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Chapter 139: Mark of the Death Knell, Five Years of Promotion
Chapter 139: Mark of the Death Knell, Five Years of Promotion
Starlight Calendar 1255, Summer Eclipse Moon.
After half a year of recuperation, the Starry Principality gradually recovered from the shadow of war. Kei’s control over the Principality was increasingly stable. Now, he focused most of his energy on rebuilding the Frost-Dye Province, striving to restore it to its former glory.
In the same month, the knight academies of the six provinces officially opened, admitting their first batch of freshmen.
Time flew by until the Blaze Moon arrived, the weather becoming increasingly hot.
Base 2.
In a spacious and bright laboratory.
Su Nan carefully imprinted the last trace of blood-red pattern on the back of his right hand. A flash of blood light erupted, and a horn-shaped crimson mark appeared on his hand.
“It’s done!”
A genuine smile of joy spread across Su Nan’s face.
After the battle of Kasham, he devoted most of his energy to researching the Death Knell Striker. It took him more than two months to successfully create a bloodline mark using the Death Knell Striker’s bloodline.
“The ancient bloodline concentration of the Death Knell Striker is still a bit low. It needs to be combined and enhanced in concentration before it can be made into a bloodline mark.”
“Let’s call it the Death Knell Mark.”
Su Nan stared at the mark on the back of his hand, his smile growing more intense.
The Death Knell Mark’s effect is to instantly release a powerful sonic wave, more potent than the sonic attack released by the Death Knell Striker itself.
Preliminary estimates suggest it could instantly kill a Second-Ring Legend.
Even a Third-Ring Legend wouldn’t survive a hit without serious injuries!
The only drawback, if it could be called one, is that it’s a one-time use item, disappearing after use, and its creation is not easy.
Without harming the Death Knell Striker, it takes about fourteen days to accumulate enough blood to create one Death Knell Mark by extracting a small amount each day.
“Creating four or five for self-defense should be enough.”
With a new trump card in hand, Su Nan felt exceptionally happy. He turned and left the laboratory, heading towards the confinement area.
This was the most heavily guarded place in Base 2, aside from the warehouse and the laboratory.
The former two’s defenses primarily targeted external threats, while the confinement area focused on internal threats.
Multiple formations were set up here, including but not limited to enchantment suppression, weakening, and heavy pressure effects, ensuring that every creature imprisoned here had their resistance weakened to the minimum. řἈNỘbЁṠ
Inside and outside, numerous magic puppets and double-bladed spiders stood guard, making it airtight.
Arriving in front of the room where the Death Knell Striker was imprisoned, Su Nan looked inside.
The Death Knell Striker lay on the ground, listless and dejected. Hearing the footsteps, it looked up, saw it was Su Nan, and immediately let out a fearful cry, instinctively shrinking back, its beastly eyes revealing a human-like plea.
Seeing its pitiful and dejected look, where was the majesty of an ancient bloodline descendant?
No way, who wouldn’t become like this after being constantly bled for more than two months?
The Death Knell Striker’s current listlessness wasn’t entirely due to the confinement area’s formation suppression; it was primarily because of the continuous extraction of its blood.
Su Nan couldn’t help but feel helpless.
Whether it was bloodline marks or divine energy, research required a significant amount of experimental material. To accelerate research progress, he had increased the frequency and amount of blood extraction by a “slight” margin.
After all, it was an ancient bloodline descendant. It would recover after some time.
Unfortunately, the Death Knell Striker’s ancient bloodline concentration was still too low, not enough to awaken divine energy.
Ugo’s desire for the Starfire Sect’s divine remains was also to extract the divine energy inside for fusion with the Death Knell Striker, enabling it to awaken divine energy and break through to a higher realm.@@@@
Fortunately, Su Nan didn’t need to go through all that trouble.
He had other methods to enhance the Death Knell Striker’s bloodline concentration.
The Stealthy Dragon was a good example.
“Unfortunately, your power level is too high. Otherwise, I could contract you as a magical companion, and your bloodline concentration would directly increase.”
Su Nan felt a tinge of regret.
The higher the power level of a creature, the harder it was to contract as a magical companion.
Unless the wizard (apprentice) had significantly higher power than the contracted object.
For a creature like the Death Knell Striker, a Third-Ring Legend-level ancient beast, at least a full-fledged wizard could attempt to contract it as a magical companion, and even then, it wouldn’t be a guaranteed success.
Therefore, many wizards (apprentices) cultivated their magical companions from a young age.
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to contract powerful beasts, but they simply couldn’t.
