Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 117 - 17 Floating City

Chapter 117: Chapter 17 Floating City

“What do you want?” Richard asked in a deep voice.

“Ga, the Power of Faith, of course,” Ulysses replied. “Don’t you wizards have religions in your world? When a group of beings pray to something, that thing gathers a peculiar strength—that strength is the Power of Faith.”

“Religion?” Richard remembered the Cult of the Crimson Lord he had eradicated years ago.

“Ga, looking at your customs, I estimate that you have no religion,” Ulysses continued, “You wizards pride yourselves on rationality so much that you’ve probably tossed religion into the trash heap ages ago.”

“That is indeed true,” Richard responded lightly.

In the Wizard World, only mortals believed in religion, and the first impulse of a wizard who encountered a divine being was to dissect it.

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“The Power of Faith should be fairly easy for you to encounter. You conquer Otherworlds; you must have encountered religions that worship a World Master as a divine being. Such World Masters possess the Power of Faith in their bodies. If you can acquire some, I could perform techniques that only the divine can utilize.”

When he finished, Ulysses added:

“Ga, don’t think I’m trying to take this opportunity to heal myself. Purifying the Power of Faith consumes spiritual power, using it would only exacerbate my injuries.”

“Oh?” Richard squinted his eyes, his face full of suspicion. “You would be so kind?”

“Ga, don’t look at me like that!” Ulysses got slightly irritated, “I see potential in you and I’m thinking of investing in you. If you’re not interested, forget it!”

“Invest in me?”

“Ga, that furnace you carry is a treasure not even a Divine King might possess. With such an artifact, your ascent to godhood is almost certain,” Ulysses clamored, “Perhaps, you might be the next Divine King of your civilization. Is there a problem with investing in a future Divine King?”

It had to be said, Ulysses’ words were indeed persuasive, making Richard glow with happiness.

“Cough, cough, the path to truth is fraught with hardship and perils; it’s too early to talk about these matters now.”

Richard feigned a cough and turned to head to the next laboratory, preparing to upgrade his Magic Equipment.

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Richard owned many pieces of Magic Equipment, but after becoming a wizard, many had lost their original effects.

For instance, his Guardian Pendant, a Magic Shield that could resist an energy level of fifty, now couldn’t even match the Black Scale on his body.

There was also the Spirit Protection Ring; after the qualitative change in Richard’s spiritual power, any attack that could affect his psyche made these rings unable to even give a warning.

All these needed to be replaced.

After sorting everything out, aside from the Demon Eater Sword, all his other Magic Equipment needed to be replaced.

But replacements needed to be available.

Richard was so impoverished that he had to sell Ao Steel, a rare material, for Magic Stones; how could he afford Magic Stones to craft so many wizard-level Magic Equipment?

So after some thought, Richard decided not to bother with fancy Magic Equipment. He would focus his Magic Stones on just two pieces of Magic Equipment: the Concealer Cloak and the Demon Eater Sword.

He was a Black Wizard. In a Plane War, sneaking deep into enemy territory, stealth-enhancing Magic Equipment was essential. The Demon Eater Sword was almost complete after having finished the first two phases of the project, requiring only the final phase, which wouldn’t cost many Magic Stones.

Creating equipment required designs, but beginning from scratch was obviously too late now.

Therefore, for the upgraded version of the Concealer Cloak, Richard chose to simply “borrow” the design from his teacher Jolod.

As Jolod’s youngest student and a partner in the Wizard Commerce, he had some influence there. Using an IOU worth 100,000 Magic Stones, Richard managed to get his hands on the design for the Concealer Cloak.

After solving the issue with the design, what remained was merely purchasing materials, crafting the rough draft, engraving the spells, and then refining the appearance.

Six months later, Richard looked with satisfaction at the pitch-black cloak in front of him and at the large sword beside it emanating an ominous aura.

The upgraded Concealer Cloak not only possessed the ability to hide its aura and mask magic fluctuations, but it also had a spell for Shadow Infiltration.

This spell allowed Richard to briefly enter the rift between the Material World and the Shadow World, thus evading enemy attacks.

However, the attack’s energy level couldn’t exceed two hundred; otherwise, Richard would be forced out of the world’s rift due to the space disturbance caused by the energy fluctuations. Using it to evade attacks was a bit stretched, but it was perfect for infiltration.

After storing the Magic Equipment in his Magic Pocket, Richard left the laboratory, ready to check the integration effect of the Flame Giant.

After six months of integration, the Element Core of the Flame Giant had gradually absorbed the Annihilation Flame and made it a part of itself.

When he arrived at the laboratory, under the quartz cover, the Element Core had evolved into its final phase, and the originally fiery-red Element Core had almost entirely turned black.

“It looks almost done; just needs a final spark.”

Richard muttered to himself, the magic power surging in his body as he channeled a stream of Magic Power into the Element Core.

With the infusion of Magic Power, the Element Core instantly darkened, turning the last bit of fiery red into a black flame.

Boom!

