stretched out, a long golden spear was thrust into the treasure chest monster's mouth, and the tongue was inserted back into the treasure chest along with it.

After inserting it, Richard also shortened the length of the spear so that it could just catch the lid of the treasure chest monster and prevent its big mouth from closing.

“Gah, see, I told you it was a treasure chest monster.” Ulises said with a bit of pride, “My vision is much better than yours!”

Richard took a look at the cocky crow, then used the power of nightmare to make a pair of long gloves and put them on his hands, then reached his hands into the throat of the treasure chest monster.

The treasure chest monster that was stuck by the Platinum Spear was struggling at this moment, but the Platinum Spear was not something he could deal with by brute force.

As Richard continued to grope in its throat, the chest monster's struggles began to become more and more violent.

Finally, under Richard's constant digging, the treasure chest monster couldn't help but vomit. But what the treasure chest monster vomited was not disgusting mucus or some undigested corpse.

All it spewed out were black nightmare crystals.

"Look," Richard spread his hands towards Ulysses, "my idea is correct. There is indeed something in this treasure chest."

Ulises looked at the nightmare crystals that were constantly being vomited out with a dull look in his eyes.

He couldn't help but ask, "Gah, have you seen this thing? Or did you see it with your energy vision?"

Richard shook his head: "In the energy field of vision, this thing is a treasure chest monster."

"Gah, then how do you know there's something hidden inside its body?"

Richard said calmly: "This is a nightmare world. For these nightmare creatures, doesn't the treasure chest monster conform to the rules of the nightmare world? Moreover, the treasure chest monster is very deceptive. Most people will subconsciously think it is a fake treasure chest when they see it is a treasure chest monster.

Who would have thought that Mimics are real treasure chests?"

"Gah, so you infer that there must be something inside this treasure chest monster?"

“No.” Richard said calmly, “I’m just giving it a try. Anyway, this treasure chest monster can’t resist, and it won’t take long to dig it out twice. Even if it triggers a fatal trap, I’ll just lose some nightmare power.”

The treasure chest monster's vomiting continued for a while and then stopped. This bout of vomiting made him vomit out nearly 50,000 nightmare crystals of nightmare power.

These nightmare crystals may not be the entire storage of the treasure chest monster, but Richard doesn't want to waste time watching it continue vomiting.

Richard put these nightmare crystals into his pocket, and then used the power of nightmare to condense several golden chains to tie up the insurance monster.

The treasure chest monster still wanted to resist, but after being tormented by Richard, it had very little strength left and could only be trapped by Richard and thrown into another magic pocket.

Ulises saw this scene and couldn't help but complain:

"Gah, you stole someone's things and even took the box away. You are really a piece of shit."

Richard said indifferently, "What's the matter? The intensity of this war is not low. Who knows if the owner of this box will come back? Instead of letting this box be killed by other nightmare creatures, it is better to make a specimen for me. At least it can contribute some value to me, right?"

After walking out of the toy store, Richard walked around the street again. After making sure that there was nothing on the entire street, he continued to search in the city.

In fact, the nightmare crystals of most nightmare creatures are hidden in their own fiefdoms. Only the big nightmares or celebrities like the puppet Richard will live in the city of Amade for a long time.

And most of them are Ahmad’s personal guards.

But Ahmad's guards don't need to prepare their own petty treasury. They can just get what they need directly from Ahmad's warehouse.

So after searching the city, Richard was a little disappointed that he didn't find the second warehouse.

"Well, why don't we go to Ahmad's lair and take a look?" Ulysses suggested.

"Huh? Ahmad's residence is not a place you can easily enter." Richard looked at Ulises with some confusion, "Why would you suddenly ask me to go there?"

"Ha, because I just saw a wizard in the sky kill two of Ahmad's guards and then rushed in. If you go over now, maybe you can get a share of the soup." Ulysses said lightly.

"Um?!"

Richard's pupils shrank, and the plan of the Dream Walker Club instantly came to his mind.

The three-ring wizard was planning to enter Ahmad's mansion, which was why he caused a war between the two territories. But now with the emergence of the black tide, Ahmad has come out in full force. This is the best time for him to find the nightmare artifact!
Richard made a prompt decision:
"Let's go! Let's go to Ahmad's residence. That master eats meat, so we can't even have soup!"

(End of this chapter)