The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 230 Magical Blue Flame

The Forerunner's testing site was larger than Richard had imagined. In the lava sea thousands of kilometers wide, lived semi-elemental creatures of all sizes and of different species.

From thumb-sized magma sardines, basin-sized magma jellyfish, to more than ten-meter-long fire monitors, and more than a hundred-meter-long magma whales, it can be said that there is a full range of them from small to large.

These semi-elemental creatures all have the blood of fire elemental creatures in their bodies, which allows them to survive and reproduce in the magma sea. They form a complete biosphere in this magma sea area, and the various exquisite designs almost make Richard think that this is a natural formation - if there were no crystal pillars of the forerunners standing in this area.

In this sea area of ​​thousands of kilometers, there are many crystal pillars of various sizes, which is an important basis for Ulysses to believe that this is the remains of the forerunners.

In addition, the nearly perfect body structure of these semi-elemental creatures also supports the view that they are artificially designed.

It is impossible for naturally evolved organisms to be without redundant structures, which may have provided some necessary help to the organisms in the past. However, as the organisms evolve, when they no longer need this structure, the structure will not disappear immediately, but will degenerate little by little.

These redundant structures are completely redundant for modern organisms, just like adding an unnecessary component to a precision instrument, which greatly destroys the beauty of the biological structure.

But these creatures didn't.

After Richard dissected these creatures, he found that the body structures were completely non-redundant. Every organ and every system was extremely necessary, and the lack of any one of them would trigger a chain reaction.

Moreover, when the pioneers designed these creatures, they all followed the aesthetics of symmetry. The body structure of almost every creature is symmetrical.

Research, search, research, search...

Richard spent a full ten years like this. The creations of the forerunners were simply works of art. These exquisite creatures were enough to drive any alchemist who had studied flesh and blood crazy.

In the past ten years, Richard has collected more than 3,000 specimens, and on average he can find new creatures almost every day. From the bottom of the food chain to the top of the food chain, Richard has collected them all.

During this process, Richard's understanding of semi-elemental creatures continued to deepen and his knowledge continued to accumulate.

Of course, in this process, Richard was also constantly looking for the source of the mutation of the fire lizard.

But to be honest, after ten years of not finding anything, Richard himself was starting to get discouraged.

Perhaps there is no source of mutation at all, or perhaps the source of mutation has disappeared.

……

"Huh, are you sure you don't want to look for it anymore?" Ulysses looked at Richard and asked doubtfully.

Richard had only been searching underground for ten years. Although this time sounds exaggerated, for a wizard with a lifespan of several thousand years, it would only be about two or three months.

"I won't look for it anymore," Richard waved his hand and said, "I have collected specimens of almost all the creatures in this biosphere, so there is no point in staying here any longer.

And my physical condition has almost reached its limit.”

Over the past ten years, Richard has also been using the extreme conditions of the lava sea to train his physical fitness. Over the past ten years, Richard's physical fitness has improved by twenty points.

This is the limit of what Richard can currently achieve in the lava sea.

If Richard wants to go further, he needs to dive deeper into the magma, but the deeper the magma layer, the stronger the erosion of the fire element. Richard's adaptive body is completely unable to cope with the erosion of the fire element deep in the magma.

"Gah, you're the boss, you decide."

Ulysses was lying lazily in the bird's nest, with several holy tree elves around him controlling the mycelium to give him a massage.

In the canon compiled by Ulysses, he is Richard's servant god and the guide of the holy tree spirits, so the holy tree spirits have no objection to serving Ulysses and even think it is an honor.

Almost all of the sacred tree elves are Richard's fanatics.

But Richard didn't bother with these. The power of faith was a life-saving talisman for him now, and his strength growth still followed the wizard's system.

Opening the secret rift, Richard began to swim upstream.

There is a rock wall above the lava sea. Once Richard finds the rock wall, he can use magic to return to the ground.

However, after ten years of exploration, Richard was somewhat disoriented. He didn't know what the area above his head was. Was it an area controlled by wizards? Or was it the territory of the Salamanders?

While floating up, Richard's body was constantly emitting waves of magical power.

These magical fluctuations come from a creature named Magma Dolphin by Richard. This creature can continuously emit energy waves to explore the surrounding environment like a bat.

Richard learned about energy waves from its body structure and used his wizard skills to simulate it.

But just as Richard continued to surface, the news from the magic wave showed some problems.

Near him, there seemed to be a black hole that swallowed up magic power.
Richard's mind moved, and he immediately swam in the direction of the detection.

Half an hour later, Richard looked at the magma mixed with blue flames in front of him and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"What an idiot I am! I have been searching down there for so long. Why couldn't I look for it up there? This fire lizard could have mutated when it was young."

