Chapter 109 Blood Mark, Double-Edged Spider

Sunan and Qiangwei were extremely happy.

As for the gem bugs alone, their trip this time was not in vain.

After calming down, the two continued to look at the third notebook.

This notebook is about how to extract the bloodline of ancient alien beasts from magical creatures and convert it into a one-time use bloodline ability.

Avegni named this ability Blood Mark.

Depending on the extracted bloodline of ancient alien beasts, the resulting bloodline marks will also be different, with different strengths and weaknesses.

However, in order to make a bloodline imprint, the extracted ancient beast bloodline must reach a certain concentration.

Avegni once tried to extract the blood of the Scarlet Fang from the Blood Soul Insect, but unfortunately the concentration of the blood was too low, so he had to give up in the end.

"The bloodline of ancient beasts? That's too rare." Qiangwei shook her head.

There are still many descendants of ancient beasts surviving on the Starlight Continent, but unfortunately, without exception, the inherited bloodline is very meager.

Even Avegni couldn't refine a bloodline that met the conditions, so she would probably be in trouble.

And a very small number of people with higher inheritance bloodlines are also very powerful, and she can't deal with them at all.

This research result is useless to her.

However, Sunan didn't think so.

What does it matter if the blood concentration is low? With the Rubik's Cube in hand, synthesis can increase the concentration.

This is not the first time he has done this.

From this point of view, the bloodline mark seems to be tailor-made for him.

As long as he finds a descendant group of ancient alien beasts, no matter how meager the bloodline of this group is, he can use the Rubik's Cube to forcibly synthesize it to meet the standards of the bloodline mark.

Putting down the notes, Sunan couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Avegni may be ruthless and not a good person, but he has to admit that this guy is really an amazing genius.

Blood soul insect blood fusion, gem insect, blood mark.

An ordinary third-level wizard apprentice might not be able to study any of these three in a lifetime.

But Avigani did it all.

If he hadn't been unlucky and ended up on a dead end, his final achievements would have been very dazzling.

Even if you can't be promoted to wizard due to the limited environment of Starlight Continent, you can definitely become a famous and powerful man in the mainland!

"This guy is truly a genius."

Qiangwei gently rubbed the cover of the note, feeling a little sad.

Even a genius like Avegni fell on the road to becoming a wizard, so where is her future?

Do you really have any hope of being promoted to an official wizard in this life?

The two had different thoughts, and the room fell into silence for a while.

After a long time, Sunan gathered his thoughts and said:

"Search other places as well."

Qiangwei came back to her senses and nodded silently.

The two then thoroughly inspected the entire cave and found no new gains, so they began to distribute the spoils.

There was nothing much to say about the notes. The two of them divided their work and copied each note, and then each took a copy.

As for the gem worms and blood soul worms, they are evenly distributed.

Sunan took away all the rare metals and gave Qiangwei some magic stones as compensation.

After distributing the spoils, Qiangwei felt much better.

Although the knowledge gained this time, the blood mark and the blood soul worm fusion were not of much use to her, the gem worm alone made her feel that her trip was worthwhile.

Not to mention Sunan, he has gained more bloodline mark knowledge than Qiangwei.

"The more than 10,000 gold coins I spent were not in vain."

Sunan was very satisfied.

After walking out of the cave, Qiangwei smiled at Sunan and said, "Happy cooperation, player. If there is a similar opportunity next time, we can cooperate again."

Su Nan also smiled slightly: "Okay, then I'm looking forward to it."

"See you at the party."

"See you at the party."

After watching Qiangwei leave, Sunan also returned to the original cave.

When passing the lake, Sunan glanced in the direction of the city-state of the Human-Faced Lion from a distance.

Many kobolds and ogres are busy near the city gate, seemingly repairing the collapsed city wall.

There are also groups of human-faced lions patrolling the island, and the guards are several times tighter than before.

It is estimated that this will be the norm in the city-state of the Human-Faced Lion for a long time to come.

"It seems that there is no way to sneak in again in a short time."

"Forget it, the information we got this time is almost enough anyway."

After taking a deep look at the direction of the city-state of the Human-Faced Lion, Sunan turned and left.

Returning to Glitter City, Sunan found Keyi immediately and explained the matter of the Lion City State.

