Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 156: Dragon Antelope Ranch, Bloodline and True Spirit

Starlight Calendar 1258, Spring Dawn Moon (March).

The Dragon Bone Tower was finally repaired.

Su Nan immediately began the base relocation work.

Mainly the No. 1 base.

The facilities in the No. 1 base were basically all in the Dragon Bone Tower, and they were more comprehensive and complete.

Facilities like the Insect Nest that were not there could be solved by selecting a room and modifying it.

The overall relocation work went smoothly.

From now on, the apprentices’ daily living, cultivation, and learning would all be conducted within the Dragon Forest.

Su Nan stood in front of the control center, staring intently at the three-dimensional model.

[Ecological Garden: Dragon Forest]

[Level: Large (Damage Degree 48.23%)]

[Current Remaining Energy: 95.23%]

[Intelligent Auxiliary Life: Steward No. 1]

[Area: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3]

[Facilities (Dragon Bone Tower): Living Area, Warehouse Area, Experiment Area, Cultivation Area, Workshop Area, Transformation Area Control Center, Element Pool (Miniature), Insect Nest]

[Servants: Clay Golem × 423, Flower Spirit × 52, Forest Child × 3, Red-Eyed Raven × 67, Grieg Spirit × 1]

[Protective Device: Large Space Barrier]

[Combat Device: Golem Legion (Stone Golem × 426, Double-Blade Spider × 85, Elite Stone Golem × 20, Iron Golem × 5)]

Looking at the data marked next to the three-dimensional model, Su Nan nodded in satisfaction.

After half a month of charging, the energy in the Element Pool was almost full.

The recovery of Zone 2 had also begun.

Although it was just a beginning, with the help of the Clay Golems and Flower Spirits he brought from the No. 1 base, the recovery speed should be much faster in the future.

“If Zone 1 maintains its optimal operating state, it will consume 35.12% of the energy cycle.”

“After Zone 2 is restored, it only needs to maintain the lowest operating state before the introduction of new dragons, consuming 53.66% of the energy cycle.”

“Combined, that’s 88.78%.”

Almost 90% of the energy ratio!

If you add the minimum energy required to maintain the operation of Zone 3, which is 3.06%, it will already exceed 90%.

This 3.06% refers to the minimum energy cycle consumed to maintain the operation of Zone 3, mainly the daily operation of various facilities in the Dragon Bone Tower, including providing lighting, experiments, transformations, and other regular applications.

In addition to this, the energy cycle consumption depends on the wizards’ (apprentices’) experimental energy consumption and the energy consumed in making potions, magical items, and puppets.

This aspect can be said to have no upper limit.

Su Nan queried the past energy consumption records through Steward No. 1.

In the Dragon Forest a thousand years ago, during the peak period of energy consumption in the Dragon Bone Tower, it once occupied 47.23% of the energy cycle!

It almost caused the energy cycle of Zone 1 and Zone 2 to collapse.

“Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that for now.”

Su Nan muttered to himself.

Currently, the base only has him, a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice, and there are not even a few Second-Rank Wizard Apprentices.

The energy consumed in experiments and production could at most occupy 10% of the energy cycle.

Plus, Zone 2 hasn’t been put into full use yet, so there’s no need to worry about insufficient energy cycle.

“The number of troops has also increased significantly.”

The original Dragon Forest only had over 100 Stone Golems, but with the arrival of the base’s garrison forces, the total number of Golems has now surpassed 500.

However, the increase in troop strength is not of much use.

The Dragon Forest is a semi-dimensional space, semi-isolated from the material world. Except for the teleportation channel in Su Nan’s hands, no one else can enter.

Unless it’s a wizard with enough power to tear apart the space barrier and possessing the spatial coordinates of the Dragon Forest.

However, such a person simply doesn’t exist in the current Starlight Continent.

So, there’s basically no need to worry about external enemies attacking the Dragon Forest.

Perhaps because of this, the original builders didn’t build any combat devices to defend against external enemies, only stationing a small number of Golems.

These Golems are probably used to capture the sub-dragons in the Dragon Forest.

Therefore, Su Nan transferred the higher-level Stone Golems and Elite Double-Blade Spiders from the No. 1 base to the Star Alliance.

Now, the No. 1 base is basically just an empty shell, with nothing left except the Magic Plant Garden.

Of course, Su Nan doesn’t intend to abandon the No. 1 base.

It will serve as a transfer station for material transport between the Dragon Forest and the surface world.

The same goes for the No. 2 base.

With the teleportation array in the Dragon Forest, Su Nan can now quickly travel between the surface and the underground world, eliminating the need to build another No. 2 base.

The facilities in the No. 2 base have been moved into the Dragon Forest, leaving only the Magic Plant Garden and a spatial channel leading to the Dragon Forest, which will serve as a transfer station for future material transport between the Dragon Forest and the underground world.

