Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 129 Strength is built with money
Youhu City.

Returning to the island city again, Sunan was surprised to find that there seemed to be a lot more slaves in the lower city.

On the way through the lower city, he saw five groups of Kobolds and Lizardmen carrying pickaxes, led by Sphinxes, rushing out of the city.

Sunan was thoughtful.

Not long after returning to the study in Base No. 2, Carolina hurried over.

"Master, you are back."

Carolina saluted respectfully.

Sunan waved his hand casually and asked, "What's going on with those slaves outside?"

Carolina said quickly: "I was just about to report to the master."

"The bugs of Kasham have been coming out frequently recently, hunting small tribes around us. Those small tribes couldn't survive, so they migrated towards us. I thought there were still three mineral veins to be developed, so I captured those guys and put them in the mining area to mine."

Carolina said as a matter of course.

In the underworld, it is very normal for the strong to capture the weak and use them as slaves.

In the past, they had to consider the food problem, but now with the Flashing City on the surface supplying food, Carolina has no worries and can be even more ruthless in capturing slaves.

Sunan nodded. It seemed that he had to ask Base No. 1 to refine more clay golems and get the remaining three mines running as soon as possible.

"So, the insect plague is coming soon?"

"It should be about the same." Carolina said solemnly, "Based on past situations, it will probably take no more than half a year at the latest."

After a pause, she hesitated, but couldn't help but say, "Master, do you want to contact Matu and Orson? Wouldn't it be too much for us to deal with the insect plague by ourselves?"

"No rush, let's see how Matu and Orson react."

Sunan waved his hand nonchalantly and asked about other things.

"How much Mithril is in the storehouse now?"

"A little over three kilograms." Carolina answered without hesitation.

As a deputy, she is very qualified. She knows what Su Nan cares about most and has memorized all the relevant information.

“Three kilograms?”

Sunan frowned slightly.

It takes at least sixteen kilograms of mithril to refine a secret doll.

Even if we add in the accumulation from the acquisitions in Base No. 1 during this period, it would only be one third at most, which is still a long way off.

"Are there any other silver veins nearby?"

Carolina thought for a moment and said, "Within a hundred kilometers of Youhu City, there are only two silver mines that have been explored. We are already developing one, and the other is in the hands of Matu."

Matu?

Su Nan's eyes flickered slightly.

"Continue to collect Mithril."

"By the way, where's Amy?"

Carolina was stunned and looked around with a strange expression.

Carolina didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Amy seemed to be secretly paying attention to her during this period of time.

Although Amy's ability to travel through space is elusive, Carolina, as a noble sphinx expert in illusion, can still sense Amy's presence.

If it were someone else, she might think the other person was here to spy on her.

But Amy is a silly magical pet, so it is reasonable that she would not have such thoughts.

Who instigated Amy to do this?
It can't be the master. There is no need for the master to do this.

Are those the apprentices in the base?
It seems that they are the only ones who can convince Amy.

Carolina's thoughts were scattered in her mind, but she didn't show it on her face, and she said softly, "Ms. Amy was here just now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Amy suddenly appeared and landed on Su Nan's shoulder.

"Meow, Sunan, you're back. Why did you take so long? I missed you so much!"

"There are a lot of things to do, so I've been delayed for a while." Sunan smiled and touched Amy's head, making the latter squint her eyes in enjoyment. "But there's nothing to do on the surface next, I'll stay here for a while."

"That's great nya!"

Amy cheered, and then seemed to remember something. She disappeared with a whoosh, and reappeared after a few seconds with a cloth bag in her mouth.

"Meow, this is a gift, a treasure I collected recently." Amy said vaguely.

"Thank you."

Su Nan took the cloth bag with a smile and opened it to check it on the spot.

There were more than ten items scattered inside.

Magic Flower, Extreme Cold Wood, Eagle Eye Agate... They are all "specialties" unique to the underground world, and without exception they are all extremely rare and precious materials.

Sunan secretly sighed that Amy's ability to perceive energy particles was truly unique in the underground world, and she could easily find rare materials that were hard to find outside.

"How is it, meow?" Amy's eyes widened in anticipation, with an expression that looked like she was about to praise me.

