Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 139: Death Knell Mark, Five-Year Promotion

The 1255th year of the Astral Calendar, the hazy summer month.

After more than half a year of recuperation, the Principality of Stars gradually recovered from the shadow of war, and Key's control over the principality became increasingly stable. Now most of his energy is focused on rebuilding the Ranshuang Province, striving to restore it to its previous level as soon as possible.

In the same month, the Knight Academies in the six provinces officially opened and the first batch of new students enrolled.

It is the month of flowing fire, and the weather is getting hotter.

Base 2.

Inside the spacious and bright laboratory.

Su Nan carefully imprinted the last trace of blood-colored lines on the back of his right hand. After a flash of blood, a horn-shaped blood-red mark appeared on the back of his hand.

"It's done!"

A smile of joy appeared on Su Nan's face that came from the bottom of his heart.

After the battle of Kasham, he devoted most of his energy to the research on the Death Knell Ringer. After more than two months, he finally succeeded in making a blood mark with the blood of the Death Knell Ringer.

"After all, the concentration of the ancient blood of the Death Knell Beater is still a little low. It must be synthesized to increase the concentration before it can be made into a blood mark."

"Let's call it the Mark of the Deathstroke."

Su Nan stared at the mark on the back of his hand, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

The effect of the Death Knell Mark is to instantly release powerful sound waves, which are much more powerful than the sonic attack released by the Death Knell striker.

According to preliminary estimates, it would be no problem to kill the second-ring legend in seconds.

Even if you are a three-ring legend, you will be seriously injured if you don’t die from the attack!
If there is any shortcoming, it is that this thing is a disposable consumable, it is gone after one use, and it is not easy to make.

Under the premise of not harming the body of the person striking the death knell, a little blood is drawn every day, and it takes about fourteen days to accumulate blood to make a death knell mark.

"It's enough to make four or five for self-defense."

With one more trump card in hand, Sunan was in extremely good mood. He turned around and left the laboratory and came to the detention area.

This is the most heavily guarded place in the entire Base No. 2, except for the warehouse and laboratory.

The defense of the first two is mainly aimed at the outside, while the defense of the prison area is aimed at the inside.

There are numerous arrays set up here, including but not limited to magic prohibition, weakness, heavy pressure and other effects, to ensure that the resistance of every creature imprisoned here is weakened to the lowest point.

There are numerous golems and double-blade spider guards inside and outside, making it impenetrable.

Arriving at the room where the bell ringer was imprisoned, Sunan looked inside.

The bell ringer was lying on the ground listlessly. He heard footsteps, looked up and saw it was Su Nan. He immediately let out a cry of fear and subconsciously shrank inside, with a human-like pleading look in his animal eyes.

Looking at its aggrieved appearance, there is not a bit of the majesty of a descendant of ancient bloodline.

There's no way around it. Anyone who has their blood drawn every day for more than two months will end up like this.

The death knell striker's listless appearance at this moment was not entirely due to the suppression of the formation in the prison area, but more because a large amount of blood had been continuously drawn from him.

Sunan expressed helplessness as well.

Whether it was the blood mark or the divine energy, the research required a large amount of experimental materials. In order to speed up the research progress, he increased the frequency and quantity of blood extraction by a little bit.

After all, he is a descendant of ancient bloodline and will be able to recover after some time.

Unfortunately, the concentration of the Deathstroke Ringer's ancient bloodline is still too low, and it is not enough to awaken the divine energy.

The reason why Ugo wanted the remains of the Starfire Cult was to extract the divine energy inside and fuse it with the Deathstroke Ringer so that it could awaken the divine energy and break through to a higher level.

Fortunately, Sunan doesn't need to go through so much trouble.

He has other means to increase the blood concentration of the Deathstroke Ringer.

Hidden Dragon is a good example.

"It's a pity that your power level is too high, otherwise if I contracted you as a magical pet, the blood concentration would be directly increased."

It’s a pity for Sunan.

The higher the level of power of a creature, the more difficult it is to contract it into a magical pet.

Unless the wizard (apprentice) himself is much more powerful than the person under contract.

For a three-ring legendary ancient beast like the Deathstroker, at least a formal wizard must try to contract it as a magical pet, and the success rate is not 100%.

Therefore, many wizards (apprentices) start training their magical pets from the time they are weak.