“With only one base, I won’t have to run back and forth anymore, and many things will be much more convenient.”

Su Nan smiled with a relaxed expression.

“I also don’t need to open up more Magic Plant Gardens in the future. Separating a section from Zone 2 will be enough to plant magic plants.”

The Dragon Forest is different from the outside. Here, as long as the energy supply is continuous, the concentration of energy particles can be maintained at a high level, sufficient for the growth of magic plants.

Just by carving out a piece of land in Zone 2, its area would be equivalent to more than ten Magic Plant Gardens outside.

“The matter of taming sub-dragons should also be put on the agenda.”

Su Nan stretched out his hand and touched the void. A picture suddenly appeared in front of him.

The picture showed steep cliffs filled with caves, where creatures with shiny golden scales, resembling a combination of dragons and antelopes, flew in and out of the caves.

Dragon antelopes, a powerful and elegant sub-dragon species.

A thousand years ago, they were tamed as mounts by many legendary knights.

They are very simple sub-dragons, loyal to their masters, and extremely powerful in combat.

An adult Dragon Antelope has the strength of a First-Ring Legendary-level, and will gradually become stronger with age, reaching the highest level of Third-Ring Legendary.

When Su Nan discovered numerous sub-dragons within the Dragon Forest, he had already formed the idea of building a dragon rider army.

After days of selection, he finally chose the Dragon Antelopes.

Apart from their loyalty and powerful combat strength, Dragon Antelopes prefer to live in deep caves far away from civilization, with a natural strong adaptability to dark environments.

This means they can maintain their combat strength even in the dark and humid environment of the underground world.

A Dragon Antelope rider army, just thinking about it is exciting!

However, taming sub-dragons is a very time-consuming and laborious task.

Adult Dragon Antelopes are basically untamable, so taming must begin with the young.

Sub-dragons inherit some of the characteristics of dragons, including their extremely slow growth rate.

Even with some growth-catalyzing methods, it takes at least ten years to raise a young Dragon Antelope to adulthood.

“The Knight Guard is still too weak. There aren’t even any Great Knights. They still need time to grow.”

“Starting to tame Dragon Antelopes now, in ten years, when the Knight Guard has reached a sufficient strength, they can be paired with the Dragon Antelopes.”

After some thought, Su Nan already had a complete plan in mind. He reached out and drew a line on the three-dimensional model, separating an area that would serve as the future Dragon Antelope breeding ground.

“Let’s call it the Dragon Antelope Ranch.”

After dividing the area, Steward No. 1 will naturally arrange for the Clay Golems to handle the specifics.

Su Nan then went to the main laboratory in the Transformation Area, which is the large laboratory exclusively for him.

Hidden Dragon was already waiting in the laboratory. Seeing Su Nan arrive, it crawled forward and rubbed its head affectionately against his chest.

“You waited long.” Su Nan smiled and patted Hidden Dragon’s head.

With an abundance of high-level sub-dragon blood, Hidden Dragon’s bloodline had been rapidly advancing.

Now, its bloodline concentration had broken through the 50% mark, and its combat strength had also broken through to Third-Ring Legendary.

With the improvement of bloodline and strength, Hidden Dragon’s size has also become larger.

Its head-to-tail length has exceeded thirty meters, and even when lying down, its height is close to four meters.

If it didn’t have the ability to dematerialize, Hidden Dragon’s movement within the Dragon Bone Tower would be severely limited.

“In the Dragon Forest, the sub-dragon with the highest bloodline concentration is the Magic Tyrant Dragon, at 85.37%.”

“Once it exceeds this threshold, the speed of Hidden Dragon’s bloodline enhancement will slow down significantly.”

“After reaching 90%, it should be able to break through to Fourth-Ring Legendary.”

Su Nan pondered, but his actions were not slow. He expertly completed the bloodline fusion surgery for Hidden Dragon.

Now, Hidden Dragon needs to undergo an average of three surgeries per month, with time between surgeries used to digest bloodline power.

The high-frequency bloodline fusion surgery has brought a lot of proficiency to Su Nan’s [Biological Transformation] skill.

Su Nan estimates that the [Biological Transformation] skill should reach Level 4 in another two or three months.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the Flowing Fire Moon (July).

Just after the first ten days of the month, Su Nan successfully constructed his sixteenth Star Ring.

[Su Nan · Arneste, Human Male]

[Spirit 50.93 / Physique 45.88]

[Skills]

Star Ring Meditation Method Lv17 (130/5000000)

Potion Making Lv4 (8635/10000)

Biological Transformation Lv4 (529/10000)

Puppetry Refining Lv5 (1023/20000)

Magical Item Crafting Lv4 (5477/10000)

“Two more Star Rings to go.”

