The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

They were all elites belonging only to the Solomon family, and unlike Barton, who had been in the game for decades without any hope of breaking through and retiring, these ten prospective knights all still had the potential to break through!

He's quite the genius!

Geniuses are proud, and naturally they were somewhat resentful of Barton for breaking through by taking drugs. In their view, if they were given magic potions, they could also break through!

Therefore, in order to better manage the guard team, Barton needs to have a friendly exchange with them first.

Isaac then took Liuli to see the little creatures he had raised, partly to see how they had grown while he was away, and partly to teach Liuli how to handle these chores from now on.

Yes, Isaac has no intention of giving up raising these small creatures. Although the profit is small, it is still there, and once the scale is established, it can be quite considerable. Every little bit helps!

Unfortunately, without his guidance, the growth of both the Demon Rat and the Dragon Lizard was rather mediocre.

The main issue is that the dragon lizard is rather ordinary; it's just that its body has grown longer, but its bloodline hasn't changed much. This is to be expected, since the probability of a dragon lizard's bloodline awakening is inherently very low.

Most people don't raise these things to awaken dragon blood; they can make a little money from the materials used to make the dragon lizard itself, although it's only a small amount.

But that's reality. If it were so easy to make a fortune, would they even have a chance?

However, the Demon Rats are better than the Dragon Lizards. He had taken good care of them when he was in the fortress, and although he had been away for a month, their numbers were steadily increasing. Now they had reached more than 500, and the original breeding ground was becoming a bit crowded, so it needed to be replaced as soon as possible.

In addition, because they are all from inbreeding, their bloodline factors have started to have some problems and need to be adjusted in order to continue to reproduce.

Overall, however, the problem isn't too serious!

Chapter 93 A New Story

Even for magical creatures, inbreeding can cause problems.

However, since it can be adjusted with magic, it's not a big problem. This is one of the essential spells for raising monsters, and Isaac naturally knows it too.

However, in reality, this isn't just for raising monsters; humans can use it too.

Interestingly, this spell was not originally developed for monster breeding.

Because many nobles with strong bloodlines often choose to intermarry within their own clan in order to avoid contaminating their bloodline, over time, and with long lifespans, not only siblings, but also mothers and sons and fathers and daughters frequently appear.

In this way, the drawbacks of inbreeding emerged, and at the same time, a spell to solve these drawbacks appeared.

Even today, many nobles still use this method to maintain the purity of their bloodline.

However, this situation does not exist within the Terra Empire. Among the three empires, the Terra Empire is a relatively young empire and does not have as many powerful bloodlines.

After observing the demon rats and dragon lizards, Isaac returned to the laboratory and began to organize the findings of his trip to the capital.

Although there were some inexplicable aspects to this journey, overall, the gains were quite good. The most important thing was the list of Outer God victims given to us by the eldest princess when we met. Ninety percent of the Outer God rituals on this list are still usable, and even the worst ones still have a 2% success rate!

The materials are hard to come by, so I estimate I can only use them two or three more times before I advance to the rank of Grand Wizard.

As for the rest, once he becomes a great wizard, many rituals will need to be adjusted, and it's uncertain whether they will still be usable. This is because he will be able to obtain more power from the Outer Gods, and naturally, the requirements for ritual materials will also change. It will be unknown how many of these rituals will still be usable at that time.

Next came a pile of magical materials, a small portion of which he had bought himself. He was almost ready to complete two sets of evil god rituals; he only needed to go to Lake Town to get some more mats, namely the Lord of R'lyeh, the evil god of the deep sea, and the White Whale, the evil god of the deep sea.

The former is an ancient evil god, one of the symbols of [water], possessing extraordinary corrosive and distorting abilities. Isaac can only obtain limited things from Him, mainly because the compatibility is not good, and he does not know water elemental magic.

The latter is a demon who became a god. Originally, it was a white whale, a demon from the deep sea. It was huge and possessed the power of "Mist". It could summon sea mist, causing people to get lost on the sea. In the end, its physical body was devoured and its soul was driven by it. Therefore, it also possessed some of the power of "Domination of the Dead".

Compared to the Lord of R'lyeh, the White Whale is more compatible with him. Both [Mist] and [Domination of the Dead] are areas that Isaac is quite interested in. The former can enhance his tactical abilities, while the latter can enrich the Rat's arsenal of divine spells.

