Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 455 - 74 Rushing to the Battlefield

Richard stowed the notification carefully and released the messenger owl into the sky.

"Is the war finally going to begin?"

He sighed softly and casually opened the Secret Realm Rift.

Inside the Secret Realm, the modified Fire Lizard Warriors were conducting recovery training at the Martial Arts Arena.

Their suddenly enhanced bodies, although drastically boosting their theoretical combat strength, would be of uncertain practical use if they couldn’t control their bodies precisely.

In the Alchemy Workshop, the Fire Lizard Craftsmen were working overtime to upgrade the Single Soldier Armor.

Even so, a year’s time was still a bit too short.

Up to now, only one hundred sets of armor had been upgraded completely. As for the rest, it seemed they would have to be upgraded slowly on the battlefield.

Richard entered the Martial Arts Arena, and the Fire Lizard Warriors, sensing Richard’s arrival, ceased their training one after another.

They gathered around Richard, a thousand dragon eyes flashing with fervent golden light.

Richard slowly began, "The war is about to start, don’t train too intensely during this time."

Hearing this news, the Fire Lizards instantly erupted in excitement.

Contrary to what Richard had imagined, the Fire Lizards did not have an aversion to war. Whether it was the veterans who had experienced the Green Forest World or the new recruits, their reaction to war was strikingly similar.

Zeal, these Fire Lizards were extremely fervent about war.

This reaction made Richard subtly feel that something was off.

"How do you feel?"

Ulysses’s voice suddenly rang in Richard’s ear; he turned his head slightly and saw Ulysses flying into the Martial Arts Arena from outside.

"Did you preach to them?"

Richard immediately connected the unusual reaction to fanatics.

Ulysses didn’t refute, but added, "I didn’t preach to them, I just gave them some guidance. They established something similar to a secret society on their own."

"A secret society?"

Richard glanced at the excited crowd of Fire Lizards, then turned his head back.

"There’s no such effect from a secret society."

The essence of a Wizard’s secret society is a social convention as well as a particular method of trading.

But the reaction of the Fire Lizards at this moment seemed more like that of human secret societies. Such societies often have a specific goal, and their members work towards that goal.

Yet even for mortal secret societies, this kind of fervor was a bit too much.

"I never said it was the secret society that did it," Ulysses replied with a sly smile, "Their zeal for war is a kind of atavistic phenomenon.

You should still remember that Giant Dragons are the Supreme’s biological weapons, right?"

"But the Dragon Blood in these Fire Lizards has been suppressed... No, you mean!"

Richard’s eyes suddenly widened. The Dragon Blood in these Fire Lizards had indeed been suppressed, but there were two Giant Dragons in his Secret Realm.

The offspring of the Six-headed Dragon King, Hog, along with the Snake King, which held unique heritage. These two together could not be ruled out from stirring up something.

"Right, just what you’re thinking," said Ulysses, somewhat smugly, "Hog and the Snake King cooperated to re-administer the blood to these Fire Lizards.

Now although their Dragon Blood remains suppressed, the Dragon Blood they have awakened has been enhanced.

And as biological weapons, the Giant Dragons are destined not to fear war.

So after enhancing the Dragon Blood, that’s why the Fire Lizards have become what they are now."

Richard turned to look at the self-satisfied crow.

"Did you arrange this?"

"Hehe, it was a mutual idea between me and the Snake King."

Richard nodded slightly, pleased, "It’s rare that you help me to bolster strength aside from sleeping."

As he spoke, he took a tightly sealed bottle out of his pocket and threw it to Ulysses.

"What is this, sealed so tight?"

Ulysses caught the bottle and curiously broke the seal.

As soon as the bottle was opened, a wave of soul-level "fragrance" immediately made Ulysses’s eyes widen.

"Soul Essence!"

Richard laughed, "I originally planned to give you this after the war was over. But I’m in a good mood now, so let’s give it in advance."

Soul Essence was undoubtedly the best medicine to recover soul injuries for Ulysses.

Even though Ulysses’s soul injuries were healing bit by bit on their own, consuming a large amount of Soul Essence would still accelerate the recovery.

If he ingested this Soul Essence, Ulysses could very well recover to the level of the World Master.

"Ah, isn’t giving me this now a bad thing?" Ulysses feigned difficulty.

"If I swig this thing, I will surely fall into a deep sleep. Then I won’t be of any help in the upcoming war."

Richard glanced at him, pretending to be serious, "You remind me, give it back to me now."

"Don’t, don’t, I’ll just eat less of it," Ulysses surrendered.

