Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 133: The Death Knell Beetle, Kasham's Manipulator

Carolina is very efficient.

The next day, Kasham's insect corpse was sent to Sunan's laboratory.

Under the bright light of the magic stone lamp, twelve ferocious insect beasts lay on the large workbench.

These beetle-like creatures have hard, bright red carapaces, ten legs, four round black eyes, two sharp claws and a pair of serrated jaws.

But what is more eye-catching is the huge bell-shaped chitinous protrusion growing on the mouthparts, which looks like a huge horn.

According to Carolina's description, this creature is called the death knell beetle.

Their shells are as hard as steel, and their sharp claws can easily tear through solid rock. In addition, they can also emit piercing sound waves that are enough to make a person bleed from all seven orifices.

An adult Deathstroke Beetle only has the combat power of an apprentice knight, which is not considered strong.

But once these monsters appear in groups, the threat will increase dramatically.

Especially when hundreds and thousands of death knell beetles emitted piercing sound waves at the same time, even the great knight could not bear it.

Previously, the city-state coalition forces of Youhu, Matu and Orson had suffered repeated losses under the cluster sonic attacks of the Deathstroke Beetles, and each time they had to pay a huge price to wipe out the insect swarms.

In Kasham's hive, in that narrow, semi-enclosed environment, the sonic attack of the Deathstroke Beetle is even more powerful.

The reason why Red Widow and Black Duke did not dare to counterattack Kasham was largely because of this.

"An insect beast that can release sound waves? That's quite rare."

Kasham's swarm of insects includes not only the death knell beetles, but also jellyfish worms, giant sandworms, six-winged insects and other insect beasts.

But the Deathstroke Beetle is the main force of the Zerg.

Sunan used his magician's hand to move an insect corpse in front of him and began to dissect it.

As the dissection progressed, more of the body structure of the death knell beetle was gradually revealed.

The huge bell-shaped chitinous protrusion on its head is actually a horn-shaped tumor.

The piercing sound waves of the death knell beetle are emitted from this tumor.

A tumor extended from its shoulder, flaring outward above a sharp mouth, and was flanked by four black, insect-like eyes.

Essentially, the creature has no real head, with the giant horn-like tumor serving as a replacement for its skull.

After Sunan cut open the tumor, he also found the worm brain inside.

“What a peculiar structure.”

Sunan couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

He had seen many insects and beasts with strange appearances, but this was the first time he had seen one with such a peculiar structure as the death knell beetle.

According to his experience, organisms with this structure are usually not grown naturally, but are more likely to be artificially induced mutations, that is, the product of genetic modification.

"This is most likely the result of biological modification by a wizard apprentice."

Su Nan's heart moved.

Is it possible that there is a wizard apprentice hiding behind Kasham?
If this is true, attacking Kasham might not be as easy as originally thought.

"If there really is a wizard apprentice behind Kasham, then what is his purpose in sending out swarms of insects to hunt creatures every once in a while?"

Su Nan was confused.

After a moment, he shook his head and stopped worrying.

No matter what the wizard apprentice's purpose is, Kasham will definitely deal with it.

Otherwise, if insect plagues break out every once in a while, how can he develop the surrounding mineral veins and continue to explore for more mineral veins?

The only good news is that the puppets are very resistant to the sonic attacks of the Deathstroke Beetle.

After all, puppets do not have the auditory organs and internal organs of ordinary creatures and are basically immune to sonic attacks.

When it comes to dealing with the death knell beetles, the Golem Legion still has a great advantage.

After dissecting more than a dozen insect corpses and writing down the information in the experimental notebook, Sunan waved his hand and sprinkled out flames, disposed of all the insect corpses, and turned to leave the laboratory.

Kasham's recent movements have become more and more frequent, and an insect plague outbreak is likely to occur in the near future.

He had to speed up the refining of the golem and increase the power in his hands as much as possible.

"These are the architectural designs of the Knight Academy in the other six provinces. They were all based on the Dragon Heart Knight Academy. See if there is anything that needs to be modified."

In the study, Key pushed a thick stack of documents on the table in front of Su Nan.

Su Nan took it up and took a quick look at it, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's do it according to this. When will it be completed?"

"It will be done next month." Key said with a smile, "The teachers responsible for teaching the students have also been arranged. They will be in place as soon as the academy is completed."

