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Chapter 142: He’s Not Interested in Starlight Tower?
Chapter 142: He’s Not Interested in Starlight Tower?
Starlight Calendar 1256, Autumn Curtain Moon (October).
The chill in the air was already quite noticeable, and this year’s snow might fall earlier than usual.
Meditation Chamber.
Su Nan sat cross-legged on the floor, slowly opening his eyes. A flash of joy passed through them.
The fifteenth Star Ring, constructed!
“Only three more Star Rings left.”
Su Nan let out a long sigh, pushing down his excitement, and opened his panel.
**[Su Nan · Arnest, Human Male]**
**[Spirit 48.03/Constitution 43.77]**
**[Skills]**
Star Ring Meditation Method Lv16 (23/3,000,000)
Potion Crafting Lv4 (8345/10,000)
Creature Modification Lv3 (3025/6000)
Puppetry Refining Lv5 (374/20,000)
Magical Item Crafting Lv4 (5031/10,000)
“Three million proficiency, at the current rate, it will take about two years.”
“However, if I can utilize Divine Energy to increase my Spiritual Power later, the speed should be even faster.”
Su Nan’s lips curled slightly.
The remaining three Star Rings should be constructed within ten years.
Then it would be only Spiritual Power and Talent Crystal left.
Looking down, among the four skills, Puppetry Refining was the fastest-growing, at a unique level 5.
After all, Su Nan had been frantically crafting various Magic Puppets for the past few years, and his proficiency had increased rapidly.
On the other hand, Potion Crafting, which was initially far ahead, had slowed down due to the production of low-level potions being handed over to apprentices in the base. Su Nan only needed to synthesize them, and with less crafting, his proficiency naturally slowed down. ŘάꞐô₿Ès̈
Magical Item Crafting and Creature Modification were the same, with less and less practice.
Especially the latter, it was only used when enhancing the bloodlines of the Stealthy Dragon and the Death Knell Strike, and its proficiency had barely increased.
Even so, being able to raise the four skills to this level during the Wizard Apprentice stage, he was the only one on the entire Starlight Continent who could achieve this.
Other apprentices didn’t have as many resources as he did to practice.
Stretching, Su Nan took out the Trading House key, patiently waiting for a while before feeling it activate.
He immediately activated the key and entered the Mysterious Wooden Hut.
Tonight was the once-a-month gathering of the Mysterious Wooden Hut.
The new member hadn’t participated in the last gathering, Night Owl said he had something to do, but he should be here this time.
Opening his eyes, Su Nan immediately looked around and indeed found a new member.@@@@
The other party wore a gray robe, and from the faintly visible enchantment patterns, it was clearly a magical item.
The robe concealed his body completely, and the only exposed face was covered by a plain white mask.
The other members of the Mysterious Wooden Hut were also sizing up the new member discreetly.
After waiting patiently for a while and seeing no one else entering, Night Owl announced the start of the gathering.
“First, let me introduce the new member, this is the ninth Wizard Apprentice of the Mysterious Wooden Hut.”
Night Owl turned towards the gray-robed figure with the white mask.
“According to the rules, the true identities of all members of the Mysterious Wooden Hut are confidential and must not be revealed. For the sake of convenience, we each have our own code names. You should choose one too.”
The gray-robed figure pondered for a moment and said, “Then call me Hunter.”
As the gray-robed figure’s deep voice fell, the words ‘Hunter’ slowly appeared on the table in front of him.
“Welcome, Hunter.”
Night Owl smiled slightly.
“Now let’s start tonight’s trade.”
Then came the familiar trading process.
Apart from Black Forest and Traveler, all the other members were present, taking turns to bring out items for mutual trading.
Hunter observed the trading process without making a sound. He quickly realized that the Wizard Apprentice called Player seemed to have an extraordinary amount of resources.
Not only did he bring out a considerable number of first-order potions and alchemical-level magical items for trading, but when purchasing from others, he used rare Magic Stones!
Moreover, from the look of others, it seemed like this was not just the case tonight.
As if sensing Hunter’s surprise, the staff sitting next to him smiled and whispered, “Player is the richest among us, possessing a large amount of resources. Ever since he joined the Mysterious Wooden Hut, the trading volume of our organization has increased by several levels.”
“I see.”
Hunter looked at Su Nan in astonishment.
Noticing his gaze, Su Nan turned his head and nodded slightly.
Hunter quickly returned the nod in greeting.
He could tell that the others treated Su Nan with a hint of respect.
This was clearly not just because he held a large amount of resources, but more likely because of his strength.
If it would take a hefty price to get the key, he’d rather decline.
