Synthesis Wizard

“What’s the detailed military strength of Giant Eye City?”

Su Nan withdrew his gaze from the map and continued to ask.

Cole bowed and said, “Based on the intelligence we’ve gathered so far, we estimate that there are at least a thousand Eye Demons in Giant Eye City, including at least five legendary mutated Eye Demons. There are also at least twenty thousand slaves.”

Eye Demons were best known for using their spiritual power to control other creatures, turning them into their slaves.

For Eye Demons, slaves were expendable, and if they lost some, they would simply control more.

That’s why Eye Demons were notorious for their love of slaughtering slaves.

Over a thousand Eye Demons only controlling twenty thousand slaves, this number was a bit conservative.

Su Nan estimated that there were at least thirty thousand slaves in Giant Eye City.

Of course, the creatures that could be controlled by Eye Demons weren’t very strong, usually races like dog-headed men, lizardmen, and ogres.

After pondering for a moment, Su Nan made a decision and said in a deep voice, “Let Red Widow be the commander, the two of you be her deputies, and lead a small legion of magic puppets to attack Giant Eye City. I’ll give you an extra gold puppet. Conquer Giant Eye City within three months. Is there a problem?”

After the base migrated into Dragonwood, the importance of Base 1 and Base 2 decreased significantly, and Su Nan drastically reduced the garrison strength. The vacated puppets were all incorporated into the Star Alliance.

After that, Su Nan reorganized and restructured the magic puppet legion, mainly dividing it into legion formations.

From lowest to highest, they were squads, platoons, banners, companies, and legions.

The first four formations had puppet numbers ranging from 10 to 500, with the main types being stone puppets and double-bladed puppets.

The difference was that banners also included an elite stone puppet.

Companies included five elite stone puppets and a steel puppet.

As for the highest-level legion, the puppet count started at 5,000 and would definitely have a second-ring legendary puppet.

Legions were divided into small, medium, and large according to puppet quantity and strength.

A small legion included ten companies, with a puppet count of up to 5,000.

Besides the number of elite stone puppets and steel puppets corresponding to the number of companies, it also included two superior stone puppets and an elite double-bladed spider.

Five small legions could be combined into a medium legion.

In addition to numerous first-ring and second-ring legendary puppets, the medium legion would also have an additional gold puppet.

Similarly, five medium legions could be combined into a large legion.

Above the large legion, Su Nan also had an idea for a group army.

However, for now, it was just an idea, because the current Star Alliance was far from being able to form a group army.

In fact, not even a large legion or a medium legion existed.

The current Star Alliance only had two small legions.

It wasn’t that Su Nan didn’t want to form more legions, but that he had limited resources.

The cost of forming a small legion of magic puppets was about 700,000 gold coins.

The puppets that formed the two small legions were what Su Nan had accumulated bit by bit.

In the short term, he couldn’t build a third small legion, let alone medium or large legions.

Setting up higher-level formations was merely for future army expansion.

Sherman and Cole had already learned about the Star Alliance’s recent army formation changes from Artier. They readily agreed.

A small legion of magic puppets, plus a gold puppet, plus Red Widow, a second-ring legendary powerhouse, was more than enough to conquer Giant Eye City.

Su Nan nodded in satisfaction.

“Alright, you’ve both been working hard lately. Take a few days off, get familiar with the new base, and then deal with the matter of sending troops to Giant Eye City.”

“Yes, Master.”

Seeing Su Nan wave his hand, Sherman and Cole respectfully withdrew.

After the two left, Su Nan’s gaze returned to the map.

Within a 300-kilometer radius of the Star Alliance, Giant Eye City was the only real city, and the rest were just tribes, not worth mentioning.

As long as they conquered Giant Eye City, they could freely develop the area within a 300-kilometer radius of the Star Alliance.

With such a large area, finding a few mines shouldn’t be a problem.

As for attacking Giant Eye City, as Su Nan had just decided, he didn’t intend to personally participate, but leave it to his subordinates.

The reason for establishing the Star Alliance was precisely for situations like this.

Giant Eye City would be a trial run. If it went smoothly, they could leave smaller cities to his subordinates.

