Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 426 - 45 Rule Magic Equipment

"Elissa, does the library have any books on Rule Magic Equipment?"

In the Garon Wizard Academy Library, Richard stood next to a huge stone bookshelf and asked the little elf in front of him.

The collection of the Garon Wizard Academy was immense like an ocean of smoke; even browsing the library catalog would take quite some time. If one wanted to find the needed books more efficiently, the best way was to seek help from the library elves.

Though these little guys didn’t seem particularly intelligent, their ability as librarians was unquestionable.

They remembered clearly every book that entered the library.

And the price to enlist their help was only a fairy lollipop worth ten Magic Stones.

Holding a lollipop in her palm-sized hands, the petite and pretty-faced Elissa showed a hint of thought.

"Rule Magic Equipment? There are many books on that in the library. Do you want to borrow them all?"

"Many?" A look of joy crossed Richard’s face, "The more, the better. What’s the price for borrowing these books?"

"Well... many, very many."

Elissa’s face showed a hint of distress as she placed the lollipop aside and began counting on her fingers. "Some require Magic Essence; some require Contribution Value, and others require a special status.

Which kind are you looking for?"

"The ones that require Magic Essence." Richard replied without hesitation.

That was all he had to offer at the moment.

"Okay, then. Let me calculate for you."

Elissa continued to count on her fingers, and after a while, she finally said, "In total, you will need fifty-three thousand two hundred pieces of Magic Essence, which equals seventy-three books."

Hearing the price, Richard was taken aback at first but then took out his Communication Crystal Ball.

The price was somewhat unexpected, as he hadn’t brought that much money with him.

Soon, the communication came through, and Jimmy’s voice could be heard from inside the crystal ball.

"This is Jimmy. What do you need, Richard?"

"It’s like this, Master." Richard said with an awkward smile, "I’m planning to borrow a batch of books from the library, which totals to fifty-three thousand two hundred Magic Essence. But I didn’t bring enough with me..."

"How much? Why do you need so many Magic Essence?"

Jimmy roughly interrupted Richard’s words, sounding as if he had seen a ghost.

"Elissa, did you miscalculate again? How many books did Richard borrow to spend fifty thousand Magic Essence!"

Hearing Jimmy’s question, Elissa, who was eating her lollipop, suddenly became anxious.

"No! I’ve counted many times this time! Jimmy, if you say again that I miscalculated, I will... I’m going to throw all your books to the very bottom of the library catalog!"

Jimmy’s hearty laughter resounded from the crystal ball upon Elissa’s threat.

"Alright, since Elissa didn’t miscalculate, you go ahead and read those books.

As for those Magic Essence...no rush. After all, it’s not like you can’t pay them back. Just keep it on the account for now."

Elissa nodded upon hearing Jimmy’s response.

"Okay, then I’ll note it down on the account."

Jimmy hung up the crystal ball, and Elissa drew a circle made of glowing dust with her hand, then disappeared into the circle.

An hour later, Richard suddenly heard a whooshing sound above his head.

He saw book after book, thick as encyclopedias, falling from the sky through a circle of glowing dust.

Richard caught the books with his hands, and before long, all seventy-three books landed in his grasp. Stacked up, they were three times as tall as Richard.

"Okay, these are all the books you borrowed."

Elissa finally emerged from the circle, sprawled on top of the highest book like a salted fish.

"Thank you, thank you."

Richard said with a smile, using his Magic Hand to hold the books while taking out another fairy lollipop from his pocket to give to Elissa.

Elissa saw it but waved her hands and shook her head. "No, no, I can’t take more candy from you. Getting the books is my duty."

So saying, Elissa drew a circle in the air and left as if she were fleeing the scene.

Richard found this amusing.

"I’ll just leave the candy here; don’t waste it," he called after her.

Having said that, Richard put all the books into his pocket and left on his own.

Sometime later, a circle of light suddenly appeared next to the lollipop. A small hand reached out from the circle, grabbed the lollipop, and pulled it back through the ring.

"Oh dear, this wizard, really... it would be such a pity not to eat such a good lollipop.

Well, I just won’t take his candy next time.

But what’s this wizard’s name again? Oh right, Richard. I’ve got to remember that name so I don’t take his candy again."

...

Carrying the books worth fifty-three thousand two hundred Magic Essence, Richard immediately rushed back to the Wizard Tower.

In the study room of the Wizard Tower, Richard organized the borrowed books with proper numbering and placed each on the shelves.

Then he began to immerse himself in the vast ocean of knowledge.

In these books, Richard learned exactly what Rule Magic Equipment was, the difference between them and normal Magic Equipment, and some methods of crafting Rule Magic Equipment.

The so-called Rule Magic Equipment essentially uses a special type of Enchantment.

Ordinary Magic Equipment employs Rune Arrays to achieve certain effects. However, Rule Magic Equipment directly applies rules to achieve specific effects.

In principle, the Fuel Ring Richard refined from the Radiation Rule is a kind of Rule Magic Equipment, albeit with a rather unique effect.

