The Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 137 Divine Creatures, Surrender and Competitors

Kasham is more like a stone pillar riddled with holes than a city-state.

The nearly 300-meter-high towering stone pillar was drilled with dense holes. It looked like a large ant nest, and the internal passages were even more complicated.

Except for bugs that can communicate by pheromones, other species of creatures can easily get lost in the maze-like insect nest if they enter it.

Overall, this is a very suitable battlefield for Zerg combat.

It is precisely because of the home advantage that Kasham has been invincible for so many years.

"Ugo has chosen a good place."

Sunan looked at the stone pillar in front of him.

It's a pity that this place is only suitable for bugs to live in, and it is difficult to renovate it after being dug out like this. It will not be of much use after it is taken down, and it will probably be abandoned and vacant.

Unless he, like Ugo, cultivates a group of bugs.

After gathering his thoughts, Sunan flew forward and entered the stone pillar.

After Ugo's death, the remaining insect swarms got rid of control, but still followed their instincts and returned to Kasham. At this time, when they saw an uninvited guest breaking in, they immediately screamed and attacked him.

The narrow tunnel was not suitable for fighting golems, so Sunan released nearly a hundred double-edged spiders, spread out along the tunnel, and began to clean up the remaining bugs.

And he is looking for Ugo's laboratory.

An important place like the laboratory must be in the deepest part of Kasham.

It didn't take much effort for Sunan to find the target.

In the center of the stone pillar, a huge cave was divided and transformed into a series of areas such as a laboratory, a meditation room, and a spell practice room.

Sunan searched them all carefully, and except for finding many wizarding books in the study, there were few valuable gains elsewhere.

Finally, there is the laboratory.

Of all the areas, the laboratory area is the largest.

There are several large work tables placed in the middle, one of which still has a lot of broken carapace and dried mucus.

In the corner are insect eggs piled up into a hill.

The fluorescent light falling from the top of the room shines through the pale white egg wall, and you can see that some kind of creature is shaking slightly inside.

Su Nan glanced at the insect eggs, then strode to the workbench, and after searching, he found an experimental notebook.

He immediately opened the notes and read them carefully on the spot.

As expected, most of the notes were about the cultivation and transformation of various insect beasts.

Sunan swept through all these contents. It was not until he came to the contents about the Death Knell Ringer that he slowed down and read carefully.

As time passed, a look of surprise gradually appeared on Sunan's face.

According to the description in the notes, the source of the ancient bloodline in the body of the Death Knell Striker is not only a powerful ancient beast, but also a rare divine creature.

There are generally three ways in which divine creatures are born.

The first is for the gods to separate a trace of divinity with their own hands, integrate it into a certain creature, and transform it into a divine creature.

This is how many of the sacred beasts of the Church of Gods came to be.

The second type is totem worship.

In some planes, some ignorant and backward tribes will regard totems, trees, rocks and other objects as spiritual symbols. After years of worship and prayer, accumulated over thousands of years, a trace of divinity will gradually be born inside such objects. Energy, thereby awakening spiritual wisdom and becoming a divine creature with self-awareness.

In fact, many gods originally grew from such divine creatures.

The third type is relatively the most special. It is a divine creature born with immortality. It has a trace of divinity in its body since birth.

Moreover, this trace of divinity will be passed down along with the bloodline inheritance. As long as the bloodline concentration reaches a certain level, divinity can be awakened.

It's just that the number of such divine creatures is very small, and because of the lack of ways to increase divinity such as faith, the intensity of divinity in the body will not change much throughout their lives.

But even so, this kind of divine creature is still among the most powerful among the many ancient beasts.

The bloodline source of the Death Knell Striker is the third divine creature.

"This guy is really lucky to be able to find such a rare descendant of ancient blood."

Sunan sighed.

But now the treasure belongs to him.

After reading the notes, Sunan finally understood why Ugo controlled the insect swarm to hunt around.

The reason is still related to the bloodline of the death knell striker.

After merging with the bloodline of the Deathstroke, Ugo's lifespan has been greatly increased, and is initially estimated to be no less than three hundred years.

The only problem is that you need to consume the flesh and blood essence of the Knell Striker regularly.

