Wizard: I can refine everything

Richard was preparing the poison slowly, and there was a slight noise at the entrance of the cave.

Richard looked over vigilantly, and the staff in his hand began to gather elements. He saw a beautiful figure with sparks on her body walking out of the tunnel and waving at him.

"Richard, I'm back."

Seeing who was coming, Richard felt relieved. It was Ellie who went back to report the intelligence.

"How is it, did you get the reward?"

Richard stopped his action and looked at Ellie with some expectation.

"Hehe, we are the first to encounter this kind of bug. The headquarters gave us a reward of 500 magic essences."

Ellie smiled proudly and took out a bag of magic essence from her pocket and handed it to Richard.

This time, she went back to report. On the way, she used the communication crystal ball to report the intelligence directly to the headquarters. If she was a little slower, the reward for this intelligence would have been taken by other wizards.

Richard took the magic essence and put it in his magic pocket, and then continued to prepare the alchemical poison.

Ellie saw two spider knights not far away, and her expression suddenly tensed.

"Richard, what's wrong with these two half-spider black crystal insects?" Ellie held the staff tightly, her voice a little nervous.

"The insects that came to attack me just now were damaged by my nerve center. I am preparing poison to stun them."

As he spoke, a puff of smoke came out of the beaker in Richard's hand, and a cup of thick liquid in the beaker exuded a strange stench.

This alchemical poison can paralyze the nerves of creatures. It has a good effect on flesh and blood creatures, but it has no effect on elemental creatures and semi-elemental creatures.

Richard waved his staff, and the liquid in the beaker turned into a puff of black smoke that enveloped the two spider knights.

This poison can be absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes, and it is useless even if the spider knight does not breathe.

The spider knight made a few sharp chirps, and the upper body's knife arm tried to swing but in vain.

After struggling for five or six minutes, the two spider knights finally fell into a state of nerve paralysis.

Richard stepped forward and cut off their nerves, and then injected new poison into their bodies.

This is a recovery inhibitor. In the next half month, the bodies of these two spider knights will be suppressed to a negligible level.

"Have you picked up potion learning again?" Ellie was a little surprised.

She knew a lot about Richard's research. In recent years, Richard has been studying magic equipment, alchemical machinery and some kinesiology, but now it seems that Richard has picked up potion learning again, and has achieved some results.

Alchemical poisons that can paralyze first-level creatures are not something that can be prepared casually.

Richard smiled faintly. With the help of the Miracle Furnace, he opened a lot of blind box knowledge from the cipher notes. Although this knowledge is not systematic and difficult to study in depth, it has greatly increased Richard's means.

Putting the two spider knights in his pocket, Richard took out a pocket watch to check the time.

Now it has been nearly ten hours since Lawrence left, far more than the six hours he said.

He has not come back for such a long time. Did he encounter a great benefit or a danger?

"Where did Lawrence go?"

Ellie used her mental power to explore the surroundings and finally found that someone was missing.

"After you left, Lawrence went to explore the lower cave. He said he would be back in six hours, but now nearly ten hours have passed." Richard explained to Ellie.

"What should we do then? Continue to wait for him?"

Richard frowned and shook his head slowly.

"Wait a little longer, I also sent something down to explore the route."

The two waited for another hour, and finally, a black shadow flew out of the cave.

"Gah, I'm back."

Ulises flew out of the cave, holding a shadow creature that Richard was very familiar with in his claws.

"What's in your claws?"

Ulises flew to Richard and threw the thing in his claws to the ground. Richard took a closer look and found that it was Lawrence's shadow bat.

"How did you catch Lawrence's bat?" Richard asked in confusion.

"Gah, you mean that wizard, he's in bad luck." Ulises landed on Richard's shoulder and communicated with Richard with his mental power, "That wizard was surrounded by a group of bugs and sealed by a white bug.

Now he's probably been eaten by bugs."

"What happened? Tell me in detail." Richard was shocked.

How could Lawrence, as an old wizard who had experienced two plane wars, be surrounded so easily.

"Gah, I'm not sure either. At that time, I was exploring the tunnel as you said, and then I flew into a cave like yours and saw that little guy being besieged by a group of bugs.

That little guy seemed to see me, and when he was sealed by the white bug, he threw this little bat at me.

The group of bugs saw me and wanted to keep me too, which was simply a fantasy. I dodged and..."

The rest of Ulises' words were just his self-praise, and Richard was not interested in listening. He picked up the shadow bat from the ground. The moment he touched the shadow bat, the bat suddenly opened its eyes and spit out a contract.

Richard picked up the contract. The content inside was very simple. Lawrence wanted to ask Richard and Ellie to save him for a thousand magic essences.

"Huh, what's written on it?" Ulises asked curiously.

"Nothing, just asking for help." Richard handed the contract to Ellie beside him lightly, "Ellie, do you think we should save him?"

"Me?" Ellie took the contract and looked at it, then shook her head and said, "I definitely won't go by myself. This cave is too small, and I'm a little afraid of burying myself.

