The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 886 Purification and Investigation
Upon seeing these mechanical beings casually attaching other people's parts to themselves, Richard immediately understood that it wasn't that there were many polluters, but rather that someone was spreading the pollution.

“Mechanical, you stay and calm people down. I’ll go and send those infected into the dimension,” Richard said to the mechanical chieftain beside him.

Without hesitation, the chieftain of the mechanical race decisively replied, "Alright!"

Richard's puppet body was operating at full capacity, with dimensional power flowing from the void like a tidal wave, subsequently becoming the body's power source.

With only a fragment of his soul, Richard was unable to accurately separate the contaminated from the crowd and place it into the dimension of miracles.

Therefore, he now has to use the most powerful ability of this puppet body—the virtual dimension.

The immense dimensional power continuously transformed and wove within the puppet's body, ultimately transforming into a virtual dimension through the interplay of energy and rules.

This dimension possesses all the functions of an ordinary dimension; its only problem is that its existence requires a vast amount of dimensional power. Without the support of a powerful civilization, even an eighth-level overlord would find it difficult to sustain such consumption for an extended period.

However, Richard didn't need much time.

He only needs to filter out these polluters, and the Miracle Fire will soon purify them.

Whether they live or die depends on the extent of their erosion.

hum!
The moment the artificial unique form was completed, a buzzing sound resounded throughout the entire mechanical race's mother world.

The reveling mechanical race members stopped what they were doing at the sound of the buzzing.

"what happens?"

"That sound sounds like an energy hum. Has some large machine been turned on?"

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Suddenly, gasps of surprise rang out from the crowd.

Richard's alchemical golems moved through the crowd like lightning, recording all the corrupted individuals.

Data flooded into Richard's brain like rivers flowing into the sea. If this information were from any other ruler, even an ordinary ruler with spiritual evolution, their brain would crash for a moment.

It's not that the data is particularly complex; it's simply that the instantaneous information is beyond their processing capabilities.

Richard is now doing more than just receiving information; he is simultaneously controlling the actions of tens of millions of alchemical golems throughout the entire Machine Race mother world to ensure that not a single Corruptor is overlooked.

In an instant, Richard felt as if the mind modules of the puppet's body were melting.

But the puppet's terrifying capabilities then maintained the temperature of the thought module at a suitable level—

These figures are not yet the limits of this body.

The thinking module completed the action planning of these puppets in an instant and summarized the information of these puppets.

Then, the first wave of tidying up began.

The artificial dimension unfolded in an instant, and under Richard's selection, all the polluters discovered in this wave were precisely taken into the artificial dimension.

During this process, the puppet's thought process module operates at full capacity.

Richard felt as if the whole world had frozen in time. In that instant, he felt that he could predict the future trajectory and even the fate of everything in the world through his calculations.

"The Overlord can actually do this?" Richard muttered to himself.

He suddenly realized that his understanding of spiritual evolution was too superficial.

Knowledge is only one part of spiritual evolution, but the transformation brought about by spiritual evolution itself is equally important. A creature specializing in spiritual evolution will certainly have a greater computational ability than a creature with the same level of spiritual power that has undergone physical evolution.

Because beings that undergo spiritual evolution will inevitably change their soul structure, thereby accelerating their calculations and gaining an advantage in research and even combat.

Although he possessed sufficient knowledge, his soul remained that of a soul evolved from physical constitution.

"Perhaps I should apply my knowledge of soul science to slightly modify the structure of my soul," Richard thought to himself.

The first round of quarantine ended quickly.

But Richard's alchemical golems did not slow down; they moved through the crowd like lightning, screening the contaminated individuals again and again.

Soon, some of the polluters who had been missed came into Richard's view.

These polluters were all high-level mechanical beings. Although they were also celebrating, they did not mingle with the ordinary mechanical beings.

After all, their power is too great. If they mingle with those level one creatures or even mortals, they will cause trouble if they make any big moves.

"Hey, who are you people!"

The Level 3 mechanical race members, who were mating in the factory, shouted in panic.

But Richard's alchemical golem ignored him. Its red-glowing crystal eyes swept over the machine, and a mark was placed on him.

【Safety】

Then it left just as hastily as it had arrived, as if it had been an accident.

Such farces continued to unfold in various parts of the world, with alchemical golems uncovering the mechanical races hidden in all sorts of secret corners and screening them one by one for any contaminants.

The second round of screening was completed quickly.

The discovered polluters have re-entered the artificial dimension.

The third round of screening then began.

