Synthetic Wizard

Chapter 179: Chapter 129: Life Is Short, Seize Every Second

Starlight Calendar Year 1255, Month of Winter Lyre (January).

On the first day of the new year, an unprecedented celebration began.

This year’s celebration was grander than ever before, and the reason was well known — naturally, it was to celebrate the enthronement of the new Grand Duke.

What came as a surprise to the masses was that the new Grand Duke ultimately decided to establish the capital in Flash City, rather than Starry City.

He spared no expense to rebuild the palace.

Only people of a certain status knew the reason why the new Grand Duke did this.

It was only because that person’s base was near Flash City.

From any perspective, it was impossible for the new Grand Duke’s residence to be far from that person’s base.

This was perfectly reasonable.

In fact, from the proposal to relocate the capital to the start of palace construction, not a single noble dared to object.

Everyone agreed to the proposal without hesitation.

The Month of Winter Lyre passed in celebration and busyness, and in the blink of an eye, it was the Month of Renewal (February).

Fine snow was still falling from the sky.

In past years, the snow would have started melting by this time, but this year the weather remained cold.

However, Sunan, in Ghost Lake City, could not feel this.

The temperature changes in the underground world were much smaller than on the surface, being perpetually damp and cold.

After spending more than half a month, Sunan finally completed the first Elite Stone Golem.

The Elite Stone Golem was composed of a total of four hundred and sixty Stone Golems.

Like the Elite Dual-bladed Spider, Sunan also made the Elite Stone Golem permanently use the Floating Skill, Light Spirit Skill, Barbaric Strength Skill, and Toughness Skill, totaling four Tier Two Magic.

In addition, Sunan used demonized weapon technology to enchant the body of the Elite Stone Golem with the “Black Steel” trait, and the two fists were respectively enchanted with “Minor Thunder Element Damage” and “Minor Ice Element Damage,” aiming primarily at reducing the enemy’s movement speed (paralysis and freezing).

Thanks to the Elite Stone Golem’s sufficiently large body, combined with Sunan’s improved level in magic item creation, he was able to attach three traits at once.

In the end, the cost of an Elite Stone Golem amounted to over twenty-two thousand Gold Coins!

Just a thousand Gold Coins less than an Elite Dual-bladed Spider.

Even with the seven mines currently controlled by Ghost Lake City, a month’s profit income could only afford to make one Elite Stone Golem or one Elite Dual-bladed Spider.

“Expensive as it may be, it is worth the price.”

It is worth mentioning that Sunan tried to use the Elite Dual-bladed Spider to synthesize a Tier Three Legendary Elite Dual-bladed Spider.

However, even after placing five Elite Dual-bladed Spiders into the cube, he still could not get an Elite Dual-bladed Spider.

In other words, the cost of a Tier Three Legendary Elite Dual-bladed Spider already exceeded a hundred thousand Gold Coins, far higher than the Refined Gold Golem.

In this situation, to obtain a Tier Three Legendary Puppet, crafting a Refined Gold Golem is undoubtedly more cost-effective.

“When having blueprints, crafting high-level puppets is more cost-effective.”

“Unless there are no blueprints or no key materials, one can only obtain high-level puppets through synthesis.”

In fact, there has been such a precedent.

For example, the Steel Golem, with a crafting cost of only fifteen hundred Gold Coins.

Yet to synthesize an Elite Stone Golem, the cost was over seven thousand Gold Coins.

Both are Tier One Legends, and even though the Steel Golem is slightly stronger than the Elite Stone Golem, this slight increase in strength is far from worth such a vast cost disparity.

The root cause is the insufficient number of miniature soul crystals, making batch crafting of Steel Golems impossible.

To obtain enough Tier One Legendary combat power, Sunan could only achieve this by consuming more resources.

Potions and magic items are the same.

For example, Tier Three Transcendent Potion, if the resources consumed were converted into equivalent materials, it would be enough to make four or five bottles of Tier Three potions easily.

However, the corresponding materials cannot be found on the Starlight Continent now, so synthesis is the only way to make Tier Three potions.

“For Tier Three Legendary Puppets, crafting a Refined Gold Golem is better.”

Sunan made up his mind.

It’s a pity that the previously encountered Refined Gold Golem was mostly destroyed by the Demon Pattern Core, and disassembling it only yielded a small amount of magic refined gold, far from enough to craft a new one.

He still needs to release tasks, letting the apprentices in the base craft the magic refined gold.

In terms of training, Sunan has now mastered all the Tier Two Magic he possesses, more than twenty in total.

Before acquiring new Tier Two Magic, he has returned to a state where there is no magic to train in.

In the aspect of meta-magic techniques, the progress in Instant Spellcasting is quite rapid, with the training progress already more than halfway.

Sunan expects that in about a year, he should be able to master Instant Spellcasting.

Unfortunately, training in meta-magic techniques requires casting spells to consume spiritual power, and when spiritual power is depleted, he must meditate to recover, greatly slowing down the training speed.

Otherwise, he could completely increase the training time or train multiple meta-magic techniques simultaneously.

“It’s a pity there’s no potion to restore spiritual power.”

…

Time passed, and it quickly reached mid-Month of Renewal.

Sunan took time to hold an assessment at Base No. 1 to evaluate the learning progress of all apprentices.

After more than four years of development, the number of students at the base has now increased to forty-two.

Moreover, a new round of talent detection has already been conducted across the entire Starry Principality.

This time, the scale of detection was unprecedentedly large, encompassing six provinces except for the Golden Rock Province.

It is estimated that the number of age-appropriate participants for detection will exceed 100,000.

It can be foreseen that after this round of talent detection is over, the number of students at the base will definitely see a surge, very likely breaking into three digits.