The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 346: Encountering the Pyramid

In the wilderness, a magic support vehicle was speeding recklessly in the wilderness.

In the car, Richard leisurely controlled the direction of the magic support vehicle, humming a tuneless tune.

Not long ago, he used the link function of the nightmare artifact to take down the Three Wolf Town almost without a single drop of blood. Under the forced link of the black pyramid, Richard drained the nightmare power of those nightmare creatures to the bottom, and they directly turned into nightmare spirits. Those who were protected by nightmare rules were also blown into pieces by Richard's spells.

The few survivors all happened to hide in the Suicide Tavern.

This battle brought Richard nearly 1.5 million nightmare powers. The only pity was that the nightmare rules of these nightmare creatures would disappear immediately once they died. Even with the Miracle Furnace, Richard did not gain any nightmare rules.

This made Richard depressed for a while.

The nightmare power obtained from Three Wolf Town plus the nightmare power Richard had accumulated before was enough to replenish Richard's mental power to the limit of a second-ring wizard.

But although there was enough nightmare power, refining it all became a problem.

With Richard's current mental power quality, the consumption of refining a strand of nightmare power has increased from the original 0.01 mental power to the current 0.005 mental power.

But more than two million nightmare powers require nearly ten thousand mental powers to refine.

If Richard wants to fully recover his mental strength, he needs eight hours of deep sleep. Based on his current mental strength of 100 points, he needs to sleep for at least 40 days in a row to extract all the nightmare power.

Of course, in actual practice, this time will be shortened a lot, because you will definitely be improving your mental strength while refining it.

But it is undeniable that this is still a somewhat boring thing.

Breaking through the third ring was not something that Richard was in a hurry to do. Although he could be called a master among first-ring wizards with his current knowledge level, he was just an ordinary wizard among second-ring wizards. At most, he had a little more magic essence than other second-ring wizards.

As for the three-ring wizard... In the history of the wizarding world, there has probably never been a three-ring wizard as weak as Richard.

Therefore, Richard was not particularly anxious to refine the power of nightmares during this period.

He would spend at most half of his mental energy as fuel for the Miracle Furnace every day, and the remaining half was used to cope with daily life.

He is currently looking for a new lawless place according to the guidance of the map.

He planned to swallow up the lawless areas marked on the map one by one.

Of course, Richard will not be as rough with this remaining lawless place as he was with the Three Wolf Town.

That's too conspicuous.

He only planned to devour a part of it secretly, and then leave quietly and go to the next lawless place.

Richard calculated that in about ten years, he would be able to travel through this lawless area.

Then he headed towards the outer ring of the Nightmare Ring.

After absorbing enough nightmare power in the outer ring to become a nightmare knight, he crossed the domain and headed to the range of the fourth ring Tower of Truth.

The nightmare land is a blessed land for him, so he plans to get a piece of territory and cultivate it carefully to provide himself with a constant supply of nightmare power.

In this way, he would have endless soul essence.

When Richard arrives at the Four Rings Tower of Truth, he can operate in the wizarding world.

He could build a wizard tower in the wilderness and then build a mortal kingdom around the wizard tower.

In this way, within two hundred years, Richard would be able to obtain a densely populated nightmare territory without having to compete with other nightmare lords.

Imagining the beautiful vision of the freedom of soul essence, Richard controlled the spell support vehicle, accelerated suddenly, and rushed towards a black dot on the horizon.

……

Cemetery City, a large lawless place.

In the ancient past, this lawless land was once a prosperous nightmare territory. But with the migration of humans from the material world, this prosperous territory was abandoned by its lord, and it gradually became a paradise for free nightmare creatures.

Five kilometers outside the cemetery city, Richard turned the magic support vehicle into nightmare power and took it back.

The spell support vehicle is somewhat conspicuous, and its style is somewhat different from the creations in the nightmare world, which is inconsistent with Richard's low-key idea.

As the last part of the magic support vehicle turned into nightmare power, Richard called to Bone, "Let's go."

Walk into the cemetery city.

At the outermost edge of the cemetery city, there lived a group of nightmare spirits that were not even small nightmares. There were still a few humans living in the area where these nightmare spirits lived, and they relied on these humans to barely make a living.

Even in a lawless place, it is inevitable that the Nightmare Spirit will be exploited.

But compared to the nightmare territory, the lawless land has one more rule, which is mutual plunder.

These nightmare spirits would fight each other, and often during one or two tax collection periods, one or two small nightmares would emerge from among the nightmare spirits.

This is almost impossible to happen in the nightmare territory.

Because any skilled nightmare spirit is the property of the lord and is a hen that produces a constant source of nightmare power.

After entering this area, the terrifying aura of Richard and the other man instantly made a large group of nightmare spirits retreat.

To them, Big Nightmare was already a very powerful figure.

After passing through the outer city area where the nightmare spirits were, the inner city area appeared before Richard.

The buildings in the inner city are very dilapidated. After years of baptism, most of these buildings are incomplete, and the walls and ruins are covered with moss and vines.

