Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

The squad's exploration mission had lasted for seven days, during which they sporadically encountered attacks from Fire Lizards, but compared to the first day, these attacks were minor.

Richard didn't need to take action, as the wizards in the squad handled it.

The only pity was that during these seven days, the squad explored civilian areas and aside from some Fire Element Gems used for decoration by the Fire Lizard civilians, there weren't any significant gains—

In this world imbalanced with Fire Element, Fire Element Gems, which are hard to form in ordinary worlds, had become quite common. The quality of the gems used for decoration by the Fire Lizard civilians was almost catching up to the gems embedded in Richard's staff.

After seven days, a White Wizard arriving from the rear began to take over the exploration from the squad.

Street fighting required constant vigilance, a kind of mental tension that even wizards found burdensome. When the burden grew too great, negligence could occur.

But on the battlefield, negligence often cost lives.

Therefore, rotating the exploration was very necessary.

After the rotation, the members of the White Wizard squad exchanged contact information with Richard. For them, whether it was a wizard with strong combat capabilities or a reliable repairer during war, both were worthy connections.

After the rotation, Richard left the front lines and returned to the Floating City to see what secrets this race, temporarily called the Fire Lizards, truly harbored.

The Floating City had already descended, and masses of logistical wizards and engineer wizards began construction around it.

Richard had initially wanted to make a small house for himself for research, just like he did in the Insect Nest World.

However, upon entering the Floating City, Richard was informed that as a technical consultant and representative of the Wizard Commerce, the command center had reserved a room for him in the Floating City.

This saved him quite a bit of work.

Following the logistical wizards to the room, which was located on the first underground level of the Floating City.

This room was originally supposed to be the residence of a wizard on an expedition, but now that the world had been reached and the war had begun, these rooms were being converted into warehouses, Synthetic Beast breeding bases, and other functional areas.

If it weren't for Richard, this room would likely have been converted as well.

"Here is your key, if you have any questions, you can ask at the logistics department."

The logistical wizard handed the room key to Richard and then left the room.

After the logistical wizard left, Richard checked the entire room. This wasn't because he suspected the command center might have left any surveillance devices, but rather to handle anything the previous residing wizard might have left behind.

Many of the things wizards study are hazardous, and even a Second Ring Wizard could be threatened with life if they were unfamiliar.

According to a joke passed among Free Wizards, a Second Ring Wizard once suffered acute allergies triggered by a poisonous insect left by another wizard, destroying a body in just a few seconds.

After checking, Richard confirmed there were no items left by other wizards in the room.

He then opened the Secret Realm Rift and brought out the Fire Lizard he had thrown in earlier.

The injuries on the Fire Lizard had healed under the treatment of the World Mushroom, but it was currently in a deep coma; even with its injuries healed, it was completely at Richard's mercy.

There was no furniture in the room, so if Richard wanted to dissect, he would need to prepare his own dissection table.

So, Richard took out a pile of Lun Iron, and under the influence of Alchemy, this pile of Lun Iron transformed into a simple metal dissection table.

Richard also conveniently fashioned a few surgical tools from the Lun Iron, to facilitate the dissection.

After securing the Fire Lizard on the dissection table, Richard brought out a Wizard-version shadowless lamp for illumination.

This shadowless lamp was a product of the Wizard Commerce, and Richard didn't know the principle behind it, but the effect was certainly impressive.

Turning on the shadowless lamp, Richard looked at the Fire Lizard on the dissection table and couldn't help but praise it.

"Truly beautiful."

This Fire Lizard was two meters tall, humanoid, and covered from head to toe in fiery-red scales. These scales carried a glaze, reflecting a pale red glow under the shadowless lamp.

But this wasn't the reason for Richard's praise.

Holding a scalpel, Richard traced imaginary lines on the Fire Lizard's body, mumbling as he did so,

"This muscle distribution, simply the perfect proportion."

The muscles of the Fire Lizard were hidden beneath the scales, but this didn't hinder Richard's observation of them.

The muscles of the Fire Lizard were as if drawn by an artist, each part perfectly balanced and symmetrically beautiful.

"I'm becoming more and more curious to uncover your secrets."

Richard looked at the Fire Lizard, madness in his eyes.

Without hesitation, Richard's scalpel followed the imaginary lines he had traced, slowly dissecting the Fire Lizard bit by bit.

The muscle structure, organ placement, organ function, and nervous network of the Fire Lizard gradually became clear to Richard during the dissection.

But when Richard had finished dissecting, he found himself deep in thought.

Richard took off his gloves and gently touched a cup of Fire Lizard blood he had collected.

[Ingredient: Fire Lizard's Blood]

[Refinable Substance: Pure Dragon Blood]

[Refinement Cost: 2000 Magic Power]

"Indeed, it is the Dragon Blood Species." Richard pondered thoughtfully, "But without the aid of Lun Runes, how could these Fire Lizards suppress the manifestation of dragon blood?"

