The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

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The most valuable thing Isaac gained in the island battle was not the resource-rich island, but the information he learned from the ritual projection of the island battle—the method to advance to a fourth-tier miracle wizard!

As far as Isaac knew, there were two requirements for a high-level wizard to advance to the fourth-tier Miracle Wizard. One was the legends recorded in the three magic books. Most legend wizards chose their own legends, that is, their autobiographies. This was not difficult for Isaac. He had great confidence in himself and the classics left by the literary giants of his previous life.

The key point is the second requirement—leave a miracle!

This task requires Isaac to replicate the fantasy stories of formal wizards, arch wizards, and high wizards written in magic books in the real world and integrate them into the world's rules, making them an automatically functioning mechanism.

Therefore, in this situation, the story being written isn't necessarily better the more sophisticated it is, because if it's too sophisticated, Isaac can't replicate it...

Not to mention leaving behind a world-building mechanism that can operate automatically...

For example, in "Investiture of the Gods," the author himself is not a god, so where would he go to bestow godhood upon others?

Of course, Isaac believed there must be other ways to advance. After all, among legendary wizards, there were those who wrote their own legends in all three spellbooks for convenience. Where would you ask him to replicate that?

However, such wizards are rare, and naturally, such methods of advancement are hard to find.

Isaac, of course, would not put the cart before the horse.

Of course, another reason is that the power manifested by such a magic book is also closely related to the scope of its dissemination and the wizard's own power. It's not that you can gain any power just by writing something; it's not that omnipotent.

Therefore, all things considered, the most suitable are naturally these stories that have a magical element and are easy to replicate.

Snow White is clearly this type of story, and some of its elements overlap with Isaac's current magical realm, so there should be some surprises.

Isaac was really looking forward to it.

And so, time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had gone by. Isaac had collected most of the living data of the high knights, and "Snow White" had been written and handed over to Caesar, and had begun to spread in the territory.

However, the collection of Black Orc offerings is still somewhat lacking, because after the previous war, the Black Orcs in the wilderness have not yet recovered. There are very few ordinary Black Orcs, let alone those who have reached a higher level.

Fortunately, the pads that increase the success rate don't necessarily have to be Black Orcs; there are other things, but they add too little and are too messy, so they're not as easy to obtain as Black Orcs.

However, these miscellaneous items are obviously easier to handle now.

Of course, this is relative to Isaac. After all, it is an earldom, and having a larger territory has its advantages.

Thinking of this, Isaac couldn't help but have a fleeting thought of seriously managing his territory, but he quickly dismissed it.

If it's just for the convenience of collecting materials, it doesn't necessarily have to be a territory; any large power will do.

Even Isaac's dimensional apostles could do it, only their abilities were slightly inferior.

So all you need to do is focus on building a good intelligence network, and these other things will come together naturally.

But to be honest, after careful consideration, Isaac also felt that he should prepare to establish a force in the open, or rather, a wizarding organization.

As Isaac's power grows, his demand for wealth will inevitably increase. He can't keep living off extortion forever. Special wealthy families like the Terran royal family are always a minority.

While the Demon Rat and the Dragon Lizard can bring some benefits, these two items alone may not be enough to keep up with Isaac's pace of progress.

Moreover, as far as Isaac knows, high wizards are affiliated with multiple wizarding organizations, and some have even founded several wizarding organizations on their own!

For example, there was a high-ranking wizard in the Flesh Cult who spent most of his time in the Mage Tower conducting research and founded a total of eight wizarding organizations!

Well, because they've been staying home doing research for years, all those wizarding organizations have been wiped out...

It is said that the ninth one is currently being established...

However, these are all just plans. Isaac's most important task right now is to advance to the rank of high wizard!

Therefore, after the matter at the fortress was settled, Isaac immediately led his men back to his castle, while instructing Smith and Lorna to consider changing the future development direction of the territory.

The childish game here is pretty much over; the wizarding organization is the direction they should be focusing on next.

After finishing his miscellaneous tasks, Isaac went to the top floor of the mage tower. While instructing Liuli and the dimensional apostles to set up the transaction ceremony of the Black Orc God, he also checked on the things the dimensional apostles had accomplished during this time.

First, there's the expansion of the intelligence network. Now that we have dimensional apostles, Isaac no longer needs to personally train arcane mages and then send them around the world as before.

It would be perfectly acceptable to have dimensional apostles travel to various parts of the world to train arcane mages and then gather intelligence for them.

Furthermore, in Isaac's previous plan, in addition to training arcane mages, he also needed to build a platform for arcane mages to communicate and trade, from which he could obtain the information he wanted.

It was quite troublesome, but he had no choice but to do it because he couldn't directly investigate intelligence as the Lord of Dimensions. That would be beneath his dignity and would make some arcane mages perceive his "weakness," thus giving rise to inappropriate thoughts.

Directly accessing memories is too cumbersome.

But now that we have dimensional apostles, these steps are no longer necessary.

Because the Lord of Dimensions has a very high level of prestige and doesn't care about things in the real world, but the Apostles of Dimensions are obviously not like that. They have their own independent personalities and independent thoughts, and it's normal for them to run some kind of force.

Let alone intelligence organizations, there are even examples in history of dimensional apostles engaging in business.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense for a dimensional apostle to act as the middleman.

During this time, the Dimensional Apostles have spread the legacy of the arcane mages almost throughout the entire Terra Empire!

Of course, it was only a basic coverage. No matter how quickly a sorcerer learns, their strength is extremely limited in such a short time, and the information they can gather is very limited. As a result, it can be said to be of almost no help to Isaac.

