Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

The Bone Armor Wizard glanced at him,

"Obviously, the one opposite him is superior both in physique and in controlling energy, it'd be a surprise if he doesn't win."

After speaking, the Bone Armor Wizard looked at Richard again and casually said, "I bet he'll end the fight in ten moves."

The Giant Wizard shook his head, "That's too quick, unless the two are very familiar with each other, it would normally take at least fifty moves to determine a winner.

I've seen that long-boned kid fight before; he's not weak."

"If you ask me, Richard can probably end this battle within three moves."

Suddenly, a voice came from behind the two wizards, and they turned to see Jimmy casually drinking a bottle of wine.

"Master, why do you arrange such a fight?" the Giant Wizard asked.

The Jialong Club usually arranges fights of equal strength, which helps members improve.

"Why?" Jimmy took a sip of wine, "Has is a bit too impetuous, I just took this opportunity to enlighten him.

These two have fought ten rounds already. Richard has been improving, while Has remained stagnant.

But at the beginning of their fights, Richard was not as good as Has.

But now, hmph."

Saying so, Jimmy squinted at the duel arena, "It's starting."

In the duel arena, the two wizards, who were old rivals, skipped the probing and went all out from the start.

Has's body emanated a black glow, his speed increasing to the point where even Richard's dragon eyes struggled to capture his movement, and his bone claws were covered in runes, sharp enough to tear through space.

However, as his opponent, Richard wasn't panicked at all, even sighing internally.

"Still the same move, you haven't improved at all."

Richard closed his eyes, and his muscles and magic power instantly unified.

The next moment, Richard sidestepped the bone claws attacking from behind and threw a gentle punch forward.

Mountain Breaking Fist.

Bang!

Has's body flew backward, his arm's bone armor shattered into pieces.

"It's over."

Richard said indifferently as he watched Has.

Has stood up from the ground, his face full of disbelief. He looked at Richard, then at his own arm, his eyes utterly bewildered.

"How could you predict my attack?"

"Because the flaws in your move and your combat habits, he had figured them out long ago."

Jimmy flew into the arena, casually waving his hand to gather the debris and dust created by the fight into a pile.

"Though your move is very fast, the excessive speed also made it hard for you to control the direction, significantly reducing your agility. Plus, your combat habit is to ambush, and you usually use your right hand. Richard has fought with you ten times; he probably knows these details by heart."

Saying this, Jimmy looked toward Richard, who nodded slightly.

"That's indeed the case."

Jimmy drained the wine bottle, turned, and faced Has.

"Has, at the beginning of your battles, the gap wasn't that big. You even had a bit of an advantage, but now, you two are no longer on the same level."

Listening to Jimmy's words, Has's face instantly turned red.

But what could he retort? The one speaking was Jimmy, a peak Three Rings Wizard. His wisdom and insights far surpassed his own.

Has bowed his head slightly, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

Jimmy patted him on the shoulder, "Has, fighting is never a simple matter.

Strive to grow, lad."

…

After returning from the duel arena, Richard went to buy quite a lot of alchemy materials on the commercial floor. He needed to upgrade his equipment in the coming years; although being a technical consultant didn't sound like a frontline soldier, collecting data still required battlefield presence.

Back at the Wizard Tower, Richard took out his magic wand fused with refined gold.

As one of the top alchemy materials, recipes for alloys containing refined gold were countless in the Wizard World; nearly every Alchemy Wizard had recipes involving refined gold.

The recipe that Richard planned to use came from a book of encrypted notes.

Richard planned to use this refined gold to make a set of inner armor, and the alloy made from the recipe in the encrypted notes was particularly effective in defending against various attacks.

If all went well, he would have some refined gold left to add to his magic wand.

Richard separated the wand and piled up the parts blended with refined gold.

[Raw Material: Refined Gold Alloy]

[Refinable Substance: Refined Gold]

[Refinement Consumption: 80,000 Magic Power]

With the Miracle Furnace at hand, Richard's refinement of refined gold could achieve zero loss.

After spending eighty thousand magic power, Richard obtained a refined gold block the size of a human head.

But this was just the first step.

Alloys needed precise ratios, especially the multi-elemental alloy Richard was making; every single material ratio had to be very precise.

For that, Richard purchased and created a complete set of smelting tools.

It took him a whole month.

Once the tools were ready, Richard began to smelt the alloy. As various materials melted and merged in the melter, a new alloy was born.

After refining, the black gold turned silvery-white, with a faint hint of gold visible when held up to the light.

This alloy had a high resistance to elemental attacks and physical attacks, particularly physical attacks.

Richard conducted a few tests and found that at a thickness of three millimeters, the alloy could even resist piercing damage of up to three hundred energy level. If Richard enchanted it, this figure would increase by nearly fifty percent, reaching four hundred fifty.

The only pity was that this material did not have energy-absorbing properties, so its effectiveness against blunt trauma was somewhat worse than against piercing damage.

