The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 874 You Need to Make a Deal with Me

Lal Redshirt never imagined that one day he would encounter an unexpected disaster in endless dimensions.

As a tree shepherd of the Tree Spirit race, Lal Redshirt originally planned to happily explore the endless dimensions today, hoping to find a new dimension and acquire some new tree species.

But we don't know if he was cursed or if he was just having a bad day.

He had just entered the endless dimension and hadn't even seen his surroundings clearly when he saw a streak of light flying towards him.

The light was so fast that he was struck by it the instant he saw it.

To be fair, as a Crimson Clad among the Tree Spirits, Lar believed his body to be extremely resilient.

Even within the entire Natural Federation, there are few world lords of the same level who can surpass him.

But in the face of this radiant light, Ral felt as if his body had been struck by a meteorite, utterly powerless to resist.

Or rather, before he could even react, his body was shattered.

Fortunately, the light was carrying nothing but a pure physical attack. Furthermore, the tree spirit race possesses incredibly tenacious vitality; as long as a branch or seed remains, it can survive.

Otherwise, Ral would have been killed by Richard by now.

"Damn it! That thing is definitely around here!"

Ral roared as he swept his mental energy across the surrounding void.

He consulted the oracle before pursuing Richard. However, he took a shortcut in his divination; instead of Richard, he divined Richard's blood.

After Richard shattered Ral, he inevitably became covered in Ral's blood. However, in the endless dimensions, matter and energy are extremely scarce, and the bloodstains would not be burned away by the heat of high-speed flight.

Lal also knew that anything capable of destroying him was probably something extraordinary.

The cost of direct divination would probably be terrifying.

Looking at the roaring world lord before him, Ral Redshirt resembled a large tree with a thick trunk.

However, unlike ordinary trees, Lal's body has a considerable degree of flesh and blood.

His bark was rough, but it looked more like calluses on fingers. Beneath the bark were hard bones and tough muscles.

Lal's canopy looks very lush, but its branches are like bones wrapped in ligaments, its leaves are like skin covered with blood vessels, and hanging in the canopy are fruits that look like hearts.

In the center of Lar's tree trunk, a blood-red eye stared wide open.

At this moment, this eye was constantly scanning its surroundings. Its gaze was so sharp it seemed capable of piercing holes in the void.

"A tree made of flesh and blood? It looks like the work of a flesh-and-blood alchemist from the past," Richard thought to himself.

"However, this guy arrived at just the right time."

He was worried that no one would take him back to the material world.

I'm really sleepy and I give you a pillow.

Thinking this, Richard deliberately made a commotion to attract the attention of the Lord of the World.

"Um!?"

Lars suddenly looked at Richard's remains, hundreds of kilometers away from him. In Lars's eyes, Richard's remains were just a piece of debris from the void, like a meteorite.

But just now, his mental energy detected a gravitational fluctuation in this meteorite, which looked like void debris.

"Could it be this?"

Ral cautiously observed Richard's remains. The first piece of advice the world's ruler, born of civilization, received while exploring endless dimensions was to observe more and touch less.

The Lord of the World has only just reached the threshold of entering the endless dimension. Many things in the endless dimension, such as illusory creatures, dimensional treasures, and the exiled Lord of the World, may not mean much to the Overlord, but they are deadly to the Lord of the World.

Especially someone like him who has only recently been promoted to World Lord.

Facing something that could potentially shatter his body, Lal naturally became extremely cautious.

Richard was naturally prepared for this.

He knew all too well how to disguise himself as excellent research material.

Under Ral's mental observation, Richard periodically released gravity and flipped, exhibiting characteristics of absorbing surrounding energy and matter.

But all of this was quite mild. At least for a world ruler.

The best characteristic of a good research subject is its gentleness.

"Hiss, it seems like there shouldn't be any problems."

After observing for nearly three days, Lar was almost certain that the meteorite-like object in front of him was a very gentle thing.

At least for the time being.

However, this is only the first test.

Ral touched Richard's mangled body with energy, trying to test Richard's sensitivity to energy.

Richard, of course, remained moderate on this point.

As Ralph sensed Richard's unhurried energy absorption, his eyes lit up.

But his probing did not end there.

He took an animal carcass out of his pocket and then placed it in front of Richard's mutilated body.

This time, Richard did not show his gentleness, but instead displayed a strong carnivorousness.

While gentleness is a virtue for experimental subjects, the perfect gentle subject is either in a dream or a trap.

Showing his violent side helps him to disguise himself.

"It has a liking for flesh and blood? No wonder this thing crashed into us."

Looking at Richard's mangled body, which was frantically devouring flesh and blood, Ral suddenly understood why he had been attacked.

He was attacked, undoubtedly because this unknown object sensed the smell of flesh and blood, and thus came straight for him.

And that astonishing speed...

Lal's heart suddenly trembled.

