Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 175 - 5: The Mutated Nightmare Body

Chapter 175: Chapter 5: The Mutated Nightmare Body

Nightmare Body was the name Richard had given the body.

The Power of Nightmare was a magical force capable of turning imagination into reality. Richard used the Power of Nightmare to construct a body, and the moment he finished, he imagined it.

Yes, he imagined.

The Power of Nightmare could change reality through consciousness.

Under Richard’s imagination, the body crafted from the Power of Nightmare transformed into real flesh.

This flesh, both in appearance and to the touch, was indistinguishable from anything in the Material World. However, once Richard activated his Energy Vision, he could see that the body was covered with dense, intricate patterns of light.

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The Power of Nightmare hadn’t truly created flesh; the flesh was merely a vivid illusion.

This hypothesis was confirmed when Richard tore off a piece of the flesh, which then turned into black Power of Nightmare and merged into the earth.

Though the transformation was an illusion, it was convincing enough that when Richard entered the Nightmare Body, he truly felt as if he were inside a physical body—a sensation of warmth enveloped him as if he had put on clothes after a long time running naked in the cold wind.

Richard exclaimed from the bottom of his heart,

“Having a physical body is wonderful!”

Inside the Nightmare Body, the cycles of magic power and the Power of Nightmare ran clearly separate from each other, each forming its own system without interfering with one another.

Richard tried using an Enhancement Spell on the Nightmare Body, and the results were quite satisfying.

The amplification effects of the spell were still effective on the body.

After completing the body, Richard left the room.

The black sun had risen by then, and the rifts in the dreamscape brought about by the blood moon were still not visible, with the Nightmare Spirits having returned to various hidden nooks in the village.

As Richard walked through the village, the black sun, though terrifying, was safe as long as one didn’t stare directly at it.

Its sunlight fell on Richard’s Nightmare Body, giving a warm sensation.

After acquiring the Nightmare Body, Richard began to explore the surrounding areas of the village.

A single village’s Nightmare Spirits were too few; constructing a body capable of harnessing Richard’s full strength needed at least fifty thousand strands of the Power of Nightmare—straining a whole village for that amount would take an unknown amount of time.

Expanding the territory was the proper course.

Moreover, in the Wizard World, human settlements never existed isolated in the Wilderness; the existence of a village undoubtedly meant there were human cities nearby, or even possibly a Wizard Academy.

Although those densely populated areas sure to have a Nightmare Lord, Richard could still scrape up some leftovers in these remote villages.

Just as Richard had thought, ten kilometers from the village, he found another village which, according to Ulysses’s exploration, did not host any nightmare creatures more advanced than Nightmare Spirits.

“Gah, it appears this place is a new human gathering spot,” Ulysses circled the village and then landed on Richard’s shoulder; he was now just a soul projection, which meant even if he died, there would be no harm to his original body, making him perfect for exploration.

“This settlement seems not to have existed for more than fifty years. Otherwise, there should be Little Nightmares ruling these villages.”

“Little Nightmares?” Richard asked curiously.

“Gah, Little Nightmares are what the Nightmare Spirits are called after they evolve. These little guys reach the status of Level 1 Creatures, with specific combat capabilities depending on their battle experience and the amount of the Power of Nightmare,” Ulysses explained.

Richard nodded, “It seems these nightmare creatures employ a feudal system.”

“Gah, more or less so. The world is so vast that if a Nightmare Lord had to personally collect the Power of Nightmare from every Nightmare Spirit, they’d have no time left for anything else. With a feudal system, they only need to demand the Power of Nightmare from the reigning leaders of their domains.

Lords enfeoff Knights, who in turn enfeoff Big Nightmares, distributing down through layers. It’s like this in the Crow Realm, and the Wizard World is probably similar.”

Leaving the village, Richard successively found several other villages, which also lacked ruling leaders.

When the blood moon rose, Richard followed the old routine and thoroughly scavenged these villages for the Power of Nightmare.

By the end of the night, Richard had collected nearly five thousand strands from four villages.

Looking at the fist-sized ball of the Power of Nightmare in his hand, Richard nodded in satisfaction.

This night had not been busy in vain.

Returning to the original village, Richard found a secluded room and attempted to integrate the collected Power of Nightmare into the energy cycle of the Nightmare Body.

The Nightmare Body, modeled after the Nightmare Spirits and part of his experiment with nightmare creatures, should also be able to be strengthened by absorbing the Power of Nightmare, just like the Nightmare Spirits.

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The integration of the Power of Nightmare went smoothly, with no roughness throughout the process. However, despite integrating all five thousand strands of the Power of Nightmare into the cycle, Richard did not experience anything special.

The Nightmare Body had not been strengthened.

Richard stepped out of the Nightmare Body and stared thoughtfully at the body before him.

“It seems I was mistaken; the strengthening of nightmare creatures isn’t only related to their energy cycles.”

In his Energy Vision, the cycles of the Power of Nightmare appeared enormously robust, with tiny light pathways spreading from these cycles and connecting to the body’s outer shell. However, this linkage was only maintaining the existence of the shell and did not enhance it due to the increase in the Power of Nightmare.

