Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 114 New Territory, Base No. 2 Completed

After the battle, Sunan counted the golems.

Because the raid went so smoothly, the Golem Legion did not suffer heavy losses.

Those that were completely damaged beyond repair included an iron golem, three elite stone golems, three hundred and twenty-five stone golems, and four double-blade spiders.

The remaining golems and double-blade spiders were all injured to varying degrees, but the minor injuries could be repaired by themselves, while the serious injuries could be repaired by returning to the base, so it was nothing to worry about.

In fact, if the Sphinx had not taken the initiative to go out of the city to assemble, under normal raid conditions, the losses of the Golem puppets would have at least doubled.

It’s considered good now.

He put the golems that needed repair into the Rubik's Cube, and left the rest to guard the island. Sunan then took Carolina to the city.

The war is over, and the next natural thing is to patrol one's own territory.

This is also the first territory that truly belongs to Southern Jiangsu.

Compared to the last time when he had to sneak in stealthily, this time he walked in openly through the city gate and could leisurely observe the buildings in the city.

However, most of the buildings in the downtown area are low and simple, and there is nothing interesting to see.

It was not until we entered the upper town that the buildings on both sides of the street began to become neat and tidy, with a touch of artistic style - the practical rather than aesthetic style that can be seen everywhere in the underground world.

The city-state residents along the way saw Carolina following a human respectfully, and their eyes widened in surprise.

But no one dared to step forward and ask questions.

Sunan glanced at Carolina. It seemed that the Sphinx nobles had a high prestige here.

Ignoring these people, he walked straight towards the stone pillar in the center.

After entering the stone pillar, Sunan discovered that the environment here was much more luxurious than outside, and there were an exaggerated number of rooms.

Living room, dining room, living room, bathroom, kitchen, public lounge area, meeting room and so on are all available.

Such a big place, but only three nobles and the slaves who served them lived there.

It has to be said that the life of the Sphinx nobles is much more luxurious than that of most human nobles.

"These rooms can be converted into laboratories and pharmacy rooms."

Su Nan pondered secretly.

The space inside the stone pillar is very spacious and can be transformed into another base.

He would definitely stay in the underground world more often in the future, and it would undoubtedly be more convenient to have a place for him to study and practice.

It would be better to build another magic garden, workshop and puppet factory here.

After walking around, Sunan already had a rough plan in mind, and then asked without turning back: "Where is the warehouse?"

"In the basement," Carolina replied.

"lead the way."

Under Carolina's guidance, Sunan soon arrived at a warehouse.

What came into view were mountains of gold coins, boxes of gems, and various metals.

"Sir, this is the inventory of the warehouse."

Carolina handed over a list.

In the short time after entering the city, this lion-faced nobleman quickly adjusted his mentality, faced up to his slave status, and began to actively please Sunan.

After taking a deep look at Carolina, Sunan took the list and looked through it carefully.

From Carolina, he already knew that this city-state was called Youhu.

Because there are many dwarves living there, the mining and smelting skills in Youhu are quite advanced.

They mine from the surrounding mineral veins all year round and trade food and various necessities with other city-states.

They can also smelt metals and mint gold coins by themselves.

These gold coins in the warehouse were minted by Youhu himself. The front side has the image of a half-human, half-snake nobleman with a human face and a sphinx, and the back side has two crossed scimitars, which is very much in the style of a sphinx.

Because of its abundant gold content, Youhu's gold coins are quite popular in the surrounding city-states.

However, if these gold coins are to be used on the surface, they must all be melted down and remade.

Su Nan picked up a gold coin and weighed it, and he immediately had an idea in his mind.

The gold coins here are worth about 50,000 gold coins if converted into gold coins on the surface.

This is undoubtedly a considerable amount.
In addition, there are 236 medium and low-grade gems, five high-grade gems, and hundreds of rare metals.

What surprised Sunan was that there happened to be rare metals such as Abyss Black Copper, Rainbow Iron and Sunfire Gold Sand.

Sunan estimated the amount and, adding it to what he had on hand, it was enough to make special nutrients that would allow all eight gem worms to split once.

"It is indeed easier to collect various rare metals in the underground world."

