The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 221 Tree Pattern: Life Drainage
Dragon alchemy is very different from wizard alchemy. Dragon alchemy focuses on the metal itself.

The dragon smelts the metal, shaping it into the shape it wants, then kills the metal, which changes the properties of the metal, and finally uplifts the metal, fixing the properties of the metal and further strengthening it.

After this whole process, the metal remains the same piece of metal, nothing has been added.

However, the properties of the metal have changed. The originally brittle metal has become more ductile after treatment. The originally soft metal has become hard after treatment.

Although this skill exists in wizard alchemy, it requires extremely high alchemical attainments and complex alchemical arrays.

The dragon only needs to touch the metal with its claws to complete the change.

This is what it means to turn stone into gold.

But Dragon Alchemy also has its flaws. Although it can make amazing changes to metals, this skill can only work on metals, and not all metals.

Wizard alchemy, on the other hand, is all-encompassing and has an effect on almost any substance.

Richard looked at the sword in his hand, and an idea suddenly popped into his mind.

If you process the metal using dragon alchemy and then enchant it using wizard alchemy.

Then he could get a better magic suit.

Richard's mind moved, and a small alchemy array suddenly appeared in his hand. His spirit penetrated into it, and runes were engraved. Everything went very smoothly.

But at the moment the rune took shape, Richard heard a crisp sound.

Snapped!
There was an extra crack on the sword.

The crack is exactly where the rune is engraved.

Richard saw this and immediately checked the sword. After checking, he sighed and said, "No wonder few wizards study dragon alchemy. It turns out that the two are incompatible.

The runes will interfere with dragon alchemy, causing both alchemy to fail."

Dragon Alchemy is, after all, something that belongs to the dragons. Even if a wizard can master it, without the direct means of refining skills like Richard, it will take a considerable amount of time to learn and master it. Since the two are incompatible, wouldn't it be better to use this time and energy to study wizard alchemy that is more suitable for wizards?

After so many years of development, wizard alchemy has already become a huge discipline. Even the great wizards of truth dare not say that they have fully mastered alchemy.

They are both gold mines, but one is exposed outside and the other is hidden deep underground. Even a fool would know which one to choose to dig.

Richard put the sword aside and took out the black gold scimitars he had obtained.

The Miracle Furnace responded immediately after touching it with bare hands.

Richard also refined them one by one.

However, Richard discovered a problem with such a large-scale refining technique.

Although the craftsmanship of these scimitars was moderately incomplete, the production process of these scimitars was similar, and the level of the craftsmen was similar. This also led to the fact that after refining so many scimitars, his skill level was only slightly better than when he refined the first scimitar.

His skills will not grow linearly as more refinements increase, like the experience bar.

But Richard was not dissatisfied. No one would complain about the small amount of money picked up for free.

When the refining process reached the black gold scimitar of the White Wizard Captain, the information given by the Miracle Furnace changed slightly. There was an additional refining information under the Dragon Alchemy.

[Materials: Salamander's Scimitar]

[Refinable Skills: Dragon Alchemy (Moderately Incomplete)]

[Refining consumption: 4 mental power]

[Information that can be extracted: Giant Dragon Alchemy Tree Pattern]

[Refining consumption: 5 mental power]

"Tree pattern?"

Richard moved his gaze to the scimitar. There were many intricate golden lines on its surface. These golden lines were by-products of dragon alchemy and their functions were similar to those of wizard runes.

"refining."

The black gold scimitar suddenly disappeared and then reappeared.

A ball of white light appeared above the Miracle Furnace.

Richard swallowed it, and the information about the tree diagram instantly entered Richard's mind.

After a while, Richard opened his eyes.

"...Life absorption, good stuff."

According to the information extracted from the Miracle Furnace, the effect of the tree pattern of this scimitar is to absorb life, that is, to transform the enemy's blood into vitality by devouring it, and then feeding it back to the user.

Some spells of the necromancy school can achieve this effect.

But Richard had only heard of it.

Things like spell models, unless they are common goods on the street, are rarely found on the market and are basically circulated in private transactions.

"Plane War is a great place to make a fortune."

Richard sighed, put away his scimitar, and then took out his staff.

The tree pattern diagram gave Richard some inspiration. Although the two alchemy techniques were not interchangeable, he could completely use physical methods to connect the two.

The upper half of the staff is made with wizard alchemy, the lower half is made with dragon alchemy, and the middle is connected with a purely mechanical structure.

During combat, use the upper half to kill the enemy, and then insert the lower half into the corpse to absorb life.

It can be said that it can both fight and reply.

Richard couldn't help but smile as he thought about it, and immediately took out his manuscript paper and started to act. Anyway, he was free now, so it was just right to upgrade his equipment and improve his combat power.

