Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 402 - 22: The Weapon Out of Control

Chapter 402 -22: The Weapon Out of Control

Bang!

The dark gold top of the staff, howling like a tiger descending the mountain, smashed the last floating cannon that flashed with dark red light.

As crystal fragments fell to the ground, Richard retracted his magic wand, his brow furrowed, and his gaze profoundly directed towards the distance.

The Crystal Floating Cannon, a Pioneer weapon mentioned by a Three Rings Wizard during the pre-war meeting. Despite its size no larger than a baby’s skull, its attack was of a tremendous 3,000 energy level and highly agile. Moreover, in critical moments, it could self-destruct, reaching an explosive force of 8,000 energy level.

Facing multiple floating cannons would cause even a seasoned Three Rings Wizard to scramble.

In this ancient battlefield, this was already the third encounter Richard had with these devices, and it had only been half a day since he left the Crystal Tower.

“After so many years, it is incredible that these weapons still possess such abundant energy.”

With a casual wave, Richard summoned the cannon fragments to float towards him through an invisible stream of air. Even though shattered, the fragments still held some value.

If he could later capture a floating cannon and acquire the manufacturing technology, these crystal fragments might be reused as raw material.

Continuing towards a dark shadow in the distance, Richard incessantly surveyed his surroundings.

This desert was not naturally formed. In the battlefield of years past, countless horrific weapons had waged war upon this land. This desert is likely the masterpiece of those armaments’ remnants.

Suddenly, Richard halted.

About a kilometer ahead of him, a dark crystal entity quietly slept in the sand sea.

Common sense suggested that this object was likely a relic from the war-era weapons. Yet, Richard cautiously opened his Energy Vision.

In this battlefield, Richard wasn’t taking any chances.

With Energy Vision activated, Richard’s surroundings instantly transformed.

The air, filled with intense energy radiation like streams of light, nearly occupied Richard’s entire field of view.

“This is bad, my Energy Vision is unusable.”

Looking at the overwhelming array of energy pathways, Richard was forced to close his Energy Vision.

It’s always in times of need that you feel the lack; Soul Talent was indeed something that could be honed.

If he was a Soul Wizard, he could adjust his vision to dim some intensities of the energy pathways and use it normally.

However, Richard rarely used this Soul Talent and naturally had never trained it.

Now facing such an extreme situation, all he could do was inwardly accept this bitter pill.

Although Energy Vision was unusable, Richard still had other methods.

He pulled out several metal ingots from his pocket and created a pile of components using alchemy. These components assembled into a six-legged metal spider.

Then, Richard took out some living flesh and biological materials, making a low-level Synthetic Beast Core. With this core as a foundation, he quickly crafted a fist-sized fleshball Synthetic Beast.

Aside from being alive, this Synthetic Beast didn’t possess any other features.

But that was enough.

Richard placed the Synthetic Beast into the central chamber of the metal spider and then used his spiritual power to control the metal spider towards the distant object.

When the metal spider approached within four hundred meters of the crystal entity, the entity suddenly lit up.

Immediately, a beam precisely struck the fleshball Synthetic Beast inside the central chamber of the spider.

Richard squinted his eyes, analyzing the crystal entity that had now risen from the sands.

It was a pitch-black spider-shaped puppet, its dark crystal body scarred throughout. On the left edge of its body were two limb-like injuries.

At its forefront, a crystal ball-like polyhedral structure emanated a dark red glow—the same structure from which the lethal ray had been fired.

“Firing upon sight, it seems the Pioneers must have ordered these weapons to combat on encounter.”

Richard murmured to himself, watching the crystal entity, his grip tightening involuntarily on the World Tree Staff.

At this moment, without Ulysses’ help or a Secret Realm Space to hide, he possessed only his accumulated knowledge and combat skills.

The unique conditions of the ancient battlefield stripped him of any external aid. He now had to rely solely on his own strength to resolve the situation ahead.

Hum!

The spider-shaped puppet’s polyhedral crystal suddenly emitted an energy wave, and immediately afterward, its body turned direction, rapidly rushing towards Richard.

Watching the spider-shaped puppet, Richard’s expression remained unchanged. With a light flick of his staff, a burst of Magic Radiance fell beneath the puppet’s feet.

In the next instant, the ordinary sand transformed into quicksand.

Due to missing two legs, the remaining six legs of the spider-shaped puppet inevitably sank into the quicksand in an instant. Although it was merely a momentary delay, for a Wizard, that was sufficient.

Near Richard, dark fireballs began to appear continuously. These were not ordinary fireballs but Annihilation Hearts modified by Richard.

Richard was particularly concerned about this first spell he had created. Over the years, he had not only optimized the Fireball Technique’s magic model but also continually enhanced the Annihilation Heart’s magic model.

Under Richard’s refinement, the power of the Annihilation Heart had reached 5,000 energy level, its only flaw being high energy consumption.

Even though Richard had optimized it using Pioneer Rune One, its consumption was still five times that of a standard Fireball Technique.

With a wave of his staff, five Annihilation Hearts traced arcs in the air, directly targeting the spider-like puppet’s damaged legs.