Why, you want to save him? We have to give half of the profits to the academy this time."

Richard looked at the contract and hesitated.

Even if half of the profits were given to the academy, there would still be 500,000 magic stones, which is not a small number.

If Lawrence talked about feelings and friendship, Richard would definitely not save him, but this tangible benefit did make Richard think about it.

"I do have an idea, but I have to wait until I see the situation clearly before deciding."

Richard put the contract in his pocket. He planned to go and see what was going on over there with Lawrence.

If the guards over there were not very strict, Richard would go and rescue him. But if they were strict, or he was already dead, Richard would just leave.

A wizard who had just met for a short time was not worth Richard risking his life to save.

"Are you tempted?" Ellie was a little surprised. She remembered that Richard never liked taking risks.

"No way, too poor." Richard spread his hands. All his strength was exchanged for magic stones.

The Adaptive Body is a bottomless pit. It swallowed up most of the magic stones that Richard earned in the past few decades. No wonder Joe Luode stopped training after training to resist a thousand energy level damage.

In addition to the Adaptive Body, his daily research also requires magic stones, and adding a staff head to the magic suit also requires magic stones. And when he returns this time, the free residence period given by the Tower of Truth will expire. If he wants to stay in the living floor, he will have to spend a sum of magic stones.

He has not yet counted the start-up funds of his Wizard Chamber of Commerce, the shaping of Ulysses' body, and the recovery of his soul injury.

Richard felt his scalp tingling when he thought of the consumption of so many magic stones.

"Okay." Ellie shrugged, "I'll go with you, and I'll give you 200,000 magic stones."

"Huh?" Richard was stunned, "Don't you need magic stones?"

Ellie made a face at him, "Isn't it that someone is willing to risk his life for magic stones?

Besides, my ability cannot be fully exerted in this underground nest, and I am thick-skinned to take 200,000.

If it were other wizards, I would probably give me 100,000."

"Then... I also give 100,000?" Richard said inexplicably.

Ellie was stunned when she heard it, and then waved her wand angrily.

"Go to hell! 200,000, not a single one less!"

...

Lawrence left a lot of magic marks when he was exploring the way. These magic marks are very conspicuous to wizards. Following these magic marks, Richard soon came to the crypt that Ulysses mentioned.

It was a medium-sized settlement. Judging from the remaining buildings, this settlement was once quite lively, but now there is no insect.

Richard did not rush into the cave. Lawrence was very alert, and his strength was considered to be first-class among the first-ring wizards. If such a person could be caught, it was most likely because of a trap.

"Go and explore." Richard ordered Ulysses.

"Gah, my life is really miserable. I haven't recovered much from my injuries after falling into your hands, and I have to explore traps for you every day."

However, although Ulysses complained, he still spread his wings and entered the cave.

The cave was silent, and the huge luminous fungi emitted a faint blue light.

Ulysses flew around in the cave and confirmed that there were no trap alarms in the entire cave.

Richard and the other entered. Judging from the traces of fighting on the ground, Lawrence seemed to be sealed by the sacrificial insect with starlight without struggling for a few times.

"Isn't it a trap?" A guess flashed through Richard's mind.

Because before the war, several insect countries did not think of defeat, so many treasures were left in the upper insect nest.

As the battle line was advancing and the nest was complex, the wizards did not search the nest completely, so many things should still remain in the ground nest.

Now that these insects were defeated, the remnants entered the underground nest to resist. Combined with the above news, Richard made a bold guess.

This group of insects was probably going to the upper nest to find supplies, and Lawrence was unlucky and happened to encounter this group of insects.

Richard told Ellie this idea, and she also thought it made sense.

"Maybe we can make a big profit this time." Ellie's eyes flashed with excitement.

Taking out the shadow bat, Richard gave it to Ellie to divine Lawrence's current approximate location.

As a dual-school wizard, Ellie can do more than just throw fireballs, curse divination is also her ability.

Ellie took out an altar from her magic pocket, and then drew a disc on it with blood, placed a cursed insect with two stripes in it, and then placed a bone on it as a pointer.

Then, Ellie placed the shadow bat on the altar and chanted an ancient spell.

With the infusion of magic power, the originally ordinary stone altar began to show black lines, and an ancient and strange breath emanated from the altar.

"Gah, boy, you are not a simple woman. I have seen a god with similar means in our place. As a god, even the main god has to give him three points. Their race is also a race that we attach great importance to." Ulysses communicated with Richard with his mind.

"This is a curse spell from one of the five major schools." Richard introduced.

"Gah! Do you have a god king who is proficient in this thing!" Ulysses said in shock, "Anyone who starts a civilization war with you will definitely be in big trouble."

Richard said nothing more. According to the rumors among wizards, the truth wizard of the Curse School has not appeared for a long time.

There are even rumors that he is dead.

As Ellie's spell was coming to an end, the bone pointer on the altar began to shake slightly, and finally pointed to a direction.

"It's done." Ellie picked up the pointer and put it in her hand, "This pointer will show us the approximate location of Lawrence within three hours!"