Synthesis Wizard

In the brightly lit laboratory, Su Nan looked at the wing sculpture in front of him, his expression a mixture of strangeness. Having once come into contact with divine remains and the Starfire Sect’s holy relics, he instantly perceived the power of faith contained within the sculpture.

Although very thin, not even one percent of the divine remains he had encountered before, it was indeed genuine power of faith.

“This should be some kind of divine creature.” Su Nan mused.

The current environment of Starlight Continent was impossible for the birth of new deities.

The ancient deities all existed for at least ten thousand years, and he knew them all.

The sculpture in front of him, however, didn’t belong to any of them.

Therefore, it could only be some kind of divine creature.

Every moment in the multiverse, new divine creatures were born, most of which didn’t belong to a specific race. They were entirely new races themselves, so it was normal to encounter a divine creature he didn’t recognize.

“I just don’t know if this divine creature originated from Starlight Continent or crossed over from another plane.”

After all, in the current environment of Starlight Continent, no divine creature would be foolish enough to come here voluntarily.

A divine creature capable of interplanar travel had already surpassed the life level of a wizard apprentice. Entering the current Starlight Continent would be like a human entering a thin atmosphere. Every extra moment spent here would bring more pain.

“But the believers were all wiped out. Why didn’t the divine creature appear?”

“Or perhaps it simply doesn’t care about those Eye Demon believers.”

This possibility wasn’t out of the question.

If it were a naturally born divine creature, the power of faith would be harmful to it, not beneficial. Naturally, it wouldn’t need believers.

Perhaps the Eye Demons of Giant Eye City merely believed in the divine creature out of their own initiative.

Regardless, finding a clue to a divine creature near the Star Alliance was something that couldn’t be taken lightly. He had to find its whereabouts.

This added another task to the exploration team’s mission.

Snapping out of his thoughts, Su Nan took out the divine remains finger and tried to extract the power of faith from the sculpture and introduce it into the divine remains finger, but he failed.

After all, it wasn’t power of faith aimed at the divine remains. The two were completely incompatible.

With no other choice, Su Nan could only let the power of faith slowly dissipate.

The power of faith, which couldn’t be transformed into divine energy, was useless to him.

Fortunately, this bit of power of faith was too thin. Even if it were transformed into divine energy, it would probably only increase his spiritual power by 0.02 to 0.03 at most, so he wasn’t particularly bothered.

Putting away the sculpture, Su Nan went to his study.

Carolaine and Red Widow were already waiting for him.

“Master.” The two women bowed together.

“You both did well this time.”

Sitting down behind the desk, Su Nan praised Red Widow.

“This is my duty, Master.”

Red Widow smiled sweetly, her beautiful eyes shimmering, and she subtly glanced at Carolaine next to her.

Carolaine pouted and snorted softly.

Su Nan turned to Carolaine and asked, “The graduation examination of the six knight academies will be in two months. How are your preparations going?”

Carolaine immediately replied, “Preparations are complete, Master.”

Su Nan nodded slightly. “After the graduation examination, all the students will join the Knight Guard and form new exploration teams with the new second-rank sorcerer apprentices. You two will take care of the arrangements. The Star Alliance’s expansion must accelerate.”

After Xieman and Kore, Artier, Ethan, and several others had successively advanced to second-rank sorcerer apprentices.

Now, the total number of students at the base had exceeded 300, reaching 303.

There were a total of six second-rank sorcerer apprentices.

In the future, this number would increase at an even faster rate.

Su Nan had originally planned to build a third small magic puppet legion, but he had been busy making magic rune constructs recently, and didn’t have time to refine puppets.

In addition, magic rune constructs were expensive, and most of the Star Alliance’s current income was invested in them. There wasn’t enough cash flow to build a new magic puppet legion for the time being.

The only solace was that the newly added 3,000 knights, equipped with magic rune constructs and enchanted weapons, were comparable in combat strength to a small magic puppet legion. They had achieved the goal of expanding their military strength.

“After the graduation examination, the Knight Guard will have 3,500 people. The number will continue to increase every year. Calling it the Knight Guard is no longer appropriate. Let’s change its name to the Magic Rune Knight Order.”

Su Nan made the final decision.

From now on, the Magic Rune Knight Order would become one of the most important armed forces of the Star Alliance.

Starlight Calendar 1259, Summer Long Month.