However, after the joke, he immediately became serious, "You must carefully consider my injury.

My slumber is inevitable, and you must be prepared for it early."

Richard nodded solemnly.

"I know."

After leaving the Secret Realm, Richard sent news of his joining the war to a few people close to him via the Communication Crystal Ball.

Then he tidied up the laboratory, neatly placing various equipment and activating all the Magic Arrays.

He feared that this departure would mean a long time before he could return.

At last, he walked out of the Wizard Tower’s great door and added a layer of Sealing to it.

In the air, Richard took one last look at the Wizard Tower, which was about to disappear from view, and sighed softly,

"Ah, I hope I can come back."

...

The wizards of the Tower of Truth had recently sensed something amiss.

A pressing sense of impending doom had begun to envelop them, seemingly from nowhere.

Even though the Military Department had banned the spread of news, many astute individuals had picked up on inklings from changes in the marketplace.

The first to notice were employees of the Wizard Commerce.

As sellers, they naturally noticed market changes before buyers did.

The price of Fire Element Gems continued to fall in the market. The quality of inferior Fire Element Gems used for fuel was improving.

Furthermore, prices for alchemy materials had fallen and had not rebounded for a long time.

This situation alerted many experienced wizards.

That’s because the prices of alchemy materials were controlled by the Truth Council’s macro-management. Previous price fluctuations had always quickly stabilized. But this time, the prices of these materials were steadily declining at an incredibly slow pace.

It was almost as if overnight, all the Great Wizards had ramped up their efforts to exploit every resource within their worlds.

The abnormal market phenomena fueled wild speculation amongst wizards, and guesses spread rapidly like a plague through pubs, gatherings, societies, and clubs.

Many optimistically estimated that the golden age for wizards was beginning.

But very few guessed that the Wizard World was on the brink of a great war.

Because according to common sense, if a war were imminent, the prices for alchemy materials should be rising.

But only a few wizards who were very familiar with the resource development of the Wizard World knew that the commodity prices in the Wizard World were artificially propped up.

If the Great Wizards were to fully utilize their resources, the unit price for many alchemy materials would switch from Magic Essence to Magic Stone.

Recently, however, speculations about a major conflict began to emerge amidst the rumors.

This was because many well-known Three Rings Wizards had disappeared.

These masters were successful wizards who had joined the Military Department. According to those who cared to keep count, almost all wizards who had recently joined the Military Department had been conscripted.

This sign made the wizards of the Tower of Truth feel some panic.

What kind of war would necessitate the Military Department to mobilize so many elite wizards?

...

Changes were apparent in the expedition layer of the Tower of Truth when compared to before.

A host of enormous Teleportation Gates, resembling tombstones, were erected on the cold, steel plains of the working layer.

Giant cargo Flying Airships were tirelessly transporting materials through the Teleportation Gates into the Hub World. From there, they were relayed to the Galaxy Worlds where war was raging.

Among these airships, there was one that looked a bit special.

"The current situation is as such, everyone please brace yourselves mentally."

Inside the airship, Richard was sitting in the corner of the room, quietly reviewing the documents at hand. Not far from him, a wizard from the Military Department was explaining the information in the documents through various projections.

"So you’re saying that we are at a comprehensive disadvantage, right?"

A wizard, who was covered in black Flames, suddenly spoke up.

"You could understand it that way," the instructor nodded.

"A comprehensive disadvantage, I’ve never seen such a thing before," a wizard, who looked much like a stone man, continued the conversation.

"These Galaxy Mayflies are deploying troops directly into the worlds from the Star Realm, and we have no means of retaliation except for defense."

The voice of the stone man wizard was filled with rage. When had wizards ever been so suppressed by another creature—let alone a suppression that couldn’t be countered?

But behind this anger, Richard detected a hint of powerless rage stemming from shattered illusions.

The wizard couldn’t accept that in this war, wizards were at an overall disadvantage.

His resolve was faltering.

The wizards in the room were surprisingly quiet about the stone man wizard’s outburst.

The news of the war had indeed hit them hard—everyone except Richard.

"Fellow wizards, there’s no need to panic like this. This is just a temporary disadvantage due to differences in warfare habits between civilizations."

Richard stood up silently with the documents and walked out from the corner.

Among these Three Rings Wizards, Richard was the most knowledgeable about civilizational warfare.

After all, he had a witness of such wars right on his shoulder.

The wizards in the room were the elite of the Three Rings Wizards, and a significant number of them would become Great Wizards in the future.

And now, all of them turned their gaze toward Richard. freewёbnoνel.com

Just like stars surrounding the moon.