The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

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There was no way around it. First, he couldn't beat Isaac. Second, his relationship with Isaac wasn't exactly good, but it wasn't bad either. Of course, the main problem was that he couldn't beat Isaac!

So he decided to tell his teacher about it. After all, his teacher was a third-tier archmage, not only powerful in his own right, but also with a certain amount of influence in the Truth Association. Even if he couldn't forcefully kill Isaac, he could at least use the influence of the Truth Association to put Isaac under pressure.

At least tell him not to be so arrogant...

A deal with the Outer Gods is fine once in a while, but Grandma's legends say there are so many wizard advancement rituals. If we replaced them all with Outer God rituals, what would happen?

Most importantly, in Evan's view, no matter how confident Isaac was, once the frequency of the Outer God rituals increased, failure was only a matter of time.

However, when Evan came out of his teacher's laboratory, he looked incredulous.

When he told his teacher the news, the teacher's reaction was very indifferent, only saying "Oh, I see," and that was the end of it. After checking his recent learning progress and assigning him a second-order research task, the teacher dismissed him...

as if……

The crisis facing the Terra Empire seemed insignificant to him!

But Evan knew that was definitely not the case!

He had a certain understanding of his teacher. Although his teacher was not a great saint, he was not a bad person either. At least he would not turn a blind eye to potential hidden dangers that could cause great chaos in the empire!

Therefore, there must be other, deeper reasons behind this!

only……

Looking at the seemingly clear blue sky, Evan sighed. This world was, after all, still a world of nobles. The Truth Association was only relatively clean. As someone born into nobility, he should have realized the problems here long ago.

Shaking his head, Evan turned and left. Although his teacher didn't say anything, he understood what his teacher meant. This matter was beyond his control, including the family behind him. So, all he could do now was to do nothing.

Inside the laboratory, Yog Doros sensed Evan's departure and couldn't help but put down the magical materials in his hand and sigh softly.

He knew what Evan was thinking, but the matter was not as simple as he thought. Not to mention that according to the rule set by the great wizards, high-level wizards were not allowed to force low-level mad wizards to make deals with the Outer Gods, the Truth Association could not stop Isaac's actions.

Even without this rule, the Truth Association would not intervene to pressure Isaac, at least not in this matter.

Because... the Terra Empire has existed for far too long... this vast empire has made far too many enemies... and the wealth accumulated by this prosperous empire is far too tempting...

Therefore, many people do not want Isaac to stop his actions. If it weren't for the attitude of the Terra royal family, there might have been forces that stepped forward to sponsor Isaac's ceremony...

However, there's no need for my students to know these things; it would only cause them unnecessary distress.

……

On the other hand, Isaac was completely unaware of Evan's report against him, but even if he did, he wouldn't care. Although he didn't know the rule set by the great wizards, he had some guesses about it.

It's very simple. If the mad witch's deal with the Outer God fails, it won't just be the mad witch who dies; many others will also be implicated.

In this situation, the fact that the tradition of mad witches is only condemned by everyone instead of being completely eradicated speaks volumes!

It's important to know that necromancers, who pose a far less threat than mad witches, are treated much worse.

Therefore, there must be some unspoken rules at play here that he is unaware of, but these are irrelevant to Isaac, or at least he doesn't care much about them.

At this moment, he was focused on the second stage of his transformation. The first stage of the transformation surgery could be described as perfect, not only bringing him a lot of [mysterious] attributes, but also obtaining an extremely powerful evil third eye.

However, the Kaleidoscope Eye is something that can only be obtained by chance, so Isaac's arrangements for the second stage of the modification surgery were more conventional.

The second phase consists of three modifications: blood modification, magic circuit modification, and life field modification. Compared to the first phase, the second phase focuses more on modifying the body's internal systems to make the body more adaptable to the magical world.

At the same time, due to its special nature, these modifications will, in turn, subtly influence Isaac's soul, enabling him to achieve sublimation in the ascension ceremony after the three modifications, and further unify all his own power.

Of course, due to the special nature of these three systems, it is not possible to simply and crudely graft the corresponding body tissues onto one's own body as in the first stage of the modification surgery.

This stage of modification requires first studying the system corresponding to the monster, and then making it into a special potion for long-term consumption to slowly modify it, which takes a very long time.

However, the advantage is that although the three modifications cannot be carried out at the same time, after each modification is completed, there is no need to give the body some buffer time as in the first stage, and the next modification can be directly connected.

So the total time isn't much longer.