The six knight academies – Dragon Scale, Dragon Horn, Dragon Claw, Dragon Eye, Dragon Bone, and Dragon Blood – welcomed their first graduating class.

On the third day of the month, 3,000 knight students gathered on the island of Youhu City, ready to face their graduation examination.

“This year’s scale is much larger than last year!”

Looking at the sea of heads on the island, Rug couldn’t help but exclaim.

Solano chuckled, “After all, there are six knight academies this year.”

Seen looked at the students, whose expressions were a mixture of excitement and apprehension. He couldn’t help but smile.

“Once the examination is over, our Knight Guard, ah, I guess we should call it the Magic Rune Knight Order now, will increase sixfold.”

“You should be called captain now.” Rug grinned. “The larger the size of the Magic Rune Knight Order, the higher Captain Seen’s status in the Star Alliance. It’s even comparable to a sorcerer apprentice.”

Seen shook his head with a smile.

He didn’t care much about the size of his power, but he felt a heavy sense of responsibility.

Lord Su Nan had appointed him as captain of the Magic Rune Knight Order, entrusting him with the management of thousands of people. He had to live up to this trust.

“Enough idle chatter, let’s get to work.”

Seen took a deep breath and said seriously, “From this year on, the graduation examinations of every graduating class will be handled by our Magic Rune Knight Order. This graduation examination is our first time hosting it. We must not make any mistakes.”

Rug and Solano suppressed their smiles and replied solemnly.

Throughout the entire Summer Long Month, the Star Alliance was immersed in busyness.

Time flew by, and it was the time for the Fire Flow Month.

In the magic training room, Su Nan stood motionless in the center of the spacious area.

With a slight movement of his mind, ten magic missiles appeared out of thin air, quickly transforming into spear-like projectiles, each a foot long, dispersing and whistling out, drawing strange trajectories in the void. They finally converged at a point, simultaneously piercing the humanoid target a hundred meters away.

“The attack power has increased by about 30-40%.”

Su Nan nodded with satisfaction.

After nearly two years, the magic construction training progress had finally reached 100%.

This difficulty was second only to the super magic techniques of compound casting and spellcasting, and its power didn’t disappoint him.

While it only increased the effect by 30-40%, the accumulation of damage output in a battle was enough to skyrocket. The improvement to combat ability was immediate.

The key was that magic construction could greatly enhance the flexibility of magic.

For example, controlling the flight trajectory of magic missiles.

Or changing the shape of a shield spell from a limited-area tower shield to a 360-degree, no-dead-angle protective shield.

Wizards (apprentices) who mastered magic construction often gave their enemies many unexpected ‘surprises’ in battle.

“Which super magic technique should I continue to train next?”

The only super magic techniques that Su Nan hadn’t mastered were spell extension, which increased the casting distance; spell duration, which extended the duration of spells; and spell expansion, which increased the range of spell influence.

In fact, the practicality of these three super magic techniques was not much different. It didn’t matter which one he chose.

And the difficulty was much lower than the previous few super magic techniques.

With his current spiritual power, he could probably master it within a year at most.

Therefore, Su Nan didn’t hesitate too long and decisively chose spell duration.

【Complete a spell duration practice, ‘Spell Duration’ training progress +0.02%】

After practicing for a while, Su Nan left the magic training area.

He had important things to do today and couldn’t waste his spiritual power on practice.

After conquering Giant Eye City, Su Nan immediately arranged for people to develop the silver vein that Giant Eye City had controlled.

During this time, he had continuously obtained a considerable amount of mithril. Coupled with what he had accumulated previously and what he had obtained from the Eye Demon warehouse, he finally had enough mithril to refine a secret puppet.

He could finally refine the secret puppet.

Entering Dragon Forest, Su Nan teleported directly to the workshop area and entered his own dedicated large workshop.

With the element pool providing endless energy, he installed three magic crystal forging furnaces in the workshop, greatly improving his work efficiency.

Turning on the magic crystal forging furnaces, Su Nan went to the workbench and took out materials from his space ring, placing them on the table. Taking a deep breath, his expression instantly became incredibly focused, and he buried himself in his work.

Years of extensive puppet refining had given him an extraordinary amount of experience.

His 【Puppet Refining】 skill had also reached level 5.

In terms of puppet refining skills, Su Nan was confident that he was no worse than some official wizards, and he far surpassed wizard apprentices.

Whether it was now or in the past, no wizard apprentice had ever had such exquisite puppet refining skills.

