Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 394 - 14 Nuclear Bomb Toad

Chapter 394 -14 Nuclear Bomb Toad

Poison Swamp is a unique geographical feature of the Green Forest World.

This swamp is unlike the swamps of other worlds; it has absorbed too many corpses of biological weapons, causing the swamp water and muck to often be highly toxic.

Moreover, because of its unique environment, even Alchemy Wizards need a long time and very good luck to cultivate extraordinary microbes from it, and there are at least three kinds inside.

You must understand that ordinary microbes are ineffective against Level 1 Creatures.

Yet, these extraordinary microbes can infect creatures of Level 1 and above.

In front of such microbes, Level 1 Creatures are as vulnerable as ordinary ones.

When this geographic feature was first discovered, Richard’s Fire Lizard Battle Group nearly lost a squad. If the squad leader hadn’t noticed something was wrong and used a Town Recall Scroll in time to return the squad to the Secret Realm, they all would have perished in the Poison Swamp.

Over the years, Richard had encountered Poison Swamps several times, but those swamps were often just small patches.

The Poison Swamp at his feet, however, was vast like a Poison Swamp Sea. He had flown for nearly three days and still hadn’t managed to circumvent it.

Gurgle, gurgle…

Suddenly, the sound of a toad croaking came from beneath Richard’s feet.

He looked down and saw a purple-skinned toad emerge from the swamp.

The toad was light purple all over, the size of a human head, and covered with thick green pustules, especially on its back where the massive pustules looked like they could burst at any moment.

“Hey, never seen this thing before.”

Richard watched the toad with some surprise. He had seen many Poison Swamps, but this was his first time encountering such a purple-skinned toad.

“Could this creature be unique to this Poison Swamp?” Richard wondered to himself.

He carefully hovered in the air, quietly watching the purple-skinned toad swim beneath him.

This toad’s perception seemed weaker than other biological weapons, allowing Richard to stand right above it without triggering an attack.

In the case of other biological weapons, they would have pounced by now.

“Perhaps, this toad isn’t one of the Pioneer’s biological weapons. It might be an indigenous creature of this world,” Richard guessed inwardly.

Thinking this, Richard pulled an Enchanted Metal Cage from his pocket, intending to capture the toad for study.

Holding the Enchanted Metal Cage with Magic Hand, he then opened the cage door and placed it in front of the toad.

Meanwhile, he hid to the side, remotely controlling everything.

He had no choice; after suffering from Explosive Poison Insects, explosive mushrooms, explosive trees, and even explosive grass, Richard was exceedingly cautious about these things.

Controlled by Magic Hand, the Enchanted Metal Cage blocked the toad’s path. The toad, seemingly lacking sufficient intelligence, saw the cage but still dived right into it.

As it entered, the cage door automatically shut, trapping it inside.

“Done.”

Richard was about to retrieve the cage with Magic Hand when he saw a light purple secretion ooze from the toad.

The metal cage corroded instantaneously upon contact with the secretion, and the toad slowly and leisurely swam out of the cage with no sense of urgency.

Watching this, Richard gasped inwardly.

The material of his cage was not inferior, and it was even enhanced with protective enchantments. But in front of this toad, those things were like rice paper, dissolving upon contact with the secretion.

“Goodness, this thing is really toxic.”

Richard remarked. He then took out two metal ingots from his pocket and began crafting a new cage.

Meanwhile, the purple-skinned toad continued to lazily swim in the swamp.

There was no way around it, with that layer of secretion on its body, ordinary biological weapons were helpless against it; no wonder its perception abilities weren’t strong.

With this physical condition, other creatures only stood a chance by avoiding it.

Richard spent nearly an hour crafting a meticulous cage. Then, he repeated his earlier technique, placing the cage in front of the toad.

Again, the toad didn’t even try to avoid it.

It went into the cage, and the cage door promptly closed. The toad once again secreted a layer of purple fluid, preparing to corrode the cage.

This time, however, the cage displayed no reaction whatsoever.

The toad looked at the cage in front of it, slightly confused. It seemed puzzled about what this thing was and why it wasn’t dissolving.

Seeing that the toad was trapped inside the cage, Richard opened a Secret Realm Rift, ready to send it into the Secret Realm with Magic Hand.

Once inside the Secret Realm, no matter who you were, you would become his specimen.

But as Richard was about to lift the cage out of the Poison Swamp, a sudden panic surged in his heart.

A fear of imminent death made him dive into the Secret Realm without a second thought.

Boom!

The moment Richard entered the Secret Realm, a loud boom echoed from the cage.

Indeed, Richard’s cautiousness was warranted.

The toad was explosive! And its power was not insignificant.

The explosion instantly turned Richard’s finely crafted cage into fragments. After all, being radiation-resistant doesn’t mean explosion-resistant.

Along with the shockwave of the explosion, a small purple mushroom cloud also formed.

Soon, this mushroom cloud dispersed, spreading like a thin fog over the Poison Swamp.

