The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 28 Return (Seeking follow-up reading)

"The wizard is dead? What does that mean?"

Looking at the last words of the notebook owner, Richard fell into deep thought.

If this sentence is understood literally, it means that the wizard in this wizard laboratory is dead. But if Richard wants to continue thinking, he has to consider the hidden meaning of this sentence.

The wizard is dead, how did he die?

An experimental accident, or death by old age?
If it was an experimental accident, then this laboratory would be a dangerous treasure trove, but if it was the end of life, then this laboratory would become a wizard's tomb.

Since ancient times, tomb robbing has been a dangerous business.

If he dies of old age, Richard will have to consider whether he should explore this laboratory.

"Richard, haven't you finished reading it yet?"

Ellie's voice woke Richard from his thoughts. He closed his notes and smiled at Ellie.

"This notebook records my thoughts on modifying a spell. I'll copy it for you when we get back to the academy."

"Wuhu! Richard, you are so nice!"

Ellie threw herself on Richard and gave him a big hug.

The spell models that can be exchanged in the academy are the most primitive spell models. Modern wizards have already extended these spells into various versions based on various studies. This is also a hidden test for wizard apprentices in the academy.

If only the original spell model of the academy is used, then this kind of wizard apprentice is bound to suffer a great loss in the apprentice confrontation.

Old John found a lot of things on Locke. In addition to the pair of magic boots on his feet, Locke also contributed three magic stones to Richard.

Richard gave the remaining bit of magic power in the magic stone to Old John as a reward. This old man was extremely useful in the Blackrock Mountains. From leading the way to tracking, it seemed that there was nothing this old man couldn't do.

"Old John, this is for you."

Old John took the magic stone happily and patted Richard on his chest.

"Master Wizard, please give me your orders. Old John will do my best."

Richard nodded and turned to look at Ellie.

"Take these two magic stones, Ellie."

"Eh? Give it to me? I can't take it!" Ellie shook her head repeatedly, "You killed the man, so the magic stone should belong to you. I can't take this money."

"Then it's a loan. I'll lend you these two magic stones." Richard stuffed the magic stones into Ellie's hands. "I need a long-term, trustworthy teammate. These magic stones are my investment in your future."

Richard likes Ellie's attitude towards Loken. A good person who has a clear distinction between love and hate is undoubtedly the best teammate.

Wizards can be lone wolves because they have enough time to prepare. Wizard apprentices only have a maximum of thirty years, which sounds like a long time, but if you remove the time for earning magic stones, meditating, traveling, resting, etc., there is actually very little time left.

This also means that it is impossible for any wizard apprentice to be good at everything.

And a trustworthy teammate is undoubtedly the best patch to make up for one's own shortcomings.

Moreover, Ellie has also demonstrated a talent as a curse wizard, and for this reason alone, she is worthy of Richard's close friendship.

"This... I'll take it!"

Ellie gritted her teeth and accepted the magic stone, determined to improve her strength as soon as possible.

After dividing the magic stones, Richard looked through Locke's boots.

The name of these boots is Gale Boots. There is a Gale Spell engraved on the sole of the boots. After being activated, the wind element can be used to speed up walking speed.

This thing is a big improvement for Richard now.

If he had these boots just now, Loken would have no chance of dodging the first sword.

After resting for a night in the valley, Richard followed Old John to the habitat of the white crystal deer early the next morning.

The White Crystal Deer is a demonic creature. The scale-like white crystals on its surface are one of the raw materials for many crystal balls.

After confirming that the population of white crystal deer had not decreased, Richard wanted to go in and get some white crystal for alchemy materials. But the next moment he understood why the academy required low-level apprentices to form teams.

Rays of white light shot out from the antlers of the white crystal deer. Although the power of each of these white lights was not great, there were more than a hundred white crystal deer in front of Richard.

"Shh...it hurts."

