The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

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And so, a miracle wizard was born quietly...

The promotion lasted all night. The next morning, in the dark basement, Isaac slowly opened his eyes, a slight smile playing on his lips. In a sense, he had made the right bet!

Isaac stretched out his right hand, and the magical light shimmered in the dark basement, with a miraculous glow swirling around his fingertips—Miracle: Godhood!

Miracle: Godhood - A miracle magic awakened by Isaac after advancing to the fourth rank. It has two main effects: first, it can grant divine favor!

Or, to put it another way, he can weave gods. He can weave one or more divine powers into a virtual godhood. The creature that obtains this godhood will instantly become the corresponding god. Although it is a newly born virtual god, it possesses a series of powers that a god should have!

Even the weakest virtual deity possesses the combat power of a strong fourth-tier being!

Most importantly, this virtual deity is completely under Isaac's control. Although he cannot decide the life or death of the virtual deity, the virtual deity's power cannot harm Isaac in any way, and he can also withdraw the virtual deity's power at any time!

The second effect is that it can create a magic book that allows you to make a pact with the gods and command them!

Chapter 280 Returning to Familiar Places, People and Things Have Changed

Although Miracle Godhood still falls far short of Isaac's expectations, it already meets his current needs. Most importantly, it points Isaac in the direction of enslaving the gods.

Indeed, choosing "Investiture of the Gods" for the story of the third tier was the right decision!

Unfortunately, a miracle is different from a legend. No matter how many abilities and items a story contains that readers yearn for and desire, it will ultimately only produce one miracle!

Miracles are unique!

Therefore, the most powerful treasures in novels, such as the Four Swords of Zhuxian, the Taiji Diagram, and the Pangu Banner, can only serve as background. After all, if these were to be condensed into a "legend," the power of faith alone would take forever to collect.

However, while he can't handle the powerful ones, he still has some hope for the weaker ones. Of course, that has nothing to do with Isaac right now, as he doesn't have that much faith power yet.

With a wave of his hand, Isaac dispelled the miraculous power lingering on his fingertips, turned and walked out of the basement. The advancement was complete; now it was time to make some final preparations.

For example, arranging where Smith and Lorna would go.

Originally, Isaac had planned to take them along. With his help, passing the trials of the Infinite Tower and advancing to the next level would be a sure thing. But now that he has advanced to the fourth rank, they naturally can't go together anymore.

Although it wouldn't be difficult for them to complete the trial with their abilities, it would be best to play it safe. And since they were able to accurately choose the trial world of the Boundless Tower, they should naturally choose the most suitable one.

Smith and Rona are a pure-blooded dragon and a dragon witch, respectively, so their compatibility is pretty good and they should be able to find a decent trial world.

Besides the two of them, Isaac also needed to prepare some things. For example, the spell to enslave the gods was basically ready, so the enslaved gods naturally had to be ready as well.

The creation of a virtual deity requires the participation of various divine powers. Although Isaac has no idea how to create a sufficiently powerful virtual deity, it is not difficult to create one as a temporary solution.

should.

However, this could only be done outside the capital, so after leaving the basement, Isaac immediately called Smith and Lorna and they took a carriage out of the capital.

The carriage stopped as soon as it left the capital. Isaac frowned, closed the book slumped on his lap, lifted the carriage curtain, and leaned out to look at Prince Norns, who was dressed in black armor and riding a warhorse also clad in black armor. He glanced at Remington behind him and said indifferently, "Does Your Highness have something to say?"

Norns nodded and said casually, "Philo has already told me about the Wilderness Palace. First of all, I want to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the Empire for extending a helping hand to the Empire at this time. Secondly, I would like to invite you to my manor to have a good talk about cooperation. After all, we will be working together in the future."

“No need. I’m used to acting alone. I’ll make my move when the opportunity arises.” With that, Isaac lowered the curtains.

"Crack~"

Smith flicked his whip, then looked at Prince Norns, signaling him to make way.

Norns paused for a moment, then slightly swayed the reins, and his warhorse silently moved aside to make way for Isaac's carriage.

Seeing this, Smith drove the carriage away. Prince Norns watched the carriage disappear into the distance, his grip on the reins tightening, his calm expression masking his boundless rage.

Since when did a little kid dare to talk to him like that?

Despite his anger, Prince Norns did not act rashly. The reason was simple: it was a decision made by the royal family. In their eyes, Isaac, who had taken a shortcut to advance to the fourth rank, had the ability to defeat or even kill him!

