The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 368 War preparations
Blood tax is an extremely important clause in the contract signed between Richard and Salamander.

Richard didn't raise these fire lizards on the New World Island for nothing. Under Richard's protection, these fire lizards can enjoy the supplies of the wizarding world, hunt freely around the New World Island, and even move to the main continent on a small scale to live... All these come at a price.

In addition to providing Richard with a steady supply of craftsmen, the Salamanders also need to provide Richard with soldiers, which is what Richard calls blood tax.

The contract stipulates that for every ten fire lizards born, one must be given as a blood tax.

When these salamanders are born, they will draw lots, and once they are drawn, a blood tax label will be placed on their profile.

If Richard did not come to collect the blood tax, they would live like ordinary salamanders. But if Richard wanted to collect the blood tax, these salamanders would serve as Richard's vassal army and fight for him.

This is the price of survival for the salamander.

When they heard Richard mention the blood tax, Akara and Azuhan's hearts skipped a beat.

Finally, what is meant to come will come.

"I wonder how much blood tax you are going to collect this time?" Azuhan said with some difficulty.

He knew that these fire lizards, who were paid as blood taxes, would most likely never come back. But he also knew that if they didn't pay the taxes, Richard could easily make the fire lizards pay ten or a hundred times the price.

"Not sure yet," Richard said calmly, "I need to take a look at your roster and then make a decision."

"Yes."

The blood tax list is in Azuhan's office. Over the years, the list of blood tax has filled an entire book.

In this booklet, the names of those who had died were marked with an "X" in black pen, those with disabilities were circled, and those who were completely healthy had nothing written on them.

In addition to the physical condition, these names are followed by their level conditions. A level one Salamander is one dot, and a level two Salamander is two dots.

Richard looked through the entire list and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it's so cool to support an entire race.

According to the roster, there are 132 second-level fire lizards still alive, and 1,930 first-level fire lizards.

If these fire lizards were to wear the Craftsman Type I individual armor and receive a little training, each of them would be comparable to a wizard.

Richard returned the list to Azuhan.

"Good, it seems you didn't play any tricks."

Azuhan lowered his head, forced a smile, and said humbly: "How dare we play tricks? If we fail to handle this, it won't be these people who will die."

"Hey, you can't say that." Richard stood up and patted Azuhan on the shoulder, "I'm selecting troops, not experimental materials.

These selected fire lizards will go with me to fight in other worlds. If they are lucky enough or strong enough, it will not be a problem for them to come back alive.

If they can come back, I will give them an additional contract. You should know that I am not stingy with my own people. "

Azuhan smiled reluctantly and said, "Your kindness."

Richard smiled and patted Azuhan's arm, then left the room.

He could see that Azuhan felt very uncomfortable doing things for him.

Living under the hands of an enemy who nearly wiped out the Salamanders, this distortion in his beliefs caused him to have mental problems.

Compared to him, Akara is actually better.

The princess of the Salamander clan was more powerful than Richard thought. She had fallen from being a princess of the empire to being a subordinate of the enemy, but she was able to accept this drop in status calmly.

Perhaps in her opinion, living under the rule of a world master is not a humiliating thing.

After the factory relocation was completed, Richard passed the news to Joe Lord who was far away in the Black Tower Wizard Academy, asking him to come to the Red Sun World to receive the parts later.

Before the factory moved, the parts of the spell support vehicles produced by Richard's Alchemy Workshop were transported to Joe Lord's workshop by the airship team for secondary assembly and processing.

After finishing the Chamber of Commerce's affairs, Richard immediately contacted the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce and ordered a large batch of alchemical materials.

"Brother Richard, what are you going to do with such a big order?"

Bob's puzzled voice came from the crystal ball, and Richard replied calmly: "I'm going to participate in the war recently, so I'm just preparing some things."

In addition to ordering materials from Bob, Richard also contacted Jimmy.

You can ask Bob for materials for alchemical machinery, but it would be more appropriate to contact Jimmy for materials related to physical evolution.

As the vice-president of the Garlon Wizard Academy, he had a wide network of connections when it came to purchasing experimental materials for physical evolution.

"Oh, you exchanged for the Myriad Transformation Battle Body?"

In the arena of the Tower of Truth, Jimmy felt extremely familiar as he listened to what Richard said.

"Yes, Master, I will be practicing the Myriad Changes Battle Body soon."

Jimmy glanced at the arena, then turned his attention back to the crystal ball.

"The Myriad Changes Battle Body is not easy to cultivate. If you make a mistake, you will have to start all over again. You have only studied the evolution of physical fitness for a few hundred years, so I do not recommend that you cultivate this battle body."

"Master, I believe I have found a tiny shortcut."

"shortcut?"

Jimmy touched his shiny bald head. How come he didn't know there was a shortcut to the Myriad Changes Battle Body? But after thinking for a moment, he immediately figured out what the shortcut Richard was talking about was.

"You want to fuse dragon blood, right?"

"The master's wisdom is as vast as the ocean."

"Dragon blood is indeed a shortcut, but I suggest you not to continue in this direction."

"Oh?"

Richard was slightly stunned after listening to Jimmy's suggestion, and then asked: "Why? Is there anything wrong with this direction?"