Richard, with smoke all over his body, leaned against a tree. If it weren't for the protection of the black scales and the life spell of the armlet, he would have almost become a roasted suckling pig.

"Who told you not to listen? Old John told you not to get close, but you didn't listen." Ellie covered her mouth and laughed.

"Okay, okay, at least I got something." Richard shook the bag of white crystal in his hand. Leaving the white crystal deer habitat, Richard followed Old John to the herb-collecting spot where several wizards often went.

Due to the wrong season and time, many medicinal herbs did not grow well in these places.

But Richard, thinking that he was already here, collected a few immature medicinal herbs and planned to take them back to grow.

After all, potions are also part of alchemy.

After collecting the herbs, Richard followed Old John into the mountains for two days to look for traces of the black-striped anaconda.

Finally, in a swamp, Richard found a young black-striped water python about five meters long.

As a low-level magical beast, the black-striped water python has the ability to control the water element. Coupled with its powerful muscles, it can easily strangle a high-level knight in the swamp.

For this purpose, Old John even used himself as bait to lure the monster into the dense forest outside the swamp.

"Sir, your magic stone was not wasted!" Old John, who was hiding in the tree and panting, boasted to Richard.

Leaving the swamp, the black-striped anaconda's advantage was greatly weakened.

Richard, who was hiding nearby, saw a flash of green light on his feet and his speed increased instantly. Relying on a sneak attack, he used the Wind Crow Slash sword to cut the black-striped water python into two pieces.

But the vitality of Warcraft has always been tenacious. Even if it was broken into two parts, the black-striped water python was still struggling.

The smelly blood flowed freely in the forest. The blood was controlled by the black-striped water python and turned into blood columns that continuously hit the surrounding dense forest.

But at this moment, Richard and his companions had already hidden far away, and no matter how hard it struggled, it was of no use.

After more than ten minutes, the black-striped anaconda finally stopped moving. Richard came to the snake's body, cut off its head with a sword, and collected a bag of its blood with a water bag.

He planned to go back and refine it to see if he could sell it.

"Ellie, try your magic with this thing." Richard called to Ellie.

Ellie walked carefully to the corpse, and released a stream of black air from her fingertips that penetrated into the back half of the corpse.

clack clack...

Under the effect of the spell, the black-striped water python's body continued to dry up and eventually turned into skin and bones.

Soon a big bulge appeared at the tail end of the black-striped water python's body, and a white worm with light black stripes on its body crawled out of the bulge.

"This time it's a little different."

As Ellie put the worm into her pocket, she introduced it to Richard, "The black-striped worm is a higher level of the pure white worm. This one only has one black stripe, and its effect is five times that of the pure white worm. The price has also increased five times."

Richard was a little excited when he heard this: "That's great, there's still half of it here, you can try again."

Cursed bugs are so valuable, they can be a way to make money in the future.

But Ellie shook her head when she heard that.

"No. I can't hold any more cursed worms. According to the book, a low-level apprentice cannot hold more than two cursed worms. If he holds more than two, it will bring unpredictable misfortune."

"You can't take it anymore...but I can." Richard smiled.

As he spoke, Richard pulled the half body to Ellie's side.

"Don't waste them, these are magic stones."

……

By obtaining the head of the black-striped anaconda, Richard achieved the purpose of this trip.

On the way out of the mountain, Richard intentionally or unintentionally asked Old John whether there had been any mudslides in the Black Rock Mountains in recent years.

The answer they got was that a large mudslide had occurred twenty years ago, and it was said that monsters lurked in the area where the mudslide had occurred. So when they led the apprentices, they always avoided that area.

After getting such an answer, Richard felt relieved.

If what Old John said is true, then this wizard laboratory should not have been discovered yet.

Then he still has a chance.

After leaving Black Rock City, Richard and his companion took the magic airship back to the academy.

After handing in the task, Richard went straight into the dormitory and started making magic costumes.

(End of this chapter)