Synthetic Wizard

The water flows crystal clear, slowly circulating around the talent crystal, seemingly accompanied by a pleasant splashing sound.

“It’s done!”

Sunan opened his eyes, a gleam of delight flashing in them.

After more than two hundred years, he finally broke through to Level 2 Liquefaction!

“The spiritual refinement level of Level 2 is much harder to improve than that of Level 1.”

Sunan took a long breath, calming the surge within his heart, and focused on sensing the changes in his body.

The higher the wizard level, the more difficult it is to advance, but each breakthrough brings remarkable increases in power.

Even a Level 2 Liquefaction Wizard, even if the constructed crystals are lower-grade talent crystals, can easily defeat a Level 2 Gasification Wizard with two high-grade talent crystals.

High-level talent crystals can only make a wizard stand out among their peers, or even be invincible at the same level, but cannot allow a wizard to challenge higher levels.

Of course, the super talent crystals synthesized by Sunan are an exception.

Now, even without using engraving gemstones, witchcraft artifacts, and alchemy engravings and other trump cards, he can still battle Level 2 Crystallization Wizards with a good chance of victory.

If he adds various trump cards, he wouldn’t fear facing Level 3 Gasification Wizards.

Once he breaks through to Level 2 Crystallization, Sunan is confident he can defeat Level 3 Gasification Wizards.

“But breaking through to Level 2 Crystallization is equally challenging.”

Originally, Sunan hoped to advance to Level 3 Wizard before the plane blockade lifted, but later realized he underestimated the difficulty from Level 2 to Level 3.

It took over two hundred years to go from Level 2 Gasification to Level 2 Liquefaction, and the time spent going from Level 2 Liquefaction to Level 2 Crystallization would be no less.

It’s now Starlight Calendar year 1705, with less than three hundred years remaining before the invasion by the Dark Throne’s people.

In such a short time, advancing to Level 3 Wizard is absolutely impossible.

Even breaking through to Level 2 Crystallization, Sunan is not entirely confident.

Under normal circumstances, it’s simply impossible.

However, the concentration of energy particles in the Starlight Continent has been steadily increasing, and according to the Star Eye’s detection, the concentration is now about 1.6 times what it was when he first became a wizard.

Moreover, the number of wizards in the Star Alliance is continuously growing, with eighteen Level 1 Wizards so far.

And this number will further increase in the future.

This means there will be more people collecting elemental crystal dust for him, and the divine energy he can absorb will continue to grow.

With these two factors, breaking through to Level 2 Crystallization within three hundred years is challenging but not entirely impossible.

“Otherwise, if it were so easy to ascend, Level 3 Wizards wouldn’t be so rare.”

Even in large wizard factions like the Deep Blue Alliance and Wisdom Code, Level 3 Wizards are unquestionably part of the upper echelon.

In third-rate wizard factions like the Starfall Association, they can even serve as core leaders, or even as the head.

In the vast multiverse, such entities are extremely rare.

Shaking his head, Sunan dismisses his excess thoughts, leaves the elemental pool, and teleports to the workshop.

With the breakthrough in realm, engraving gemstones, witchcraft artifacts, and alchemy engravings can all be further enhanced.

First is the engraving gemstones, after some experiments, the synthesis quantity is capped at sixty.

Due to the lack of suitable test subjects, Sunan can only conduct simple tests, finally determining that they can severely damage Level 2 Gasification Wizards.

The cost soared to nearly sixteen thousand gold coins, yet relative to the power, it remains reasonably priced.

“Too bad using engraving gemstones requires adequate spiritual power, otherwise equip every Master-Touch Puppet and Secret Puppet, and the battle strength could at least multiply several times.”

Sunan thought regretfully.

Not to mention engraving gemstones synthesized to a quantity of sixty, even those synthesized to twenty or thirty cannot be used by Master-Touch Puppets and Secret Puppets.

Forcing the use would mean the user suffers backlash from the engraving gemstones, perhaps even being more harmed than the enemy.

Wait!

Suddenly, a flash of insight struck Sunan.

If one doesn’t mind the damage from backlash, then can’t engraving gemstones be forcibly used?