Su Nan smiled and said, "I like the gift very much, thank you, I will give you some ice mint in return later."

Amy's eyes lit up and her saliva almost flowed down.

Of all the frozen mints it had ever tasted, the one given by Sunan was the most delicious.

It was simply the ultimate delicacy, just like the ultimate taste formed by condensing many frozen mints together.

Just one puff can make you enjoy it all day long!

"Then hurry up, I'll wait for you here!" Amy urged excitedly.

Sunan agreed with a smile and gave Carolina a look, indicating that she should prepare some ice mint.

Carolina glanced at Amy resentfully, feeling that she was even worse than a cat.

After synthesizing some ice mint and comforting Amy, Sunan went to the puppet factory and released the elite double-blade spider.

This elite double-bladed spider played a significant role in several battles with the Spark Cult. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was not much inferior to the Hidden Dragon, whose sub-dragon blood concentration had reached 28%.

As his strength increases, Sunan is gradually exposed to more and more secrets, and the opponents he meets are becoming stronger and stronger.

Ordinary puppets like stone golems and double-bladed spiders are fine against ordinary knights, but when facing stronger enemies, they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder.

Even the first-ring legendary puppets such as the elite stone golem and iron golem were gradually finding it difficult.

So considering the future, Sunan felt that he needed to make more higher-level golem puppets.

He has three options in this regard.

The first one is naturally the elite double-blade spider.

The Elite Twinblade Spider has proven its combat effectiveness.

This extremely agile puppet is very useful when dealing with some agile enemies.

According to his instructions before he left, a large amount of tungsten steel was accumulated in the warehouses of Base No. 1 and Base No. 2, which could be used to refine double-blade spiders.

Sunan estimated that it was enough for him to synthesize three to four elite double-blade spiders.

The second method is to synthesize a higher level stone golem. Since refining an iron golem requires the consumption of micro soul crystals, it is impossible to refine iron golems in large quantities before there is a stable source of micro soul crystals. Therefore, the method of using iron golems to synthesize high-level golems is not advisable.

The only alternative is to synthesize it with a stone golem.

At least Sunan now has a stable source of gems.

Before coming to Youhu City, he went to Base No. 1 to take a look at the insect nest.

During the time he was away, Carolina regularly delivered the collected fission catalytic nutrients to Base No. 1, and handed them over to the apprentices to feed the gem worms.

Today, the number of gem bugs has grown to eighteen, and the annual gem production has increased to more than six hundred.

In addition, there are gems that are regularly purchased from the Firefox Chamber of Commerce.

There is no need to worry about the shortage of materials in this regard.

Moreover, the cost of synthesizing a two-ring legendary stone golem is not high, nearly 20,000 gold coins.

Even if it adds the same magic weapon technology as the Advanced Double-Blade Spider, the cost is only a little over 20,000 gold coins, which is less than the Advanced Double-Blade Spider.

Relatively speaking, its combat capability is slightly inferior to that of the advanced double-blade spider, which means that it can play a more significant role in battles that require frontal assaults.

The third way is naturally to refine a higher level golem.

The design drawings of the adamantium golem are included in Avigni's experimental notes.

The Adamantite Golem is a three-ring legendary golem, and its combat power is stronger than many third-level wizard apprentices.

At the beginning, Rose was helpless against the Platinum Golem and had to seek cooperation from Sunan to successfully resolve the problem.

Even for Su Nan, it was only when the magic pattern core exploded at full power that he was able to severely injure the platinum golem.

Today, his strength has increased a lot, but it still takes a lot of effort to kill a platinum golem.

If he had fifty or sixty golden golems in his hands, Su Nan felt that he could walk around the Starlight Continent with ease.

"But this thing is very difficult to refine."

Even among the many types of golems, the adamantium golem is considered to be in the middle, and is quite difficult to refine.

Level 4 [Puppet Refining] can only be said to be mediocre, and level 5 is considered normal.

Sunan opened the panel and took a look.

Due to the long-term and large-scale refining of golems, his [Puppet Refining] progress bar is now close to two-thirds, and he only needs more than 5 proficiency points to upgrade to level .

The skill requirements are not a problem and can be met quickly.

