The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 329: Illusory Creatures: Collectors

The mycelial tentacles of the World Mushroom emerged from the ground at Richard's feet and took the crystal ball that Richard took out.

A faint energy fluctuation emanated from the mycelium tentacles, and soon the dull sound of the World Mushroom rang in Richard's ears.

"My Lord, I feel that these crystal balls contain fragments of secret realms."

Richard nodded: "Yes, you are right. These things should be useful to you."

After a brief silence, World Mushroom spoke excitedly:

"...very useful. These fragments can make this secret realm more vast and its energy richer.

Moreover, these fragments contain many different rules, which can serve as nutrients to enrich the rules of this secret realm and bring it closer to a world."

"That's good." Richard smiled, "You should be able to splice it."

"Yes, but when I am piecing together the secret realm, all your subordinates must leave this secret realm."

Richard agreed, "Okay. I will go to the Red Sun World in a few days, and I will move the fire lizards out then.

How much time do you need?"

"…About twenty years."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you then."

After giving all the crystal balls obtained from the Great Wizard of the Black Tower to the World Mushroom, Richard came to Ulysses's lair.

At this moment, Ulysses was basking in the sun leisurely, as if he didn't notice that Richard had entered the secret realm.

"Why, you don't even greet me, the Lord God, when I come to the secret realm?" Richard joked.

Ulises glanced at Richard, turned his head, and closed his eyes again.

"I have never seen a Lord God who doesn't care about his church."

"How can you say that?" Richard laughed. "I have clearly sent my most capable servant to manage the church. How can you say that I don't care about the church?"

Ulises opened his eyes and looked at Richard helplessly.

"My Lord God, you know that in our country, it is not uncommon for subordinate gods to start a war between gods and kill the Lord God in order to take over the position themselves.

That is still the main god of the church that I pay attention to.

If they don't care about things like you do, there's no need to start a war between gods. They'll just overthrow you from the church level."

Richard laughed and said, "Doesn't this show that I trust you? Besides, how can I, a newcomer who has never been in contact with the church, manage the church well?

My friend, those who are capable should do more work. "

Ulises said in a serious tone:
“Everything has a beginning. I heard you say that you want Old Mushroom to piece together the secret realm and send all these fire lizards back to the Red Sun World.

This is a good opportunity.

It would be shameful for a main god to not be able to develop a church."

Seeing that he was so persistent, Richard decided not to try to escape and agreed.

"I've said it beforehand that we wizards don't believe in ghosts or gods. I don't know how many natives who claim to be 'gods' have been tied to the dissection table by us.

I might find it very awkward to learn your style, or I might not be able to learn it at all."

Hearing this, Ulises said angrily:

"Don't compare us to those natives! We are the civilization of the gods!"

Ulises particularly emphasized the word "civilization".

"We become gods not because we want to be gods, but because we become gods so that we can better collect the power of faith.

Becoming a deity is a means, developing a church is also a means, you can even consider it as a discipline, a skill.

Aren’t you wizards the best at studying and researching? Why is this so difficult for you? "

Richard was stunned by these words.

Ulises's words pointed out a problem in his mentality.

He has always regarded religion as a deceptive trick, so he despises it psychologically.

But this is not the case.

As the cornerstone of the civilization of gods, religion must have gone through tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years of practice and development by the civilization of gods.

This is enough to make developing religion a serious subject.

"It was my fault. I was blinded by prejudice."

Richard sincerely apologized to Ulysses, but Ulysses didn't care and just snorted and let the matter go.

Richard then told Ulysses about Khayon. When he received his reward this time, he saw Khayon among the wizards, which reminded him of his promise.

Now that he has learned the magic to dispel curses, perhaps he can take this opportunity to earn some favors.

"From your description, this kid named Kayang probably ran into a collector from the pocket dimension." Ulises said uncertainly, "Those imaginary creatures with pockets on their backs love to travel between dimensions and collect all kinds of 'treasures' they like.

Sometimes, they also make transactions with the lives in the material world.

I think that wizard must have cheated the Collector in the transaction, and the Collector still holds a grudge against him today.

But these guys are not bad-tempered. If you remove the curse, you might be able to attract them. Then you might even get some treasures from other dimensions."

Richard was delighted as he had not expected to receive an unexpected reward.

"Then let's go find him now."

……

Khayon's residence was not in the central black tower, but in a remote corner of the experimental area.

This was not a deliberate targeting by the college, but his own request.

As a man favored by the goddess of misfortune, he has a deep understanding of his luck. Staying in the black tower will only bring trouble to other wizards.

Of course, this was also because he was afraid that other wizards would join forces to kill him.

Influencing wizards to do experiments is no different than outright declaring war.

Looking at the stone house in front of me, it has a very good mechanical structure and is made of extremely solid materials.

Even Ulysses couldn't help but sigh that Khayon was really a ruthless man.

