Synthetic Wizard

Chapter 225: Chapter 152: Massive Energy Shortfall, Abandoned Elemental Pool

After carefully searching around, finding nothing of value, Sunan proceeded directly to the upper level.

The third floor was an area divided into several halls, mainly serving as various recreational facilities.

“A leisure area, huh.”

This kind of area typically doesn’t yield much, so after a quick search, Sunan headed straight to the next level.

Starting from the third floor, it goes in order with the training area (including Meditation Room and Magic Practice Room), the workshop area (including Magic Item Workshop and Puppet Factory), the experimentation area, the warehouse area…

The workshop area housed hundreds of Clay Golems and Stone Golems.

However, they seemed to have not been activated for a long time, likely due to the issue of energy scarcity.

The experimentation area was also empty, with no valuable items like experimental notes.

The warehouse area was the same.

“This place’s layout is similar to my base. With a little modification, it could serve as Base No. 3.”

Sunan nodded silently, continuing to explore upwards.

It wasn’t until he reached the twelfth level that something finally changed.

The twelfth floor appeared to be a spacious laboratory, with numerous workbenches set up. Unlike the other areas, a specific section was set aside, holding dozens of large transparent glass tanks.

Each glass tank was filled with either green or blue liquid, containing bizarre creatures, including Sub-dragon Species and other kinds. Sunan even saw what seemed to be appendages and heads of pure-blood Dragon Race organs.

With surprise, he opened one of the glass tanks and took out a dragon head, but after careful inspection, he was greatly disappointed.

Perhaps due to improper long-term preservation, the essence within the dragon head had completely dissipated, turning it into useless waste.

Unwilling to give up, Sunan opened each glass tank individually for inspection, but the results were the same.

“Indeed, after all, it’s been over a thousand years. Even if these facilities had strong preservation functions, it’s impossible for these biological organs to last so long.”

Sighing, Sunan collected his thoughts and continued to the upper level.

The thirteenth and fourteenth levels were identical, filled with numerous workbenches and glass tanks.

Evidently, like the twelfth level, they were also transformation zones.

The creatures and biological organs within the glass tanks had long lost their effectiveness.

“It seems the creators of the Eco-Park placed great importance on Biological Transformation.”

Sunan pondered with some realization.

Previously, in Eco-Park Zone 1, he had seen many Sub-dragon Species he had never encountered before.

At that time, he thought it was his own issue, as there are countless Sub-dragon Species, and it’s impossible for anyone to know them all. Occasionally seeing one unfamiliar isn’t unusual, but now it seems that might not be the case.

Those unfamiliar Sub-dragon Species were likely not originally existing species but newly developed Sub-dragon Species cultivated by this Eco-Park.

Having explored the first fourteen levels, only the last level remained.

With a suspicion in his heart, Sunan took a deep breath and stepped into the Teleportation Array.

In a blink, he found himself on a broad platform.

The platform was entirely constructed of white stone, its surface intricately carved with patterns exuding an inexplicable elegance.

“White Marble!” Sunan’s gaze sharpened.

White marble is a fine-grained white marble, hard in texture, and considered a top-grade material for construction and sculpture.

Many Wizards choose white marble as the mainstay material when constructing a Wizard Tower.

Looking further around the platform, it was surrounded by a vast starry sky, countless starlights dotting it, with a dazzling galaxy spanning across, making one feel incredibly small.

After a moment of admiration, Sunan withdrew his gaze, looking towards the deepest part of the platform.

There lay a ten-meter-long by ten-meter-wide square pool, crafted from pure white marble, its surface covered with a layer of silver coating. The coating was densely inscribed with the patterns of a super large Energy Gathering Array.

“Elemental Pool!”

Sunan’s eyes lit up; he hadn’t expected this Eco-Park to also have an Elemental Pool.

Though it appeared small, not even qualifying as a small-sized Elemental Pool, only a micro-sized one at best, it was still quite impressive.

After all, an Elemental Pool is a standard energy supply system for a Wizard Tower.

“It seems that, outside of the Eco-Park’s energy circulation system, the minimal energy required for its operation is provided by this Elemental Pool.”

The operation principle of an Elemental Pool is to open a channel from the Elemental Plane, drawing Elemental Energy from it, endlessly supplying infinite and stable energy.

It is a high-level energy supply device, far more efficient than setting up a magic energy transmission pipeline at a geothermic node.

Many large facilities use Elemental Pools as their energy supply devices, with the most common being the Wizard Tower.

A small Elemental Pool is enough to meet the basic demands of a Wizard Tower.

However, constructing an Elemental Pool requires a large number of Gemstones, special metals, and various rare materials, making it extremely costly, and it requires a certain skill level in [Magic Item Manufacturing].

Even Official Wizards are not all capable of constructing an Elemental Pool.

A thousand years ago, when the Energy Particles density of Starlight Continent began to decline, some Wizards tried to emulate the construction of Elemental Pools, opening Plane Channels to introduce Elemental Energy to increase the density of Energy Particles, but ultimately they failed.

With too few channels, the introduction of Elemental Energy from the Elemental Plane couldn’t keep up with the rate of energy loss.

Too many channels would be akin to drilling countless holes in the planar barriers of Starlight Continent, greatly diminishing their isolation and protection functions, allowing a large number of Otherworldly Creatures to pass through the planar barriers into Starlight Continent, causing numerous disasters.