Chapter 350: Chapter 66 Teacher and Disciple Life
Jolod didn’t linger, after chatting with Richard about recent events, he left in a hurry.
Richard walked out of the laboratory and observed Wuni wandering around the Wizard Tower, beginning to contemplate the upcoming education plan.
There was no doubt that Wuni was rough but promising, as anyone capable of becoming a Three Rings Wizard was not lacking in talent.
But how to carve this rough gem into a fine piece would be up to Richard himself.
After some thought, Richard returned to the laboratory, took out a notebook, and began to design the education plan.
Firstly, he needed to make Wuni’s body grow naturally… or at least appear to grow naturally.
This would ensure his mental health and be more beneficial to his future education.
Secondly, he needed to devise a set of knowledge systems as Wuni’s routine curriculum.
Richard looked at the “knowledge system” he just wrote down and couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.
He knew a lot, but to actually put that knowledge on paper and sort it in a sequence was genuinely challenging.
However difficult, it was a necessary path in training students.
But these were only limited to Richard’s own knowledge.
The knowledge that Jolod once gave him was already well-organized, and he planned to adopt it directly.
With the short-term plan confirmed, Richard closed his notebook. Then, from his Magic Pocket, he took out a stack of thick draft papers.
These draft papers were filled with numerous geometric figures, along with Rune Arrays.
They were drafts of Richard’s work from the past few years optimizing the Gate of Nightmare; after devouring and refining the nightmare rules extracted from the Twisted Meat Ball, Richard’s original ability of nightmare erosion had become even more terrifying.
He could now even corrupt beings with spiritual power higher than his.
Apart from the evolution of his abilities, the rule impacts mentioned by Ulysses were indeed taking effect on Richard.
During spell optimization, Richard would feel inherently uncomfortable when he saw certain Rune Arrays.
This discomfort compelled Richard to optimize these parts of the Rune Arrays.
And the areas he optimized were often the most critical parts of the Gate of Nightmare spell.
Richard used his Magic Hand to spread out the draft papers, and looking at the Rune Arrays on them, he felt that strange discomfort again.
“Rules, these things really don’t make sense,” Richard couldn’t help but sigh as he gazed at the drafts.
Although this ability couldn’t help Richard complete optimizations, it could help him identify the unreasonable parts in ‘Spell’.
For the optimization of a complex spell, this was nothing short of a Divine Artifact.
Quickly, Richard immersed himself in the world of runes and geometric figures.
Outside the laboratory, after some disturbance, an exhausted Wuni came to the outside of the laboratory. Upon seeing Richard optimizing the Magic Model again, he quietly tiptoed around.
He knew his teacher could not be disturbed at the moment.
Upon seeing Wuni, Ulysses flew up from Richard’s shoulder and came in front of him.
“Caw caw caw, little Wuni, what are you up to now?”
Wuni looked at the black crow, thought for a moment, then honestly responded, “Nothing much, I just wandered through teacher’s Wizard Tower.”
“That’s good,” Ulysses said earnestly, “Since you’re not busy, let me check how well you’ve grasped your ‘Spell’.
If you perform well, I might teach you something that even your teacher doesn’t know, how about that?”
Upon hearing this, Wuni’s eyes instantly brightened.
“Sure, Crow Teacher, how will you test me?”
“That’s easy,” Ulysses said with a sly smile, “Let’s head to the backyard and you just follow my instructions.”
A week later, Richard stretched and put the draft papers on the table into his Magic Pocket.
Glancing at the time, his face suddenly changed.
“Oh no, I got too engrossed in my research and forgot to prepare food for Wuni.”
Although Wuni’s ‘Soul’ quality was high, he still had only an Apprentice level in quantity; hence Richard molded his body at an Apprentice level too.
An Apprentice level body still needed daily sustenance for survival.
Richard hurried out of the laboratory, his spiritual power quickly spreading out to locate Wuni.
But soon, his face took on a peculiar expression.
Feeling both amused and annoyed, he approached the Wizard Tower’s backyard where Ulysses was lying on a lounge chair, basking peacefully in the sun. Next to him, Wuni was continually casting Gentle Breeze Skill, bringing waves of cool air.
“Wuni, what are you doing?”
Startled by Richard’s voice, Wuni faltered, and the airflow he was controlling became chaotic.
A few slight Wind Blades carved marks into the neatly trimmed lawn of the backyard.
“Teacher, I’m practicing spell control,” Wuni shouted.
Richard, wearing a dark expression, approached Ulysses,
“Ulysses, you seem to be enjoying yourself!”
Ulysses flew off the chair, defending earnestly, “Enjoying? I’m helping this lad practice spell control.
Didn’t you see he could even make Wind Blades with a Gentle Breeze Skill?”
“Is that so?” Richard continued grimly, “Why does it feel like you’ve just found a free servant to fan you because your ‘Divine’ addiction kicked in?”
Ulysses cackled wryly but offered no defense.
Richard glared at him before turning to Wuni, “Don’t listen to his nonsense; he’s just looking for a free servant.”
“Ah?” Wuni’s eyes widened immediately, “What about the thing Crow Teacher promised me?”
“The thing I promised you?”
