The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 207 Nightmare Invasion
Richard tried to use his mental power to find this connection and enter the nightmare world, but his mental power could not break through the barrier between dimensions without being amplified.

"That's weird. Why would they be blocked if they were clearly connected?"

Richard opened the secret rift and fished Ulysses out of it.

After listening to Richard's story, Ulises replied: "Gah, didn't the nightmare artifact merge with your nightmare core? This connection is probably not a direct link between the nightmare artifact and your soul, but it is connected to your soul through the connection between your soul seed and soul."

After listening to Ulises' explanation, Richard understood it instantly.

He can use the connection between the soul seed and the soul to transmit soul messages to the nightmare world, so this operation can naturally be reversed.

But in this case, his joy would be in vain.

There is no way to activate the nightmare artifact, so this connection is useless.

Suddenly, Richard felt a slight throbbing.

A vague feeling came over him.

The nightmare rules in his body seemed... to be linked with this connection.

"Number one!" Richard suddenly shouted.

In a few seconds, No. 1, wearing a maid outfit and wearing a cat, came in front of Richard, lowered his head and whispered:
"Master, what are your orders?"

"Looked up."

Number One raised his head and looked at Richard with a pair of light blue eyes. Although his expression was calm, a hint of fear could still be seen.

She didn't know what her master wanted her to do.

She had been in contact with the demi-human slaves in other wizard towers and knew that many of them were taken for human experiments. The miserable end of those demi-humans was deeply engraved in her heart.

"Hopefully it's not an experiment."

She forced herself to remain calm and raised her head as Richard instructed.

And the moment she raised her head, she suddenly realized that her master's dragon eyes seemed to reveal a dark glow.

"Come with me, I have an experiment that requires your cooperation." Richard said calmly.

Richard's voice instantly made Number One's heart sink to the bottom. She followed Richard into the laboratory like a puppet, and then watched Richard take out a black insect with dense tentacles.

She had seen this kind of bug before. She had seen it on a subhuman who was used as an experimental subject by a wizard.

This worm is a parasite. It will eat every inch of flesh and blood under the host's skin bit by bit. During this process, the host will remain conscious and will not even feel pain.

Eventually, the worms will completely devour the host, leaving the brain in a permanent sleep due to the hallucinogens released by the parasites.

Number One couldn't help but take two steps back and fell to his knees weakly.

Will she end up like this?
She watched Richard walking towards her with the bug, watching the bug getting closer and closer to her.

"Open your mouth."

Number One shook her head violently. She almost crawled to her master's feet and begged in tears.

But what greeted her was still the pair of cold and ruthless eyes.

Next, she was tied to the test table, and her mouth was forcibly opened with an instrument. She then watched as the horrible parasite entered her mouth, started eating from her tongue, and then ate from her mouth into her throat little by little, and then...

"what!"

Number One screamed and opened her eyes, and in front of her, Richard was looking at her calmly.

"What happened to you?" Richard asked, pulling out a notebook.

Number One touched his mouth and looked at his surroundings.

Was that all an illusion just now?

She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and began to tell Richard everything she had just seen.

At this moment, she probably understood that her wizard master had indeed experimented on her, but it was not what she saw.

After listening to No. 1's description, Richard closed his notes, rubbed No. 1's head, asked her to leave, and gave her three days of vacation.

"Is this the ability that the Nightmare Rule has given me?"

From No. 1's description, Richard could determine that he had acquired the ability to cause people to have nightmares.

This nightmare consists of the user's worst fear, but does not cause any mental damage.

When using this ability, Richard also recorded his own consumption. When he made No. 1 fall into a nightmare, his mental energy consumption was about one point, and No. 1 was immersed in the nightmare for one minute.

Richard estimated that the consumption of the ability should be related to the mental strength of the user.

"It's not bad. This thing is absolutely perfect for torture."

After testing his abilities, Richard prepared to enter the laboratory again, but as soon as he took a step, a wave of magical power pulled him to the third floor.

That was the magical fluctuation of the long-range communication crystal ball.

After finding the crystal ball, Li looked at the information inside.

"Richard, do you still have that golem? I'd like to borrow it."

……

In Anna's wizard tower, Richard opened the secret realm rift and moved the alchemical golem out of it.

Looking at the golem with its shell changed to blue mushroom iron, Anna's eyes towards Richard gradually changed from astonishment to admiration.

She gave Richard a thumbs up and said, "You are good at making money."

