Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 498 - 43 Extraordinary to Saint

Upon leaving Garon Wizard College, Richard once more plunged headfirst into the laboratory.

The urgency of war pressed down on him like a thorn in his back, and he had to make haste with the time remaining to enhance his own strength.

Most importantly, there was the enhancement of the body.

The "Extraordinary Cell" Richard had cultivated was thriving within him.

When there were enough of them, Richard began the process of cellular differentiation. After this step was complete, the next phase was to gradually replace the old cells in his body with these new ones.

It was a lengthy process.

During this process, Richard could almost daily perceive changes happening to his body.

At the onset of the changes, Richard first noticed his body’s demand for energy was gradually increasing.

He could distinctly feel his body absorbing energy from the space around him. The sparse energy in the Wizard World made Richard’s body experience a kind of "phantom pain," a sensation akin to hunger and thirst.

Phantom pain because although there were no adverse reactions in his body cells—in fact, they were highly active.

The energy they absorbed was stored in the form of compounds.

Then came the change in the energy cycle.

Most natives in the Star Realm used the energy cycle they were born with. While this cycle wasn’t bad, it had many limitations.

Therefore, on this basis, all civilized beings would actively construct a new energy cycle to suit their needs.

With the Extraordinary Cells gradually replacing the old ones, his body formed a new cycle.

This cycle, seemingly low in storage, began to reveal its true nature as the cells in Richard’s body continued to store more and more energy—it could interact with the cells of his body, enabling the stored energy to enter the cycle.

In other words, this energy cycle was not a storage warehouse; it was more like a pathway.

The real energy storage was in Richard’s body cells.

Compared with the energy stored in body cells, Richard’s soul, yet to make the ultimate leap in magic rebound, held significantly less capacity than the Extraordinary Cells.

As the body cells were gradually replaced, Richard’s perception became more acute, and he could clearly detect minor energy fluctuations that he would never have noticed before.

This made him quite irritable.

His power was growing stronger; the untransformed him was like a child compared to what he was now.

As his body underwent transformation, with rapidly increasing metrics, Richard was forced to conduct research using clones.

His constantly changing body left him no time to adjust.

As days passed, Richard began to adapt to acting with clones and on this basis, learned to multitask with a single mind.

Now he could simultaneously control four clones to conduct high-precision experiments.

But as the date of war approached, even someone like Richard began to feel restless.

If he could not complete the construction of his body before the war commenced, entering the battlefield would make him no different from a live target.

A Black Wizard who couldn’t precisely control their power would be nothing more than a moving corpse behind enemy lines.

...

Three years remained until the war.

Richard, as usual, carried out tests on the Rune Array in the laboratory. The research on the Defensive Secondary Gun of the Star Realm Fortress had achieved a breakthrough over the years.

Richard had partially deciphered the Spell Model structure inside the secondary gun.

Currently, he was updating his own Spell Model based on the knowledge learned from that model.

The arrangement of the Rune Array was not going smoothly, and after a surge of Magic Fluctuation, the carrier of the Rune Array exploded, triggering the protective measures of the testing bench.

Looking at another failed experiment, Richard felt a slight restlessness in his heart.

He knew his time was limited.

The upcoming war was incessantly pressing down on his sanity. Although he understood that haste was of no use at this moment, knowledge was one thing, but his current state was still one of irritability.

This directly affected his experiments.

"This won’t do; continuing like this will only waste materials."

Richard turned off the protective measures of the testing bench and proceeded to clean up the waste produced by the experiment, even tidying up the entire laboratory.

Tidying up was Richard’s way of relieving stress, an act that gave him moments of tranquility.

And while he was pondering the order in which to rearrange the beakers, a sensation akin to breaking free from shackles and being reborn suddenly surged into Richard’s brain.

He stood there, slightly stunned.

Then he dashed out of the laboratory like the wind and hurried to the room where he stored his body.

Inside the room, the culture tank holding Richard’s body had shattered, and a liquid like clear water was spread across the floor.

Richard bent down to touch it.

It was unmistakable, this was the nutrient solution he had formulated. Only now, all its nutrients had been absorbed, converted into useless water.

Within the broken culture tank, a two-meter-tall body radiated a life force comparable to the sun.

Under this life radiation, even Richard’s clone was trembling slightly.

It was the instinctual tremble of life suppression.

His clone instinctively believed that the body in front of it was a higher order of being.

Yet, this clone of Richard’s had the quality of a third-level creature.

Richard couldn’t help the corners of his mouth lifting into a smile; after twenty-seven years, his body had finally completed its transformation.