Richard turned sideways and glared at Ulysses, grumpily saying,
“What about the thing you promised? My student has been your fan-waving servant for a week, he can’t do it for nothing!”
Ulysses chuckled and breathed out a wisp of blue-black flames.
“Just this, take it for your studies.”
Richard glanced at the blue-black flames and was instantly captivated.
He asked with some uncertainty, “Have you completely combined that blue flame with your Annihilation Flame?”
“More or less. The rules within that blue flame are quite wonderfully intertwined. I’ve only figured out part of the mechanism and incorporated it into my Annihilation Flame.”
Richard was slightly startled; when he had sealed the flame initially, there was no reaction from the Miracle Furnace.
Could the Miracle Furnace not refine this flame, or was there something special about the flame?
Ulysses, as if seeing through Richard’s thoughts, continued, “Don’t start thinking about your furnace the moment you hear ‘rules.’ This flame is an external manifestation of rules in themselves; it’s a pure embodiment of rules.
How could your furnace refine something that is already pure?”
After hearing Ulysses’s explanation, Richard nodded in sudden realization.
Indeed, if something is pure by nature, then naturally the Miracle Furnace would be of no use.
Richard conjured several rune chains from his hands to seal the wisp of blue-black flames into an iced lump, which he handed to Wuni.
“Here’s your item, don’t be fooled by him again.”
Wuni looked bewilderingly at the lump of ice Richard had handed over.
Richard explained, “That thing is harmful to your body as it is now. I’ll store it for you.
When you’re able to break this seal, you’ll be about strong enough to study it.”
Wuni shook his head somewhat disappointedly, after a week of waving fans, to receive such an item seemed a somewhat questionable reward.
“All right, you haven’t had proper food these days. I’ll take you to the commercial level to pick a couple of subhuman servants, they will take care of your meals and drinks from now on.”
“Okay.” Wuni nodded obediently.
Soon, the two arrived at the subhuman slave shop.
Richard dressed Wuni in a wizard robe and then brought him inside.
Witnessing the subhuman servants being sold like goods in the shop, Wuni felt a great shock.
Aren’t these all wizards?
In Wuni’s mind, the vast majority of wizards looked odd and peculiar. That’s why his understanding of the subhumans equated them with wizards.
Seeing so many wizards being sold at will, his young mind was greatly impacted.
Richard noticed Wuni’s odd reaction and explained, “These subhumans are not wizards; they are born this way, whereas the wizards you’ve seen have become odd and peculiar through artificial modifications.
In a couple of days, I’ll take you out to the Tower of Truth to see what normal humans look like.”
Wuni nodded as though he understood, but the sight in front of him still left a trace of confusion in his heart.
Why are those born with an odd and peculiar appearance slaves, while those who become odd and peculiar are wizards?
However, Wuni didn’t immediately ask this question.
In a vague sense, he realized that the answer might be quite unpleasant.
After browsing through the shop, Wuni chose three kemonomimi with ample bosoms.
Richard quite agreed with this aesthetic sense.
After leaving the subhuman shop, Richard also bought some demonized ingredients and some lower-level alchemy materials.
Back at the Wizard Tower, Richard handed the materials over to Wuni.
“Put these materials away safely. In a couple of days, I’ll give you a book on Basic Alchemy to practice with.”
Wuni nodded repeatedly, fastening the magic pocket around his waist.
Next, Richard explained the rules of the wizard tower to the subhuman servants, then returned to his laboratory to begin writing teaching materials.
Wizards generally have good memories; Richard could still recite almost perfectly the materials Jolod had given him back in the day.
Even if there were parts he couldn’t remember, he could fill in using his own skills.
At over four hundred years old, he was now a mature wizard.
Compiling the teaching materials took Richard nearly two months. On the basis of Wizard Alchemy, he also compiled a teaching manual for Giant Dragon Alchemy.
Giant Dragon Alchemy had an unrivaled advantage in material processing. If Wuni could make a name in Alchemy Mechanical Science, then Giant Dragon Alchemy would surely become his powerful tool.
Once the teaching materials were compiled, Wuni’s life became peaceful, his days filled with nothing but studies.
Seemingly still driven by the instincts as a Third Circle Wizard, Wuni showed no impatience with his studies.
He learned and mastered the knowledge Richard taught him swiftly. In just seven years, Wuni had completed all the teaching materials Richard had compiled.
This wealth of knowledge would take a common wizard apprentice up to twenty years to learn, if at all.
This made Richard sigh that a genius, even when restarted, was still a genius.
During these seven years, Richard’s optimization of the Gate of Nightmare also entered its final stages. Originally as complex as a Sixth Circle witchcraft, the Gate of Nightmare was simplified by Richard to around the Fourth Circle level.
This level of spell, even for an Alchemy Wizard, could be used with ease.
Moreover, after optimizing the spell, Richard was amazed to find that he could use the Dream Rules to enhance the spell’s effects.
With the enhancement of the Dream Rules, the spell no longer needed to be used once a decade for a month; it could now be used once a week for a day.
Looking at the two-meter-high, one-meter-wide pitch-black gate before him, Richard couldn’t suppress the smile on his face.
“I can finally replenish my spiritual power!”