Sunan sighed secretly.

In addition, there are twelve miniature soul crystals on the list.

This was beyond his expectation.

From what I remember, the Sphinxes don't seem to be a race that is good at extracting souls and making crystals.

"Where do these soul crystals come from?" Su Nan asked

Carolina said, "It was traded with Orson. The Black Duke and his men are very good at making soul crystals."

"Black Duke?" Su Nan raised his eyebrows, "Tell me in detail."

Carolina quickly explained.

After listening to her story, Sunan finally had a general understanding of the surrounding conditions of the area where Youhu Lake was located.

There are three city-states around Youhu Lake, namely Orsen, Matu and Kasham.

The rulers of Orson are a group of zombies, and the city lord is called the Black Duke, a frost zombie.

The rulers of Matu are a group of vampires, and the city lord is called the Red Widow.

As for Kasham, it is more like an insect nest than a city-state.

There are nothing but bugs there. There are no other races at all. If there are any, they only exist as food reserves.

In general, the three city-states of Youhu, Orsen and Matu have trade relations with each other, and occasionally conflicts break out over resource allocation issues, but when facing Kasham, they will unite against the outside world.

It's because the bugs of Kasham are keen on external aggression and expansion. They will attack other city-states every once in a while, and then be severely damaged by the joint efforts of the three major city-states. They will retreat and lick their wounds silently, and then launch an invasion again after recovering their strength, and the cycle will repeat over and over again.

Similar things have been repeated countless times over the years.

"Have you ever thought about completely solving the hidden danger of Kasham?"

Carolina smiled bitterly and said, "We would like to, but Kasham has been dug in all directions by those bugs, and the terrain is very complicated. It's okay to deal with those bugs outside, but once we enter Kasham, our people will easily get lost, and the army will not be able to deploy. We always return in defeat, and over time, no one is willing to attack Kasham anymore."

It seems that this group of insects is quite troublesome.

Sunan seemed to be thinking about something, and then asked, "How long will it take for Kasham to attack?"

Carolina hesitated and said, "Based on past experience, it should take another two to three years."

Sunan nodded, that was fine, he had enough time to prepare. After thinking about it, Sunan finally decided to keep the gold coins so that he could use them to trade with other city-states in the future.

However, the gold ore collected in the future will have to be transported to Camp 1 on the surface.

As for the remaining gems and rare metals, Sunan took them all away without hesitation.

"I'll give you five days to deal with the aftermath of the war. I want to see a stable Youhu City."

Before leaving, Su Nan left a message.

Carolina quickly said, "Yes, Master."

After watching Su Nan's figure disappear, Carolina came to the window and stared at the scenery below. Her expression changed constantly and finally turned into a deep sigh.

At this point, I can only accept it.

The only consolation might be that becoming a slave of a powerful wizard wasn't so bad.

After returning to the Shining City, Sunan first met with Keyi and told him about the capture of Youhu City.

After hearing that the threat of the Sphinx had been resolved, Key was overjoyed and completely relieved.

"It's a problem solved."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow and said, "From your tone, are there any other troubles?"

Key shook his head and sighed, saying, "I don't know what kind of nonsense the Spark Cult has fed the Grand Duke. Just a few days ago, the Grand Duke issued a decree that all nobles must believe in the Spark Cult. This matter caused a big uproar, and many nobles were very resistant to this decree."

"There is such a thing." Su Nan was really surprised this time.

This is even more controversial than the previous requirement that all provinces allow the Spark Cult to spread its faith freely.

How much benefit did the Spark Cult give to Duke Fanxing to make the latter issue such a foolish decree?
After a little thought, Su Nan had an idea in his mind.

With the status of Grand Duke of Fanxing, what has he not enjoyed?
The only thing that could make him do such a thing is probably his life span.

The Spark Cult possesses divine blood, so it's not surprising that it can do things like prolong life.

But as far as Sunan knows, the methods used by gods to prolong life are often accompanied by the erosion of spiritual will.

While gaining a longer lifespan, it often also means losing one's self to some extent, becoming a loyal believer of the gods.

