The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 636 Free Will
"Shou... finally went to bed?"

Richard looked at Ellie in a daze and asked hurriedly, "Why is he going to die soon? The teacher's life span should be very..."

"Richard, you don't think logistics is easy, do you?" Ellie said gloomily, "Master Joe Lord is a master of synthetic beasts, and his factory produces tens of thousands of synthetic beasts every day.

As a senior wizard among them, he makes high-level synthetic beasts every day to supply the front line.

You know better than me how much effort it takes to make advanced synthetic beasts, and Master Qiaoluode has been doing it for more than 600 years..."

“Besides,” Ellie sighed, “The deaths of Anna, Chucks, and those brothers and sisters I didn’t know were a big blow to Master Joe Lord.

This should be the biggest reason for his loss of lifespan.”

For most wizards, as long as the soul is immortal, the decay of the body is not a big deal. But while reaping the benefits, one also has to accept the price. The stronger the soul, the stronger the mental blow.

Sometimes the mental impact of a tragedy is even greater than that of a mental tear.

"……I see."

Suddenly, Richard's eyes became blurry, the light scattered in his eyes, and everything he saw was blurry. His brain was also a little confused, and he suddenly couldn't remember what he was going to do next.

"Gah, Richard, wake up!"

Ulises' voice awakened Richard's mind like a bell. Ellie looked at Richard's shoulder, and only then did she realize that there was a crow standing on Richard's shoulder.

"You bird is still here."

"He... of course he is."

Richard was in a trance for a moment, and the scattered light refocused in front of his eyes.

"I have to go see the teacher, where is he working? I probably won't be back for a long time, so I have to go see him."

……

In the operating room, Qiao Luode placed the synthetic beast core into the body of the synthetic beast with an expressionless face. The squirming flesh and blood on the synthetic beast core slowly merged with the surrounding flesh and blood, and then with a "bang", the synthetic beast core began to beat vigorously. Then, the energy circulation began to flow, and the synthetic beast's powerful body began to gradually revive.

"Done, inject the anesthetic, and start the next production in ten minutes."

"Yes, Master."

After leaving the operating room, Qiao Luode walked to his small office as usual, ready to take a short rest. But as soon as he walked out of the operating room door, he saw a familiar figure.

"Ellie, why do you come to my place again?" Joe Lord looked at Ellie and smiled.

As the lover of his student and the disciple of his deceased colleague, Joe Lord is still very kind to Ellie - especially after a group of his student friends died in the war.

Ellie walked over to Qiaoluode with a smile: "Master, I'm not the only one here today."

"Oh? Who else?"

Qiao Luode knocked his head and began to recall which of his acquaintances and friends were still alive. But before he could figure it out, a familiar figure appeared in front of him.

"Teacher, I'm back."

Looking at the familiar figure in front of him, Qiao Luode was in a trance for a moment. He asked tentatively: "Richard?"

"It's me, teacher."

Joe Lord rubbed his eyes and cast several soul spells on himself to wake him up. After making sure that he was not hallucinating, the old wizard revealed the most sincere and heartfelt smile of his life.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back."

Joe Lord walked up to Richard, as if he had a thousand words to say, but they all disappeared when they reached his lips.

"You have become a great wizard, why do you have no physical body?"

"…My physical body is in another world. I came back through the nightmare world this time."

"Okay, okay, you are really powerful now. You can even use dimension teleportation."

Qiao Luode patted Richard's body that was condensed with energy, then turned around and said, "Come to my room, it's not good to stand outside."

Entering the room, Richard casually glanced at the decoration of the room. There were only bookshelves, desks, chairs and a bed in the room, which was a typical practical wizard style.

"Master, you are still the same." Ellie sat next to Richard and smiled at Joe Lord, "Bookshelves are almost gone among wizards nowadays."

Joe Lord sat down behind the desk and waved his hand.

"I am an old-fashioned person who can't keep up with the times, so I like these old-fashioned things."

After saying that, he looked at Richard. He could see that Richard was not in a good mood.

"Why, aren't you happy to see an old man like me still alive?"

"No, no, that's not what you said." Richard looked at the rotten smell on Qiaoluode, and his voice of rebuttal gradually became weaker.

"I'm just a little sad."