"There is a problem. Dragons are different from other creatures. If you want to study them, you must obtain the blood of high-level dragons. But in the wizarding world, level three dragons are already at the top. It is difficult to get the blood of dragons that have grown a fourth head.

And even if you get it, it will be difficult to fuse it, unless you can get the blood of the heir of the Dragon King.

Moreover, the corrosive nature of dragon blood itself is also a big problem. You must find a way to suppress this erosion.

In short, without sufficient knowledge accumulation, dragon blood can only be used temporarily, and it is best to use something else for real research."

Heir of the Dragon Prince? Corruption? Richard smiled.

"Thank you for your advice, Master. I will pay attention to it."

"Okay, just use the points yourself. I'll let you know when I've collected all the items. If nothing goes wrong, the remaining time should be enough for you to complete your Myriad Transformations Battle Body."

"The remaining time?" Richard asked doubtfully.

Jimmy's voice came out of the crystal ball, "Why are you pretending to be stupid? You know about the expedition, how can I, the vice-dean, not know? Improve your strength. I heard from the dean that this war may be a test for us young wizards."

Upon hearing this, Richard immediately replied respectfully: "Thank you for your guidance, Master."

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After arranging things, Richard immediately started the production of individual armor production line.

Many of the machines used to produce Artisan armor are the same as those used to produce Mechanic armor, but with lower specifications.

So with the experience in forging mechanic individual armor, Richard and the Salamander craftsmen only took three months to build a production line.

This time just happened to coincide with the return of the Salamander workers.

Although these fire lizard workers are called workers, they could be called fire lizard craftsmen in the former Chiyang world.

Compared with the salamander craftsmen under Richard, there was not much difference between them except for the lack of knowledge and experience.

When the old batch of Salamander craftsmen under Richard die, new craftsmen will emerge from these Salamander workers.

With the help of these Salamander workers, the production line was quickly started up, and a steady stream of alloys were turned into parts.

In addition to their start, Richard also sent a list to Joe Lord.

There are too many individual armors this time, and it is impossible for Richard to complete them all by himself. Some of them require parts made by wizard alchemy.

According to Richard's plan, he intended to form a battle group of 500 people as his auxiliary army.

Therefore, he had to prepare at least five hundred sets of Craftsman Type I individual armor, and he also had to modify some of the armors to make them suitable for the second-level fire lizard.

Two years later, Richard received a notice from Garon College.

In addition to the time when the war started, the notice also contained a lot of information about the expedition world.

The wizard who was exploring the world used some means to pass through the world barrier and conducted a preliminary exploration of the interior of the world.

The results were quite disturbing.

All the wizards who entered the world to explore died, and the information they conveyed was somewhat confusing.

They say that this world is alive.

According to this news, the top leaders of the academy consulted a lot of information about the plane expedition. Finally, they guessed that the world of this expedition might be a world tree world, that is, a world dominated by the world tree.

Based on this inference, the college gave some suggestions.

Wizards participating in this expedition must be prepared for a long battle, so they must purchase sufficient supplies and as many types as possible.

Because the portal for this expedition may be extremely difficult to open.

After receiving this suggestion, Richard immediately made a list and gave it to Joe Lord for purchasing.

And he himself devoted himself to the practice of the Ever-changing Combat Body.

After more than a hundred years of growth, Hogg has grown from a baby dragon to a young dragon. His strength has also reached level two, and his body is as big as a cow.

Combined with dragon language magic and the dragon's naturally superior physique, Hogg is even more powerful than many second-ring wizards.

However, for Richard, her fighting ability is secondary, and her bloodline is the top priority.

In the laboratory, Richard drew a tube of extremely bright red blood from Hogg's body, and Hogg looked at him with some fear.

Over the years, she had seen how the wizarding world had changed.

The dragon's throne had long been overthrown, and her people had all become slaves of the wizards.

This makes me sad, but also makes me accept my fate.

Her knowledge of the dragon's glory was only from the ancient memories passed down in the tradition.

She had never truly experienced the glory of the dragon.

So although she hated being a wizard's familiar, she was not unable to accept it.

Thinking of this, Hogg took out a handful of tender white mushrooms from his waist pocket and stuffed them into his mouth.

The glory days of dragons are long gone, and delicious mushrooms are the reality.

Richard carefully injected the dragon blood taken from Hogg's body into the potion he had prepared.

As the dragon blood was absorbed, the color of the potion began to change from colorless, to blood red, and then to colorless again.

"It's done!"

Richard looked at the potion with some excitement. This potion was the essence of the ever-changing combat body - the ever-changing elixir. Its greatest function was to offset the conflict between bloodlines and promote the fusion of bloodlines.

With this thing, even if Richard merged ten or a hundred kinds of blood, he would not die due to blood conflict.

As for the practice of the Ever-changing War Body, one must create a gland that can produce the Ever-changing Elixir and implant it into the body.

After confirming that the elixir gland was successful, Richard came to the corner of the laboratory.

There was an incubator in the corner, and inside it, Richard's body was lying.

"The biggest problem with dragon blood is erosion, but if I suppress erosion, will the dragon blood be perfect?"

As he spoke, a layer of holy light emerged from Richard's body, and a complex rune slowly emerged in his hand.

Divine Spell: Abyssal Suppression

(End of this chapter)