The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

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This phenomenon became increasingly serious as wizarding civilization developed, which is commonly known as "rolling"!

They wish every wizard were a jack-of-all-trades, capable of handling everything.

This situation caused the development of alchemy to become skewed, gradually shifting towards golems and infrastructure.

In the current wizarding world, most extraordinary equipment consists of various weapons and armor, with extremely limited functions. They either enhance defense or attack, or increase or regenerate mana, without any outstanding features.

Moreover, even these are only used up to the second tier. For the third tier and above, only knights need equipment; wizards mostly rely on themselves.

Even with rare magical artifacts like Francis's Life Derivation Technique and the Mirror of Souls, the first thought a wizard usually has when they get their hands on them is whether they can analyze the artifact's abilities into spells and control them themselves...

Because that's what Isaac did himself.

It's not that this idea is wrong, but having more options makes the world a better place, doesn't it?

Breaking the current mindset in the wizarding world is definitely good for the development of wizarding civilization.

This achievement will most likely be credited as a great accomplishment. The only problem is that if he only gets the start and the subsequent development is completed by other wizards, the credit will most likely not go to him...

Moreover, the opening must be stunning enough to draw the attention of the entire wizarding civilization.

That's quite difficult!

Of course, if there were no difficulty, then it wouldn't be worthy of a great wizard.

Chapter 304 The Book of Gods: Ten Gods!

In the laboratory, Isaac's pale fingers tapped lightly on the parchment, his gaze shifting between the three plans as he considered their order.

First of all, it's certain that he'll most likely not be able to complete the trial mission of the Boundless Tower, so he'll need to spend some time consolidating his strength at the fourth level.

This doesn't have a huge impact, since rank isn't particularly important for wizards, especially for mad wizards, who face a huge challenge at rank six—the Outer God!

For wizards, the title of demigod can be obtained at the fifth rank, but this is actually a battle against a higher level. The sixth rank is the true realm of gods.

Once the sixth rank is reached, the protection of the Gate of Legends for the Mad Witch will be lifted. At that time, the Mad Witch will face all the Outer Gods he has traded with. As the saying goes, if there is a grudge, settle it; if there is an enemy, settle it; kill them all!

Even if you hide in the real world where the power of the gods cannot be fully exerted, it will be of no use, because if you don't deal with them, the whispers of the Outer Gods will continue to haunt you. One or two may not have any effect, but if there are too many, even if they cannot cause you any real harm, they will greatly affect your research efficiency.

For wizards, being unable to enter a research state is a nightmare within a nightmare!

Therefore, even after reaching the fourth tier, the Mad Witches, having mastered their own traits and being able to trade stably with the Outer Gods, would reduce the frequency of their trades to lessen the difficulties they would face at the sixth tier.

This is also one of the important reasons why modern mad witches have gradually shifted from theft to legitimate transactions.

Grudges are relatively easy to resolve.

Of course, this is a different story for Isaac. No matter what level he is, he will not change his way of communicating with the Outer Gods.

The reason is simple. First, he's used to taking shortcuts. People who are used to making quick money know that asking him to go back to making money slowly is more painful than killing him.

second……

He had no choice...

Isaac did not make a deal with the Outer Gods, he did not even steal, he picked it up openly and honestly!

Moreover, on several occasions, they specifically targeted an alien god and mistook Him for a Japanese person to torment!

This grudge can never be resolved.

Therefore, Isaac needs to settle down and consolidate his knowledge in the fourth and fifth stages.

It would be great to get a perfect advancement from the Infinite Tower, but it wouldn't matter if he didn't. Isaac was confident that his own advancement would not be much worse than the perfect advancement from the Infinite Tower, and might even surpass that "perfect" advancement!

After all, there is no true perfection in this world, only perfection that is infinitely close to perfection.

So, without the "main quest," Isaac suddenly had plenty of time, and his mood was completely different. For example, he could leave unfinished experiments to be done back in the real world, without having to rush.

So……

Isaac narrowed his eyes slightly and quickly determined the order of the next steps in the plan.

First and foremost is the weaving of the Book of Gods. The research on virtual deities has temporarily stalled, and more data is needed. Whether it's collecting data on Mephisto and the others, or weaving more virtual deities, it will all take time.

