The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 241 The Puppet State’s Thoughts

After leaving Bob, Richard successfully exchanged that piece of flesh and blood for a bunch of things he liked.

Including but not limited to the restricted research rights to all alchemical swords before the end of the war, a fist-sized flame gem of exceptional quality, the heart of a third-level fire lizard, and the body of a second-level dragon sorcerer.

The reason why Richard could exchange these things was not only because the flesh and blood in his hands were of high quality, but also because this kind of flesh and blood was rare.

Scarcity makes things valuable. As long as something is rare enough and useful enough, no matter how much money the Wizarding Chamber of Commerce loses from Richard, it can earn it back from other wizards.

Of course, the premise is that Richard does not ship in large quantities.

Richard currently has plenty of magic power on hand, and for the time being he has no intention of doing anything that would harm others and benefit himself.

After leaving the commercial district, Richard asked around and finally found the location of Vladimir's position.

Vladimir cared so much about him, so it was only right for him to say hello when he came back.

……

The war has been going on for twenty years. In such a long time, the decisive battle of the Zerg World has been fought, and what remains is the great wizard leading a group of white wizards to bully the weak.

In the Chiyang world, the war has just entered a sit-in phase.

The relatively small number of wizards compared to fire lizards means that the area they can control is very limited. Although the wizards have built many fortress defenses on the borders of the controlled area, any discerning person can see that the wizards are actually short of numbers now.

On the border, hundreds of thousands of fire lizards enter the wizard-controlled area from some corners every day. Some of these fire lizards are elite teams of the Fire Lizard Empire. They enter the wizard-controlled area to gather intelligence or imitate dark wizards to carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. But the vast majority of fire lizards are ordinary fire lizards.

War costs money.

Twenty years of war forced the Salamander Empire to exploit its people to maintain its huge military expenditures. In addition, the dark wizards deliberately allowed some trash to come to power within the Salamander Empire, resulting in riots of varying degrees within these empires.

Harsh taxes and corrupt officials have led some salamanders to risk their lives and come to wizard-controlled areas rather than live within the empire.

And the wizard was indeed too lazy to clean up these fire lizards that were not even at level one.

Then a ridiculous scene appeared: the fire lizards actually lived better in the hands of the wizard who was preparing to exterminate them.

Richard was looking at a fire lizard village not far from him. The fire lizard children in the village were playing, and in the fields near the village, many adult fire lizards were cultivating the land.

In this land not illuminated by the King of Fire Lizards, the fire dragon grass grows better.

Richard watched the scene carefully, and a vague idea began to take shape in his mind.

Why don't wizards try to support a kingdom of Salamanders as puppets?

Wizards don't need these low-level fire lizards to do anything, but the Fire Lizard Empire does. If these low-level fire lizards can be allowed to come to the wizard-controlled area, the combat effectiveness of the Fire Lizard Empire will undoubtedly be reduced.

A wizard can even train his own army of fire lizards and let the fire lizards fight each other.

In this way, the losses of wizards will definitely be reduced, and the speed of the war will also increase.

Anyway, the nobles are just assholes that don't discriminate based on race, and wizards can totally take advantage of that.

The tactic of supporting puppet states was used by all the great powers in his previous life.

Leaving above the village, Richard soon arrived at Vladimir's position.

In this battlefield composed of war fortresses and alchemical machinery, there is a small city of fire lizards. Now the city has been transformed by the White Wizard Corps into a group of fortresses, alchemical weapons, and magic array traps, which is absolutely a tough nut to crack.

Richard's face was still very useful in the army of the Great Wizard Qingshuang. The final battle in the Hive World made Richard known to many wizards, so Richard had no obstacles in identifying his identity.

After entering the fortress city, Richard, under the guidance of the White Wizard, found Vladimir who was fiddling with the magic stone cannon.

"Master Equipment Master, Master Richard is here to see you."

"Don't bother me... Who do you think is coming to see me?"

Vladimir looked up suddenly and saw Richard in a black robe looking at him with a smile.

"Master, long time no see."

Vladimir stood up, walked over to Richard and looked left and right.

"Good boy, you managed to come back safe and sound after being chased by a patrol. Even I can't do that."

Richard smiled and said, "Master, you are too kind. It's just that the environment is just right."

Vladimir narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems that you have consumed a lot of magic essence for this order. I think your progress in the adaptive body thing should be quite high."

When Richard heard this, he immediately understood why Vladimir was so sure that he could come back.