Looking at the shell, Richard pondered for a moment, then a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

“Perhaps I can add something.”

He rummaged through the room and soon found some black dust left behind when Nightmare Spirits died.

The composition of this dust was unknown, and Richard hadn’t found any use for it yet, only tossing it aside like a sample.

Richard sprinkled this dust on the Nightmare Body; this dust came from the remains of dead nightmare creatures and might be what the Nightmare Body lacked for it to change.

As the dust came into contact with the Nightmare Body, the energy cycle within it underwent a sudden change.

The energy pathways of the places touched by the dust instantaneously thickened, as the Power of Nightmare was continuously being transmitted.

During this process, the true illusion of the Power of Nightmare suddenly vanished, and Richard could clearly observe the black dust merging into the Nightmare Body.

“So it really is this thing,” Richard couldn’t help but crack a slight smile.

Experiments sometimes just required luck.

As the black dust fully integrated into the body, the true illusion of the Nightmare Body came back.

But just as Richard was preparing to enter the Nightmare Body and experience its changes,

an anomaly occurred.

The originally mindless Nightmare Body suddenly opened its eyes.

“Huh! Playing dead!”

Seeing this, Richard’s mind raced, and he immediately began controlling his Magic Power to prepare a Sealing Skill.

A series of cyan Rune Chains flew out of Richard’s hands, quickly sealing the Nightmare Body into a piece of amber encased in cyan ice.

After Richard’s modifications, the Rune Chain Sealing Technique now had an enhanced sealing capability, and the appearance of the seal had also changed.

It looked somewhat like a smaller version of the Dead Silence Ice Mountain Sealing Technique.

Looking at the Ice Amber before him, Richard’s expression turned somewhat grim.

“I went through all this trouble to prepare a body; I hope it doesn’t turn into a nightmare creature because of this dust.”

Through the seal, Richard began probing the body with his spiritual power to check its condition; if the Nightmare Body had indeed turned into a nightmare creature, its internal structure should have changed.

At the very least, that disgusting black slime would definitely appear.

After probing, Richard received one good and one bad piece of news.

The bad news was that the black slime had indeed appeared.

The good news, however, was that because of the Sealing Skill, the body’s transformation had halted, and since Richard had sealed it very quickly, the degree of the body’s transformation wasn’t high.

Also, in the transformed part of the body, Richard discovered something that resembled a core.

This was something that had never appeared before when he had dissected a Nightmare Spirit.

Richard looked at the Nightmare Body, stroked his chin, and his face shifted from grim to thoughtful.

A new experiment going smoothly is rare; most experiments succeed only after countless failures.

“It seems that the secrets of nightmare creatures are not as simple as I thought.”

Richard noted down this change, then immediately used a technique to break the seal, quickly extracting the core from the body with precise movements, and then swiftly sealed the core in his hand.

For now, Richard couldn’t determine if the body could revert to its original form. Rather than sealing the Nightmare Body, Richard preferred to preserve this new experimental material.

But the outcome was somewhat beyond Richard’s expectations.

After the core was removed by Richard, the transformation of the Nightmare Body ceased.

Richard looked at the core, his face displaying a slight surprise.

“It seems that this thing is the reason for the body’s transformation.”

This was a new discovery.

After removing the core, Richard probed the remaining Power of Nightmare within the Nightmare Body and discovered that approximately three hundred strands of the Power of Nightmare had been used to transform the core and the black slime.

Just then, Ulysses flew in from outside, and Richard showed him the core and told him about what had just happened.

“Ulysses, do you recognize this thing?”

Ulysses looked at the core and shook his head:

“Caw, I don’t recognize it. I usually gobble up nightmare creatures. But I’ve heard a rumor before that the Nightmare King cannot die. If you want to defeat a Nightmare King, you either trap him in a Fear Domain, or you hide his heart.”

Hearing this, Richard looked at the core in his hand and got an idea.

He extracted part of the Nightmare Power from the Nightmare Body as a precaution and then unsealed the core and put it back into the Nightmare Body.

“Caw, what are you doing? Are you trying to possess a nightmare creature?” Ulysses asked curiously.

Richard shook his head. “Just an experiment; I have a hypothesis and want to see if it’s true.”

Once the core was returned to the Nightmare Body, the transformation began again. Soon, the entire Nightmare Body completed the transformation, and a new consciousness was born within it.

And just at that moment, Richard suddenly thrust his hand into the Nightmare Body. Rune Chains instantly sealed the core again.

After the core was sealed again, Richard anxiously watched the changes in the Nightmare Body.

If his idea was correct, then this body wouldn’t undergo dustification.

Time ticked by, and the transformed Nightmare Body showed no signs of dustification.

Richard then tried entering this body. During the process, he didn’t feel any residual consciousness.

“Cackle, cackle, cackle, Ulysses, you’ve greatly contributed!” Richard said weirdly to Ulysses, “These nightmare creatures’ consciousness and body are separate. The core is where their consciousness resides, and as long as the core is separated from the body, these nightmare creatures will become like vegetative beings!”