After all, letting Kei enter Starlight Tower was to obtain the Dawn Potion that could extend his lifespan. He could just wait until he entered Starlight Tower later and figure out a way to get one and give it to Kei.
Compared to fighting for the Starlight Tower key, Su Nan was more curious about how Hunter got it.
After all, as far as he knew, the Starlight Tower key was supposed to be only with Evans.
“Could it be that Hunter knows Evans? Or did he steal it from Evans?”
“Speaking of which, Night Owl once said that Hunter escaped from Sauro of the Everlasting Society. Could this have something to do with the Everlasting Society?”
Su Nan’s mind flashed with various possibilities.
Just then, the bidding for the Starlight Tower key finally ended.
In the end, Staff won the Starlight Tower key with a high price of thirteen bottles of Tranquility Potion and gems worth sixty-two thousand gold coins.
Su Nan was not surprised by this result.
After all, before he joined the Mysterious Wooden Hut, Staff was the most generous member in the organization.
Moreover, if he guessed correctly, Staff was indeed from the royal family of the Golden Empire, which would explain his generous spending.
The Golden Empire was the most powerful country in the Southeast Region of the Continent, bar none.
Tranquility Potion is a first-order potion that aids meditation and costs about three hundred gold coins each.
Ultimately, Staff spent nearly sixty-six thousand gold coins to obtain the Starlight Tower key.
The price was undoubtedly high.
However, from Staff’s look, he was clearly very satisfied with the outcome.
Rose, Heart, and Corpse looked a bit reluctant.
Unfortunately, their fortunes were inferior to others, and they could only hold back their displeasure.
Su Nan looked deeply at Hunter.
Since he was willing to trade the Starlight Tower key, it meant that he had another key, or perhaps even more.
Perhaps the same trade might happen again in the future.
Frostfall Moon (November).
White snowflakes dotted the earth.
The snow this year did fall earlier than usual.
Compared to the icy cold wind howling on the surface, the underground world was only slightly cooler.
Inside the city of Yuhula, the Human-Faced Lion Warriors still walked around the streets shirtless.
In Base 2, laboratory.
A wide workbench was filled with countless test tubes, each containing blood drawn from the Death Knell Striker, with a uniform capacity of 100 ml.
“This much blood should be enough.”
Su Nan muttered, opening the Magic Cube and putting in the blood one by one, his eyes fixed on the synthesis interface.
As more and more blood was put in, the bloodline concentration on the synthesis interface kept increasing.
59.13% 64.79% 71.34% 84.11%
When there were only eight test tubes left on the workbench, the bloodline concentration on the synthesis interface finally broke through 100%, and the information suddenly changed.
**[Hisstous Worm Blood, Purity 1.25%, contains 1 standard unit of Divine Energy. Injecting it into the human body has a very small probability of fusing with the Hisstous Worm bloodline and a very high probability of causing rejection. Severe cases can lead to death. The stronger the constitution and spirit, the higher the fusion success rate and the lower the rejection. ]**
“Success!”
Su Nan was overjoyed.
As he had expected, even without enhancing the bloodline concentration of the Death Knell Striker, it was possible to create Divine Energy by synthesizing blood.
Although the description indicated that the contained Divine Energy was very little, at least it proved that his method was correct.
Su Nan immediately extracted the Divine Energy from the blood and absorbed it immediately.
Unlike the Divine Energy obtained from deities, the Divine Energy in these naturally-born divine creatures did not contain faith power, there was no risk of faith pollution, and it was very pure, allowing for direct absorption.
After digesting the Divine Energy, Su Nan opened the panel and found that his Spirit had increased by 0.25.
“Not bad!”
Su Nan smiled contentedly.
After all, there was only 1 standard unit of Divine Energy, far less than what he had extracted from the divine remains before, an increase of 0.25 Spirit was already quite good.
The key was that this was sustainable.
As long as the Death Knell Striker was still around, he could keep drawing blood, artificially creating Divine Energy, which was equivalent to having a new way to increase his Spiritual Power periodically.
“It takes about eight months worth of blood to create 1 standard unit of Divine Energy.”
“That means I can get an additional 0.37 increase in Spiritual Power annually, on average.”
“No, that’s not right, the more Spiritual Power I have, the harder it becomes to increase, the subsequent increase should gradually decrease.”
“But even so, it can shorten the time it takes for my Spiritual Power to break through 60.”
Su Nan thought of the Death Knell Striker locked in the confinement area.
Considering its contribution, he would take it out of the confinement area and give it a more comfortable environment.
Otherwise, living in a dark dungeon and being drawn blood all the time, it would definitely develop depression.
Of course, the defense still needs to be strict.
It just so happened that he wasn’t using that Mithril Magic Puppet, so he would let it guard the Death Knell Striker.