The adaptability of the body to the elements allowed Richard to escape through the lava network. Vladimir and Jorod were old acquaintances, so they naturally knew the effect of the body of adaptation. Combined with the lava pool on the red soil plain, it was normal for him to escape.

“Haha, that’s quite a lot indeed.”

After a few pleasantries, Richard began to tell Vladimir about an idea that came to him on the road. If this idea could be put into practice, it would definitely improve the efficiency of the war.

But after hearing this, Vladimir frowned and took a deep puff of his pipe.

"It's a good idea. No wonder Qiao Luode said you have so many clever ideas. But..."

Vladimir changed the subject: "Someone has proposed your idea before, but after a few wars, this method was abandoned by the great wizard."

"Ah?" Richard was a little dumbfounded. Could it be that there were some loopholes in this plan that he hadn't discovered?

Vladimir tapped his pipe:

"It's very simple. Although this method can quickly end the war, for a great wizard, is the speed of the war important?"

Richard looked at the surrounding bunkers and the magic array traps that were set up.

These are all money.

If the war ends soon, we won't have to spend this money.

"Haha, how much does it cost to set up a position?" Vladimir saw Richard's thoughts and sneered, "This amount is much less than what the great wizard would pay to hire wizards.

To the great wizard, the speed of the war is not important at all.

Wars nowadays are very fast. A small world can be conquered in more than a hundred years. For a great wizard, this amount of time is not even long enough to take a nap.

Moreover, this plan will inevitably leave behind a relatively intact society after the war.

This is a time bomb for wizards.

You have to understand that we are invaders after all. Under this premise, the actions of the indigenous people against us are inherently correct.

Even if you think you've been good enough to these natives."

As he spoke, Vladimir pinched a pinch of tobacco into his pipe and lit it with magic.

"Besides, we can't be nice to these natives. We are wizards, not saviors. We started the plane expedition for resources and slaves. Instead of spending so much time preparing a time bomb around us, we might as well just crush these natives completely.

After we grind them, we can knead them any way we want.”

Vladimir was indeed an experienced wizard. He pointed out a lot of problems in Richard's idea. After listening to him, Richard felt that his plan was useless to the great wizard.

"But this plan is also somewhat useful." Vladimir felt that his words were a bit too hurtful, so he added, "If it is a newly promoted great wizard, this method is quite good. Newly promoted great wizards are poor, and this method can hire fewer wizards, which can alleviate the economic pressure of the great wizard."

Richard sighed a little depressed: "Master, don't comfort me, I took it for granted."

Vladimir raised an eyebrow and changed the subject to the spell support vehicle.

Now that Richard is back, it’s time to put a design optimization plan on the agenda based on the situation of the spell support vehicle on the battlefield.

Vladimir did not forget his promise. He remembered clearly that he had promised to help Richard improve some minor problems.

"The magic support vehicles performed well on the battlefield. Our four vehicles fired at full capacity at once and killed dozens of fire lizards. One of the second-level fire lizards was also seriously injured. If the number of magic support vehicles can be increased, the effect of the magic support vehicles will naturally increase.

The main problem with the magic support vehicle is mobility."

Richard took out a dozen manuscript papers from his pocket. In recent years, when he had nothing to do, he was also thinking about the optimization of the spell support vehicle. These manuscript papers were the results of his optimization.

Vladimir took the manuscript and began to read it, nodding slightly after each page. After reading the entire manuscript, Vladimir took out a feather pen from his pocket, then took out a few pages of manuscript and revised some things on them.

After finishing the revision, Vladimir returned the manuscript to Richard:
“It’s well optimized, but there are still some areas where it can be better.”

Richard glanced at the changes made by Vladimir and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

The experienced old wizard is really amazing. He spent so much time to come up with the optimization plan, but he only took a short look at it and came up with a better solution.

"Thank you, Master." Richard said respectfully.

Vladimir waved his hand and said indifferently: "I will definitely not break my promise to you."

After returning from the front line, Richard began to upgrade the magic support vehicles that had been delivered. Richard only provided technical support, and the material costs were provided by the legion.

The spell support vehicle has been tested and Richard's life has become peaceful.

After upgrading more than 400 spell support vehicles, Richard plunged into the laboratory.

There were many things he could do. He could get the top-grade flame gem from Bob to replace the cane head, and he could refine the tree patterns and skills on the alchemical swords. He also needed to modify the Forerunner technology, obtain the blue flame from the magma sea, and study the flesh and blood of the mutant flame beast.

Summarizing his own gains, Richard couldn't help but sigh:
"Plane War is a great place to make a fortune!"

(End of this chapter)