The Steady Wizard: From Heart-Switch Rat to Dimensional Demon

What is the difference between the spirits and ordinary creatures?

The answer is faith!

The spirits can absorb the power of faith to increase their strength and even gain new abilities.

As for the power of faith, Isaac knows three types. The first is the most common power of faith, which comes from the belief of all beings in the gods, justified by faith, and is the power of [faith]. The second is the power of faith collected by wizards, which is born from the spread of stories and is the power of [observation]. The third is the power of faith of noble knights, which comes from the people living in their territory and is the power of [existence].

The spirits can absorb the power of faith from [faith]. This is a privilege that belongs exclusively to the gods!

Because the power of faith from [faith] contains too many visions, only gods can ignore these countless distractions.

If it is an ordinary person, then it will be taken for granted. After all, it is a god. If it is not special, how can it be called a god?

But in the eyes of wizards, we have to ask why, why can gods easily absorb the power of faith? If it is a question of strength, then why can weak divine species also absorb it?

And they are not affected?

Questions emerged one after another in his mind, and slowly, a rebellious idea was born...

Of course, the original owner of Isaac's manuscript was not strong enough to kill gods, so he chose to dissect the divine species that were of the same origin as the gods, and finally found the answer on them - a special energy network!

This energy network is spread all over the body of the divine species, which is the key to its ability to sense and absorb the power of faith. In the manuscript's conjecture, this network is the most basic form of the godhead, and may become the godhead that brings great power to the gods in the future!

But this is just a guess, without any basis, so Isaac just glanced at it and put it aside, focusing on the special energy network.

The first step of totem refining is to use the power of faith to create this energy network on the target.

Isaac is currently stuck at this step, because he does not know alchemy, so he can only use surgery. He is also good at this, but...

Failed.

Because this operation almost requires a complete cut of the entire body!

Including important organs like the heart and brain!

Normally, this is not called surgery, but intentional killing of rats.

However, with the existence of a magical spell, it will not let it die immediately.

Let it die at the sixth time after experiencing a painful dissection...

Cause of death - dissection...

Hehe~

Whether it is a demonized rat or a demon rat, their vitality is too weak to last until the operation is completed.

"Increase the number of life-sustaining spells?"

"No, carving the divine network requires chanting spells to guide the power of faith, and there is no extra time to allocate to the life-sustaining spell..."

"Segmented carving of the divine network?"

"No, the divine network is a whole..."

"..."

"..."

One idea after another emerged in Isaac's mind, and then he rejected them one by one.

In this way, with the sacrifice of batches of brain cells, the whole experiment was carried out in an orderly manner... and kept moving in place...

The setting sun, the golden light poured into the laboratory, shining on the manuscript in front of Isaac, making him come back to his senses from his meditation...

"Ah~"

With a heavy sigh, Isaac stood up, stood by the window and stretched his waist, relaxed his muscles and bones, then walked to the crucible, lit the fire, and then threw a few handfuls of silver moon grass into it to boil.

Knight secret medicine, a necessity for knight training, is not difficult to refine, and can be boiled without magic power.

Although he himself did not drink it, Barton and his training needed it. Perhaps the reward for Barton inspired others. Recently, the training intensity of the guard team has increased significantly, and the high consumption of knight secret medicine has followed.

Originally, these should be purchased from outside. After all, no matter how small the master is, he is still a master. How can a master serve a servant?

However, since the Silver Moon Grass Territory has output, it would save a lot of money to make it yourself. Secondly, it is said that the crucible used by wizards to make medicine needs to be occasionally cooked with some magic potions to maintain it, which can effectively increase the success rate of making magic potions.

So it is said that wizards generally do not leave the crucible idle for a long time. Even if it is the magic potion to feed the magic pet, they will cook more for backup.

Because it is said that the process of wizards making medicine is actually a weak ritual. Under the influence of this ritual field, the crucible will naturally become...

Hmm?

Isaac, who was stirring with a spoon, was suddenly stunned. A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, ritual...

"Yes! Ritual! Since the process of making medicine is a ritual, why can't the process of surgery be a ritual? Use rituals to complete the totem refining? Or cast a life-sustaining spell?"

