129.Chapter 129 Strength is built up with money
Chapter 129 Strength is built up with money
Youhu City.
Returning to the city in the center of the island again, Sunan was surprised to find that there seemed to be a lot more slaves in Xiacheng District..
On the way through the lower city, he saw five groups of kobolds and lizardmen carrying mining picks, led by human-faced lions, heading out of the city..
Sunan is thoughtful.
Not long after returning to the study room at Base 2, Carolina hurried over..
“Master, you are back.”
Carolina saluted respectfully.
Su Nan waved his hand casually and asked, "What's going on with those slaves outside?"？”
“Kasham's bugs have been out frequently recently, hunting the surrounding small tribes. Those small tribes couldn't survive anymore, so they migrated towards us. Thinking that there were still three mineral veins to be developed, I captured those guys and stuffed them. Go mining in the mining area.”
Carolina said in a matter-of-fact tone.
In the underground world, it is normal for the strong to capture the weak and serve as slaves..
In the past, food issues had to be considered, but now that the Glitter City on the surface delivers food, without worries, Carolina is even more merciless in capturing slaves..
Su Nan nodded. It seems that he needs to refine more clay golems at Base 1, so that the operation of the remaining three mineral veins can be put on track as soon as possible..
“So, the insect plague is coming soon.？”
“It should be almost done." Carolina looked solemn, "Based on past conditions, it is estimated that it will not take more than half a year at the latest..”
After a pause, she hesitated, but couldn't help but said: "Master, do you want to contact Matu and Orson? Wouldn't it be too difficult for us to deal with the insect disaster by ourselves?？”
“Don't worry, let's see how Mattu and Orson react..”
Su Nan waved his hands indifferently and turned to ask about other things..
“How much mithril is in the warehouse now?？”
“A little more than three kilograms." Carolina replied without hesitation..
As a deputy, she is still very qualified. She knows what Su Nan cares about most and knows all the relevant information by heart..
“Three kilograms?.”
Sunan frowned slightly.
Refining a marionette requires at least sixteen kilograms of mithril.
Even if you add in the acquisitions and accumulation during this period in Base No. 1, it is only one-third at most, which is still a long way off..
“Are there any other silver veins around here?？”
Carolina thought for a while and said: "There are only two silver veins that have been explored so far in the 100-kilometer radius of Youhu City. One is currently being developed by us, and the other is in the hands of Matu.".”
Matu?.
Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly.
“Keep collecting mithril.”
“By the way, where's Amy?？”
Carolina was startled and looked around with a strange expression..
I don’t know if it’s her imagination, but Carolina always feels like Amy is always paying attention to her secretly during this time..
Although Amy's ability to travel through space is elusive, as a lion-faced nobleman who is good at illusions, Carolina can still detect Amy's existence..
If it were anyone else, she might think that the other person was here to spy on her..
But Amy is a silly pet. Logically speaking, she would not have such thoughts..
Who instigated Amy to do this behind the scenes?？
It can't be the master. There is no need for the master to do this..
Those are the apprentices in the base？
It seems that they are the only ones who can persuade Amy..
Thoughts drifted away in her mind, but Carolina didn't show it on her face. She said softly: "Ms. Amy was here just now.".”
As soon as he finished speaking, Amy suddenly appeared and landed on Sunan's shoulder..
“Meow, Sunan, you are back. Why have you been gone for so long? I miss you so much.！”
“There are a lot of things, so I took a long time." Sunan smiled and touched Amy's head, making the latter narrow her eyes in enjoyment, "But there will be nothing going on on the surface, I will stay here for a while..”
“That's great, meow！”
Amy cheered, then seemed to remember something, disappeared with a whoosh, and reappeared after a few seconds, holding a cloth bag in her mouth..
“"Meow, this is a gift, the treasures I collected recently." Amy said vaguely..
“Thanks.”
Su Nan smiled and took the bag, opened it and checked it on the spot..
There are more than a dozen scattered items inside..
Magic flowers, arctic wood, and eagle eye agate are all unique 'specialties' of the underground world. Without exception, they are all very rare materials..
Sunan secretly sighed, Amy's ability to sense energy particles is really unique in the underground world, and she can easily find rare materials that are rarely seen outside..
