Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 161: Clues to the Divine Creature, Secret Doll Refining

In the brightly lit laboratory.

Su Nan looked at the winged statue in front of him with a strange look on his face.

Having come into contact with the remains of gods and the holy relics of the Starfire Cult before, he immediately sensed the power of faith contained in the statue.

Although it is very meager, not even one percent of the original divine corpse, it is indeed the genuine power of faith.

“This should be some kind of divine creature.”

Sunan was thoughtful.

The current environment of the Starlight Continent makes it impossible for new gods to be born.

The ancient gods have existed for at least tens of thousands of years, and he recognizes them all.

The statue in front of me does not belong to any of them.

So it could only be some kind of divine creature.

New divine creatures are born in the multiverse every moment, and most of them do not belong to a specific race, but are a completely new race themselves. Therefore, it is normal for some divine creatures that he does not recognize to appear.

"I just don't know whether this divine creature is a native creature born on the Starlight Continent, or if it traveled here from another dimension."

Sunan prefers the former.

After all, in the current environment of the Starlight Continent, no divine creature would be stupid enough to come here on their own initiative.

The divine creatures who are able to jump between planes have a life level far beyond that of wizard apprentices. Entering today's Starlight Continent is like humans entering an environment with thin air. Every moment they stay there increases the pain.

"But all the believers were wiped out. Why didn't the divine creature show up?"

"Or does it simply not care about those Eye Demon followers?"

This possibility is not impossible.

If it is a divine creature born naturally, the power of faith will do it no good, so it naturally does not need believers.

Perhaps the Eye Demon of Giant Eye City simply believed in that divine creature without authorization.

In any case, the clues of divine creatures found near the Star Alliance cannot be taken lightly, and the whereabouts of the other party must be found.

Now the exploration team has one more task.

After coming to his senses, Sunan took out the divine finger and tried to extract the power of faith from the statue and introduce it into the divine finger, but failed.

After all, it is not the power of faith directed at the divine corpse, the two are simply incompatible.

Helplessly, Sunan could only let the power of faith slowly dissipate.

The power of faith that cannot be transformed into divine energy is of no use to him.

Fortunately, this amount of faith power was too weak. Even if it was converted into divine energy, it could only increase his mental power by 0.02 to 0.03 at most, so he didn't feel too sorry.

After putting away the statue, Sunan went to the study.

Carolina and Red Widow were already waiting for him here.

"Master." The two women bowed together.

“It was well done this time.”

After sitting down at the desk, Su Nan began to praise the Red Widow.

"That's what I should do, Master."

The Red Widow smiled sweetly, her beautiful eyes sparkling, and she glanced at Carolina beside her without leaving a trace.

Carolina curled her lips and snorted secretly.

Sunan turned to look at Carolina and asked, "The graduation examinations of the six knight academies will be held in two months. How are your preparations going?"

Carolina immediately replied, "It is ready, Master."

Sunan nodded slightly: "After the graduation assessment, all students will join the Knight Guard and form a new exploration team with the new second-level wizard apprentices. They will all be assigned to you. The expansion of the Star Alliance must be accelerated."

Following Sherman and Corey, several others including Arthur and Ethan were promoted to second-level wizard apprentices in the base.

Today, the number of students in the entire base has exceeded 300, reaching 303.

There are a total of six second-level wizard apprentices.

This number will increase faster and faster in the future.

Originally, Sunan was planning to form a third small golem army, but he has been busy making magic pattern constructs recently and has no time to refine puppets.

In addition, the magic pattern constructs are very expensive, and most of the Star Alliance's income is now invested in them. There is no extra cash flow to form a new golem army for the time being.

The only consolation is that the 3,000 newly added knights, after being equipped with magic pattern constructs and magic weapons, have a combat power no less than a small golem army, which means that the goal of expanding military power has been achieved.

"After the graduation assessment, the Knight Guard will have 3,500 members, and the number will increase every year. It is no longer appropriate to call it the Knight Guard. Let's change the name to the Magic Pattern Knights."

Sunan made the final decision.

From now on, the Knights of the Demonic Pattern will become one of the most important armed forces of the Star Alliance.

The year 1259 of the Starlight Calendar, the month of Xialong.

The six knight academies of Dragon Scale, Dragon Horn, Dragon Claw, Dragon Eye, Dragon Bone and Dragon Blood welcomed their first batch of graduates.

