Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 217: Spell Turret II and Magic Machine
New puppet!
Everyone was curious when they heard this.

Fleming was the first one who couldn't hold back and went forward to open the cabin.

As the metal door opened to both sides with a hiss, the situation inside the cabin appeared before everyone.

In the spacious hall, huge puppets were neatly arranged in a square formation, standing motionless, with a sense of regular beauty.

These puppets looked like metal octopuses, with more than a dozen long tentacles coiled around their bloated bodies, each with a sharp cone at the end, flashing a heart-poundingly cold light like a blade.

"A puppet in the form of an octopus?"

Sherman had a feeling that the unexpected was yet reasonable.

There are octopus-like sea monsters in the Rainbow Sea, and the octopus form can be said to be very suitable for underwater operations.

Moreover, it is obvious that the attack power of those tentacles should not be underestimated.

It can be said that the octopus form is one of the best forms that combines underwater action and aggressiveness.

"There are a total of 500 octopus puppets here, each of which has the combat power of a first-ring legendary level. In addition, there are ten elite octopus puppets with the combat power of a second-ring legendary level."

"The other two second-level magic ships also have the same number of puppets."

A total of 1,500 octopus puppets and thirty elite octopus puppets.

Sherman nodded secretly.

This number is almost enough at this stage.

Once the three artificial islands are built, we can construct a golem factory, transfer the octopus puppet production line to the islands, and mass-produce puppets on site. Then we won’t have to worry about manpower.

"Now that the support has arrived, let's set off for the artificial island today without further delay."

Wizard's Tower, inside the plantation.

Sunan used his wizard's hands to control the special liquid that was a fusion of rare metals and gems, and carefully drew the final pattern on the ground.

As the lines intersected to form a closed loop, the entire formation instantly flashed with silver light, and there was an indescribable strange aura.

"It's done!"

Sunan let out a long sigh and a smile flashed across his face.

The magic circle of the plantation has been drawn, and the next step is to plant the magic plants.

In terms of growth environment, the Wizard Tower Plantation has a higher concentration of energy particles and also has magic circles, which is obviously better than Dragon Forest Area 2.

The only advantage of the latter is its large area.

"Rare magic plants can be moved to the plantation, while those with relatively low value should be placed in Dragon Forest Area 2."

Sunan turned around and waved to Tia who was wandering not far away.

"Tia."

Hearing Su Nan's call, the elegant and beautiful flower fairy queen immediately flew over happily.

"Sunan, are you done with your work?"

"Well, the magic circle has been set up. Once the magic plants are transplanted, it will be almost done."

Sunan stretched out his index finger and gently stroked Tia's delicate face with his fingertips. The girl showed an expression of enjoyment.

"Tia, I'll have to trouble you to summon another group of our kind."

"No problem." Tita agreed with a smile, "Many of my people want to come here."

Most flower fairies have a wish to have a flower garden that they can take care of by themselves, and the plantation just meets this wish.

In addition, Sunan is very generous and gives a lot of rewards, so the flower fairies live happily here, which makes their fellow tribesmen who are still in their hometown very envious.

After playing with Tia for a while, Sunan left the plantation and returned to the control center.

"No. 1, scan the current status of the wizard tower."

[Received the instruction and started scanning. ]

【Scanning completed.】

A three-dimensional panoramic model immediately appeared before our eyes.

[Wizard Tower: Starlight]

[Level: Small (Construction Progress 37.22%)]

[Current remaining energy: 93.82%]

[Intelligent Assisted Life: Tower Spirit No. 1]

[Facilities: Elemental pool (small/enhanced), central crystal energy transmission system, living area, warehouse area (construction progress 76.22%), experimental area, practice area (construction progress 46.91%), meditation area, planting area]

[Servants: Clay Golem × 130]

[Protective device: Mystical protective energy field (small)]

【Battle Equipment: None】

“It’s going pretty smoothly.”

Sunan nodded secretly.

The maze-lock protective energy field has also been produced, and next we can consider making a few more for synthesis.

The same goes for the element pool, which is currently in the +1 enhancement state and can continue to be synthesized.

The progress of spatial planning is only half completed, and many areas are still not perfect.

It is worth mentioning that Sunan just made a spell turret a while ago.

The first batch of practice works were used to equip the magic ship.

He planned to synthesize the ones he manufactured later and then equip them on the wizard tower.

"In the current situation of Starlight Continent, there is simply no way to gather the resources to manufacture plasma cannons and pulse cannons. Even if they are manufactured, the small element pool cannot afford the energy consumption of these two weapons."

Sunan shook his head.

Not to mention the pulse cannon, even the lower-level plasma cannon is a big energy consumer.