“How about meow? "Amy's eyes widened in anticipation, with an expression on her face as if she was about to praise me..
Su Nan smiled and said: "I like the gift very much. Thank you. I will give you some ice mint later.".”
Amy's eyes lit up and her saliva almost flowed down..
Of all the frozen mints it has tasted in its life, the one given by Sunan is the most delicious..
It was simply the most delicious taste, as if many frozen mints had been condensed together to form the ultimate taste..
Just smoke one and enjoy it all day long！
“Then hurry up, meow, I'm waiting for you here! "Amy urged excitedly.
Sunan agreed with a smile, gave Carolina a look, and motioned her to prepare some ice mint..
Carolina glanced at Amy resentfully, feeling like she was worse than a cat.
After synthesizing some ice mint and comforting Amy, Sunan went to the puppet factory and released the elite double-edged spider..
In several confrontations with the Spark Cult, this elite double-edged spider played a significant role. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is not inferior to the Hidden Dragon whose blood concentration has reached 28%..
As his strength increases, Sunan is now gradually exposed to more and more secrets, and the opponents he meets are becoming more and more powerful..
Ordinary puppets such as stone golems and double-edged spiders are fine against ordinary knights, but against more powerful enemies, they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder..
Even the first-level legendary puppets such as the elite stone golem and steel golem are gradually becoming a bit difficult..
So thinking about the future, Sunan felt that it was necessary to make more higher-level golem puppets..
He has three options in this regard.
The first type is naturally the elite double-edged spider.
The elite double-bladed spider has proven its combat prowess.
This extremely fast puppet is very useful when dealing with some nimble enemies..
According to his instructions before leaving, a large amount of tungsten steel has been accumulated in the warehouses of Base 1 and Base 2, which can be used to refine double-edged spiders..
Su Nan estimated that it was enough to synthesize three to four elite double-edged spiders by himself..
The second is to synthesize a higher level stone golem..
Since refining steel golems requires the consumption of micro-soul crystals, it is not possible to refining steel golems in large quantities until there is a stable source of micro-soul crystals. Therefore, it is not advisable to use steel golems to synthesize high-level golems..The only alternative is to synthesize it with a stone golem..
At least Sunan now has a stable source of gems.
Before coming to Youhu City, he went to Base 1 to take a look at the insect nest..
During his absence, Carolina regularly sent the collected splitting catalytic nutrients to Base No. 1 and gave them to her apprentices to feed the gem worms..
Now the number of gem bugs has increased to 18, and the annual output of gems has also increased to more than 600..
In addition, there are also gems purchased regularly from the Firefox Chamber of Commerce..
You don’t have to worry about the lack of materials in this regard..
Moreover, the cost of synthesizing the second-ring legendary stone golem is not high, nearly 20,000 gold coins..
Even if the magic weapon technology is added like the advanced double-edged spider, the cost will only be a little over 20,000 gold coins, which is slightly less than the advanced double-edged spider..
Relatively speaking, its combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to that of the advanced double-edged spider, which means it can play a more significant role in battles that require frontal attack..
The third type is naturally to refine a higher level golem..
Avegni's experimental notes contain the design of the adamantine golem..
The adamantine golem is a three-ring legendary golem, and its combat power is more powerful than many third-level wizard apprentices..
Qiangwei was helpless against the adamantine golem at first, so she had to find Sunan for cooperation, and then she successfully solved the problem..
Even Sunan had to use the full strength of his magic pattern core to barely injure the adamantine golem..
Today, his strength has increased a lot, but it still takes a lot of effort to kill an adamantine golem..
If there were fifty or sixty fine gold demon statues in hand, Su Nan felt that he could walk sideways on the Starlight Continent..
“But this thing is very laborious to refine..”
Even among the many types of golems, the adamantine golem is enough to be ranked in the middle range, and it is quite difficult to refine..
4Level [Puppet Refining] can only be said to be barely adequate. Level 5 is considered a normal level..
Sunan opened the panel and took a look.
Because he has been refining a large number of golems for a long time, his [Puppet Refining] progress bar is now close to two-thirds, and he is only more than 3,000 proficiency points away from reaching level 5..