This time, the machine race realized something was wrong. After all, it's not a common natural phenomenon for someone to suddenly disappear into thin air.

Shock and panic spread through the crowd like a plague.

"Don't panic!"

The voice of the mechanical race chieftain suddenly resounded in the hearts of many mechanical race members.

"Their disappearance is normal. I discovered that their bodies had some special malfunctions that required repair."

The revelry continues.

As the first member of the Machine Race, the Chieftain of the Machine Race is the progenitor of the Machine Race. His words are considered sacred pronouncements among the Machine Race.

Seeing that even the ancestor had spoken up, the remaining mechanical race members naturally felt relieved.

Although some members of the machine race were still curious about what had happened, in the atmosphere of revelry, these doubts were quickly forgotten or treated as topics of casual conversation.

The third screening was completed quickly.

After three rounds of screening, all the contaminated individuals were thrown into the artificial dimension by Richard. Out of caution, Richard even used reconnaissance methods himself, spending several hours scouting the entire world to ensure that no one escaped.

Once all that's done, the rest will be easy.

Within the dimension, the captured mechanical race had already begun to descend into chaos. After all, they were celebrating one moment and then suddenly found themselves in this strange space; anyone would be terrified in that situation.

Among them, several world lords were quite knowledgeable and recognized that this was a method of domination.

But they didn't understand why they had been brought to this strange dimension.

Suddenly, ripples spread across the sky of that dimension.

Richard and the chieftain of the machine race then entered this artificial dimension.

Looking at the vast, densely packed mechanical race in the dimension, the mechanical race chieftain couldn't help but gasp.

"These are all contaminated individuals!?"

Richard nodded slightly: "They all have traces of contamination on them, but whether they are completely contaminated or not, we'll have to examine them carefully."

As he spoke, ripples appeared in the void beside Richard once more, and then a ball of golden miracle fire appeared in his hand.

The Miracle Fire will be drawn to the power of the civilization devourers. Using this to cleanse the pollution is both efficient and avoids collateral damage.

"Hiss, this flame..."

The chieftain of the mechanical race was shocked as he looked at the Miracle Flame.

As the ruler, he could naturally see the extraordinary nature of the Miracle Flame. The mysteries within this flame were simply beyond the grasp of a ruler.

Richard smiled slightly, flicked his finger, and the ball of miracle fire turned into sparks that landed on the mechanical beings.

Before the Miracle Fire, the corrupted finally shed their disguises, transforming into a viscous black liquid resembling tar. Among them were even two World Lords. Richard noticed the expressions on the faces of these fully corrupted beings as they died, expressions filled with astonishment and fear, as if they themselves were unaware of their corruption.

Seeing this, a pang of heartache flashed in the eyes of the mechanical race chieftain.

These are all his good children!

The mechanical beings avoided the black slime, but the slime ignored them and instead chose to corrode this dimension.

These mechanical beings are of little value, far less than the damage caused by eroding Richard's dimension.

"Ha, still playing that trick?"

Richard sneered, and another flame of miracles appeared in the void. At the same time, this artificial dimension began to isolate itself.

As a puppet produced by the Supreme Being, how could it not have means to counter the erosion of civilization devourers?

The Miracle Fire burned fiercely, and under Richard's control, the black liquid was quickly incinerated.

At the same time, the mechanical race members that were not completely corrupted were also cleansed of their contamination.

Most of these people only took parts from the corrupted beings; the corruption hadn't even begun, so they suffered no damage. The remaining group, whose corruption wasn't fully complete, were less severely affected and only slightly weakened after purification. But those more severely corrupted fared much worse; their souls were completely annihilated after purification.

The mechanical race chieftain watched this scene with a grim expression. In just a short while, he had lost millions of his people.

“The rest of these people should be fine. After brainwashing, they can be reintegrated into their lives.” Richard wiped non-existent sweat from his brow and said with a sigh of relief.

"Ah."

The chieftain of the mechanical race nodded slightly, but then turned and summoned the slightly corrupted mechanical race members.

"Release your memory access; I want to view your memories."

Upon hearing this, the mechanical race immediately released their permissions, and a flood of complex memories poured into the mechanical race chieftain's body.

These lightly corrupted mechanical beings were infected before the Great Mechanical Festival, and their memories must contain clues about the corruption.

Soon, all these memories converged in the mechanical race chieftain's mind chip. After being filtered, examined, and deduced, a look of horror appeared in the mechanical race chieftain's eyes.

"How could it be Xi Ling?"

(End of this chapter)