Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Leaving the Secret Realm, Richard immediately headed to the central laboratory in the test zone.

While he was practicing in the Mountain Secret Realm, the Magma Algae he had left with the World Mushroom to cultivate in magma had already been cultured.

However, he couldn't leave at that time, so he had to set it aside.

Now that his training was over, he naturally rushed to see if the task had been completed by anyone.

The exterior of the central laboratory looked like a huge column, which connected the second and third floors of the Academy.

Inside, it was divided into four layers, each layer conducting different research.

The wizards working here were either followers of Garon the Great Wizard or his students.

Many theories from the Evolution Road were born in this laboratory.

Richard entered the first floor of the central laboratory because there was a reception desk there specifically for handing over task items.

"Magma Algae? Let me check."

The wizard behind the counter took out a crystal ball and searched through it briefly before quickly looking up.

"This task has not yet been completed; congratulations, you are the first wizard to complete it."

Richard took out an enchanted quartz tube from his pocket; under the enchantment of the quartz tube, the magma inside the tube did not solidify.

On top of the magma, there was also a layer of inconspicuous red floating material.

The wizard handling the task took the quartz tube, then retrieved another crystal ball and sent a message.

Soon after, a wizard in a white robe arrived at the counter.

This wizard appeared very frail, as if a gust of wind could knock him over. The two obvious dark circles under his eyes indicated that he hadn't slept or meditated for a long time.

"Where is it?"

Upon arriving at the counter, the wizard in the white robe yawned and asked without any courtesy.

The task-handling wizard seemed already accustomed to the attitude of the wizard in the white robe; he handed over the test tube to him and then turned to Richard, saying:

"Master, please wait a moment. Master Andri needs to examine this."

The white-robe wizard opened the test tube, extracted the magma using magic power, and formed it into a suspended magma ball.

Following that, the white-robe wizard dipped his finger into the magma, tasted it, and remarked:

"Um, not bad, the magma is fine."

He nodded, then lightly touched the Magma Algae on the magma ball with his finger.

Richard squinted slightly, noticing that the algae on the surface of the magma ball began to grow rapidly at the touch of the white-robe wizard.

He speculated in his mind, "Life Rule?"

"It's good," the white-robe wizard put the magma back into the embassy. "This thing is very well made, just like it was naturally bred."

He turned to Richard, a look of desire for knowledge on his face.

"Master, may I ask, how did you manage to create this thing?

I have quite a few pieces of knowledge here to exchange with you."

Richard shook his head: "It's a proprietary secret, I have no plans to exchange it right now."

"That's too bad."

The white-robe wizard sighed disappointedly, then took the tube of Magma Algae and left the counter.

"Who is this master?" Richard casually asked. "He seems very extraordinary."

The wizard behind the counter chuckled: "Master Andri is a student of the dean, so he acts quite... directly within the academy."

Richard stroked his chin and smiled: "Quite direct indeed."

With the task completed, Contribution Points naturally came into his hands.

Including the contribution points for cultivating an arm last time, Richard now had a total of one hundred twenty contribution points.

This number was already sufficient to purchase an excellent piece of knowledge at the Contribution Store.

...

Arriving at the Contribution Store, Richard began searching through the crystal ball for knowledge suitable for himself.

Contribution points left unused cannot generate offspring; converting them into practical items soon is the proper course.

The knowledge in the Contribution Store was plentiful, but roughly divided into three categories.

The first category was Combat Magic, within which the Unity of Heaven and Man that Richard had seen demonstrated by Jimmy was included.

The second category was Combat Body Witchcraft, which included the Magic Rune Battle Body and Transformation Battle Body. This type of witchcraft was of the amplification type and could yield unexpected results when properly combined with the right Combat Magic.

The third category was Auxiliary Magic; these spells often possessed some special effects, with Garon's Physique Sealing Skill representing this type of witchcraft.

After much deliberation among these spells, Richard finally chose Garon's Physique Sealing Skill and the principles of the Transformation Battle Body.

Of these, the former would serve as a trump card for Richard, while he chose the latter due to prior advice from a one-armed wizard and the fact that he had just enough contribution points.

The Transformation Battle Body was particularly unique because it was divided into two parts; one part was the principles, priced at twenty contribution points, and the other part was the Battle Body Map, each map priced at one hundred contribution points.

Richard guessed that the Transformation Battle Body, as suggested by its name, possessed various transformations. A wizard could build their own Transformation Battle Body through personal research.

After handing over the contribution points to the clerk, Richard received a crystal ball containing the two pieces of knowledge.

Richard slipped the crystal ball into his pocket and turned to leave the store.

He glanced at the task board to confirm there were no suitable tasks for him, then returned to the Wizard Tower.

...

Ten years of cultivation were not considered long for a wizard, but for mortals, it was a considerably long period.

