Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Teaching wasn't difficult for Richard given his level of knowledge, and he easily finished a morning-long lecture with a still keen interest.

After the class, Richard carried his notebook back to Jolod's laboratory and took out the Dragon Blood he had obtained from Yelena.

Since he was substituting, Richard didn't have his own laboratory in the Central Black Tower and had to temporarily use Jolod's.

However, Jolod's laboratory was one of the best in the Black Tower Wizard Academy, and Richard was quite familiar with it, so he could use the various equipment smoothly—in contrast, the equipment in his own Wizard Tower felt somewhat inadequate.

"No, a workman must first sharpen his tools. I have to upgrade the equipment in my laboratory when I return. The Commerce has made so much Magic Essence, it's about time to use some."

After reflecting on the laboratory, Richard took out Jolod's Alchemy Centrifuge and prepared to process the Dragon Blood he held into a serum.

The Dragon Blood looked very crimson just from the appearance, making one feel its extraordinary Life Energy by sight alone. Its texture was rather viscous, almost like jam.

This was just the fresh blood of a basic First Level Giant Dragon; higher-level Dragon Blood would be even more viscous. Legend has it that during the Dark Age, a four-headed Giant Dragon didn't insta-bleed when wounded, and its dripping blood fell on a wizard, turning him instantly into amber.

Dragon Blood also had some degree of corrosiveness and erosiveness. The corrosiveness wasn't so concerning—it wasn't an Alien, and even the blood of a Forth Level Giant Dragon was only about as corrosive as ordinary strong acid.

But the erosiveness was different.

The fresh blood of a Giant Dragon could even corrode and transform inorganic matter. While this transformation effect was weak, it decreed that the storage container for Dragon Blood must be enchanted.

The higher the level of Dragon Blood stored, the higher the Enchantment on the container must be, and the container's resistance to erosion must be regularly checked.

Richard treated the Dragon Blood with some Alchemy Potions and then placed the treated blood into the centrifuge.

As the centrifuge hummed, Richard moved to the experiment table and took out a face-sized Rune Base Plate from his Magic Pocket, starting to engrave Runes.

These Rune Base Plates were the gravity generators for the Gravity Training Room. With thirty prepared and properly distributed inside the training room, Richard could simulate the gravitational environment of the Mountain World in the Wizard World.

A half-hour later, the noise from the centrifuge stopped.

Richard walked over to the centrifuge, took out the test tube filled with serum, and casually separated the remnants inside.

Looking at the blood serum with a light yellow hue in front of him, Richard approached the laboratory window and summoned an Academy Inspector using Magic Power.

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you think you're doing!" the summoned Academy Inspector shouted.

Richard ignored it, expressing his needs.

"Go to the assassin chamber of commerce and buy me some mice, and while you're there, ask if they have any young Dragon Blood for sale."

After speaking, Richard handed the Inspector a Magic Essence and an Elemental Gem glowing with red light, and then sent him back down.

"You substitute wizard are truly impolite! Can't you ask for a favor nicely!"

The Inspector grumbled indignantly, then swallowed the Elemental Gem.

Elemental gems weren't particularly expensive, merely a few dozen Magic Stones in price, but for an Academy Inspector who liked to collect shiny items, they were even more useful than Magic Essence.

Soon, the experimental mice from the assassin chamber of commerce were delivered to Richard's laboratory, along with a note stating, "The Chamber of Commerce is out of young Giant Dragon Blood. If needed, you can pay a deposit and reserve it for a purchase after the ten-year restock."

Richard handed the Inspector ten Magic Essences.

"Reserve five doses of young Giant Dragon blood serum for me, and make sure to specify that I need the serum from young dragons from the Wizard World."

After the Academy Inspector left, Richard took a mouse from the cage filled with them.

These mice, specially bred by the Wizard Commerce, had lengths and weights within an extremely narrow range of parameters, minimizing variables that could affect experiments.

Richard strapped the mouse onto the experimental table, drew out half a milliliter of the Dragon Blood serum with a syringe, and injected it into the mouse.

Then he took out the Image Capturing Crystal Ball and notebook, beginning to record the changes in the mouse.

Thirty seconds after the injection, the mouse began to convulse.

Ten seconds later, the convulsions intensified, and bloodied fluid started seeping from the mouse's skin as the dragon transformation began.

The Dragon transformation first appeared in the mouse's heart, then spread along its arteries.

At the start of the Dragon transformation, the mouse's skin began to shed fur in large patches, and a layer of scales, such as those only reptiles have, started to appear.

Thirteen seconds later, the skin of the mouse had completely transformed into that of a dragon, and it began to vomit foul blood.

Richard collected the foul blood, then continued to monitor the status of the mouse.

Thirty seconds after the transformation, the mouse stopped vomiting blood, and its vital signs began deteriorating rapidly.