After catching this inadvertent inspiration, Isaac was extremely excited. He didn't even care about the failed knight's secret medicine. He threw the spoon aside and turned back to sit at the desk and continued to write!

"Tear~"

The claw came out from the back of Isaac's neck, and the palm cracked, revealing a scarlet eye. This evil eye looked at Isaac for a while, and after confirming that he had no intention of going to eat, it slowly floated out of the door.

As soon as he walked out of the laboratory, the claw saw Smith guarding the door, waved his claw at him, and then continued to float towards the restaurant with ease. Smith also stood there without being surprised, standing guard for Isaac.

Although Isaac is no longer inferior to him in strength, Smith has gotten used to this kind of life. He has been taking care of Isaac in this way for more than ten years, and it will be no exception in the future.

Until he can't stand up.

On the other side, the claws floated to the restaurant, glanced at the maid who was frightened and stiff, grabbed the barbecue and fruit on the table and retreated to the laboratory.

These days, whenever Isaac was immersed in magic research, it was the claws that delivered food to Isaac.

However, because of its hideous appearance, although it has been seen several times, the maid is still not used to it. Every time she sees it, she freezes...

...

The next day.

"Haha! I did it!"

Isaac looked at the demon rat on the operating table with joy, his expression a little crazy.

It is too difficult to use rituals to directly complete the totem refining. With Isaac's current understanding of rituals, he can't do this, but it is not a big problem to use it to replace the life-sustaining spell.

As long as the vitality of the demon rat is strong enough, he will have enough time to guide the power of faith to carve the divine network for the demon rat.

At this time, in Isaac's sight, he can clearly see the light spots of varying brightness floating from the demon rat in the corner to the demon rat.

This is the basic spell attached to the witchcraft manuscript, called the Faith Catalyst Spell.

As the name suggests, it can forcibly strengthen the target's faith and forcibly generate the power of faith, but this kind of faith power is very rubbish and hurts the believers' brains.

So normal gods generally don't use this spell.

Of course, wizards don't care, anyway, they don't absorb this faith power themselves.

For example, the original owner of the witchcraft manuscript.

But at this point, the witchcraft is actually not completed.

Because the demon rat has not yet created its own divine art, it is now just relying on the divine network in its body to absorb the power of faith instinctively, and has no means of use at all. At present, the power of faith in its body is just a decoration.

However, this is only temporary. As time goes by, the divine network engraved in its body will slowly merge with it, making it a true divine species!

Of course, this process will be relatively long and require a lot of faith.

So a second step is needed - to accelerate the fusion with the divine network and guide it to condense divine arts.

Only after completing this step can it truly be called a divine species - a totem!

However, this second step is much simpler. Accelerating fusion means taking some magic potions regularly and applying some magic spells to reduce the rejection function. Condensing divine arts means choosing one of the three basic divine arts and then engraving it in its divine network with the power of faith.

However, although there are three basic divine arts, it is a pity that his witchcraft manuscript is limited in length and only records two basic divine arts, namely [Command the same clan] and [Blessing].

Very basic divine arts, and very practical.

Of course, in addition to these two basic divine arts, you can also engrave witchcraft models in the divine network, which have a certain probability of being assimilated into divine arts, but its success rate is very touching.

But Isaac didn't do that. He chose the basic magic [Blessing] for the demon rat.

The reason was very simple. It was not because he was afraid of failure, but because he had no money...

He was so poor now. He hadn't seen any return on his demon rats, and he had already lost two...

So he could only choose two basic magics with a success rate of almost 100%, and chose the one he was most curious about, [Blessing].

He was very curious about what the demon rat with such a rare ability pool could give to its "believers" after getting [Blessing].

But unfortunately, all of this takes a certain amount of time, so he has to wait~

"Huh~"

After locking the demon rat in the iron cage, Isaac walked to the window, looking at the scenery outside, and felt particularly relaxed.

Behind his head, the devil's claws quietly emerged, and the sharp thumb and index finger gently picked up a peeled apple from the desk and handed it to Isaac, and rubbed his face.

