Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 496 - 41 News of War

In the laboratory, Richard looked at the cell in the culture dish that radiated an exceptionally vigorous life force, his face showing uncontrollable ecstasy.

Ali’s expression was equally shocked.

"We actually did it!"

Over the past thirty years, aside from her bloodline development work, she frequently assisted Richard.

Thus, she was very familiar with Richard’s research.

Cultivating cells that surpassed the physiological limits of third-level creatures was an experiment that if undertaken by someone else, she would have definitely declared them a lunatic.

But Richard was different.

Ali had witnessed too many incredible things with Richard, so she thought this experiment might just succeed.

But she never imagined that in just thirty years, Richard would have cultivated this cell.

This was no longer a stroke of good luck, this was akin to the fortune of a Child of Destiny.

"Hahaha..."

Richard’s ecstasy eventually turned into unbridled laughter.

Although he wasn’t clear about how the cell broke through the limits, what kinds of changes the life core underwent during the process, none of that mattered.

At least for Richard right now, it wasn’t important.

All he needed was to use this cell as a template, differentiate and cultivate a body from it, and he could surpass the "mortals" and achieve true transcendence!

After laughing, Richard carefully absorbed the cell into his body.

He had spent thirty years creating it by chance. If it happened to die, he didn’t know how many years it would take to produce another.

Such experiments were entirely a gamble, it could happen once or perhaps not even a second time in his entire life.

Assuring himself that the cell was growing healthily within his body, Richard breathed a slight sigh of relief and turned to look at Ali beside him.

"Are you busy today?"

"No."

"If you’re not busy, accompany me for a walk."

The breakthrough in his research had made Richard’s mood somewhat restless; at least for the next couple of days, he wouldn’t be able to calm down and focus on other projects.

"Sure, I haven’t been around Extreme North City ever since I’ve been here."

...

Thirty years without stepping out, Extreme North City once again became unfamiliar to Richard.

The once popular mushroom houses were now common architecture, and the current vogue in Extreme North City was for old-style Wizard Towers.

Various dark, ornate Gothic towers occupied the various districts of Extreme North City, each tower embellished with enchantments. Simple alchemical gargoyles squatted on roof corners such that even wizards couldn’t find fault with their exteriors.

On the streets, various enchanted alchemy machines replaced the old-fashioned steam alchemy tractors, racing down the roads, while above them, Wizard Apprentices leisurely flew by with their Flying Magic Equipment.

Biological alchemy cultivated cold-resistant evergreen plants, making greenery, once rare in Extreme North City, common. Occasionally, new businesses would even use Shaping Magic instead of fireworks to celebrate.

This scene, if seen a few decades ago, would have made people think they were looking at a White Wizard Academy.

"Did all these ordinary people build this?"

Ali stared shockingly at the drastically changed Extreme North City.

"It was actually built by Wizard Apprentices," Richard corrected, "The power of a Wizard Apprentice far surpasses that of ordinary people."

Ali fell silent for a moment and then softly exclaimed, "It’s hard to believe. I still remember what Zijing Territory looked like. Even the most beautiful city there is like a village compared to this."

"Zijing Territory, such a distant name," Richard said nostalgically. "I remember I was in Heisen Territory at the time, and to be honest, that place couldn’t even compare to a village in the Extreme North.

I never thought that in the blink of an eye, so many years would have passed."

"Shall we go down and wander around?" asked Ali.

"Sure, last time I went out, I bought a rather silly ornament."

"I saw it, that ridiculous-looking mushroom man, right?"

"Haha, exactly. That’s the one. You can’t always compare with ordinary people when it comes to art."

Over these thirty years, Extreme North City had developed well. Ivan’s youngest son inherited his talent, and under his stewardship, everything in Extreme North City progressed orderly.

After wandering around the city, Ali bought quite a few pieces of jewelry.

Whether it was a woman’s nature or the nature of a Giant Dragon, Ali had no resistance to shiny, expertly crafted objects.

On their way, she nearly swept the stores clean as she shopped.

After strolling for half the day, the two arrived at the city center where a building resembling a church stood in a prominent position.

The building looked solemn and imposing, yet there were no religious symbols on the outside.

This made Richard, who thought it was a church of the Miracle Sect, somewhat puzzled.

"What is this place?"

Richard’s spiritual power spread silently toward the building, but as it was about to enter, a barrier blocked him.

"Spiritual force barrier?"

Richard became somewhat intrigued—what kind of place was this to be equipped with a spiritual force barrier device?

Such a magic array enchantment was not cheap.

After exerting a bit of effort Richard’s spiritual power had crossed that barrier and entered the interior of the building.

But before he could observe anything, a voice emanated from the building.

"Who dares to spy on the Truth Society!"

