Synthesis Wizard

幽湖 City.

Returning to this island-heart city once again, Su Nan was surprised to find that the number of slaves in the lower city seemed to have increased significantly.

As he passed through the lower city, he saw five groups of dog-headed men and lizardfolk carrying pickaxes, led by a man-faced lion, heading towards the city gates.

Su Nan pondered.

Not long after returning to the study of Base 2, Carolina hurried in.

“Master, you’re back.”

Carolina bowed respectfully.

Su Nan waved his hand casually and asked, “What’s with all those slaves outside?”

Carolina quickly replied, “I was just about to report to the master.”

Carolina spoke with a matter-of-fact tone.

In the underground world, it was completely normal for the strong to capture the weak and use them as slaves.

In the past, they had to consider food issues, but now with Shining Light City supplying food from the surface, they had no worries. As a result, Carolina became even less hesitant about capturing slaves.

Su Nan nodded. It seemed like they needed to have Base 1 produce more Clay Golems to get the remaining three mines up and running.

“So, the bug plague is coming soon?”

“It should be about time,” Carolina said with a solemn expression. “Based on past situations, it won’t be more than half a year at the latest.”

Pausing, she hesitated before saying, “Master, should we contact Matu and Orson? Is it too much to handle the bug plague on our own?”

“No rush. Let’s see what Matu and Orson do first.”

Su Nan waved his hand nonchalantly and shifted to other matters.

“How much mithril is in the treasury now?”

“A little over three kilograms,” Carolina answered without hesitation.

As a deputy, she was very competent. She knew what Su Nan cared most about, and she had memorized all the relevant information.

“Three kilograms…”

Su Nan frowned slightly.

Crafting a single puppet required at least sixteen kilograms of mithril.

Even with the accumulated mithril from Base 1 in recent months, they only had about a third, a significant gap.

“Are there any other silver veins nearby?”

Carolina thought for a moment and said, “Within a hundred kilometers of幽湖 City, there are only two silver veins known to be explored. One is the one we’re currently exploiting, and the other is in Matu’s hands.” 𝖗А𝐍ȱ𝐁Εṩ

Matu, huh.

Su Nan’s eyes flashed slightly.

“Continue collecting mithril.”

“Oh, by the way, where’s Amy?”

Carolina was stunned for a moment, giving Su Nan a strange look.

Perhaps it was her imagination, but Carolina felt like Amy had been secretly observing her lately.

Although Amy’s spatial teleportation ability was unpredictable, as a Man-Faced Lion noble skilled in illusions, Carolina could still sense Amy’s presence.

If it were anyone else, she might have thought the other party was spying on her.

But Amy, a simple and honest Magical Companion, shouldn’t have such thoughts.

Who was instigating Amy to do this?

It couldn’t be the Master, there was no need for the Master to do so.

Was it the apprentices in the base?

It seemed like they were the only ones who could persuade Amy.

Her thoughts drifted in her mind, but Carolina didn’t show any emotion on her face. She gently said, “Amy was here a while ago.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Amy suddenly appeared, landing on Su Nan’s shoulder.

“Meow, Su Nan, you’re back! How come you were gone for so long, I missed you!”

“There were a few things to take care of, so it took a while.” Su Nan smiled and stroked Amy’s head, causing the latter to close its eyes in contentment. “But there’s nothing left to do on the surface now, I’ll be here for a while.”

“That’s great, meow!”

Amy cheered, then as if remembering something, vanished in a flash. A few seconds later, it reappeared, carrying a cloth bag in its mouth.

“Meow, this is a gift. Treasures I’ve collected recently.” Amy said in a muffled voice.

“Thank you.”

Su Nan smiled and took the cloth bag, opening it to check its contents right away.

Inside were ten or so items scattered around.

Magic Essence Flower, Extreme Coldwood, Hawk-Eye Agate… all unique “products” of the underground world, and without exception, all extremely rare and precious materials.

Su Nan silently marveled, Amy’s energy particle perception ability was truly unparalleled in the underground world. It could easily find rare materials that were hard to find on the surface.

“How is it, meow?” Amy stared with anticipation, its expression saying ‘hurry and compliment me.’