He estimated that even with a +1 enhanced elemental pool, it would only be enough to fire two plasma cannons.

For small wizard towers, the levels of plasma cannons and pulse cannons are too high. They are equipment only available in medium and large wizard towers.

Small wizard towers can only be equipped with disintegration cannons at most.

However, although it cannot be equipped with plasma cannons and pulse cannons, it is no problem to enhance the power of spell turrets and disintegration cannons through synthesis.

Although there is also the problem of a sharp increase in energy consumption as firepower increases, this can be solved by strengthening the element pool as well.

After many experiments and firepower tests, Sunan finally decided on five spell turrets.

The power of this number of spell turrets synthesized is about seven times and close to eight times that of the original one.

Sunan asked the secret doll girl to assist in the test, but he severely injured the secret doll girl with one shot.

If it weren't for the magic pattern core that offset most of the artillery power, the secret doll girl would probably have turned into a pile of scrap metal.

"This power is almost as powerful as the Disintegration Cannon!"

Sunan was filled with emotion.

Even if it was a first-level vaporization wizard, if he was hit by a few rays from the spell turret, he would be seriously injured if not killed.

However, the price of greatly enhanced power is that energy consumption also surges to about four times the original amount.

Sunan estimated that only by strengthening the element pool to a level close to medium could it afford the consumption of using the spell turret as a conventional weapon.

It just so happened that he was planning to do so, so he limited the number of synthesized bodies to five.

If the spell turret is further strengthened, its power will certainly continue to increase, but it will lose its meaning as a conventional weapon.

As for high-end weapons, he planned to strengthen the disintegration cannon.

"Since it's a brand new version, let's call it Spell Turret II."

Sunan decided to first equip the wizard tower with one hundred Type II spell turrets, and then increase the number depending on the situation.

The cost of this item alone is over 15 million gold coins.

However, the benefits are also very obvious. The firepower of the Starlight Wizard Tower is definitely far superior to most small wizard towers. If it is equipped with a synthetically enhanced dissociation cannon, its firepower will probably not be much inferior to that of a medium-sized wizard tower.

"After we finish the spell turret, we can research the disintegration cannon."

"There is also the Golem Corps. The problem of the high-level puppets has not been solved yet."

The high-level puppet designs that Sunan currently has in his hands are the adamantium golem and the secret puppet.

The former can be strengthened to a three-ring legend and can be used as the main puppet of the Wizard Tower Golem Legion. There is no need to worry about the source of magic adamantium materials.

The problem is the latter.

Generally speaking, small wizard towers would be equipped with high-level puppets of formal wizard level as the final battle sequence.

In other words, this type of puppet must at least reach the combat power level of a first-level gasification wizard.

The Secret Doll Girl undoubtedly meets this requirement.

But the problem is that the cost of refining the secret doll is too high.

The cost of a single secret doll is as high as 480,000 gold coins. If there are 100 of them, it will cost nearly 50 million gold coins.

The key point is that even if Su Nan is willing to spend the money, he doesn't have that much material.

Refining secret dolls requires a large amount of mithril, and the current mithril production of the Star Alliance is basically used in the construction of wizard towers. It can be predicted that there will not be enough mithril to refine secret dolls in batches in the next hundred years.

Of course, he could also accumulate mithril for a hundred years after the wizard tower was built, and he would always be able to collect enough mithril to refine the secret doll.

However, considering the wide range of uses of mithril as a material, it would be a bit of a waste to use it to mass-produce mithril puppets.

It would be best to find a way to get the blueprints of a wizard-level puppet and refine it directly by hand.

As for the materials, we can find ways to synthesize them or research substitutes. Anyway, the most critical soul crystal will definitely be no problem.

“There are a lot of problems to solve.”

Su Nan rubbed his eyebrows.

Building a wizard tower in an elemental desert and a world with blocked planes is indeed a laborious task.

Just compare these benefits after the wizard tower is built, and these problems will no longer be problems.

After leaving the control center, Sunan returned to the study.

I have been immersed in the construction of the wizard tower in recent months and have not read the reports sent to me for a long time. There should be no major problems with the Star Alliance and the Star Empire, but I don’t know what the situation is like over in the Rainbow Sea.

However, as soon as he returned to the study, Su Nan suddenly sensed a powerful energy fluctuation erupting.

"That direction is Starlight Academy!"

Su Nan's figure disappeared instantly, and when he appeared again he was already above Starlight Academy.

The students’ power levels were too low and they did not sense the energy fluctuations, so the academy remained as peaceful as ever.

Soon, a group of mentors including Scepter, Rose and Fakado also came to Sunan.

