Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

"Ten?" a wizard exclaimed in disbelief, "How did you survive encountering ten of these things?"

According to Richard's description, this weapon seemed specifically designed for hunting wizards. With advanced detection mechanisms, high magic resistance, and efficient demon-breaking weapons, a wizard could face three adversaries with one of these weapons. If there were ten of these, they could hardly think of anything that could stand against them except the White Wizard Army.

"Just luck," Richard said indifferently, "There were about seven or eight Three Rings wizards with me, but only three escaped in the end.

Plus, that was because those natives had degenerated to the point where they couldn't fully utilize the capabilities of those weapons."

Though Richard spoke nonchalantly, the wizards present could imagine, based on their rich war experience, how they would escape if they faced such a situation as Second Ring wizards.

But the outcome they pictured was death without doubt.

Even if they put themselves in the current situation, they could not be sure of escaping safely.

This thought made them develop a sense of respect for Richard.

This newly advanced Three Rings wizard wasn't simple at all.

After Richard shared the intelligence, no one else spoke among the wizards. It was just the time for the Floating City to descend, and many Three Rings wizards remained, arriving in the Floating City via airship.

Above the Floating City, Garon the Great Wizard was delivering a pre-war speech.

The speech was impassioned, but the Three Rings wizards inside the airship felt no stir in their hearts.

They had been through too many wars; such speeches could no longer sway their hearts, hardened by blood and fire.

Soon, the speech ended, and the Floating City, moving through a space rift, left the Wizard World.

The wizards began to find their respective rooms.

As a Three Rings wizard, Richard's room was situated in the spire at the upper levels of the Floating City.

This was Richard's first time living in the upper levels of the Floating City.

According to the room number plate, Richard reached the third floor of Tower 25; according to Jimmy, half of this entire floor was his.

In the past, Richard could only reside in the lower levels, owning a room about ten square meters in size, with a quiet room only a few meters squared.

Now, however, he had half of the high tower to himself.

This half tower included a fully equipped wizard's laboratory, a meditation quiet room, a resting room, an exercise room, and a kitchen.

Though these facilities could only be used during the journey and would all be turned into work areas once the Floating City landed,

This did not affect Richard's current joyful mood.

"Being a Three Rings sure is nice."

Richard sighed lightly and walked into the room with light steps.

…

Ten years later.

"This world is truly beautiful."

Outside the Floating City, Garon the Great Wizard, dressed in a black robe, couldn't help but marvel at the verdant world nearby.

"Yes, Headmaster."

Next to Garon the Great Wizard, Jimmy, his body flickering with magic patterns. A magic barrier isolated him from the outside world.

They were now in the Star Realm, a space nurturing countless worlds, filled with corrosive ether and violent spatial storms.

Even as Three Rings wizards, they had to activate magic barriers to protect themselves from the ether and the spatial storms.

Garon the Great Wizard, gazing at the world, said, "Let's capture an image, Jimmy. Once we go in, this land might not be this beautiful anymore."

Jimmy took out an Image Capturing Crystal Ball from his pocket, saved the image of the verdant world, and then returned to the Floating City.

Garon the Great Wizard sighed softly, casually pulling out a White Bone Wand from the void.

This wand, much like the one owned by the Inferno Great Wizard, was made from the remains of a World Master. However, unlike the Inferno Great Wizard's wand, Garon's did not contain any low-grade World Masters.

His wand was made entirely from the bones of Level 6 Creatures. Merely taking this wand out was enough to stir a spatial storm in the Star Realm.

Gripping the wand, Garon the Great Wizard waved it gently, and a magic array expanded outward from the wand, quickly becoming almost as large as the Floating City.

Guided by this wand, the massive Floating City began to approach the verdant world.

War was about to begin.

…

Dong—Dong—Dong—

The deep sound of the bell echoed through the Floating City. Hearing this sound, every wizard, no matter what they were doing, stopped their activities.

"Is it finally time to go to war?"

In the laboratory, Richard put down the alchemy materials in his hands and put everything in the room into a Magic Pocket.

The Floating City only rang the bell in one situation: when it was about to enter a world.

Richard casually opened the Secret Realm Rift, calling out Ulysses and Hog from the Secret Realm.

"The battle is starting, come out quickly."

Inside the Secret Realm, Ulysses was riding Hog in the air, playing an off-road game with a World Mushroom avatar.

He stood on Hog's neck, each wing extending black energy chains, binding Hog's dragon horns to control Hog's flying direction.

Under his control, Hog flipped and turned, dodging the World Mushroom's mycelium tentacles and the Holy Tree Elves following behind.

"Ah? We've arrived already?"

Hearing Richard's voice, Ulysses, somewhat surprised, made Hog stop.

The World Mushroom and the Holy Tree Elves also stopped.

Richard glared at him: "We've been traveling nearly ten years, and you call that quick?"