However, there is only one Deathstroke, which cannot satisfy his feeding needs.

So Ugo came up with a way to replace quality with quantity. He extracted the blood of the Death Knell Ringer and blended it into other bugs. After many genetic modifications and screenings, the Death Knell Beetle was born.

The death knell beetle is derived from the death knell striker, and its flesh and blood essence naturally has a certain similarity. After being refined and concentrated, it can replace the death knell striker's flesh and blood essence.

Relying on this method, Ugo has been able to support himself until now.

Cultivating a large number of death knell beetles naturally requires a large amount of food, so every once in a while, Ugo will send out swarms of insects to hunt around, and will not stop until he has accumulated enough food.

"Increasing lifespan through blood fusion has more or less various drawbacks."

Su Nan thought of Avigni who was fused with the blood of the Blood Soul Insect.

He was tricked to death by the Blood Soul Insect's bloodline.

Although the flaws of Ugo's fused Death Knell Striker bloodline are relatively minor, the increase in lifespan is also relatively small.

Generally speaking, the bloodline with better life-span-increasing effect has more serious defects.

Of course there are exceptions.

It's just that bloodline like that is very rare.

Su Nan had no interest in merging the bloodline of the Death Knell Ringer and scanned this part of the content at a glance.

Even if he wants to merge bloodlines, he has to wait until he is promoted to a formal wizard and finds a suitable bloodline.

Before that, fusing bloodlines at will will only make the road narrower in the future.

After reading the experimental notes, Sunan let out a long sigh of relief.

The golem army suffered heavy losses in this war. A high-level stone golem and an elite double-edged spider were completely destroyed, and the golem army suffered nearly one-third of its losses.

After final calculation, the loss was estimated to be nearly 180,000 gold coins.

The profits from the mines this year have almost been wasted.

Fortunately, the harvest is not small, and a single death knell striker is enough to make up for the loss.

With the Death Knell Striker, the research on bloodline marks can be put on the agenda.

In addition, you can also try to extract divine energy from the bloodline of the Deathstroke.

If he succeeds, he will have a stable channel to obtain divine energy in the future, and the growth rate of his mental power will definitely increase significantly.

As long as it can speed up the growth of mental power, no matter how many gold coins you spend, it's worth it!

Putting away the experimental notes, Sunan looked at the death knell beetle eggs in the corner, thought about it, and then used the flames to get rid of them all.

Ugo is able to control the Death Knell Beetle because he has merged with the blood of the Death Knell Striker.

But he didn't. It was useless to keep these eggs, so he burned them on fire. Anyway, the relevant information about the death knell beetle is already in the experiment notebook.

If necessary, it can be reshaped at any time using the bloodline of the Deathstroke Striker.

When he walked out of the laboratory, the battle in Kashamri was over.

The remaining bugs were swept away by the double-edged spiders.

Leaving more than a dozen double-edged spiders to guard Kasham to prevent creatures without eyes from straying in, Sunan then returned to Youhu City.

Since the war took place outside the city, Youhu City suffered almost no losses.

The city was still quiet.

Back at Base 2, Sunan rushed to the puppet factory immediately.

During this war, the golems were more or less damaged and had to be repaired.

It could have been placed in the leyline node to automatically repair it, but Sunan rushed to deal with Matu and Orson, so he went into battle himself.

But the development of things took him unexpectedly.

On the third day after the destruction of Kasham, Carolina knocked on the door of the puppet factory. After getting Sunan's permission, she walked in with a strange expression.

"Master, the Red Widow is asking to see you outside the city."

"She also brought the head of the Black Duke."

Sunan was slightly startled, then showed a playful expression.

"Let her come to the living room."

Carolina retreated.

When Sunan walked into the living room, the red widow was already waiting inside.

Seeing Sunan come in, she immediately stood up, with a flattering smile on her beautiful face.

"My lord, congratulations on defeating Kasham."

Su Nan glanced at her, and Shi Shiran sat down opposite and said, "I defeated Kasham, which is not a good thing for you."

