Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Ashen Day World, Victory Plain.

A giant hand broke through the earth, stirring up a breeze of energy.

Soon after, the ground cracked open, and a massive figure gradually sat up from the underground.

"...That was a really good sleep."

Richard shook his head, throwing off the dirt from his hair. Then he stood up, letting his entire body detach from the earth.

Richard looked at the drastically changed surroundings and touched his now lush beard on his chin.

"Looks like I slept quite a long time."

Feeling his body slightly, a touch of surprise flashed across Richard's face.

"Already integrated this much?"

After years of slumber, Richard's Life Core not only fixed the bugs but also integrated much more.

Now, Richard's bloodline integration progress has reached ninety-five percent.

It's like there's only a few pieces left in a jigsaw puzzle, and he just needs to do a little life editing to leap the bloodline integration progress to completion.

Thus, completing the full integration of the bloodline.

"But why did I wake up at this point?"

A trace of confusion flashed in Richard's mind; at his current integration speed, he should have woken up a few years later after the bloodline integration was complete.

After all, he wasn't at any bottleneck now, everything was progressing smoothly, and there was no reason to be awakened from his slumber.

Exercising his power, Richard contacted Ulysses, who was far away in the goblin world.

"Ulysses, how long have I slept?"

Hearing Richard's voice resonating in his ears, Ulysses, who was sunbathing at the top of the Miracle Church, suddenly flew up.

"Gah! My dear, you actually woke up."

Richard frowned slightly: "What do you mean I actually woke up."

Ulysses paused for a moment, then replied: "Gah, your little wife came to see me a couple of days ago, asking if I had any way to wake you up or contact you."

"Ali?"

Richard frowned even more deeply.

"Shouldn't she be researching under the dean? What changes have happened in the Wizard Civilization?"

"Changes... The changes are indeed quite big. You've slept for three hundred years, and within these three hundred years, wizards have started a counterattack, and your little wife has also become the World Master.

But her issues shouldn't relate to these changes; you can just ask her directly about what she wanted to find you for.

I added her name to the scriptures, she is now the Divine Wife, you can contact her directly."

"...Alright."

Richard sensed for a moment, and indeed found a conspicuous presence among the beings he could contact.

"This should be Ali."

With a thought, a spiritual message passed along the connection to Ali.

"Ali, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Far away in the Wizard World, upon hearing the sudden voice in her ear, Ali's body tensed up sharply.

"What's wrong, Master?"

Beside Ali, a Three Rings Wizard with dragon horns asked nervously.

Around him, dozens of wizards in white robes were all nervously looking at Ali at this moment.

Although they were all elites of the Wizard Academy, in this lab, they were just the most ordinary experimenters, similar to apprentices.

"It's nothing." After clearly hearing the voice, Ali's body relaxed sharply.

"You guys continue with the experiment; I need to go out for a while, it might take about a week."

Hearing this, the Three Rings Wizard hesitated to speak.

This experimental task was assigned by the Physique Crown; is it really okay for them to delay it like this?

Ali glanced at him and said calmly: "You just continue with your work; if the progress is delayed, I will explain it to the teacher."

"Yes, Master Ali."

Outside the laboratory, Ali, who was accustomed to not showing her emotions, finally showed a hint of losing control in her expression.

"Richard, Richard, you really woke up? It seems that crow wasn't just brushing me off."

Upon hearing Ali's words, Richard showed a wry smile.

Although he wasn't sure what was going on, he could confirm that Ulysses' method was indeed just to brush Ali off.

However, now wasn't the time to talk about this.

"Ali, what do you want me to do? Being under the dean, you shouldn't be forcibly sent to the battlefield with the current situation, right?"

"Of course, we're in a very good situation now. I didn't find you for this..."

Ali's voice suddenly became low, and the excitement generated by Richard's awakening also disappeared.

"Master Jolod... can't hold on any longer."

"...I understand."

Richard's voice sounded very calm, as if he had long been prepared for this day to come.

"How is the teacher now? How much time is left?"

"According to my estimation, at most there are three days left. If he sees you, it might not even be that long."

Jolod was holding on entirely because he wanted to see Richard one last time before dying.

Seeing Richard, this last breath would also disperse.

"...I understand, go find Master Jimmy, have him contact his friends, and see if they can find a Six Rings Great Wizard to open a Dimension Gate in the Wizard World."

Ali nodded slightly: "I'm going now."

Ashen Day World.

Richard looked at the sky, lost in thought for a long time.

He had indeed long been prepared for this day to come.

When Jolod was young, he used a soul box once, which disqualified him from becoming a Great Wizard. Therefore, even with the most abundant resources to extend his life, he could live at most up to ten thousand years—

Even among the technologies of the previous civilization, the self-collapse of the soul's structure was a problem that remained unsolved.

Many scenes flashed through Richard's mind, scenes so long ago that they were almost blurry.