But that doesn't matter, it's still a good start!

Give them time, and they'll become a behemoth sooner or later!

Yes, in terms of scale.

Besides that, there was something else that made Isaac quite happy—four operations against the Norns family were successful!

Over the past two weeks, although the Dimensional Apostles themselves have not collected much important information about the Norns family, they have still carried out a lot of activities based on the information collected by Brother Isaac and his group.

Because the Dimensional Apostles are currently relatively weak, they have not succeeded in many cases, only four in total: destroying a potion plantation of the Norns family, assassinating a nephew of Prince Norns, destroying a merchant guild hall in the southern part of the empire, and damaging a farm of the Norns family.

Overall, they were all trivial matters.

But as I said before, this is a good start!

Moreover, a thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant hole. Prince Norns is undoubtedly a behemoth to Isaac now, with a very solid foundation in terms of both high-end combat power and base strength.

Unless Isaac suddenly gains immense power, this is destined to be a protracted battle.

Of course, Isaac also hoped for a protracted war. If it were too easy to lose and die, wouldn't that be too easy for Prince Norns?

While Isaac was reviewing the summary of the Dimensional Apostles' actions over this period, on the other side, Liuli led the Dimensional Apostles to complete the setup of the trading ceremony.

Although the previous turmoil in the wilderness had led to attacks by almost all border lords near the wilderness, the majority of the black orcs died at the hands of their own people, due to the special nature of the turmoil. Not many black orcs were captured alive or even killed by humans.

The few prisoners were mostly demonized and therefore of very low value.

At the same time, the large-scale conscription by the Black Orcs has greatly reduced the number of Black Orcs in the wilderness, resulting in less harvest for the Wilderness Slave Hunting Team.

In short, there are fewer black orcs, but more other miscellaneous materials.

This made the entire ritual array look somewhat bulky, but fortunately, Isaac's mage tower had advanced space expansion technology, which not only made the interior space extremely large, but also did not affect the arrangement of the magical ritual.

With everything prepared, Isaac dismissed the dimensional apostles and Liuli, and checked the ritual again as usual. After confirming that there were no problems, a faint magical aura emanated from his body, and he started the ritual while whispering the invocation of the Black Orc God.

The ritual proceeded smoothly, and soon the gaze of the Black Orc God was projected from the distant void to this place, and a towering phantom appeared in the ritual circle in front of Isaac.

Isaac habitually pulled down the brim of his wide hat and bowed: "Greetings, Great God of the Black Orcs."

"Heh~" The Black Orc God sneered as he looked at the wizard in front of him. "Wizard, just say what you want. There's no need to put on this pretentious act."

Although the God of the Black Orcs did not recognize Isaac, who had tricked him so badly in the past, he did recognize his identity as a wizard. As an evil god who dared to frequently make deals with mad wizards, He knew these mad wizards very well, so He didn't bother with any nonsense with Isaac and went straight to the point.

"Honorable God of the Black Orcs, I beseech you to grant me forbidden knowledge of necromancy!"

"Just knowledge? Quite cautious, huh? Fine, satisfied... Hmm? It's you again! You scoundrel!!!"

Chapter 202 Isaac: My dearest friend Evan Creman, how are you?

When Isaac began to act in the mysterious void, the God of the Black Orcs knew Isaac's identity. Of course, this does not refer to Isaac's true identity, but rather that he recognized Isaac as the little thief who had stolen his things last time!

After all, in today's world, although there are still quite a few mad witches, there are very few ancient mad witches who dare to snatch from the Outer Gods. At least, the Black Orc God, an evil god who does not reject trading with mad witches, has not encountered such an ancient mad witch for hundreds of years.

Therefore, He was deeply impressed, and even though He still did not know Isaac's identity, His intuition told Him that it was most likely the same person!

When He saw what Isaac was trying to steal, He became even more furious!

Because its target is precisely His remaining forbidden knowledge—bone magic!

Why do you ask why it's the remaining forbidden knowledge?

That's because it was leftover from the last time Isaac took it!

And what Isaac was trading was necromancy magic! He was trying to take advantage of Him completely!

This is outrageous!

This is outrageous!

The rage in the heart of the Black Orc God intensified! It surged! It raged!

I'm absolutely furious!!!

Ran and egg.

Isaac was well prepared. No matter how angry the God of the Orcs was, He was powerless to stop Isaac's actions. At most, He could only slightly hinder Isaac's actions so that He could take less.

So He became even angrier!

What angered Him even more was that in the past, when He made deals with mad witches, He would usually throw out bait little by little, gradually arousing the greed in the hearts of those mad witches, and then suppress them directly with thunderous means!

but……

Isaac is a repeat customer...

Therefore, based on the Black Orc God's understanding of him, there's a very high probability this guy will back down in time...

Sure enough, as time passed, under the deliberate control of the Black Orc God, when the success rate of the ritual dropped to 500%, the necromantic knowledge of the transaction was not yet fully inscribed, and a small part of the spellbook in the ritual circle was still missing the evil god's script.

Other mad witches would probably risk waiting, since they still have a significant advantage and there's not much content left, so delaying it a bit wouldn't hurt.

but……

This is Isaac.

Although Isaac is a mad witch, he is very composed.

For him, it was pointless to covet such things; his own safety was always the most important thing.

So what if it's incomplete?

Even if it's just a little short, or even if it's still far from perfect, Isaac would decisively stop!

After all, if it doesn't work this time, there's always next time. I can just make up for it in the next transaction; it's no big deal.

"You scoundrel!!!!"