Whatever it touched, whether plant, animal, or even the stones on the ground, all turned into muck under the terrifying toxicity.

Before long, the toxic fog dissipated.

Centered around the toad, an area with a radius of fifty meters was left empty, only the faintly purple-colored swamp indicating that an explosion had once occurred.

Inside the Secret Realm, Richard clutched his chest, feeling his heart nearly leap out.

At that moment, he still didn’t know how close he had come to turning into a puddle of muck.

“It’s strange, there shouldn’t be a World Master in the outer world.”

Clutching his chest, Richard tried to analyze the source of his fear. However, no matter how much he thought, he never realized that his life-threatening crisis had come from the very toad he had captured.

“What’s wrong?”

Ulysses flew out from the Holy Nest and landed on Richard’s shoulder.

Richard waved his hand. “Nothing, just come out with me later. It’s too bizarre.”

“So what actually happened?” Ulysses asked, somewhat confused.

“Nothing, I just suddenly felt a great fear,” Richard explained. “The feeling was even comparable to facing the World Master.”

“Ga?”

Ulysses, hearing Richard’s description, felt it was incredible.

“It’s impossible. There can be no World Master outside, otherwise all you little wizards would have been wiped out long ago.”

“That’s why I said it’s strange.”

As his heart gradually calmed down, Richard composed himself, took the World Tree Staff, and with a grave expression, opened the Secret Realm Rift.

“Get ready.”

“Ga, don’t worry,” Ulysses confidently said.

Richard took a deep breath and silently activated Vajra Body.

Although Ulysses was very reassuring, Richard felt it wouldn’t hurt to be more cautious.

As golden light covered him, Richard, holding the staff, dashed out of the Secret Realm.

Upon exiting, Ulysses immediately enveloped Richard with an Energy Barrier. But even after looking left and right, he saw no sign of danger.

“Richard, isn’t this the Poison Swamp? I don’t see any dangerous creatures.”

“That’s not right.”

Richard looked around, his expression growing even graver.

“This place wasn’t like this before I entered the Secret Realm.”

Saying this, Richard pointed at the surrounding environment.

“Before I hid in the Secret Realm, this area was all reeds, wild grass, and aquatic trees. But now…”

Richard’s form suddenly stopped, and in his spiritual power scan, something familiar entered his vision.

He used Magic Hand to reach into the swamp and quickly pulled out something completely black and still bubbling – a fragment of the cage he used to catch toads.

But now…

A terrible guess suddenly flashed through Richard’s mind.

Could it be that toad?

Gurgle, gurgle.

A deep toad croak penetrated Richard’s ears.

He looked toward the source of the sound and saw a purple-skinned toad leisurely swimming in the swamp.

Richard suddenly shivered and started retreating as he watched the toad.

“What’s wrong?” Ulysses, puzzled by Richard’s usually unseen demeanor of facing a formidable enemy, asked.

“Do you see that toad?” Richard’s voice trembled slightly. “I suspect the danger comes from that thing.”

Ulysses followed Richard’s pointing finger and saw a purple-skinned toad that wasn’t even a Level 1 Creature leisurely swimming in the swamp.

“This thing?”

Ulysses’s eyes gleamed faintly, making sure he was not mistaken.

“This creature isn’t even Level 1. How can your danger come from it?”

As he spoke, Ulysses was about to reach out with Crow Claw to grab the toad to inspect it.

But before he could act, Richard saw a scorpion-tailed creature, which he had encountered before, emerging from the forest and arriving right next to the purple-skinned toad.

The next moment, the toad, as if frightened, instantly swelled up.

Immediately after, Richard understood why he had felt fear.

With a

Pop,

a purple mist, like an eraser, dissolved the Third-Level scorpion-tailed creature into a puddle of light purple viscous fluid.

The creature didn’t even have a chance to struggle.

Gulp.

Richard swallowed, watching the purple mist, and couldn’t help shivering.

Had he not followed the path of Physique Evolution, which gave him a more sensitive perception of danger than ordinary wizards,

he might have already ended up just like that scorpion-tailed creature, turned into a puddle of viscous fluid.

“…Ga, don’t judge a toad by its appearance.”

Ulysses, observing the warfare caused by the toad, was stunned for a long time, the faint light in his eyes not fading.

Only when he saw that poisonous mist approaching them did he react, summoning a ball of Flames to cleanly burn the approaching purple mist.

“Phew, we need to avoid this swamp.”

Richard, seeing the aftermath caused by the toad, made his decision without hesitation.

He definitely didn’t want to throw the Fire Lizard Battle Group into such a dangerous place.

“Are you sure?” Ulysses suddenly spoke.

“What’s wrong?” Richard turned his head, looking at him with some confusion.

“Nothing.”

Ulysses, whose eyes were bright like two light bulbs at this moment, looked into the depths of the mist-covered swamp and hesitantly said,

“I think I saw… a Crystal Tower in the deep part of this swamp.”