Under the introduction of the Scepter and the Rose, Starlight Academy later recruited three third-level wizard apprentices as instructors.

With the addition of Sherman and Corey who have accepted the invitation to take on mentor roles, the number of mentors at Starlight Academy has now reached double digits, greatly alleviating the pressure on teaching staff.

"It should be the traveler." The Scepter said, "He has been in seclusion for several years. It's about time for him to come out."

Qiangwei said: "It seems that his semi-elemental transformation should have been successful."

Sure enough, not long after, a figure was seen rising into the sky and flying towards where everyone was at a high speed.

It was the traveler I hadn’t seen for a long time.

Compared to before the retreat, the traveler's aura was more peaceful, yet there was a hint of vitality like the towering trees.

When the whole person stopped and floated in the air, it seemed as if he had merged into the entire world.

It is a sign of successful semi-elementalization.

And judging from the aura, the traveler obviously chose the wood element.

"Congratulations." Su Nan congratulated with a smile.

Others also reacted at this time and came forward to congratulate.

The travelers also thanked them one by one with a smile on their faces.

After a few pleasantries, Fakado and the others said goodbye and left. Only Sunan, Qiangwei and Scepter, who were more familiar with the travelers, stayed.

"How do you feel?" Qiangwei asked with bright eyes.

She also plans to take the semi-elemental route next, and the traveler's experience may give her some reference.

The traveler did not hide anything and said truthfully: "Very good, the perception and control of plant energy particles have been significantly enhanced. The specific increase in lifespan is not clear yet, but it is definitely forty to fifty years."

Among the many semi-element routes, the wood element increases lifespan the most due to its properties.

In other words, the choice of the semi-elemental route must be in line with one's own physique. If it is not in line with one's own physique, the probability of failure is extremely high. Otherwise, most wizard apprentices would probably choose the wood element.

The traveler is also quite lucky, as his constitution happens to be compatible with the wood element.

“But after becoming half-elemental, I vaguely feel some kind of shackles. It seems that if I take one more step forward, I will touch some kind of limit.” The traveler frowned and said.

"That is the shackles of the Starlight Continent's environment."

Sunan explained the upper limit of energy particle concentration.

After hearing this, the three travelers suddenly realized.

"No wonder all the wizards left thousands of years ago. It's really unbearable to stay here."

"Not only that, in this environment, wizards' training will be twice as effective with half the effort."

Qiangwei couldn't help but glance at Su Nan.

She couldn't see through Su Nan's level of strength at all, nor did she know what level the latter had reached.

All along, Su Nan gave her the feeling that he was too unfathomable and his actions were always unexpected.

Perhaps Sunan has a way to overcome the harsh environment of the Starlight Continent.

After chatting for a while, Sunan returned to the wizard tower.

After the traveler successfully transformed into a semi-element, Rose was obviously eager to try it out.

I guess it won’t be long before I start to retreat.

And most of the time, the wood element will be chosen.

In fact, the wizard apprentice's semi-elementalization has almost no impact on the elemental knight.

After all, there are no restrictions on the types of energy particles that a wizard apprentice can absorb through meditation.

On the other hand, elemental knights can only absorb specific types of energy particles to improve their strength. They have relatively higher requirements for the upper limit of energy particle concentration and are more easily affected by the energy particle concentration ceiling of the Starlight Continent.

This is why Sunan suggested that Keyi choose the path of Bloodline Knight.

Back in the study, Sunan sat down and read the report.

The Starry Empire's report is mainly about the progress of reform implementation.

Due to the lack of magic stone veins, Sunan rejected the idea of ​​promoting magic technology, but later he came up with the idea of ​​popularizing secondary magic technology that uses secondary magic stones as energy.

Only he can synthesize magic stones, but secondary magic stones can be made by second or third level wizard apprentices.

Although the quantity is not enough to supply the entire continent, small-scale supply is still feasible.

So he directly threw the design drawings of the magic technology to Starlight Academy and asked them to research the corresponding sub-magic technology based on it.

Since it is backward compatible, the research progress is quite fast.

Just three months ago, a magic energy machine that used secondary magic stones as its driving energy source was born.

This magic energy machine is somewhat similar to an internal combustion engine, but it has a higher energy utilization rate and can be used in many production fields.

However, due to the small number of secondary magic stones, the magic energy machine is currently only promoted and used in the imperial capital area.

That being said, it's still a good start.

As the number of wizard apprentices in Starlight Academy increases, the output of secondary magic stones will also increase year by year, driving the gradual popularization of secondary magic technology, expanding its application scope, and the birth of more secondary magic products.

(End of this chapter)