It’s not that they don’t like to contract powerful monsters, but they can’t do it.

However, although it is impossible to contract it into a magical pet, it is not difficult to tame the Deathstroke Ringer.

As long as a little trick is set inside its body, this strange beast, whose intelligence is no less than that of humans, will naturally choose to bow its head and surrender in order to save its life.

In fact, the Death Knell Beater is now showing signs of surrender.

It won't take long for Sunan to tame it.

"It will probably take quite a while to raise the blood concentration to the point of awakening divine energy."

"take it easy."

As usual, more than ten tubes of blood were drawn from the bell ringer. Only then did Sunan leave the confinement area contentedly and head for the meditation room.

As early as three days ago, he had already constructed the fourteenth star ring.

The proficiency required to upgrade the level 15 Star Ring Meditation method has soared to two million.

"My proficiency level is increasing by about 4600 every day. At this rate, it will take about months to build the th star ring."

"The training progress of instant spell casting has almost reached 70%. It should be mastered by the Moon of Resurgence next year at the latest."

"We are still short of twenty-eight alternative metals for the magic pattern core."

"I have more than eight kilograms of mithril now, and I only need about half of it to refine the secret doll."

"We are still short of about two-thirds of the magic adamantium needed to refine the adamantium golem. Most of the apprentices have been busy refining golems during this period. Once the golems are saturated, we will adjust the task ratio and increase the task rewards for making magic adamantium. By then, the speed should be able to be increased."

"The micro soul crystals must also be collected in advance and synthesized into small soul crystals to make the soul core of the adamantium golem."

Sunan reviewed in his mind what he needed to do in the near future.

"What remains is to open up the magic plantation."

The six new knight academies all need dragon blood fruit in large quantities, so new magic gardens must be opened to meet the demand.

It’s just that Sunan has been busy studying blood marks and divine energy recently and has not been able to spare the time to deal with this matter.

Now that the research has come to an end, we must get started.

“There are still too few available people.”

Sunan couldn't help but sigh.

Even if there were one or two more people available, he would be much more relaxed and wouldn't have to do everything himself.

When he was looking through the wizard intelligence collected by the Starry Royal Family, he wanted to recruit a few second-level wizard apprentices.

I believe that wizard apprentices who have experienced the pain of resource scarcity will not reject a trading platform with abundant resources.

As long as the base can guarantee sufficient resource supply and fair trading rules, there is no need to worry about the loyalty of those wizard apprentices.

However, before Sunan could take action, good news came from the base.

In the Harvest Month (September) of the Starlight Calendar Year 1255, Sherman and Corey built their third star ring and were promoted to Level 9 wizard apprentices.

Base 1.

There is also a shared lounge area.

Sherman and Corey were surrounded by many apprentices, and all kinds of congratulations were heard.

"Congratulations to both seniors."

"I knew that Senior Sherman and Senior Corey would definitely be promoted to Level 2 wizard apprentices!"

"It only took more than five years to be promoted to level two. Seniors Sheman and Corey are indeed geniuses."

"How envious! I have only built the second star ring now."

"Senior, can you tell us about your experience in advancing?"

Artil looked at Sherman and Corey who were surrounded in the middle with a smile. While he was happy for them, he also felt a little complicated.

Her talent is not as good as Sherman and Corey, and she is still a long way from building the third star ring. It is estimated that it will take at least another two or three years.

Even Ethan from the second batch built the star ring faster than her, and there was a high possibility that he would be promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice faster than her.

"Okay, thank you all for your congratulations. We are in a hurry to meet the teacher. We will talk to you about our experience of advancing to the next level another day."

Sherman said with a smile.

When they heard that the teacher had summoned them, they quickly made way.

Sherman and Corey walked out of the crowd, leaving the public lounge area and heading towards the central area.

That is Sunan's exclusive area. His laboratory, meditation room, spell practice area, etc. are all located there. No one can enter or leave without his permission.

Two elite stone golems stood at the door.

Seeing someone coming, the two golems immediately turned their thick heads, their dark eyes paused on the two people, and a mechanical and monotonous voice came out of their mouths.

"Target search in progress. Entry permission granted. Passable!"

As soon as the words fell, the two heads moved back to their original positions with a click.

Corey glanced at the elite stone golem with burning eyes.

This is a legendary puppet.

