Synthetic Wizard

Chapter 139: Chapter 110: Outlandish Conceptions

The crowd fell into silence.

Finally, it was Black Forest who gave a light cough and said, “I happen to have a design plan for a special model puppet, but it’s not of the flying type, would you be interested?”

“Can I take a look first?”

“Of course.”

Taking the design plan from Black Forest, Sunan opened it and was immediately taken aback.

At the top of the design plan was written the name of the puppet—Gemstone Golem!

This peculiar name immediately piqued his interest.

He continued to read, and his expression gradually became strange.

The naming of different golems is generally based on their main construction material.

For example, the Steel Golem uses steel as the main material, while the Stone Golem uses stone.

Since the Wizard Civilization’s inception, the materials developed by Wizards for crafting golems are numerous and varied, including bizarre materials like flesh and bones, and even demonized ropes and shutters.

The materials are diverse and varied.

But using gemstones as a material, Sunan had never heard of it before.

It’s not that gemstones are unsuitable as a material, but mainly because of one reason—costly!

No matter what Wizards make, they first prioritize cost-effectiveness.

Whether it’s magic items, puppets, or potions, regardless of the potency of the effect, if the cost far exceeds its intrinsic value, then the item is considered a failure.

Because of this, no one has ever thought of crafting a golem from gemstones.

However, the author of this design plan dares to venture where others have not.

The concept is to use diamonds as the main material, supplemented by various gemstones to construct the golem’s body, and then inscribe a certain number of Tier Two Magic, referencing the ’gemstone magic’ techniques, with gemstones amplifying the power of the spells, ultimately crafting a Gemstone Golem capable of releasing multiple spells.

One must admit, this idea is very inventive.

The golem constructed predominantly from diamonds would be extraordinarily hard, possibly even more so than a Refined Gold Golem.

The idea of using gemstones to amplify the power of the spells is also quite ingenious.

With gemstone amplification, the spells released by the Gemstone Golem would certainly be comparable in power to Tier Three Magic.

A golem with an invincible body and capable of unleashing magic comparable in power to Tier Three Spells—its combat effectiveness would likely surpass that of an average Level 3 Wizard Apprentice!

However, upon careful consideration, one would discover two very obvious flaws in this concept.

The first is the difficulty of manufacturing.

To inscribe Tier Two Magic within the golem’s body, enabling it to release spells, is even more difficult than permanently affixing Tier Two Magic onto magic items.

With Sunan’s level 4 [Magic Item Creation] skill, he had already failed several times trying to inscribe one Tier Two Magic on a robe; trying to inscribe Tier Two Magic on a golem might take dozens or even hundreds of attempts to succeed.

If even Sunan faces such difficulties, one can imagine how much harder it would be for other wizard apprentices.

Others don’t have Sunan’s favorable conditions, with ample resources to practice and enhance their magic item creation skills.

Ordinary Level 3 Wizard Apprentices with [Magic Item Creation] capabilities at level 2 would already be considered highly talented.

Moreover, to use gemstones to amplify spell power, the creator must also master the knowledge of ’gemstone magic’.

But this knowledge disappeared from the Starlight Continent along with the departure of the gemstone magic school.

Now, there’s no one to learn this knowledge from.

The second flaw, naturally, is the cost issue.

To create a Gemstone Golem, the amount of gemstones required might be calculated in tons, with final costs reaching hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Even the wealthiest wizard cannot sustain such extraordinary expenses.

Even if they grit their teeth to scrimp together the funds, is it really worth it to create a golem that’s only somewhat tougher than an average Level 3 Wizard Apprentice?

Only a truly prodigal person would do such a thing!

Even in a future where the gemstone swarms are flourishing and can produce gemstones in large quantities, Sunan could not waste gemstones on this.

In his view, this design is nearly impractical.

In fact, according to the designer’s own words, he only stayed at the conceptual stage and had yet to create an actual product.

Having read the design plan, Sunan pondered for a while and looked at Black Forest with a playful tone: “What do you intend to trade this design plan for?”

“Three magic stones, how about it?”

Black Forest also knew this design plan wasn’t reliable, so he offered an exceptionally low price for a puppet design plan.

Sunan thought it over and agreed.

Though this design plan was far-fetched, it wasn’t entirely without lessons to be learned.

Taken back for thorough research, it could serve as a foundation for designing a new type of puppet.

The last transaction done, the gathering came to an end.

As they parted, Black Forest waved at Sunan and smiled, “If you’re interested in puppets, I have another rare puppet design plan. I’ll bring it over the next time I attend a gathering.”

Sunan was slightly taken aback, then nodded, “Then I shall look forward to it.”

…

Time passed swiftly.

Soon it was the Month of Summer, with the blazing sun high in the sky, making the weather exceptionally hot.

Base.

Sherman had just come out of the potion lab when he bumped into Attila coming out from the room opposite.

The two exchanged a glance and smiled slightly.

“Are you here to make potions too?”

“Yes, after so long, I finally succeeded in crafting the first bottle of Lesser Dragon Blood Potion.”