Synthesis Wizard-Chapter 188

Starlight Calendar 1270, Spring Dawn Moon (March).

The first wizard academy on the Starlight Continent was officially established, named Starlight Academy.

Over five hundred apprentices from Dragonwood became the first students of Starlight Academy, beginning their student careers.

After getting over their initial unfamiliarity, Starlight Academy quickly entered a stable state of operation.

With a complete set of rules and regulations, Su Nan hardly needed to invest much energy in the academy.

He was able to free up his energy and shift his focus to other matters.

Dragonbone Tower, fifth floor, workshop number 12.

The roar of the magic crystal forging furnace echoed through the spacious workshop.

Su Nan stood in front of the workbench, his eyes fixed on the puppet doll on top.

After freeing up from the academy matters, he immediately put the refining of the complete version of the Secret Puppet on the agenda.

To save on mithril, he did not refine a new puppet, but instead upgraded and modified the original puppet.

The complete version of the Secret Puppet did not have the design of adding high-level rune gems and diamonds. To strengthen the puppet’s combat strength, Su Nan directly modified the original design.

This alone took him over four months.

Compared to the time-consuming design modification, upgrading and modifying the puppet was relatively simple.

After spending over half a month in the workshop, Su Nan completed the task.

The newly upgraded and modified puppet, its body still mainly constructed of mithril and diamonds, but the quantity was twice as much as before.

Therefore, both the hardness of the body and the affinity and capacity for elemental energy had a tremendous improvement.

Thanks to this, the new puppet’s control over energy particles was also greatly enhanced, no less than a formal wizard.

Besides the original fixed zero-ring, one-ring, and two-ring spells, Su Nan also added three-ring spells he had recently mastered inside the puppet.

From the books he obtained from the Starlight Tower, about one-tenth were various spell books.

They included spells from zero-ring to five-ring, with a wide range of categories.

After becoming a wizard, Su Nan could now learn three-ring spells.

Just as there was a world of difference between a wizard and a wizard apprentice, the power of three-ring spells far surpassed two-ring spells, and their functionality was even richer.

For example, [Snow and Rain Storm], which can significantly alter the environment.

[Human Immobilization], which can make human, sub-human, or bipedal targets unable to move.

[Invisibility Orb], which makes multiple targets invisible over a large area.

[Higher Illusion], similar to Silent Illusion, but with stronger effects.

[Degeneration Ray], an advanced version of Weakening Ray.

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[Gaseous Form], which turns the recipient into a ghostly state and allows them to fly slowly.

And so on.

Whether it was power or practicality, they were not comparable to two-ring spells.

In fact, starting from three-ring, the power of spells went up a notch.

Until advancing to a True Spirit Wizard, spells were one of the most important combat methods for wizards.

Su Nan tested and found that he could master one three-ring spell every month or so.

So far, he had mastered eleven three-ring spells, all fixed into the Secret Puppet.

And this was just the beginning.

As he mastered more spells, he would continue to engrave them onto the puppet.

Overall, the upgraded and modified Secret Puppet, except for lacking a talent crystal, was already no less powerful than a formal wizard in other aspects.

Even in this special environment of the Starlight Continent, even without a talent crystal, the puppet’s combat power was actually not much weaker than a wizard who was restricted everywhere.

After all, the puppet’s reliance on external energy was very low. It could rely entirely on the energy contained in the magic stones within its body for combat output, and its combat endurance far exceeded a wizard.

This was enough to make up for the lack of a talent crystal to some extent.

If Su Nan’s talent crystal was not the “Liquid Metal” that was even stronger than the upper level, he himself would not be confident in being able to defeat a Secret Puppet with enough magic stones one hundred percent of the time.

“Once I fix more three-ring spells, my combat power will improve even further.”

Su Nan smiled in satisfaction.

Although there were factors of special environment, the combat power comparable to a formal wizard already made him very satisfied.

If there was any problem, it was the high cost.

Just the mithril and gems alone, the cost exceeded two hundred thousand gold coins.

The other materials, including everything, also amounted to nearly fifty thousand gold coins.

