The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 859 The Origin of the Civilization Devourers
The Ghost World is a magical world, and its supernatural rules make it incredibly absurd.

In this world, everything seems to be able to be visualized and exaggerated.

For example, Richard's questioning at this moment, his attitude was personified as an almost demonic shadow.

In that shadow, the aura of dominance pressed down on all the creatures present like a mountain. Even the bats and crows flying around the castle vanished at that moment.

"The fact that you can ask this question means you already know the answer," Elder Ape replied with some difficulty.

"That black mud monster has been freed from its seal for so long, it's about time it started causing trouble."

Richard smiled slightly upon hearing this.

"It seems you really are hiding from the civilization devourers."

Behind him, the demonic shadow receded, and the oppressive atmosphere dissipated.

"You just said that you also do historical data lookup on the side?"

"Correct."

"I'd like to know about the past of the civilization devourers. Do you have any information here?"

"Yes, but not much."

"What price?"

Elder Ape shook his head: "This is free. All the information about that black mud monster is free for us."

A look of surprise crossed Richard's face.

"Do you have a grudge against him?"

Anger flashed across the old ape's face, and his body turned red.

"That bastard tried to devour us more than three hundred epochs ago. If we hadn't run fast, you should be seeing us among those afterimages by now."

As he spoke, Elder Ape pulled a flying carpet from his beard.

"Come on, wizard, you are a guest. Staying here is not how we treat guests."

Richard glanced at the strange-looking ghost craftsmen behind him, then tossed the puppet over.

"This stuff is good."

The master craftsman took the puppet and then made the surrounding ghost craftsmen bow and scrape to Richard.

"Haha, thank you, thank you."

Richard smiled, turned, and sat on the flying carpet. After he sat down, the old ape elder didn't make any move, and the flying carpet started moving on its own, flying towards the blood moon with long eyes in the sky.

Only after watching Richard leave with Elder Ape did Master Chef and the others breathe a sigh of relief.

"How terrifying, this outsider!" Copper Nail said, clutching his chest. A brass heart seemed about to burst from his chest.

"Nonsense, this guy is obviously not simple." The master chef said with a sigh of relief, "When have you ever seen an elder sell things to people for free?"

Even the two god-kings among the gods, the elders didn't skimp on their fees.

"...Brother, the elder did indeed treat people for free."

The master chef looked to his left and saw a creature standing there, pure white, like a snowman.

"Third brother, when did those stingy elders become so generous?"

The third master waved his arm, which resembled a tree branch, as if he were plotting something.

After a moment, he replied, "It was just over a hundred epochs ago, and the elder didn't just give it to one person for free, but to three people."

"Three!?"

"Yes, there were three. You were sleeping at the time, so you didn't know about it."

With a wave of his arm, the snowflakes on his body instantly formed a picture in the air.

In the image, a huge figure, a tiny figure, and a crystal are flying toward the moon.

……

In the sky, Li Kan looked at the blood-red moon that was getting closer and closer, and felt the binding force of the rules on his body becoming stronger and stronger, to the point that his appearance began to change.

His black cloak began to deepen in color, and his face beneath the hood became ferocious and terrifying, with his four eyes gleaming with a chilling bloodlust.

He looked like a cloaked demon.

However, these are all just appearances, false faces created by the distortion of rules; his essence has not changed in the slightest.

However, it is precisely because he is a ruler that he can remain completely unchanged.

For a typical world ruler, this rule would likely involve directly distorting the body and even the soul to reshape it.

The blood-red moon appears very small from the ground, but as we all know, things appear larger when closer and smaller when farther away.

In reality, this moon is a colossal object with a diameter of over one hundred kilometers, roughly the same size as Richard's actual body.

As the flying carpet approached the moon, Richard saw a place that looked like a village in the center of the moon's pupil.

As the flying carpet landed, Richard immediately noticed that the gravity of the surrounding space had instantly reversed, changing from downward to upward.

In other words, from the ground, it's like standing upside down in the sky.

Richard's pupils shifted, taking in the surrounding rules. Around this blood moon, the rules of gravity had been rewritten.

He muttered to himself, "Ingenious methods. The way these monstrous craftsmen apply the rules is probably unmatched even by the two crowned masters of energy shaping and alchemy."

But thinking about it, it makes sense. No matter how powerful the two Crowned Alchemists are, they have only achieved the Truth for less than three epochs. Even if we include their years as Archmages, it's at most a dozen or so epochs.

These monstrous artisans are at least ten epochs old, while the elders may have lifespans of hundreds of epochs. Moreover, these creatures can only move within the world; they can only explore the outside world through puppets. They have probably already thoroughly studied the rules of the world's interior.

