Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 248 - 32 The Counterattack Begins

Chapter 248 -32 The Counterattack Begins

“Technical consultant Richard, due to the critical war situation, you have been urgently conscripted by the command center. Coordinates for your station have been sent to your Crystal Ball. Please be in position within three days, detailed handover will be conducted on site.”

The indifferent female voice from the command center echoed through the crystal ball, and Richard looked up at it for a moment before standing, stretching his limbs.

“Half a year has passed, has the counterattack finally begun?”

Half a year earlier, Richard had received news from Bob that the Fire Lizard Empire was about to counterattack. The heavy blows suffered by the Black Wizards behind the Fire Lizard lines, the frequent movements of the Fire Lizard troops, and the terrifying aura occasionally emanating from the Fire Lizard Empire’s royal capital, all made it clear to both sides that a great war was about to commence.

“However, this is also just right. I can finally test the effectiveness of this thing.”

Richard glanced at the experimental platform where a strangely shaped long knife, completely black with serrated edges, lay quietly.

With Bob’s help, Richard had acquired much knowledge about alchemy machines from three One Ring Alchemy Wizards using the upgraded Sacrificial Fungus in exchange. It took him ten years of spare time to learn this knowledge, and another five to design and simplify the components of the chainsaw sword he’d developed to ensure it wouldn’t malfunction during intense combat.

Now, the time to test the results had come.

After preparing his magic equipment, Richard walked out of the laboratory.

Within the Floating City Fortress, streaks of light flashed across the sky—one after another, wizards busy at work, as the start of the war had also busied these logistic wizards who had been at ease for over a decade.

Richard took out a map and matched it with the coordinates the command center had given him.

“Strange, why are these coordinates so close to the Floating City Fortress? Surely the war hasn’t reached this point.”

The coordinates given by the command center were only thirty kilometers away from the Floating City. If the Fire Lizards had advanced to this position, they should be fighting for the defense of the Floating City by now.

With his doubts, Richard quickly reached his assigned position.

Upon arrival, Richard instantly understood what was going on.

In front of him, more than four hundred Magic Support Vehicles were neatly arranged in a huge parking lot.

“Master Richard, long time no see.”

A wizard descended from one of the vehicles, greeting Richard familiarly.

Richard took a closer look; it was Damir, who had carried out a support mission with him back in the day.

“Damir, it’s been a while,” Richard responded.

“And me, Master Richard.”

Another wizard hopped down from the vehicle next to Damir. Upon further inspection, wasn’t this Iyad, the captain of the squad?

Was this a mission that turned the squad into specialists?

“Captain Iyad, what’s going on here? Has your White Wizard squad turned into a dedicated battlefield fire brigade?” Richard asked with some astonishment.

Iyad smiled, “Pretty much. The squad had too many losses to recruit new members easily. We didn’t want to join a new squad, so we applied to the command center to join the support vehicle team.”

Speaking of the past, Iyad’s face visibly darkened—the Fire Lizards’ barrage of arrows had wiped out half of the squad, and the subsequent pursuit had resulted in the annihilation of the entire team, with only three reviving from the soul box.

Seeing his expression, Richard also heaved a sigh.

“Let’s not talk about the past,” Iyad waved the topic away, “Master, your coming here must be because you received the command center’s urgent conscription. Let me introduce to you our mission, and yours as well.”

Iyad led Richard to an empty Magic Support Vehicle, “Master, our mission is just as you said, we’re the battlefield’s fire brigade. Wherever there’s a problem, we’ll go to support. Once the support is done, we can retreat to a safe location to maintain the Magic Support Vehicles, then wait for new orders from the command center.

Your task is to follow us on missions and handle repairs whenever a Magic Support Vehicle is damaged.

We only have so many vehicles; lose one, and it’s one less. Right now, the Teleportation Gates aren’t open, and materials from the Wizard World can’t be transported over. We have to cherish these war machines.”

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Richard nodded after hearing this, “Sounds quite relaxing.”

“Relaxing, indeed.” Iyad smiled, “But our easy days all depend on how the frontline combat goes. As an advisor to the Wizard Commerce, you must know how many casting components the army has purchased.

Casting components aren’t as easily restored as Magic Conduction Components. Once we run out of casting components, we have to join the frontline and fight those Fire Lizards.”

Richard Jolod’s commerce with the White Wizard Army did not cease with the start of the war. Before it began, Richard had moved all the materials for producing Magic Support Vehicles into the Secret Realm. In the ten years leading up to the war, he had delivered the remaining Magic Support Vehicles.

After Richard returned from disappearing, the army purchased three thousand casting components from him. These components were priced at five Magic Essences each, but once they melted, the Wizard Commerce had to recycle them at two Magic Essences, putting the effective purchase price at three Magic Essences.

The price was low, profit margins weren’t high—it was all about volume and a continuous flow.

“Let’s hope these Fire Lizards are a bit more foolish,” Richard said with a laugh.

