The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 100: Magic Pattern Construction and the Concept of the Knight Guard

Puppet factory.

The low roar of the magic crystal forging furnace echoed in the factory.

Su Nan stood in front of the large workbench, with a focused look on his face, using his mage's hand to control the silver needle and carve enchanting patterns on the surface of the golem.

About ten minutes later, as the last stroke of lines fell, the entire demon statue body instantly gained a fresh magical aura.

"Another one completed!"

Sunan smiled with satisfaction and put the miniature soul crystal into the groove on the golem's chest.

As the groove closed, the enchantment lines flashed brightly one after another, and the steel golem on the workbench suddenly came to life.

Under Sunan's order, the steel golem jumped off the workbench, walked to the corner and stood at the end of the team.

In front of it are six identical steel golems.

After the second gathering at the jungle hut, Sunan immediately started refining a new steel golem.

A total of six miniature soul crystals were all refined into soul cores, and the final result was six steel golems.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the steel golem as much as possible, the steel used for refining has been synthesized and strengthened in advance to improve the material quality.

The combat power of the finally refined steel golem has reached the upper level of a legendary knight, and is much stronger than the first steel golem refined previously.

The price was that the cost increased by nearly half, soaring to more than 1,500 gold coins.

Sunan now earns about 22,000 gold coins every year from selling potions alone.

The cost of these six steel golems is almost equivalent to 40% of the pharmacy's annual income.

Of course, this is only a nominal cost.

In fact, because the cost of purchasing miniature soul crystals is so low, the actual cost is not that exaggerated.

"The six steel golems are still a little too small to deal with the hundred-armed monster."

The Hundred-Armed Monster was the name Su Nan gave to the monster in the cave.

The main purpose of refining the six steel golems was to deal with the hundred-armed monster.

The old steel golem will remain at the base.

However, considering the fighting power of the hundred-armed monster, the six steel golems are still slightly insufficient.

"At least ten of them."

With enough tanks blocking the front, Sunan can safely attack from behind.

After thinking for a moment, he quickly came up with an idea.

If the number of steel golems is not enough, use stone golems to make up for it.

But the ordinary stone golem will definitely not work.

There's no point in the front row that can't even block a blow from the Hundred-Armed Monster.

A more powerful stone golem must be synthesized.

There happened to be more than twenty stone golems placed in the Rubik's Cube, so Su Nan took them out and put them into the Rubik's Cube.

[Elite stone golem (puppet/advanced knight level), a puppet creation made of granite, is extremely powerful and indestructible, and can automatically recover from injuries by consuming energy. 】

"It takes twenty-five stone golems to combine into a high-level knight?"

Sunan frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed his brows.

After all, the initial combat power of the stone golem is only the junior knight level. The starting point is too low, and it is normal for the synthesis quantity to be high.

Sunan simply transferred a dozen stone golems from the patrol team and continued to put them into the Rubik's Cube.

When the number of synthesis increased to forty-two, the combat power of the elite stone golem on the synthesis interface finally broke through to the level of a legendary knight.

"The cost of one stone golem is about forty-three gold coins, and forty-two are more than nineteen hundred gold coins. The cost is about three hundred gold coins more than that of the steel golem, but its combat effectiveness is a bit lower."

The elite stone golem is at most the lower level of a legendary knight, and cannot compare to the newly refined steel golem.

However, Sunan thought about it and decided to synthesize the stone golem.

After all, soul crystals are really rare. In comparison, gems are easier to obtain.

It is already very good to have a channel to combine the combat power of a legendary knight.

"One hundred and sixty-eight stone golems are needed to synthesize four elite stone golems, and there are still one hundred and forty-three left."

"Fortunately, I got a lot of gems from the jungle hut, so I have enough materials."

"It will take almost twenty days to complete it all."

Su Nan estimated the time. If everything goes well, it will be refined just in time before winter.

Putting the stone golem of the patrol guard back, Sunan left the puppet factory and walked towards the spell practice area.

Next it's time to practice spells.

He has now mastered three second-level spells: [Elemental Protection], [Levitation Technique] and [Mirror Image Technique].

Considering that he had to deal with the hundred-armed monster next, Sunan chose [Crushing Sound Wave] for the fourth second-level spell.

