Synthesis Wizard

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Chapter 100: Magic Emblem Constructions and the Knight Guard Concept

Puppet Factory.

The low rumble of the magic crystal forging furnace echoed endlessly throughout the factory.

Su Nan stood before the wide workbench, his expression focused as he used Master’s Hand to manipulate silver needles, inscribing enchanted patterns on the surface of the Magic Puppet.

After about ten minutes, as the final stroke of the pattern was laid down, the entire Magic Puppet body instantly gained a vibrant magical aura.

“Another one finished!”

Su Nan smiled contentedly and placed the miniature soul crystal into the recess in the Magic Puppet’s chest.

As the recess closed, a series of enchanted patterns flashed in succession, and the steel Magic Puppet on the workbench suddenly came to ‘life’.

In front of it stood six identical steel Magic Puppets.

After the second gathering at the Mysterious Wooden Hut, Su Nan immediately set about crafting new steel Magic Puppets.

A total of six miniature soul crystals were all refined into soul cores, and the final result was six steel Magic Puppets.

To maximize the combat strength of the steel Magic Puppets, the steel used for crafting had been pre-synthesized and enhanced, improving the quality of the materials.

The final steel Magic Puppets had a combat strength that reached the upper echelon of First-Ring legendary knights, stronger than the first steel Magic Puppet he had crafted.

The cost, however, increased by nearly half, soaring to over 1,500 gold coins.

Su Nan currently earned roughly 22,000 gold coins per year from selling potions alone.

These six steel Magic Puppets cost about 40% of his annual potion income.

Of course, this was only the nominal cost.

In reality, because the cost of purchasing miniature soul crystals was ridiculously low, the actual cost was not as outrageous.

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“Six steel Magic Puppets, it’s still not enough to deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster.”

Hundred-Armed Monster was the name Su Nan gave to the monster in the cave.

The main purpose of his crafting six steel Magic Puppets was to deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster.

He had to keep the old steel Magic Puppet to guard the base.

However, considering the Hundred-Armed Monster’s combat strength, six steel Magic Puppets were still inadequate.

“At the very least, I need ten.”

With enough tanks in front to block, Su Nan could safely output from behind.

After thinking for a moment, he quickly came up with a plan.

If there weren’t enough steel Magic Puppets, then he would use Stone Magic Puppets to make up the difference.

But ordinary Stone Magic Puppets wouldn’t work.

A frontline that couldn’t even withstand a single blow from the Hundred-Armed Monster would be meaningless.

He had to synthesize stronger Stone Magic Puppets.

Conveniently, he had over twenty Stone Magic Puppets stored in his Magic Cube, so Su Nan directly took them out and placed them in the Magic Cube.

[Elite Stone Magic Puppet (Puppet/Advanced Great Knight-Level), a puppet creation crafted from granite, possessing immense strength and indestructible, capable of automatically regenerating injuries by consuming energy.]

“Twenty-five Stone Magic Puppets to synthesize an Advanced Great Knight?”

Su Nan frowned slightly but quickly relaxed his brow.

After all, the initial combat strength of the Stone Magic Puppets was only at the Junior Knight level. Since they started so low, the high synthesis requirement was normal.

Su Nan simply transferred over ten Stone Magic Puppets from his patrol team and continued to put them into the Magic Cube.

When the synthesis number reached forty-two, the combat strength of the Elite Stone Magic Puppet on the synthesis interface finally broke through to the First-Ring legendary knight level.

“One Stone Magic Puppet costs about forty-three gold coins, forty-two would be over nineteen hundred gold coins, the cost is about three hundred gold coins more than the steel Magic Puppets, but the combat strength is weaker.”

Elite Stone Magic Puppets only had the combat strength of the lower echelon of First-Ring legendary knights, which was inferior to the newly crafted steel Magic Puppets.

However, after some thought, Su Nan decided to synthesize the Stone Magic Puppets.

After all, soul crystals were extremely rare, while gems were easier to obtain.

Having a method to synthesize combat strength at the First-Ring legendary knight level was already quite good.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

“Synthesizing four Elite Stone Magic Puppets requires one hundred and sixty-eight Stone Magic Puppets, leaving me short of one hundred and forty-three.”

“Fortunately, I obtained a large amount of gems from the Mysterious Wooden Hut, so materials are plentiful.”

“It will take about twenty days to finish everything.”

Su Nan estimated the time. If all went smoothly, he would be able to craft them before winter arrived.

Su Nan returned the patrol team’s Stone Magic Puppets and left the Puppet Factory, heading towards the spell practice area.

It was time to practice his spells.