The skill requirements are not a problem, and they will be up to standard soon..
The key is material.
The main material of the adamantine golem is magic adamantine, a product of enchanting adamantine..
An adamantine golem requires approximately fourteen to five tons of magical adamantine..
Coupled with various other gems, rare materials, silver and gold, etc., the total cost is estimated to be around 50,000 gold coins.
“It just so happened that I recently made a huge sum from the Spark Cult, which is enough for me to refine an adamantine golem..”
Su Nan estimated that if he were to refine fourteen to five tons of magic gold by himself, it would take him only a year or two to complete it..
However, if it is posted as a task and given to the apprentices in Base No. 1, it should be completed in two or three months..
The refining of magic fine gold is not very difficult, and is similar to that of magic weapons. There are already many apprentices in the base who can complete this work independently..
Keeping this in mind and preparing to implement it when he returns to Base No. 1, Sunan then began to refine the double-edged spider..
It took him more than half a month to refine all the tungsten steel in the two bases into double-edged spiders, and finally synthesized four elite double-edged spiders..
Including the previous one, Sunan now has five second-level legendary puppets in his hands..
However, he did not stop there, but began to try further.
“The double-edged spider is flexible, but it also has obvious weaknesses, such as being unable to fly..”
“It's fine against legendary knights, but once you face a wizard apprentice who masters levitation or possesses flying magic items, you will become a passive target..”
In order to eliminate this weakness, the solution Sunan finally came up with was to give the double-edged spider a permanent and constant [Levitation Technique].】.
This idea was inspired by the design drawings of Secret Puppet..
Following this line of thinking, any puppet can permanently immobilize a spell, thus gaining the ability to cast spells.
But Marionette can do this because its main constituent materials include a large number of gems and mithril..
Naturally, Sunan was reluctant to consume mithril at this time..
So he settled for the next best thing and came up with another solution, which was to use the method of making magic items to add spellcasting abilities to the double-edged spider..
It is equivalent to adding a magic storage magic item to the body of the double-edged spider..
However, since the double-edged spider has no mental power, it must use another type of energy to replace the mental power to activate magic items to achieve the casting effect..
Sunan finally chose the magic stone.
The elite double-edged spider finally created gained the ability to fly after performing the levitating operation, at the cost of consuming about one lower-level magic stone per hour..
For other wizard apprentices, this is undoubtedly a very shocking consumption..
Just to give the puppet the ability to fly, a large amount of precious magic stones must be consumed, which is obviously a very luxurious and irrational approach..
However, Sunan doesn't have much else, except a lot of magic stones, which can be produced in large quantities at low cost at any time..
To other wizard apprentices, magic stones are very valuable resources, but to him they are just a cheap and cheap energy source..
On the contrary, the cost of constant second-level spells is relatively high..
The constant [Levitation Technique] alone increases the cost by nearly three hundred gold coins..
Considering that he was likely to have to deal with Kasham's insect swarm next, Sunan added a large-scale damage [Smashing Sound Wave], a flexibility-improving [Light Spirit Technique], and a strengthened body to the elite double-edged spider. Strength [Tenacity] and a strength-enhancing [Brute Strength]】.
In the end, the cost of an elite double-edged spider exceeded 23,000 gold coins..
The total cost of five pieces is as high as more than 110,000 gold coins..
This does not include the consumption of magic stones during combat..
“The strength of a third-level wizard apprentice ranges from the first to the fourth ring..”
“The combat effectiveness of the elite double-edged spider is almost equivalent to that of a mid-level third-level wizard apprentice..”
“110,000 gold coins can be exchanged for five third-level wizard apprentice level combat power, which is a good deal..”
Sunan nodded secretly.
He plans to synthesize several second-ring legendary level high-level stone golems next, so that he is prepared..
In addition, a batch of rings of extreme protection and rings of disaster must be made for self-defense..
The golem puppets costing more than 20,000 gold coins have been refined, and there is no shortage of a batch of low-light magic items..
Just calculating this way, the mining income of Youhu City in the next few months will be invested in this bottomless pit..
It's a good thing that three new mines have been developed recently, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to support his lavish spending..
“Strength is piled up with money.”
Sunan couldn't help but sigh.
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