The next moment, a black-robed wizard flew out from within the building, the life radiation from his body indicating that he was a Second Ring Wizard.

Truth Society?

Richard was somewhat unfamiliar with this term, but he did recognize the wizard.

"Master Gao Wen, long time no see."

The wizard in the sky, hearing someone call out to him, immediately directed his gaze over. Upon clearly seeing Richard’s face, he hurriedly descended from the sky.

"You jest, Master. Before you, how could I claim to be any sort of master?"

Gao Wen was the Law Enforcement Wizard stationed at the Miracle Sect by the Truth Council, usually tasked with checking whether the Miracle Sect had attracted the claws of any otherworldly creatures.

However, this place was unmistakably not a church of the Miracle Sect, so what was Gao Wen doing inside?

"Master Gao Wen, what is this place? It doesn’t look like it belongs to the Miracle Sect."

Gao Wen was initially stunned by the question but then quickly realized that Richard probably had not left home for a long time and hurriedly explained,

"Master, this is the Truth Society, the institution for the publication of Wizard Apprentice papers."

"Wizard Apprentices are publishing papers?"

Richard was somewhat bemused by the answer but quickly remembered that this was one of the systems he had designed years ago to prevent uncontrolled advancements in knowledge.

"Oh, I remember now."

Richard offered an apologetic smile; over the years, he had been engrossed in his research and missed out on many changes.

"Then, do you have any academic journals? Let me have a look at what these Apprentices have been up to these years."

"Of course."

Upon hearing this, Gao Wen pulled out two luxuriously bound Magic Books from his pocket, one with a Rune on its cover and the other with Alchemy.

These were the only subjects currently open to all Apprentices.

Richard took them and casually flipped through, soon his expression became somewhat surprised.

"All of this was done by the Apprentices?" Richard couldn’t help but ask, "Many of these things are about to reach the research domain of formal wizards, aren’t they? Pure deduction can achieve this?"

Gao Wen nodded slightly, with a hint of admiration, "Yes, Master, every article in here was completed independently by mortals. It’s hard to imagine that there could be so many wise people among these mortals."

From a wizard’s past perspective, Wizard Apprentices were already the lowest tier they paid attention to. Mortals were like dust to wizards.

But now, with the universalization of wizards, mortals had entered the wizards’ field of vision. Only then did they realize that there were so many wise and skilled individuals among the mortals.

"Remarkable, I’m afraid in a few more years, they will begin to delve into the realm of wizards. By then, the Wizard World might be in for a great upheaval."

"That won’t happen, Master." Gao Wen shook his head, "You haven’t been out for years, Master, and you probably aren’t aware of the current situation. We’re now fully at war with the Galaxy Mayfly civilization. The world of Galaxy Mayfly is invading five of our worlds at once, and we’re currently short of people at the front lines. Even One Ring Wizards from the white wizards have started to be mobilized."

"Ah?"

Richard was startled by this news; how could One Ring Wizards have been mobilized so quickly.

"Hasn’t the council used slaves as fodder for the front lines?"

"That’s not the case," Gao Wen explained, "Mobilizing so many wizards is mainly for war preparations. These mobilized wizards cannot go directly to battle. They must undergo years of training before they can just barely be used as soldiers. So if we don’t call them up in advance, last-minute conscription will only bring us a bunch of useless people."

After hearing this explanation, Richard’s complexion improved somewhat.

"That’s more like it."

After asking about a few more changes in the Wizard World, Richard left Extreme North City with Ali and headed for Garon Wizard College.

Over the years, he had completed several contribution tasks, and it was just right to collect his Contribution Value this time around and exchange it for some knowledge.

The knowledge in the Contribution Store, each piece was a gem. If he could exchange them, even if he later became a Great Wizard, these things would still be useful.

...

Garon Wizard College had become much livelier than before due to changes in training policies.

The Wizard World has now fully banned the training of Black Wizards and instead promoted the training methods of White Wizards to every Academy.

Black Wizards played a minimal role in this war, and their methodology of cultivation was also somewhat wasteful.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, Black Wizards are completely inferior to White Wizards.

Observing the students inside the Academy, who were completely different from the Apprentices of the past Garon Wizard College, Richard sighed lightly.

The era of the Black Wizards was coming to an end.

Richard passed through the crowd, preparing to head for the Contribution Store. But before he flew much further, his Crystal Ball suddenly lit up.

He looked and saw that it was Jimmy requesting communication.

"Hello, Master Jimmy, you’re quite well-informed. I just arrived at the Academy, and you’re already calling."

"What are you talking about? I didn’t know you had arrived. This time I’m notifying you to prepare; in twenty years, the college has an interdimensional expedition that you’re required to join. The world we’re targeting this time is a broken large-scale world, so you better have your Lost One weapons ready."