……

While Richard was leisurely improving his strength, the situation on the battlefield gradually changed.

After changing the head coach, the Salamanders gave up the elite strategy and began to use a large number of Salamander warriors and a small number of Salamander nobles to engage in urban street fighting.

This move left the wizard's command team completely baffled.

Harash's elite strategy caused a lot of headaches for the wizards. The command center had to use black wizards to engage in street fighting, resulting in a large number of white wizards playing bystander in the back.

It seriously slowed down the pace of the war.

But now with the fire lizard warriors in tow, the black wizards were naturally freed from the street fighting, and the white wizards finally returned to the familiar battlefield.

In just one year, the White Wizards conquered more than seventy cities in succession, and the Black Wizards began to infiltrate the rear of the Salamander Empire and carry out various harassment activities.

"Donal is a waste!"

Looking at the map on the wall, Azuhan couldn't help but curse.

The city was lost in the early stages of the war because the wizards' forces were too concentrated, and the Salamanders could not stop them. But as the battlefield gradually expanded, the wizards' forces were gradually dispersed, but now the wizards' speed of capturing cities has not slowed down at all.

This is clearly a command issue.

"Azuhan, I asked you to come and look at the map, not to listen to your nonsense about Marshal Donal."

Behind Azuhan, the tall Harash was wearing a white robe and looked extremely majestic.

"But father, I can't see anything from this battle situation. We have been losing ground! And the losses are increasing!" Azuhan turned and shouted at his father.

As a young fire lizard, he was completely overwhelmed by the situation of the battle, and his neck was swollen like a pufferfish.

"Then watch again. If you can't even see this, don't even think about joining the army. You will only die on the battlefield."

Harash's voice did not change at all because of Azuhan's anger. His face was calm, and he was even in the mood to pour himself a glass of magma and taste it carefully, as if the conquered country was not Morik.

Azuhan turned away angrily and tried to calm himself down.

He knew that his father never talked nonsense, and if he didn't let him join the army, there was no way he would be able to join the army.

Looking at the map in front of him, Azuhan's heart began to calm down. His reason took over and he began to gradually analyze the information the map brought him.

Judging from the battle front, wizards have occupied nearly one-sixth of the territory of the Morik Empire in just a year and a half, and the battle front is still advancing.

Moreover, there is no salient on this front line that could allow the Salamanders to penetrate and encircle it.

After watching for a long time, Azuhan did not see any opportunities that could be exploited from this front.

The wizards' battle line was like an iron wall, and all the places that looked like flaws were traps.

"Father, I still can't see it." Azuhan said somewhat disappointedly, "The wizard's front is too solid. I can't find any place to take advantage of it."

Harash nodded and said, "Keep watching. If you can see that the battle line is solid, it means you have grown a lot. But I want you to look at more than just the battle line. Expand your vision."

Broaden your horizons?
Azuhan looked at the map again, Harash's words echoing in his mind.

Zoom in a little bit...

Azuhan took a step back and looked at the entire map.

The place where the wizard landed was located in a corner of the entire continent. Not far behind the wizard, behind the mountains, was an endless sea of ​​lava.

So the wizard can only move forward.

And because it is a salient, the wizards now only border the Morik Empire...

In an instant, he understood what his father meant.

Azuhan shouted excitedly: "I can see that the wizards are about to border the Linksa Empire! Marshal Donal is guiding the wizards to go to war with the Linksa Empire!"

After hearing his son's answer, Harash finally nodded in satisfaction.

"Yes, Donal is indeed leading the wizards to go to war with the Linksa Empire, but have you ever thought about what his purpose is?"

"Purpose? The purpose must be to disperse the wizard's power." Azuhan said naively.

“Dispersal is part of it, but there’s a bigger part.”

Harash walked to the map and pointed to the next city that the wizard was about to conquer. After conquering this city, the wizard would officially border the Linksa Empire.

“The losses of this war cannot be borne entirely by us; the other two empires must also bleed.

Only in this way can the situation on the continent remain balanced after the war. Otherwise, even if we drive the wizards out, we will still have internal wars due to the loss of strength.

If an empire suffers too great a loss, it is possible that the empire will collapse.

That’s what I want you to understand.”

Azuhan looked at his father, his mind a little confused.

At this time, why are the empires still scheming against each other?

Wizards have only two ways to deal with fire lizards: enslavement and death. Shouldn't the three empires unite at this time to drive out the wizards first?

Harash seemed to have seen what Azuhan was thinking, and said quietly:
“Azuhan, wizards are harmful, but if used well, they can also be a sword, a sword that unites the world.

Our Majesty thinks so, and so do the other two Majesties."

(End of this chapter)