Isaac smiled and patted his claws, took the apple, put it in his mouth, and enjoyed this leisurely time~

If only this kind of day could continue...

Unfortunately...

Isaac shook his head helplessly. He was a greedy man. The manor was too small to satisfy him. He would have to go out and try sooner or later!

But before that, he needed to grow up well, so...

"Hey~ Let's go and see how the little guys are growing." With his hands behind his back, Isaac walked out of the laboratory and walked to the breeding farm behind the castle with Smith who was standing at the door.

"At present, the demon rats and dragon lizards are all normal. Both their size and the level of magic in their bodies are steadily improving. The growth of the dragon lizard is the most obvious. In three days, it should be able to reach the standard you said, young master."

On the way to the breeding farm, Smith gave Isaac a general introduction to the current situation.

Isaac nodded. Not bad. It seems that he may be able to catch up with the small exchange meeting of the Mad Witch Association in three days. He is very curious about this.

Although he was immersed in magic research during this period, he would occasionally turn his attention to the chat group of the Mad Witch Society. Unfortunately, these people were probably just technical geeks and basically said nothing. I don’t know why.

The dragon lizard that awakened the dragon bloodline might be able to exchange for some good things?

Isaac was not sure. After all, those who could enter the Mad Witch Society were those who dared to make deals with the Outer Gods and retreated unscathed. Who didn’t have some skills?

But even if he doesn't like them, it doesn't matter. He went there to see the world anyway. If he sold them, he would make a lot of money. If he didn't sell them, he wouldn't lose money. After all, dragon lizards that have awakened dragon blood are very good, whether for personal use or for sale to the Flesh and Blood Tower.

When Isaac arrived at the breeding farm, he saw his little cuties. After actual observation, he found that the effect of the breeding farm was better than he thought. The dragon lizards could drink the potion to awaken their blood in about two and a half days, while the demon rats were faster. They would probably be ready for sale tomorrow, and they were fat.

Isaac picked four that looked good and put them aside for sale, leaving two pairs of demon rats for breeding. As for the dragon lizards...

He didn't move. The growth cycle of dragon lizards is much longer than that of demon rats. Even with the breeding farm, it would take more than a year to wait for them to meet the conditions for reproduction...

It would be much more efficient to sell them and buy new ones to raise.

Isaac then used the ordinary flesh and blood produced by the flesh and blood gems to supplement the food of the demon rats and dragon lizards, then turned around and left, and then came to the training ground, found a lawn to sit down, and flipped through the "Introduction to Arcane Energy Volume 1" given by the eldest sister.

He has read this book sporadically in the past few days. Although it is very basic, it is of great help to him. Just some of the small tricks mentioned in it can greatly improve his basic three arcane spellcasting speed. After reading it all, there will surely be more gains!

In this way, in a blink of an eye, Isaac spent another fulfilling three days. During these three days, he successfully sold four demon rats and a demon rat corpse, and earned ten gold coins. It was a little less for the high consumption of wizards, but it was more stable. After all, there was no difficulty and risk in raising demon rats.

For novice wizards, it is a sure-win business.

However, Isaac did not keep the ten gold coins in his hand, and placed an order for ten more demon rats. Anyway, this amount of money can't do anything, so it is better to continue to expand the scale of production.

Isaac might hesitate for other transactions and calculate the profit and loss, but for raising mice, it is OK without thinking, anyway, he can digest it, just treat it as buying magic materials at the original price.

No. 1, a special day for the members of the Mad Witch Society. On this day, crazy wizards from various cities, countries, continents and even worlds who are keen on trading with the Outer Gods will gather in a special dimension to exchange knowledge, materials and intelligence.

In the basement, Isaac stood in the middle of the six-pointed star magic circle with a skull in the middle, holding the magic book of the Mad Witch Society in his arms, closing his eyes and chanting the door-opening spell.

"Tear~"

As Isaac chanted, suddenly, the shadows around him suddenly pounced on him and swallowed him whole!

When he opened his eyes again, he had appeared on a pure white stone pillar, surrounded by nothingness, nothing but the pure white stone pillars, a rather primitive dimensional world.