Once the alloy creation was complete, Richard proceeded to perform enchantments, arranging various rune arrays.

Richard took his personal protection very seriously; just designing the rune arrays alone took him three months, as he strove for perfection.

After the designs were completed, production lasted up to a year and a half.

During this time, aside from meditating and training his combat skills in the duel arena, Richard spent all his time on the production of the armor.

And all this was worth it.

Richard's armor was entirely silver-white, appearing similar to a knight's plate armor. Initially in his design, he had planned for scale armor, with armor plates forming the rune arrays.

There were many advantages to this design, as it was easy to maintain; if a plate was damaged, simply replacing it would suffice.

However, the downside was that it was harder to make and more complex; Richard's skill wasn't sufficient to produce and adjust it within such a short period.

Thus, Richard had to settle for the plate armor design.

Although this style was more complex to repair and changing rune arrays was more troublesome, it had a shorter production time and stronger defense capabilities.

Richard gently tapped the center of the armor, and the next moment, the lifeless armor began to move.

Spell: "Activated Armor"

The armor stepped towards Richard and then broke down into individual parts that fitted onto his body, looking like a magical transformation akin to Iron Man.

Once adorned, the armor clasped firmly onto Richard. While mortal knights needed belts to secure their armor, Richard only required a spell.

This suit of armor protected almost his entire body, except for his head.

Wearing a helmet was somewhat incongruous for a wizard and would be more conspicuous among wizards.

Having finished the armor, Richard opened a rift into the secret realm and entered.

In the secret realm, the World Mushroom was still tall, but the entire realm had dramatically changed.

In front of the World Mushroom stood a huge fungal statue, naturally modeled after Richard, with a crow perched on his shoulder.

This was Richard's Divine Statue, which, according to Ulysses, was one of the most important things for a divine being.

It could not only gather the power of faith more efficiently but sometimes also serve as the eyes and ears, or even an avatar, of the divine being.

Behind the statue, on the World Mushroom, there was a palace that looked somewhat like a model, with a bizarrely placed bird's nest in the middle.

And at that moment, Ulysses was lounging in the nest, drowsily napping.

Due to the World Mushroom's aid, this World Master had greatly recovered from his injuries, elevating his combat ability to the level of third-level creatures, but it brought about a state of mental and spiritual malaise.

As his injuries lessened, Ulysses's soul healing had finally begun.

However, this wasn't exactly good news for Richard.

Richard wasn't concerned about the recovery leading Ulysses to surpass his control, as it would take at least two thousand years for Ulysses to reach the peak of third-level strength at this self-healing rate.

Given two thousand years, Richard was confident he could become a Three Rings Wizard.

What worried him was the spiritual weakening caused by the onset of self-healing.

The self-healing of the soul consumed spiritual power, and the stronger the recovery, the greater the consumption of spiritual power.

The current healing was still weak; Ulysses was merely napping occasionally, but as the injuries healed, the self-healing would intensify, and Ulysses would progress from napping to deep sleep.

When that time came, Richard would lose a significant aide.

But, that was a problem for later.

"Ulysses, where is the surprise you prepared for me?" Richard shouted at Ulysses.

Some time ago, seeing Richard busy with the magic equipment, Ulysses had volunteered to wait until Richard finished the magic equipment to give him a surprise.

"Gah, who dares disturb the great Lord of the Crows!"

Ulysses flew out of the nest, crying out loudly.

But upon seeing it was Richard, his tone instantly changed.

"Gah, is your magic equipment ready?"

Richard opened his wizard robe and revealed the inner armor.

"It's ready, so where's your surprise?"

Ulysses glanced at the armor, and immediately spat out a beam of golden light, which stopped in front of Richard and gradually transformed into a magic wand.

"What is this?" Richard asked curiously.

"Gah, do you remember the Faith Armor on that insect? This thing is made from those, and I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

Faith Armor?

Richard paused for a moment, quickly recalling the Divine Chosen he had captured in the Insect Nest World. That insect indeed had several pieces of Faith Armor, but at that time his own power of faith was very scarce, so he had given those pieces to Ulysses.

"We don't have enough power of faith to use Faith Armor yet, do we?"

Richard looked around the secret realm; all the Holy Tree Elves in the realm were his believers. But even counting them all, there were only a few thousand, and the accumulated power of faith clearly wasn't enough for him to use such a demanding resource like Faith Armor.

"Gah, don't compare mine to that insect's! While it's commendable that the insect figured out Faith Armor on its own, its methods are crude like an apprentice compared to our Gods Civilization!

The effects of this Faith Armor don't consume much power of faith, so just use it, there's definitely enough faith power."

Seeing Ulysses speak so confidently, Richard's heart lifted, and he quickly asked:

"So, what are the effects of this armor?"

Ulysses's eyes gleamed with pride, and he said mysteriously:

"Gah, the effect of this armor is luck."