Furthermore, the materials needed to weave the Book of Gods are more numerous and complex than those needed for virtual deities, requiring a significant amount of time to collect and process. Much of this work can only be done by Isaac himself and cannot be delegated to others.

It's not the same as the fragments of divinity that can be mass-produced by the gods.

Secondly, there's the research on "magical artifacts." These items can be obtained from miracle rituals, making the acquisition of research materials relatively convenient. Moreover, from the perspective of the Great Path alone, these items are less difficult to obtain, making them suitable for practice. This allows for a preliminary assessment of whether his guesses about the Great Path are correct.

Isaac was a very efficient person. After making the decision, he immediately took action. The first step in making the Book of Gods was to prepare divine power, and then calculate the materials needed for the Book of Gods based on the divine power he had.

Depending on the amount of divine power, the divine books are also divided into different levels. The lowest level is undoubtedly the Ten Gods Book, which is composed of ten divine powers, while the highest level is the Myriad Gods Book, which is composed of more than ten thousand divine powers!

Isaac certainly wouldn't be considering something as advanced as the Pantheon at the moment.

With his current abilities, although he could collect the divine power of ten thousand different gods with some time, the subsequent materials were too complicated. Putting aside whether he could collect them at all, Isaac's current abilities were questionable even if he could calculate the required material ratios.

Even with the help of a cheat code!

It's important to understand that Isaac's cheat ability only has auxiliary functions. In many cases, during research, it can only provide Isaac with a direction to achieve his goal, but the process in between still needs to be completed by Isaac himself.

So for this first book of gods, Isaac plans to make a book of ten gods first, to practice his skills and see what surprises await him in the book of gods.

It is worth mentioning that, compared to the divine power required by virtual deities, the requirements for divine power in the Book of Gods are not as demanding. Even the divine power of virtual deities can be used to construct the Book of Gods. Furthermore, whether it is a virtual deity with the concept of "eternity" or an ordinary virtual deity, the constructed Book of Gods will not have a time limit for existence.

This undoubtedly made things much easier for Isaac.

He currently possesses four virtual divine sparks, plus the remaining divine power of the Blood Lord from the artifact Blood Pool he extracted from the Blood Lord. He has a total of five divine powers at his disposal, which solves half of the problem at once and saves him a lot of trouble.

Although collecting divine power itself isn't particularly difficult...

Isaac approached this first book of the Ten Gods with the attitude of collecting data, so he was relatively casual. He quickly did a five-pull of the Evil God to collect all the divine power and then began to study the material ratios for making the Book of Gods.

Of course, the main problem is that even if he wanted to do it seriously, it wouldn't be very effective. The miracle magic awakened by fourth-tier wizards is basically foolproof. At the beginning, they didn't even know the principles and specific effects, and a lot of data needed to be tested slowly.

The same goes for Miracle Magic: Godhood. Isaac only knows what materials and steps are needed to cast this magic; as for the result, that will only be known after it is released.

He's already considered lucky; at least he has a cheat code to help him, which guarantees a successful release every time.

This type of miracle magic, which involves production, can fail.

Of course, for this reason, no wizard would choose this type of story to enhance their miracles when they first advance to the fourth rank; they would mostly choose miracles of the combat type.

This is different from Isaac's understanding of the role of a wizard, but that's how it's written in the sect's archives. He had looked into the reasons, but at the time he was only a third-tier wizard and hadn't officially started performing miracles yet, so the authorization review for the relevant knowledge was still in process...

Before the process was even finished, he advanced to the fourth-tier wizard and then came to the Boundless Tower...

It can only be said that fate is cruel...

Thinking of this, Isaac, who was calculating the material ratios, shook his head, immediately focusing his attention on the research.

Chapter 305 The Miracle Ritual: The Battle for Godhood!

The material ratio of the Ten Gods Book is not complicated. With the help of the two research cheats, the Golden Finger and the [Analysis] power, it only took half a month to analyze it.

As Isaac had expected, the materials required for the Ten Gods Book were not of a high level, mostly Tier 3 materials, with only a few Tier 4 materials, but the quantity required was very large!

Much!

This shows that Isaac's previous idea was correct: the Book of Gods does not rely on absolute power to check and balance the gods, but rather on restraint and constraint. It relies on complex and super-composite concepts to make it difficult for gods who have signed a contract to overstep the contract.

