The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 50 Equipment Upgrade
Upgrading equipment is not an easy task. Most of the magic equipment Richard has are inferior products and there is no room for further improvement.

To make new magic costumes, you need magic costume blueprints.

Although Qiao Luode has a lot of magic armor blueprints, if you want to exchange them, the amount of magic stones you have to spend is definitely not a small number.

Richard had just made a large purchase and had very few magic stones left. It was impossible for him to upgrade all his equipment in a short period of time.

Fortunately, he is not in a hurry now.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is Richard's tenth year in the college.

Two years ago, Richard's mental power successfully broke through the 30 mark with the help of the intermediate meditation method and became an intermediate wizard apprentice. Now Richard's mental power has reached 32 points, and his physical fitness has reached 30 due to the feedback effect.

This speed is not fast among all the formal apprentices, but it is already a dimensionality reduction attack for most ordinary apprentices.

After all, the intermediate meditation method worth two thousand magic stones is not something that everyone can afford.

And during this period, Richard did not delay upgrading his equipment.

……

The central black tower has fifty-six floors.

As the last rune was engraved, Richard leaned back and let out a long sigh.

On the table in front of him, a black sword engraved with dense runes was constantly emitting magical fluctuations.

"Finally done." Richard stretched.

It took him half a year to make this greatsword. In order to obtain its design, he contributed all the magic stones he had accumulated in the past two years to Joe Lord.

But it's all worth it.

The design of this great sword is called Demon Eater, and it is quite complicated to make. As a wizard apprentice, Richard spent half a year to complete only the first stage of its production.

But even in the first phase, its effect is amazing.

The core spell of the first stage of the Demon Devourer Great Sword is called Greedy Demon Flame. In addition to its amazing temperature, it also has the effect of burning magic power. Once spells like Magic Barrier are touched by Greedy Demon Flame, their magic power consumption will instantly increase several times.

This was a fatal blow to the mostly poor apprentices.

Because magic power means magic stones, the magic stones accumulated by most wizard apprentices are not enough to support their wanton use of spells. Once they are infected with the Greedy Demon Flame, it is inevitable to remove the spell.

Of course, to use the Greedy Flame, Richard himself would have to expend a considerable amount of magic power.

But Richard's magic stone assets are too rich.

The income of four hundred magic stones a month is counted in the entire academy.

In addition to the Demon Eater Greatsword, Richard also made several magical armors during this period.

The effect of the Cloak of the Concealer is to reduce the user's presence and hide the apprentice's magical fluctuations. If used in conjunction with breath concealment and silencing, it can even evade a wizard's hasty search.

The Guardian Pendant automatically activates a magic shield that lasts for 30 seconds when attacked by spells. The shield can withstand spells of energy level 50, and consumes one-third of a magic stone each time.

In addition, Richard also has a vine ring that summons a twisted vine to control the enemy, binoculars with eagle vision, a magic gun equipped with magic-breaking bullets, a magic pocket with two cubic meters of storage space, speed boots, a mind protection ring and various miscellaneous alchemical props.

It cost Richard seven or eight thousand magic stones to prepare these things.

But the effect is undoubtedly worth it.

Richard now not only has protection against various attacks, but also has control, acceleration and a certain degree of long-range attack.

Now he can almost be said to be a mobile fortress.

After putting away the greatsword, Richard habitually went to Joe Lord's laboratory on the 99th floor of the Black Tower to ask for money.

There are treasures everywhere in Joe Lord's laboratory. Those materials he casually throws away may be rare treasures to the wizard apprentice, and the draft paper discarded on the ground may solve the problem that the wizard apprentice has been thinking about for years.

But to Richard, these things were secondary.

He valued more the things that Joe Lord often used, such as the scalpel in his hand.

[Materials: Enchanted Scalpel]

[Refinable skills: Joelod biological anatomy] [Refining consumption: 40 mental power]

[Whether to refine]

Looking at the message sent by the Miracle Furnace, Richard swallowed silently and put the scalpel back in place.

He can't refine forty mental powers now.

Just as Richard was searching the laboratory, the door suddenly opened and Joe Lord and Anna walked in one after another.

"Oh, Richard, you haven't been to the lab for half a year. Have you finished your Demon-Devouring Greatsword?" Joe Lord looked at Richard with a smile, but when he saw the scalpel behind Richard during the experiment, his face suddenly changed, and a magic thread flew out from his hand, instantly taking the scalpel in his hand.

"I can't give this to you." Qiao Luode said vigilantly.

Richard looked at Joe Lord, who was guarding against thieves, and felt embarrassed.

As mentioned earlier, Richard often came to the laboratory to ask for free money, so every time Richard came, some small items such as quills and draft paper would disappear from Joe Lord's laboratory.

Although Joe Lord was troubled by Richard's habit, he usually didn't say anything.

Wizards all have some quirks.

Anna, who was standing by, couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw this scene.

"Ahem, teacher, Sister Anna, long time no see." Richard greeted them as if nothing had happened.

"Yeah, long time no see." Anna smiled and suddenly walked to Richard and compared her height with Richard.

"Time flies. You were only this tall when you first came to the academy."

Anna measured her height against her chest, and Richard was now taller than Anna.

Richard heard something in Anna's words.

"Sister Anna, are you going to take the wizard exam?"

Anna nodded and said, "Well, I will go to the Dean's secret world to take the wizard exam in two days."

The wizard exam, the final stage of a wizard's apprenticeship.

By passing the wizard exam, wizard apprentices will have the opportunity to be promoted to wizards and become true members of the wizarding world.

"Sister Anna, you will definitely pass the exam. You are the most outstanding disciple of Alchemist Master Joe Lord of the Black Tower Wizarding Academy in a thousand years." Richard encouraged.

Anna smiled brightly when she heard that, and Qiao Luode beside her also stroked his beard proudly.

"Richard is right, Anna, you just don't fight with others enough and don't know the other apprentices well enough to know what kind of crooked people they are. As my favorite disciple, you will definitely pass the wizard exam."

Anna didn't say anything. In fact, she had never worried about not being able to pass the wizard exam. She had always been worried about whether she could be promoted successfully.

There is nearly a 30% chance of failure in becoming a wizard. Once the promotion fails, the wizard apprentice will never become a wizard in his life.

For a wizard apprentice, there is nothing more terrible than failing to be promoted.

After chatting for a while, Richard saw that Anna had something to say to Joe Lord, so he left the laboratory and returned to his room on the 56th floor.

"Wizard exam...my exam is coming soon." Richard looked at the calendar on the table. There was only one month left before the bloody exam of the academy. One month later, more than 4,000 apprentices of the academy would start a brutal fight. The successful ones would continue on the path of wizards, and the unsuccessful ones would become nourishment for others.

According to the rumors he knew, every bloody exam would eliminate at least half of the apprentices. When the competition was fierce, there would even be a terrible situation of three alive and one, or four alive and one.

Whenever Richard thought of this, he always felt some indescribable emotions in his heart.

He felt that there was something wrong with the system of the wizard academy, but he couldn't tell where.

But he quickly put those feelings behind him.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

He can't change the rules now, so he can only adapt to them.

(End of this chapter)