Synthesis Wizard-Chapter 217: Spell Turret II and Mana Machine

Chapter 217: Spell Turret II and Mana Machine

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New puppet!

Everyone was curious.

Fleming was the first to couldn’t hold back and went forward to open the compartment.

As the metal door creaked open to both sides, the scene inside the compartment was also revealed.

In the spacious hall, huge puppets were neatly arranged in a square formation, standing motionless, giving off a sense of rhythmic beauty.

These puppets looked like metal octopuses, with dozens of long, coiled tentacles growing around their bulky bodies, the ends of which were sharp, cone-shaped, like sharp blades flashing a cold, chilling glow.

“Octopus-shaped puppets.”

Sherman had a feeling of unexpected yet reasonable.

In the Rainbow Sea, there were octopus-like sea monsters. The octopus form could be said to be very suitable for underwater movement.

And those tentacles, at first glance, obviously had formidable attack power.

It could be said that the octopus form is one of the best forms that combines underwater movement and attack.

“There are a total of five hundred octopus puppets here, each with a first-ring legendary combat power. In addition, there are ten elite octopus puppets with a second-ring legendary combat power.”

“The other two level-two magic ships also have the same number of puppets.”

A total of one thousand five hundred octopus puppets and thirty elite octopus puppets.

Sherman nodded secretly.

This number is roughly enough for the current stage.

Once the three artificial islands are built, we can build the Magic Puppet Factory, then we can transfer the octopus puppet production line to the islands, produce puppets in bulk on site, and then we won’t have to worry about manpower.

“Now that the reinforcements have arrived, let’s set off for the artificial islands today.”

Wizard’s Tower, plantation.

Su Nan used the Master’s Hand to control a special liquid that combined rare metals and gems, carefully drawing the last stroke of the inscription on the ground.

As the inscriptions connected to form a closed loop, the entire magic circle instantly flashed with silver light, adding a layer of inexplicable, strange aura.

“Done!”

Su Nan breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appearing on his face.

The formation in the plantation was completed, all that was left was to plant the magical plants.

In terms of growth environment, the Wizard’s Tower plantation, which has a higher energy particle concentration and a formation, is obviously better than Dragon Forest Zone 2.

The latter’s only advantage is its large area.

“Rare magical plants can be transferred to the plantation, while those of relatively low value can still be kept in Dragon Forest Zone 2.”

Su Nan turned around and beckoned to Tia, who was wandering around not far away.

“Tia.”

Hearing Su Nan’s call, the elegant and beautiful Flower Fairy Queen immediately flew over happily.

“Su Nan, are you finished with your work?”

“Yeah, the formation is already set up, it will be almost done after we transplant the magical plants.”

Su Nan stretched out his index finger and gently stroked Tia’s delicate face with his fingertip. The girl showed an expression of enjoyment.

“Tia, I need you to summon another batch of your kin.”

“No problem.” Tia chuckled, “Many of my kin want to come here.”

Most flower fairies have a wish to have a flower garden that they can manage themselves, and the plantation happens to fulfill this wish.

Plus, Su Nan is very generous, giving them a lot of compensation, so the flower fairies are all living happily here, which makes their kin back home very envious.

After playing with Tia for a while, Su Nan left the plantation and returned to the control center.

“No. 1, scan the current state of the Wizard’s Tower.”

【Receiving instructions, starting scan.】

【Scanning… Scan complete.】

A three-dimensional, stereoscopic panoramic model immediately appeared before his eyes.

【Wizard’s Tower: Starlight】

【Level: Small (Construction progress 37.22%)】

【Remaining energy: 93.82%】

【Intelligent auxiliary life: Tower Spirit No. 1】

【Facilities: Element Pool (Small/Enhanced), Central Crystal Energy Transmission System, Living Area, Warehouse Area (Construction progress 76.22%), Experimental Area, Practice Area (Construction progress 46.91%), Meditation Area, Plantation Area】

【Servants: Clay Magic Puppet × 130】

【Protection device: Magic Lock Protective Energy Field (Small)】

【Combat device: None】

“The progress is still going smoothly.”

Su Nan nodded secretly.

The Magic Lock Protective Energy Field has also been manufactured, and the next step is to consider manufacturing more to be synthesized.

The Element Pool is the same, it is still in the Enhanced +1 state, and can be further synthesized.

The progress of space planning is only halfway complete, and there are many areas that haven’t been perfected.

It is worth mentioning that Su Nan recently manufactured Spell Turrets.

The first batch of practice creations were used to equip the magic ships.

For those manufactured afterwards, he planned to synthesize them and then equip them on the Wizard’s Tower.

“The current situation of the Starlight Continent, it’s impossible to gather enough resources to manufacture plasma cannons and pulse cannons. Even if they were manufactured, the small Element Pool can’t bear the energy consumption of these two weapons.”

Su Nan shook his head.