Su Nan exhaled happily.

The proficiency he gained each day practicing Star Ring Meditation Method had increased to around 4800 points with the growth of his spirit power.

At this rate, it would take about two and a half years to construct the seventeenth Star Ring.

“I should be able to construct the remaining two Star Rings within eight years.”

“By then, even if my spirit power hasn’t reached 60, it should be close.”

With the pure divine energy provided by the Death Knell Beetle, Su Nan’s current spirit power growth is much faster than before.

“Physique, however, needs to be improved.”

Just last month, Su Nan gathered enough materials to craft a Magic Emblem Core, successfully crafting his fourth Magic Emblem Core.

However, the problem now is that his spirit and physique are not enough to handle a Level 4 Magic Emblem Core, so he hasn’t fused it yet.

Fusion of a Level 4 Magic Emblem Core requires 51.22 spirit and 54.39 physique.

In terms of spirit, Su Nan estimates that he should be able to meet the requirements after absorbing divine energy twice more.

Although he is lagging behind in physique, with Dragon Blood Fruit, it’s easy to improve.

After all, his current 45.88 physique is about the level of a mid-level Great Knight, still far from a Legendary Knight.

“Without bloodline fusion, physique improvement is still slow.”

Even so, if Su Nan had a choice, he would rather chew on Dragon Blood Fruit and slowly strengthen his body than casually fuse with a bloodline.

While bloodline fusion can instantly enhance strength, the price is that future growth potential will be significantly narrowed.

Take the Death Knell Behemoth for example. Once you fuse with its bloodline, no matter how much you increase your strength in the future, it’s difficult to exceed the power level of the original bloodline, which is the ancient beast, the S嘶駭异虫 (Si Hai Yi Chong).

Because of this drawback of bloodline fusion, the advancement path of wizards after that is divided into two branches: bloodline and true spirit.

Su Nan’s goal has always been the true spirit path.

Only True Spirit Wizards can advance to the highest level.

“The substitute metal for the Magic Emblem Core is almost finished.”

Among the eighty-nine substitute metals required for the Magic Emblem Core, besides the twenty that can be purchased with gold coins, Su Nan has already researched sixty-seven of the remaining sixty-nine, leaving only two.

It will take at most one or two months to complete.

After that, as long as his spirit and physique keep up, he can infinitely enhance the Magic Emblem Core.

Late at night, the Mysterious Wooden Hut.

Moonlight shone through the windows, illuminating the interior.

There were eight people sitting around a large table.

Except for the Hunter, all other members of the Mysterious Wooden Hut were present, a rare occurrence.

Unexpectedly, the Traveler was also there.

“This is unusual. I didn’t expect you to be here.” The Scepter looked at the Traveler in surprise.

“I thought you died in some forgotten corner.” The Wraith’s words carried a hint of malice.

Ignoring the Wraith’s words, the Traveler shrugged at the Scepter and said, “I ran into some trouble before, but thanks to the Player, it was resolved. I will actively participate in the gatherings from now on.”

Everyone looked at Su Nan in surprise, not expecting the two of them to encounter each other outside the Mysterious Wooden Hut.

“By the way, where is the other new member?” The Traveler looked around curiously, finally frowning in disappointment. “He’s not here?”

“That’s obvious.” Black Forest said nonchalantly. “He’s probably held up by something.”

In the Mysterious Wooden Hut, this was considered normal, and everyone was unconcerned. They entered the trading process as usual.

When it was the Traveler’s turn, he looked at the Scepter and said earnestly, “Scepter, I want the key to the Starlight Tower. It’s very important to me. If you’re willing, please name your price and trade it to me!”

The Scepter was startled, then shook his head. “Sorry, the key to the Starlight Tower is also very important to me, I don’t intend to trade it.”

“Don’t waste your time, Traveler.” Black Forest said bluntly. “If the Scepter were willing to trade, I would have already snatched it. How could it be your turn?”

The last time the Hunter participated in the gathering, only Black Forest and the Traveler were absent.

Later, they learned that the Hunter brought the key to the Starlight Tower in that gathering, and Black Forest couldn’t help but regret it. He proposed trading with the Scepter in subsequent gatherings, but was rejected without hesitation.

Hearing this, the Traveler sighed in disappointment but didn’t press further. He placed several bottles of sub-dragon blood on the table.

“Whoever wants it, name your price.”

Everyone looked at Su Nan without exception.

Whenever sub-dragon blood appeared in previous gatherings, it would always be bid for by Su Nan.

Over time, they knew that Su Nan was determined to get sub-dragon blood, so they stopped competing with him.

But to everyone’s astonishment, Su Nan shook his head this time.

“I don’t need it.”

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Only the Traveler knew that Su Nan, who had an entire ecological garden in his hands, didn’t need sub-dragon blood at all.