Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 398 - 18: Subduing the Snake King

Chapter 398 -18: Subduing the Snake King

“Enter the Secret Realm?”

The Snake King felt that this creature known as the Wizard was somewhat too naive.

The violet-skinned toad, as a creation of the Supreme, had its venom meticulously formulated by the Supreme. And that Toad King, it had progressed beyond human limits, its venom having infiltrated the very rules.

Below the World Master, let alone curing, even surviving the poison like he did was already a pinnacle of strength.

This Wizard still wanted him to visit the Secret Realm, could it be that there is a World Master within his Secret Realm?

“Wizard, could there actually be a World Master within your Secret Realm?” The Snake King asked, a tinge of scorn in his voice.

Richard wasn’t upset but simply smiled, “You’ll know once you enter.”

The Snake King looked at Richard and sensed an enigmatic confidence about this being.

This confidence was not due to shallow knowledge resulting in blind arrogance, but it was a self-identity grounded on sufficient power.

The Wizard genuinely believed he could neutralize the poison.

“Wizard, let’s not say that I don’t think you can remove my poison. We’ve only just met; how can I feel safe entering your Secret Realm?”

The Snake King hissed, tasting the pheromones in the air with its tongue, all of which it perceived clearly.

From the pheromones, it seemed that the being called Witch was not nervous.

“This is simple.”

Richard pulled out a soul contract from his pocket.

“I have here a Soul Contract; signing it will resolve this issue.”

“Oh?”

The Snake King’s eyes fell on the contract Richard was holding, a mysterious power emanated from this scroll made of unknown material.

A replica of the Destiny Contract?

Richard finished writing the contract and sent it to the Snake King using Magic Hand.

The contract’s script was written in Dragon Language, which the Snake King could read.

After reading the contract, the Snake King licked the scroll with its tongue.

It had surpassed human limitations like the toad and thus had special abilities.

Under the perception of its tongue, the Snake King confirmed the contract’s function.

Once this contract was signed, a curse would bestow upon both parties. If either party breached the contract, the curse would activate.

“Alright.” The Snake King slid down from the withered tree, “Considering we were once the same kin, I’ll trust you this time.

If you can remove the poison from my body, I will indeed help you kill that toad.”

Saying so, the Snake King left its name on the contract.

The contract turned into a burst of flames and disappeared into the air, Richard smiled confidently, “It’s a deal.”

Having said that, Richard opened the Secret Realm Rift, gesturing for the Snake King to enter. However, the Snake King didn’t enter immediately but turned its gaze towards Hog to the side.

“I cannot walk ahead of a son of the Dragon King; it’s the etiquette among dragons.”

Hog indifferently nodded and lazily commanded, “Go back.”

Simultaneously, Richard also slightly nodded.

Seeing this, the Fire Lizard Warriors carrying the dragon carriage carried it back into the Secret Realm.

Richard gestured to the Snake King to enter.

“Let’s go, Your Excellency the Snake King.”

The Snake King stared at Richard again, finally slowly speaking, “You and the son of the Dragon King aren’t partners, are you?”

Richard’s expression remained unchanged, still wearing a smile.

“Partners is a bit unfamiliar term, but our relationship can indeed be described as a partnership.”

“Is that so?” the Snake King hissed, somewhat skeptical.

“Of course.”

The Snake King, through the pheromones, confirmed Richard was not lying and somewhat thoughtfully nodded its head.

After slightly bowing to Richard, it confidently entered the Secret Realm.

And then it could not stand confidently at all.

“What the hell is this!”

As soon as it entered the Secret Realm, the Snake King immediately sensed something was amiss. It felt as though everything within the Secret Realm was being manipulated by an invisible giant hand.

It felt not like entering a Secret Realm, more like entering the belly of some giant beast.

And when it saw something in the distance, it let out a sharp screech.

It was hard to imagine such a sharp sound coming from a serpent.

“What’s the matter, Your Excellency the Snake King?”

Richard followed the Snake King into the Secret Realm and seeing it screech sharply, couldn’t help but laughter.

“What is that thing? The World Tree?”

The Snake King’s tail pointed at the distant World Mushroom, loudly asking.

“How could there be such a huge mushroom in your Secret Realm?”

“Not the World Tree, it’s the World Mushroom,” Richard corrected seriously, “You called it by the wrong name, be careful it might handle you roughly during healing later.”

“Healing?”

The Snake King, dumbfounded, stared at the World Mushroom, never having dreamed Richard actually hid a World Master within the Secret Realm.

A mycelium tendril rose from the ground, soon morphing into a milky-white humanoid,

“Master, I’m not that petty.”

Hearing the World Mushroom being addressed, the Snake King’s pupils dilated, almost popping out of its sockets.

“Master? You’re actually its master? No wonder! No wonder!”

The Snake King, looking at Richard as though understanding something, exclaimed, “No wonder the Dragon King would send a scion to form an alliance with you, it seems Your Excellency must surely be some…”

“Stop!”

Hearing the Snake King’s off-beat guesses, Richard promptly interrupted it.

“Who told you I and Hog are in an alliance? Couldn’t you guess something more reliable?”

The Snake King was momentarily stunned, rather indignant, “How is my guess unreliable? Look, His Highness is living in your Secret Realm, using your servants.”

