Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 368 - 83 Mortal City, Nightmare Territory

Chapter 368 -83 Mortal City, Nightmare Territory

“False pregnancy?” Ali looked at Richard, perplexed, “What is that all about?”

Richard explained, “A false pregnancy period is a unique physiological phenomenon of female giant dragons. When a female giant dragon’s strength reaches a certain level, and it has collected enough high-level creature life information, it will experience a false pregnancy.

This pregnancy does not result in the birth of offspring; instead, it integrates the life information into your reproductive cells.

When you need to bear offspring in the future, this life information can be integrated into the cells, making the offspring stronger.”

“But we haven’t been together for the past two years,” Ali’s face still looked confused.

Richard stroked his chin, pondering, “Well… try checking your physique with a crystal ball.”

When Ali did so, the crystal ball clearly showed that her physique had reached 140 points.

After she had been promoted to a Second Ring Wizard, due to her bloodline, her physique had automatically increased.

This also prompted her to consider enhancing her physique.

Fortunately, Richard’s gravity training room, which he had established, was no longer of use due to his rapidly increased strength.

So, she borrowed Richard’s gravity laboratory for her training.

Over the years, it had proved to be quite effective.

“That’s not surprising then,” Richard replied, “When I left, I remember you were at 139.9.

It’s likely that your physique just reached the standard over these two years, hence triggering the false pregnancy.”

As a third-level creature, he was already in the first echelon below the World Master, naturally qualifying as a high-level creature.

And the two of them hadn’t been short of intimacy over the years, so Ali had long stored enough of Richard’s life information.

Thus, as soon as Ali’s physique met the requirement, the false pregnancy automatically occurred.

A trace of shyness suddenly flashed across Ali’s face: “So… can I have your child now?”

Richard nodded, “You could say that, but I wouldn’t advise you to bear offspring casually.”

“Ah, why?”

“Because bearing offspring weakens the mother’s strength,” Richard said calmly, “Giant dragons are not like humans; when a giant dragon bears offspring, it lowers the dragon’s physique and leads to a prolonged period of weakness.

The stronger the offspring, the greater the drop in physique, and the longer the period of weakness.

It really isn’t worth it.”

“Alright then.”

A look of disappointment appeared on Ali’s face; although she was very interested in bearing Richard’s offspring,

it wouldn’t be worth it if she had to weaken her own strength impulsively.

“Alright, problem solved. The false pregnancy period will probably last about half a year, and after that, you’ll be fine.

Once your strength reaches the Three Rings, you can control the false pregnancy yourself.

In the meantime, just avoid absorbing high-level creature life information.”

Bang!

Ali suddenly jumped up from the bed and slammed down hard on Richard’s head.

“What are you talking about!” Ali said angrily, “You’re my only partner!”

Richard rubbed his head, responding helplessly, “My goodness, can you let me finish.

You don’t think that the only way to collect life information is through mating, do you? The high-level creature flesh and blood you’ve encountered, infused into your body, all that is stored as life information.

I’m telling you to avoid contact with high-level creature flesh and blood for a while.”

Richard’s words made Ali’s face turn bright red.

“Um… sorry about that,” Ali said softly.

Richard waved his hand, “Forget it. Your laboratory is downstairs, I’ll take you there now.”

…

After the Wizard Tower was established, Richard made the establishment of a Mortal City his next priority.

This was crucial for his establishment of the Nightmare Territory.

Getting people to populate the city was easy, just by informing a few tribes wandering the wilderness. Tosio’s constructed city, capable of accommodating a hundred thousand people, would soon be filled.

But being populated was one thing; Richard needed these people to settle here permanently. And he also planned to use this city as the seed to establish a Mortal Kingdom on this mossy tundra.

This would require certain management abilities and coordination skills.

However, these were all skills that could be learned, and Richard, with his financial capacity, could easily resolve any initial lack of experience.

Whatever was lacking could simply be bought from the Wizard Commerce.

Driven by this mindset, Richard quickly began his actions.

Soon, the first tribe arrived in the city.

“Welcome to my city.”

Richard smiled at the somewhat frail-looking tundra people before him.

In front of him, a small tribe of only a few hundred people stood, with their families, outside the city.

These tundra people looked somewhat dazed as they beheld the city. The houses, built using enchantment techniques, were sights they had never seen in their entire lives.

“This is a miracle; we chose rightly,” an old tundra person murmured.

A strong, middle-aged man dressed in animal skins approached Richard.

He kneeled before Richard and shouted loudly:

“Great Wizard, my tribe wishes to be your subjects, to live in this city for thousands of years.”

Then, a black crow flew out from the tribe, respectfully speaking to Richard: “Great Creator God, I have fulfilled the mission you gave me.”

