The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 385: Breaking the impasse, Dragon Blood Snake King
"Only one final leap of the soul is left?"

Richard repeated this sentence, feeling somewhat puzzled.

According to the feedback effect, physical breakthroughs will also lead to mental breakthroughs. And mental breakthroughs represent qualitative changes in the soul.

But Ulises said that these creatures were just one step away from making the final leap.

"Yes, that's the last leap." Ulises said slowly, "This is the difficulty of pure physical evolution.

Pure physical evolution can rely on what you call the feedback effect to break through the limits of mortal mental power.

But this kind of breakthrough is only an increase in quantity; in terms of quality, their souls are still mortal souls. "

"Huh!? Then isn't pure physical evolution a dead end?" Richard said in surprise.

“It’s not like they are at a dead end.” Ulises shook his head, “Those bastards from the Abyss are just pure physical evolution, and they have two masters.

The final step of pure physical evolution requires an item as an aid to complete it."

"What item?" Richard asked quickly.

"The light of the soul sea."

Upon hearing the name, Richard froze in place.

If this thing is needed, then pure physical evolution is just seeking death, isn't it?

The Soul Sea Light is a specialty of the Soul Sea. If you want to obtain it, you have to hunt a Soul Sea creature called the Soul Sea Lantern Fish.

The combat power of this creature is simply a dimensionality reduction attack for creatures below level four.

Souls below level four will be sucked into the lantern in front of its head. If they don't know special means, they won't even be able to escape.

Even the most experienced three-ring soul wizard would stay away from this thing when he encounters it while traveling in the soul sea.

"Isn't this seeking death?" Richard couldn't help but reply.

Ulises said indifferently: "There are other ways, but this is the only one I know. And those Abyss bastards seem to have their own way.

But you are not such a wild person, you have at least two paths to choose from."

"Two ways?"

Ulises said calmly: "One is the path to advancement in your wizard world, and the other... is naturally the path to becoming a god.

In our civilization of gods, there are three and a half ways to ascend to godhood. I cannot tell outsiders the full three ways, but the half way is not among them.

If you really can't follow the path of a wizard in the future, then this half path may help you advance."

Hearing this, Richard's heart skipped a beat. He used to be far away from becoming a great wizard, but now, he can think about becoming one.

"Thank you very much." Richard said sincerely.

"There's nothing to thank me for." Ulises said calmly, "Your interests and mine are already tied together. If you become stronger, I will also benefit."

As he said this, he smiled slyly again.

"Besides, I have to take back this ten thousand year fate contract. Although I earn less, a win-win situation is always better than a lose-lose situation."

Richard was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he couldn't help laughing.

The Lord of this world is such a wonderful person.

"Enough of the small talk. How are you going to deal with this toad in front of you?" Ulysses turned the topic back to the problem at hand.

"I can tell you clearly that I may not be able to defeat this toad. Although his soul has not yet made its final leap, his body has already reached the level of a world master, albeit the weakest one."

Richard looked at the Toad King, pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "You said, since there is a Toad King in this swamp, then the black snake that feeds on the toads, could there also be a snake king?

Otherwise, the black snake eating the toad should flee from the swamp."

Ulises was stunned for a moment, then agreed, "That makes sense. When I became the master of the Crow Realm, I killed many creatures that fed on us Dark Crows."

Richard laughed when he heard this and said, "So the solution to this problem should be up to the snake king."

……

In the secret realm, the giant black snake thrown in by Ulysses was firmly controlled by the mycelium of the World Tree.

Suddenly, a rift in the secret realm opened, and Richard and Ulysses returned to the secret realm.

"World Mushroom, bring me that snake."

Upon hearing this, the World Mushroom sent the black snake to Richard. Richard asked the World Mushroom to remove the mycelium, and then turned off the closed mode of the individual armor, revealing the powerful life radiation of the third-level creature.

The moment it came into contact with the third-level biological life radiation, the black snake was so frightened that it coiled up into a snake ball.

Seeing this scene, Richard showed an expression of "as expected" on his face.

"Sure enough, this black snake is not a biological weapon left by the forerunners."

The biological weapons of the Forerunners all have one characteristic, that is, they are fearless and unafraid of death.

Their life cores have been processed by the forerunners, and the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm in their life has been removed.

Otherwise, the enemy can drive away these brainless poisonous insects by simply releasing a little life radiation.

Richard grabbed the black snake, lifted it in front of his eyes, and asked through mental messages.

"Little guy, tell me where is your snake king?"

The black snake in front of him was already at the level of a Level 2 creature. Even a snake, a creature with a tiny brain, should have some communication capabilities.

Sure enough, after Richard asked, the black snake made a rapid "hissing" sound.