After listening to Sunan's words, Keyi couldn't help but frown.

"According to what you say, the city-state of the Man-Faced Lion can muster at least four to five thousand troops?"

"Absolutely. The residents of the underground world are different from us humans. Almost all of them are soldiers."

Seeing that Keyi's face became more serious, Sunan comforted him.

"Most of the slaves in the Lion City State are kobolds and lizardmen. They are not much stronger than ordinary soldiers. Only the ogres are a little more troublesome."

"The only ones that can really be considered a threat are those two thousand human-faced lions."

"What are you going to do?" Key asked in a deep voice.

Su Nan had already prepared a draft, so he said without thinking:

"First of all, continue to seal off that forest. From now on, it will be a military restricted area and no one will be allowed to enter."

"Second, establish a camp in front of the cave. I need a bridgehead to attack the city-state of the Sphinx."

"Plus, I need a lot of granite."

Key agreed to all of them, and then said, "How many troops do you need me to send to assist you?"

He had long wanted to deal with the threat of the underground city-state, and he was mentally prepared even if it would cost a lot to do so.

But unexpectedly, Sunan shook his head and refused.

"No."

"The environment of the underground world is not suitable for human combat, I plan to use all golem puppets as siege troops."

The underground world is dim, and it is difficult for humans without dark vision to adapt.

Even knights can only exert 60% to 70% of their strength when fighting in the underground world.

If the army of the Flash Territory is really used, even if the Human-faced Lion City-state can be conquered in the end, there will definitely be heavy casualties.

It is better to use golems to attack the city.

Golems with dark vision can also move freely in the underground world.

As for the possible losses caused by the war, Sunan is not worried at all.

On the map that Rose gave him, there were seven mineral veins within a hundred kilometers of the Lion City-State, including a large iron mine, three medium-sized iron mines, a large copper mine, a small silver mine and a small gold mine.

As long as the threat of the Lion was resolved, he could develop these mineral veins.

The future profits would more than cover the war consumption.

After finalizing all matters, Key immediately began to make arrangements.

Sunan returned to the base and began to get busy.

The six God Blood Ambers he got from Rose were all fused into the high-level God Blood Amber.

The change brought about was that the proficiency of practicing the Star Ring Meditation Method every day soared to 3100 points.

On the other hand, the progress of learning spells silently was also steadily increasing.

Sunan estimated that by the Spring Dawn Moon (March) next year, he would be able to master spells silently.

It is worth mentioning that the establishment of the Knight Academy has also been put on the agenda.

Considering the commuting conditions and logistical pressure of teachers and students, the construction site of the Knight Academy naturally cannot be chosen outside the city.

After repeated selection, Sunan finally chose the suburbs of Flash City, near the north gate of the city.

Now the academy has begun to build, and all matters have been thrown to the people below. Sunan only occasionally takes time to check.

According to the progress of the project, it will be completed around the Moon of Flowing Fire.

Then you can start recruiting students.

Key's efficiency is extremely high.

Before the Moon of Spring Dawn has passed, a brand new camp has been built on the basis of the original mining area.

Sunan directly named the camp No. 1, built a new puppet factory in it, and then worked at full capacity to refine stone golems.

The output of steel golems is limited by soul crystals and cannot be refined in large quantities.

But as long as there are enough gems and rocks, stone golems can be refined without limit.

All the profits from the output of the cave mining area were invested by Sunan in the refining of stone golems.

In order to resolve the threat of the Lion City-State as soon as possible, Key also specially allocated a large amount of funds from the territory income to support the construction of the Golem Corps.

The sufficient funds made the number of the Golem Corps grow very rapidly.

At the same time, Sunan was also considering refining a new puppet.

The Iron Golem and the Stone Golem are extremely powerful and indestructible, but the disadvantage is that they move a little slowly.

This was vividly demonstrated in the previous battles in the Lion City-State.

Facing the swift and agile Lion, the Elite Stone Golem and the Stone Golem are naturally at a disadvantage.

In view of this, Sunan felt that he must consider it early and design a more agile puppet.

Traditional golems are mostly strong and sturdy humanoid appearances with thick and short limbs. Except for a few golems with the ability to fly, most golems cannot avoid the disadvantage of relatively slow movements.

