The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 246 An unexpected gain

A sky full of fireballs rushed in from the distant sky like meteors. They drew fiery tracks in the sky, flashing heart-pounding red light.

They were like a world-destroying rain of fire, with suffocating heat waves suddenly falling towards the group of fire lizards that were chasing them closely below.

The fire lizards were already in a somewhat disorganized formation due to the pursuit, and they were completely defeated by the sudden fireball attack. The huge impact force and the raging turbulence of fire elements devoured everything mercilessly. The fire lizards fled in panic, but the continuous fireballs left them with nowhere to hide.

The air was filled with the smell of burning and the sharp howling of salamanders, and the whole scene seemed to have turned into hell on earth.

The captain looked at all this in a daze, and at this moment he suddenly understood why Crystal Ball Zero kept repeating not to slow down.

If they slowed down a bit, the rain of fire would cover more than just the salamanders.

Did the command send an entire legion to support them?

At the source of the fireball, Richard, wearing Eagle Vision glasses, quietly watched the effect of the spell support vehicle.

In thirty seconds, the two teams fired a total of 36,000 fireballs, almost equivalent to the spell concentration of a legion of white wizards.

And his price was only three hundred magic essences.

The other alchemist wizards who were watching this scene had disbelief on their faces. They had only learned how to operate and repair the spell support vehicle.

This is their first actual combat.

Before the actual combat, they had anticipated this new weapon in their minds, but none of them had imagined that the effect of the concentrated fire from the spell support vehicle would be so terrifying.

"Everyone, come back to your senses."

Richard's slightly proud voice woke the alchemy wizards from their shock. They looked at Richard with surprise and... respect in their eyes.

This respect is not because of Richard's strength. There are many second-ring alchemy wizards among this group of alchemy wizards.

They respected Richard's wisdom, and were deeply impressed by the firepower of the magic support vehicle. In this era when wizard academies are all military academies, the pursuit of weapons is engraved in the bones of every alchemist wizard.

"Master Richard."

"Master Richard."

"Master Richard."

...The alchemists present gave Richard a wizard salute. The words "Master Richard" were no longer just a courtesy, but a respect from the heart. However, Richard felt a little embarrassed.

In his opinion, he was just lucky. In terms of real talent and knowledge, the alchemists present were probably better than him.

After all, he is only about three hundred years old.

"Master Richard, what should we do next?" asked a wizard.

"Ahem, you don't have to do this." Richard said with a little embarrassment, "I am just a technical consultant, responsible for dealing with those difficult-to-repair faults. You should do what you did during training.

I feel a little embarrassed for all of you guys doing this."

The wizards burst into laughter upon hearing this, and began to follow the training process.

The first support mission of the spell support convoy was successfully completed.

……

The situation of the war was constantly changing. In the early stage, the Salamanders' attack on the dark wizards caused the wizards to lose their intelligence advantage, which made the wizards who were used to the intelligence advantage somewhat uncomfortable. The result of this discomfort was that the weak points of the defense line were broken by the Salamanders.

But every wizard in the command center was a veteran of many battles, and after experiencing the defeat in the early stages of the war, they immediately began to make amends.

According to the Salamanders' plan, these breaches should have led to the collapse of the entire defense line. But the wizards had obviously anticipated this possibility, and under the command of the headquarters, the second line of defense behind the first line of defense was quickly put into use, greatly slowing down the Salamanders' advance.

Although the Salamander's plan to collapse the defense line was indeed successful, it seemed that it had not been successful in terms of its purpose.

Although they regained a lot of lost territory, the wizard's defense did not collapse.

The fortress cities where wizards had invested huge manpower and were armed to the teeth were like sharp thorns, constantly bleeding the already weak Salamander Empire.

For a while, the war fell into a strange stalemate.

The Salamanders began to re-plan their offensive, while the wizards consolidated the second line of defense and began to build the third line of defense.

No one knows how long this stalemate will last. It could be tomorrow, a week later, or they could be notified the next second and a new round of war would begin.

This stalemate was a rare period of leisure for Richard's battlefield fire brigade.

The performance of the battlefield fire brigade was spread by word of mouth among the wizards who were supported. They praised it as a wonderful weapon and said that the legion leaders had a keen eye for talent. Naturally, this performance was passed on to the headquarters through various channels.

Therefore, the tasks performed by the battlefield fire brigade during this period have become increasingly critical.

After all, the Legion only procured a limited number of spellcasting components, and it was unrealistic to ask Richard to produce a large number of spellcasting components on short notice.

Therefore, the command center adheres to the principle of using the best steel on the blade, and makes the tasks performed by the battlefield fire brigade more dangerous than the last.

Before entering the stalemate phase, the battlefield fire brigade had already been dispatched twelve times, and the remaining casting parts were enough for three teams to be dispatched once.

