The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 637: Spiritual Power is Complete, Prepare for Promotion
Faced with Joe Lord's questioning, Richard suddenly had an epiphany.

Indeed, if the future is predetermined, then every step he takes will be predetermined, and there will be no free will.

But free will exists.

Human consciousness is not as precise as a machine, it is chaotic. Sudden thoughts can cause people to make different decisions in the same scenario.

Since free will exists, absolute destiny does not exist.

After realizing this, the gloom in Richard's heart suddenly dissipated.

Absolute fate does not exist, so even if his fate is determined, his every move will affect the fate of others. His teacher survived because of him, and his lover retreated from the front line because of him.

In the future, he might be able to save tens or even hundreds of thousands of wizards from death.

Everything he did was not meaningless!
"I understand, teacher."

Richard bowed solemnly to Joe Lord.

Joe Lord looked at Richard, whose eyes were no longer confused, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Just figure it out."

Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the office door.

Qiao Luode looked at the time, stood up and was about to go outside.

"My break is over, it's time to work."

"Teacher, how about I go find the Corona..."

"Go away!" Qiao Luode waved his hand and said, "This place is the best place for me to display my talents. You transferred me away. Are you going to let me lie in bed and wait for death?"

"No, teacher, your workload is so intense..."

"I'm a three-ring wizard. This level of strength is easier for me than research. Go and do your work."

After that, Qiao Luode pushed open the office door and greeted the wizard outside: "Here you are."

Looking at Joe Lord's back, Richard felt mixed emotions for a moment.

"Don't think too much. Master Joe Lord seems to really like his job here." Ellie walked up to Richard and said softly.

Richard was silent for a long time, then sighed, "Oh, damn war."

……

After leaving the synthetic animal factory where Joe Lord was, Richard found Wu Ni and returned to the nightmare world.

In the nightmare world, Bones has awakened from his slumber.

Looking at this huge monster emitting nightmare radiation all over his body, Richard couldn't help but compare it with the Bones in his memory who called him boss all day long.

"Bone, why are you getting uglier as you evolve?"

Bones scratched his head in embarrassment as he listened to Richard's words.

"Boss, the way I evolve is not something I can decide. If my mentality changes, my appearance will naturally change."

Richard introduced Muni to the man beside him, "This is Bone. I named him Knight in the nightmare world." Then he introduced Bone, "This is Muni, my student in the wizard world."

The two creatures, who clearly had a close relationship but had never met each other due to some strange coincidence, looked at each other and then greeted each other cordially, at least on the surface.

"Hello, Bones."

"Hello, little boss."

Richard nodded, and then asked Wu Ni: "Are the nightmare rules required by the higher-ups strict? I need a lot of nightmare power."

"That's easy." Wu Ni said proudly, "Teacher, take whatever you want. The higher-ups will never get enough of nightmare rules. If I hand in less, they'll scold me at best. Anyway, I'm only taking over this position temporarily. At worst, they can transfer me to another place."

Richard nodded slightly, and didn't bother to be polite with Wu Ni. After all, he really needed the power of nightmare to refine the essence of soul.

After roughly estimating the cost of refining, Richard said, "I need 40 million nightmare powers."

"Forty million?" Wu Ni hesitated for a moment, "How about rounding it up to fifty million, which is exactly the nightmare power of a nightmare lord."

"Ah? That's not good." Richard said in a tangled tone, "Forty million is enough for me."

Wu Ni waved his hand indifferently: "Forty million or fifty million is about the same, it's just one less miniature floating city. Apart from anything else, although we are short of basic magic equipment, we have no shortage of high-end goods like floating cities. For this small loss, I can just make a change in the account book and I won't even be scolded.

I manage all the one hundred nightmare farms in this nightmare world."

Seeing that Wu Ni was so confident, Richard didn't bother to be polite.

"Fifty million is fine. Be good when you go to the front line. When your teacher comes back, I will go find Corona and bring you to be my deputy."

"Haha, yes, teacher."

After leaving with the nightmare crystals, Richard found a secluded place in the wild and refined the nightmare power. The vast nightmare power entered the miracle furnace and turned into tiny bits of soul essence.

After two months, all the nightmare power was refined, and the refined soul essence suspended in the air was as big as two people.

"Gah, no matter how many times I see it, your tricks always surprise me."

Ulises stood on Richard's shoulder, looking at the soul essence in front of him, and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

With one hand editing life, and the other hand using nightmare power to refine soul essence, Richard's evolutionary path progressed at an incredibly fast pace in terms of basic qualities. Although other great wizards would more or less use some rare treasures to accelerate the improvement of basic qualities, Richard's ability to complete a whole stage of basic quality improvement in a few decades had never happened in either wizard civilization or gods civilization. "Don't be surprised, I'll give you this to restore some of your soul's foundation."