For example, equip Master-Touch Puppets and Secret Puppets with an engraving gemstone each, and when faced with a formidable enemy one can’t handle and can’t escape, why not trigger the engraving gemstone and directly explode on the enemy?

It seems feasible!

Sunan was suddenly intrigued, deciding to include this in the upcoming research projects.

It’s better to make some modifications to the engraving gemstones to ensure when a puppet explodes, more damage falls on the enemy rather than wasting it on self-destruction.

After resolving the engraving gemstone issue, Sunan proceeded to enhance the witchcraft artifacts.

This was straightforward, directly crafting new [Forbidden Zone] and [Black Thunder], then further synthesizing more powerful Level 2 witchcraft artifacts.

Although he already has the talent ability [Absolute Forbidden Zone], Sunan still hasn’t abandoned [Forbidden Zone].

After all, witchcraft artifacts do not consume spiritual power, and can play a significant role in battle.

The last one needing synthesis and enhancement is the alchemy engravings.

After advancing to Level 2 Liquefaction, Sunan’s spiritual power and physique are still unable to accommodate a third alchemy engraving, so he simply enhanced [Talent Specialization] and [Spiritual Capacity].

After completing all this, Sunan left the workshop, prepared to return to continue training, but then received a message from Lize.

“Have wizards from other planes been discovered invading?”

Sunan was startled, immediately heading to the detention zone, where Lize was waiting.

“What’s going on?”

Lize said: “The monitoring network in Sunset City detected unrecorded energy particle fluctuations. The enforcement team went to investigate and discovered the target was highly likely an Official Wizard. The news was reported to me, and I immediately dispatched the nearest Witch Hunting Legion team to arrest the person, and it turns out they were indeed a wizard.”

The Witch Hunting Legion was proposed by Sunan, the latest formation by the Star Alliance entirely composed of Master-Touch Puppets and Secret Puppets.

The purpose of forming it was to deal with the future invasion of the Starlight Continent by wizards, hence the name Witch Hunting Legion.

However, due to the short formation time, the Witch Hunting Legion is not yet fully staffed, with barely over a hundred puppets in total.

Despite this, it is currently the Star Alliance’s most powerful elite legion!

“What’s the background of the opponent?” Sunan raised an eyebrow and asked.

“He claims to be a Traveler Wizard. While exploring the Shadow Realm, he was attacked by a Night Shadow Giant Insect, and when escaping from the Shadow Realm, he inadvertently ended up here.”

Traveler Wizard!

Sunan’s expression shifted.

Traveler Wizards are not a profession, nor a race, but a collective term for a type of wizard.

To better gather resources, wizards usually form factions or join a wizard faction, but there are always exceptions.

Some wizards dislike being bound and prefer heading to various planes for exploration, enjoying the unknown and thrill of adventure.

This type of wizard often has strong power and masters various interdimensional travel methods, spending years either exploring planes or on the way to explore planes.

Previous Travelers, if successful in advancing to become wizards, would likely become part of the Traveler Wizards.

“He doesn’t know how he got here?”

Lize nodded: “According to him, the situation was too urgent at the time, possibly due to an error somewhere, mistakenly causing him to teleport from the Shadow Realm to here.”

Sunan’s eyes flickered.

The Shadow Realm is a very special plane.

It has no sun or moon, nor stars, the sky is always gloomy.

It also has no human inhabitants, only a variety of bizarre shadow creatures, many of which are organisms accidentally entering and then assimilated by the planar properties.

For example, Nightmare Beast, Shadow Horse, Twisted Tree Monster, Night Shadow Giant Insect, etc.

Even wizards who stay long in the Shadow Realm will gradually be assimilated by the plane, eventually turning into irrational shadow creatures that act solely on instinct.

It’s worth mentioning that the Shadow Realm is not a material plane like the Starlight Continent, but an outer plane like the Elemental Plane.

The characteristic of this outer plane is that its barrier with the material plane is ’thinner’, making interdimensional travel less difficult.

Perhaps this is why the Traveler Wizard managed to traverse the plane barrier to enter the Starlight Continent.

This also indicates that the plane barrier of the Starlight Continent has mostly been repaired, and the blockade is gradually lifting, leading to this low probability occurrence.