On the third day of the month, three thousand knight trainees gathered on the island of Youhu City to prepare for the graduation examination.

“This year’s event is much bigger than last year’s!”

Looking at the sea of ​​people on the island, Ruger couldn't help but sigh.

Solano chuckled and said, "After all, there are six Knight Academy this year."

Sheen looked at the students whose expressions were a mixture of excitement and trepidation, and a smile appeared on his face.

"When the assessment is over, our Knight Guard, ah, now it should be called the Magic Pattern Knights, will increase in number by six times."

"I should call you Captain now." Ruger chuckled. "The larger the Magic Pattern Knights become, the higher Captain Sheen's status in the Star Alliance will be. He will be no less than a wizard apprentice."

Sheen laughed and shook his head.

He did not attach much importance to the size of power, but instead felt a heavy sense of responsibility.

Lord Sunan appointed him as the leader of the Magic Pattern Knights and entrusted him with the management responsibility of thousands of people. He must live up to this trust.

"Enough of the small talk, let's get to work."

Xien took a deep breath and said seriously:

"Starting from this year, every graduation assessment will be taken over by our Magic Pattern Knights. This graduation assessment is our first one, so there must be no mistakes."

Ruger and Solano stopped smiling and responded solemnly.

The Star Alliance spent the entire month of Xialong busy.

Time flies and enters the moon of flowing fire.

Inside the magic practice room.

Su Nan stood in the middle of the wide field, motionless.

As his mind moved slightly, ten magic missiles appeared out of thin air, and then quickly transformed into sharp spears as long as arms. They dispersed and whizzed out, drawing strange trajectories in the void, and finally gathered at one point and pierced through the human-shaped target a hundred meters away at the same time.

"The attack power has increased by about 30 to 40 percent."

Sunan nodded in satisfaction. After nearly two years, the training progress of spell construction finally reached 100%.

This super magic skill was second only to compound casting and instant spell casting in difficulty, and its power did not disappoint him.

Even though it's only 30% to 40% effective, when accumulated over a battle, the damage output is enough to increase significantly, and the improvement in actual combat capability is immediate.

The key is that spell structure can greatly enhance the flexibility of spells.

For example, controlling the flight trajectory of a spell missile.

Or change the shape of the shield from a tower shield with a limited protection area to a 360-degree protective shield with no blind spots.

A wizard (apprentice) who has mastered the construction of spells can often bring many unexpected "surprises" to the enemy in battle.

"Which super magic skill should I continue to train next?"

The only super magic skills that Sunan has not mastered yet are spell enhancement to increase the casting distance, spell delay to extend the duration of spell effects, and spell expansion to increase the range of spell influence.

In fact, the practicality of these three super magic skills is not much different, and it doesn’t matter which one you choose.

And the difficulty is much lower than the previous super magic skills.

With his current mental strength, he would be able to master it in a year at most.

Therefore, Sunan did not hesitate for too long and decisively chose the spell delay.

[Complete a spell delay exercise, 'Spell Delay' training progress +0.02%]

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

I have important things to do today, so I can't waste my energy on practice.

After conquering Giant Eye City, Sunan immediately arranged for personnel to develop the silver mines controlled by Giant Eye City.

During this period of time, he gradually harvested a lot of mithril. Together with what he had accumulated before and what he got from the Eye Demon's warehouse, he now finally saved enough mithril to refine the secret doll.

Next, I can finally refine the secret doll.

After entering Longlin, Sunan was teleported directly to the workshop area and entered his own large workshop.

With the element pool providing a constant supply of energy, he installed three magic crystal forging furnaces in the workshop at once, greatly improving work efficiency.

Turning on the magic crystal forging furnace, Sunan came to the workbench, took out the materials from the space ring and placed them on the table. He took a deep breath, his expression instantly became extremely focused, and he started refining.

Having been refining puppets in large quantities for many years, he has accumulated extremely rich experience.

The [Puppet Refining] skill has also been upgraded to level 5.

In terms of the skill of making puppets alone, Su Nan was confident that he was no less capable than some formal wizards, and was far superior to wizard apprentices.

No wizard apprentice, now or in the past, has had such superb puppet-making skills as him.

Although it is difficult to refine the secret doll, it is only a little troublesome for him, not difficult.