He now mastered three Second-Ring spells: [Elemental Protection], [Levitation], and [Mirror Shadow].

Considering that he would be facing the Hundred-Armed Monster soon, Su Nan chose [Shattering Soundwave] as his fourth Second-Ring spell.

[Shattering Soundwave] is a spell that deals area damage, able to release a high-speed vibrating soundwave that shatters everything it hits, whether it be a living being or a non-living object.

This spell is somewhat similar to the Siren’s Cry.

Of course, the damage was far from comparable.

The Siren’s Cry could even inflict damage on the soul level, while [Shattering Soundwave] was only effective on a physical level.

However, [Shattering Soundwave] can be finely controlled for precise targeting.

Unlike the Siren’s Cry, it does not indiscriminately inflict damage.

As his spiritual power increased and he switched to using third-order medium transcendent potions, Su Nan’s spell learning speed also increased.

Now he could learn a Second-Ring spell in just over forty days.

The learning progress of [Shattering Soundwave] was already more than halfway complete, and Su Nan estimated that it would be nearly mastered by the time the Stone Magic Puppets were finished.

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After finishing his spell practice, Su Nan went to his study and casually picked up a book from the bookshelf.

From the Mysterious Wooden Hut, he had gradually acquired over one hundred wizard books.

He spent two to three hours reading every day.

Thanks to the learning progress provided by his panel, his current knowledge base far exceeded that of a normal third-rank wizard apprentice.

Even compared to a formal wizard, Su Nan was confident he wouldn’t fall behind.

Most of the wizard books he had traded for were basic knowledge, with advanced knowledge being few and far between.

However, one book caught Su Nan’s interest.

《Magic Emblem Construction》!

This was the title of the book.

The content, in a nutshell, was to combine magic tattoos and enchanted weapons to create a special enchanted inscription that could be used by both wizards (apprentices) and knights.

As everyone knows, magic tattoos can only be used by wizards (apprentices).

After all, they need to be infused with spiritual power to activate.

Enchanted weapons, however, are different. Even knights can use them.

So, the book’s author took a different approach, combining magic tattoos with enchanted weapons, aiming to create a strange armament that exists in the form of an enchanted inscription, only needing to be infused with martial energy or spiritual power to activate, greatly strengthening the combat strength of the user.

In truth, magic emblem constructions are quite similar to magic emblem cores.

Both are based on magic tattoos and require [Magic Item Crafting] as a prerequisite skill.

The difference is that magic emblem constructions, in addition to [Magic Item Crafting], also involve [Bio-Modification], making them more difficult than magic emblem cores.

“This is not very useful for wizard apprentices, it is far inferior to magic emblem cores, but it is extremely useful for those who want to build their own forces.”

The power of magic emblem constructions is only slightly higher than magic tattoos, far inferior to magic emblem cores, and does not significantly enhance a wizard apprentice’s combat strength.

But their advantage is that they are far cheaper than magic emblem cores.

If used to arm knights, a powerful knight legion could be established in an instant.

According to the book’s description, a set of the lowest level, first-grade magic emblem construction is enough to enhance the strength of a junior knight to the level of a peak knight, approaching a Great Knight.

This enhancement was undoubtedly astonishing!

Su Nan felt that he could spare some time to study magic emblem constructions.

“Speaking of which, it’s about time I started building my own knight guard.”

Up until now, whenever Su Nan needed knights, he would directly requisition them from the Shining Light City army.

Both he and Kei had become accustomed to this.

This included the financial investment as well.

At the moment, Shining Light Territory was in a critical phase of expanding its forces, and there were powerful enemies outside, so the territory and the base were inseparable.

The base could acquire funds and materials from the territory, while the territory could obtain blackrock beasts, Stone Magic Puppets, dragon blood fruit, potions, and other items for free from the base.

However, this situation could not continue forever.

If they wanted to develop healthily, the base would eventually have to be separated from the territory, becoming economically independent and transitioning from an unclear dependent relationship to a mutually beneficial trade relationship.

This was a healthy and sustainable development relationship.

At that point, the base would no longer be able to freely requisition the Shining Light City army, so they would need their own knight guard.

“To build a knight guard, you first need people.”

“Recruit soldiers from the army?”

As soon as this thought arose, Su Nan immediately dismissed it.

If he did that, the knight guard would inevitably bear the imprint of the Shining Light City army, which would make the separation a joke.

“It’s better to cultivate them ourselves.”

After thinking for a moment, Su Nan decided to select a group of children from the territory’s commoners and farmers and train them from a young age.

After all, building a knight guard was not a matter of urgency, so it could be done slowly.

The most important thing was to establish a complete training system, which could continuously supply knights for the base in the future.