And so, as Isaac immersed himself in his research, time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had gone by. With all his energy focused on the research, Isaac's three modifications progressed very quickly, and were completed one by one in just six months.

He transplanted elven blood, fairy circuits, and star whale force fields into himself. In addition to all possessing mysterious attributes, these three have one thing in common—moderation and peace!

If we divide them by factions, then most of these three creatures belong to the neutral faction, remaining unbiased.

Because the second stage of the transformation surgery, in addition to elevating the soul, also has another task—balancing the transformation of the first and third stages.

Isaac's first-stage transplant organization was mostly biased towards the evil camp, so in contrast, the other two stages of transformation must have a transformation combination of the good camp.

This is clearly not suitable for the second stage, as the two concepts would conflict to some extent. Therefore, a buffer zone is needed between them.

Of course, this combination is not mandatory. In fact, it can be combined freely. Even if there are conflicts, the impact is not significant. After all, only a part of the concepts are transplanted. Whether or not to accept these concepts depends on Isaac's own agreement.

For example, even if he undergoes three stages and a total of nine transformations, all of which involve creatures of the evil alignment, it will not have any impact on him. He will not become evil unless he chooses to.

It's just that Isaac has a bit of OCD, which is why he did it.

After completing the three modifications, Isaac immediately began preparing for the Holy Lord's first devouring ritual.

As for the future plans for the Holy Lord, it can be seen from the name that Isaac expects him to be that untrustworthy demon. Of course, in terms of trustworthiness, Isaac does not want to follow in his footsteps.

It would be better if this Holy Lord kept his word!

Therefore, there was not much hesitation in choosing the target of the Holy Lord's devouring; he simply copied the answer.

Initially, in order to build an intelligence system, Isaac hoped that the Holy Lord would first devour the power of the Shadow Demon God, master the power of shadow, and use it as a foundation to connect his arcane mages, thereby expanding the intelligence network. The ultimate goal, of course, was to cultivate the Shadow Legion.

It has to be said that that thing is really useful for gathering intelligence.

However, that step was very difficult to achieve, so after having dimensional apostles, the Holy Lord's pressure in this regard was greatly reduced. Naturally, he changed his target to the dimensional power he was most proficient in—the power of the Purgatory Demon God.

Perhaps influenced by the violent factors of the dragon blood within him, the Holy Lord was very talented in learning the secret techniques of the Purgatory Demon God. He learned the most secret techniques from this one and mastered them the most deeply!

So naturally, this person became the lucky one chosen by Isaac!

The Devouring Ritual is different from the Trading Ritual. The Devouring Ritual is not as ancient as the Trading Ritual, and it does not have a supreme treasure like the Gate of Legends to suppress it, so the risk is much greater.

Furthermore, since the Dimensional Demon God is one of the Outer Gods that has the most profound impact on the real world, this further increases the danger of the Devouring Ritual!

Fortunately, this only describes the normal situation.

But now, it's clearly an extraordinary situation, after all, Isaac has a cheat code!

The structure of the Devouring Ritual is very complex, but its effectiveness is actually only threefold: to guide the power of the demon god to descend, to restrict the descent of the demon god, and to stabilize the life state of the Holy Lord.

All the power of the Devouring Ritual revolves around these three points, as for the most important aspect—devouring itself…

Because it comes from the power of the white whale, it's not that important, as long as the Holy Lord doesn't die.

As usual, he increased the success rate of the devouring ritual to the maximum of 1,000 percent. After checking the ritual again, Isaac shook his head and gestured for the Holy Lord to stand in the middle of the ritual.

After the Holy Lord took his place, Isaac lowered his eyes, reached out and pressed down the wide brim of his hat. Strange magical fluctuations emanated from his body, triggering the ritual. Eerie air currents began to drift back and forth in the top floor of the mage tower.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the ritual, crimson spatial rifts appeared around the Holy Lord, from which scorching and evil magic flowed, converging towards the edges of the rifts, attempting to erode the rifts induced by the ritual, expand them, and thus allow the Infernal Demon God to descend with more magic!

Even stepping into this world!

Unfortunately, the idea was good, but reality was cruel.

Although the magical power of the descent of the Infernal Demon God was of a very high level, its quantity was very small. Isaac strictly controlled it within a safe range, and this power was firmly restricted by the power of the ritual, preventing the crack from expanding even slightly.

Of course, the power of the Purgatory Demon God is continuously descending at this time. Although it is still small at present, as time goes by, the power of the ritual will definitely not be able to restrain it. In time, the Purgatory Demon God's goal will still be achieved.