Richard smiled. With the Miracle Furnace at his disposal, it would be unjust if he didn't try his hand at the task of refining ore.

Anna touched the golem twice with her mechanical right hand, and then a flash of magic flashed across her fingertips. With a light click, a metal plate detached from the alchemical golem.

Anna breathed a sigh of relief as she saw that the structure inside had not changed.

"Luckily you only changed the outer shell, otherwise this golem would be useless."

Richard asked curiously, "Senior Sister, besides being cheap, is there anything special about this golem?"

Richard had studied this golem over the years, but after studying it thoroughly, he found that the structure inside looked ordinary and had no special advantages except that the materials were cheap.

Anna glanced at Richard and took out a parchment scroll from the magic pocket at her waist.

"But it's really nothing special on its own, but if you add this, it will be very useful."

Richard was slightly surprised: "Oh? It seems that Senior Sister has found something good."

Anna snorted twice with some pride: "Hehe, thanks to you, I have collected some cipher notes over the years. Among these notes, there is one that is sealed to cover up the actual content, and this is what is inside it."

"So, what are you going to do with my golem, Senior Sister? If you want the golem structure, I can give it to you directly."

"Give me?"

Anna frowned slightly, walked to Richard and hit him hard on the head with her left hand.

"Is this how you treat the knowledge you discovered? The transfer of knowledge between wizards, except for master-apprentice, requires equal exchange, don't you know?!"

Richard rubbed his head and said indifferently: "Look, even if I don't want the things, you will bring up an equal trade yourself. Since you can bring it up yourself, why should I bring it up myself?"

Anna glared at Richard angrily:
"Then I won't mention it next time! Let's see if you'll learn your lesson after being wronged twice."

Richard smiled and said, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. Anger is harmful to your health. It was obviously you who took advantage, but now it's like I took advantage of you."

Seeing Richard's playful look, Anna angrily pushed Richard out of the wizard tower.

"Go away, I have my own use for this puppet. I'll let you know when I've finished researching it."

After saying that, Anna slammed the door.

Richard stood outside the door and shouted, "Hey, Senior Sister, you haven't paid yet!"

Anna's angry voice came from behind the door:
"No! You're going to give me the schematic anyway, why do you still care about this little money?"

Hearing this, Richard touched his chin and raised a smile.

"The desensitization reaction was a great success."

Ever since the academic exchange meeting was held in the Insect Nest World, Richard has been trying to break down some of the inherent ideas of wizards within his small circle.

Research results can indeed be kept private, but wizards are a bit too extreme in this regard. They treat every little detail as a treasure, and asking about research topics is considered an offense.

Richard is trying to break this, which is also the foundation for future academic seminars.

And Richard believes that the change of a society starts with the change of individuals.

Maybe in the future, the entire wizarding society will change because of his actions.

……

Back at the wizard tower, this time Richard finally entered the laboratory.

Looking at the crystal ball on the test bench, Richard sighed.

There is an incomplete rune in the crystal ball, which is the Mountain Heart Rune that Richard obtained in the mountain secret realm.

A year was too short a time for Richard to complete the rune.

Now that he had left the secret realm of the mountains, the incomplete form of this rune made Richard feel like he had a treasure trove but didn't know where to start.

The Heart of the Mountain rune was extremely complex. Even a great wizard who had studied runes in depth would probably take some time to complete it. And for Richard, a second-ring wizard with little knowledge, it was undoubtedly a pipe dream for him to complete this rune.

So, Richard chose to take a different approach.

Since he couldn't complete it, he could remove some lower-level runes from this complex and incomplete Mountain Heart rune.

This operation is not considered innovative among wizards. When Richard created the Heart of Annihilation, he separated some simple secondary runes from the Flame of Oblivion Rune and the Water of Darkness Rune to assist in the formation of the spell.

And most importantly, this operation is not difficult. The only troublesome part is to test the runes again and again to see if they are valid.

This is an extremely tedious and lengthy process, and an ordinary mortal may not be able to find a valid secondary rune in his entire life.

But as it happens, wizards are not short of time.

……

Twenty years later, a wave of magical power awakened Richard from the experiment.

He had to stop the rune he had just disassembled and find his long-range crystal ball.

There are two messages on the crystal ball, one from Anna. Anna has completed her research on the golem and sent a message to Richard to take the golem away.

The other piece of information is somewhat important.

【Sender: Vladimir】

[Qingshuang No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Legions will participate in a plane war in three years. You will participate in this war as a technical advisor.]

(End of this chapter)