The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 23: The Test of Joe Lord (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Anna's words left Richard a little overwhelmed.

I'm here to submit a task, why do you want to drag me into it?

"Join the alchemy school. You have a strong talent in alchemy. Even my mentor finds it difficult to achieve the purity of your red mercury. You are definitely a talent in alchemy."

Anna's words were so righteous that Richard began to believe them.

“But senior sister, I am still an entry-level apprentice. Master Qiaoluode’s minimum requirement for apprentices is low-level apprentices.”

"Apprentice?" Anna looked at Richard and suddenly frowned. A powerful mental force instantly swept through him.

"Impossible, you have already reached the standard of a low-level apprentice."

"what?"

Richard couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Anna's words. He had just reached 16 mental power not long ago, and was still four points away from the mental power required for a low-level apprentice. How could he become a low-level apprentice overnight?

Seeing Richard’s bewildered expression, Anna shook her head: “Maybe you did something to stimulate the growth of your mental power?”

"What did you do?" Richard pondered for a while. The only special thing he had done recently was blood alchemy.

Could it be that blood alchemy can also increase mental strength?
Just as Richard was thinking, Chucks beside him suddenly spoke.

"It's probably the feedback effect. Richard, have you been doing blood alchemy recently?"

After hearing what Chucks said, Anna also noticed the disharmony in Richard. Although Richard, whose physical condition had improved by leaps and bounds, had adapted to his body, there were always some small details that were still disharmony in such a short period of time.

"Indeed it is."

"That's not surprising." Chucks looked as if he understood.

"Senior Chucks, this feedback effect you mentioned?"

"It seems that you haven't attended the soul school class yet." Chucks smiled, and a gleam of wisdom flashed across his shiny forehead.

“According to the research of the Soul School, our soul and body are not actually completely separate, and there is a hidden connection between the two.

And this connection can balance the gap between the physical and the spiritual.

When a creature's physique increases dramatically, its mental strength will also increase, allowing its soul to use the body. The same is true in reverse, when mental strength increases dramatically, the creature's physique will also increase, allowing the body to accommodate a stronger soul. "

Although Chucks usually looks like a greasy middle-aged man, his whole temperament changes when he talks about theory. His originally funny shiny forehead now becomes a symbol of maturity and reliability.

"To put it simply, it's the spirit and the body. If one is too strong, it will drive the growth of the other. After you performed blood alchemy, your body grew to the level of a low-level apprentice. The difference between the spirit and the body is too great, so your spirit also increased."

Richard suddenly realized after hearing this.
"I see. Doesn't that mean that if the knight's body is strong enough, it can also improve his mental strength?"

"That's the theory." Chucks nodded, "But the upper limit of the human body is too low. Even if you reach the limit and become a so-called high-level knight, your physical fitness is only 29 points.

Compared to a wizard's meditation, this method of increasing strength is too inefficient.

Junior brother, how long did it take you to complete a blood alchemy? In just one or two hours, you have achieved results that some knights would take decades to achieve.

Moreover, the spiritual power must be connected to the sea of ​​souls to be fully released. If the knight has not reached a high level, the spiritual power brought by the feedback effect can only be regarded as potential. "

Richard thought about it and realized that the facts were indeed as Chucks said.

"Junior brother, don't think that you can increase your spiritual power by relying on your physical fitness. The feedback effect requires a huge difference between your spiritual power and your physical body. For example, your current spiritual power is that of a low-level apprentice, but your physical fitness has reached the standard of a mid-level apprentice. Only then will the feedback effect appear. If you become a wizard, this effect will become that of a first-ring wizard or a second-ring wizard."

As he said that, Chucks suddenly walked up to Richard and patted him on the shoulder.

"Our mentor has connections with many alchemy wizards. As long as you can become his official disciple, it is not impossible to cleanse your current bloodline and replace it with a more complete bloodline formula."

Apparently, Chucks treated Richard as an apprentice who was performing blood alchemy recklessly.

Richard forced a smile upon hearing this, and vowed in his heart that he would mix some substances into the Miracle Furnace whenever he used it to refine substances.

"Okay, Chucks, you go aside for now. Whether or not you will enter the alchemy school depends on Richard's own ideas."

Anna pulled Chucks aside, leaving Richard alone to think. Choosing a mentor is a serious matter, and the academy has extremely strict regulations on changing mentors. If an apprentice rashly changes mentors, it is likely that no mentor in the academy will be willing to accept him.

A few minutes later, Richard took a deep breath and looked at Anna firmly.

"Huh, I'm sure."

"I want to join the alchemy school and become a student under Master Qiaoluode."

"Okay, I'll take you to see the instructor right away."

Anna clapped her hands and immediately pulled Richard to the upper level of the black tower.

On the ninety-ninth floor of the Central Black Tower, the alchemical wizard Joe Lord was intensively conducting his own synthetic beast experiments.

As the wizard with the highest alchemical attainments in the Black Tower Wizarding Academy, he owns the best-protected laboratory in the entire Central Black Tower.

In this laboratory, unless the central black tower collapses, his experiments will not be disturbed at all.

"Roar! Roar!"

Looking at the synthetic beast whose body was gradually collapsing in front of him, Qiao Luode, who had failed for a month in a row, rubbed his brows and casually summoned a ball of fire to burn the remains of the synthetic beast to ashes.

"What exactly is the problem? What is missing from the notes the teacher gave me?"

Qiao Luode walked to the desk and looked at his lab notes with a headache.

dong dong dong.

"Come in."

The door opened and Anna led Richard into the laboratory.

As soon as he entered the laboratory, Richard instantly felt a strong sense of shackles, as if something was suppressing his magic power.

He looked around. The entire laboratory was made of black bricks engraved with runes. Although there were several magic lights on the ceiling, the entire laboratory was still very dim.

In the center of the laboratory was a black stone table, which divided the laboratory into two parts. On the right side of the laboratory were iron racks filled with glass containers of various shapes filled with yellow liquids, and those liquids were soaking organs and glands of various shapes.

On the other side, which is the left side of the laboratory, the walls on both sides are covered with various anatomical atlases, and in the middle of these atlases is a huge bookshelf filled with various books, notes and even manuscripts, which looks very messy.

There is a table in front of the bookshelf, and at this moment a white-haired old man is standing there thinking hard.

"Teacher, I have discovered a genius in alchemy."

Anna brought Richard to the old man and placed the bottle of red mercury on the test bench.

Wizard Joelod, this alchemist who recruits many apprentices looks no different from an ordinary old man, with gray hair, a thick beard, and a face full of wrinkles.

But this is just appearance.

Richard noticed that there seemed something unusual about Joe Lord's eyes. There was something deep in his eyeballs. It seemed to be... tiny compound eyes!
Qiaoluode opened the bottle and used the magic thread to bring out a drop of red mercury.

"Hmm? This purity... is quite impressive."

He activated the red mercury casually, and after determining its power, he stared at Richard with his eyes.

In an instant, Richard seemed to be seen through. That gaze seemed to penetrate his clothes, skin, muscles, bones, and even his soul.

"Bloodline Alchemy, just became a low-level apprentice. With this ability, he can refine red mercury of this purity. He can indeed be called a genius."

Qiao Luode withdrew his gaze and made two comments in a flat tone.

"Anna, you brought him here because you want him to be your junior apprentice. I believe in your vision, but you still have to go through the necessary procedures."

Then, Joe Lode opened the drawer of the table and took out a crystal ball without even looking at it.

"Make this thing, and you'll be qualified."

(End of this chapter)