I Am a Wise Lich

Creak!

With a creak, Richard arrived at the Mechanical Processing Sector and pushed open the door to a small room.

This room was near the laboratory he often used. He had planned and built it long ago in consideration of conducting other experimental research.

Richard surveyed the entire room, narrowing his eyes as he considered how to renovate it to accommodate laser equipment, allowing him to experimentally purify Uranium-235 using laser separation.

"The first Laser Generator can go over here. This side should have a protective setup, and over there..." Richard muttered to himself as he paced around.

At the same time, he lightly waved his hand. Small flames fell onto the floor and promptly went out, burning one black scorch mark after another to serve as markers.

Before long, Richard reached the wall and said, "Set up a level workbench here, preferably two meters square, for placing..."

He stopped halfway through, looked at the wall before him, and frowned slightly. "Hmm, this room is a little too small. There clearly isn't enough space for a workbench. Maybe I need to tear down this wall and connect it to the other preplanned room next door..."

As he spoke, Richard raised his hand without the slightest hesitation, his decisiveness at full display, and pressed it against the wall.

Shaping-Type Earth Magic was cast. Extraordinary power flowed from his palm and spread through the entire wall.

Crack, crack, crack!

The sound rang out, and in the blink of an eye, finger-thick cracks covered the wall like the bed of a dried-up summer river.

Richard gave it a gentle push, and with a crash, the entire wall fell forward.

Dust immediately filled the air.

But before the dust could rise high enough to reach the ceiling, it was forcibly suppressed by an invisible