He only needed to focus on the big picture.

“After conquering Giant Eye City and getting the silver mine they have, I should be able to gather enough mithril to refine the secret puppet.”

Thinking about the prospect of refining a fourth-ring legendary puppet soon, Su Nan’s heart warmed slightly.

Calming his mind, Su Nan turned to another stack of documents.

Those were reports submitted by the six knight academies.

Next year, in the Xia Long Month (June), these six knight academies would also welcome their first graduating class.

With Dragonheart Knight Academy as a precedent, the graduation assessment of the six knight academies would naturally be held in the underworld, and the format wouldn’t differ much.

Su Nan wasn’t concerned about that; Carolina would arrange the graduation assessment.

What he really needed to worry about was the magic emblem armor for a total of 3,000 graduating students, including 2,970 sets of level-1 magic emblem armor and 30 sets of level-2 magic emblem armor.

To make such a large number of magic emblem armor, he could foresee that he would be exceptionally busy for the entire next year.

“Sherman and the others can only manufacture enchanted weapons at most. They haven’t even mastered alchemy-grade magic items, let alone magic emblem armor.”

“I’ll have to do it myself.”

Su Nan sighed and got up to go to the workshop.

Fortunately, the elemental pool had been repaired, and Dragonwood’s operation was gradually getting on track. Besides cultivation and increasing the bloodline density of the Stealthy Dragons, he didn’t have any other major tasks on hand, so he had time to make magic emblem armor.

“My grasp of spell construction is almost complete. My training progress should reach 100% before the second half of next year.”

On a vast, empty plain.

Two figures were running wildly, their speed as fast as flowing light, swifter than the finest warhorses.

Even so, the two running figures kept looking back from time to time, their faces pale with fear, as if a terrifying monster was chasing them.

Only after running for two to three hundred kilometers and seeing no pursuers behind them did the two finally relax a bit and slow down.

They had run such a long distance in a short time. Even though they were both legendary knights, their martial energy and elemental power were both about to run out. They needed to find a place to recover as soon as possible.

They quickly found a hidden cave and sat down cross-legged, closing their eyes to recover their martial energy and elemental power.

But as soon as they closed their eyes, they realized something was wrong. They opened their eyes simultaneously and were horrified to find that they were back on the same plain.

“What’s going on?” The tall knight’s face turned pale.

The other knight, a white-haired old man, looked around, his face full of disbelief.

“This is where we started!”

The tall knight looked around and indeed found traces of battle nearby. They were very familiar and were clearly the traces of their battle with the enemy a while ago.

The tall knight’s face instantly turned bloodless.

They had been running in circles the whole time. They hadn’t run far at all.

As a member of the Holy Fist, he naturally knew why.

Illusion!

They had both been caught in the enemy’s illusion!

Whew!

A slight breeze suddenly blew by.

The tall knight and the old knight felt something and looked towards the left front. They saw that a woman had appeared on the originally empty plain.

She was a slender, tall woman wearing a long gray robe.

Her skin was fair, her hair was smooth and silky, and her whole being exuded an elegant air of a noble maiden.

Looking at her figure alone, most men would be tempted.

—Until they saw her face.

Her face had no other features besides a pair of bright blue eyes.

Droplets of water danced around her, with faint blue wind swirls appearing from time to time.

“Ilora!”

The tall knight gritted his teeth and spat out a name, his expression a mix of hatred, fear, and apprehension.

They had thought they had escaped from this woman, but they had fallen for the illusion and had been running in circles the whole time.

“You two have worked hard.” Ilora bowed slightly to them, her movements graceful.

The beautiful etiquette, performed at this moment, had a strong sense of mockery.

The two legendary knights’ faces instantly turned ugly.

“Haha, that’s really pathetic!”

Another voice rang out.

More than ten meters away, a spark of fire appeared out of thin air, quickly expanding into a humanoid figure of flames. A male face was faintly outlined in the area where his face should be.

His mouth opened and closed. As he spoke, sparks flew out, leaving tiny scorches on the ground.