At that time he was still very young, he had senior sisters, senior brothers, and junior sisters.

Though those times seemed so ordinary, when he recalled them now, he couldn't help but smile a little.

"Has it really been so many years?" Richard murmured.

Tears slid from the corner of his eye, disappearing in an instant.

Richard glanced at the ground, lightly stamped his left foot, as if the earth turned into waves, instantly smoothing out all traces of his emergence.

A Rune Gate slowly opened before him, and Richard entered without a trace of expression.

…

Wizard World, Shape-shifting School Headquarters.

From the massive Rune Gate, a figure in a black robe slowly emerged.

In front of the gate, the Blaze Great Wizard, Jimmy, Ali, and the now-recovered Wuni slightly bowed upon seeing the black-robed figure's appearance.

"Greetings to the Crown Throne."

Richard nodded slightly. Although they could forgo such formalities in private, etiquette was indispensable in the presence of outsiders.

He walked up beside Ali, his voice low, "How is the teacher?"

Ali gently shook her head, "Still the same."

Richard exhaled a long breath, his whole demeanor becoming deeper.

He snapped his fingers, sending an invisible wave into the void.

A moment later, a rift suddenly opened beside him, and the Day and Night Guardian stepped out from within.

"Crown Throne," the Day and Night Guardian slightly bowed.

The End of Magic Era had concluded in the Wizard World, and those World Guardians who had pledged themselves to Richard's command had naturally all awakened.

Richard nodded, his voice low, "I need to use your passage to meet my teacher."

Upon hearing this, the Day and Night Guardian immediately straightened, proclaiming righteously, "We are already under the Crown Throne's command; there's no talk of borrowing. If you need to use it, all Guardian passages will be open to you."

Richard wanted to smile, but his mood couldn't permit it.

"To the Four Rings Truth Tower, formerly the Black Tower Wizard Academy."

"As you will."

Utilizing the Guardian passage, Richard and his company arrived at the former site of the Black Tower Wizard Academy in no time.

Over the past millennium, the Great Wizards had conducted a significant reshuffle.

Of the Great Wizards who had established Wizard Academies before the war, only a scant three or four hundred were still alive, while the rest, the "old wizards," had mostly ascended after receiving education at the academies before the war.

Those Great Wizards who died in battle, if they had students, their worlds and academies could still pass on.

But without any, their properties would be confiscated by the Truth Council.

The Black Tower Great Wizard, along with his student Susanna, had died on the battlefield in the early phases of the war.

Even though Ali was a grand-apprentice, by council regulation, the Black Tower Wizard Academy and all of the Black Tower Great Wizard's worlds had been seized by the council.

The current Black Tower Wizard Academy had been converted into a Wizard City.

But compared to the Academy City of the White Wizard era, today's Wizard City felt quite dull, instead having a sort of sci-fi urban coldness.

In the center of the city, the thousand-meter-tall Central Black Tower still stood.

Even after a thousand years, it still watches over this land.

Ali gazed at the Central Black Tower and explained to Richard, "The Central Black Tower council didn't touch it, though the academy can't be inherited by a grand-apprentice, the Wizard Tower is not included in such restrictions.

Some of the veteran wizards from academy times still reside within this Wizard Tower, including Master Jolod."

Richard said nothing further and swiftly appeared on the ninety-ninth floor of the Central Black Tower.

In that laboratory, at once familiar and strange to him, Jolod sat in his accustomed chair, reading a Magic Book just as before the war began.

Richard gazed at this scene dazedly, then suddenly, a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Teacher, I'm back."

"Hm?"

Jolod abruptly lifted his head, a hint of surprise on his face.

He walked over to Richard, examined him once over, then patted the dust from Richard's Wizard Robe.

"Now that you've become a Crown Throne, it's time to pay a little more attention to your appearance."

The mentor and student exchanged a glance, then found their respective places just as in the past.

Jolod gazed at Richard, his eyes somewhat distant.

The shadow of a youthful figure transcended time, overlapping with the present Richard.

"Has it been so many years already? Time flies indeed."

His vitality began to wane, and the scene before him grew hazy. Yet, he forced himself to sober up quickly.

"Richard, come here, this is for you."

Jolod pulled an ancient Magic Book from his pocket, its style so archaic even Richard hadn't seen alike.

"Although you've become a Crown Throne and may no longer need these minute details of knowledge, you are my student, and the legacy of our lineage mustn't be severed."

With a solemn expression, Richard accepted the aged Magic Book with both hands.

This was the last lesson Jolod taught him—inheritance.

Biological life is finite, yet truth is endless. To walk further on the path of truth, one must stand on the shoulders of predecessors.

This is inheritance.

After passing on the inheritance, Jolod's vitality dwindled once more.

He grasped Richard's hand, drawing him into an embrace and uttered his final words in life.

"Richard, you are my greatest pride."