Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

After pre-creating the personality, Richard began the ideological imprinting.

The newborn consciousness is just a blank page; whatever you write on it, it will become.

To be more secure, Richard added the name Wuxiang into the new doctrine. The Power of Faith will cause a god to develop in the image that is believed in. Though this influence has little effect on mature personalities and powerful spiritual beings like Richard, for a newborn consciousness like Wuxiang, it's akin to brainwashing.

Less than a month after taming Wuxiang, he began to call Richard his master.

After confirming the stability of Wuxiang's consciousness, Richard started testing Wuxiang. These tests primarily involved recreating enchantments, and the results were quite satisfactory to Richard.

After gaining consciousness, Wuxiang's memory speed regarding enchantments noticeably increased.

Previously, the enchantments required over a dozen instances of consumption to remember, but now only one or two times are needed. Richard also observed that Wuxiang's memory speed was directly related to the size of its body.

The larger Wuxiang's body, the faster its memory speed.

And this sparked a somewhat crazy idea in Richard's mind.

"If Wuxiang's body can be cultivated to a large enough size, can it serve as the main structure of a Floating City?"

Cultivating Wuxiang to the size of a Floating City would make enchantments on the Floating City no issue for Wuxiang. If successful, Richard would have acquired a self-repairing entity capable of transforming into multiple weapons - a living war fortress.

"This idea is worth trying."

Richard noted in his journal.

However, given the current situation, this plan cannot be implemented for the time being. One reason is that Wuxiang's consciousness is newly formed, lacking sufficient memory and belief to resist spiritual attacks. Bringing it to the battlefield can easily result in mishaps. Secondly, Richard does not currently need such a living war fortress.

Bullying the natives, a common Floating City is already sufficient.

After arranging Wuxiang well, Richard returned to the laboratory. At this moment, the matter speculation in the laboratory had stopped working, and the black smoke within the Force Field Barrier had expanded significantly compared to when Richard left.

"My master, have I gained a brother?"

A spiritual wave came from the black smoke, overwhelmingly stronger than Wuxiang.

"You sensed it?" Richard asked the black smoke, somewhat surprised.

"You named a brother, how wouldn't I feel it?"

Richard nodded slightly, "You sensed correctly. Your brother has awakened."

"Is he like me?"

"Slightly different, but in terms of life forms, quite similar."

"May I meet him?"

"You may, but don't scare him."

With a snap of his fingers, Richard dispelled the Force Field Barrier restricting the black smoke.

"Did you name him? How should I address him?"

"He is called Wuxiang, titled Chameleon."

"Chameleon… I like that title. Compared to his title, my title is quite detestable."

The spiritual message from the black smoke carried some disappointment.

"Hmm?" Richard scratched his head, showing a hint of confusion, "God's Beast, Swallower of All, I think those names are quite grand. I even specifically consulted a few bishops."

"… Just call me Elderly."

As the first personality created by Richard, Elderly's personality surprisingly had a touch of humanity. After gaining the ability to move freely, it developed its own thoughts and aesthetics on the foundational creed implemented by Richard.

During conversations, Richard sometimes felt as if he hadn't created a consciousness but sealed a soul within Elderly.

Especially when Elderly transformed.

Thinking this, Elderly transformed into a humanoid being beside Richard. It resembled Richard by eighty percent but carried some traits of Earth Goblins, a figure Elderly created himself.

"If you don't have any tests, I'll go find my brother. I think he's probably very confused now; I should be able to help him somewhat."

Richard nodded slightly, showing a gentle smile.

"Go ahead."

Watching Elderly disappear from view, the gentle smile on Richard's face gradually vanished, replaced by an ice-cold rationality.

"Is there already a sense of loneliness?"

Richard took out a Magic Book from his pocket, opened the page with a clipped pen, and wrote:

"On the 972nd day of the birth of the personality, Elderly has developed intense curiosity about his brother, speculated to be excess emotions from an artificial personality."

...

With the abyss pollution clearing, the goblin world has embraced flourishing development.

The previously overcrowded slums have now been completely demolished, and every day tall buildings rise on the expansive earth.

Simultaneously, the emergence of Alchemy led to an explosive growth in goblin technology.

It must be said that the technology accumulated by goblins over the past ten thousand years was essentially prepared for Alchemy. At the moment of Alchemy's appearance, the technology accumulated by the goblins over the past ten thousand years was sublimated. Every day, countless creations emerge in the goblin world, and the patent hall of the Miracle Sect is crowded daily.