Trying to outsmart these guys with their skillful application of the rules is like showing off your axe skills in front of Guan Yu—it's a bit of overestimating your abilities.

Upon entering the village, a group of strange and grotesque craftsmen had already gathered at the village entrance.

Upon seeing Richard, the first creature, resembling a stick figure, spoke up: "Unfamiliar ruler, how shall I address you?"

"Wizard. May I ask your name?"

"Just call me blacksmith. Alright, wizard, what do you want to forge?"

"I need to know what you can forge."

"Looks like you haven't decided yet," the stick figure said leisurely. "But that's alright, I have a plan you can take a look at."

As he spoke, the stick figure drew a drawer in the air with his arm. He then pulled out the drawer and took out an information crystal of the Supreme Being.

“More than a million years ago, there was a little fellow named Qi who commissioned a hammer from me. I think you and he seem to be of the same race, so your needs should be similar.”

start……

Upon hearing this name, Richard was suddenly startled; the former Titan King had actually been to this world.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. The world of ghosts and monsters must have existed in this world cluster for an incredibly long time, so it's not surprising that the Titan King came here.

Richard took the crystal and received the information within it.

The next moment, a look of helplessness appeared on Richard's face.

"I don't have that many Boundary Annihilation Stones."

"Not that many? If not that many, we can easily modify them a bit," the stick figure said dismissively.

He examined Li's clothes closely, then said, "That chain you're wearing is nice. Did you make it yourself?"

"Correct."

“Then you shouldn’t be as extreme as that little guy named ‘Qi’. He doesn’t care about anything else when it comes to weapons, as long as they’re hard and heavy enough.”

Richard handed the crystal to the stick figure and suddenly changed the subject.

"I think we should talk about history first. The old ape told me that you're providing information about the civilization devourers for free."

"Yes, he's right."

The stick figure turned around, and the many creatures behind him parted to make way for him.

“If we’re going to talk about history, let’s go inside. That black mud monster is quite powerful; if we discuss its past, it’s easy for it to discover us.”

Upon entering the village, Richard followed the stick figure toward the village center. Along the way, the ghostly craftsmen who had come with the stick figure looked at Richard as if he were some kind of strange object.

After being stared at like that for a while, Richard couldn't help but ask, "Why are you all looking at me like that? Is there anything special about me?"

“It’s nothing,” a cloud-like creature replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen someone who can integrate the rules into their body, just like us.”

Richard was startled upon hearing this. He hadn't expected that these monstrous craftsmen could see at a glance that he had embedded the rules into the core of life.

The stick figure turned to the ghostly craftsmen and shouted, "Go away, go do what you're supposed to do. Standing around like this makes it seem like we haven't seen outsiders in hundreds of epochs."

After he finished speaking, he stopped in his tracks. In front of him was a house that looked like it had been drawn with a black pen.

The stick figure opened the door and gestured for Richard to come in.

"Please come in, wizard."

The room was sparsely furnished, and everything looked like it had been drawn by a child with a black pen.

But at this moment, Richard's discerning eye had been opened, and he naturally saw through the essence of these things—their essence was a tangled mess of rules.

Each black line here contains rules as complex as a world.

The stick figure closed the door, casually drew a chair for Richard, and then got down to business.

"The story of that black mud monster dates back four million years. At that time, this world community had just been formed due to the mass death of the astral whales, and there were only a few civilizations, all of which were still in the pioneering and idyllic stage."

Looking back now, it was truly a wonderful era.

Richard frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"Blacksmith, isn't your era a bit too far back?"

"At the front? No, no, no, of course not at the front." The stick figure shook his head and laughed, "Because around this time, that black mud monster crossed the dark domain between the world clusters and arrived in this world cluster."

They crossed... the Dark Domain!?

Richard was startled upon hearing this.

The Dark Zone refers to the void space separating world clusters, where nothing exists except for ether and the occasional astral creature.

If the civilization devourers came from endless dimensions, he wouldn't be so surprised.

After all, in endless dimensions, speed can be increased to more than ten thousand times the speed of light. If you're lucky enough, you might indeed encounter a world cluster.

However, if one were to traverse the Astral Plane, the dark domains between world clusters would be a vast barrier that even the Astral Plane Overlord would find difficult to cross.

"Are you sure you came from the Astral Plane?" Richard asked incredulously.

“I’m absolutely sure,” the stick figure replied with absolute certainty.

"Because this guy was extremely weak at the time, his body was almost ethereal."

(End of this chapter)