Richard stretched open the magic barrier, opened the secret crack and pulled Ulysses out.

"Gah, what's going on...you found that thing!"

When Ulysses saw the magma in front of him, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Found it. I've been looking for it underground for ten years. I even thought the source of mutation was at the bottom of the magma sea, but I didn't expect this thing to be on the surface." Richard's tone was full of emotion. The source of mutation was nowhere to be found when he was looking for it, but he gave up and found it instead.

Ulysses led the way, and Richard soon saw the source of the blue flame - a ball of blue flame wrapped in fire element crystals.

The fire element crystal wrapped around the flame looks very regular, like a crystal ball, which is probably the container of the flame before, and then the product of being eroded by the fire element. This flame should be an experiment of the forerunners, but after the forerunners disappeared, the laboratory was destroyed, and finally this experiment was able to see the light of day again.

Richard tried to retract the flame, but the fire element erosion of the magma sea made his magic hand extremely unstable. In addition, the extremely high temperature blue flames in the surrounding magma made him retract his hand.

"Ulises, you should take him back. It's not easy for me to use the sealing technique in the magma sea."

"Gah, I knew it." Ulises said helplessly.

Ulysses stretched out his bird claws, grabbed the flame crystal wrapped in blue flames, then opened the secret realm rift and threw it in.

Richard then returned to the secret realm.

In the secret realm, this flame crystal wrapped in blue flames is supported by the mycelium tentacles of the World Mushroom, and blue flames flash in the air from time to time.

After leaving Ulysses' protection, Richard could clearly feel a strong energy radiation from the flame.

This radiation shone on his body, causing his skin to itch constantly. Richard scratched his skin with his hands, and his skin, which had been strengthened by the dragon skin toughening glands, was scratched with several bloody marks.

His epidermal cells actually began to collapse under this radiation.

"Such strong radiation."

Richard exclaimed, and countless rune chains emerged from his hands. These chains wrapped up the fire element crystal, and within a few tens of seconds, a layer of green ice crystal shell formed outside the fire element crystal.

Looking at the blue flames in the blue frost, Richard couldn't help but smile.

This is a good thing.

According to the abilities of the mutant fire lizard and the inference from the previous investigation, this ball of blue flame has at least two functions: ultra-high temperature and energy burning. Moreover, judging from the situation just now, this flame cup also has strong radiation.

This radiation should be the reason why the fire lizard mutates.

Ulises entered the secret realm and casually landed on Richard's shoulder.

"Gah, this flame looks good. It feels stronger than my Flame of Destruction. You have found a treasure this time."

Richard glanced at him and asked, "Is it the original version of the Flame of Darkness, or the Flame of Darkness that you improved upon?"

Ulises looked at Richard as if he were an idiot. "Gah, of course it's an improved version. The original version of the Flame of Destruction is just an ordinary bloodline talent of our race. Although our Destruction Crows are powerful, in terms of racial talent, they are barely usable."

"Oh, so powerful?"

Richard's eyes lit up. He didn't expect Ulysses to have such a high opinion of this flame.

"Gah, if it wasn't so powerful, that big lizard wouldn't have nearly destroyed my body. I guess the reason why the lizard's body could reach this state was because of the help of the flame."

Richard looked at the sealed flame with some surprise, and a hint of fanaticism flashed through his heart.

He wanted to study the flame now.

But soon, Richard's reason suppressed his frenzy.

Richard said calmly, "Maybe, but this thing is a bit too dangerous. I have to find a laboratory with sufficient protection to study it."

"Hey, if you don't need it now, how about lending it to me for two days?" Ulysses said.

"Hmm?" Richard looked at Ulysses. This was in addition to the supplies that Ulysses asked him for to recover from his soul injuries.

"for you."

Richard casually threw the sealed blue flame to Ulysses.

"Gah, so straightforward." Ulises was a little surprised. "Given your temper, you must be asking me what I'm doing with this thing now."

"That's not necessary." Richard waved his hand and said indifferently, "We have known each other for a long time, so we still have some trust."

Ulises looked at Richard suspiciously: "Gah, why do I feel that it's because you don't understand this stuff, and you don't understand the Lord of the World. So when I say what I want to do, you can't tell the truth from the false?"

Richard's face froze. He was discovered so quickly.

But it seems that doesn't stop Richard from being stubborn.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Richard frowned and said righteously, "We have been friends for hundreds of years, and we are comrades who fought side by side.

You are really judging others by your own standards."

Ulises looked at Richard again, but in the end he said nothing more.

Their contract lasts for ten thousand years, so there is still a long time to come.

(End of this chapter)