Fifty seconds post-transformation, the mouse lost all vital signs completely.

Richard dissected the mouse's body, finding that its internal organs had undergone twisted changes, which were also indicative of Dragon transformation. These changes hadn't completed, and upon examining the body, Richard discovered that all the stored chemical energy in the mouse had been consumed during the transformation.

Theoretically, the lab rats had starved to death.

Richard tested the rats' tainted blood once again, confirming that it contained a large number of damaged cells, which were likely the cells that had failed to integrate during the integration of life information.

After organizing the experimental results, Richard looked at the test record in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The transformation of the rats into dragons proved that the life information of giant dragons existed within the serum. Additionally, biological dragonization required a massive amount of energy, which would be extremely difficult for ordinary creatures to complete the whole process of dragonization.

However, looking at the dragonized rats, Richard always felt that the dragon blood was somewhat too overbearing.

It seemed almost viral that the modification of creatures could be completed using just the life information in the serum, without even requiring cells.

Richard activated the Secret Realm and pulled Ulysses out from it.

After more than a year, Richard's Secret Realm had been transformed by Ulysses into a religious sanctuary.

Temples, divine statues, Holy City, it had everything, and Ulysses had become the Pope within it, occasionally proselytizing to the Holy Tree Elves. Moreover, due to intelligence issues, these Holy Tree Elves had been completely bamboozled by him. They no longer believed the inherited memories in their brains and took the doctrines made up by Ulysses as history.

In these doctrines, Richard was portrayed as the Creator God of the entire Secret Realm, and the Holy Tree Elves were the first creatures he had created.

Ulysses and the World Mushroom were his subordinate gods.

And the past recorded in the memories of the Holy Tree Elves had become tests issued by Richard to verify their firmness in faith.

Honestly, when Richard saw this situation for the first time, he was almost frightened enough to stop Ulysses from continuing the proselytizing.

After a year, the Holy Tree Elves had been completely brainwashed, under such circumstances, Richard even doubted if they could grow into Level 1 Creatures.

Due to a wizard's prejudice, Richard had believed that the Holy Tree Elves should follow the path of spiritual evolution, especially since their physical constitution could only be described as frail.

And their innate talents required the involvement of spiritual power.

Spiritual evolution was definitely not the wrong path for them.

But if they were brainwashed into fanatics, Richard was worried that these little creatures might not be able to continue on the path of spiritual evolution.

Wizards always valued reason highly, and he had never heard of a madman becoming a wizard.

But Ulysses soon reassured him.

"Gaah, are you discriminating against fools? Spiritual evolution only relates to spiritual power and the soul barriers they face during evolution, not their mental state.

In the Star Realm, all those mad fanatics are unreasonable, yet many of them are spiritual evolvers.

Moreover, being brainwashed, these little creatures might evolve even smoother.

Sometimes, stubborn fools with firm beliefs overcome the soul barriers easier than some intelligent ones."

Pulling Ulysses from the divine seat in the Holy City, Richard pointed to the serum on the table and asked for check by this World Master to see if there was anything strange.

Ulysses flew over to the serum, dabbed a bit of energy into it and tasted it.

It promptly spat it out, cursing:

"Gaah, what the hell is this, it can erode my body with just a bit of life information."

Richard's eyes narrowed at these words, it seemed Ulysses had never seen any creature with bloodlines as potent as the giant dragons.

"This is the serum of the giant dragons from the Wizard World, and the dragon species is widespread in the worlds surrounding the Wizard World."

Upon hearing this, Ulysses waved its wings, "Gaah, this thing definitely has issues. The rules between worlds are vastly different, it's impossible for them to simultaneously give rise to the same race.

This type of creature is either a degenerated Pioneer or a biological weapon created by Pioneers.

Given its high erosivity, I am more inclined to think it's the latter."

Richard nodded, having learned about the Pioneers; he had become suspicious of the widespread existence of dragons across different worlds. Hearing Ulysses suggest this theory today only reinforced his conviction that giant dragons were indeed creations of the Pioneers.

As for why the dragons weren't degenerated Pioneers?

Richard scoffed internally; if they were Pioneers, they would have long been annihilated by wizards, and any remnants would be strictly kept and guarded in the Secret Realm by wizards.

They certainly wouldn't be so casually left out, even guarding and protecting wizards' households.

No one would keep a potential explosive bomb in their room.

"Do you have a way to modify this thing?" Richard casually asked, "I am quite interested in some of the characteristics of the dragons, if their erosivity could be reduced, this thing could be very useful."

However, Richard didn't really expect Ulysses to respond since the difference between the two civilizations was rather large, and Ulysses's skills were all focused on physical talent and power of faith.

But this time, Ulysses spoke up.

"Gaah, you really never know, I might actually have a way to deal with this thing."