Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 100: The Concept of Magic Pattern Construction and Knight Guard
Puppet factory.

The low roar of the magic crystal forging furnace echoed in the factory.

Su Nan stood in front of the large workbench, controlling the silver needle with his mage's hand with a focused look, drawing enchanted patterns on the surface of the golem.

About ten minutes later, as the last stroke of the line was drawn, the entire body of the golem instantly gained a fresh aura of magical power.

"Another one completed!"

Sunan smiled with satisfaction and placed the miniature soul crystal into the groove on the golem's chest.

As the grooves closed, lines of enchanted lines flashed with light one after another, and the iron golem on the workbench suddenly came to life.

Under Sunan's command, the Iron Golem jumped off the workbench and walked to the end of the team in the corner and stood still.

In front of it were six identical steel golems.

After the second meeting in the jungle cabin, Sunan immediately set about refining a new steel golem.

There were a total of six miniature soul crystals, all of which were refined into soul cores, and the final result was six steel golems.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Iron Golem as much as possible, the steel used for refining has been synthesized and strengthened in advance to improve the quality of the material.

The combat power of the Iron Golem that was finally refined had reached the upper level of the first-ring legendary knight, which was much stronger than the first Iron Golem that was refined before.

The cost increased by nearly half, soaring to more than 1,500 gold coins.

Sunan now earns about 22,000 gold coins every year just from selling potions.

The cost of these six steel golems is roughly equivalent to 40% of the annual revenue of the pharmaceutical company.

Of course, this is just a nominal cost.

In fact, because the cost of purchasing micro soul crystals is pitifully low, the actual cost is not that exaggerated.

"Six iron golems are still not enough to deal with the hundred-armed monster."

Hundred-armed monster is the name Sunan gave to the monster in the cave.

The main purpose of his refining six steel golems was to deal with the hundred-armed monster.

The old iron golem will be kept to guard the base.

However, considering the combat effectiveness of the hundred-armed monster, the six steel golems are still slightly insufficient.

"At least ten are needed."

With enough tanks blocking in front, Sunan can output with peace of mind in the back.

After thinking for a moment, he soon came up with an idea.

If there are not enough iron golems, use stone golems.

But ordinary stone golems certainly won’t work.

There is no point in having a front row that can't even withstand a hit from the Hundred-Armed Monster.

A more powerful stone golem must be synthesized.

There happened to be more than twenty stone golems in the Rubik's Cube, and Sunan took them out and put them into the Rubik's Cube.

[Elite Stone Golem (Puppet/Advanced Knight Level), a puppet creature made of granite, with great power and indestructible, and can automatically recover from injuries by consuming energy. ]

"It takes twenty-five stone golems to create a high-level knight?"

Su Nan frowned slightly, but soon relaxed his brows.

After all, the initial combat power of the stone golem is only at the primary knight level. The starting point is too low, so it is normal that a high number of synthesis requirements are required.

Sunan simply transferred more than ten stone golems from the patrol team and put them into the Rubik's Cube.

When the number of synthesizers increased to forty-two, the combat power of the elite stone golem on the synthesis interface finally broke through to the level of a first-ring legendary knight.

"One stone golem costs about 43 gold coins, and 42 golems cost more than 1,900 gold coins. The cost is about 300 gold coins more than the iron golem, but the combat effectiveness is much worse."

The elite stone golem is at most at the lower level of a first-ring legendary knight in terms of strength, and is not as good as a newly refined steel golem.

However, after thinking about it, Sunan decided to synthesize a stone golem.

After all, soul crystals are rare. In comparison, gems are easier to obtain.

It is already very good to have a channel to synthesize a ring of legendary knight-level combat power.

"To synthesize four elite stone golems, we need one hundred and sixty-eight stone golems. We still need one hundred and forty-three."

"Fortunately, I got a lot of gems from the jungle cabin, so the materials are sufficient."

"It will take about twenty days to complete everything."

Sunan estimated the time and if everything went well, he could finish it before winter.

After putting the patrol guard's stone golem back, Sunan left the puppet factory and walked towards the spell training area.

Next it was time to practice the spell.

He has now mastered three second-level spells: [Elemental Protection], [Leviticus], and [Mirror Image].

Considering that he would have to deal with the hundred-armed monster next, Sunan chose [Crushing Sound Wave] for the fourth second-ring spell.