Not to mention pulse cannons, even the lower-level plasma cannons are energy-consuming.

He estimated that even an Enhanced +1 Element Pool would only be enough to fire two plasma cannons.

For a small Wizard’s Tower, the levels of plasma cannons and pulse cannons are too high. They are the equipment of medium-sized and large Wizard’s Towers.

Small Wizard’s Towers can only be equipped with Disintegration Cannons at most.

However, although it cannot be equipped with plasma cannons and pulse cannons, it is no problem to synthesize and enhance the power of Spell Turrets and Disintegration Cannons.

Although there is also the problem of increased energy consumption with increased firepower, this can be solved by enhancing the Element Pool.

After numerous experiments and firepower tests, Su Nan finally decided on the number of Spell Turrets to synthesize: five.

This number of Spell Turrets, synthesized, would have a power roughly seven times, close to eight times, that of the original.

Su Nan asked the puppet girl to assist with the test, and as a result, one shot directly seriously injured the puppet girl.

If it weren’t for the Magic Emblem Core offsetting most of the attack power, the puppet girl would have become a pile of scrap metal.

“This power is almost catching up to the Disintegration Cannon!”

Su Nan exclaimed in amazement.

Even a first-rank Vaporization Wizard would be seriously injured, if not killed, by a few hits from the Spell Turret beams.

However, the price of significantly enhancing the power is that energy consumption also skyrocketed to about four times the original.

Su Nan estimated that only by enhancing the Element Pool to near medium-sized levels can it bear the consumption of using Spell Turrets as conventional weapons.

He also planned to do so, so he controlled the number of synthesizing to five.

Continue to enhance upwards, the Spell Turrets can certainly continue to increase in power, but they would lose their meaning as conventional weapons.

As for high-end weapons, he plans to enhance the Disintegration Cannon.

“Since it’s a brand new version, let’s call it Spell Turret II.”

Su Nan decided to first equip the Wizard’s Tower with one hundred Spell Turret IIs, and then add more according to the situation.

This alone would cost more than fifteen million gold coins.

But the benefits are also very obvious. The firepower of the Starlight Wizard’s Tower is definitely far superior to most small Wizard’s Towers.

If it’s equipped with synthesized and enhanced Disintegration Cannons, then its firepower may not be inferior to medium-sized Wizard’s Towers.

“Once we’re done with the Spell Turrets, we’ll research the Disintegration Cannons.”

“There’s also the Magic Puppet Legion, the high-level puppet problem hasn’t been solved yet.”

The high-level puppet blueprints that Su Nan currently has are the Mithril Magic Puppet and the Puppet.

The former can be enhanced to third-rank legendary, and can be used as the main force of the Wizard’s Tower Magic Puppet Legion. The source of mithril material is not a concern.

The problem is the latter.

Generally speaking, small Wizard’s Towers are equipped with high-level puppets at the level of official wizards as the final combat sequence.

In other words, such puppets must at least reach the combat level of a first-rank Vaporization Wizard.

The puppet girl undoubtedly meets this requirement.

But the problem is that the cost of refining puppets is too high.

A single puppet costs as much as four hundred and eighty thousand gold coins, equipping one hundred would cost nearly fifty million gold coins.

The key is that even if Su Nan is willing to spend that money, there’s not that much material.

Refining puppets requires a lot of mithril, and the current output of mithril in the Star Alliance is basically used for Wizard’s Tower construction. It is foreseeable that enough mithril won’t be available for mass refining of puppets in the next hundred years.

Of course, he could accumulate for a hundred or two hundred years after the Wizard’s Tower is built, and he would be able to gather enough mithril to refine puppets.

But considering the wide range of applications of mithril as a material, it would be a waste to use it for mass refining of puppets.

It’s best to find a way to get the wizard-level puppet blueprints and directly refine them manually.

As for materials, we can find ways to synthesize or research substitutes, anyway, the key Soul Crystal is definitely not a problem.

“There are a lot of problems to solve.”

Su Nan rubbed his temples.

Building a Wizard’s Tower in a world of element deserts and dimensional lockdown is indeed a laborious task.

But compared to the benefits of a completed Wizard’s Tower, these problems are not problems.

Leaving the control center, Su Nan returned to his study.

He had been immersed in building the Wizard’s Tower for the past few months, and he hadn’t reviewed the reports that were sent in a long time. There shouldn’t be any major issues with the Star Alliance and the Starlight Empire, but the Rainbow Sea, he wondered how things were going.

However, just as he returned to his study, Su Nan suddenly sensed a powerful energy fluctuation erupting.

“That direction… It’s the Starlight Academy!”

Su Nan disappeared instantly and reappeared in the sky above the Starlight Academy.

The students’ power levels are too low, they haven’t sensed the energy fluctuation, the academy is as peaceful as ever.