Perhaps this thing came from a ruler?
Having determined the characteristics of Richard's remains, Ral carefully brought them to his side. Richard deliberately used gravity to pull himself closer to Ral, but kept the intensity within a very weak range.

This completely put Lars's guard down.

He took a jar from his pocket, threw Richard's remains into it, and then marked the jar. [Danger Level: Level 3 (Very Harmless)]

……

Inside the jar, Richard began to use his mental powers to explore his surroundings.

He has been thrown into a storage space that resembles a magic pocket.

This space is deadly to mortals, but to Richard, it is no different from any other space.

With his mental probing, Richard quickly found something valuable.

"Oh? It's actually a World Tree fruit from the plant dimension, and it even has the effect of restoring the soul."

Deep within Lar's storage space, a World Tree fruit floats silently. A seal locks away its energy and life force.

Without external interference, this fruit could remain as fresh and tender as ever even if it stayed here for tens of thousands of years.

Unfortunately, external forces came.

Richard manipulated gravity to slowly move the World Tree fruit to his side, and then the jar containing his body was swallowed by his body.

After looking at the World Tree fruit in front of him and confirming that it had no alarm settings, Richard swallowed it directly.

In an instant, a tingling sensation shot straight into Richard's soul.

Nourished by the World Tree fruit, Richard's soul immediately began to recover. In a short time, his mental strength reached the level of a third-level creature.

Unfortunately, the main effect of this fruit is not to restore the soul.

The fact that Richard was able to recover to a level three being is already an achievement of Richard's perfect absorption of the effects.

If it were Ral who ate this fruit, the most it would do to restore his soul would be to give him a little boost.

Richard then returned to the jar and used his power of creation to reseal it.

Without seeing it with one's own eyes, no one would imagine that this thing, which looks like a meteorite fragment in the jar, could silently steal and eat the World Tree fruit from the storage space.

In the endless dimensions, just as Ral was about to explore them, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest.

A bad feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.

"Am I going to have even more bad luck?"

Lars felt a sudden chill run down his spine.

Although the tree spirit is tough and resilient, this is an endless dimension, and there are many things here that can kill it.

"Forget it, let's go back and study that thing first."

As he thought this, the dimensional power within Lar surged, and he immediately opened a rift in the void to return to the astral plane.

……

On the vast plains, the dense forest sways in the wind.

Monsters roamed through the forest, and flocks of birds flew in the sky. Everything looked like a primitive world, without any sign of civilization.

This phenomenon is not an isolated case. From plains to mountains, from rainforests to plateaus, there is no sign of intelligent life in this world.

In this astral plane where almost every world is inhabited by intelligent life, such a situation is simply inconceivable.

Suddenly, a dimensional rift opened in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a large tree made of flesh and blood fell from it.

In the vast, endless dimensions, Ral's size was not apparent, but upon returning to the astral plane, Ral's enormous body, already over five hundred meters tall, instantly became a colossal creature.

"It still feels most comfortable at home."

Lal descended from the sky and landed in the center of the world. There, an extremely robust World Tree stood tall, its petrified bark testifying to the ancient years it had endured.

Upon arriving at the World Tree, Lal shrunk in size, transforming into a small tree only a dozen meters tall.

Then, an entrance appeared in the World Tree.

As Lal entered, a melodious tune suddenly appeared beside him. The leaves on his body trembled slightly, as if dancing to the music.

After passing through the passage, Lal arrived at a place that resembled a laboratory.

Here, a large number of machines that clearly come from a civilized society are placed.

Ral removed the bottle containing Richard from his body, the crimson eyes on the tree trunk gleaming with a hint of greed.

"Hehehe, let me see what you really are."

As he spoke, a fleshy tentacle extended from Ral's body and pulled Richard's remains out of the bottle.

And this is precisely an opportunity.

The moment the fleshy tentacles touched Richard's mangled body, a virus silently entered Ral's tentacles and spread rapidly through his bodily fluids and energy circulation.

After consuming the fruit of the World Tree, Richard was no longer so weak, and he had a few more options at his disposal.

Although he wasn't a virus expert like Beelzebub, he did research virus creation in order to advance evolution.

Although these viruses are not Beelzebub's life-giving viruses, the flesh and blood in the red shirts before us are not the masters either.

Faced with Richard's virus, Ralph's immune system was practically useless. In the blink of an eye, the virus had spread throughout Ralph's body.

Then came the explosion.

"Huh? Am I seeing things?"

Ral looked at the eight pieces of Richard's mangled body before him with some confusion, a question flashing through his mind.

But soon, he was suddenly startled.

Something is wrong!

But it was too late now.

Lal could feel his body decaying and rotting, and his soul was decaying along with it.

In the end what happened?
The next moment, a message resolved his doubts.

"World ruler of the alien civilization, you need to make a deal with me."

(End of this chapter)