“Two ridiculous fools. You were busy for so long before you realized you’d been tricked. I almost laughed myself to death watching you.”

He turned to Ilora and sneered, “In my opinion, you’re too cautious. Just kill them directly. Why waste their strength?”

Ilora didn’t show any anger. The gentle wind swirling around her spun slightly, and a melodious female voice came from it.

“These two are still second-ring legendary knights. If we fought them head-on, it would take a lot of effort to kill them. It’s better to do it like this.”

Seeing the two chatting nonchalantly, completely treating them as caged animals, the tall knight and the old knight were furious.

But then they realized in despair that they really couldn’t defeat these two.

A third-rank mage apprentice was already a headache.

Let alone two!

Moreover, these two were among the strongest third-rank mage apprentices!

“You Everlasting Ones are too much! Do you really think we, the Holy Fist, are toys for you to play with?” the tall knight gritted his teeth and said.

“What else?”

The flame humanoid sneered, his lips curving upwards in a mocking smile.

“A bunch of legendary knights. You dare to meddle in wizard matters. I don’t know if you should be called audacious or ignorant.”

“If you’re smart, hand over the keys to Ivence and Starlight Tower. I can give you a quick death!”

The tall knight snorted coldly, “Don’t tell me you don’t know. Even if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you. Anyone who believes in the Everlasting Ones’ credibility is a real fool!”

The flame humanoid didn’t get angry when he heard this. Instead, he laughed loudly.

“That’s right. You’re finally getting smart.”

“Then there’s no need for nonsense. After I kill you two, I’ll extract your souls and torture them slowly!”

The moment his last word fell, the flame humanoid suddenly exploded, turning into countless waves of flames, sweeping forward like a flood, crashing towards the two knights.

The tall knight and the old knight looked at each other, giving a bitter smile at the same time. Then, their expressions quickly returned to a firm resolve. They didn’t retreat but instead advanced, fearlessly confronting the oncoming waves of flames.

They both knew that they had no chance of survival today. They simply gave up trying to escape and decided to fight to the death.

Bang!

A deafening roar reverberated through the sky above the plain.

The dazzling light of flames intertwined with the radiant light of martial energy.

The battle lasted only a dozen breaths.

The two knights, already exhausted, were no match for the Everlasting Ones’ mage apprentices. Ilora didn’t even need to intervene. The fire mage apprentice easily dealt with them.

“Worthless fools!”

The waves of flames receded, reforming into a flame humanoid.

He opened his mouth and took a breath. Two hazy figures struggled to escape from the two charred corpses, uncontrollably entering his mouth.

“They probably don’t know much.” Ilora finally spoke.

Ashes scoffed, “It doesn’t matter. Kill all the Holy Fist members, and Ivence will have nowhere to hide. We’ll find him sooner or later.”

“But that Hunter guy, he’s very close to Ivence. If he helps Ivence escape, it will cost us a lot of unnecessary effort.”

Ilora remained silent for a while, acknowledging Ashes’ words.

A mage apprentice who could escape from Saulo’s grasp was enough to make them look up to him.

At that moment, both of them suddenly felt something and looked to the side.

They saw a figure slowly emerging from the void—Saulo.

Saulo glanced at the charred corpses on the ground and said in a deep voice, “Any收获 (harvest)?”

“We’ll know after we torture them.” Ashes sneered, “But don’t get your hopes up. These two probably don’t know Ivence’s whereabouts.”

Ilora asked, “How about the stone scorpion side?”

“The same.” Saulo said calmly, “The Holy Fist’s secrecy is excellent.”

“What do we do next?”

“Continue. Eradicate the Holy Fist and force Ivence to show himself.”

Ashes chuckled, licking his lips. “I like this direct approach. I heard the Holy Fist’s leader is very strong. Leave that guy to me. I can’t wait to taste his soul.”

“Suit yourself.”

After throwing out a sentence, Saulo’s figure slowly vanished into the distance.

A gust of wind swept past, and Ilora also disappeared.

“Two boring fools.”

Ashes scoffed, turned into flames, and soared into the sky.

Next was torture and extracting souls, a time to savor the beauty of torment and pain.