The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 104: Flame of Destruction Rune
Flame of Destruction, one of the abilities of Ulysses, Lord of Crows.

It has the ability to devour light, extremely high temperatures and ignite souls, and this flame is very "gentle" and does not have the expansibility of ordinary flames.

This flame comes from Ulysses' bloodline talent. Although it has now lost its original body, as the master of the world, it is still easy for it to simulate its own innate abilities.

The reason why Richard wanted to see such a flame was simple. He wanted to find runes from it.

Runes are the cornerstone of the wizard world. They are the summary of the wizard's control rules. Runes exist in various phenomena. Wizards can see the essence of phenomena by deciphering the appearance of phenomena.

To make an inappropriate analogy, runes are various formulas in physics.

Richard was very interested in the nature of the Flame of Darkness. According to Ulises' description, this flame had some overlap with the nature of the Dark Water Rune. The "gentle" nature of the Flame of Darkness made Richard very jealous.

If the rune of the Flame of Darkness could be extracted and combined with the rune of the Water of Darkness to form a new water and fire annihilation spell, there was no doubt that the power of this spell would be more stable and powerful than the original annihilation realm.

"How long will it take before you can use the Flame of Desolation?"

"Not far away. If we eat a few more of his fruits, we'll have them by the end of this month."

"Do you want to eat his fruit?" Richard couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

The wizard that Ulises visited was named Alexi, a wizard of the soul school. The gem tree he planted in the yard had fruits that nourished the soul.

"Ha ha ha, who told this guy to shoot a fireball at me?" Ulysses shouted angrily.

When Ulysses saw the gem tree, he wanted to go up and get some gem leaves according to his crow nature. However, he was hit by Alexei's fireball and almost became a roasted bird.

From then on, a grudge arose between the man and the bird.

"Okay, stealing is one thing, but don't go too far." Richard said helplessly.

For the sake of my own research, I have to bear with Alexei for now.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

Richard smiled and sent the furious Alexi away, then turned and went to the laboratory on the second floor.

"That's about it."

Richard looked at Ulysses. At this moment, Ulysses exuded a faint breath of heat, which was not there before.

"Okay, but I can't guarantee that you'll find what you want in it."

Ulysses opened his mouth and spit out a wisp of black flame. As soon as the flame appeared, the temperature of the entire laboratory slowly rose.

Richard pulled a crystal ball from his pocket.

This is the crystal ball of the Dark Water Rune that the Great Wizard Qingshuang used. Its material is quite extraordinary. Richard modified it and engraved several magic circles in it, making it able to withstand a considerable degree of high temperature.

Using magic to guide him, Richard channeled the flame of annihilation into the crystal ball, and then produced rune chains in his hands to seal it.

Sealing is a special spell outside of the six major schools. Its only function is to trap objects or even creatures in an object, a place, or even a space. When faced with certain creatures with extremely tenacious vitality, wizards often choose to seal them permanently.

As long as you don't show up, it's no different from being dead.

There are many kinds of sealing techniques, each of which requires a price, and the prices are different. The sealing technique used by Richard came from a cipher notebook, and its name is Rune Chain Sealing Technique. Using this sealing technique only requires the wizard to pay a lot of magic power, which can be said to be the lightest price among all sealing techniques.

But the effect is also the weakest, requiring him to inject magic power from time to time to stabilize the seal.

If it is some extremely powerful sealing technique, he does not need subsequent stabilization at all, but the cost of using it may even be memory, lifespan, or even soul.

The flame of annihilation was successfully sealed into the crystal ball, and the magic circle that Richard had set up in advance began to show its effect.

Under the high temperature of the Flame of Darkness, the crystal ball simply became extremely hot instead of melting directly.

Richard put it in water and kept cooling it down with cold water, and soon brought its temperature under control.

“Haha, your wizard’s sealing technique is quite interesting.” Ulises said in amazement, “A legend can control my Flame of Destruction by some trick.”

"Wizards have many interesting methods." Richard said calmly, "Wizards' methods come from wisdom, not blood or some unsystematic experience."

……

After sealing the Flame of Annihilation, Richard began research and experiments.

This is a long and difficult process.

Richard began to study the School of Transmutation when he was an apprentice, which laid a good knowledge foundation for his current research on the Flame of Oblivion.

During the research, Ellie also became a wizard, which provided great help to Richard.

Through various physical tests and analysis of rune arrays, Richard successfully analyzed the Flame of Gloom in the twentieth year of his research on the Flame of Gloom and summarized the Flame of Gloom runes.

This is undoubtedly great news for Richard.

