The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 267: Truth, Treat Every Living Being Equally

The battle ended somewhat anticlimactically, but the outcome was already very clear.

The last hope of the Salamanders, Morik the Salamander King, was defeated.

At the entrance of the mine, the miners who were called up by Richard had sad faces. They knew that there was absolutely no hope for the Salamanders.

Richard, who was standing aside, watched this scene and nodded imperceptibly.

This is the effect he wants.

He knew that before this, these fire lizards still held unrealistic fantasies in their hearts, believing that the Fire Lizard King could lead them again to expel the wizards.

But now, that fantasy is shattered.

After seeing Morik running away, a younger Salamander suddenly pulled out a knife from his belt and stabbed himself in the neck.

"Herald, what are you doing!?"

The surrounding fire lizards saw this and immediately tried to stop the young fire lizard from doing something stupid. But before they could do anything, they saw Helaer's body frozen in place, with a magic chain coming out from under his feet, binding him so that he couldn't move.

The Salamander looked at Richard, and Richard silently withdrew his finger and said calmly:

“Suicide is such a stupid thing.

When I accepted you, I told you to give up those unrealistic fantasies and work hard to live a good life in the present.

Apparently some of you didn’t take that to heart.”

The salamanders looked at Richard in silence. At Richard's reminder, they recalled what Richard said when he brought them to the mine.

"When you come here, work hard and give up your unrealistic fantasies. Working for me is definitely ten times better than working under the Salamander nobles."

At that time, they just ignored these words.

Now, these whispers have turned into a storm.

Richard moved his fingers to remove the spell on Helar, and the surrounding fire lizards took the opportunity to snatch the knife from his hand.

After failing in his suicide attempt, Helar covered his face and cried bitterly. His crying soon spread to the entire mine. Even Heskan, a loyal lackey to the wizard, felt sad.

Given a choice, who would want to be a lackey?

Richard watched this scene in silence; this was what war between races was like.

"Heskan, we have half a day off today. The dinner will remain the same, and there will still be unlimited supply of Flame Monster meat."

Heskan was stunned when he heard this, looked at Richard in confusion, then lowered his head and said:
"Yes, sir. You treat us better than our own kind."

Richard smiled and said nothing more.

These fire lizards are not just miners. In the future they will also be responsible for making potions and forming dragon riders.

If he doesn't win over the hearts of the people at this moment, how can he carry out his subsequent plans?

He took a box of Red Sun Gold-veined Stone from the warehouse and turned around to enter the secret realm.

With Richard's development over the years, the secret realm has changed a lot.

The center of the secret realm is still the World Mushroom, but outside the World Mushroom's cap, an invisible line divides the secret realm into two.

To the east of the secret realm is the territory of the Holy Tree Elves. These Holy Tree Elves cultivate flowers and magical plants here. On the other side, several huge alchemy machines connected to conveyor belts occupy nearly half of the space. Several Fire Lizard Alchemy Masters and hundreds of Fire Lizard Alchemy Apprentices work in three shifts on the conveyor belts.

In these years, the Salamander Alchemy Workshop planned by Richard has already taken shape. He has spent a lot of magic essence in these years to exchange for Salamanders who know alchemy from other wizards.

The alchemy workshop in the secret realm gradually expanded from a few fire lizard alchemy masters to the current assembly line.

However, this alchemy workshop can only produce some things with relatively low technical content at present, such as the pickaxe used by fire lizards for mining and some mechanical parts on spell support vehicles.

There was no sign of mass production of the armor plates planned by Richard.

However, he was mentally prepared for this. Things with such high technical content would definitely not be able to be produced on an assembly line for quite a long time.

Richard carried the box and strode to the other half of the alchemy workshop.

These spaces are the Salamanders' dormitories and material warehouses. Richard threw the Red Sun Gold Stone into the warehouse, turned around and found a Salamander Alchemy Master.

"Tarhe, I got the Red Sun Gold Stone. What do you want these things for?"

Talhe was inspecting the work area at the moment, and the noisy crosstalk of the alchemical machinery forced Richard to use his mind to communicate with Talhe.

When Talhe saw Richard, he immediately bowed and then asked Richard to leave the work area.

There is a soundproof magic circle in the rest area of ​​the fire lizards. As soon as Richard entered the rest area, his ears suddenly became quiet.

"Lord Richard, you brought the things, right?" Talhe said loudly, and his voice made Richard's scalp numb.

Due to staying in the work area for a long time, Talhe's voice has become very loud when he speaks, and when talking at close range, the sound can even rival the sonic magic of some wizard apprentices.

"Keep your voice down, I can hear you." Richard said helplessly.
Then he took out a small piece of Red Sun Gold-veined Stone from his pocket and handed it to Talhe.

"What do you want this for? Can it be used to make alloys?"

