Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 129

幽湖 City.

Returning to this island-heart city once again, Su Nan was surprised to find that the number of slaves in the lower city seemed to have increased significantly.

As he passed through the lower city, he saw five groups of dog-headed men and lizardfolk carrying pickaxes, led by a man-faced lion, heading towards the city gates.

Su Nan pondered.

Not long after returning to the study of Base 2, Carolina hurried in.

“Master, you’re back.”

Carolina bowed respectfully.

Su Nan waved his hand casually and asked, “What’s with all those slaves outside?”

Carolina quickly replied, “I was just about to report to the master.”

“Kashamu’s bugs have been frequently attacking and hunting nearby tribes, leaving them with no way to survive, so they migrated here. I figured we still had three mines to develop, so I caught those guys and put them to work in the mines.”

Carolina spoke with a matter-of-fact tone.

In the underground world, it was completely normal for the strong to capture the weak and use them as slaves.

In the past, they had to consider food issues, but now with Shining Light City supplying food from the surface, they had no worries. As a result, Carolina became even less hesitant about capturing slaves.

Su Nan nodded. It seemed like they needed to have Base 1 produce more Clay Golems to get the remaining three mines up and running.

“So, the bug plague is coming soon?”

“It should be about time,” Carolina said with a solemn expression. “Based on past situations, it won’t be more than half a year at the latest.”

Pausing, she hesitated before saying, “Master, should we contact Matu and Orson? Is it too much to handle the bug plague on our own?”

“No rush. Let’s see what Matu and Orson do first.”

Su Nan waved his hand nonchalantly and shifted to other matters.

“How much mithril is in the treasury now?”

“A little over three kilograms,” Carolina answered without hesitation.

As a deputy, she was very competent. She knew what Su Nan cared most about, and she had memorized all the relevant information.

“Three kilograms...”

Su Nan frowned slightly.

Crafting a single puppet required at least sixteen kilograms of mithril.

Even with the accumulated mithril from Base 1 in recent months, they only had about a third, a significant gap.

“Are there any other silver veins nearby?”

Carolina thought for a moment and said, “Within a hundred kilometers of幽湖 City, there are only two silver veins known to be explored. One is the one we’re currently exploiting, and the other is in Matu’s hands.” rАNȱBΕṩ

Matu, huh.

Su Nan’s eyes flashed slightly.

“Continue collecting mithril.”

“Oh, by the way, where’s Amy?”

Carolina was stunned for a moment, giving Su Nan a strange look.

Perhaps it was her imagination, but Carolina felt like Amy had been secretly observing her lately.

Although Amy’s spatial teleportation ability was unpredictable, as a Man-Faced Lion noble skilled in illusions, Carolina could still sense Amy’s presence.

If it were anyone else, she might have thought the other party was spying on her.

But Amy, a simple and honest Magical Companion, shouldn’t have such thoughts.

Who was instigating Amy to do this?

It couldn’t be the Master, there was no need for the Master to do so.

Was it the apprentices in the base?

It seemed like they were the only ones who could persuade Amy.

Her thoughts drifted in her mind, but Carolina didn’t show any emotion on her face. She gently said, “Amy was here a while ago.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Amy suddenly appeared, landing on Su Nan’s shoulder.

“Meow, Su Nan, you’re back! How come you were gone for so long, I missed you!”

“There were a few things to take care of, so it took a while.” Su Nan smiled and stroked Amy’s head, causing the latter to close its eyes in contentment. “But there’s nothing left to do on the surface now, I’ll be here for a while.”

“That’s great, meow!”

Amy cheered, then as if remembering something, vanished in a flash. A few seconds later, it reappeared, carrying a cloth bag in its mouth.

“Meow, this is a gift. Treasures I’ve collected recently.” Amy said in a muffled voice.

Su Nan opened his panel and took a look.

Due to constantly crafting large quantities of golems, his [Puppetry Refining] progress bar was now close to two-thirds full, only needing three thousand more proficiency points to reach Level 5.

Skill requirements weren’t a problem, they would soon be met.

The real issue was materials.