However, even if he couldn’t contract it as a magical companion, taming the Death Knell Striker wasn’t difficult.
As long as he implanted a little trick in its body, this beast, whose intelligence was no less than humans, would choose to submit to save its own life.
In fact, the Death Knell Striker was already showing signs of submission.
More powerful than clay magic puppets and stone magic puppets.
If one day he could also craft puppets of this level, then he would be truly amazing.
They had been to the central area countless times before, and they were already familiar with the layout. After passing through the gate, they went straight to the study.
Just as they reached the door and Xie Man was about to knock, a voice came from inside.
“Come in.”
Xie Man and Kore straightened their expressions, pushed the door open and entered. Looking up, they saw the teacher sitting behind his desk, holding a book in his hand, looking at them with a smile.
To their surprise, Amy, who often stayed in the underground world these days, was also there.
It was lying in the corner of the desk, enjoying itself, cuddling a catnip stick and sniffing and sucking it.
“Teacher, Amy.”
Xie Man and Kore bowed together.
“Meow, it’s Xie Man and Kore.” Amy came back to its senses, waved its paw at them, “I heard you two became Second-Rank Wizard Apprentices. Congratulations, meow.”
Xie Man and Kore smiled at the same time, just about to be humble, but heard Amy’s change of tone.
“But you’re a bit slow, meow. Back in the day, if you hadn’t become a Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice in over five years, you would have been kicked out of the academy.”
Their smiles froze on their faces.
Amy continued, “Su Nan only took less than a year to become a Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice, meow.”
Xie Man and Kore were shocked. They looked at Su Nan with admiration.
As expected of the teacher, he had crossed the Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice barrier in such a short time.
“Alright.” Su Nan interrupted Amy, and looked at them with a smile, “Don’t listen to Amy’s nonsense, you two are already doing great.”
This was the era of the Element Desert, how could it compare to a thousand years ago?
And it was even more incomparable to him, who had a cheat code!
Xie Man and Kore only took a little over five years to become Second-Rank Wizard Apprentices, this talent was already quite good.
Of course, this was also because the base provided abundant resources. If they were Wizard Apprentices outside, it would take them twenty or thirty years to barely become Second-Rank.
Those with slightly lower talent might even take fifty or sixty years to cross this hurdle.
With Su Nan’s praise, smiles appeared on Xie Man and Kore’s faces.
“It’s all thanks to the teacher’s guidance!” they said in unison.
Su Nan smiled slightly, “I only provided you with a platform. To get to where you are today, it’s primarily thanks to your own efforts.”
Then, his smile faded, his expression turning serious, “However, you cannot become complacent. Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice is just the starting point of the wizard path. It only means you’ve become qualified apprentices. On this continent, you need to be at least a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice to be considered strong.”
“Becoming a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice is far more difficult than you imagine, let alone becoming a full-fledged wizard. You need to be mentally prepared, there’s still a long way to go.”
“Yes, teacher!”
Xie Man and Kore’s expressions became solemn, and they bowed together in response.
After giving them a few pointers, Su Nan softened his tone and smiled, throwing a vial of potion to each of them.
“This is a Super Ability Potion, a second-order potion that can enhance meditation efficiency. It’s a gift for your promotion.”
“However, there are restrictions on taking this potion. You need to reach a certain level of spiritual power before you can take it. You two should cultivate for a while, stabilize your realm, and then take it.”
A second-order inferior Super Ability Potion requires 13 spiritual power to take.
For newly promoted Second-Rank Wizard Apprentices, even if their spiritual power hadn’t reached 13, it wouldn’t be far off. After cultivating for a few months, they would meet the requirements.
“Thank you, teacher!”
Xie Man and Kore were overjoyed.
Potions that enhance meditation efficiency always require more contribution points than other things to exchange.
Not to mention a second-order potion.
If they were to exchange it with contribution points, they would probably have to complete tasks for half a month.
“Go back. Come back to see me after you stabilize your realm. I have something I need you two to do.” Su Nan waved his hand.
The two responded in a low voice, bowed respectfully, and then left.
Walking out of the study, Xie Man and Kore looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their faces simultaneously.
“This time you promoted thirteen days faster than me, you won. But next time I’ll definitely surpass you!” Kore said resolutely.
In the past, Xie Man would simply laugh it off when Kore said this.
However, after the death of Old Roger, his attitude towards improving his strength had undergone a dramatic change. Hearing Kore’s challenging words, a confident smile appeared on his face.
“Then I’ll wait and see. But be prepared, I won’t let you win!”