Much more powerful than both the Clay Golem and the Stone Golem.

It would be amazing if he could refine a puppet of this level one day.

The two had been to the central area many times before and were already familiar with the layout here. After passing through the gate, they went straight to the study.

As soon as Sherman arrived at the door and was about to knock on it, he heard a voice from inside.

"Come in."

Xieman and Corey straightened their expressions, pushed the door open and walked in. When they looked up, they saw the teacher sitting behind the desk, holding a book in his hands, looking at them with a smile.

To the two's surprise, Lady Amy, who had often stayed in the underground world recently, was also there.

It was lying in the corner of the desk, sniffing and inhaling a piece of catnip with a look of enjoyment on its face.

"Teacher, Lady Amy."

Sherman and Corey bowed together.

"Meow, it's Sherman and Corey." Amy came back to her senses and waved her paw at the two of them. "I heard that you two have been promoted to second-level wizard apprentices. Congratulations, meow."

Sherman and Corey smiled at the same time and were about to say something humble when Amy changed the subject.

"But the promotion speed is a bit slow, meow. If it were in the past, if I hadn't been promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice in more than five years, I would have been expelled from the academy long ago."

The smiles on their faces suddenly froze.

Amy added: "It took Sunan less than a year to be promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice."

Sheman and Corey were shocked, and their eyes towards Sunan were immediately filled with admiration.

As expected of a teacher, he actually passed the second-level wizard apprentice level in such a short time.

"Okay." Su Nan interrupted Amy, looked at the two of them and smiled, "Don't listen to Amy's nonsense, it's great that you two can make it this far."

Now is the era of elemental desert, how can it be compared with thousands of years ago?

There is no comparison with him who has cheats!
It took Sherman and Corey only five years to be promoted to second-level wizard apprentices. This talent is already very good.

Of course, this is also because the base provides sufficient resources. If it were a wizard apprentice outside, it would often take twenty or thirty years to barely be promoted to level two.

It is not uncommon for people with slightly less talent to take fifty or sixty years to overcome this hurdle.

After receiving Sunan's praise, Xieman and Cole both showed joy on their faces.

"It's all thanks to the teacher's teaching!" they said in unison
Su Nan smiled slightly and said, "I just provided you with a platform. It is mainly your own efforts that have brought you to where you are today."

Then he stopped smiling and said solemnly:
"But you can't let your guard down. Level 2 wizard apprentice is just the starting point of the wizard's path. It only means that you have become a qualified apprentice. In this continent, you need to be at least a level 3 wizard apprentice to be qualified to be called a strong wizard."

"Being promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice is much more difficult than you think, not to mention being promoted to a formal wizard. You must be mentally prepared. There is still a long way to go in the future."

"is teacher!"

Sherman and Corey looked solemn and bowed in agreement.

After giving the two of them a few words of advice, Su Nan slowed down his tone, smiled and threw a bottle of medicine to each of them.

"This is a super potion, a second-level potion that can improve the efficiency of meditation. Consider it my gift to you two for promotion."

"However, this medicine has a restriction on its use. It requires your mental strength to reach a certain level. You should practice for a while and stabilize your state before taking it."

The second-grade inferior super power potion requires a mental strength of 13 before it can be taken.

For a newly promoted second-level wizard apprentice, even if his mental strength has not yet reached 13, it is not far off, and he will be satisfied after a few months of practice.

"Thank you, teacher!"

Sherman and Corey were overjoyed.

The contribution points required to redeem potions that improve meditation efficiency are always higher than other things.

Not to mention it was a bottle of second-level potion.

If they use contribution points to redeem, they will probably have to complete the task for more than half a month.

"Go back, and come to me when you have stabilized your realm. I have something for you two to do." Su Nan waved his hand and said.

The two men responded solemnly, bowed respectfully, and then left.

After walking out of the study, Sherman and Corey looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

"This time you were promoted thirteen days faster than me, so you win, but I will definitely surpass you next time!" Corey said with a firm look.

In the past, Sherman would have just laughed off Corey's behavior.

However, after the death of old Roger, his attitude towards improving his strength has undergone a drastic change. When he heard Corey's challenging words, a confident smile appeared on his face.

"Then I'll wait and see, but you have to be prepared, I won't lose to you!"

(End of this chapter)