Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 201 The Future Will Be the Era of the Star Alliance
"If all else fails, we can only use the restricted area."

Su Nan calmed his mind and continued walking forward.

Thunder Stones mostly appear in places with dense lightning strikes. It is unlikely to find Thunder Stones in the outermost part of the lightning element space, so we have to explore further inside.

But before he had walked far, Sunan encountered the spirit of the thunder element.

A low-level lightning elemental spirit looks like a ball of lightning flashing with fine arcs of electricity.

Only as the power increases will the appearance of the Thunder Elemental Spirit gradually become humanoid.

When it reaches the level of an elemental giant, the upper body will become human-shaped, and the lower body will be surrounded by arcs of electricity and look like fog, or the whole body will become a human-shaped outline.

The creature in front of him was just a low-level spirit of the lightning element, without even a vague human-like outline. It was blown to ashes by a magic missile fired by Su Nan.

There is no problem of energy shortage in the Thunder Elemental Plane.

Here, the mental energy consumed in casting spells can be quickly restored.

But there is another, more serious problem.

That is, there are almost no energy particles other than lightning energy particles in the lightning element plane.

This also means that it is almost impossible to cast any spells that require other types of energy particles here.

Considering that lightning spells are almost ineffective against the spirit of lightning element, the only combat methods that Sunan can use here are non-elemental spells such as spell missiles, rings of disaster, engraved gems and liquid metals.

As for Black Thunder, he can hardly play much of a role in the elemental plane of thunder.

After death, the lightning elemental spirit left behind a small amount of crystal powder.

This is elemental crystal dust, a material rich in elemental energy that can be used to enchant or create magical items.

Su Nan stretched out his hand and put it into the space ring.

In the demiplane filled with thunder elements, Su Nan's completely different aura stands out from the crowd.

Even from a distance, the spirit of the lightning element could sense his presence.

Along the way, most of the lightning elemental spirits rushed towards him with crackling sounds, violently wanting to turn him into charcoal.

Only a very small number of lightning elemental spirits did not even look at him, but lazily floated in the air, floating slowly like clouds.

Sunan did not provoke these thunder elemental spirits, but only dealt with those blind and violent fellow tribesmen.

As they went deeper, the lightning element in the air became visibly denser, even forming materialized arcs that flickered continuously in the void.

The lightning elemental spirits encountered along the way are becoming stronger and stronger.

Sunan simply released two secret dolls.

Ordinary puppets cannot cause damage to the incorporeal spirit of the thunder element. Only high-level puppets that have been fixed with spells and demonized can deal with the spirit of the thunder element.

With the secret doll responsible for clearing the spirit of the thunder element, Sunan was finally able to free up his energy and concentrate on finding the Thunder Stone.

It didn't take long for him to make a discovery.

With a wave of his hand, a black stone on the side of the road suddenly rose from the ground and fell into Su Nan's palm.

Feeling the violent thunder energy contained in the stone, a smile appeared on his face.

Finally got something!

Sunan then searched the surrounding area carefully and indeed found a lot of thunder stones.

With the harvest, Sunan became more motivated.

There is no distinction between day and night in the Thunder Elemental Plane. Because there is so much space, it is difficult to encounter other creatures and it is easy to lose track of the passage of time.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but when Sunan stopped, there were more than two hundred thunder stones in the space ring.

"This amount of Thunder Stones is enough to make three pieces of Black Thunder."

Sunan smiled slightly and looked at the two secret dolls guarding beside him.

Although they had experienced a series of battles, the two secret dolls were hardly injured.

After all, the opponents are just a group of elemental spirits.

Since a large number of elemental spirits were killed, a lot of elemental crystal dust was accumulated in the space ring.

"Compared to the elemental crystal core, the value of the elemental crystal dust is still a little bit less."

Not long ago, Sunan saw a giant thunder elemental from afar.

However, he did not intend to fight the Thunder Elemental Giant in its home turf, so he avoided it early and did not let the other party notice him.

"Speaking of which, elemental giants are also a kind of divine creatures."

In the elemental plane where energy is pure and abundant, natural divinity can easily emerge, so elemental spirits are the race most likely to give birth to divine creatures.

For example, elemental giants, elemental giant elders and elemental lords are all divine creatures.

The power of rules they possess is often linked to their own elemental attributes.

In other words, divine energy should also be able to be extracted from the elemental giants.

However, considering the difficulty of killing a thunder elemental giant in the thunder element plane, Sunan gave up the idea.

In his own home turf, even a half increase in the Thunder Elemental Giant's combat effectiveness is considered a minimum, while his power is limited by environmental influences. The risk is too high as one increases while the other decreases.