Sensing the approaching fireballs, a network-like structure of faint light surfaced on the puppet’s body, between which were hexagonal energy shields.

The Heart of Annihilation collided with the Energy Shield, instantly disrupting the balance of the Water and Fire Elements within the Heart of Annihilation.

The next moment, a black sphere suddenly expanded from within the fireball, instantly engulfing half of the spider-shaped puppet’s body.

Richard calmly watched the scene unfold while the remaining four fireballs continued toward their intended direction.

Suddenly, a beam of light pierced through the black sphere and precisely hit one of the Hearts of Annihilation, triggering it to explode prematurely.

Subsequently, multiple beams of light shot out from the black sphere, intercepting all remaining Hearts of Annihilation outside.

Each black sphere exploded in mid-air, almost forming a dark screen that obscured the view behind it.

Soon, the dark screen vanished.

The spider-shaped puppet stood unscathed, seemingly unaffected by Richard’s spells.

Richard’s expression remained unchanged; as he waved his magic wand, several bolts of white-purple thunder shot out from the tip of the wand, but they were still blocked by the spider-shaped puppet’s Energy Shield.

Following that, Ice Fog Skill, Fireball Technique, Earth Spike Skill, Storm Skill… Elemental Magic shot out towards the spider-shaped puppet as if it cost nothing.

However, curiously, the power of these spells was remarkably weak, some only having an energy level of fifteen hundred or sixteen hundred.

Without the enhancement of the magic wand, these spells would normally have mere levels of one or two hundred, or even as low as tens.

The spider-shaped puppet stood in place, silently using its Energy Shield to block all these jumbled Elemental Magic spells.

[Target Information Collection Complete]

[Target Confirmed as a Sacrificial Class Enemy]

[Sacrificial Hunter Mode Activated]

The next moment, an intensely fierce energy fluctuation burst forth from the spider-shaped puppet, and it charged towards Richard like lightning.

Its speed was so fast that Richard couldn’t intercept it with his spells in time.

At the critical moment, Richard swung his magic wand, summoning an Earth Wall a few hundred meters in front of him.

The next instant, Richard’s afterimage was pierced through by the spider-shaped puppet.

Richard’s figure then appeared in the shadow created by the Earth Wall Skill.

“What incredible speed,” Richard murmured to himself.

The spider-shaped puppet had now transformed, the multifaceted crystals used for energy attacks having retracted into its body. Two long mantis blades protruded from its front, and its advanced six legs now featured saw-like teeth with energy arcs flickering on them.

“Chainsaw Sword?”

Looking at the legs of the spider-shaped puppet, Richard instantly associated them with the Holy Guard’s Demon-breaking Chainsaw Sword.

But before Richard could observe closely, the spider-shaped puppet dashed to his side in a blink.

The spider-shaped puppet could also perform short-distance spatial teleportation.

The saw-teeth limbs of the puppet, like cutting through butter, tore through Richard’s Magic Barrier. The front two mantis blades instantly tensed, thrusting straight toward Richard’s abdomen.

Sizzling sounds…

A series of noises almost like cutting metal echoed.

The two mantis blades, which should have gutted Richard, were blocked by a layer of golden light.

Under that golden light, a layer of platinum dragon scales had appeared out of nowhere.

“Hehehe, fooled you,” Richard cackled as he waved his magic wand. In an instant, accompanied by six crisp snaps merging into one, the six limbs of the spider-shaped puppet were smashed apart by his magic wand.

In the Wizard World, higher-level Alchemy Puppets are built with numerous combat strategies. These strategies are often the optimal solutions designed by wizards based on years of experience and the performance of the puppets.

Once the conditions of combat match a certain strategy, the Alchemy Puppet will automatically act according to that strategy.

And the Pioneers, being a civilization even more advanced than the Wizard Civilization, would naturally have similar mechanisms in their War Puppets.

Richard’s previous Elemental Magic spells were intended to deceive the spider-shaped puppet into treating him as a fragile spellcaster.

Now that the spider-shaped puppet had charged forward aggressively, its limbs switched to Demon-breaking mode, clearly activating an inherent strategy designed for targeting spellcasters.

After breaking the limbs, chains of runes emerged from Richard, attempting to seal the spider-shaped puppet.

But before the Rune Chains could form an icy shell, Richard abruptly frowned.

He waved his magic wand, and a giant hand of magic power instantly threw the spider-shaped puppet’s body away.

The next moment, a loud “boom” resounded, and the spider-shaped puppet exploded into a fleeting small sun in the sky.

“Another self-destruction mode, are these Pioneers bomb people? Installing self-destruction mode on every weapon,” Richard complained irritably.

But with the event having occurred, after his complaint, Richard didn’t continue to dwell on his anger.

After collecting the six broken limbs into his Magic Pocket, he continued towards the dark figure.

Meanwhile, on another part of the battlefield, Ulysses, engulfed in black flames, spouted a ball of fire, melting the body of a complete spider-shaped puppet.

Suddenly, Ulysses turned his head toward the direction of the spider-shaped puppet’s self-destruction.

With a somewhat cheerful voice, he murmured to himself, “As expected, he’s heading this way, seems I wasn’t wrong.”

With that, Ulysses sped towards the direction of the dark figure.