Richard has never learned the snake language. Of course, even if he had learned it, the snake language of the Green Forest world and the snake language of the wizarding world might not be the same.

So after hearing this series of snake language, Richard turned his gaze to Ulysses.

"Ulises, I have a difficult task for you."

"What mission?" Ulysses asked vigilantly.

Since Richard could describe this task as arduous, it was probably not an easy one.

"How do you feel about letting this black snake become my disciple?"

"...This joke doesn't sound funny." "It's indeed not funny, but unfortunately I'm not joking. Of course, you can also change your job.

What do you think about this church thing using soul messages? "

"…I'd better try to preach to him."

Ulises took the black snake from Richard. It was not an easy task to preach to this almost uncivilized creature.

"Let me ask you, what do you want it to believe in you?"

Richard spread his hands: "I need to communicate with him, but I don't understand snake language."

"…If it's just for communication, we can try another method."

As he spoke, Ulysses lit up the majestic holy light, and then a ray of light shot into the black snake's body.

The next moment, Richard understood what the black snake was saying.

"Don't eat me, don't eat me! I'll take you to see the Lord Snake King."

Richard laughed when he heard this: "Haha, this little guy seems to be quite cooperative."

He took the black from Ulises and asked with a smile, "Have your Snake King and the Toad King next to the Crystal Tower had any conflicts in the past?"

Under the pressure of the third-level creature, Black trembled and said, "Yes, yes! That stinky toad has fought with Lord Snake King many times."

"Who's winning?"

"No one wins, but Lord Snake needs to be...weaker."

Richard stroked his chin, a sly smile forming at the corner of his mouth.

"Weaker, that means the Snake King is injured, right?"

"Hiss! How did you know!"

Richard waved his hand and said, "You don't need to know how I know this. You just need to know that you will take me to find him later. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

"So you will sign this contract too, right?"

As he spoke, Richard took out a soul contract from his pocket and handed it to Black Snake.

"Leave your soul mark on this."

The black snake looked at the soul contract, and its instinct told it that it would probably not end well if it signed it.

But no matter how bad the ending is, can it be worse than death?

Black Snake looked at Richard who was staring at him. He could sense a terrible evil spirit from Richard. It was a creature killed by Richard, a warning to other creatures - don't mess with this guy.

If it did not agree to the contract, it was almost certain that it would die here, or suffer something more horrible than death.

So Black Snake left his soul mark on the contract without hesitation.

As the contract turned into flames and disappeared into the air, Richard opened a crack in the secret realm and left the secret realm with Black Snake and Ulysses.

As soon as it returned to the secret realm, the black snake immediately became active.

But before he could get into the swamp, his body suddenly froze in place.

It could feel that an invisible force was restraining it, and if it dared to escape, this force would instantly shatter its soul.

"Little guy, don't even think about running away." Richard sneered, "Before signing the contract, don't you want to read the contents of the contract?"

The black snake's body stiffened. Given its situation at the time, it would die on the spot if it didn't sign the contract. Would it make any difference whether it read the contents of the contract or not?

Forced by the contract, the black snake had to give up the idea of ​​escaping and swam deeper into the swamp with the two uninvited guests.

……

This poisonous swamp is very large and shrouded in fog. There is no telling how many terrible creatures are hiding there.

Richard followed the black snake and continued to move forward. The further he went, the more poisonous snakes there were around him.

These poisonous snakes are either entangled in trees or hiding in the water. Once any creature approaches, they will open their bloody mouths.

Even though they are all snakes, these venomous snakes will show no mercy.

In other words, snakes are the most common food in this swamp.

clang!
Another blind venomous snake bit Richard's armor.

Richard crushed the snake to death without changing his expression and threw it into his pocket.

The venom of these poisonous snakes has very high research value. If he can study it thoroughly, his potion making skills will definitely improve a lot.

And even if he didn't study it, this thing would be great for making snake soup.

"How long will it take, little one?"

"Not far away, just ahead."

The black snake leading the way had a rather unusual bloodline. In this swamp filled with snakes, when the black snake moved, other snakes would let him go, not him. Even the third-level snakes did the same.

Richard guessed that this black snake was probably related by blood to the snake king.

Just as the black snake said, it wasn't long before Richard saw the snake king.

In the dark swamp, a giant dragon-blood snake with a golden body and dragon horns on its head was coiled on the body of a dead World Tree, hissing and spitting out its tongue.

Behind it, there was a black rotten wound, oozing black pus and blood.

The snake king looked at Richard, his golden eyes shining as bright as the sun.

"Outsider, you shouldn't be here."

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Richard asked with interest.

The snake king swam down from the tree and came to Richard with his tongue spitting out.

"Because the world is dying."

(End of this chapter)