Su Nan chuckled, “I like the gift, thank you. I’ll give you some Ice-凝 Mint later.”

Amy’s eyes lit up, and its mouth began to water.

Of all the Ice-凝 Mint it had tasted in its life, the ones given by Su Nan were the most delicious.

It was the ultimate delicacy, as if many Ice-凝 Mints were condensed into one, creating the ultimate taste.

A single sniff could keep it satisfied for a whole day!

“Then hurry up, meow, I’ll be waiting for you here!” Amy urged excitedly.

Su Nan smiled and agreed, giving Carolina a look, signaling her to prepare some Ice-凝 Mint.

Carolina glared resentfully at Amy, feeling like she was not as good as a cat.

After synthesizing some Ice-凝 Mint and appeasing Amy, Su Nan went to the Puppet Factory and released the elite double-edged spider.

In several clashes with the Starfire Sect, the elite double-edged spider played a significant role. In terms of combat power, it was not inferior to Yinlong, whose dragon blood concentration had reached 28%.

As his power increased, Su Nan gradually gained access to more and more secrets, and the opponents he encountered became increasingly formidable.

Ordinary puppets like Stone Golems and double-edged spiders were fine against ordinary knights, but against stronger opponents, they didn’t even qualify as cannon fodder.

Even Elite Stone Golems and Steel Golems, first-ring legendary puppets, were starting to struggle.

So, with the future in mind, Su Nan felt the need to create more high-level magic puppet golems.

He had three options.

First was the elite double-edged spider.

The elite double-edged spider had already proven its combat capability.

This nimble puppet was incredibly useful against agile enemies.

Following his instructions before leaving, both Base 1 and Base 2 had accumulated a large amount of tungsten steel, perfect for crafting double-edged spiders.

Su Nan estimated that he had enough to create three to four elite double-edged spiders.@@novelbin@@

The second option was to create higher-level Stone Golems.

Since crafting Steel Golems required micro soul crystals, it was impossible to mass-produce them without a stable supply of micro soul crystals. Therefore, using Steel Golems to synthesize advanced golems was not an option.

They could only settle for synthesizing Stone Golems.

At least Su Nan had a stable supply of gems.

Before coming to幽湖 City, he had visited Base 1 to check on the insect nest.

During his absence, Carolina regularly delivered the collected fission catalyst nutrients to Base 1, where they were fed to the gem worms.

Now, the number of gem worms had increased to eighteen, and their annual gem output had also increased to over six hundred.

Besides that, there were also gems purchased regularly from the Fire Fox Trading Company.

There was no need to worry about a shortage of materials in this aspect.

Moreover, the cost of synthesizing a second-ring legendary Stone Golem was not high, nearly twenty thousand gold coins.

Even with the addition of the magic weapon technology, like the high-level double-edged spider, the cost was only just over twenty thousand gold coins, less than the high-level double-edged spider.

Correspondingly, its combat power was slightly inferior to the high-level double-edged spider, meaning it was more effective in situations where direct frontal assault was required.

The third option was, of course, to create even higher-level golems.

In Awegney’s experimental notes, there was a design for a Mithril Golem.

Mithril Golems were third-ring legendary golems, more powerful than many third-rank wizard apprentices.

Back then, even Rose was helpless against the Mithril Golem and had to seek cooperation with Su Nan before finally resolving the situation.

Even Su Nan, at that time, had to push his Magic Emblem Core to its limit to barely injure the Mithril Golem.

As of today, his strength had increased considerably, but eliminating a Mithril Golem would still require a lot of effort.

If he had fifty or sixty Mithril Golems at his disposal, Su Nan felt that he could walk all over the Starlight Continent.

“But this thing is a pain to craft.”

Even among the various types of golems, the Mithril Golem was considered mid-level in terms of crafting difficulty.

Level 4 [Puppetry Refining] was barely sufficient, and Level 5 was the standard level.

Su Nan opened his panel and took a look.

Due to constantly crafting large quantities of golems, his [Puppetry Refining] progress bar was now close to two-thirds full, only needing three thousand more proficiency points to reach Level 5.

Skill requirements weren’t a problem, they would soon be met.

