The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 366: Craftsman Type I Individual Armor

During the ten years of training, Richard not only improved his fighting skills, but also thoroughly observed the Heart of the Mountain inside Changshan Temple.

The complete Heart of the Mountain Rune was thus born.

This rune is the most complex rune Richard has ever seen. Its intricate structure looks like the meridian diagram of a living organism.

"Sister Anna, you are right. This is the complete Heart of the Mountain Rune." Richard said with a smile, "I wonder if you still remember what I asked you to do back then."

Before setting out for the Chiyang World, Richard gave the incomplete Mountain Heart Rune to Anna, asking her to research elemental puppets that could repair themselves.

Now that hundreds of years have passed, I wonder if Anna still remembers this.

"Of course I remember!" Anna said angrily, "Am I the kind of wizard who forgets what he promised to do?"

Richard nodded slightly, and then asked, "Since you still remember, Sister Anna, I wonder how your progress is?"

"Progress..." Anna was suddenly silent. After struggling for a long time, she whispered, "There is no progress. I have tried your request for a long time, but I still haven't found a suitable research direction."

"Hmm?" Richard frowned slightly, "What went wrong?"

Anna sighed and took Richard to the study on the third floor.

There is a huge bookshelf in the study, which is filled with Anna's collection of magic books and her research notes.

She rummaged through it for a while and handed a thick black leather notebook to Richard.

"Take a look. This is my experimental record from that year. Your idea seems feasible, but in practice, there are huge problems."

Richard took the notes, found a chair and began to read them carefully.

Anna's records are very detailed. Her notes not only record her experimental process, but also her experimental ideas at the time and the source of these ideas.

This made it easy for Richard to understand Anna's thoughts when he watched.

Soon, Richard read through the entire notebook.

After reading it, Richard sighed slightly: "I didn't expect that there are so many tricks in this earth element core. It seems that I took it for granted."

His original idea was to divide the golem into multiple parts, and then use the properties of the Heart of the Mountain rune to give all of these parts the ability to automatically recover.

But in practice, this idea simply doesn't work.

Although the golem's material requirements are not high, ordinary rocks and soil cannot be used.

If you want to turn the puppet parts into earth elements, you must perform very complex enchantments on them, which will make the golem's energy consumption become extremely terrifying.

Moreover, even after being enchanted, the strength of these earth element components is not as good as that of genuine metal components or special material components.

To sum up in one sentence, this idea is wrong.

Richard rubbed his brows. This was the first failed idea he had had in all these years.

Sure enough, any creative idea without knowledge as a basis is just like drawing cards from a black box, and success depends entirely on luck.

Richard returned the notes to Anna: "Since this idea has failed, Sister Anna, you don't have to worry about it anymore.

Sister Anna, you don't need to worry about the rune. Investing is risky, and I am prepared for failure.

As for this Mountain Heart Rune, if you want to study it, I can lend it to you temporarily. But you cannot pass this rune on to others, you can only pass it on to your students."

Anna waved her hands and said, "No, no, no, no. Although this rune is very good, it has nothing to do with my research. The wizards of the Shaper School should be interested in this thing. You can let Ellie study it."

"Really?" Richard looked at Anna and asked uncertainly, "If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. Sister Anna, you have to think it over carefully."

"Of course I'm sure." Anna said with certainty, "I know you are doing this for my own good, but this rune really has nothing to do with my research.

If I use it for research, it will only distract me.”

Richard stopped trying to persuade Anna. He stood up and said goodbye to Anna, "In that case, I will go back first, Junior Brother."

……

After leaving the Tower of Truth, Richard stopped by Paradise City and purchased a large amount of alchemical materials from the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce.

There is no way. There are basically no airship teams in the Far North, and most of the materials stored in the Wizarding Chamber of Commerce are related to physical evolution.

Richard wants to conduct research on alchemical machinery, and they probably can't get all the materials needed.

So Richard just bought it on the way.

After returning to the wizard tower with the materials, Richard plunged into the laboratory and began to make the first black crystal power reactor.

A month later.

On the test bench, a fist-sized metal sphere floats in the air.

This metal sphere is engraved with densely packed runes, which are connected to each other like a cage, trapping the contents of the metal sphere.

This is the black crystal power reactor. It only requires a Uris black crystal the size of a finger joint, and this power reactor can provide the energy of more than ten magic essences.

This number may not seem impressive, but if converted, it would be 10,000 magic stones. Even if a first-ring wizard's mental power reaches the peak of the first ring, the amount of magic power that can be refluxed is only 34 magic stones.

The energy provided by a black crystal power furnace is comparable to the magic reflux energy storage of nearly three hundred first-ring wizards.