[Crushing Sound Wave] is a range damage spell that can emit a high-speed vibrating sound wave, causing crushing damage to all living or non-living bodies.

This spell is somewhat similar to Banshee's Wail.

Of course, the damage is far from comparable.

Banshee's Wail can even cause soul-level damage, while Crushing Sonic only works on the physical level.

However, [Crushing Sound Wave] can be precisely controlled and accurately strike the target.

Unlike Banshee's Wail, its lethality is completely indistinguishable between friend and foe.

With the improvement of mental power and the switch to the third-level mid-grade transcendental potion, Sunan's speed of learning spells has also accelerated.

Now it only takes more than forty days to master a second-level spell.

[Crushing Sound Wave] is now more than halfway through the learning process. Su Nan estimates that when the stone golem is refined, he should be able to master [Crushing Sound Wave] almost.

After practicing the spell, Su Nan came to the study room and took out a book from the bookshelf to read.

From the jungle hut, he successively acquired more than a hundred wizarding books.

During this time, he devoted two to three hours to reading every day.

Thanks to the learning progress of the panel, his current knowledge far exceeds the level of a normal third-level wizard apprentice.

Even if compared with official wizards, Sunan is confident that he will not fall behind.

Most of the wizarding books that were traded contained only basic knowledge, with very little advanced knowledge.

However, there was one book that interested Su Nan.

"Magic Pattern Construction"!

This is the name of the book.

To sum up, the content is to combine magic tattoos and magic weapons to create a special enchantment pattern that can be used by wizards (apprentices) and knights.

As we all know, magical tattoos can only be used by wizards (apprentices).

After all, this thing must be activated by injecting spiritual power.

But magic weapons are different, even knights can use them.

So the author of the book found a new way to combine magic tattoos with demonized weapons, intending to create a strange weapon that existed in the form of enchanted runes and could be activated by injecting fighting spirit or mental power, greatly enhancing the user's combat effectiveness.

To be honest, the magic pattern structure is actually similar to the magic pattern core.

The basis of both is magic tattoo, and both require [Magic Item Creation] as a prerequisite skill.

The difference is that in addition to [magic item manufacturing], the magic pattern construction also involves [biological transformation], which is more difficult than the magic pattern core. "This thing is of little use to wizard apprentices and is far inferior to the magic pattern core, but it is of great use to those who want to form their own power."

The power of the magic pattern construct is only slightly higher than the magic tattoo, far inferior to the magic pattern core, and has little effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the wizard apprentice.

But the advantage is that the cost is much lower than the magic pattern core.

If used to arm knights, a powerful knight army can be established in an instant.

According to the description in the book, a set of the lowest level one magic pattern structure is enough to strengthen the power of a junior knight to the level of a peak knight approaching a great knight.

This level of enhancement is undoubtedly astonishing!

Su Nan thought that he could take some time to study the magic pattern construction.

"Speaking of which, it's time to form your own Knight Guard."

All along, when Sunan needed knights, he would directly recruit them from the Glitter City army.

Both he and Key were accustomed to this.

Including financial investment.

Right now, the Flash Territory is in a critical period of power expansion, and there are still strong enemies outside, so the territory and base are indistinguishable from each other.

The base can collect funds and materials from the territory, and the territory can also obtain black rock leopards, stone golems, dragon blood fruits, potions, etc. from the base for free.

But this kind of thing can't go on forever.

If you want to develop healthily, sooner or later, the base will have to be separated from the territory, become economically independent from each other, and transform from a vague dependency relationship into a mutually beneficial transaction relationship.

This is a healthy and sustainable development relationship.

At that time, the base will not be able to randomly deploy the Glitter City army, and will inevitably have its own knight guard.

"To form a Knight Guard, you first need someone."

"Removing soldiers from the army?"

As soon as the idea came up, Su Nan rejected it directly.

If they really do that, the Knight Guards will inevitably bear the mark of the Glitter City Army, and the separation of relationships will become a joke.

"It's better to cultivate it yourself."

Sunan thought for a while and decided to select a group of children from the civilians and farmers in the territory and train them from an early age.

Anyway, there is no rush to form the Knight Guard, you can take your time.

The most important thing is to establish a complete training system, which can continuously supply knights to the base in the future.

As for why not choose from the noble children.

One is that most nobles have their own knight heritage.