This is also why Isaac didn't make the Book of Gods before; it required too many materials and was too energy-consuming. At the time, he was still thinking about completing the trial of the Infinite Tower, and he didn't have enough time.

But things are different now. Isaac has decided to give up on completing the trial mission. As the saying goes, once the thought of giving up arises, one suddenly feels that the world is vast and there is a lot more time.

Even manpower has become sufficient due to the failure of the plan to conquer the underground palace. After all, the reason for not interfering in the development of the underground palace city was to avoid the demon god discovering his relationship with the underground palace city, which would affect the conquest.

But now that we've given up on conquering the dungeon, the plan should naturally be changed accordingly. With so many human resources in the dungeon city, there's no reason not to make use of them.

So, after tidying up the materials list, Isaac sent it to Mephisto to help collect them.

During this lull, he found a place to begin setting up the Miracle Ritual: Consecration of Gods, intending to first acquire some magical artifacts for research.

The Miracle Ritual: Consecration has two forms. One is the complete Miracle Ritual, which is integrated with the world's rules and will be automatically triggered every once in a while when the conditions are met. The other is the incomplete Miracle Ritual, which is not integrated with the world's rules and needs to be arranged manually.

Although it is an incomplete version, apart from the fact that you need to prepare the ritual materials and the half-finished magic weapon as a reward, there are not many differences in other aspects.

The process of completing the ritual remains unchanged, as does the quality of the magical artifact obtained.

The materials for the ritual were easy to obtain. With Isaac's expertise in ritual studies, he already had a good grasp of these things when he was at the third rank. After all, the materials required for the ritual were essentially the [concept] they represented, and the magical power they contained was not particularly important.

The more troublesome part is the semi-finished product of the magic weapon, because Isaac needs to design and manufacture a magical item with a similar effect to the magic weapon he wants, and finally use a ritual to sublimate it into a magical weapon.

Unfortunately, like most wizards today, Isaac is not skilled at crafting high-level magical items...

Fortunately, the magical artifacts created by miracle rituals are different from the "legends" in the spellbook and are not limited to the original descriptions.

In layman's terms, the final product depends entirely on the strength of the miracle ritual. If the miracle ritual is of average strength, the resulting artifact may still have the same effect, but the stats...

Relatively speaking, it's quite poor.

Even with such convenience, Isaac's first magical artifact is still something simple—the Wind and Fire Wheels!

This thing is simple. Just make two circles, light them, add some anti-gravity spells, and you're done. Leave the rest to the almighty miracle ritual!

Besides its simplicity, it is also practical. The most basic ability of the Wind and Fire Wheel is flight, followed by offense. So even if the final result of the ritual is average, the finished product is still quite practical, since flight is a rather difficult thing for superhumans.

Of course, wizards are an exception.

Second-tier archmages already possess spells that allow them to fly, albeit at a relatively slow speed. As for knights, they only gain the ability to fly at the third tier, and even then, it's only for short distances; they still can't fly long distances.

"Goooooooo~"

In the underground laboratory, Isaac stirred a large pot bubbling with green bubbles, observing the viscous liquid inside while tossing in all sorts of random materials.

A moment later, Isaac retrieved two golden wheels engraved with magical runes from the crucible. After examining them carefully for a while, Isaac nodded in satisfaction and then put them away along with the boiling crucible.

With the help of his cheat system, Isaac had lost all interest in this type of manufacturing experiment. If the cheat system weren't limited to others, he would have already assigned himself some manual labor.

Unfortunately, there's nothing he can do; this isn't the outside world, otherwise he could have entrusted this task to his "Madheart" wizards.

After putting away the magic cauldron and the Wind and Fire Wheel prototype, Isaac glanced casually at the basement before being swallowed up by the menacing Void Sawtooth behind him and leaving the place.

The materials for the Book of Gods are still being collected, and the fragments of the Mother Goddess's divine essence are being made. He can go out and set up a miracle ritual, and find a few familiars while he's at it. Once the divine essence fragments are finished, he can create a few more laborers. Just one Mother Goddess is still too slow.

Which company only has one person on its production line?

Is that still a production line?

……

Three days later, above a wasteland teeming with monsters, Isaac emerged from the jagged void. He looked down at the massive ogres on the wasteland and nodded in satisfaction.