The flames of the Element Core erupted instantly, and chains of flames converged to form a one-meter tall black Flame Dwarf.

“I, Philster, am alive again!”

The Flame Dwarf shouted.

“Indeed, you are alive.”

“Hmm?”

The Flame Dwarf glanced aside, and the human who had threatened him into signing the slave contract was looking at him coldly.

“Now, get off the experiment table!”

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Following a command filled with rage, Philster involuntarily retracted his flames and obediently curled into a ball, rolling off the experiment table.

Seeing the experiment table turned into magma by Philster, Richard couldn’t help but place a hand on his forehead and sighed.

“Philster, contain your flames and tell me your current state.”

Upon hearing the command, Philster returned to human form and contained his flames.

“Master, I have broken through the bottleneck and have become a Flame Warrior.”

“Flame Warrior? A Level 1 Creature, right?” Richard pulled out a notebook from his pocket and began to record the information.

“Besides that, have you gained any abilities? Can you still summon and use your normal flames? Any psychological problems?”

Richard’s barrage of questions left the somewhat slow-witted Philster slightly confused.

Nevertheless, he soon began answering them one by one.

After the Q&A session, Richard nodded. Philster’s growth had two aspects, the first was the growth in strength; through fusion and the replenishment of magic power, Philster had broken through his bottleneck and become a Level 1 Elemental Creature.

The second aspect was a change in how he used his strength. Now, Philster’s body was composed of Annihilation Flames and no longer had the body of a common Fire Element.

This change benefited Philster by making him more lethal, but the downside was that his body became smaller, energy consumption increased, and some skills that Flame Giants could use, he could no longer use.

“Alright,” Richard said, pulling out a Crystal Ball from his Magic Pocket.

This Crystal Ball was a specially made Elemental Creature Cage from Wizard Commerce, designed for wizards to store elemental creature cannon fodder.

“Get in.”

“…Yes.”

…

Philster’s successful fusion solved the last issue Richard faced before the war.

In the remaining two years, Richard focused on meditation and training in Adaptation Body, and he occasionally visited the Jialong Club to exchange battlefield experiences with some Black Wizards.

After mixing with these Black Wizards, Richard gained a deeper understanding of this group.

Black Wizards penetrated deep into enemy territory where everything around them was not only an enemy but also precious loot. In such a situation, preserving oneself was the top priority, and one must resist temptation.

A Black Wizard who could not control his greed was bound to die because of it.

Two years flew by swiftly, and soon, it was the day of the Plane War.

Richard, along with a few senior disciples, traveled through the Teleportation Gate to the Expedition Layer above the Working Layer, located in the canopy of the World Tree. The space was vast, and hundreds of thousands of wizards occupied only a fraction of it.

Most of these wizards were Free Wizards who had joined the Plane War as mercenaries through contracts.

On one side of the crowd, hundreds of war Airships made of cold metal were parked on the ground. These war Airships were the White Wizards’ war machines, specifically designed for the Plane Battlefield.

Their main cannons could even reach an energy level of 8000, almost comparable to a full-strength blow from a Three Rings Wizard.

Soon, ripples appeared in the Void, and thousands of Working Wizards from the Tower of Truth flew into the sky, guided by a Three Rings Wizard, to perform a massive Spell.

As the Working Wizards waved their Magic Wands, a huge Magic Array appeared in the sky.

Then, a rift appeared in the center of the Magic Array.

Behind the Space Rift, the tip of an enormous object appeared.

“Is this the Floating City?”

Gazing at the gigantic object in front of him, Richard felt as if he were back to the first time he saw the World Tree.

A metallic artifact tens of thousands of meters in diameter slowly squeezed into the Wizard World from the Void.

The lower half of the Floating City was a hemisphere, with various alloy Armor Plates seamlessly joined together, offering a mechanical aesthetic.

When the wizards reached above the Floating City, it took on a different appearance.

Countless spires stood erect on the metallic ground; among them, the tallest was the black Spire at the very center.

This Spire was the command center for the war; all war commands were issued from here.

With the command center as the nucleus, various other lower-height spires rippled outward to the edge of the Floating City.

White Wizards boarded the war Airships, and the lower half of the Floating City opened up passages for them. Wizards like Richard, as well as Free Wizards, had to directly land on the Floating City from the upper half.

“The Floating City truly is the pinnacle of Alchemy Machines.”

Ann, a wizard who studied Alchemy Machines, gazed at the Floating City somewhat entranced.

As a researcher of Alchemy Machines, Ann wanted to disassemble and examine every part of the Floating City.

Richard did not respond; his knowledge of Alchemy Machines was still rudimentary, and his only thought about the Floating City was “damn impressive.”

As the wizards finished entering, a figure flew out from the central Spire.

This figure constantly enlarged during its flight, eventually transforming into a massive Black Robed Wizard hundreds of meters tall.

“Welcome, everyone, to this expedition of spreading the wisdom of Wizard Civilization. I am Black Tower, the commander of this expedition.”