Soon, the chief instructors, such as Staff, Rose, and Facado, also came to Su Nan.

Under the introduction of Staff and Rose, the Starlight Academy has since absorbed three third-rank Mage Apprentices as instructors.

Together with Sherman and Corey, who have accepted the invitation to become instructors, the number of instructors at the Starlight Academy has now reached double digits, greatly alleviating the pressure on teaching resources.

“It should be the Traveler.” Staff said, “He’s been in seclusion for several years, it’s about time he came out.”

Rose said, “That being the case, his half-elemental transformation should have been successful.”

Sure enough, a figure rushed up from the ground and flew rapidly towards where everyone was standing.

It was the Traveler, who had not been seen in a long time.

Compared to before his seclusion, the Traveler’s aura was more peaceful, yet vaguely carried a kind of vibrant vitality, like ten thousand trees flourishing.

When he stopped and hovered in the air, he seemed to be vaguely integrated with the entire world.

This is a sign of successful half-elemental transformation.

Moreover, judging by the aura, the Traveler had obviously chosen the Wood Element.

“Congratulations.” Su Nan smiled and congratulated him.

The others reacted at this time and came forward to congratulate him.

The Traveler also returned his thanks with a cheerful smile.

After a few words of greeting, Facado and the others bid farewell and left. Only Su Nan, Rose, and Staff, who were relatively familiar with the Traveler, remained.

“How does it feel?” Rose asked with bright eyes.

She also intends to take the half-elemental transformation path, and the Traveler’s experience may give her some reference.

The Traveler did not hide anything, and said honestly: “It’s very good. My perception and control of plant-type energy particles have been significantly enhanced. The specific increase in lifespan is not yet clear, but at least forty or fifty years is certain.”

Among all the half-elemental transformation paths, the Wood Element, due to its nature, increases the lifespan the most.

That is to say, the half-elemental transformation path must be chosen in accordance with one’s physical constitution. If it does not match one’s physical constitution, the probability of failure is extremely high, otherwise most Mage Apprentices would probably choose the Wood Element.

The Traveler was also lucky enough to have a constitution compatible with the Wood Element.

“However, after half-elemental transformation, I vaguely feel a certain kind of restraint, as if I’m going to touch a certain boundary if I take another step up.” The Traveler frowned and said.

“That’s the restraint of the Starlight Continent’s environment.”

Su Nan explained the matter of the upper limit of energy particle concentration.

After hearing this, the three of them realized it.

“No wonder the wizards of a thousand years ago left, staying here is indeed unbearable.”

“Not only that, it also makes it difficult for wizards to cultivate in this environment.”

Rose couldn’t help but glance at Su Nan.

She couldn’t see through Su Nan’s power level at all, and she didn’t know what level he had reached.

All along, Su Nan gave her the feeling of being too unfathomable, always acting in unexpected ways.

Perhaps Su Nan has a way to overcome the harsh environment of the Starlight Continent.

After chatting for a while, Su Nan returned to the Wizard’s Tower.

After the Traveler successfully transformed into a half-elemental being, Rose was clearly eager to try it too.

She’s probably going to start seclusion soon.

And she’ll probably also choose the Wood Element.

In fact, the half-elemental transformation of Mage Apprentices has almost no impact compared to Elemental Knights.

After all, Mage Apprentices don’t have any restrictions on the type of energy particles they can absorb during meditation.

Elemental Knights, on the other hand, can only absorb certain types of energy particles to improve their strength, which means that they have a higher requirement for the upper limit of energy particle concentration, and are more easily affected by the energy particle concentration ceiling of the Starlight Continent.

This is also why Su Nan suggested that Kei choose the Bloodline Knight path.

Back in his study, Su Nan sat down and flipped through the reports.

The reports from the Starlight Empire were mainly about the implementation progress of the reforms.

Due to the lack of magic stone veins, Su Nan rejected the idea of promoting mana technology, but after that, he had the idea of popularizing sub-mana technology using secondary magic stones as energy sources.

Magic stones could only be synthesized by him, but secondary magic stones could be created by second and third-rank Mage Apprentices.

Although the quantity is not enough to supply the entire continent, it is feasible for small-scale supply.

So, he directly threw the mana technology blueprints to the Starlight Academy, asking them to research corresponding sub-mana technology based on it.

Since it was backwards compatible, the research progress was pretty fast.

Three months ago, a mana machine driven by secondary magic stones was born.

This mana machine is somewhat similar to an internal combustion engine, but its energy utilization rate is higher and can be applied in many production fields.

However, due to the limited number of secondary magic stones, the mana machine is currently only being promoted for use in the imperial capital area.

Having said that, it’s still a good start.

As the number of Mage Apprentices at the Starlight Academy increases, the output of secondary magic stones will also increase year by year, driving the gradual popularization of sub-mana technology, expanding its application range, and giving birth to more sub-mana products.

(End of Chapter)