However, whether it's the white whale or R'lyeh, despite their different affinities, they are still high-level beings. Even a tiny bit of their existence would be enough for Isaac to eat and drink his fill. He's not at the point of being picky yet.

He wants it all!

Even junk is acceptable!

Because that's not just ordinary junk, it's the junk of an evil god!

Apart from the ritual materials, the rest of the materials were all parts taken from the alchemy golem. These were the most numerous, and most of them were the third-generation magic furnace of the energy core, which is a second-tier energy core. Even if they were second-hand, they could be sold for a lot of money!

He has several hundred of these things, and he roughly estimates that they can sell for at least 100,000 gold coins!

This is because the Greatsword Demons disassembled the swords incorrectly, resulting in varying degrees of damage; otherwise, they would have been more valuable!

Besides the second-tier energy cores, there was another big guy: three third-tier energy cores salvaged from that hundred-meter-tall colossus. Two were about 30% new, and one was about 90% new. Isaac couldn't even estimate the price of this thing.

Because Tier 3 energy cores are simply not available on the market!

This is a proprietary technology of the Truth Association, not for sale to outsiders. It is only used to exchange resources with major empires, kingdoms and various forces, and is a barter system!

This shows just how fat the eldest princess is!

Of course, this further solidified Isaac's resolve to kill Philo!

Such assets are definitely not normal, even for a princess. In addition, the fact that she can repeatedly obtain the Emperor's Decree basically confirms that she is a talent specially cultivated by the Terra Empire, or even being groomed as the next demigod!

He couldn't sleep soundly as long as this rich, powerful, and talented enemy remained alive.

He believed that Philo thought the same thing.

However, this matter can only be handled slowly. Within the empire, no matter how fiercely they fight, they cannot take each other's lives. This is the bottom line. If they must kill, it can only be done abroad...

Will they go abroad?

That's for sure, because once they reach the level of a Grand Wizard, ordinary rituals can no longer help them advance. They mostly rely on natural rituals like the Magic Lamp Trial to advance.

Even the kind that you can set up yourself still has certain requirements for the terrain, requiring you to travel all over the world.

So unless they both decide to stop on their wizarding path, they will eventually give each other a chance to make a move, so there's no rush.

Besides the list of victims and a large amount of valuable material, his gains from the Great Trial of the Lamp were also considerable.

Although Philo messed up the Genie's Trial and didn't follow the normal procedure, that was for those who listened to Philo and attacked Isaac and Angel. For the three of them...

Since the three of them were in the same camp from the beginning, and they did not directly fight each other during the ceremony, they did not violate the trial rules. Therefore, from the perspective of the trial ceremony, the three of them completed the process normally.

They each gained something.

Of the three, Philo received the most, as she also advanced to the rank of Grand Wizard through the Great Trial of the Magic Lamp ritual.

In comparison, Isaac and Angel have less progress. There's nothing that can be done about it; they're not in time. After the two advancement ceremonies, the period of magical instability is even harder to calm down. He still has thirteen percent of his progress left.

Even so, he obtained a treasure and a storybook.

His Noble Phantasm is "Severing All Things," and its effect remains unchanged. It is still currently used by Ruri, but he plans to ask his older sister to switch it with him in a while, because Ruri prefers to use only a cleaver rather than a knight's longsword.

It's strange that she, who looks so delicate, prefers to play a power-based style.

But the most valuable item is undoubtedly the storybook!

This is the best thing a legendary wizard could have in the trial of the magic lamp!

Because its nature is somewhat similar to the three magic books of the legendary wizard, one can write stories on them, draw power from faith, and then become a "legend"!

Chapter 94 Smith's Future

However, the storybook is different from the wizard's own spellbook.

It can only be transformed into a 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 nothing to do with how hard it works or how confident it is. It can become a swan because it was a swan to begin with!

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 the effort and resilience are a joke. Your background 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 wasn't a swan egg; it was a duck egg. Although it was still the ugliest of its kind, it accidentally saw a swan and worked hard to learn magic. Then, it used magic to change its bloodline, transforming itself from an ugly duckling into a 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 as he thought 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 medicinal fields outside also need to be replanned. Part of them will be transformed into animal breeding farms to expand the breeding scale of demon rats and dragon lizards, mainly demon rats, because the large-scale breeding of dragon lizards is carried out in the territory, and this is just an 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 is still the one who awakens the dragon blood in the dragon lizards, but they are dragon lizard cubs. After the dragon blood is awakened, they are handed over to the territory to be raised and sold.

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.