However, the Holy Lord clearly wouldn't give Him the chance to accumulate magical power!

After the dimensional magic of the Purgatory Demon God descended, the Holy Lord let out a deep roar, and blood-red flame patterns appeared on his two golden claws. This was one of the signs that he had cultivated the secret technique of the Purgatory Demon God to a certain depth. After summoning these flame patterns, it was obvious that the magic of the Purgatory Demon God had a slightly closer affinity to the Holy Lord.

Then, at the call of the Holy Lord, these infernal demonic powers began to instinctively surge toward the Holy Lord, because there was no ritual force to obstruct them in this direction.

After absorbing this magic power, the flame patterns on the Holy Lord's claws became even hotter and more vibrant. In that instant, the secret techniques of the Purgatory Demon God that it had mastered advanced by leaps and bounds!

The dimensional demons have always been very generous to mages, because the more power they borrow, the closer they are to becoming apostles or possessing the power of a demon god...

However, this demon of purgatory clearly hadn't had much interaction with Isaac yet...

After absorbing the demonic power of the Purgatory Demon God, the Holy Lord, before his own soul was corrupted, ruthlessly activated the devouring ability from the white whale!

It let out another low roar, and gill-like organs appeared on both sides of the Holy Lord's thick neck. These gill-like organs slowly opened and closed, and streams of mixed magic power sprayed out from them like air currents.

Of course, the Holy Lord's two nostrils also exhaled air.

Yes, these suddenly appearing gill-like organs are not actually gills; they are actually nostrils that have the shape of gills!

Because whales are mammals, they do not have gills.

However, the illiterate Lord obviously did not know that in his mind, beluga whales were fish, and since they were fish, they must have gills.

Therefore, when the ability is activated, these nostrils will appear in the shape of fish gills.

Chapter 204 Isaac: In such a large cult, is there not even a wizard who dares to challenge the true god?

"suck!!!!"

"Whoo~~~~~~"

With each deep, muffled breath of the Holy Lord, the essence of the Purgatory Demon God's authority within the demonic power that entered the Holy Lord's body was absorbed at an extremely rapid pace. As for the other useless or even harmful parts, they were expelled by the Holy Lord.

At the same time, the power of the ritual was also cleansing Isaac's mind and body, combining with the three modified limbs of his second phase, accelerating the process of his soul's ascension.

The devouring ritual proceeded without any hindrance, because no sorcerer had ever been able to eat the sugar coating and then throw the cannonball back, so they were not as wary of it as they would be of making a deal with a mad witch.

Furthermore, the power base of dimensional demons is extremely large, so they have no feeling about the slow, insidious process of devouring rituals and therefore do not react to it.

Even so, Isaac still decisively stopped when the success rate was only 500%. Not being greedy was always his core principle in dealing with the Outer Gods!

Moreover, this level is already sufficient; if it were to be consumed any further, the Holy Lord might not be able to digest it.

Even for the Holy Lord who possessed the power of the White Whale, it wasn't a case of the more power he absorbed from the Dimensional Demon God, the better.

Of course, that's not entirely accurate. More is indeed better, but this "more" should refer to the variety, not to relentlessly exploiting one particular monster. Casting a wide net ensures greater safety.

Firstly, with more targets, each only takes a tiny bit, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the power of a dimensional demon god, and there will be no reaction at all. Secondly, with more targets, it is easier to maintain a balance among them and not fall into the control of a certain demon god.

This is called using evil to fight evil!

After the ceremony, Isaac first closed his eyes and meditated for a while, checking his own condition, before looking at the Holy Lord who was still standing in the middle of the ceremony with his eyes closed.

Just then, as Isaac looked over, the Holy Lord also opened his eyes, so Isaac took the opportunity to ask, "How are you feeling? How far are you from the third tier?"

Yes, the Devouring Ritual was successful, and the Holy Lord's power was greatly enhanced, but it did not advance to the third tier as Isaac had predicted; it remained at the second tier.

Based on the process of the devouring ritual, Isaac speculated that it was related to the fact that the dimensional power being devoured was too small. Although it still stopped at 500%, the devouring ritual was different from Isaac's picking-up ritual.

The looting ritual involves taking whatever you see without being picky; it's all about speed!

But the Devouring Ritual is different. The Holy Lord only devours the essence of the dimensional magic, while expelling the rest, which contains the mark of the dimensional demon god and highly polluted substances.