In Dragon Alchemy, alloy is the most basic skill. Although Dragon Alchemy can change the properties of metals, this change has its limits. And different materials have different limits in different aspects.

Therefore, making alloys has become the most basic skill in dragon alchemy.

"You can try your idea, sir. I have never tried to make alloys with this thing."

Talhe lowered his voice a little, but it was still loud. "Let's talk business!"

Seeing that Richard was a little angry, Talhe hurried to his bedside and took out a box filled with soft mycelium. In the box was not any rare treasure, but an ordinary ink bottle.

"Sir, please take a look at this. I made it with the Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone you brought earlier."

Richard took the ink bottle with some doubt and opened it. A strong fire element instantly gushed out of the ink bottle, almost burning Richard's eyebrows.

Richard looked towards Talhe, only to see the foolish fire lizard laugh awkwardly and say, "Haha, the fire element was released. It was an accident. It was a pure accident."

Richard used magic to get a drop of liquid out of the bottle.

The liquid looked bright red like blood and emitted a hot smell.

"what is this?"

"My Lord, this is ink."

"ink?"

Richard was startled, and then he took out a feather pen from his pocket, dipped it in ink, and then injected magic into the pen. The magic flowed along the pen shaft and mixed with the ink, igniting a flame at the tip of the pen.

Richard took out a metal plate from his pocket and began to draw runes on it with a feather pen burning with fire. The feather pen slid gently on the metal plate, leaving a clear flame trail where the tip of the pen passed.

As Richard drew the final stroke, a flaming rune took shape on the metal plate.

Richard injected magic power into the rune. Under the effect of the magic power, the flame of the rune gradually became stronger and finally maintained a very dazzling intensity.

At this intensity, the runes are operating at full capacity.

But before long, the flame on the rune began to dim and eventually disappeared.

"Incredible, this is incredible."

Richard looked at the rune, and the expression on his face changed from astonishment to horror.

Talhe actually created an alchemical ink that requires wizard alchemy to make successfully!
This fire lizard actually managed to steal fire, just like the wizard ancestors did.

"how did you do it."

Richard suppressed the shock in his heart and asked in his calmest tone.

Talhe scratched his chin and said with some embarrassment on his face:
"I'm not sure, sir. You know that we tried to produce ink before. Although it didn't work, there are still some leftover materials in the warehouse. I was drunk that day and had nothing to do, so I took some and prepared them according to the process of making ink.

But to prepare this ink, doesn’t it require your alchemy array?

I had drunk a little too much at the time, so I activated the alchemy array component that you had made earlier. I don't remember how I activated it, but I did.

I don’t remember much about what happened next, but when I woke up, this thing was done.”

After listening to Talhe's words, Richard rubbed his frown. Talhe didn't seem to be lying.

This thing was probably something he made while drunk.

This fire lizard is really lucky. It did it without any accidents and even produced a finished product.

Throwing aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, Richard said to Talhe in a firm tone:

"Very good, this thing of yours is very useful. I will provide you with an unlimited supply of Red Sun Gold Stone. Don't be busy with other things now. Come up with the formula of this bottle of ink and the production process as soon as possible.

Once the stuff is ready, I'll give you a half-year vacation!"

Talhe was stunned when he heard this, and immediately said happily: "Yes, sir!"

He didn't expect that something he made while drunk would attract so much attention from Richard.

Looking at Talhe who left happily, Richard felt a little conflicted.

The talents of civilized races are indeed incomparable to those of ordinary natives.

Talhe couldn't see the power of this bottle of ink, but how could Richard, a wizard, not fail to see it?

This bottle of ink not only meets the standards of high-level alchemical ink, but also has the added feature of displaying the completeness of the runes.

Enchantments cannot exist forever, and any magic equipment has a potential number of uses. The completeness of the runes is one of the criteria for measuring the newness of a magic equipment.

The alchemical ink used to draw runes will gradually wear away and disappear with the environment and time, but this kind of loss is often difficult to detect with ordinary alchemical ink. However, runes drawn with this ink can reflect subtle changes in the runes through the intensity of the flame.

Inks with similar functions are widely used in the production of various large-scale alchemical machines and have a very broad market.

But such fine ink was not created by a wizard. Its creator was actually an indigenous slave whom the wizard looked down upon.

This is simply a provocation.

This is a trampling of wizards' wisdom by alien monsters!
If any other wizard had encountered this, Talhe would have been a corpse by now, and the remaining fire lizards would have also been eliminated.

Wizards' attitude towards aliens has always been to rather kill them by mistake than let them go.

However, the person this group of salamanders met was Richard, a humble wizard.

He did not see it as a provocation.

Knowledge does not suddenly appear because the explorer is a wizard, nor does it hide because the explorer is a salamander.

Truth, treat every living being equally.

(End of this chapter)