Richard took out almost one-fifth of the soul essence and sent it to Ulysses. The soul essence he needed for promotion was only 40 million nightmare power soul essences, and the extra soul essence was not of much use to him.

"Hey, there's no rush for this."

Ulysses slashed with his crow claws, and the soul essence was sealed up.

"My lifespan problem is solved by the divine weapon given to me by the God King. It is too extravagant to solve it with soul essence."

Richard shrugged nonchalantly.

"up to you."

After swallowing the soul essence, Richard immediately felt a dizzy feeling like being drunk. This was the side effect of swallowing a large amount of soul essence. Even though Richard's mental power had reached 300, increasing his mental power by nearly one-third of his total mental power at once could not avoid the side effects.

Before he fell into a coma, Richard opened the nightmare door to return to the secret realm. Ulises then sealed him and returned to the secret realm.

Three years later, Richard woke up.

"This sleep was quite long."

Richard woke up and said groggily.

"How long have I slept?"

"Three years, Master."

After listening to the reply from the World Mushroom, Richard scratched his head and said with a relaxed expression: "Not bad, it's only been three years."

Unconsciously, Richard had become accustomed to the immortal species' concept of time. In just three years, he didn't even have the opportunity to take a short rest.

After stretching his body, Richard used his power to contact Ulysses.

“Ulises, how have these years been?”

Ulises, who was teaching the White Wolf God how to use his power in Wolf Plain, was slightly startled when he heard Richard's voice.

"Gah, it's only been three years, you woke up a little too quickly."

"Wouldn't it be better to hurry up?"

"Ha, that's not the case. I'm at the White Wolf God in Langyuan. Would you like to come and take a look?"

As he spoke, Ulysses opened a crack leading to a secret realm. Richard walked out through the crack and saw the white wolf god, who was as big as a hill, lying on the ground, quietly listening to the teachings of Ulysses, a crow that was not even as big as his fingernail.

Seeing the White Wolf God, Richard was a little surprised and said, "You have grown up quite well, White Wolf. Before I went into seclusion for research, I remember you were only...this big."

Richard tried to gesture with his hands, but quickly gave up the idea - it was too stupid.

When the White Wolf God heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

"My Lord, is it fast to grow to this size in a hundred years?"

"Gah, don't listen to his nonsense." Ulises shook his head. "This guy just slept for three years, so his mind is a little unclear. It's normal for him to grow to your state in a hundred years."

"Oh yes, I have been studying it for a hundred years."

Richard patted his head. Even though he had been in a coma for three years, the sudden increase in mental strength still made his brain a little uncomfortable.

"I'm really not thinking straight. What are you doing?"

The White Wolf God whispered, "My Lord, I am learning how to use the power of the gods from Lord Crow."

"Oh, that's right, learn from him. I learned from him, too."

Richard waved his hands and his mind cleared up a little.

"Ulises, I have a list here. Ask your subordinates to collect it later. Also, find a place with a peaceful energy environment and a balanced rules environment. The terrain does not matter. This condition must be met."

As he spoke, Richard pulled out a scroll he had written long ago from his pocket and handed it to Ulises.

"Gah, what is this?"

Ulises took the scroll, glanced at the contents, and then asked in surprise: "You want to advance to the fifth ring? In such a hurry?"

Although Ulysses didn't know the use of most of the things in it, there were several important things among them, which were the same as those required for the ceremony of promotion to high-level gods in the gods' civilization.

Richard waved his hand, "I'm going to be promoted anyway, so I'll prepare these things in advance so I can use them directly when the time comes. Besides, I'm not in a hurry to be promoted at this time. I perfected my compound rule body by myself, and I also meet the requirements for physical fitness and mental strength. Although the time interval seems short, the conditions are absolutely impeccable."

Ulises was silenced by what Richard said.

What Richard said was indeed reasonable. There was no such thing as solid foundation. Quality was quality. There was no difference between the physical fitness improved through life editing and that obtained through hard training. Similarly, there was no difference between the mental power gained through meditation and that improved through soul essence.

Of course, this is only from the perspective of promotion. If we talk about actual combat effectiveness, that is another set of standards.

"Gah, White Wolf, take a look too. The fairyland world has been developed almost completely in recent years. There should be a lot of things in it."

The White Wolf God glanced at the scroll, and after a moment of silence, he replied: “…Lord Crow, you may have forgotten one thing.

I am from the countryside and I don’t recognize these names.”

(End of this chapter)