The little nightmares and big nightmares of Cemetery City live here.

And in the center of this lawless land, there is a place called the City Lord District.

Legend has it that there lives a powerful Nightmare Knight level warrior in the city lord's district.

After learning about the structure of the Cemetery City, Richard couldn't help but feel a sense of déjà vu. This place was not only a place where nightmare spirits were allowed to fight each other, but also had a very sparse population, so nightmares of all sizes had to go out and do the dirty work assigned by the territory.

It doesn't seem to be much different from an ordinary nightmare territory.

"Once the number of people reaches a certain level, order will inevitably emerge." Richard sighed slightly.

Soon after they entered the inner city, they encountered an ogre with two heads and about three meters tall.

The ogre's four eyes carefully looked at Richard and the other two. Then one of his heads with broken fangs and scarred faces said dully:
"Outsiders need to pay taxes to live in Cemetery City."

Then, his other head shouted in a shrill voice: "Big Nightmare needs to pay 500 nightmare crystals every month, and Small Nightmare needs to pay 50 nightmare crystals every month.

Little guy, are you a big nightmare or a small nightmare? "

The little man the ogre was referring to was naturally Richard who was beside Bones.

Bone's body was already strong, and after putting on a layer of refined gold armor, his height was close to three meters, only a head shorter than the ogre.

Richard was almost two meters tall, so he naturally looked short in front of these two big guys.

"Pay taxes?" Bone said coldly, "I ran away from the territory just to avoid paying taxes!

If I don’t leave the territory, I have to pay taxes. If I leave the territory, I have to pay taxes again. Doesn’t that mean I’ve been traveling for nothing?”

After saying that, Bone took the greatsword behind him and grasped it in his hand, as if he was ready to fight the ogre.

"Tin Man," "Don't get excited." "This is the tax collected by the city lord." "Do you want to?" "Wait until the city lord wakes up,"

"We are all finished!"

The two-headed ogre spoke from each of its two heads, with dull and sharp voices alternating, making the listeners feel upset.

However, Richard understood what he meant.

This cemetery city, like any ordinary nightmare territory, has to pay taxes to the lord.

Moreover, the lord of the cemetery city seems to be quite irritable. If you don't pay enough taxes, he will take action to eliminate the nightmare creatures that have not paid the taxes.

Or get rid of the nightmare creatures in the entire cemetery city.

"Really?" Richard said calmly, "I don't think the city lord will wake up for a nobody like us."

"I've said my piece." "If you don't want to give it to me," "Then let someone else take it."

"But if it's someone else," "I won't be able to talk to them as easily!"

The two-headed ogre kept threatening Richard and the other two, and when he saw that Richard and the other two still refused to pay taxes, he immediately took heavy steps and ran towards the interior of the cemetery city.

He shouted loudly while running.

“Someone doesn’t pay taxes!” “Someone doesn’t pay taxes!”

As he shouted, nightmare creatures walked out of the dilapidated buildings in the inner city.

"Another newcomer who doesn't pay taxes?"

"Haha, look at those two idiots, still standing there like an idiot. When the tax director comes, they'll just have to wait to be eaten."

"Tin Man, little guy, good job, don't pay taxes!"

……

Richard's expression remained unchanged as he listened to the discussions of the nightmare creatures around him.

Since he wanted to steal food in Cemetery City, he naturally had to understand the local forces in Cemetery City.

If the tax chief is very powerful, he wouldn't mind paying more taxes later to satisfy the tax chief's appetite.

Anyway, the wool comes from the sheep, and the nightmare power he lost will be recovered in the Cemetery City eventually.

Soon, a sound of orderly footsteps came from the depths of the cemetery city.

Hearing the footsteps, all the nightmare creatures stopped talking.

A ghost carriage driven by a skeleton coachman appeared first, and behind the carriage, a luxuriously decorated black pyramid was slowly "flying" towards them - under this black pyramid, hundreds of black humanoid slaves were carrying this huge creature on their shoulders.

Richard looked at the pyramid with a slight smile on his face.

"It seems like I met someone I know."

The ghost carriage arrived in front of Richard, and the skeleton driver immediately got off the carriage and bowed to Richard respectfully, saying, "Master."

The driver of the carriage was the nightmare creature that Richard had once named - "The Coachman".

Upon hearing the master's name, the nightmare creatures around who were ready to watch the show were immediately dumbfounded.

How could this good dog of the tax chief call other nightmare creatures his master?

Soon, the Black Pyramid also came in front of Richard.

An eye opened on the black pyramid, and after the eyeball turned around, it quickly locked onto Richard. Then the black pyramid shrank rapidly. The black figures carrying the pyramid not only shrank, but also connected end to end, turning into four stick-drawn limbs that were inserted into the pyramid.

"Wizard, long time no see." said the tax director.

Richard replied calmly: "Yeah, long time no see."

The tax collector of the Cemetery City was none other than the nightmare lord, Pyramid, who had done business with Richard.

(End of this chapter)