The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 130 Life is short, you have to race against time

Astral calendar year 1255, the month of Dongqin (January).

On the first day of the new year, the unprecedented celebration kicked off.

This year's celebration was grander than in previous years, and the reason was well known. It was naturally to celebrate the new Grand Duke's accession to the throne.

To the surprise of the general public, the new Grand Duke finally set the capital in Glitter City instead of Star City.

Even spending huge sums of money to rebuild the palace.

Only those who have reached a certain level of status will know the reason why the new Grand Duke did this.

Just because that one's base is close to Glitter City.

No matter how you consider it, it is impossible for the new Grand Duke to live far from that one's base.

This is reasonable.

In fact, from the time when the capital city was moved to the time when the palace was built, no nobleman raised any objections without having the foresight.

Everyone agreed to the proposal without hesitation.

The Moon of Winter Qin passed by in celebration and busyness, and in a blink of an eye came the Month of Recovery (February).

There are still tiny snowflakes floating in the sky.

In previous years, the snow has begun to melt at this time, but this year the weather is still cold.

But Sunan, who was in Youhu City, couldn't feel this.

The temperature changes in the underground world are much smaller than those on the surface, and it is damp and cold all year round.

After spending more than half a month, Sunan finally completed the first high-level stone golem.

The high-level stone golem is composed of a total of 460 stone golems.

Like the elite double-edged spider, Sunan also gave the high-level stone golem a total of four second-level spells: [Levitation], [Light Spirit], [Brute Force] and [Tenacity].

In addition, Sunan also used the magic weapon technology to enchant the body of the high-level stone golem with the [Black Steel] property. The two fists were enchanted with [Weak Thunder Element Damage] and [Weak Ice Element Damage] respectively. One reduces enemy movement speed (paralysis and freezing).

Thanks to the high-level stone golem's body being large enough and Sunan's current level of [Magic Item Creation] being improved, he was able to add three characteristics at the same time.

In the end, the cost of a high-grade stone golem was more than 22,000 gold coins!

It's only about a thousand gold coins less than the Elite Double-Edged Spider.

Even with the seven mineral veins currently controlled by Youhu City, one month's profit income can only produce a high-level stone golem or an elite double-edged spider.

"It's a bit expensive, but it's worth the money."

It is worth mentioning that Sunan tried to use elite double-edged spiders to synthesize a three-ring legendary advanced double-edged spider.

However, after putting five elite double-edged spiders into the Rubik's Cube, it was still not possible to synthesize an advanced double-edged spider.

In other words, the cost of a three-ring legendary high-level double-edged spider has exceeded 100,000 gold coins, which is much higher than the adamantine golem.

In this case, if you want to get the three-ring legendary puppet, it is undoubtedly more cost-effective to refine the adamantine golem.

"With the design drawings, it will be more cost-effective to refine high-level puppets."

"Unless there are no design drawings or key materials, high-level puppets can only be obtained through synthesis."

In fact, there is already a precedent for this.

For example, the refining cost of a steel golem is only 1,500 gold coins.

However, the cost of synthesizing an elite stone golem is as high as more than 7,000 gold coins.

The two are both legendary. Even if the steel golem is slightly stronger than the elite stone golem, this increase in strength is far from worth the huge cost gap.

The reason is that the number of micro-soul crystals is too small to refining steel golems in batches.

To obtain enough legendary combat power, Sunan could only achieve his goal by consuming more resources.

The same goes for potions and magic items.

For example, if the resources consumed by a third-level transcendental potion are converted into materials of equal value, it would be more than enough to produce four or five bottles of third-level potion.

It's just that the corresponding materials can't be found in Starlight Continent today, so they can only make third-level potions through synthesis.

"The three-ring legendary puppet is better to refine the adamantine golem."

Sunan had some calculations in her mind.

Unfortunately, the adamantine golem we encountered last time was almost destroyed by the magic pattern core. After decomposing it, we could only get a small amount of magic adamantine, which was far from enough to refine a new one.

You still have to issue a task to let the apprentices in the base refine magic gold.

In terms of cultivation, Sunan has now mastered all the second-level spells in his hand, and the number exceeds twenty.

Before acquiring the new second-level spell, he returned to the state of being unable to practice any spell.

In terms of metamagic skills, the progress of spell prompting is very rapid, and the training progress is already more than halfway.