…

The Fire Lizard’s counterattack was extremely sharp, starting from the Linksa Empire in the east to the Minar Empire in the west, every battlefront maintained by the Wizards was under assault.

Seas of Fire Lizard Warriors relentlessly stormed the fortress clusters, which had originally been cities belonging to the Fire Lizards. After the transformation by the White Wizards, these cities had become fortresses.

Alchemy Weapons poured deadly fire from the bunker’s gunports, but after prolonged combat with the Wizards, the Fire Lizards had already devised methods to counter the Alchemy Wizards.

They dispersed their formations, maintaining a certain distance between each warrior, and this distance was conveniently the limit of the Wizards’ Alchemy Magic Stone Cannons.

Under the provocation of the Wizards, the Fire Lizards had even developed something akin to skirmish lines.

But despite this, attacking the fortress clusters still resulted in heavy casualties for the Fire Lizards. The Spells fired by the Alchemy Weapons were still Spells, once concealed, could cause a Magic Concentrated Fire effect. A large number of Fire Elements gathered due to the Spells, causing the temperature across the battlefield to continuously rise, even resulting in phenomena such as Fire Element Storms.

Elemental Storms were troublesome for both sides, causing vast casualties among the Fire Lizards and also gradually wearing down the enchantments on the fortress clusters and triggering Magic Array traps.

Behind the Fire Lizard lines, giant Dragon-turtles carrying Dragon Breath Cannons were slowly approaching the battlefield. To avoid revealing their main thrust, the movement of such strategic weapons had only begun on the eve of war.

“Report to the command center, tell them observation post 23 has spotted at least thirty strategic weapons.”

“Yes.”

With the emergence of the Dragon Breath Cannons, naturally, the Wizards’ fortress clusters raised Magic Barriers one after another. These Magic Barriers were meticulously designed to withstand the might of Dragon Breath Cannons.

“Wu——”

The melodious sound of horns came from the Fire Lizard’s rear, and the Fire Lizards operating the Dragon Breath Cannons started to act according to the melody of the horns.

“Three rounds of firing, fire at will.”

It was hard to imagine, operating such colossal Dragon Breath Cannons required only a single Fire Lizard. The Fire Lizard operating the Dragon Breath Cannon touched its head to a piece of black crystal on the back of the Dragon-turtle’s neck, and in an instant, massive amounts of information flowed into the Fire Lizard’s brain through the black crystal.

At this moment, its spirit was connected with the Dragon-turtle; it felt what the Dragon-turtle felt, and without the Dragon-turtle’s huge brain to process this information, upon connection, it felt as if its own brain was boiling.

“Focus, focus!”

The Fire Lizard, well-trained and familiar with this sensation, concentrated hard and then controlled the volcano on the Dragon-turtle’s back to fire.

In truth, the so-called Dragon Breath Cannon was merely a tremendous Dragon Beast’s Talent Ability.

Golden Fireballs erupted from the volcano on the Dragon-turtle’s back, fiercely striking the Magic Barrier of the fortress clusters, creating ripples after ripples.

The Wizards had conquered so many worlds; if their constructed Magic Barriers were said to withstand Dragon Breath Cannons, they would withstand them.

But as the Dragon Breath Cannons kept bombarding, the Wizards gradually realized something was wrong.

These Fire Lizard attacks seemed to intentionally tempt the fortresses to use Spells for attack, with the concentration of Fire Elements on the battlefield continuously soaring, to the extent that some Elemental creatures enslaved by Wizards felt as if they were back in their home.

And with such a high concentration of Fire Elements, it naturally resulted in fiercer Fire Element Storms.

Boom boom!

The Fire Element hurricanes continuously attacked the Magic Barriers, and under the bombardment of the Dragon Breath Cannons, the Fire Element Storms even showed signs of intensifying.

At this moment, the Wizards finally understood what these Fire Lizards were up to.

Within the fortress clusters, a White Wizard elder watched the continually rippling Magic Barrier and calmly said,

“Thinking to use Elemental Storms to break the Magic Barriers, these Fire Lizards are quite clever.”

Behind him, several Wizards with extraordinary presences were sitting in the room, receiving intelligence from various parts of the battlefront.

A young Wizard approached the elder, his expression somewhat tense.

“Master, what do we do in this situation? The Magic Power consumption of the Magic Barrier is too great; if this continues, our Magic Power reserves will be exhausted in just a few days.”

The elder Wizard glanced at his pupil, speaking in a stern tone, “What’s the panic about? Among the worlds the Wizards have conquered, there are countless races smarter than these Fire Lizards. This strategy of theirs is nothing but a trifling trick.”

With that, he took out a Crystal Ball and issued several commands.

“Prepare the Elemental Puppets, I want to see them on the battlefield in half an hour.”

The curious young Wizard asked, “Master, what’s an Elemental Puppet? I haven’t heard of it before.”

“It’s nothing,” replied the elder Wizard dismissively, “Just a small trick to deal with an Elemental Storm.”