"Ah? Has it been almost ten years?" Ulysses awkwardly scratched his head, "Staying in the Secret Realm all year round, I almost forgot about time."

Upon hearing that war was to begin, Richard's Fire Lizard Battle Group immediately stopped their training.

"Sir, are we going to participate in the battle?" A company commander from the battle group approached Richard and asked.

Richard shook his head, "No, you'll have to wait."

If nothing unexpected happened, a major battle was likely to follow, and they might have to face a group of natives wielding Pioneer weapons.

At such times, a battle group of five hundred wasn't very useful; participating would mean being cannon fodder.

He had spent so much Magic Essence, not with the intention of producing mere cannon fodder.

After taking Ulysses and Hogla out of the Secret Realm, Richard arrived at the lower levels of the Floating City.

On the way there, Richard stopped by the logistics department and collected some equipment exclusive to Three Rings Wizards.

These included various functional Magic Potions and Magic Equipment, but the most important was a specially crafted Crystal Ball.

Through this Crystal Ball, Richard could directly contact the command center and even issue an emergency conscription command, a privilege exclusive to Three Rings Wizards.

Arriving at the airship level, the Crystal Ball he had just acquired started relaying commands from the headquarters.

[Wizard Richard, please report to Airship Thirty-five.]

Richard wandered around in the airship area and quickly found Airship Thirty-five.

Upon entering the airship, Richard heard several exclamations.

"What's wrong? Do you have any issues?"

Richard looked towards the wizards who had made the noise and saw reverence on their faces as they performed a Wizard's Salute.

"Master, we are from Extreme North City."

"Oh—" Richard suddenly realized, having built Extreme North City for so many years, It has definitely produced quite a few wizards.

However, he had been so focused on his research that he never paid attention to this aspect over the years.

In fact, nearly half of the Wizard Apprentices at Garon Wizard Academy were under Richard's jurisdiction.

Even in a fantastical world, the basic laws of Richard's city ensured that residents could at least have food to eat and a place to live.

In contrast, the tribes in the wilderness could suffer badly in a blizzard, potentially freezing many of their people.

Under such circumstances, having only half of the apprentices from Richard's territory at Garon Wizard Academy was already quite typical of the fantastical world's status quo.

Richard shrugged and said indifferently, "Don't be so excited, we are all wizards from the same academy, it's common to meet in a plane expedition."

Yet, despite Richard's words, his image had already been portrayed as a saintly figure by the Miracle Sect.

Even though these wizards had been educated at the Academy, due to their childhood exposure, they still held great reverence for this towering figure they had heard of all their lives.

These wizards covertly exchanged Spiritual Messages, speculating about which ring level Richard might belong to, but they soon didn't need to guess.

Because a Second Ring Wizard performed a Wizard's Salute to Richard.

[Attention all wizards, attention all wizards]

[Floating City is about to breach the World Barrier, prepare for war!]

As the somewhat icy voice from the headquarters faded in the crystal ball, Richard suddenly felt a tremendous pressure, as if squeezing into the interior of something.

This represented the Floating City breaching the world barrier.

But this time, the pressure lasted longer than any of his previous expeditions.

Ten minutes later, the intense pressure vanished, and Richard let out a slight sigh of relief.

He turned to look at the other wizards in the airship and noticed several Second Ring Wizards sweating profusely, while the One Ring Wizards were even paler, many of them having fainted.

Seeing that Richard remained composed, awe grew in the hearts of the wizards.

Richard glanced at the unconscious wizards and casually commanded, "Wake those who have fainted."

"Yes," they responded in unison.

After this little episode, Richard began to await the intelligence report from the headquarters.

Normally, the Slave Army would have already been deployed by now. Massive amounts of slaves would consume the natives' first wave of attacks and collect information for the wizards.

However, this time the broadcast from the headquarters was delayed.

Frowning, Richard stared at the Communication Crystal Ball he had obtained from the logistics department, thinking, "Hmm? Is there something wrong with my crystal ball?"

But before he could attempt a repair, the crystal ball relayed another command from the headquarters.

[This world is provisionally named Green Forest World, with Magic concentration ten times that of the Wizard World, Four Elements Rules are balanced, special rules yet to be discovered]

[All airships launch]

"Ah?"

Richard was astonished by the crystal ball.

While he could comprehend the first piece of information, the second one was beyond his understanding.

They had just entered the world; why the rush to deploy the airships?

He looked around and saw that the surrounding wizards were also puzzled.

Everyone had not encountered such a scenario before.

"Could that have been a wrong command?" one wizard asked uncertainly.

But after transmitting the command, the crystal ball went silent, which was unlike any mistaken command.

The doors of the airship deck slowly opened, and war airships surged out of the Floating City like a school of sharks from the sea.

Only once they emerged outside Floating City did Richard understand why the headquarters had issued such orders.

Outside, the Floating City was peaceful, with none of the expected enemies in sight.