The primary material for Mithril Golems was magic mithril, a product created by enchanting mithril.

One Mithril Golem required about fourteen to fifteen tons of magic mithril.

Adding other materials like various gems, rare materials, silver, and gold, the total cost was estimated at around fifty thousand gold coins.

“Just in time, I recently got a lot of loot from the Starfire Sect, enough to craft a Mithril Golem.”

Su Nan estimated that if he crafted fourteen or fifteen tons of magic mithril himself, it would take at least one or two years.

But if he put it out as a task and assigned it to the apprentices at Base 1, it should be completed within two to three months.

Crafting magic mithril wasn’t particularly difficult, it was about the same as making magic weapons. There were already quite a few apprentices in the base who could independently complete this task.

Secretly noting this, Su Nan decided to start working on it when he returned to Base 1. He then began crafting double-edged spiders.

It took him half a month to refine all the tungsten steel from both bases into double-edged spiders. Finally, he synthesized four elite double-edged spiders.

Including the one he already had, Su Nan now had five second-ring legendary puppets at his disposal.

But he didn’t stop there, he began experimenting further.

“Double-edged spiders are flexible, but they also have obvious weaknesses, like not being able to fly.”

“They’re fine against legendary knights, but against wizard apprentices who have mastered levitation or possess flying magic items, they become passive targets.”

To eliminate this weakness, Su Nan eventually came up with a solution: permanently casting [Levitation] on the double-edged spiders.

He got this idea from the puppet blueprints.

According to this idea, any puppet could have spells permanently cast on it, thus gaining the ability to cast spells.

But puppets could do this because they were mainly composed of gems and mithril.

Su Nan, of course, wouldn’t waste mithril at this time.

So he settled for a second-best solution, using the method of crafting magic items to give the double-edged spiders casting abilities.

This was equivalent to adding a magic item that stored magic to the double-edged spider.

However, since the double-edged spider had no spiritual power, they needed to use another form of energy to replace spiritual power to activate the magic item and achieve the casting effect.

Su Nan ultimately chose magic stones.

The final product was an elite double-edged spider that gained the ability to fly after using levitation, at the cost of consuming one lower-grade magic stone per hour.

For other wizard apprentices, this was undoubtedly a staggering consumption.

It was clearly extravagant and illogical to spend a large amount of precious magic stones just to give puppets the ability to fly.

But Su Nan had nothing but an abundance of magic stones, he could produce them in large quantities at low cost.

Magic stones were a valuable resource for other wizard apprentices, but to him, they were just a cheap source of energy.

What was actually more expensive was the cost of permanently casting second-ring spells.

Just permanently casting [Levitation] increased the cost by nearly three hundred gold coins.

Considering that they might soon have to deal with Kashamu’s bug swarm, Su Nan added a wide-range damage spell, [Shattering Sound Wave], a spell to increase agility, [Lightness], a spell to strengthen the body, [Resilience], and a spell to enhance strength, [Brute Strength] to the elite double-edged spiders.

Ultimately, the cost of a single elite double-edged spider exceeded twenty-three thousand gold coins.

The total cost of five was over one hundred and eleven thousand gold coins.

And this didn’t include the consumption of magic stones during combat.

“The strength of a third-rank wizard apprentice ranges from first-ring to fourth-ring spells.”

“The combat power of an elite double-edged spider is roughly equivalent to a mid-level third-rank wizard apprentice.”

“One hundred and eleven thousand gold coins in exchange for five third-rank wizard apprentice-level combat powers is also a good deal.”

Su Nan nodded silently.

He planned to synthesize a few more second-ring legendary High-Level Stone Golems as a precaution.

In addition, he needed to create a batch of Extreme Protection Rings and Calamity Rings for self-defense.

Since he had already crafted magic puppets that cost twenty thousand gold coins each, there was no reason to be stingy with a few micro-light level magic items.

Just that, the mining income of幽湖 City for the next few months would have to be poured into this bottomless pit.

It was fortunate that they recently developed three new mines, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to afford his lavish spending.

“Strength is built with money.”

Su Nan couldn’t help but sigh.