If the Spark Cult really resorts to this method, it won't be long before the Grand Duke of Stars becomes a puppet controlled by them.

By then, the Principality of Stars will probably face great turmoil.

Sunan told Keyi his guess.

After hearing this, Key's expression changed and no one knew what he was thinking.

Su Nan didn't say much, patted his shoulder and turned to leave.

After that, Sunan returned to the base and immediately used rare metals such as Abyss Black Copper to mix the corresponding nutrients and feed them to the gem worms.

"In about three days, the gem bug will be able to split and increase to six."

"There are five portions of nutrients left. Feed them to the gem bugs after a while. This way, the swarm can increase to eleven."

Sunan was delighted.

It is no exaggeration to say that the harvest from this war was a bumper harvest.

The harvest so far alone is enough to make up for the cost of refining golems and double-edged spiders before the war - the key is that the losses of golems and double-edged spiders are not great, and the rest can be said to be pure profit.

What's more, there are follow-up benefits. The seven mineral veins around Youhu City are waiting for him to develop.

"To develop seven mines at the same time, we will need a large number of clay golems and mining equipment."

"The clay golem can be posted as a task and students in the base can be asked to refine it."

"I can ask Big Brother to help prepare the mining equipment."

"These are easy to solve. The key is the number of troops stationed there."

There are many monsters in the underground world, and you never know which tunnel or cave may contain a monster, so troops must be stationed at all mines.

What's more, there are Orson and Matu.

According to Carolina, these two city-states have plundered Youhu's resources many times (although Youhu has done the same thing as well), so more troops must be sent to garrison the mineral veins near these two city-states.

According to preliminary estimates, at least five hundred stone golems are needed to guard and transport the seven mines.

To be on the safe side, it would be best to send in some more double-blade spiders.

Adding to that the troops stationed at Youhu Lake, the number of golem puppets needed is not a small one.

"I will have to work overtime to refine it next."

Sunan sighed.

I can't escape this hard life.

There is no way, everything is to obtain more resources.

We must develop as many mineral veins as possible and accumulate enough resources for a large army before the insects from Kasham attack.

In the following period of time, Su Nan became busy again without stopping.

After Carolina pacified the residents of the city, Sunan began to transform the palace (stone pillar) where the sphinx originally lived into a base, dividing it into a series of functional rooms such as laboratories, potion rooms, meditation rooms, and spell practice rooms.

Then a workshop was built next to the palace, and the puppet factory in Camp No. 1 was moved and placed next to the workshop.

In addition, Sunan also built a new magic plant garden in the city, named Magic Plant Garden No. 3.

Due to the special environment of the underground world - mainly the lack of sunlight and the year-round low temperature and humidity - Magic Plant Garden No. 3 can only grow some relatively special magic plants, such as Datura, Tranquilizing Flower, etc.

At this point, a small base is completed.

Sunan named it Base No. 2.

Base No. 2 does not have as complete facilities and functions as Base No. 1, but it is sufficient as a temporary residence in the underground world.

Not long after Base No. 2 was built, a large number of clay golems were delivered to Youhu City, and the development of the surrounding mineral veins was officially put on the agenda.

Taking into account the insufficient military force, Sunan did not develop all seven mineral veins at once, but chose the four mineral veins closest to Youhu City as the first batch of mineral veins to be mined.

It includes a large iron mine, a medium-sized iron mine, a large copper mine and a small gold mine.

Just these four mines have three elite stone golems, three hundred and fifty stone golems, and fifty double-bladed spiders stationed and escorting them.

Among them, elite stone golems are mainly used to guard large iron mines, large copper mines and small gold mines.

The Double-Blade Spider is mainly used to escort ore due to its flexible mobility.

By the time of the Month of Slumber, the operation of Youhu City had basically returned to normal.

The four mines produce huge profits every day, and the growing income makes Sunan happier day by day.

With the lucrative profits provided by the mineral veins, many experiments and research can be put on the agenda.

And this is only the early stage. As the other three mineral veins are gradually developed and more mineral veins are discovered in the future, the funds provided to him by Youhu City will only increase.

With such a huge gold mine, he won't have to worry too much about money for a long time in the future.

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