The key is still the material.

The main material of the Adamantine Golem is magical Adamantine, a product of Adamantine enchanted.

A golden golem requires about fourteen or fifteen tons of magic golden.

Adding in various other gemstones, rare materials, silver, gold, etc., the total cost is estimated to be around 50,000 gold coins.

"It just so happens that I recently made a lot of money from the Spark Cult, enough for me to refine a fine gold golem."

Su Nan estimated that if he were to refine fourteen or fifteen tons of magic gold himself, it would take at least one or two years.

However, if it is issued as a task and assigned to the apprentices in Base No. 1, it should be completed in two or three months.

The difficulty of refining magic gold is not high, it is about the same as refining magic weapons. There are now many apprentices in the base who can complete this work independently.

Secretly noting this point and preparing to implement it once he returned to Base No. 1, Sunan then began to refine the double-blade spider.

It took him more than half a month to refine all the tungsten steel in the two bases into double-blade spiders, and finally synthesized four elite double-blade spiders.

Including the previous one, Sunan now has five two-ring legendary puppets in his hands.

However, he did not stop there, but began to make further attempts.

"Although the double-blade spider is agile, it also has obvious weaknesses, such as the inability to fly."

"It's okay to deal with legendary knights, but once you face a wizard apprentice who has mastered levitation or possesses flying magic items, you will become a passive target."

In order to eliminate this weakness, the solution that Sunan finally came up with was to give the Double-Edged Spider permanent [Levitation].

This idea was inspired by the design drawing of the secret doll.

According to this idea, any puppet can permanently maintain a spell and thus gain the ability to cast spells.

However, the secret doll can do this because its main components contain a large amount of gems and mithril.

Naturally, Sunan was reluctant to consume mithril at this time.

So he had to settle for the next best thing and came up with another solution, which was to use the method of creating magic items to give the double-blade spider additional spellcasting capabilities.

It is equivalent to adding a magic storage item into the body of the double-blade spider.

However, since the double-blade spider has no mental power, it has to use another kind of energy to replace mental power to activate magic items and achieve the casting effect.

Sunan finally chose the magic stone.

The elite double-blade spider that was finally created gained the ability to fly after performing the levitation technique, but the cost was that it consumed about one low-level magic stone per hour.

For other wizard apprentices, this is undoubtedly an astonishing consumption.

It is obviously a very extravagant and irrational practice to consume a large amount of precious magic stones just to give the puppet the ability to fly.

However, Sunan did not have much else in his hands, only a large number of magic stones, which he could produce in large quantities at any time at low cost.

To other wizard apprentices, magic stone is a very valuable resource, but to him it is just a cheap energy source.

On the contrary, the cost of adding constant second-level spells is relatively high.

The constant [Levitation] alone increased the cost by nearly three hundred gold coins.

Considering that they would probably have to deal with Kasham's swarm of insects next, Sunan added a large-scale damage [Crushing Sound Wave], a flexibility-enhancing [Lightness], a body-strength-enhancing [Tenacity], and a strength-enhancing [Brute Force] to the elite double-blade spider.

In the end, the cost of an elite double-blade spider was more than 23,000 gold coins.

The total cost of the five was more than 110,000 gold coins.

This does not include the consumption of magic stones during battle.

"The strength of a third-level wizard apprentice ranges from the first to the fourth ring."

"The combat power of an elite double-blade spider is roughly equivalent to that of a mid-level third-level wizard apprentice."

"One hundred and ten thousand gold coins in exchange for five third-level wizard apprentice-level combat power is quite a good deal."

Sunan nodded secretly.

He planned to synthesize a few more high-level stone golems of the second-ring legendary level next, just to be prepared.

In addition, a batch of extreme protection rings and disaster rings should be made for self-defense.

The golem puppets costing more than 20,000 gold coins have been refined, so there is no shortage of a batch of glimmer-level magic items.

Just by calculating this way, all the mining income of Youhu City in the next few months will be invested in this bottomless pit.

Fortunately, three new mineral veins have been developed recently, otherwise he would not be able to afford such lavish spending.

"Strength is built with money."

Sunan couldn't help but sigh.

(End of this chapter)