When you concentrate on refining, time flies.

It was not until the evening that Sunan released the wizard's hand, breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked at the results on the workbench with excitement.

They were human-shaped metal bodies, the same size as real people, glowing with a slightly bluish silver light under the light.

It looked like a strong warrior, with muscles all over his body and eyes closed.

If it weren't for the obviously different body color from that of ordinary people, it would look no different from a real person.

Su Nan's mind moved slightly, and the secret doll suddenly opened its eyes. It jumped up from the workbench quickly and flexibly, and shot into the distance like a cannonball, then rolled in the air and landed steadily.

At the same time, a bulge suddenly appeared in the palm of its hand, and it quickly turned into a knight's long sword shining with cold light. It stabbed fiercely into the void several times, causing a sharp explosion that broke through the air.

"good."

Sunan nodded with satisfaction.

One of the main materials of the secret puppet is diamond. Its body is much stronger than that of the adamantium golem. Its strength and reaction speed are also excellent, and its melee ability can be described as exceptionally good.

Of course, its spellcasting ability is even more outstanding.

Mithril itself is a material with excellent ductility and magical conductivity. In addition, a large number of high-level rune gems are added to the body of the secret puppet, so it also has the ability to manipulate energy particles.

In addition, Sunan also kept a large number of zero-ring, one-ring and two-ring spells constant in the secret doll's body, giving it the ability to cast spells in disguise.

The key is that casting spells is just like activating magic items that store spells. There is no need to chant incantations, only a slight pause, which is almost equivalent to mastering the instant casting of spells.

And as long as the energy is not exhausted, you can cast spells uninterruptedly.

From this point of view, the spellcasting ability of the secret puppet completely crushes most third-level wizard apprentices.

The secret puppet that was finally refined, although not reaching the level of a formal wizard, was already much more powerful than the average third-level wizard apprentice.

After testing it in the spell training area, Sunan was satisfied that the secret doll already possessed power comparable to that of a four-ring legend.

Even he, without using the magic pattern core and many magical items, is no match for the secret doll.

If you want to kill the secret puppet, you will have to use many trump cards such as high-level rune gems and blood marks.

This shows how powerful the secret doll is!
"Against the third-level wizard apprentices like Magic Hand and Bloody Mouth, the Secret Marionette should be able to win easily."

Su Nan looked at the secret doll in front of him, whose outline was clear and looked like a real person, and his mind moved again.

In an instant, the secret doll in front of him melted into a ball as quickly as hot butter, and in the next moment it quickly transformed into a thin and slender beautiful girl with silver hair draped over her shoulders.

The skin also loses color and becomes as white and smooth as milk.

Secret dolls have no concept of gender, nor fixed form. Their body and appearance can be changed at will, and they can easily impersonate living people.

Even if it was a third-level wizard apprentice, it would be difficult to tell the difference without careful observation.

After a moment of joy, Su Nan calmed down and a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes again.

The cost of refining the secret doll is much higher than originally estimated.

In order to improve the combat power of the secret puppet, he constantized more spells and added many enchantment features, causing the cost to soar to 100,000 gold coins.

In the few months since the magic pattern construct was refined, the accumulated cash flow was almost completely consumed.

If it weren't for the fact that most of it was the mithril he had already saved, he really wouldn't be able to come up with so many gold coins to refine the secret doll at once.

"It took me so long to accumulate 16 kilograms of mithril. It is impossible to accumulate enough materials to refine a second secret doll in such a short time."

Having said that, Sunan didn't care.

As long as he could successfully refine the secret doll, it would be enough to prove that his idea was feasible.

At worst, I can just save up for a few more years and I’ll always be able to gather enough materials.

"The next step is to continue improving the secret doll."

There was a gleam in Sunan's eyes.

Compared with ordinary puppets, secret puppets are closer to humans in structure, and have much greater room for growth than ordinary puppets.

The successful refining of the secret doll is only the first step, and there are still many ideas that can be studied and verified.

For example, integrating the magic pattern core or blood mark into the secret puppet.

If successful, the puppet's combat capability will surely increase dramatically.

After refining four or five secret puppets and then synthesizing them, maybe I can create a powerful puppet that is comparable to a real wizard!
When he thought of this, Su Nan couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.

(End of this chapter)