Maybe after his strength improves a bit, he can try it, but doing this at this stage is no different from seeking death.

Shaking his head, Sunan opened the space channel and returned to the Dragon Skeleton Tower.

In the following time, Sunan devoted his energy to creating Black Thunder and improving the magic pattern core.

The former was completed in less than two months, and Sunan had three more Black Thunders in his hands.

The latter research took nearly two years on and off before it was successful.

After the improvement, the magic pattern core can be activated through the magic circle set up in the body of the secret puppet, and it only needs to inject energy particles.

Although the change came at the cost of a decrease in power, this problem was easily solved by synthesizing it with a Rubik's Cube.

The modified magic pattern core that was finally fused with the secret doll has a power roughly equivalent to the original level 6 magic pattern core.

It’s not that Sunan doesn’t want to integrate a more advanced magic pattern core, but this is already the limit of the secret doll’s load.

After all, a level 6 magic pattern core requires a formal wizard-level mental strength and a physique that surpasses the four-ring legendary level to be integrated. Even for Su Nan now, he can only integrate a level 6 magic pattern core at most.

Having said that, the combat effectiveness of the secret puppet has also improved by leaps and bounds after integrating the magic pattern core.

Even Sunan, without using magic weapons and engraved gems, could only barely fight it to a draw.

This is when his mental concentration has increased a lot.

If it were when I had just been promoted, I would definitely not be his opponent.

Now, if the Secret Doll Girl faces half of the Spider God's followers, it will be at least a 50-50 situation.

However, the price of the sudden increase in combat effectiveness is a sudden increase in costs.

In addition to integrating the level 6 magic pattern core, the secret puppet also underwent some upgrades to its body structure in order to carry the level 6 magic pattern core, and the final cost was as high as gold coins.

You should know that the cost of forming a small golem army is only more than 400,000 gold coins.

In other words, the cost of a secret doll is equivalent to that of a small army of golems.

"The cost of refining high-level puppets will only get higher and higher. After all, many materials can only be obtained through synthesis, and the cost is much higher than manufacturing."

Sunan sighed secretly.

Taking the level 6 magic pattern core as an example, if it is artificially made, the cost can be at least half cheaper than the synthetic one.

Just like the same ring legendary puppet, the manufacturing cost of the Iron Golem is more than half lower than that of the Elite Stone Golem. This is the price of using the synthetic magic cube.

Of course, compared with the magical power of the Rubik's Cube, this price is not worth mentioning.

After all, there is no theoretical upper limit to the synthesis of the Rubik's Cube. Many things cannot be made even if you spend a lot of gold coins, but the Rubik's Cube can be easily synthesized.

In fact, for southern Jiangsu now, gold coins are no longer a problem. What really limits development is resources.

Now that it controls the southeastern region of the underground world and has the Star Empire as a dumping ground for its goods, the Star Alliance can bring in tens of millions of gold coins every year.

However, as for the mithril needed to refine the secret dolls, the Star Alliance only controls so many silver mines, and the amount of mithril mined each year fluctuates within a fixed range. Even if there are more gold coins, it is impossible to increase them out of thin air.

The same is true for other rare resources.

When we take control of the entire Starlight Continent in the future, this problem will become more and more prominent.

In the absence of a third-party trading partner, all Sunan can control are the resources of the Starlight Continent, and no matter how many gold coins he has, it will be useless.

"Fortunately, the resources in Starlight Continent are enough for me to build a wizard tower."

"When the plane barriers are restored in the future and the Starlight Continent can trade with other planes, the resource problem will be solved."

Shaking his head, Sunan gathered his thoughts and devoted himself to refining the secret doll.

The mithril he now has is enough to refine two more secret dolls.

Underground world, northwest region.

Green smoke rose above the Mushroom Forest City, where the war had just ended, and the fluorite light cast from above the cave illuminated the ruins below.

The clay golems moved back and forth among the ruins, carrying bloody corpses and transporting them outside the city to be burned and destroyed.

Corey walked through the ruins in a dusty manner, with some blood stains on his gray robe. He looked a little tired, obviously having just been through a fierce battle.

Mushroom Forest City gathered the last of the elite forces in the Northwest Territory, and their resistance was so fierce that even he, the commander-in-chief, had to go out in person. After fighting for most of the day, he finally conquered this tough nut to crack.

And he had reasons to do so.

After the capture of Mushroom Forest City, there was no longer any large-scale resistance force in the Northwest Region, and the remaining few cats could be easily dealt with.