Over the years, Extreme North City had seen the rise of a ring of small cities around it, with new cities continually being established.

These cities were connected by railways, the massive alchemy steam trains, seeming as if they had burst forth from some steam punk world, grotesque yet possessing a unique beauty.

These iron serpents raced along the steel tracks, emitting piercing shrieks.

They were the nation's red blood cells!

During the ten years of Richard's absence, some cities had even established airship ports, and airship trade was gradually coming into its own.

A thriving mortal kingdom was on the rise.

High above, Richard gazed down at the expanse of land. Looking at the prosperous cities, he murmured, "It's really wonderful; in a few decades, the population might well exceed ten million."

In the desolate lands of the Extreme North, ten million was an astronomical figure.

Previously, all the inhabitants of the Garon Great Wizard's territories in the tundras totaled only twenty million.

At this moment, Richard deeply recognized the war potential of the Wizard World.

If the Truth Council wished, the entire Wizard World could, within decades, increase its population by billions of ordinary humans.

From these humans, selecting suitable children and training them, even if it were entirely through the mechanism of the Black Wizards, would result in a vast number of wizards.

Before such an enormous number of wizards, even the World Master might have to step back.

Whoo Whoo!

A sound interrupted Richard's reverie.

He turned around to see a Flying Airship closing in on him less than a hundred meters away, and still approaching.

The model of the Flying Airship was somewhat outdated, suggesting that its direction control was not very flexible, making it hard to maneuver closely around Richard.

Through the viewing port's glass, Richard smiled at the somewhat panicked pilot, then transformed into a streak of light and flew into the distance.

...

The two pieces of knowledge that Richard had exchanged were not difficult to learn.

Or rather, Garon the Great Wizard had anticipated their questions and had answered them in the Inheritance Crystal Ball.

In any case, Richard didn't find it hard to learn, and within a month he had mastered Garon's Physique Sealing Skill.

Fundamentally, Garon's Physique Sealing Skill was a kind of alternative curse that continuously drew life energy and magic power from wizards in daily life and then fed it back to the wizards in critical moments.

However, the best part about this witchcraft, compared to Curse Witchcraft, was that it didn't require spiritual nature.

Wizards without spiritual nature only needed a simple ritual to apply it to themselves.

Moreover, what's most frightening is that Garon's Physique Sealing Skill could be applied multiple times to the same target.

Garon's Physique Sealing Skill, a single layer of sealing could reduce a wizard's strength by about five percent, but the power it could sustain was also limited.

Some wizards, who liked to pursue the extremes, would impose five, or even ten layers of Garon's Physique Sealing Skill on themselves, using only two-thirds to half of their actual strength in everyday battles.

They called this practice training, thinking that it could better help them hone their skills and also help them break their own limits in times of crisis.

However, Richard felt that his strength wasn't at that level yet.

Thus, after learning it, he merely imposed two layers of the seal on himself.

He was not solely focused on physique; over the years, he had also been collaborating with Ali to optimize the spells at his disposal.

Two layers of sealing didn't significantly impact his combat power.

Following his study of Garon's Physique Sealing Skill, Richard shifted his focus to the Transformation Battle Body.

The Transformation Battle Body can simply be summarized as an upgraded version of the Bloodline Seed.

However, unlike the Bloodline Seed, the Transformation Battle Body was more complex and more powerful.

Ordinary Bloodline Seeds, merging three or four bloodlines were considered adequate; five or six, exceptional, and formulas that could integrate more than ten bloodlines were scarce in the entire Wizard World.

But if the Transformation Battle Body were thoroughly researched, integrating ten bloodlines would just be the beginning.

Integrating a hundred or even a thousand bloodlines was all feasible.

If it was researched to the utmost, it meant that all the things in the world could be integrated into one body, and the combat form could change at will.

But this concept, much like the Qiankun Great Shifting, even for Garon the Great Wizard, the creator, so far had only merged over a thousand bloodlines.

And the realm of changing the combat body at will, as described in the principles of the Transformation Battle Body, was just his speculation.

The principles of the Transformation Battle Body were quite complex to learn, involving much profound knowledge.

Richard spent two whole years just to understand the principles of this witchcraft.

And understanding the principles was just the beginning; to truly use this witchcraft, wizards needed to learn much additional knowledge.

Wizards must have a thorough understanding of the bloodlines they intend to integrate.

The providing creatures' muscle structures, organ functions, and nervous system architectures—all these details were prerequisites for wizards who wished to integrate these bloodlines into their Transformation Battle Body, thereby creating a combat body unique to themselves.

Undoubtedly, this was going to be a lengthy process.

But Richard soon found a shortcut.

"Wizards seem to have done thorough research on dragons," Richard mused, stroking his chin, "and I recall that this knowledge seems quite affordable."