This made him wary, and what upset him most was that the order to cooperate was issued by the royal family, which stifled all his "brilliant ideas"!

All I could do was watch as this guy silently amassed his strength, only to face me in the desolate dungeon...

A fierce killing intent flashed in Prince Norns' eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. His immediate priority was to prepare for battle. He was not a wizard, and even if he successfully passed the trial of the Boundless Tower and advanced to the fifth rank, he would be much weaker than a normal fifth rank, even if it was a perfect advancement.

There's nothing we can do about it; it's determined by the nature of the Knight's profession.

However, the Boundless Tower has existed for so many years, so there are ways to deal with it. One of them is to acquire the extraordinary powers that were stifled because they were too powerful, such as the Radiant Knights.

Unfortunately, it's not in the Wilderness Palace. According to the Empire's records, there are only two clearly documented extraordinary lineages in the Wilderness Palace, one of which belongs to a spellcaster...

Although the Thunder Blade is a knight's extraordinary legacy, its strength is not that high.

Fortunately, besides these inheritances, there is another way: learn the fifth-tier combat skills in advance, and at the same time, hold a special death battle ceremony in the boundless tower. In this special ceremony, you can hone your fifth-tier combat skills in advance!

Although this will drastically increase the difficulty of the trials at the Infinite Tower, it's still better than becoming a legendary figurehead with only power afterward.

Don't underestimate this window of opportunity. If some fourth-tier player seizes the chance to launch a challenge, you might really be infamous for eternity!

After all, under normal circumstances, once you reach the fifth rank, even a pig cannot be defeated by a fourth-rank opponent.

But what can you do when this isn't the normal situation?

After staring at Isaac's carriage for a while, Prince Norns led Remington toward the capital. He was unwilling to be a mere pawn!

I'm sure those guys wouldn't want that either!

……

On the other hand, Isaac was unaware of Prince Norns' thoughts. Of course, he could guess some of them, but he didn't care. After advancing to the fourth rank and obtaining that magic, Isaac would soon have everything he needed!

Arriving in the town of Phyllis, sitting outside the carriage and looking at this familiar town, Isaac couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions. It was here that he had earned his first fortune!

They made a fortune!

It was here that he personally killed his second brother, who had betrayed him once again.

It was here that he first witnessed just how insane a mad witch could go...

As he sighed, the carriage arrived at the gate of a small courtyard, which was the place Smith had prepared to stay. He had originally wanted to buy a larger one, but unfortunately, although the town of Phyllis had been rebuilt, it still retained a strong sense of adventure, and the long-term residents here were still mainly adventurers.

Among adventurers, manors or mansions are not favored, so naturally, there are no such houses for sale in the town of Phyllis.

Fortunately, this didn't affect Isaac much. Anyway, the experiment would be done back at the Mage Tower, and staying here was just to wait for orders from the Terra royal family.

Chapter 281 New Love and Old Love

In the laboratory of the mage tower, Isaac, dressed in a black wizard's robe, stood in the middle of an evil and twisted magic circle, stretching out his fair hands. His left hand was wrapped with deep dark red divine power, and his right hand was burning with a ghastly green flame. One of these was the divine power of the dimensional demon god Purgatory, and the other was the flame of the evil god Asafis.

Above his head, the demonic claw Hamon spread its five evil claws, with a blood-red eyeball floating in its palm, its pupil constantly moving and twisting—the divine power of the evil god, the Lord of a Thousand Eyes.

These three evil god powers are the materials Isaac plans to use to construct his virtual godhood. Currently, his miracle is not very powerful, and the virtual godhood he has constructed is only at the fourth level.

Of course, if you throw divine power into it without regard to cost, you might even be able to create a fifth- or even sixth-order True God!

But that's too risky. If it's too powerful, he's worried that he won't be able to control his miracle. It's best to wait until he has more research on that kind of existence before trying to create it.

For now, level four is enough, since it's mainly for practice anyway.

However, even if it's just for practice, it doesn't mean that the power of any god will do. For example, Isaac wouldn't use the power of a true god, not because he's afraid of offending them.

Miracle: Conferred God is very similar to his legend, The Usurper, in that both characters obtain the power of gods while being mortals.

However, the difference is that the "Usurper of Gods" is just like its name suggests, its essence is to steal the power of the gods, which will inevitably lead to the gods' resistance. The essence of Miracle: Godhood is to reorganize and recreate the divine power to form a brand new divine power!