Therefore, new puppets must make new changes, and it is best to design them into animal appearances with more flexible movements.

The first thing Sunan thought of was spiders.

The most feared monsters in the underground world are undoubtedly the various mutant spiders and spider monsters.

Especially the spider elves that are mutated from dark elves, whose notoriety spreads throughout the underground world.

They move as fast as ghosts, appear and disappear, often launch sneak attacks from unexpected places, and can fly over the eaves and walls in steep caves and tunnels. They are one of the most powerful assassins in the underground world.

If the puppet is designed to look like a spider, the eight limbs can undoubtedly better adapt to the complex terrain of the underground world.

Thinking of it, Sunan immediately started to design a spider puppet.

The proficiency of refining stone golems in large quantities has long allowed his [Puppet Refining] to break through to level 4.

Coupled with the experience of refining black rock leopards, Sunan completed the structural design of the spider puppet without much effort.

The key is the material problem.

In order to maximize the advantages of the spider puppet's swift movement, the material must be light metal.

Of course, hardness cannot be ignored.

Otherwise, in the end, only a group of crispy skins that break at the touch will be refined.

In this regard, Black Stone Iron is undoubtedly a very suitable choice.

However, the current output of Black Stone Iron is a bit low. Even if all of it is supplied to Camp No. 1, it is not enough for Sunan to produce troops, not to mention the supply for refining Black Rock Leopard.

After repeated selection, Sunan finally decided to use a metal called tungsten steel as the material for refining new puppets.

Tungsten steel has the characteristics of high hardness, good wear resistance and toughness, in addition to a series of excellent properties such as heat resistance and corrosion resistance.

Although the hardness is not as good as black stone iron, it doesn't matter, it can be strengthened by synthesis.

In the end, the synthetic tungsten steel with hardness and lightness similar to black stone iron, with the same volume, has a similar cost to black stone iron, and can be used as a substitute material for black stone iron.

After the materials and design are finalized, the refining process is relatively easy.

The spider puppet finally refined has the same effects as the golem, such as dark vision, immunity to all mental effects, immunity to poison, sleep, paralysis, confusion, suffocation and high elemental resistance.

At this point, the spider puppet is no less powerful than the stone golem.

However, Sunan still feels that it is not enough.

He simply magicized the two front legs of the spider puppet for attack, adding the characteristics of [Black Steel] and [Sharp], greatly enhancing the hardness and sharpness.

In other words, the spider puppet is equivalent to carrying two magic weapons, and they can attack at the same time.

In the end, the refining cost of the spider puppet is as high as 180 gold coins.

It is more than nine times that of an ordinary stone golem!

However, you get what you pay for. The combat effectiveness of the spider puppet is also much higher than that of an ordinary stone golem.

Sunan specially conducted a test. In a one-on-one duel, the spider puppet cut a stone golem into dozens of pieces in less than half a minute. The stone golem's proud defense could not withstand the two demonized foot blades at all.

In summary, the combat effectiveness of the spider puppet has almost reached the level of a peak knight.

It is worthy of its high cost.

"Let's call this puppet the double-edged spider."

Looking at the black spider in front of him that is as big as a carriage, Sunan showed a satisfied smile on his face.

With the double-edged spider, the combat system of the golem army is more complete.

"It's a pity that flying puppets are relatively rare. There are no corresponding design drawings. It takes a lot of effort to study them by yourself, and the manufacturing difficulty and material requirements are not low. Otherwise, adding a flying soldier would be more perfect."

The puppet design drawings that Sunan currently has are mostly various low-level golems, and there are no flying puppets.

Even if there is, it is estimated that it is difficult to make it with his current skills and materials.

After all, a flying puppet is not just about being able to fly, it must also have a sufficiently powerful long-range attack method.

A flying puppet without a long-range attack method is just a flying target.

Taking the metal golem as an example, those with the ability to fly and long-range attack are at least at the level of the Shadow Steel Golem and the Mithril Golem.

The combat power of these two golems is already very close to that of a formal wizard.

It is basically impossible for a third-level wizard apprentice to make it.

"It would be nice if there was a flying puppet with a weaker long-range attack ability, anyway, it can be synthesized."

"Ask others at the next forest hut party."