“And she also said that Giant Dragons and Wizards form alliances. But how could Giant Dragons easily cooperate with humans? Without a battle where they are subdued, Giant Dragons simply do not cooperate with humans.

So I guessed that the Giant Dragons must have lost that war, and therefore chose to cooperate with the Wizards, then used marriage with dragon offspring to strengthen the relationship between them.

Isn’t this guess normal?”

Listening to Snake King’s explanation, Richard could hardly decide whether to laugh or cry.

He waved his hand, and Hog flew off the dragon carriage to his side.

“You guessed the process right, but the result wrong.”

Richard stroked Hog’s head, a chilling smile appearing on his face.

“Indeed, the Giant Dragons and Wizards did fight a battle, but the result was that the Giant Dragons lost, and they lost terribly.

Now, the relationship between the current Giant Dragons and Wizards is like that of pets and owners, slaves and masters.

Of course, this relationship is also a form of cooperation.”

“…”

There was a moment of silence.

Snake King hadn’t expected that, as one of his own kind and a servant of the Supreme, these pure-blooded Giant Dragons would be defeated by another race and relegated to being the slaves and pets of other races.

After a long time, Snake King finally spoke. “You shouldn’t have told me all this.”

Richard shook his head slightly, “It wasn’t necessary, because this world has already been discovered by the Wizards.

It won’t be long before this world becomes the territory of the Great Wizard.

At that time, you would still come to know all this.

But by then, the Wizards won’t be discussing it with you like this.

All you’ll be facing are submission and death.”

Snake King flickered his tongue, his pheromones telling him that this creature still wasn’t lying.

“You’re trying to recruit me.”

Snake King finally saw through Richard’s intentions.

Richard snapped his fingers, “Correct. As a being who has broken through the limits of mortals, don’t you want to go further?

Or would you rather spend your life in this world, looking up at the starry sky every day from within this Poison Swamp, never venturing out to see more?

Under the Great Wizard’s command, you’d just be a slave, a Magic Pet, or even an experiment.

But with me, you’ll be a subordinate, our relationship bound by a Destiny Contract, mutually beneficial for both.”

Faced with Richard’s recruitment, Snake King fell silent.

Richard did not rush him—he believed Snake King would make the correct decision.

To the Snake King, who had broken through the mortal boundaries but had not yet made the final leap, Richard was eager to conduct some research.

This Snake King was more valuable for research than the Flame Giant Beast mutated due to Blue Fire.

This was pure flesh and blood, after all.

“Let’s heal you first.”

After being silent for a moment, Snake King suddenly spoke.

“You need to heal me before we can talk about recruitment.”

Richard flashed a benign smile, knowing that Snake King had agreed to the recruitment.

“Indeed, let’s heal first.”

Richard waved his hand, and the fungal avatar of the World Mushroom took Snake King towards the base of the World Mushroom itself.

And Ulysses chose to follow them.

There were quite a few Divine Arts capable of dispelling toxins.

Below the World Mushroom, Snake King quietly watched as the mushroom’s mycelium penetrated his body.

Under the assault of deadly poison, these entering mycelia quickly began to decay.

“This poison is no ordinary one, huh?” Snake King said with a somewhat humorous tone.

“Indeed, it’s not ordinary, and you’re deeply poisoned, making it very difficult to completely remove the toxins.”

The avatar of the World Mushroom gave its diagnosis, then looked towards Ulysses.

“Old crow, can you use your Divine Arts?”

Ulysses landed on Snake King, lightly dabbing some of the venomous blood with his feathers.

As soon as the venomous blood touched him, it began to sizzle and smoke, the potent venom attempting to invade Ulysses’s body through the feathers.

Ulysses’s body glowed with Holy Light, and then a beam of light fell on the venomous blood on the feather.

But the venomous blood in the feather merely faded slightly and did not turn into normal blood or clear water as he had anticipated.

Ulysses exclaimed, “Such a powerful toxic rule.”

“Can it be cured?”

“It can be cured, but you’ll need to help. The poison in this giant snake is too deep; using Divine Arts might transform his blood and muscles directly into clear water.

You’ll need to support it with some Life Energy.”

“That’s no problem.”

After a brief conversation, Ulysses’s Holy Light suddenly intensified, and Divine Arts fired at Snake King like a machine gun.

Meanwhile, the World Mushroom followed by injecting a huge amount of Life Energy into Snake King’s body, stabilizing his shaky life force.

With the continuous purification by Divine Arts, the deadly toxins in Snake King’s body were gradually removed.

Clear water flowed out from the wound.

Finally, with the sixty-sixth Divine Art fired, Snake King’s body burst forth with astonishing Life Energy.

Freed from the oppression of the deadly toxins, the Life Energy that had been suppressing the toxins erupted.

Under the influence of this Life Energy, his wound healed in an instant.

This Snake King possessed not a toxic rule similar to that of toads, but a Life Rule somewhat at odds with his toxic serpent identity.

“Thank you for the healing.”

After the recovery, Snake King, bright and alert, bowed his head in gratitude to the World Mushroom and Ulysses.

Then he swam over to Richard, saying respectfully,

“Great Wizard, I am willing to join your command and explore the vast expanse of the starry sky.”