The war had just ended, and many things had to be dealt with by him as the new Grand Duke, but he always put the things Sunan asked him to do first and often asked about them personally.

Seeing that the Grand Duke attached so much importance to it, the people below naturally did not dare to procrastinate or slack off, and they worked extremely hard. In just two or three months, six knight academies were established from scratch with extremely high efficiency.

"The recruitment of new students is already underway, and everything will be based on the template of the Dragon Heart Knight Academy."

After a pause, Key hesitated, but couldn't help asking:

"Do you really only need seven Knight Academy? We have no shortage of people or money now, so we can definitely build a few more."

Now the entire Principality of Stars belongs to the Aneste family. With the power of the entire country, let alone seven knight academies, one can be established in every town.

Su Nan shook his head: "No, quality is more important than quantity."

It is easy to establish more knight academies, but it is not so easy to train qualified knight students.

The most critical problem is that the production of dragon blood fruit cannot keep up.

If one wants to train qualified knight students in just four years, dragon blood fruit is indispensable.

Otherwise, students who come from commoner and farmer families are naturally inferior to the children of nobles in qualifications and physical talents, and it is impossible for them to be promoted to knights in four years.

Even for the current seven knight academies, Sunan would have to open up a few more magic gardens to grow dragon blood fruit in order to meet the supply.

Any more would be beyond my ability.

Perhaps when we open up more magic gardens in the future, we can consider increasing the number of knight academies.

Seeing that Sunan said so, Keyi stopped persuading him.

In fact, he had also considered whether he should imitate the Dragon Heart Knight Academy and open a knight academy specifically for recruiting children of nobility.

But after repeated consideration, I gave up this idea.

One reason was that he did not have enough dragon blood fruits, and the ones he had were used to supply the army.

Another reason is that most aristocratic families have their own inherited breathing techniques and martial arts, as well as special training methods, and it is impossible to achieve uniformity in this regard.

Even partial unity.

Unless he can come up with a breathing method and martial arts that are stronger than all the noble families, and a more efficient training method.

In view of this, the idea of ​​the Noble Knights Academy was deemed too unfeasible and had to be abandoned.

"How's the qualification test going?"

Sunan's voice interrupted Key's contemplation. Coming back to his senses, Key smiled and said, "It went smoothly. The test has been completed. There are a total of 223 children with qualifications. I have arranged for people to escort them to Flash City. They should be able to arrive at the base in a few days."

Su Nan nodded slightly.

There are quite a lot of people.

After all, the scale of the qualification test covers six provinces, so it is normal that there are more qualified people.

As a result, there are nearly two hundred and seventy students in the base.

And this number will gradually increase over time.

"How's your training going recently?" Su Nan changed the topic.

"It's almost stabilized." Key said with a smile on his face.
After taking the high-level dragon blood fruit given to him by Sunan, he successfully broke through and became a legendary knight.

Now, after more than half a year of settling down, my realm has basically stabilized, and I am now seeking to break through to a higher level.

Key himself has excellent talent and aptitude, otherwise he would not have been able to be promoted to a senior knight at the age of nineteen. Now that he is a grand duke, he can enjoy far more resources than before, and his training has progressed by leaps and bounds and at a rapid pace.

He was confident that he could break through to become a two-ring legendary knight before the age of thirty-five, and become a three-ring legendary knight before the age of fifty.

You should know that Evans, who was recognized as a peerless genius by the whole principality, was already eighty years old when he became the legendary knight of three rings.

This is just the most conservative estimate.

If he had Sunan's help, Keyi would even have the confidence to break through and become a three-ring legendary knight earlier.

"That's good."

Su Nan nodded slightly.

His plan was to help his eldest brother break through and become a three-ring legendary knight within twelve years, so that he could then enter the Tower of Stars to challenge the knight trial.

Going from a one-ring legend to a three-ring legend in twelve years is not a difficult task as long as you are willing to invest the resources.

With this in mind, the development of a new magic plant garden must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

After coming out of the lord's mansion, Sunan was still thinking about the matter of the Magic Plant Garden.

With the support of profits from the underground world's mineral veins, there is no need to worry about financial issues in opening up the magic plantation. The only thing that needs to be considered is manpower.