Add to that the cost of fixing various spells, especially three-ring spells, the total cost reached three hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

In addition, the puppet consumes a lot of magic stones in every battle – lower-grade magic stones can no longer meet the puppet’s consumption, the minimum must be middle-grade magic stones – it can be said that every battle is a money pit.

The high manufacturing cost plus the huge consumption, a true money-eating black hole!

But in the face of powerful combat strength, these shortcomings are acceptable.

It’s just that Su Nan has the Combination Cube. If it were other wizards, forget about over three hundred thousand, even eight hundred thousand gold coins might not be enough to refine a formal wizard-level puppet.

Su Nan plans to refine two Secret Puppets and put them into the expansion operation of the Star Alliance.

With two Secret Puppets assisting, he should not have to take action himself.

After dealing with the Secret Puppet, Su Nan then began researching rune engravings.

The knowledge of rune engravings was also found in the books he brought from the Starlight Tower.

It must be said that for Su Nan at this stage, these books were a treasure trove, every time he could find surprises in them.

Rune engravings, like magic tattoos, are a form of enchantment technology.

But the former is more advanced, a refined technology that wizards invented based on magic tattoos.

Magic tattoos are a form of tattooing spells onto the surface of human skin, which are activated and released during combat, equivalent to storing several spells that can be instantly released.

Rune engravings are different.

They are a form of engraving specific enchantment characteristics onto the surface of human skin in an engraved form. Although the form is similar to magic tattoos, the enchantment characteristics that can be added, both in terms of type and effect, far exceed magic tattoos, and the richness is not comparable to spells.

And there is another advantage, that is, they will not appear on the surface of the skin, and there is no need to worry about being identified by the enemy in advance during combat.

Besides that, rune engravings take up less skin area.

Normal people can only tattoo six or seven magic tattoos on their bodies, but if it’s rune engravings, engraving more than ten is no problem.

From any aspect, rune engravings completely overwhelm magic tattoos.

But correspondingly, the requirements for engraving rune engravings are also more stringent.

Only formal wizards whose mental and physical strength have reached a certain height can withstand the violent energy fluctuations generated by activating rune engravings without any backlash.

“Rune engravings, huh?”

Su Nan’s face showed a thoughtful expression.

After advancing to a wizard, his strength had indeed undergone a drastic change.

But limited by the environment, many of his combat methods were somewhat constrained.

For example, the spell power was weakened, and the mental power consumed was difficult to recover quickly outside of the element pool.

Magic items charged slowly, and it took a long time to recharge after using them once.

Bloodline Markings were also lagging behind his strength growth.

Unless he was willing to consume more Death Knell Striker and Multi-winged Monster blood to create stronger bloodline markings.

However, this was impossible.

Rather than using blood to create bloodline markings, Su Nan preferred to use it to extract divine energy, accelerating the growth and condensation of mental power.

The same applies to high-level rune gems.

The principle of high-level rune gems is to use the energy runes they carry to attract surrounding energy particles, unleashing a huge amount of elemental energy damage.

Therefore, in the case of lower energy particle density, the damage will naturally decrease.

No matter how much Su Nan increases the number of synthesis, the power of high-level rune gems will have an upper limit.

Although it was stronger than when he was still a wizard apprentice, it was very limited.

At least it couldn’t keep up with the growth of his wizard power.

After thinking about it, the only thing Su Nan could use without restriction was his Liquid Metal talent.

Other combat methods, either the power decreased or the consumption was too great.

Given this, Su Nan has been considering researching a new combat method recently.

Rune engravings were one of his choices.

Of course, simple rune engravings would not do.

In essence, rune engravings are also a type of magic item.

They absorb energy particles and store them during non-combat time, and then activate them during combat, transforming them into enchantment effects to release.

Just like the Forbidden Zone and Black Thunder, rune engravings are also charging-type.

This means that they will also be affected by the current environment of the Starlight Continent.

To turn rune engravings into a viable combat method, the problem must be solved first.

So after much thought, Su Nan finally came up with a solution.