Sunan expected that in another year or so, he should be able to master the instant spell.

Unfortunately, training in metamagic skills requires casting spells to consume mental energy. Once the mental energy is used up, you have to meditate to recover, which greatly slows down the speed of practice.

Otherwise, he can increase the training time, or practice multiple super magic skills at the same time.

"It's a pity that there is no potion to restore mental strength."

Time passed, and in a blink of an eye it was the middle of the month of recovery.

Su Nan took the time to hold an assessment at Base No. 1 to examine the learning progress of all apprentices.

After more than four years of development, the number of students at the base has now increased to forty-two.

Moreover, a new round of qualification testing has been held throughout the Principality of Stars.

This time the scale of testing is unprecedentedly large, covering six major provinces except Jinyan Province.

It is initially estimated that more than 100,000 people of appropriate age will participate in the test.

It is foreseeable that after this round of qualification testing is completed, the number of students at the base will definitely experience a surge, and it is very likely that it will exceed three digits.

In addition, Sunan has also discussed with Keyi to establish a knight academy in each province to establish a more complete and large talent reserve system for the future knight guards.

In view of this, the establishment of a new magic plantation garden has become imperative.

After all, more dragon blood fruits and silver moon flowers are needed.

The affairs of the Knight Academy were okay. Sunan didn't need to take care of it himself. Key could just arrange the manpower to take care of it. He only needed to take time to pay attention to it occasionally.

Only the opening of the Demonic Planting Garden required his own hands-on work.

"But I guess I will only have to be busy for another two years."

"Sherman and Corey are meditating very well, and it is estimated that they will be promoted to level two wizard apprentices in the near future."

"At that time, we can leave the matter of opening the Demonic Planting Garden to them."

Second-level wizard apprentices can basically take charge of their own business. Su Nan can let them do many things without having to do everything himself.

At that time, he will be free to do more things.

For example, explore the underground world and find the descendants of ancient beasts.

Such as researching more powerful puppets.

"Okay, that's it for today."

After finishing the last spell test, Sunan announced the end of the test. He glanced at the more than forty students in front of him, said nothing more, just encouraged him and turned around to leave.

He will not reprimand students for their lack of effort.

After all it is their choice.

He provides a platform for equal exchange, allowing students to be rewarded for their efforts. As for whether they should work hard or not, it all depends on their choice.

As long as he abides by the rules of the base and does not do anything that harms the interests of the base, Sunan will generally not interfere too much with the students' behavior.

This is also a common feature of many wizarding colleges.

Even the Dark Wizarding Academy, which adheres to the rules of cruel competition, respects the autonomy of students in some aspects. Of course, in the Dark Wizarding Academy, the consequences of not working hard are often more miserable.

When Sunan's figure disappeared at the door of the spell practice room, the students seemed to have been relieved of a heavy burden and breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, some people showed happy expressions, while others looked depressed, as if they were mourning for their heirs.

"It's over. I just failed to cast spells three times in a row. The teacher must think I'm stupid now."

"Me too, both times the potion was wrong at the very beginning. It's so embarrassing."

"Ethan is still awesome, he successfully made the brute force potion in one try!"

"I'm just lucky."

Ethan smiled modestly, turned to look at Sherman and Corey, a trace of envy flashed in his eyes.

"It's still not as good as Senior Sherman and Senior Corey. The teacher said it himself, the two seniors will be able to build the third star ring soon."

Mentioning this, everyone looked at Sherman and Corey with envy and admiration in their eyes.

Once you successfully build the third star ring, you can be promoted to the second level wizard apprentice.

Only when you reach this state can you truly be called a qualified apprentice.

It's a pity that most of them have just built the first star ring not long ago, and they are still a long way from being a second-level wizard apprentice.

The crowd was in a commotion when a half-person-high cloud of smoke suddenly floated in from outside. After a brief pause, it flew towards Sherman in the crowd.

"It's the fog monster!" a student said.

The fog monster is a semi-corporeal creature with a smoke-like appearance.

They are the messengers in the base. As long as you pay a little mental energy, you can ask them to help deliver messages or transport lighter items, which is very convenient.

Naturally, this is also the ‘helper’ from another world summoned by Sunan.

The fog monster flew lightly to Sherman's side, extending a wisp of gray mist and wrapping around Sherman's ears, making a slight whine.