The real issue was materials.

The primary material for Mithril Golems was magic mithril, a product created by enchanting mithril.

One Mithril Golem required about fourteen to fifteen tons of magic mithril.

Adding other materials like various gems, rare materials, silver, and gold, the total cost was estimated at around fifty thousand gold coins.

“Just in time, I recently got a lot of loot from the Starfire Sect, enough to craft a Mithril Golem.”

Su Nan estimated that if he crafted fourteen or fifteen tons of magic mithril himself, it would take at least one or two years.

But if he put it out as a task and assigned it to the apprentices at Base 1, it should be completed within two to three months.

Crafting magic mithril wasn’t particularly difficult, it was about the same as making magic weapons. There were already quite a few apprentices in the base who could independently complete this task.

Secretly noting this, Su Nan decided to start working on it when he returned to Base 1. He then began crafting double-edged spiders.

It took him half a month to refine all the tungsten steel from both bases into double-edged spiders. Finally, he synthesized four elite double-edged spiders.

Including the one he already had, Su Nan now had five second-ring legendary puppets at his disposal.

But he didn’t stop there, he began experimenting further.

“Double-edged spiders are flexible, but they also have obvious weaknesses, like not being able to fly.”

“They’re fine against legendary knights, but against wizard apprentices who have mastered levitation or possess flying magic items, they become passive targets.”

To eliminate this weakness, Su Nan eventually came up with a solution: permanently casting [Levitation] on the double-edged spiders.

He got this idea from the puppet blueprints.

According to this idea, any puppet could have spells permanently cast on it, thus gaining the ability to cast spells.

But puppets could do this because they were mainly composed of gems and mithril.

Su Nan, of course, wouldn’t waste mithril at this time.

So he settled for a second-best solution, using the method of crafting magic items to give the double-edged spiders casting abilities.

This was equivalent to adding a magic item that stored magic to the double-edged spider.

However, since the double-edged spider had no spiritual power, they needed to use another form of energy to replace spiritual power to activate the magic item and achieve the casting effect.

Su Nan ultimately chose magic stones.

The final product was an elite double-edged spider that gained the ability to fly after using levitation, at the cost of consuming one lower-grade magic stone per hour.

For other wizard apprentices, this was undoubtedly a staggering consumption.

It was clearly extravagant and illogical to spend a large amount of precious magic stones just to give puppets the ability to fly.

But Su Nan had nothing but an abundance of magic stones, he could produce them in large quantities at low cost.

Magic stones were a valuable resource for other wizard apprentices, but to him, they were just a cheap source of energy.

What was actually more expensive was the cost of permanently casting second-ring spells.

Just permanently casting [Levitation] increased the cost by nearly three hundred gold coins.

Considering that they might soon have to deal with Kashamu’s bug swarm, Su Nan added a wide-range damage spell, [Shattering Sound Wave], a spell to increase agility, [Lightness], a spell to strengthen the body, [Resilience], and a spell to enhance strength, [Brute Strength] to the elite double-edged spiders.

Ultimately, the cost of a single elite double-edged spider exceeded twenty-three thousand gold coins.

The total cost of five was over one hundred and eleven thousand gold coins.

And this didn’t include the consumption of magic stones during combat.

“The strength of a third-rank wizard apprentice ranges from first-ring to fourth-ring spells.”

“The combat power of an elite double-edged spider is roughly equivalent to a mid-level third-rank wizard apprentice.”

“One hundred and eleven thousand gold coins in exchange for five third-rank wizard apprentice-level combat powers is also a good deal.”

Su Nan nodded silently.

He planned to synthesize a few more second-ring legendary High-Level Stone Golems as a precaution.

In addition, he needed to create a batch of Extreme Protection Rings and Calamity Rings for self-defense.

Since he had already crafted magic puppets that cost twenty thousand gold coins each, there was no reason to be stingy with a few micro-light level magic items.

Just that, the mining income of幽湖 City for the next few months would have to be poured into this bottomless pit.

It was fortunate that they recently developed three new mines, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to afford his lavish spending.

“Strength is built with money.”

Su Nan couldn’t help but sigh.