It can be said that the Northwest Territory has fallen into the control of the Star Alliance.

In two months at most, the war here will be settled.

Thinking that he hadn't been back to Longlin for many years, even Corey, who rarely expressed nostalgia, couldn't help but sigh.

I heard that Longlin has newly established the Starlight Academy, but I don’t know what kind of academy it is?

While thinking, Corey had already arrived at the stone pillar in the center of Mushroom Forest City and strode inside.

The wizard apprentices following behind him also filed in.

The space inside the stone pillar is extremely spacious, and clay golems are carrying supplies.

Corey quickly found the warehouse, and before he entered, he saw Ethan walking out with a happy smile on his face.

Seeing this, Corey knew that this trip was quite rewarding, but he still asked a question.

"How about it?"

"The harvest is rich." Ethan was delighted. "The resources in the warehouses of those city-states should have been concentrated here."

There was also a faint smile on Corey's face.

The richer the spoils, the more contribution points he can get.

After arranging people to collect the counted resources, Ethan and Corey walked outside side by side.

"Would you like to rest here for two days?"

"No, there aren't many resistance forces left. We should take this opportunity to solve the problem before it becomes too late."

"That's true." Ethan nodded in agreement.

After leading the army outside for nearly seven years, he was a little tired and also wanted to end the war quickly and return to Longlin to concentrate on his training.

The contribution points he earned over the years were enough for him to use for a long time.

After being away for so long, he missed Long Lin a little.

The two came to the intact city wall on the other side of Mushroom Forest City and looked at the darkness in the distance.

That is the only remaining area in the Northwest Territory that has not yet been incorporated into the Star Alliance's territory, and the area it occupies on the military map is less than one-fiftieth of the Northwest Territory.

Looking at the entire underground world, it is just a corner.

"When I first took office as commander-in-chief, I never thought that the Star Alliance would be able to unify the underground world so quickly."

A sigh appeared on Ethan's face.

In just seven or eight years, the Star Alliance first razed the southeast region and even captured the Demon Spider City which was protected by the gods. Then it swept across the northwest region and was invincible.

Seeing that the Star Alliance was about to unify the underground world, and he was one of the participants, personally experiencing and witnessing it all happen, it was impossible for him not to feel emotional.

Cole looked calm, but deep down he agreed with it.

When I first became my teacher's student, the base was just a small place next to the Flashing City. Who would have thought that in less than thirty years, the base would become a behemoth that would soon unify the underground world?
To many people, this is nothing short of a miracle!
"That's because the teacher is here." Corey said.

After working with Corey for so many years, Ethan had long been accustomed to his fanatical admiration for his teacher. He smiled as if he was not surprised when he heard this.

"I heard that the Empire is preparing to attack the Northwest Territory. Once the Northwest Territory is successfully unified, the entire Starlight Continent will be in the hands of the Star Alliance."

"That day will come soon." Corey nodded.

In their view, even though it is the Star Empire that will unify the surface world in the future, it will be no different from the Star Alliance taking action personally.

The Star Empire is dependent on the Star Alliance and has achieved its current development thanks to the Star Alliance. In essence, it can actually be regarded as a subsidiary organization of the Star Alliance.

This is not arrogance or hubris on the part of Corey and Ethan.

This has become a consensus among the wizard apprentices of the Starlight Academy and the aristocratic circles of the empire.

Although on the surface, the Star Empire and the Star Alliance are independent and equal forces, anyone with a little knowledge knows that equality is only based on the premise that the strength of both sides is equal.

The Star Empire intimidates the continent on the surface, but its actual strength is far inferior to that of the Star Alliance.

In terms of resources, the Star Empire is also very dependent on the Star Alliance, but vice versa.

In this situation, the Starry Empire naturally does not have much say.

After long-term trading and cooperation, the Star Empire will naturally become a subsidiary of the Star Alliance.

From the emperor to the nobles, no one objected to this.

It would be better to say that they would be happy to be more closely bound to the Covenant.

"From now on, it will be the era of the Star Alliance." Ethan smiled, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, "After conquering the Starlight Continent, what will be the next target of the Star Alliance?"

Corey was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "I heard that ancient wizards all liked to conquer other civilized planes. Perhaps the teacher has similar ideas."

Ethan's eyes lit up.

That's a good goal.

He also wanted to see the scenery of other dimensions.

If the Star Alliance were to expedition to other planes one day, he would definitely participate and go to other planes to take a look!

But before that, he had to be promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice.

For the current Star Alliance, the second-level wizard apprentice is still a bit weak.

(End of this chapter)