The children of nobles have been taught martial arts by the knight elders in their own families since they were young, and there is no need for outsiders to intervene.

The other is to recruit knights for the territory. Most of them are selected from the descendants of the vassal nobles. Sunan does not want to compete with the Shining Territory for soldiers.

Anyway, he has dragon blood fruit and various strengthening potions, and does not value the qualifications and talents of training candidates.

Even if the common people and farmers' children are a little less qualified, they can still use potions and magic plants to pile up.

The key is to be clean and loyal!

"The magic pattern structure and the Knight Guards, now we have two more targets."

Su Nan let out a long breath. Neither of these two things can be accomplished in a short time. They need to be considered in the long term.

"Let's deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster first."

Time flies, and more than twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Before the end of the Autumn Moon, Sunan finally synthesized four elite stone golems.

Now he has ten first-level legendary knight-level combat powers in his hand.

"I also made ten more high-level rune gems. Now there are fifteen in total. They should be enough to deal with the hundred-armed monster."

After everything was prepared, Sunan put the golem into the Rubik's Cube, took the hidden dragon and rushed towards the forest north of the city.

Fortunately, the hundred-armed monster never came out of the cave during this time.

Only occasionally, sporadic underground toad monsters and groups of ferocious rats would come out of the cave, and then they would be quickly wiped out by the knights stationed there.

Therefore, there were no major casualties during this period, which made Keyi feel relieved.

Brad had already received the notice that Sunan was going to enter the cave today, and had been waiting outside early. When he saw Sunan arriving, he immediately came up to greet him.

"Sir, according to your instructions, the troops near the cave and outside the forest have been evacuated."

"Okay, you should leave quickly."

According to Sunan's expectation, once he cannot defeat the Hundred-Armed Monster, he will flee the cave, and the Hundred-Armed Monster may also chase him out. If the army still stays here, it may cause heavy casualties.

Just in case, let the troops evacuate first.

After Brad left, Sunan applied [Shield Technique] to himself, put on a protective layer of energy particles, activated a Ring of Ultimate Protection, and then walked into the cave.

As for the Hidden Dragon, it has transformed into a virtual body and entered the cave in advance.

The cave still retains the same appearance as when we first arrived.

Apart from the fact that the torches on the rock wall have been extinguished, no other obvious changes can be seen.

The corpses of the dire rats and underground toad monsters that were killed before have disappeared, and they may have become the rations of the hundred-armed monster.

Sunan walked forward cautiously.

The hidden dragon walked a hundred meters in front of him.

The space in the cave passage is very limited, and it cannot accommodate the huge body of the Hidden Dragon. It cannot even move without deforming its body.

But if fighting is not good, Yinlong can still serve as a spy.

Not even a single monster was encountered along the way, and Sunan arrived at the basin very smoothly.

Unexpectedly, there was another group of kobolds mining in the basin.

Obviously all the kobolds who mined last time had been killed by the black rock leopard.

"Did the hundred-armed monster catch it from somewhere else?"

Su Nan's first reaction was to capture it from the underground world.

After all, the hundred-armed monster has never left the cave, so if you want to capture the kobold, you can only capture it from the underground world.

But these are not things he should be concerned about now.

Su Nan shook his head to put away his distracting thoughts, took out more than ten black rock leopards from the Rubik's Cube, and issued the order to attack and kill the kobolds.

In an instant, there were more than a dozen swift hunters in the dim basin.

The sudden sneak attack suddenly blinded the kobolds.

One after another, the companions died under the fangs and claws of the black rock leopard.

The kobolds who suffered heavy casualties quickly fell into panic and fear, screaming and fleeing in all directions.

Just like last time, the movement in the basin quickly attracted the Hundred-Armed Monster.

It was accompanied by a roar that seemed like countless voices overlapping together. The huge body of the hundred-armed monster rushed out from the hole deep in the basin bottom, and at a glance, he saw the black rock leopard beating the kobold.

Seeing that the black leopard that killed all his slaves last time appeared again, the hundred-armed monster was extremely angry. Without saying a word, he brandished his weapon and killed the black leopards, killing all the black leopards in three strokes, five by five, and two.

But before he could be happy, he was shocked to find a group of behemoths made of steel and stone surrounding him.

(End of chapter)