One advantage of Rule Magic Equipment over ordinary ones is that regular Magic Equipment can be enhanced with Rule Enchantment, thereby becoming Rule Magic Equipment and achieving a result where one plus one is greater than two.

However, books vary on how to conduct Rule Enchantment and effectively harness the power of rules.

There are generally two schools of thought regarding the creation of Rule Magic Equipment. The first approach is material-based. Its proponents engrave materials directly with rules, then apply Enchantment to these materials.

The other is the Rune Faction, who first create ordinary Magic Equipment and then imprint the rules in the form of Runes onto the Magic Equipment, thereby directly amplifying the Rune Array.

Each of these schools has its merits, and the authors list a wealth of experimental data in their books as evidence for their arguments, occasionally interspersed with personal attacks on other Wizards.

It took Richard three years to read through all these books.

After finishing them, Richard felt like he was nearly mastering the art of doublethink.

All sorts of contradictory, yet valid, data continuously collided in his mind.

Instead of sparking inspiration, these collisions caused Richard a splitting headache.

...

"This is rather troublesome."

Richard looked at the Communication Crystal Ball in his hand—the message from Jolod within left Richard feeling somewhat helpless.

As an Alchemy Wizard promoted to the rank of Three Rings Wizard not much earlier than Richard, Jolod also had virtually no knowledge in the area of Rule Magic Equipment.

And before he had asked Jolod, Richard had also approached Anna for information, only to receive the same response.

"Sigh, no one has studied this; it seems that practice is the only way to true knowledge."

Richard placed a set of designs on the experimental platform; it was a Deformation Illumination Device that he had casually designed over the past three years of study.

In this Illumination Device, Richard adopted the first fabrication approach—imprinting rules into materials to induce a change in their properties.

This production method’s strength lies in its simplicity. It’s more straightforward than enhancing a Rune Array with rules; the process of making Magic Equipment remains largely unchanged, and it doesn’t demand as much from the Wizard’s knowledge base, making it suitable for beginners.

"According to the books, the best materials for imprinting rules should have no intrinsic properties and must be stable in nature. Such a material..."

Richard murmured to himself as he pulled out a colorless crystal from his pocket.

This crystal, known as a Buffer Crystal, is commonly used in Alchemy Machines as an energy transfer medium. It has no special properties of its own and is very stable.

"Next step is to imprint the rule."

Richard turned his head towards the left side of the experimental platform, where a row of blue Ice spheres were lined up, each sealing a glowing light within.

The lights were arranged in order of size, with the largest being the Mutated Rule, followed by the Soul Rule, then the Nightmare Rule, the Nurturing Rule, and lastly, the smallest was the Flesh Rule Richard first obtained.

Richard took the Mutated Rule beside him and started drawing an Alchemy Array on the experimental platform using a black stone slab.

Imprinting a rule required an extremely complex Alchemy Array, and every single wizard who pursued this method for creating Rule Magic Equipment emphasized one point in their books:

The rule to be imprinted must be incomplete.

Wizards who chose the Rune Faction often cited this point as a criticism of those in the Material Faction.

However, it seemed that the rationale behind the Material Faction’s approach was not incorrect—it was just a matter of insufficient technology.

The Alchemy Array used to assist in imprinting was extremely complex. Richard had to inscribe nearly five million Runes onto a black stone platform measuring one cubic meter.

This was a long and arduous task.

Five years later.

"Finally, it’s done."

Richard looked at the black stone slab on the experimental platform, his forehead covered with fine beads of sweat.

"Now for the final step."

Richard looked towards the other side of the platform, where a black alchemy platform was just one stone slab away from completion.

Richard took the last slab and completed the assembly of the alchemy platform.

The next moment, the Runes on the alchemy platform began to light up, with intricate Runes covering every corner of the platform.

Soon after, the light faded.

The entire alchemy platform was free of any cracks, with the stone slabs fused together, forming a seamless whole.

Seeing this, Richard felt a weight lifted off his shoulders and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

The alchemy platform was complete.

Without delay, Richard immediately installed an outer shell around the alchemy platform to protect it from damage.

He then opened the Secret Realm Rift, pulled Ulysses by his side as a precaution, and began imprinting the rule using the alchemy platform.

Richard placed the Buffer Crystal at the center of the alchemy platform, then released the Ice sphere sealing the Mutated Rule.

The next instant, the alchemy platform was illuminated. A Force Field replaced the sealing and trapped the disappearing Mutated Rule on the experimental platform.

A droplet of sweat slid down Richard’s forehead as he carefully used the alchemy platform to imprint the Mutated Rule into the Buffer Crystal.

After a while, the alchemy platform dimmed again.

Richard leaned on the alchemy platform, feeling somewhat dizzy. The process of imprinting the rule had consumed a great deal of his spiritual power. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

But fortunately, everything went smoothly.

At the very center of the alchemy platform, a purple-red crystal like congealed blood emanated an eerie glow.