"Have you made your rune?" Ulysses fell on Richard's shoulder, his eyes fixed on the rune on the test bench.

This rune looks like a ball of twisted flame, with a dazzlingly complex structure.

The gods' civilization also has something similar to runes, and the runes of the Thousand-Faced God King can do the same thing as the wizard runes. But runes are the words of law, and even to see the runes clearly requires the viewer to have the power of a god, that is, the master of the world. And the little guy under it is only a legend. It is really unbelievable that he can also make something similar.

Richard injected magic power into the rune on the test bench, and the next moment, a wisp of dark flame was born from the rune.

"Look, isn't that your Flame of Annihilation?" Richard said proudly.

Ulises drew the flames to him and swallowed them in one gulp.

Then its eyes widened and its mouth opened slightly, as if it had seen something incredible.

"Gah! It really is the Flame of Annihilation!"

Richard nodded in satisfaction and then erased the rune.

The Flame of Darkness Rune was only the first step of Richard's plan. Next, he would need to use the rune array to integrate the Water of Darkness Rune and the Flame of Darkness Rune, and finally turn them into a spell that belonged to him alone.

Li checked the laboratory clock.

"Is it already two o'clock in the afternoon? Time flies."

After becoming a wizard, food was no longer a necessity for Richard, so sometimes when he was doing research, Richard would ignore time and stay in the laboratory for days and nights.

After leaving the laboratory, Richard used his mental power to scan and found his two demihuman servants - they were basking in the sun in the yard.

Richard's daily life is very simple, and he often stays in the laboratory, so these two demi-human servants usually have almost nothing to do except cleaning the room, and their lives are extremely leisurely.

As soon as Richard thought about it, Beast-eared Girl No. 1 received the message.

"The master is coming out. I'm going to cook." Number One informed Number Two and immediately went to the kitchen on the first floor of the wizard tower to start preparing food.

The training provided by the Slave Merchants Guild was very thorough, and Number One’s cooking skills were very proficient. In just half an hour, he filled the entire table with food.

Richard took a look at her. When he bought this animal-eared girl, she was only about sixteen years old. Her fur looked tender and shiny, but now, No. 1's fur has become a little dull.

Richard touched No. 1's ear and gestured for him to continue basking in the sun.

"After becoming a wizard, my perception of time has become increasingly dull. Twenty years actually felt like a short period of time." Richard sighed.

Ulises on his shoulder croaked:
"Gah! How long have you been here this time? It's only been twenty years. When you become a god, two hundred years will be just a blink of an eye.

This is the only way for short-lived species to transform into long-lived species. "

Richard didn't say anything else and silently ate all the dishes on the table.

Number One’s cooking skills are very good, and all the dishes on the table are delicious. After eating, Richard was considering whether to increase the purchasing funds for Number One and let her buy some more expensive ingredients to cook.

With such great cooking skills, it would be a shame not to use good ingredients.

After dinner, Richard walked out of the wizard tower. It was sunny outside the room, and the sky was shining.

"Richard, you finally decided to come out."

A stream of light fell in front of Richard and transformed into a peerless beauty with flames on her body.

"Ellie, long time no see." Richard greeted lazily.

Due to the influence of Master Susanna, Ellie merged the blood of a fire elemental creature after becoming a wizard, and her body became partially elemental. So now sparks will pop out of her body with every move.

"Have you figured out your runes?" Ellie asked curiously.

"Yeah." Richard nodded.

"Do you need my help?"

Richard scratched his head and thought about the direction of his research.

"I need a little help with knowledge. I need some magic books on water and fire elemental spells. They don't have to be high-level, one or two rings will do."

According to Richard's plan, he was going to use two rare runes to form a new spell, which naturally required a lot of knowledge on rune arrays. Looking at other spells would help him draw inferences from similar ones.

"That's easy, but what do you want to exchange for it?" Ellie approached Richard with a seductive smile on her face.

Ellie had heard about Richard's collection of cipher notes a long time ago. When he was an apprentice, Richard had deciphered a blood alchemy formula from the cipher notes. And now that he was collecting a large number of cipher notes, it was easy for Ellie, who knew him inside out, to make some associations.

Richard pulled a scroll from his magic pocket and threw it to Ellie.

"What do you think of this thing? A fire element amplification rune array."

Ellie took it and looked at it, and immediately agreed to the deal.

"That's enough. I'll bring the stuff over in a minute."

Half an hour later, Richard obtained dozens of scrolls recording spell models.

"Alas, knowledge is boundless and learning never ends. Keep studying."

(End of this chapter)