Moreover, the wizard's magic power reflux is a more efficient way for living things to store energy. The energy storage capacity of ordinary indigenous creatures is much lower than this value. Unfortunately, when Richard was making the power furnace, he roughly estimated the cost of using this power furnace as the power source of his small floating city.

But the result made Richard directly reject this idea.

There's no way, it's too expensive.

The power reactor of this small floating city depends on the Starr Ghost Power Reactor from the ghost world.

In fact, his nightmare power should be almost accumulated. It won't be long before he can understand the secret of the power reactor.

Putting the black crystal power reactor into his pocket, Richard then opened the crack in the secret realm and entered the secret realm.

In the secret realm, there are birds singing and flowers blooming, except for a piece of stone wasteland in the corner, from which the roar of machinery can be heard continuously.

This stone wasteland was not formed naturally, but was hardened by fire lizards after Richard chose it as the location for his alchemy workshop.

Nearly a quarter of a square kilometer of land was hardened into solid stone by fire lizards.

In the alchemy workshop, fire lizard craftsmen gathered together to discuss the design drawings.

Although they had experience in designing Mechanic-I individual armor, they were also a little confused when faced with Richard's unreasonable request to "improve the performance of the armor while reducing the cost and production difficulty as much as possible."

This request is really too much. You have to make a choice among these three, you can't have them all.

But Richard is their boss, financial backer, and racial savior. Even if the request is excessive, they have to find a way to complete it.

"How's your research going?"

Hearing the voice coming from behind, many Salamander craftsmen stood up, turned around and bowed slightly to Richard.

As one of the leaders of the fire lizard craftsmen, Kallion spoke first. "Sir, you are just in time. How about this design?"

As he spoke, Carrion came to Richard and handed him a dozen manuscript papers.

"This is the result of our many discussions. We made some trade-offs in the performance of the armor. On this basis, we tried our best to reduce the cost and manufacturing difficulty."

Richard flipped through the manuscript and found that indeed, these Salamander craftsmen had reduced the cost and manufacturing difficulty of individual armor to a very low level.

This set of individual armor still uses an exoskeleton, and its external armor can defend against elemental attacks of level 300 and physical attacks of level 400. In terms of auxiliary functions, this set of armor can make the user more agile, faster, and stronger. And its raw material cost has also been compressed to ten magic essences per set.

Apart from its high energy consumption, this armor is a perfect mass-produced product.

"Good, this is it." Richard decided, "But this is just the main structure, I still need some weapons.

I am not very clear about your weapon requirements, so it is up to you to design them."

Seeing Richard's agreement, Carleon felt relieved. He said to Richard respectfully, "Sir, we have already designed the weapon."

After saying that, Sulina walked up to Richard with a dozen manuscript papers.

Richard took the manuscript and read it through. There were many kinds of weapons drawn on the manuscript, including but not limited to scimitars, spears, bows and arrows, javelins and other cold weapons.

These cold weapons all need to be made using dragon alchemy, and the cost is also reduced to a very low level.

"Okay," Richard nodded, "Thank you for your hard work during this period."

As he spoke, Richard took out the black crystal power reactor.

"This is the power reactor I made. You guys adapt it and try to make a set of armor first. If there are no problems, then the design of the armor will be finalized."

"Yes, my lord."

After handing the materials to the fire lizard craftsman, Richard turned around and left the secret realm.

Half a month later, the first set of armor was successfully produced.

Overall, this set of armor is a smaller version of the Mechanic Type 1 individual armor. The external armor plates of this set of armor are still made of dragon alchemy, but the internal structure has many more parts made of wizard alchemy.

There is no way. In terms of the application of materials, wizard alchemy is much stronger than dragon alchemy.

The one who was testing the performance of the armor was a Salamander worker, a first-level Salamander whose body looked exceptionally strong.

Soon, the test began.

The first round of testing for the armor was a motion test. The fire lizard workers successfully completed many movements such as running, jumping, and rolling according to the requirements.

Except for some restricted movements, most of his movements were fine, and with the help of the armor, his movements became more energy-saving.

In addition to action tests, the armor also underwent resistance tests, attack tests, energy consumption tests and destructive tests.

Richard was very satisfied with the final result.

If these armored fire lizards are trained, they have a great chance of winning even against ordinary first-ring wizards.

After the test, the fire lizard craftsmen stripped the armor off the test fire lizard, and with Richard's approval, the fire lizard was given a three-month vacation.

"Yes, this armor is well designed." Richard said to the Salamander craftsmen, "Have you given it a name?"

"Yes, sir." A Salamander craftsman smiled, "We call him 'craftsman'."

(End of this chapter)