As for why he didn’t choose children from noble families, there were two reasons.

One was that most nobles had their own knight inheritance.

Noble children were taught martial arts from a young age by their family knights, and they didn’t need outside help.

The other was that when the territory recruited knights, most of them were chosen from the descendants of vassal nobles, and Su Nan didn’t want to compete with Shining Light Territory for recruits.

Anyway, he had dragon blood fruit and various strengthening potions, so he didn’t care much about the cultivation talent of the trainees.

Even if the commoner and farmer children had poor talent, he could use potions and magical plants to make up for it.

The key was to be clean and loyal!

“Magic emblem constructions and a knight guard, I now have two more goals.”

Su Nan let out a long sigh. Neither of these matters could be accomplished in a short time, and they needed to be considered carefully.

“Let’s deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster first.”

Time flew by, and more than twenty days passed.

Before the end of the Autumn Moon, Su Nan finally synthesized four Elite Stone Magic Puppets.

Now he had ten First-Ring legendary knight-level combat forces.

“I also crafted ten more high-grade inscription gems, making it a total of fifteen, which should be enough to deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster.”

With everything ready, Su Nan placed the Magic Puppets into the Magic Cube, took the Stealthy Dragon with him, and rushed to the North Forest.

Fortunately, the Hundred-Armed Monster had not come out of the cave for a while.

Only occasional groups of Cave Toads and Brutal Rats emerged from the cave, and they were quickly eliminated by the knights stationed there.

Therefore, there were no major casualties during this time, which put Kei at ease.

Bred had already received a notification from Su Nan that he was going to enter the cave today, so he was waiting outside. Upon seeing Su Nan arrive, he immediately came forward.

“My lord, as you instructed, the army around the cave and the outer periphery of the forest has been withdrawn.”

“Good, you should leave as well.”

According to Su Nan’s plan, if he couldn’t defeat the Hundred-Armed Monster, he would have to flee the cave, and the Hundred-Armed Monster might pursue him. If the army was still here, it might cause heavy casualties.

To be safe, he had the army evacuate first.

After Bred left, Su Nan cast [Shield Spell] on himself, creating a protective layer of energy particles. He also activated a Protection Ring, then entered the cave.

The Stealthy Dragon, in turn, had already entered the cave in a dematerialized state.

The cave was still in the same condition as before.

Besides the torches on the walls being extinguished, there were no other noticeable changes.

The bodies of the Brutal Rats and Cave Toads that were killed previously had disappeared, probably becoming the Hundred-Armed Monster’s food.

Su Nan carefully walked forward.

The Stealthy Dragon walked a hundred meters ahead of him.

The cave tunnel was very narrow, unable to accommodate the Stealthy Dragon’s massive body. If it didn’t dematerialize, it wouldn’t even be able to move.

However, while it was not suitable for combat, the Stealthy Dragon was still suitable for reconnaissance.

He didn’t encounter even a single monster along the way, and Su Nan reached the basin where he had been before.

Surprisingly, there was another group of Goblins in the basin, diligently digging for ore.

The Goblins who were mining there previously had all been killed by the blackrock beasts.

“Did the Hundred-Armed Monster capture them from somewhere else?”

Su Nan’s first thought was that they were captured from the Underground World.

After all, the Hundred-Armed Monster had never left the cave, so the only way it could capture Goblins was from the Underground World.

However, these were not his concerns at the moment.

Su Nan shook his head, clearing his mind, and summoned more than ten blackrock beasts from the Magic Cube, ordering them to attack the Goblins.

In an instant, ten agile hunters appeared in the dim basin.

The sudden ambush caught the Goblins off guard.

One by one, their companions fell to the sharp teeth and claws of the blackrock beasts.

Su Nan was cautious, using his spiritual energy to activate his Magic Emblem Core, his mind was on guard, and his senses were heightened. He was ready to confront the Hundred-Armed Monster. He didn’t have time to be concerned with these Goblins.

Faced with heavy casualties, the Goblins quickly became panic-stricken and fled in all directions.

Just like last time, the commotion in the basin quickly attracted the Hundred-Armed Monster.

With a roar that sounded like countless voices overlapping, the Hundred-Armed Monster’s massive body burst out of the cave at the bottom of the basin, and saw the blackrock beasts attacking the Goblins.

Seeing the black panther that had killed its slaves last time reappear, the Hundred-Armed Monster was furious. Without a word, it swung its weapon at the blackrock beasts, eliminating them all in three moves.

But before it could rejoice, it was stunned to find a group of colossal figures made of steel and stone had appeared around it.

(To be continued)