Secret puppet refining was difficult, but it was only a bit more troublesome for him. It wasn’t at all difficult.

When he was focused on refining, time flew by quickly.

Only in the evening did Su Nan deactivate the Master’s Hand, taking a long breath and looking at the result on the workbench with excitement.

It was a humanoid metallic figure, the same size as a real person, emitting a slightly blue silver sheen in the light.

It looked like a muscular warrior, with bulging muscles all over its body, its eyes closed tightly.

Except for its body color being clearly different from a normal human, it looked no different from a real person.

Su Nan moved his mind, and the secret puppet suddenly opened its eyes. It moved swiftly and flexibly, bouncing off the workbench like a cannonball, flipping over in mid-air and landing steadily.

At the same time, a section of its palm suddenly protruded, quickly transforming into a shimmering knight’s longsword, and it stabbed fiercely into the void, creating a harsh whistling sound.

“Good.”

Su Nan nodded with satisfaction.

One of the main materials of the secret puppet was diamond. Its body strength was much harder than that of a mithril magic puppet. Its strength and reaction speed were also excellent. Its close-combat capabilities were exceptionally good.

Of course, what was even more remarkable was its casting ability.

Mithril itself was a material with excellent ductility and magic conductivity. In addition, many high-level rune gems were added to the secret puppet’s body, so it also had the ability to manipulate energy particles.

Apart from that, Su Nan had permanently set many zero-ring, one-ring, and two-ring spells in the secret puppet’s body, making it effectively possess the ability to cast spells.

The key was that it cast spells like activating a storage spell item. It didn’t need to chant spells. There was only a barely perceptible pause, almost like mastering spellcasting.

As long as its energy wasn’t depleted, it could continuously cast spells.

From this point of view, the secret puppet’s casting ability completely outclassed most third-rank sorcerer apprentices.

The final secret puppet, although not as powerful as an official wizard, was already much stronger than a typical third-rank sorcerer apprentice.

After testing it in the magic training area, Su Nan was satisfied and determined that the secret puppet already possessed the power comparable to a fourth-ring legend.

Even he, without using his magic rune core and numerous magic items, wouldn’t be able to defeat the secret puppet.

If he wanted to kill the secret puppet, he would have to use his high-level rune gems, bloodline marks, and other trump cards.

The secret puppet’s strength was evident.

“Against the third-rank sorcerer apprentices like Magic Hand and Bloody Mouth, the secret puppet should be able to easily win.”

Su Nan looked at the secret puppet in front of him, its outline clear, as if a real person. With a movement of his mind, the secret puppet in front of him melted quickly like hot butter, and in the next instant, it transformed into a thin and delicate, silver-haired and beautiful girl.

Its skin also lost its color and became as smooth as milk.

The secret puppet had no concept of gender, nor a fixed form. It could change its shape and appearance at will, and it could easily impersonate a living person.

Even a third-rank sorcerer apprentice wouldn’t be able to distinguish it without careful inspection.

After a moment of delight, Su Nan calmed down, his eyes filled with thought.

The cost of refining the secret puppet was higher than he had originally anticipated.

In order to enhance the secret puppet’s combat strength, he had permanently set more spells and added many enchantment features, causing the cost to skyrocket to 100,000 gold coins.

In the few months since the magic rune constructs were completed, the accumulated cash flow was almost completely consumed.

If it hadn’t been for the large chunk of mithril that he had already accumulated, he wouldn’t have been able to afford to refine the secret puppet for the time being.

“It took so long to accumulate 16 kilograms of mithril. I won’t be able to accumulate enough materials to refine a second secret puppet in the short term.”

Having said that, Su Nan didn’t mind.

As long as he successfully refined the secret puppet and proved that his idea was feasible, that would be enough.

He could always accumulate more over the next few years.

“The next step is to continue improving the secret puppet.”

Su Nan’s eyes shone brightly.

Compared to ordinary puppets, the secret puppet, whose structure was closer to that of a human, had much more room for growth than ordinary puppets.

The successful refining of the secret puppet was only the first step. There were many other ideas that could be researched and verified.

For example, fusing a magic rune core or bloodline mark onto the secret puppet.

If it were successful, the secret puppet’s combat strength would surely increase exponentially.

When he refined four or five secret puppets, and then combined them, maybe he could create a powerful puppet comparable to an official wizard!

At the thought of this, Su Nan couldn’t help but feel excited.