The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 383 Nuclear Toad
The poisonous swamp is a geographical environment unique to the Green Forest World.

This kind of swamp is different from the swamps in the ordinary world. Because it has swallowed too many corpses of biological weapons, the sewage and sludge inside the swamp are often highly toxic.

Moreover, due to the special environment of the poisonous swamp, even alchemy wizards need a long time and very good luck to cultivate extraordinary pathogens. There are at least three types of them inside.

It should be noted that general pathogens are no longer effective against organisms that have reached level one.

However, these extraordinary pathogens can cause illness in organisms at level one or even above.

In the face of extraordinary pathogens, first-level organisms will be as vulnerable as ordinary organisms.

When Richard's Salamanders nearly lost a squad when they first discovered this geographical environment. If the squad leader hadn't discovered something was wrong and used the city return scroll in time to get the squad back to the secret realm, they would have all died of illness in the poisonous swamp.

Richard had encountered several poisonous swamps over the years, but those poisonous swamps were usually only small areas.

The poisonous swamp under his feet was as big as a poisonous swamp sea. He flew for three days and still couldn't get around it.

Coo, coo…

Suddenly, there was a croaking sound from under Richard's feet.

He looked down and saw a purple toad emerging from the swamp.

The toad was lavender in color, the size of a human head, and covered with dark green pustules. The huge pustules on its back looked like they could burst at any time.

"Hey, something I've never seen before."

Richard looked at the toad in surprise. He had seen poisonous swamps many times, but this kind of purple-skinned toad was the first time he had seen it.

"Could this creature be a unique species in this poisonous swamp?" Richard guessed in his heart.

He carefully let his body hang in the air and watched the purple-skinned toad swim past his feet.

This toad's perception seemed to be weaker than other biological weapons, so much so that it did not attack even when Richard stood on top of it.

If it were any other biological weapon, it would have pounced upon us by now.

"Perhaps, this toad is not a biological weapon of the Forerunners. It may be a native creature of this world." Richard guessed in his heart.

Thinking of this, Richard took out an enchanted metal cage from his pocket, ready to catch the toad and study it.

He held the enchanted metal cage with his magic hand, then opened the cage and placed it in the direction of the toad's advance.

He himself hid aside and controlled everything remotely.

There was no way. After experiencing the losses caused by exploding poisonous insects, exploding mushrooms, exploding trees, and even exploding grass, Richard was extremely wary of these things.

The enchanted metal cage, controlled by the hand of magic, blocked the purple-skinned toad. However, the purple-skinned toad did not seem to have enough intelligence. It saw the cage but still plunged into it.

As soon as it entered, the cage door closed automatically, trapping it inside.

"It's done."

Richard's face lit up with joy, and he was about to use his magic hand to take the cage back, but before he could do anything, he saw a layer of light purple mucus secreted from the toad's body.

The metal cage was corroded the moment it came into contact with the mucus, and the toad swam out of the cage slowly and leisurely without even any sense of lag.

When Richard saw this scene, he couldn't help but gasp.

The material of his cage was not bad, and it was enchanted with protective magic. But in front of the toad, these things were like sticky rice paper, and they melted when they touched the slime.

"My goodness, this thing is really poisonous."

Richard sighed, then pulled out two metal ingots from his pocket and began making a new cage.

During this time, the purple toad swam leisurely in the swamp.

There's no way. With that layer of mucus on this guy's body, ordinary biological weapons can't do anything to him. No wonder his perception ability is not very strong.

Given its physical condition, other creatures can only avoid it.

Richard spent nearly an hour making a fine cage, and then he repeated the same trick and placed the cage in front of the toad.

This time, the toad still didn't hide.

After entering the cage, the cage door closed instantly. The toad once again secreted a layer of purple mucus, ready to corrode the cage.

But this time, the cage didn't react at all.

The toad looked at the cage in front of him with a confused look in his eyes, as if wondering what it was and why it hadn't melted.

When Richard saw that the cage trapped the toad, he opened a rift in the secret realm and prepared to use his magic hand to send it into the secret realm.

As long as you enter the secret realm, no matter who you are, you will have to serve as a specimen.

But as soon as Richard took the cage out of the poisonous swamp, he suddenly felt panic in his heart.

The fear of impending death made him dive into the secret realm without thinking.

Boom!

The next moment Richard entered the secret realm, a huge roar came from the cage.

It turned out that Richard's caution was indeed correct.

This toad can really explode! And the power is not low.

The moment the toad exploded, Richard's finely crafted cage was blown into pieces. After all, radiation resistance does not mean explosion resistance.

Along with the shock wave of the explosion, there was also a small purple mushroom cloud.

