The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 133 Death Knell Beetle, Kasham’s Controller

Carolina is very efficient.

The next day, Kasham's insect corpse was delivered to Sunan's laboratory.

Under the bright light of the magic stone lamp, twelve ferocious insect beasts lay on the large workbench.

These beetle-like creatures have bright red hard carapace, a total of ten legs, four black round eyes, two sharp claws and a pair of jagged jaws.

But what is more eye-catching is the huge bell-shaped chitin protrusion on the mouthparts, which looks like a huge horn.

According to Carolina's description, this creature is called a death knell beetle.

Their carapace is as strong as steel, and their sharp claws can easily tear through solid rock. In addition, they can emit harsh sound waves that can make people bleed.

The adult death knell beetle only has the combat power of an apprentice knight, which is not considered strong.

But once such monsters appear in groups, their threat will skyrocket.

Especially when hundreds of death knell beetles burst out harsh sound waves at the same time, even the Grand Knight could not bear it.

In the past, the city-state alliances of Youhu, Matu, and Osun suffered losses one after another under the swarm sonic attacks of the death knell beetles, and each time they had to pay a huge price to wipe out the insect swarms.

In Kasham's nest, in that narrow, semi-enclosed environment, the Deathstroke Beetle's sonic attack was even more powerful.

Red Widow and Black Duke did not dare to counterattack Kasham, largely because of this.

"Insect beasts that can release sonic waves are quite rare."

The insect swarm in Kasham is not only the death knell beetle, but also jellyfish, giant-mouthed sandworms, six-winged insects and other insect beasts.

But the death knell beetle is the main force of the swarm.

Su Nan used his mage's hand to move an insect corpse in front of him and began to dissect it.

As the dissection progressed, more body structures of the death knell beetle were gradually revealed.

The huge bell-shaped chitinous protrusion on its head is actually a horn-shaped tumor.

The death knell beetle's harsh sound waves are emitted from this tumor.

The tumor extends from its shoulders and suddenly opens outward above the sharp mouth. Four black insect-like eyes also grow on both sides of the tumor.

Essentially, the creature doesn't really have a head, with the giant horn-shaped tumor taking its place.

After Sunan cut open the tumor, he also found the worm brain inside.

"What a strange structure."

Sunan couldn't help but marvel.

He has seen many strange-looking insect beasts, but this is the first time he has seen such a strange structure as the death knell beetle.

According to his experience, organisms with this kind of structure usually do not grow naturally, but are more likely to be artificially induced mutations, which are the products of genetic modification.

"This is most likely the result of biological modification by a wizard apprentice."

Sunan's heart moved.

Could it be that there is a wizard apprentice hiding behind Kasham?

If this is the case, attacking Kasham may not be as easy as originally thought.

"If Kasham is really controlled by a wizard apprentice behind him, then what is his purpose of sending swarms of insects around to hunt down creatures every once in a while?"

Sunan was confused.

After a moment, he shook his head and stopped worrying.

No matter what the purpose of that wizard apprentice is, Kasham will definitely solve it.

Otherwise, insect plagues would break out every once in a while, so how could he develop the surrounding mineral veins and continue to explore for more mineral veins?

The only good news is that the puppet is very resistant to the sonic attack of the death knell beetle.

After all, puppets do not have the hearing organs and internal organs systems of ordinary creatures, and are basically immune to sonic attacks.

In terms of dealing with the death knell beetles, the Golem Legion still has a great advantage.

After dissecting all the more than ten insect corpses and writing down the information in the experimental notes, Su Nan then waved his hand and spread the flames, disposed of all the insect corpses, and turned to leave the laboratory.

Kasham's unusual movements have become more and more frequent recently, and an insect plague is likely to break out in the near future.

He had to speed up refining the golem and increase the power in his hand as much as possible.

"These are the architectural design drawings of knight academies in six other provinces. They are all based on the Dragon Heart Knight Academy. See if there are any changes that need to be made."

In the study room, Keyi pushed a thick pile of information on the table in front of Sunan.

Su Nan picked it up and took a rough look at it. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's stick to this. When will it be built?"

"It will be done next month." Key smiled. "The teachers responsible for teaching the students have also been arranged. They will be in place immediately after the establishment of the academy is completed."