Yes, this black crow was actually a Holy Tree Elf.

“Very well, I will bestow upon you glory.”

Having said that, Richard gently stroked the black crow’s head.

The Holy Tree Elf excitedly exclaimed, “Great Creator God, I am willing to offer my life for you.”

Richard smiled and opened the Secret Realm Rift, sending this overly zealous Holy Tree Elf back to the Secret Realm.

Then he turned to the middle-aged man.

“There is no need for that; I do not require worship.”

With that, Richard helped him up from the ground.

“Come, compile a list of your tribe’s members and hand it to me later. I will distribute rations according to the number of people in your tribe.

By the way, does anyone among you know how to read?”

An old man stepped forward from the crowd: “Great Wizard, I know the Wizard Language.”

“Having someone literate is good enough.”

Richard nodded, then took a planting guide out of his pocket.

“This book contains the methods of planting various crops. Take a look at it later and ask me if there is anything you do not understand. I will answer your questions.

This book pertains to whether you will have food to eat next year; you must take it seriously.”

“Your kindness, great Wizard.”

The old man walked up to Richard and took the planting guide with both hands. He was about to kneel in gratitude but was stopped by Richard.

He helplessly said, “I’ve already told you, I do not need worship.”

…

The first tribe soon settled in the city.

This tribe was called Lalaike, which meant ‘brave ones’ in the language of the snow plains people.

Indeed, they lived up to the name, being the first to ‘eat the crab.’

Food and rations were quickly distributed, and these snow plains people who moved to their new homes showed no resistance at all.

After receiving their rations, they gathered in a small plaza, singing and dancing.

No tribe enjoys wandering the wastelands; if they could have a warm house and enough rations, only a fool would choose to hunt Magic Beasts in the icy snow.

On the third day after the arrival of the Lakla Tribe, a second tribe arrived at the city.

Richard personally welcomed them and arranged their accommodations.

Soon after, a third and a fourth tribe also arrived in the city.

Richard slightly underestimated what a Wizard meant to these snow plains people; in their eyes, a Wizard was a divine being walking among mortals.

They had to comply with the divine will.

The continual arrival of snow plains people soon made the entire city lively.

Meanwhile, in the Nightmare World, a new Nightmare Territory was slowly arising.

“Listen, you bunch of trash, do you really need to scare people like this!”

In the plaza, a Nightmare Spirit, with the strength of a Lesser Nightmare, stood on the platform, teaching the many Nightmare Spirits below how to scare people.

Above the plaza, Richard and Bones quietly observed this scene.

“Not bad,” Richard nodded in satisfaction, “I didn’t realize, Bones, that you also had the talent to manage a territory.”

Bones shyly lowered his head and said, “Boss, I learned all this from you.

You taught how to collect Power of Nightmare, how to avoid fights among Nightmare Spirits, and how to promote those who collect the Power of Nightmare quickly as team leaders.

These are all things you did back in the village; I just copied them.”

Richard was taken aback for a moment; indeed, he had managed a territory in the Nightmare World for a few months when he first entered.

“It takes skill to emulate as well.” Richard nonchalantly spoke, patting Bones on the shoulder, “Keep it up, this city is just the beginning. Soon, there will be many more cities like this across the snow plains.

By then, you’ll be my Nightmare Knight.”

“Yes,” Bones responded loudly, but then his voice became softer, somewhat embarrassingly telling Richard, “But I still want to stay by your side, Boss. I don’t want to be a Nightmare Knight.”

Richard glared at him, “What good is staying by my side, you must become a Nightmare Knight, there’s no discussion.”

The scroll given to him by Sefer in the past recorded the secrets of becoming a Nightmare Lord.

To become a Nightmare Lord, a Nightmare creature must accumulate fifty million Power of Nightmare, possess a territory, and at least three named Nightmare creatures.

Moreover, these three Nightmare creatures must become Nightmare Knights.

So Richard could not afford to let Bones stay by his side; he had to become a Knight.

…

A city created to accommodate one hundred thousand people was filled up within just three months, with a continuous stream of tribes arriving at Richard’s city.

This forced Richard to urgently contact Tosio to build more houses to accommodate these new tribes.

During this process, Richard also faced many challenges.

For example, the areas for planting food were somewhat insufficient, the sewage system was not as effective as imagined, water sources were contaminated, and age-old vendettas existed between tribes…

These issues kept Richard extremely busy, and it took him a full year to clean up these problems, at least on the surface.

Although he could rely on the authority of a Wizard, as well as laws, to control these snow plains people, he could not watch over them all the time.

The blood feuds between tribes and the bad habits formed during their wanderings in the snow plains could only be resolved with time.

However, Richard was not short of time.