Soon, the mushroom cloud dissipated, spreading over the poisonous swamp like a thin mist.

Everything it touched, whether it was plants or animals, or even the stones on the ground, turned into thick water under this terrible poison.

Soon, the poisonous fog dissipated.

With the toad as the center, the area within a radius of fifty meters was empty except for a slightly purple swamp, indicating that there had been an explosion here.

In the secret realm, Richard covered his chest, feeling like his heart was about to jump out.

At this moment he didn't know that he almost turned into a pool of thick water.

"That's strange. There shouldn't be a world master in the surface world."

Richard covered his chest and tried to analyze the source of his fear. But no matter how he thought, he never thought that his life crisis came from the toad he caught.

"what happened to you?"

Ulises flew out of Hallownest and landed on Richard's shoulder. Richard waved his hand: "It's nothing, you come with me to take a look later. It's too weird."

"So what happened?" Ulysses asked a little confused.

"Nothing, I just felt a great fear for no apparent reason." Richard explained, "That feeling is no less than facing the Lord of the World."

"Gah?"

Ulysses felt a little unbelievable when listening to Richard's description.

"Impossible, there can't be a world master out there. Otherwise, all of you little wizards would have died long ago."

“That’s why I said it was weird.”

As his heart gradually calmed down, Richard tidied his appearance, took the World Tree Staff, and opened the secret realm rift with a solemn expression.

"Be prepared."

"Gah, don't worry." Ulises said confidently.

Richard took a deep breath and silently activated his Vajra body.

Although Ulises's assurances were good, Richard felt it was better to be safe.

As the golden light covered him, Richard took the staff and rushed out of the secret realm in one step.

As soon as he left the secret realm, Ulises immediately cast an energy barrier around Richard. But he looked left and right and did not find any danger.

"Richard, isn't this a poisonous swamp? I don't see any dangerous creatures."

"wrong."

Richard looked around and his expression became more serious.

"This place wasn't like this before I entered the secret realm."

As he spoke, Richard pointed to the surroundings.

"Before I hid in the secret realm, these places were all reeds, weeds, and aquatic trees. But now..."

Richard's body suddenly paused, and as he explored with his mental power, a familiar object entered his field of vision.

He reached out his magic hand into the swamp and quickly grabbed a black, bubbling metallic creature.

Richard recognized it as a fragment of the cage he used to catch frogs.

but now……

A terrible guess suddenly flashed through Richard's mind.

Could it be that toad?
Coo coo, coo coo.

A low croaking sound of a frog came into Richard's ears.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a purple toad swimming slowly in the swamp in the distance.

Richard shuddered suddenly and watched the toad retreating again and again.

"What's wrong?" Ulises looked at Richard in confusion, it was rare to see Richard in this state of being a powerful enemy.

"Did you see that toad?" Richard's voice trembled. "I suspect it is this thing that is in danger."

Ulysses looked in the direction Richard's finger pointed, and saw a purple-skinned toad, not even a first-level creature, swimming leisurely in the swamp.

"This thing?"

Ulises' eyes lit up slightly, making sure he was not mistaken.

"This thing isn't even a first-level creature. How could you be in danger from it?"

As he said this, Ulysses was about to stretch out his crow claws to catch the toad and take a look.

But before he could take any action, he saw a scorpion-tailed monster that Richard had seen before emerge from the forest and come right to the side of the purple-skinned toad.

The next moment, the toad seemed to be frightened and its whole body swelled up instantly.

Then Richard knew why he was afraid.

Bang

The purple mist was like an eraser, melting the level 3 scorpion-tailed monster into a pool of thick lavender water.

The monster didn't even struggle.

Gulu.

Richard swallowed and couldn't help shuddering as he looked at the purple mist.

If it weren't for his physical evolution, his perception of danger would be more sensitive than that of ordinary wizards.

At this moment, he had probably turned into a pool of thick water like the scorpion-tailed monster.

"...Gah, you can't judge a toad by its appearance."

Ulysses stared at the results of the battle caused by the toad for a long time, and even the glimmer in his eyes did not disappear.

When he saw the poisonous fog rushing towards him, he finally reacted and summoned a ball of fire to burn away the purple fog approaching them.

"Phew, this swamp needs to be avoided."

Richard looked at Toad's battle results and made a decision without hesitation.

He was unwilling to throw the Salamanders into this dangerous creature.

"Are you sure?" Ulises asked suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Richard turned his head and looked at him with some confusion.

"nothing."

Ulises's dim eyes were now as bright as two light bulbs. He looked into the depths of the swamp shrouded in thick fog and said uncertainly:

"I seemed to see... a tall crystal tower deep in this swamp."

(End of this chapter)