This is the unique Mist language of the Mist Monster clan. After being translated by the magic items that Sherman carried with him that always had the effect of understanding the language, it quickly became a language he could understand and reached his ears.

The next moment, Xie Man's expression suddenly changed, he turned around and ran out of the spell practice room quickly.

Everyone was left looking at each other in confusion.

After all, old Roger still couldn't survive this winter.

He died at the age of sixty-five.

In this era, it is considered a rare old age.

In fact, old Roger's health has not been very good.

The ailments he suffered from when he was young made his body suddenly become much weaker after he passed the age of fifty.

It wasn't until Sherman later entered the base and sent back a lot of gold coins every month that Old Roger no longer had to work and could retire at home to take care of himself.

Sherman later exchanged a bottle of secondary dragon's blood potion, diluted it and gave it to old Roger to take regularly, making him slightly stronger.

Otherwise, with all the problems that old Roger has, he might die before he reaches sixty.

Even so, old Roger still couldn't survive the winter of sixty-five years old.

Fortunately, he passed away peacefully.

I fell asleep and didn't wake up the next day.

It wasn't until the servant realized something was wrong and entered the room to check that he found that old Roger had passed away and hurried to inform Sherman.

Knowing that Roger didn't like extravagance, Sherman held a simple funeral and buried Roger without any fanfare.

Standing in front of old Roger's tombstone, Sherman looked dazed and silent.

If it were him before, he would have burst into tears by now.

But after spending five years in the base, he is no longer the crybaby he used to be when something happened.

Just because I won't cry doesn't mean that the sadness surging in my chest will diminish.

"Sherman."

Atil, who was standing behind, hesitated to speak, looking at Sherman sadly.

She had never seen Sherman like this.

Normally, Sherman always has a smile on his face. Even if he encounters any difficulties, he will smile a few times in a self-deprecating manner, and then continue to work hard with all his energy. He has never been like this, with his whole person exuding a strong sense of joy. Sad.

"My condolences." Corey arrived at some unknown time and stood behind Sherman.

Sherman let out a long breath and looked back at the two of them. His face was calm and his emotions could not be seen.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

He glanced at the gloomy sky and said in a low tone:

"I just suddenly felt that human life is very short, and decades pass by in the blink of an eye."

"Will we all die one day and lie quietly in the grave like old Roger?"

"Everyone will die, right?" Adil wondered.

"What about the teacher?"

Adil's expression froze and he was speechless.

In their eyes, Sunan is the most powerful person in the world.

He is powerful and knowledgeable, and he also has huge influence and abundant resources.

If he were a teacher, he might actually be able to live forever.

Kore said calmly: "Everyone will die sooner or later, but a powerful wizard will not."

"Didn't the teacher say that a formal wizard can live for thousands of years, and a true spirit wizard can live for tens of thousands of years without dying? That is almost the same as eternal life."

Adil smiled bitterly: "Do you think we can become official wizards?"

"Just stick to your goal and work hard towards it. Why do you want to think so much?"

Kore looked ahead firmly.

"No matter how long it takes, I must become an official wizard!"

Corey walked up to Sherman and said in a calm tone: "It's understandable to be sad for the deceased, but you have to cheer up as soon as possible. If you want to continue on the path of a wizard in the future, things like this will only become more and more common. You have to learn to get used to it.”

Sherman glanced at Corey in surprise: "Are you comforting me?"

"That's okay if you think so."

"I thought you always hated me."

"I just don't like you, and I don't like you now, but your efforts and strength deserve my respect. Having you as a competitor is more conducive to urging me to work hard and move forward. I don't want you to stay depressed like this."

After saying this, Corey took a deep look at Sherman and turned to leave.

It wasn't until Kore's figure disappeared from sight that Atil reacted and said with surprise: "This is the first time I've seen Kore like this. It turns out that he can also say comforting words."

Sherman laughed dumbly and glanced at the direction in which Kore left with complicated eyes.

"You're right. Although that guy has a bit of an awkward personality, his nature is actually not bad."

"In the past, I always thought that we didn't need to rush to improve our strength, and just study step by step and steadily, but now I think what Kore said makes sense."

"Life is short. Even a third-level wizard apprentice only has a lifespan of one or two hundred years. In such a short period of time, if you want to become an official wizard, you really have to race against time and try your best."

Sherman sighed.

At this moment, there was an unprecedented urgency in his heart.

I want to become stronger faster!

(End of chapter)