Previously, Richard had suspected that the Fire Lizards were of the Dragon Blood Species. However, upon further investigation, he had found that although some characteristics of the Fire Lizards resembled dragons, fundamentally, they greatly differed from the Dragon Blood Species.

For example, the blood of the Fire Lizards lacked any corrosive properties, which was impossible for the Dragon Blood Species.

Even after many generations of mixed blood, the bloodline of the Dragon Blood Species would exhibit erosive qualities due to the corrosiveness of dragon blood, maintaining a consistent concentration in every generation.

Therefore, theoretically, the blood of any creature from the Dragon Blood Species would possess corrosive properties.

However, the Fire Lizard before him contradicted all of Richard's previous understandings of the Dragon Blood Species.

"Expeditions to Otherworlds really do bring unexpected findings to Wizards," Richard exclaimed with fervor.

After stitching up the Fire Lizard, Richard returned it back to the Secret Realm Space. He then retrieved the corpses of Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors dressed in golden masks from the Secret Realm.

These corpses, preserved by the World Mushroom in the realm, looked as fresh as if they had just died.

"Second-level creature corpses, it's been a while since I've dissected any."

With a sigh, Richard immediately began the dissection.

The body structure of the Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors was closer to Richard's understanding of the Dragon Blood Species than the recently dissected Fire Lizard, but only marginally.

The organs of the Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors, while exhibiting characteristics of dragon transformation, were not complete transformations—it was as if something was restraining the expression of dragon blood.

Similarly, the fresh blood of the Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors was also non-corrosive.

"Strange, could it be that the ancestors of these Fire Lizards underwent a mutation in their Life Core that specifically shut off the corrosive aspect of dragon blood, or that some part of their Life Core can suppress the expression of dragon blood?" Richard mused while examining the body of the Imperial Guard Dragon Warrior.

"Otherwise, this change is really hard to explain."

Mutations in natural evolution are common, but most mutations are harmful; however, life's evolution often begins due to some benign mutations.

Despite not unraveling the secret of the Fire Lizard's bloodline, the Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors provided Richard with another benefit.

During the dissection, Richard discovered the existence of a Physique Enhancement Gland, which he found in all the Imperial Guard Dragon Warriors he examined.

This meant that Richard could potentially extract pure Dragon Blood from the flesh of these Fire Lizards, thereby cultivating the Physique Enhancement Glands.

But all this was contingent on the dragon blood having corrosiveness.

Richard lightly touched the collected fresh blood of the Imperial Guard Dragon Warrior with his fingertip.

[Raw material: Fresh blood of the Fire Lizard]

[Refinable substance: Pure Dragon Blood]

[Refinement cost: 5000 Magic Power]

"Refine."

In the next instant, the fresh blood collected in the beaker vanished, and within less than a breath's time, a drop of golden Dragon Blood, wrapped in Magic Power, appeared on Richard's fingertip.

In this droplet of dragon blood, Richard could distinctly feel an overbearing and vigorous Life Energy.

The refined Dragon Blood was corrosive!

As long as it was corrosive, Richard could then cultivate the Physique Enhancement Gland.

However, at the same time, a new question arose in Richard's mind.

Was the Dragon Blood refined by the Miracle Furnace the most primitive form, or was it a genetically mutated form that had been passed down through generations?

If it was the latter, the secret of the Fire Lizards would be evident, but if it was the former, then two possibilities still remained.

"Regardless, at least the Physique Enhancement Gland has a solution now, and my Dragon Transformation Battle Body is substantially complete. As for what secrets these Fire Lizards might hold… there is plenty of time to study them."

Unable to foresee the progress in Dragon Transformation Battle Body during the Plane War period, Richard had to spend some Magic Stones to obtain active flesh from the logistics department for cultivating a clone.

Since this time the dragon blood was not from a young dragon, Richard directly cultivated a Second-Level body.

The organs cultivated from a First-Level body differed from those cultivated from a Second-Level body; the higher the level of the body, the stronger the resultant effects of the organs.

And for the Physique Enhancement Gland, the most crucial part of his Dragon Transformation Battle Body, cultivating it using a Second-Level body could not be more appropriate.

Time flew by, and half a year passed in a blink.

In the laboratory, Richard carefully removed the Physique Enhancement Gland from the clone's body. The gland, about the size of an infant's fist and pale red in color with a faint fragrance, was tempting to eat.

Richard took it out and, using Flesh Control, carefully slit open his own abdomen and inserted the gland.

Although the ability of Flesh Control was inconspicuous in battle, it significantly reduced the effort required in experiments involving flesh.

If it were someone else, they would need to undergo a soul-separation procedure and use magic-controlled instruments for the surgical augmentation.

But for Richard, all he needed to do was insert the gland into his body and then control the flesh internally to easily complete the augmentation.

Soon, the gland was transported just below the heart, followed by the connection of blood vessels and nerves…

Finally, when the first drop of fresh blood flowed through the Physique Enhancement Gland, its activity finally resumed. The strengthening hormones began flowing through Richard's limbs via the bloodstream.

Richard's Dragon Transformation Battle Body had ultimately completed its most crucial step.