The flower fairies are easy to deal with. Just let the flower fairy queen Tia summon another group of tribesmen.

The key is the apprentice who is in charge of the garrison.

"Issue a number of garrison missions at the base and have the apprentices take turns to be stationed there regularly."

There is currently no level 2 wizard apprentice in the base, so Sunan has to open up the magic plant garden himself.

However, the garrison work can be assigned to students, and the task contribution value can be set higher.

It just so happens that a new batch of students is about to arrive at the base. After a period of training, they will be able to take on various basic tasks.

By then, more people will take on basic tasks, there will be too many people and too little meat, and the competition will become fierce. The old students will naturally turn their attention to garrison tasks.

Time flies like an arrow.

The Thunder Moon (April) passed by quickly.

During this period, Sunan participated in a party in a jungle cabin and obtained more than ten kinds of rare metals and four miniature soul crystals.

After this gathering, Sunan finally gathered all the materials for the third magic pattern core.

After refining the third magic pattern core, he synthesized it immediately.

The synthesized level 3 magic pattern core has further increased the requirements for the body and soul.

In addition to the mental strength must reach 45 points, the physical fitness must also reach above 40 points.

"My current mental strength is 45.04, which just meets the requirement, but my physical strength is only 36.37, which is still a long way off."

Su Nan weighed the magic pattern core in his hand, turned around and walked towards the warehouse.

His current physique is roughly equivalent to that of a junior great knight. The effect of high-level dragon blood fruit on him is quite obvious. After synthesizing a few high-level dragon blood fruits and taking them, his physique can quickly be improved to more than 40 points.

It took two days to digest the effects of the high-level dragon blood fruit, and Sunan's physical condition was successfully improved to 40.35.

Without hesitation, he immediately fused the Level 3 magic pattern core and then came to the spell training area for testing.

Considering the power of the level 3 magic pattern core, Sunan did not choose the iron golem as the test object this time, but instead selected the more powerful high-level stone golem.

First is the attack power.

With all his strength exerted, the metal cone storm formed by the magic pattern core took only more than ten seconds to bombard the high-level stone golem with holes and almost destroy it.

"Yes, the attack power has increased by about 80% to 90%."

"If it were a one-ring legendary puppet, it would probably be killed instantly in one encounter."

Next is defense.

After some tests, Sunan had a rough idea.

"If converted into defense, it is about 4800 to 5000, which is roughly equivalent to the combined defense of five Ultimate Protection Rings."

Sunan nodded secretly.

With such a high level of defense, even a formal wizard would not be able to break it with one strike.

What surprised Sunan even more was that the mental energy consumption, which he was most concerned about, had hardly increased.

With his current mental strength, it is enough to use the magic pattern core for up to three minutes.

Even under high-intensity attacks, it would be no problem to hold on for two minutes.

"If I can keep upgrading to increase power without increasing consumption, once my mental strength improves a bit, the magic pattern core will be able to become a regular weapon."

A magic pattern core that can be used normally is terrifying just thinking about it!
If it really comes to that, below the level of a formal wizard, Sunan will basically be invincible.

"The Golem Corps has also successfully completed its expansion."

With Sunan's full commitment, the size of Youhu City's golem army has expanded a lot in recent days.

Considering that it would take a short time to refine a platinum golem or a secret doll, Sunan used all four miniature soul crystals obtained from the transaction to refine an iron golem.

Today's Lake City Golem Corps consists of nine steel golems, twenty elite stone golems, three hundred double-blade spiders and one thousand stone golems.

The strength of this lineup has far surpassed the previous Youhu City.

At least Carolina was stunned when she saw these golems in the makeshift military camp.

The last bit of worry in my heart about the impending insect plague also disappeared.

Are you kidding? With such a powerful army of golems here, what does a mere insect plague matter?
The next thing to consider is whether or not to counterattack Kasham.

To be honest, if Sunan hadn't wanted Matu and Orson to help share more of the pressure, reduce casualties, and kill as many insects as possible outside to reduce the pressure for the future attack on Kasham, he would have planned to ignore the insect plague and attack Kasham directly.

However, Sunan didn't wait long.

On the first day of the New Moon, the sphinx scouts who were assigned to monitor near Kasham brought news that Kasham's insect swarm had set out on a large scale.

Countless insects are swarming towards Youhu City!

(End of this chapter)