Therefore, the divine power it uses is essentially the same as the knight's battle aura and the wizard's magic power. It is a renewable resource, and because it is so rare, the gods themselves may not even have noticed that they are lacking a little divine power.

Therefore, Miracle Godhood is an incredibly powerful magic. Of course, if it weren't so powerful, it wouldn't be called a "miracle."

Getting back to the main point, although using these gods will not incur their hostility, Isaac still does not intend to use the power of the true gods, at least not now, because the level of the virtual godhood he can weave is limited, and it is foreseeable that there will be many battles waiting for him in the boundless tower. If the level is not high enough, he can only make up for it with combat power.

Under normal circumstances, most righteous gods cannot defeat an outer god of the same level in a one-on-one fight!

While there are generally no useless people who can become gods, as the saying goes, there are differences even among geniuses. It's really too cruel. Those without some skills would have been destroyed by wizards or their peers long ago, especially now that the wizarding path is developing rapidly.

After all, those magnificent creations didn't appear out of thin air...

"Hi~hoo~"

Standing in the center of the magic circle, Isaac, who was trying to restrain the three divine powers, took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. His eyes, which were originally full of expectation, quickly became calm. With a thought, tiny specks of miraculous light appeared.

Miracle: Conferring of Gods is now activated!

Under the influence of the miracle magic, the three divine powers began to sway and disintegrate, then converged towards a central point.

Upon seeing this, a glint flashed in Isaac's eyes, and the [Analysis] power was activated. At the same time, a small, dark crack opened up behind his head, and an invisible, intangible band emerged from it, connecting with Isaac's brain.

Having precedents for interpreting deities, Isaac is now well-prepared for his experiments.

Soon, guided by the miracle, the three divine powers were perfectly recombined and reconstructed, forming a new divine power—a slightly illusory eyeball with a green pupil.

This eyeball has a very calm, or rather dull, gaze because it is currently just an unclaimed divine power. Only when Isaac bestows it upon other life forms will it look around aimlessly like the previous eyeball.

Of course, it won't necessarily be a random look; the specific situation will depend on the personality of the person who owns it.

The eyeball floated silently in mid-air, a ring of pale red flames swirling around its surface, adding to its eerie atmosphere.

At this point, even a virtual deity...

Of course it wasn't completed. How could a fourth-order divine species be created with just three weak divine powers?

Even miracles cannot violate the law of conservation of energy.

Of course, a miracle is a miracle precisely because it is incredibly incredible!

So all Isaac needs to do next is replenish this somewhat illusory eyeball with enough energy, and it will become a genuine virtual god!

Virtual deities don't have any requirements regarding energy; even ordinary magic power will do. Theoretically, if you throw it into a dimensional world, it will quickly absorb enough magic power to become a true virtual deity, even without Isaac's intervention.

However, Isaac did not do that. Firstly, although all kinds of energy can be used, there are different levels of energy, and for virtual deities, divine power is the most suitable. Different types of energy do not affect the strength and type of power of a deity, but they will affect the lifespan of the virtual deity.

The virtual divine essence filled with divine power can theoretically last for an infinite period of time!

It can be said that, apart from not being able to increase its power on its own, it is no different from a true god.

Secondly, although there is no limit to the number of times Miracle Godhood can be used, there is a limit to the number of virtual godhoods that can be controlled. He can only control a maximum of three virtual godhoods of the same level at the same time. Any additional virtual godhoods will be lost to Isaac.

Therefore, while using dimensions to charge energy is convenient, it is not really necessary, since it doesn't produce more units. Manually charging energy can generate more data, which will be beneficial for subsequent research.

Therefore, Isaac first cautiously looked around, and when he did not see the mouse, he waved his hand, and a large number of fragments of the divine essence appeared in the air. Then, they instantly dissolved and turned into pure divine power, all of which were integrated into the illusory virtual divine essence.

These are all treats that Isaac prepared for the hamster. As the hamster's strength increases, its need for divine fragments decreases. It's not that they're useless, but rather that each fragment provides very little "experience points." However, the hamster's appetite is limited, so it has accumulated quite a few.

Of course, even so, the fragments of divine essence are still the hamster's favorite food, which is why Isaac observes his surroundings before taking action, just in case the hamster sees them and gets upset.

Fortunately, he had confirmed beforehand that the rat wouldn't be coming, so the rat didn't appear until all the godhood fragments were integrated into the virtual godhood.

Mouse: Achoo!