"Why are you sad?" Qiao Luode looked at himself and said softly, "I am an old man who has lived for more than 5,000 years. I should have died long ago. As for your brothers and sisters... don't be sad, this is how war is. People will die in plane wars, not to mention civilization wars."

But having said that, Qiao Luode's voice unconsciously lowered when he said this.

"What's the war situation like?" "Very bad. The production requirements of the synthetic beast factory are getting higher and higher. Now it's not a problem of resources, but a problem of not having enough wizards. Wizards on the front line can be trained quickly, but alchemy wizards in the rear cannot be trained quickly. If the number of alchemy wizards cannot be increased, it will be useless even if the resources pile up in the warehouse."

The front-line wizards only need to be able to cast spells, but the alchemy factories in the rear need alchemy wizards who have received systematic alchemy education. Many alchemy factories are very dangerous. If you allow quick-trained wizards to work, the factory will explode.

"Hasn't the higher-ups considered shortening the battle line?"

"The Star Realm is not land. Although our battle line is called a line, it is actually a plane. This situation cannot shorten the battle line. Moreover, the resources of so many worlds have not been fully mined. If we retreat hastily, we will only become weaker and weaker."

"..."

The room fell silent again.

Joe Lord looked at Richard, and he could see that his student was not just sad. Behind this layer of sadness, there was definitely something else hidden.

"Richard, what happened to you?"

"Nothing, I just..." Richard stopped talking halfway. After a moment of silence, he said softly, "I'm just a little scared."

"What are you afraid of? Death?"

"a part of it."

Richard looked at Joe Lord. Although he was already a great wizard now, his teacher far surpassed him in experience and knowledge.

"Teacher, aren't you afraid?"

"You mean death?"

"Ah."

"How could I not be afraid?" Qiao Luode laughed, "Everyone is afraid of death. It is the instinct of all living things. No matter what kind of creature it is, the fear of death is engraved in their instinct."

"But you don't look scared."

"I just overcame this fear." Joe Lord smiled, "It's natural for people to be afraid of death, not to mention in this era when even great wizards fall.

But I can tell you have more than just fear."

Richard fell silent, he didn't know how to express his confusion. The Supreme Master told him that he had a destiny and he was on a wonderful road. But the death of his friends and relatives made him confused. If fate was predetermined, then what was the purpose of everything he was doing now?

Fate would not change, if his relatives and friends were destined to die in this war, they would die in this war anyway, no matter how hard they tried.

So what was the meaning of everything he did?

After a long time, he said, "Teacher, if the end of fate is predetermined, then what is the meaning of everything I do?"

"Ok?"

Joe Lord was slightly stunned. Richard's question made him a little confused. But being confused did not prevent him from answering questions for his only remaining and best student.

This is the only way he can help as a teacher.

"How can it be meaningless?"

"If the outcome is set, then no matter what I do, it won't change the outcome. Whether I sleep or work hard, the end result will be the same."

Qiao Luode shook his head: "I don't know what you encountered, but I can tell you for sure that your different actions will definitely lead to different results. It's like you see that you are destined to die in a certain war. If you continue to explore the truth and improve your witchcraft, then even if you die, your death will be wonderful.

But if you know you are doomed to die, and you start taking hallucinogens like those new wizards, then you might die by being killed by someone, like a crushed insect. "

"But he died in the end."

"Death is inevitable, child," Joe Lord said softly.

"I don't know what you saw, but I guess you may have encountered a prophecy or seen some fragments of the future, so you fell into the trap of nihilism and felt that everything was meaningless."

But as a teacher, I have to tell you that this is wrong.”

As he said this, Joe Lord waved to Richard, signaling him to come over. Richard walked over, only to see Joe Lord hit him on the head with lightning speed.

"Do you feel it?"

"Have."

"Is it nothing?"

"I...I don't know."

"Fool!"

As he said this, Joe Lord hit Richard hard on the head again.

"If you hadn't worked hard, I would have died on the battlefield right now, and I wouldn't be here to knock on your head. If you didn't work hard, you would never have become a great wizard."

After saying that, Qiao Luode paused and continued, "I know you, a fool, must want to say that fate has destined me to survive. But I can also say that fate has destined me to survive because of my best student. If you firmly believe that fate determines everything, then everything you and I do now is destined by fate.

That means you deny the existence of free will."

Joe Lord asked Richard word by word: "Richard, do you think you have free will?"

(End of this chapter)