Alongside the technological explosion, there was also the innovation of machinery.

In the past, machines utilizing Crystal Stone Technology were already considered quite advanced products. But after the emergence of Alchemy, Crystal Stone Technology had become commonplace, and Alchemy Machines became the new darling of factories.

As for those purely steam-powered machines from the past?

These antiquities had become collectibles and artworks, with almost no practical use whatsoever.

Brand new machines, brand new factories, the fundamental alchemical industrial level of the goblin world had even reached the level of Wizards. No, it was even higher than the Wizards.

Although Richard had incorporated a patent system in the church to encourage goblins to share new technologies, he underestimated one thing: the devotion of faith.

Those who had access to Alchemy never lacked money. These Mechanical Masters, Transformation Masters, were all individuals sought after by factory owners.

Compared to gaining patents and earning a fortune, goblins were more inclined to use technology as offerings, sacrificing it to him, the god who saved the world.

In the pyramid of needs, they had already moved beyond the basic need of me, pursuing self-actualization.

Thirty years after the end of the Abyss War, the goblin world was no longer the dead and imminently doomed landscape it was during the Abyss War; the whole world had become vibrant and thriving after thirty years of development.

"Hey, Jack, why are you still wandering the streets? The Floating City is ascending, aren't you going home to watch?"

"What's up?"

"The Floating City, haven't you been watching the Crystal Screen lately? Those big shots up there have put together a giant thing!"

"Oh, oh, I remember what you're talking about now. But isn't that thing supposed to ascend tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow, what? It's today, hurry home and take a look. I heard from the priest in the factory that their factory even made parts for it?"

"Parts? Are you talking about those made by Old Blind and his group? That's quite something. Those parts are very complex, and ordinary people simply can't make them."

"Exactly, otherwise why would they say the research took thirty years? Better hurry home."

"And where are you off to?"

"I have to go to the factory for duty. The blasted scheduling landed me on today."

"Haha, watching the recording is just the same. I'll head back first."

The two old goblins crossed paths on the street, while in the sky, the red sun was slowly rising.

In the Floating City Research Institute, tens of thousands of goblin technicians were conducting final checks on a colossal object with a diameter of ten kilometers.

After the breakthrough in Power Furnace technology, the remaining technology for goblins was just copying. But even so, it took goblins twenty years to complete the remaining parts.

The human and material resources consumed in this endeavor were enough to bankrupt any universal empire. Without a world to support it, before it was even built, angry citizens and citizens with vested interests would join forces to overthrow the Emperor pushing for this project.

"Power Furnace check completed, no anomalies."

"Converter check completed, no anomalies."

"Three anomalies found in the energy transmission pipeline, currently undergoing pipeline replacement."

…

The voices of goblin technicians continuously emanated from the Crystal Stone Communicator, and the launch chamber was filled with researchers and Red Cardinals.

At the forefront, Richard was idly fiddling with the button in his hand.

"Ansen, it's most appropriate for you to press this button." Richard turned his head to the Technology Bishop Ansen beside him and said, "The whole project was handled by you. After I resolved the Power Furnace issues, I haven't done anything else."

"My Lord, this button must be pressed by you," Ansen shook his head and said, "Without your technology, we wouldn't be able to research this even if we spent another ten thousand years.

Moreover, you are the Sage, our savior. Only by having you press this button can we manifest the divinity of the Floating City."

"Divinity…"

Although Richard had grown accustomed to these religious terms, he couldn't help but twitch his mouth slightly when he heard the divinity of the Floating City.

This Floating City brought nothing but war, enslavement, and destruction, and no matter how one looked at it, it had nothing to do with divinity.

"Ansen, did I tell you before that this thing is a weapon?"

"You indeed said so."

"Then how can you think this thing is divine?"

Ansen responded with a serious expression, "Because it's called the Glory Floating City, and its purpose is to spread your glory."

"…Alright." Richard turned to look at the Red Cardinals behind him.

"I'm curious about your views on war."

Frank stepped forward, bowed slightly to Richard, and said, "My Lord, we are all your loyal servants. If you need governance, then we are officials and clerks. If you need war, then we are generals and soldiers."

Richard gave Frank a deep look but didn't ask anything further.

"All equipment has been thoroughly checked, and all faults have been eliminated."

Listening to the voice in the communicator, Richard stood up, holding the communicator, and calmly said, "Then I announce, the first flight of the Floating City officially begins."

Saying that, Richard pressed the red button.