[Crushing Sound Wave] is a range damage spell that can emit a high-speed vibrating sound wave, causing crushing damage to all living or non-living things.

This spell is somewhat similar to Banshee's Wail.

Of course, the damage is far from comparable.

Banshee's Wail can even cause soul-level damage, while Shattering Sound Waves is only effective on the physical level.

However, [Crushing Sound Waves] can be finely controlled to accurately strike the target.

Unlike the Banshee's Wail, its lethality does not distinguish between friend and foe.

With the improvement of his mental strength and the use of third-level medium-grade transcendental potion, Sunan's speed in learning spells has also increased.

Now it only takes about forty days to master a second-level spell.

The learning progress of [Crushing Sound Wave] is now more than halfway completed. Sunan estimates that once the stone golem is refined, [Crushing Sound Wave] should be almost mastered.

After practicing magic, Sunan came to the study and took a book from the bookshelf to read.

He gradually bought more than a hundred wizard books from the forest hut.

During this period, he spent two to three hours reading every day.

Thanks to the learning progress of the panel, his current knowledge has far exceeded the level of a normal third-level wizard apprentice.

Even when compared with official wizards, Sunan is confident that he will not lose.

Most of the wizarding books obtained through trade contained only basic knowledge, with very little advanced knowledge.

However, there was a book that Su Nan was quite interested in.

"Magic Pattern Construction"!
This is the name of the book.

To summarize the content, it is to combine magic tattoos and magic weapons to create a special enchanted rune that can be used by both wizards (apprentices) and knights.

As everyone knows, magical tattoos can only be used by wizards (apprentices).

After all, this thing needs to be injected with mental power to be activated.

However, enchanted weapons are different, even knights can use them.

So the author of the book took a different approach and combined magic tattoos with demonized weapons, intending to create a strange weapon in the form of an enchanted rune that can be activated by injecting fighting spirit or mental power, greatly enhancing the user's combat effectiveness.

To be honest, the magic pattern structure and the magic pattern core are actually similar in nature.

The basis of both is magic tattoo, and both require [Magic Item Manufacturing] as a prerequisite skill.

The difference is that in addition to [Magic Item Manufacturing], Magic Rune Construction also involves [Biological Transformation], which is more difficult than Magic Rune Core. "This thing is not very useful for wizard apprentices, and is far inferior to Magic Rune Core, but it is very useful for those who want to build their own forces."

The power of the magic rune construct is only slightly higher than that of the magic tattoo, and is far inferior to the magic rune core. It has little effect on improving the combat effectiveness of wizard apprentices.

But the advantage is that the cost is much lower than the magic pattern core.

If used to arm knights, a powerful knight army could be established in an instant.

According to the description in the book, a set of the lowest level one magic pattern structure is enough to enhance the power of a junior knight to the level of a peak knight close to a great knight.

This degree of enhancement is undoubtedly astonishing!
Sunan thought that he could take some time to study the magic pattern structure.

"Speaking of which, it's time to form our own knight guard."

All along, whenever Sunan needed knights, he would directly draw them from the Shining City army.

Both he and Key were used to it.

This includes financial investment.

Right now, the Shining Territory is in a critical period of expanding its power, and there are powerful enemies outside, so the territory and the base are indistinguishable from each other.

The base can obtain funds and materials from the territory, and the territory can also obtain black rock leopards, stone golems, dragon blood fruits, potions, etc. from the base for free.

But this can't go on forever.

If you want to develop healthily, sooner or later, the base will be separated from the territory, becoming economically independent from each other, and transforming from an ambiguous dependent relationship into a mutually beneficial trading relationship.

This is the only way to develop a healthy and sustainable relationship.

By then, the base will not be able to arbitrarily draw troops from the Shining City, and will have to have its own knight guards.

"To form a Knight Guard, we need people first."

"Drawing soldiers from the army?"

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Sunan rejected it immediately.

If they did so, the Knight Guards would inevitably bear the mark of the Shining City Army, and the separation of relations would become a joke.

“It’s better to cultivate it yourself.”

Sunan thought about it and decided to select a group of children from the civilians and farmers in the territory and train them from an early age.

Anyway, there is no rush to form the Knight Guard, we can take our time.

The most important thing is to establish a complete training system so that we can continuously supply knights to the base in the future.