The war had just ended, and he, the new Grand Duke, had to deal with many things, but he still put them first in matters that Sunan ordered, and often personally asked them.

Seeing that the Grand Duke attached so much importance, the people below naturally did not dare to be lazy and worked extremely hard. In just two or three months, six knight academies were established from scratch with extremely high efficiency.

"The recruitment of new students is already underway, and all will be based on the template of the Dragon Heart Knight Academy."

After a pause, Key hesitated, and couldn't help but ask:

"Do you really only need seven knight academies? We are not short of people or money now, and we can definitely build a few more."

Now the entire Principality of Stars belongs to the Arnest family. With the power of the entire country, not to mention the seven knight academies, one can be established in each town.

Su Nan shook his head: "No, it's more valuable than you are worth."

It is easy to establish more knight academies, but it is not that simple to train qualified knight students.

The most critical problem is that the production of dragon blood fruit cannot keep up.

If you want to train qualified knight students in just four years, Dragon Blood Fruit is indispensable.

Otherwise, the qualifications and physical talents of students from common people and farmers are inherently inferior to those of nobles, and it would be impossible for them to be promoted to knights in four years.

Even for the current seven knight academies, Sunan would have to open several more magic planting gardens to grow dragon blood fruits in order to be able to supply them.

Any more would be too much.

Perhaps when more magic plant gardens are opened in the future, we can consider increasing the number of knight academies.

Seeing that Sunan had already said this, Keyi stopped trying to persuade him.

In fact, he has also considered whether to open a knight academy specifically to recruit noble children, imitating the Dragon Heart Knight Academy.

However, after careful consideration, I gave up the idea.

One is that he doesn't have enough dragon blood fruit on hand, and what he has is used to supply the army.

The other is that most noble families have their own inherited breathing techniques, martial arts, and special training methods, and they cannot be unified in this regard.

Even partial unity.

Unless he can come up with stronger breathing techniques and martial arts than all noble families, and a more efficient training method.

In view of this, the idea of ​​the Noble Knight Academy was too low in feasibility and had to be abandoned.

"How is the qualification test going?"

Sunan's voice interrupted Keyi's contemplation. After coming back to his senses, Keyi smiled and said: "It went very well. The test has been completed. There are a total of two hundred and twenty-three qualified children. I have arranged for personnel to **** them to Glitter City. They should be able to arrive at the base in a few days. ”

Sunan nodded slightly.

There are quite a lot of people.

After all, it is a qualification test covering six major provinces, so it is normal for the number of qualified people to be larger.

As a result, there are nearly 270 students in the base.

And over time, this number will gradually increase.

"How have you been practicing recently?" Su Nan turned to another topic.

"It's almost stable." Key said with a happy face.

After taking the high-grade dragon blood fruit given to him by Sunan, he successfully broke through and became a legendary knight.

Now after more than half a year of accumulation, the state has basically stabilized, and now we are seeking to break through to a higher state.

Key's own talents and qualifications are very outstanding, otherwise he would not be able to be promoted to a senior knight at the age of nineteen. Now that he is a Grand Duke, he can enjoy far more resources than before, and his cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds, making rapid progress.

He is confident that he will break through to become a second-ring legendary knight before the age of thirty-five, and a third-ring legendary knight before the age of fifty.

You must know that Evans, who was recognized as a peerless genius by everyone in the principality, was already eighty years old when he became a three-ring legendary knight.

This is just the most conservative estimate.

With Sunan's help, Key would even be confident of breaking through and becoming a three-ring legendary knight earlier.

"That's good."

Sunan nodded slightly.

His plan is to let his eldest brother break through and become a three-ring legendary knight in twelve years. At that time, he can also enter the Tower of Stars to challenge the knight trial.

From a one-ring legend to a three-ring legend in twelve years, it is not difficult as long as you are willing to invest resources.

Thinking of this, opening a new magic plant garden must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

After coming out of the Lord's Mansion, Sunan was still thinking about the Magic Plant Garden.

With the profit support from the underground world's mineral veins, there is no need to worry about financial issues when opening a magic plant garden. The only thing that needs to be considered is manpower.

The Flower Fairy is easy to deal with. Just ask Queen Tia to summon another group of tribesmen.