Therefore, most members of the team have returned to the White Wizard Team. At this juncture, every wizard is crucial.

In the parking lot, Richard was lying on the cockpit of the magic support vehicle, basking in the sun leisurely.

It is now December in the Chiyang World. There is only one sun in the sky this month, and the intensity of sunlight is very suitable for sunbathing.

"Gah, that guy is looking at you again." Ulysses was lying next to Richard, on a recliner made of mycelium.

"Who, Damir?"

"Gah, that's the boy."

Since their last conversation was interrupted by the mission, Damir has never looked for Richard again, and Richard is happy and at ease.

Richard frowned slightly: "What is this guy going to do?"

"Gah, God knows. Why don't you go over and ask?"

"That's it."

Not far from Richard, Damir was organizing his thoughts during this period, trying to explain his purpose to Richard in a few words.

He pulled a bottle of potion from his pocket, drank it in one gulp, and then strode towards Richard. But before he had taken a few steps, Richard suddenly appeared in the shadows in front of him.

"Damir, what do you want from me?"

Damir was stunned. Why did Master Richard come here by himself? Could it be that Master Richard had been paying attention to him all along?

"Master Richard, do you remember that I wanted to tell you an idea last time..."

Richard waved his hand and interrupted rudely, "Let's stop talking nonsense and get straight to the point. What is your purpose?"

"Uh... to put it simply, I want to ask you for academic funding."

“Academic funding?”

Richard was stunned for a moment. The so-called academic funding was the investment of the wizarding society. Although many wizards had good ideas, they did not dare to enter the plane battlefield to make big money due to their own strength problems. Naturally, their research came to a standstill due to lack of financial support.

At this time, if the wizard still wants to continue his research, he needs to find an academic sponsor, that is, a financial sponsor. Then he will tell the academic sponsor about his ideas and the results that may be achieved in the end, that is, he will paint a big picture to attract academic sponsors to invest.

Academic sponsors often sign a contract with wizards, in which the sponsors will pay the wizards a large amount of magic essence in one go or in batches, and the wizards will need to share the results of their research with the academic sponsors after the research is completed.

The reason why Richard was stunned was very simple. This kind of funding was usually provided by large wizarding guilds. His was a small guild that had just been established and the profit was so little, so where would he get the spare money to support others?

Besides, Damir himself has gone to the battlefield, so his research must cost a lot of money, so he needs to find another academic sponsor.

"Uh, Damir, I think you are wrong about our Chamber of Commerce..."

"Master, please don't rush to refuse. Take a look at my results first."

As Damir spoke, he took out a metal sphere with a human head from his pocket. The surface of the metal sphere was engraved with dense runes, and at both ends, two magic spirits were providing energy to the sphere.

"Master, please take a look at this."

Richard took the ball and used his mental power to explore what the metal ball was.

But this exploration frightened Richard so much that his hands trembled and he almost dropped the thing.

There were two highly concentrated water and fire elements in this metal sphere. These two elements were isolated by a thick magic barrier and did not undergo an annihilation reaction. However, given the concentration of the two elements, if a reaction occurred, both he and Damir next to him would evaporate instantly.

Richard carefully returned the metal ball to Damir and asked him to put it back in his pocket.

"Is this what you want to show me? A big bomb that uses the annihilation reaction of water and fire?"

Richard wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and immediately called Ulysses to his side using mental messaging.

Although Damir's protection was adequate, Richard was still frightened.

"Yes, Master, this thing is beautiful, isn't it?" Damir said excitedly, "Master, I have found a very good way to concentrate these two elements to an astonishing concentration. The next step is to get the rune array to isolate these two elements..."

"stop."

Richard raised his hand, interrupted Damir who was talking nonstop, and took out an annihilation bomb from his pocket.

"Take a look at this first."

Damir took the annihilation bomb with confusion, and then an expression of astonishment appeared on his face.

"This, this, this..."

Damir pointed at the annihilation bomb and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

"This is a little gadget I made when I was an apprentice," Richard said lightly, "My rune attainments were not good enough at that time, so I used physical materials to restrain it.

From the effect point of view, it is quite good, but the killing range is a bit small. "

Damir felt as if his brain was smoking. He had never considered the simple solution of abandoning the rune array and using physical material constraints in the past few hundred years.

But this is not his problem, most wizards have path dependence on runes.

Richard took back the annihilation bomb and woke Damir up from his daze.

"But your method of concentrating elements is quite interesting. How about we discuss it in detail after the war?"

Richard has been unable to get the cost of the annihilation bomb to a reasonable price, and the appearance of Damir gave him a new idea.

Since the cost cannot be reduced, why not try to increase the power of the annihilation bomb?
(End of this chapter)