As for why not choose from the children of nobles.

One is that most nobles have their own knight heritage.

Noble children are taught martial arts by their own knight elders in the family since childhood, and there is no need for outsiders to interfere.

The other is to recruit knights in the territory, most of whom are selected from the descendants of vassal nobles. Sunan does not want to compete with the Shining Territory for manpower.

Anyway, he has dragon blood fruit and various strengthening potions, so he doesn't care about the qualifications and talents of the candidates for training.

Even if the common people and farmers' children have poor qualifications, they can still make up for it with potions and magic plants.

The key is to be clean and loyal!
"Magic Rune Construct and Knight Guard, now there are two more targets."

Su Nan let out a long sigh. Neither of these two things could be accomplished in a short period of time. They required long-term planning.

"Let's deal with the Hundred-Armed Monster first."

Time flies, and more than twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Before the end of the Autumn Moon, Sunan finally synthesized four elite stone golems.

Now he has ten first-ring legendary knight-level fighters at his disposal.

"I also created ten more high-level rune gems. Now there are fifteen in total. This should be enough to deal with the hundred-arm monster."

Everything was ready. Sunan put the golem into the Rubik's Cube and took Yinlong to the forest north of the city.

Fortunately, the hundred-armed monster has not come out of the cave during this period.

Only occasionally would a few underground toad monsters and ferocious rats come out of the cave, and they would be quickly wiped out by the garrisoned knights.

Therefore, there were no major casualties during this period, which made Key feel relieved.

Brad had already received a notice that Sunan would enter the cave today, and he was waiting outside early. When he saw Sunan coming, he immediately came to greet him.

"Sir, as per your orders, the troops near the cave and outside the forest have been evacuated."

"Okay, you should leave as well."

According to Sunan's expectation, if he cannot defeat the hundred-armed monster, he will have to escape from the cave. At that time, the hundred-armed monster may chase him out. If the army still stays here, it may cause heavy casualties.

Just in case, it is better to let the troops evacuate first.

After Brad left, Sunan cast [Shield Spell] on himself, put on a layer of energy particle protection, and activated an extreme protection ring before walking into the cave.

As for the hidden dragon, he had already transformed his body into a virtual one and entered the cave ahead of time.

The cave still retains the same appearance as when I came here before.

Apart from the fact that the torches on the rock wall had gone out, no other obvious changes were seen.

The bodies of the ferocious rats and underground toad monsters that had been killed before had disappeared. They were probably all become food for the hundred-armed monster.

Sunan walked forward cautiously.

Yinlong was walking a hundred meters ahead of him.

The space in the cave passage is very limited and cannot accommodate the huge body of the Hidden Dragon. Without virtualizing the body, it cannot even move.

However, although he is not good at fighting, Yinlong can still be a spy.

Without encountering any monster along the way, Sunan arrived at the same basin very smoothly.

Unexpectedly, another group of gnolls were mining in the basin.

It was clear that the ogres who were mining last time had been killed by the Black Rock Leopards.

"Did that hundred-armed monster capture them from somewhere else?"

Sunan’s first reaction was that he was caught from the underground world.

After all, the hundred-armed monster has never left the cave, so if you want to capture the dog-headed man, you can only catch him in the underground world.

But these are not what he should care about now.

Sunan shook his head to clear his mind, took out more than ten black rock leopards from the magic cube, and gave the order to attack and kill the dog-headed men.

In an instant, more than a dozen swift hunters appeared in the dim basin.

The sudden sneak attack stunned the kobold.

One by one, companions died at the hands of the Black Rock Leopard's sharp teeth and claws.

The ogres, who suffered heavy casualties, soon fell into panic and fear, screaming and fleeing in all directions.

Just like last time, the movement in the basin soon attracted the hundred-armed monster.

Accompanied by a roar that sounded like countless overlapping voices, the huge body of the Hundred-Armed Monster rushed out from the hole deep in the basin bottom, and saw the Black Rock Leopard beating the Kobold at a glance.

Seeing that the black leopards that killed all his slaves last time appeared again, the Hundred-Armed Monster was extremely angry. Without saying a word, he swung his weapon and killed the black rock leopards. He killed all the black rock leopards in a few seconds.

But before he could be happy, he was shocked to find that there were a group of huge monsters made of steel and stone around him.

(End of this chapter)