Steadfast Wizard: From Heart-Swapping Rat to Dimensional Demon God

Chapter 94 Smith's Future

However, the Storybook is different from the wizard's own spellbook; it can only generate one legend.

Like Isaac's "Cinderella," although it has only transformed the legend of "Transformation Magic" so far, as "Cinderella" spreads, Isaac will acquire more and more faith power, and at that time he will be able to obtain new legends from "Cinderella."

But the storybook is different; it can only possess one legend, no matter how much faith power it acquires.

After all, this is just a replica of the legendary wizard's abilities.

Even so, it is still very precious.

Isaac opened the blank storybook and began to write the foreshadowing.

Isaac had already decided what to write on his way back.

As always, the theme must meet the public's expectations, and the story must be simple and clear so that it can be passed down for a long time. And because a storybook can only have one legend, it is also necessary to control the audience's expectations.

Finally, the condensed "legend" should ideally align with one's current research framework.

In the end, Isaac decided to copy the well-known fairy tale from his previous life, "The Ugly Duckling"!

The story of "The Ugly Duckling" is very simple. It tells the story of a duck that was very ugly when it was young. The story describes how a swan egg hatched in a flock of ducks. Because of its strange appearance, it was despised by the ducks. After going through many hardships and tribulations, it grew into a beautiful swan.

This illustrates that as long as you have ideals and aspirations, and strive towards those goals, even adversity is not a problem; "gold will always shine." Setbacks and pain in life are inevitable; we can only face them with strength.

Of course, this fairy tale had its limitations in its previous life.

It was alright when I was a child, but when I read it as an adult, I found that this fairy tale was actually quite ironic.

Whether the ugly duckling can become a swan has absolutely nothing to do with how hard it works or how confident it is.

It can become a white swan because it was originally a swan!

The trials it experienced from a young age at most made it more confident and made it stand out among its peers.

That's all. All that effort and resilience are a joke. Birth is everything!

If it were a duck egg from the start, it would be a duck for life.

However, that was in the past life. In this world, magic existed, so Isaac adapted it. The Ugly Duckling was not a swan egg; it was a duck egg. Although it was still the ugliest of its kind, it accidentally saw a hundred swans and thus worked hard. Through its own efforts, it learned magic and then used magic to change its bloodline, transforming itself from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan!

It directly altered its own species!

This makes the logic of the whole story more consistent with this extraordinary world, and also more positive and uplifting.

After finishing writing, Isaac read it again, nodded in satisfaction, then summoned Hamon to put the original away. The next step was to spread it.

This is something I'll have to leave to my older brother, but—

"Sigh," Isaac sighed, thinking of his older brother. Now was not the time to see him; he should wait a while.

After all, he killed his second brother Remington. Although Remington attacked him first, Caesar valued family ties the most and disliked such fratricide. Going to find him now would be too torturous for him.

"Take your time, there's no rush." ​​Isaac shook his head, got up and left the study.

From now on, this will just be a study, and it won't be used as a laboratory anymore, so I need to talk to Smith and ask him to make some arrangements.

At the same time, the outer medicinal fields also need to be replanned, with part of them being converted into animal breeding farms to expand the breeding scale of demon rats and dragon lizards, mainly demon rats, since large-scale dragon lizard breeding is carried out within the territory.

This is just the experimental area.

He was responsible for making the dragon blood awakening process of the dragon lizard more straightforward, ideally achieving a 100% awakening rate even without his cheat codes, and at a low cost!

This is quite difficult for him at the moment; he can't do it yet.

What he could do was optimize the dragon lizard's awakening potion and reduce the potion's duration of use.

In short, he will still be the one to awaken the dragon blood in the dragon lizard, but it will be a young dragon lizard. After awakening the dragon blood...

They were then handed over to the territory for feeding and sale.

In addition, this process also helped him complete the research tasks he received from the Flesh and Blood Cult, achieving multiple benefits in one fell swoop.

However, Isaac only makes decisions on the general direction; Smith has to handle the implementation.

"Hmm... I'm taking on more and more responsibilities... Should we hire someone?" Isaac frowned slightly on his way to the council chamber.

It's not that Smith can't handle this; he's quite capable. Back in Solomon, he handled far more complex matters. But he was assigned to Isaac.

On one hand, they hope he can protect Isaac. Knight-level strength may be insignificant to Isaac now, but it is more than enough to protect him before he becomes a wizard.

After all, this is the heart of Solomon's territory, and unless the territory is breached, protecting him is not a problem at all.

Being a bodyguard was one reason, but another was because of his age. Even though knights have a longer lifespan, they only live to be a little over a hundred years old. Smith is already in his late eighties or early nineties, which is considered old even among knights. So, having him follow Isaac was also partly a way to let him return home to retire.

"Tsk, let's ask first." Isaac shook his head. It's not easy to recruit people.

Putting aside how many people would be willing to work for him, the "God Thief," even if they were, Isaac might not trust them. Smith, on the other hand, had watched him grow up; he was Solomon's retainer and Isaac's elder, so their relationship was different.

"The potion for upgrading to Grand Knight doesn't seem too expensive. If all else fails, I'll just go for the regular rank. Becoming a Grand Knight grants a lifespan of over two hundred years. Even with a slightly weaker upgrade, it'll still last fifty or sixty years. Fifty or sixty years—I could easily accumulate enough to become a High Knight." Thinking this, Isaac nodded. "That makes sense!"

He was quite confident in himself. Fifty or sixty years was not a short time for him. As long as he didn't die, he would definitely become a high-level wizard. Unlike his father, he didn't have a large family to support, and his resources were highly concentrated. It wouldn't be difficult for him to create a high-level knight.

After all, the path of knighthood originated from one of the experimental products of wizards, while high knights were further developed by some wizards out of their reluctance to part with their families and friends.

But that's all there is to it. The path beyond that for a high-ranking knight is one that the knight himself must forge.

Thinking it over, Isaac went to the council chamber, where Smith and Ruri were already waiting.

The two men each held a document in their hands, awaiting their report.