The key is the apprentice responsible for the garrison.

"Release a batch of garrison tasks in the base and let the apprentices take turns to garrison on a regular basis."

There are currently no second-level wizard apprentices in the base, so Su Nan can only do it himself to open the magic plant garden.

However, the garrison work can be left to the students, and the task contribution value should be set higher.

It just so happens that a new batch of students is about to arrive at the base. After training for a period of time, they will be able to accept various basic tasks.

At that time, there will be more people taking the basic tasks, there will be more monks and less meat, and the competition will become fierce, and the old students will naturally focus on the garrison task.

Time flies by like a white horse.

The Thunder Moon (April) is passing by in a hurry.

During this period, Sunan attended another party in a jungle hut and purchased more than ten kinds of rare metals and four miniature soul crystals.

After this gathering, Sunan finally gathered the materials for the third magic pattern core.

After refining the third magic pattern core, he immediately synthesized it.

The synthesized level 3 magic pattern core further increases the requirements for the body and soul.

In addition to mental strength that must reach 45 points, physical fitness must also reach above 40 points.

"My current mental strength is 45.04, which just meets the requirements, but my physical strength is only 36.37, which is still far behind."

Su Nan weighed the magic pattern core in his hand, turned around and walked towards the warehouse.

His current physique is about the same as that of a junior knight. The effect of high-grade dragon blood fruit on him is quite obvious. After combining a few high-grade dragon blood fruits and taking them, his physique can be quickly improved to over 40 points.

After spending two days digesting the effects of the Advanced Dragon Blood Fruit, Sunan's physique was successfully improved to 40.35.

Without hesitation, he immediately fused the level 3 magic pattern core and then came to the spell training area for testing.

Taking into account the power of the level 3 magic pattern core, Sunan did not choose the steel golem as the test object this time, but chose a high-level stone golem with stronger combat power.

The first is attack power.

With all his strength, the metal cone storm formed from the core of the magic pattern bombarded the high-level stone golem with holes in it in just over ten seconds, almost to the point of being scrapped.

"Yes, the attack power has increased by about 80 to 90%."

"If it were a legendary puppet with one ring, it would probably kill him instantly with just one face-to-face encounter."

Next is defense.

After some testing, Sunan probably had the bottom line.

"Converted into a defense level, it is between 4800 and 5000, which is almost equivalent to the defense stack of five Rings of Ultimate Protection."

Sunan nodded secretly.

With such a high level of defense, even a formal wizard cannot defeat it with one blow.

What surprised Sunan even more was that the mental consumption he was most concerned about had barely increased.

With his current mental strength, he is enough to use the magic pattern core for three minutes.

Even under high-intensity attacks, there is no problem in holding on for two minutes.

"If I can maintain the trend of upgrading only increasing the power but not the consumption, when my mental power increases, the magic pattern core will almost become a conventional weapon."

The magic pattern core that can be used regularly is terrifying to think about!

If it really comes to that point, below the official wizard level, Sunan will be basically invincible.

"The Golem Legion has also successfully completed its expansion."

With Sunan's full investment, the Golem Legion in Youhu City has expanded a lot these days.

Considering that he would not be able to refine an adamantine golem or marionette in a short period of time, Sunan used all the four miniature soul crystals obtained from the transaction to refine the steel golem.

Today's Youhu City Golem Army includes nine steel golems, twenty elite stone golems, three hundred double-edged spiders and one thousand stone golems.

The strength of this lineup has far exceeded that of Youhu City before.

At least Carolina was stunned when she saw these golems in the temporarily opened military camp.

The last trace of worry deep in my heart about the coming insect plague disappeared.

Just kidding, with such a powerful golem army, what does a mere insect plague mean?

The next thing to consider is whether to counterattack Kasham.

To be honest, if he didn't want Matu and Orson to help share the pressure, reduce casualties, and kill as many bugs as possible outside, so as to reduce the pressure for attacking Kasham in the future, Sunan would have planned to ignore the bug disaster and directly attack Kasham.

However, Sunan didn't wait long.

On the first day of the New Moon, the man-faced lion scouts arranged to monitor near Kasham sent word that Kasham's insect swarm was dispatched on a large scale.

Countless bugs are flooding towards Youhu City!

(End of chapter)