His soul separated from his avatar, and before he had a chance to enter his body, Richard sensed a strong pull. He saw his body rise from the ground and merge with his soul on its own.

The next moment, Richard opened his eyes.

Buzz!

A surge of Magic Power instantly swept through the entire Wizard Tower and even the whole of Extreme North City.

All the Wizards and Apprentices in the city simultaneously halted their actions and turned their gaze towards the tall tower in the eastern district.

"What a strong Energy fluctuation, what experiment is Master Richard conducting?" an Apprentice marveled.

In contrast, some of the more experienced Wizards voiced their concerns, "Could this be an experiment gone wrong, breaking through the protective measures?"

Meanwhile, at the Truth Society, Gao Wen watched Richard’s Wizard Tower in shock.

As a World Guardian, his senses were far keener than those ordinary Wizards; his senses told him that within that Wizard Tower was a being that radiated life as bright as the sun.

This being had surpassed the limits of a Three Rings Wizard!

In a murmur only he could hear, Gao Wen muttered, "Should I say it’s no wonder he’s a talent protected by the council? Looks like the Wizard World is about to gain another Great Wizard."

Inside the Wizard Tower, Ali slammed open the door of the room with a bang.

"Is the Energy conduit damaged!?"

Richard shrugged, "No. The fluctuation was just me entering my body and not controlling my strength well."

Ali lost her composure for a moment as she looked at Richard.

The transformed Richard now had a body as perfect as a sculpture, as naturally formed as an uncut jade.

A throbbing that came from her Bloodline burst from every cell in her body.

Her Bloodline was telling her that she must obtain the Bloodline of the being before her.

Richard, getting accustomed to his body, took out a Wizard Robe from his pocket and put it on.

During the process, the Life Radiation from his body began to rapidly decrease until it disappeared completely.

Although Richard had not officially broken through to become a Great Wizard, the increase in his Physique still triggered the Rebound Effect. His spiritual power began to grow in quantity, not in quality.

If the quality of the spiritual power of third-level creatures were used as a benchmark, his spiritual power had now reached three hundred and was gradually climbing.

Of course, this increase in spiritual power was nothing compared to the massive gain brought by the ultimate leap.

Looking back at when he had advanced from Apprentice to Wizard, his spiritual power quality had increased tenfold. He thought that becoming a Great Wizard should at least match the advancement to Wizard in quality.

Dressed in his Wizard Robe, Richard noticed that Ali, for some reason, had a flushed face and a somewhat awkward stance.

Out of courtesy among Wizards, Richard did not probe with his spiritual power directly but asked instead.

"Ali, what’s the matter? Is there an issue with developing your Bloodline?"

Ali did not answer but took out a bottle of black Magic Potion from her pocket and gulped it down.

In a short while, Ali stood up straight, emotionless.

Although her body was still flushed and radiated life energy wildly, her voice was calm.

"It’s nothing, just an instinctual outburst. Also, do you have anything to do now?"

"Nothing but getting used to the body."

"Adapting to the body can wait, I need you to cooperate with me in some activities that can calm my natural instincts."

"Uh... then again, I’m still not fully in control of my physical strength..."

"That’s okay; you don’t need to do anything, just enjoy."

...

Three days later, Richard entered the Secret Realm to start adapting to a body that had now transcended the mundane.

"Gah! Your body is complete?"

Ulysses was somewhat astonished looking at Richard; the vibrant Life Radiation from Richard’s body was nearly blinding.

Richard nodded slightly, "Yes, it’s a success."

Ulysses flew around Richard, clicking his tongue in amazement, "Incredible, truly incredible. I must say, you Wizards are really abnormal, able to cultivate such a thing."

"What do you mean by that." Richard said with a smile, "As long as you know the process, any creature that meets the conditions can achieve what I have."

"That’s not necessarily true," Ulysses shook his head, "Over these years, to cultivate these cells, you’ve experimented with many things.

These things you’ve definitely not added at random, there must be logic to it. And your logic comes from your long-term education and concepts, that is, the Wizard system.

Lacking this system, even if other creatures were given the substances, they wouldn’t be able to replicate it."

Ulysses’ words left Richard somewhat stunned; he hadn’t expected that this World Master would possess such reflective thinking.

It seemed that the soul injury had left this World Master with lots of time for wild thoughts.

"My friend, I feel like you could become a sage now."

"Gah, nonsense. Does my wisdom need to be mentioned?"

After the idle chat, Richard got straight to the point.

"Regarding the construction of the Rule Body, can you tell me?"

Richard looked at Ulysses earnestly and asked, "After my body’s transformation, it naturally gave birth to the Life Rule, and now I must balance the Life Rule with the Radiation Rule."