Since charging is troublesome, why not simply omit this step!

What if the rune engraving is made into a disposable consumable item like a high-level rune gem, then there would be no need to worry about charging!

To do this, the first thing to do is to change the carrier of the rune engraving.

For example, changing the carrier from the human body to a gem.

Of course, it’s easy to say, but it’s not easy to do.

Pure gems simply cannot withstand the violent energy fluctuations generated by activating rune engravings.

Not even high-grade gems.

If the carrying capacity is too poor, it cannot replace the human body.

To this, Su Nan planned to improve it from two aspects.

One is to strengthen the quality of the gem.

Refer to the manufacturing principle of rune gems, choose high-grade gems for enchantment treatment, improving their adaptability and capacity for energy particles.

The other is to reduce the power of rune engravings.

If the power of rune engravings decreases, the load requirement for the carrier will also decrease.

After spending over two months, Su Nan finally successfully created a rune gem.

The gem carries a rune engraving called “Ice Blast,” which when activated instantly bursts with intense icy energy, causing severe ice erosion to all creatures within a certain range, with an added ice freezing and slowing effect.

Since it is a weakened version of the rune engraving, its power is naturally far less than the full version.

It’s not even one-tenth.

But it doesn’t matter, there’s still the Combination Cube.

As long as the rune gem is successfully created, the problem of power reduction can be solved by strengthening it through synthesis.

In the end, Su Nan synthesized eighteen rune gems, obtaining a new rune gem.

The reason he didn’t continue synthesizing was because, like the previous high-level rune gems, the energy intensity exceeded the limit he could currently handle.

Even so, the power of this rune gem was still much stronger than the original rune engraving, about three times more powerful.

Moreover, as his mental power condensation level increased, he could gradually increase the number of syntheses, further strengthening its power, with huge room for improvement.

“Not bad!”

In the spell training area, Su Nan, who had just finished testing, looked at the ice all over the ground, a satisfied smile on his face.

This way, besides his talent ability, he finally had another combat method that he could use without restriction.

Although the cost of rune gems was somewhat expensive, about four thousand seven hundred gold coins per gem, compared to their power, it was undoubtedly worth the price.

“It’s a pity that those books in the Starlight Tower don’t have knowledge of alchemy engravings, otherwise, I could study it.”

Alchemy engravings are an advanced technology of rune engravings, far more powerful than the latter.

However, to engrave alchemy engravings, one must first transform oneself into an alchemy body.

Su Nan currently lacks the materials and his power level is not enough. Even if he obtains the relevant knowledge, he cannot engrave alchemy engravings, but studying and learning from it, perhaps he can improve the effect of rune gems.

Shaking his head, putting aside the somewhat ambitious thought, Su Nan left the spell training area and teleported back to the top-level control center.

The materials from the Starlight Tower had been recovered, and the matter was settled.

The research on Secret Puppets and rune gems was also complete.

He doesn’t have much left on his hands.

One is to enter the Thunder Element Plane to collect Thunderstones and create more Black Thunder wizard weapons.

But this is not urgent, it can be put on the agenda after his strength improves a little.

The other is to synthesize and refine legendary puppets and build more golem legions.

The vast area of the Underworld must have enough troops to defend.

Although he can build some native armies to alleviate the shortage of troops, golem legions are still indispensable.

Su Nan estimates that to unify the Underworld, he will need at least two to three large golem legions.

Fortunately, low-level golems can be refined by apprentices, and with the establishment of the academy and the arrival of a new batch of students, the future workforce capable of refining golems will only increase, otherwise, he would be exhausted to death building so many golem legions.

“Counting the time, the new round of aptitude testing should be about to end.”

Su Nan looked towards the direction of the academy, his eyes deep.

Starlight Academy was his first step in building his wizard forces, and in the near future, it would also be his reliance on controlling the entire Starlight Continent.

After a long time, Su Nan retracted his gaze, collected his thoughts, and began cultivating.

The growth and condensation of mental power were always the most crucial.

From now on, unless it was something related to this aspect, he would not waste too much energy on other things.