Bad luck can make low-probability events happen, but it cannot make things with no probability happen.

As long as you do things to the best of your ability, even bad luck can't do anything to you.

Richard walked up and knocked on the door.

Boom! Boom! Boom... Boom!

Before Richard finished knocking on the door, he heard a loud noise coming from the stone house, followed by billowing black smoke coming out of the chimney of the stone house.

A dusty wizard in a black robe opened the door and thick smoke poured out from behind him.

He asked while coughing, "Ahem, who is it?"

"It's me, Richard."

Richard frowned slightly, waved his hand, and a light breeze blew away the black smoke pouring out of the door.

Ka Yang looked at the person who came, his face a little excited.

"Master Richard! How did you find time to come to see me? I heard that you got a lot of good things in this war, and even the dean praised you highly.

Shouldn't you be doing research at this time?"

"Remember, last time I promised you..."

Boom!

A piece of the roof of the stone house behind Kayan suddenly collapsed, and then the whole stone house began to collapse.

Richard looked at the stone house in a daze. The materials used in this house were absolutely solid, so how could it become a dangerous building so easily?

"Your house..."

Ka Yang smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm used to it. I've lived in this house for three months.

If nothing happens to it, I will start to wonder if a disaster is waiting for me."

Looking at Khayon who was so emotionally stable, Richard couldn't help but feel a little admiration and pity in his heart.

How unlucky must one be to have such stable emotions?

Richard continued, “I promised you last time that I would keep an eye out for any news of the curse on you.

That’s why I came here this time.”

Kayang's eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly, "Master, did you find any news about that creature?!"

Richard nodded. "I found a creature that looks very similar to what you said. It's an imaginary creature from a pocket dimension called the Collector.

And I have found a method that may be able to remove your curse, would you like to try it?"

Upon hearing this, Ka Yang was struck by lightning and froze in place.

Soon, his eyelids trembled and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

"I must try...I must try! I will go collect whatever materials the master needs!"

Richard shook his head: "No materials are needed, just stand still."

After saying this, Richard's temperament suddenly changed, and a layer of holy light seemed to appear on his body.

The power of faith was moved by Richard, and then a mysterious change took place in his soul.

This change is simple yet very subtle, full of the flavor of simplicity.

Richard pointed at Khayon, and the power of faith turned into divine magic and descended upon Khayon.

Immediately afterwards, a layer of illusory black gas gushed out of Khayon's body and disappeared into the air.

When Ka Yang saw this scene, his mouth kept trembling as if he wanted to say something.

All the misfortunes and pains he had suffered over the years came rushing out at this moment, blocking his throat.

In the end, it all turned into a loud cry.

It's over, it's finally over.

Richard looked closely at Khayon. According to Ulysses, if he dispelled the curse, he might attract the Collector who released the curse.

Soon, the space behind Khayang suddenly trembled.

A strange creature with four walls and six eyes, which was covered by this pocket, emerged from the void.

"Who has removed the curse from me! Who!"

"Gah, I removed it, do you have any objection?"

The Collector looked up and saw a black crow looking at him arrogantly. And underneath that arrogant attitude, there was a terrifying pressure that made the Collector shudder.

The Collector immediately said from the bottom of his heart: "No problem, no problem. Great Lord of the World, it is his blessing that you are willing to save him."

After saying that, the Collector frantically used his abilities, trying to leave the wizarding world.

"Don't leave in a hurry. Give me an explanation for what you did."

Ulysses flew over the Collector's head like lightning and instantly froze him in place.

“This wizard has no grudge against you, but you cursed him for no reason, causing him to suffer misfortune for thousands of years.

Shouldn't you leave an explanation?"

The Collector tried to argue, but by this time Khayon had recovered from his crying.

His eyes were red and he looked at the collector viciously.

"You bastard alien, look carefully, am I the Kujin you mentioned?"

The Collector looked towards Khayon, his six eyes moving in unison, as if searching for some trace.

Finally, he said somewhat sheepishly: "Well...can I apologize?"

Ulises looked at him unkindly.

"What do you think?"

……

After some negotiation (extortion), the Collector was forced to hand over three treasures he had collected as compensation for cursing Khayon.

Don’t think that this number is small. Each of these collectors is a Pi Xiu who only takes in and never gives out.

According to Ulysses, these imaginary creatures will not die, and even if they kill him, he will be reborn in the pocket dimension at some time in the future.

Furthermore, their abilities make them extremely difficult to seal.

Being able to take out three treasures is the biggest concession the collector can make despite feeling guilty.

Hand over the treasure and collect it to leave the dimensional rift immediately.

Then, Khayon respectfully performed a wizard salute to Richard.

“Master Richard, Kayon has no way to repay your kindness today.

If the master does not mind, I am willing to be his follower and follow him for the rest of my life."

(End of this chapter)