"Sir, you are joking. The insect plague in Kasham has always been a headache for us. This time you can completely solve the problem of the insect plague, so that we no longer have to face the threat of the insect plague. Matu is grateful to you before it is too late."

The red widow said with a smile, but she saw that Sunan's face was half-smiling, and her expression suddenly froze. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She realized that Sunan had guessed the whole story, so she stopped being eloquent and went straight to the point. Opening the wooden box in his hand, there was the head of the Black Duke inside.

But the corona-shaped black flame above his head and the soul fire in his eyes have dissipated.

But judging from the aura, there is no doubt that it is the Black Duke.

"Sir, after the destruction of Kasham, the Black Duke still wanted to do harm to Youhu City, so I killed him when he was not prepared. Orson has also been captured by me. I am willing to surrender Matu and Orson to your lord. , I just ask you to give me a chance to follow you."

really.

Sunan raised her eyebrows, not surprised at all.

When he heard the Red Widow coming with the Black Duke's head, he guessed that the other party was planning to surrender to him.

As for whether the Black Duke really wanted to continue to fight against Youhu City, so he was secretly attacked and killed by the Red Widow, that is unknown.

No matter what the truth is, it can be seen that Red Widow is powerful in action.

This is a cruel, decisive and cold woman!

Su Nan glanced at the skull and had no intention of taking it. He said calmly: "What can you provide me?"

"Your Excellency, you have many things to do, and you must be very busy at ordinary times, but you only have Carolina under your command. It is difficult for her to manage three city-states at the same time. Although I am not particularly capable, I think I have some experience in managing city-states, so I should be able to Your Excellency shares your worries.”

Sunan narrowed her eyes.

He heard the hidden meaning of the red widow.

With only Carolina under his command, there is no guarantee that the other party will not do tricks behind his back, but if he has one more follower, he and Carolina can supervise each other, which will be of no harm to him.

It has to be said that Red Widow's words struck a chord in his mind.

Mutual supervision is one thing. The key is that if he wants to expand his territory in the underground world, he will inevitably recruit more local people to help manage various city-states and resource points.

After all, he has no ability to do many things on his own, and it is impossible for him to let various chores take up too much time.

And Red Widow is just the right person.

As for loyalty, a soul contract is enough.

"You convinced me."

Now that the decision had been made, Sunan did not hesitate and made the request directly.

"I allow you to become my followers, but as a condition, you must sign a soul contract with all the legendary vampires in Matu."

"As you command, my lord."

Red Widow agreed without hesitation.

Signing a soul contract was an expected thing. She had been mentally prepared for it and had convinced all the clan members.

Although it is difficult to endure that your life will be tied to someone else's thoughts, it is much easier to accept than death.

Moreover, the wizard in front of him was unusually powerful.

It was the most powerful existence she had ever seen in her long life.

It is not difficult to accept being a follower of such a strong man.

Su Nan then took out a gem and signed a soul contract with the Red Widow on the spot.

"I'll give you three days to deal with the problem. After that, I will lead people to take over Matu and Orson, and sign a soul contract with the remaining people."

Sunan waved his hands and said, suddenly remembering something.

"Do you still have a silver vein on your hands?"

"Yes, sir." Red Widow did not dare to hide anything.

Sunan immediately made the decision: "I will send the golem to take over the silver mine and ask your people to cooperate."

The indigenous people are too slow to develop the mineral veins, so they still have to let the clay golems come.

If we speed up the development of silver veins earlier, we can also gather enough mithril to refine marionettes earlier.

The Red Widow naturally had no objection and nodded in agreement.

Sunan waved her hand, indicating that she could leave.

When she walked out of the living room, the red widow saw Carolina standing not far away, looking at her expressionlessly.

The red widow smiled brightly at her.

Carolina snorted, turned and left.

Seeing the Red Widow come out of the living room safe and sound, she knew that the master must have accepted the Red Widow's surrender.

This is not good news for her.

From now on, she has one more competitor.

And he is also a very cunning competitor.

"You **** who's flirting!" Carolina cursed secretly.

At the same time, watching Carolina's retreating figure, the smile on the Red Widow's face slowly faded, and a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes.

"Pretentious bitch!"

(End of chapter)