Chapter 129 Strength is built with money
Youhu City.
Returning to this island city again, Sunan was surprised to find that there seemed to be a lot more slaves in the lower city.
On the way through the lower city, he saw five groups of dog-headed men and lizardmen with pickaxes, led by the lion-faced man, rushing out of the city.
Sunan was thoughtful.
Not long after returning to the study room of Base No. 2, Carolina hurried over.
"Master, you are back."
Carolina saluted respectfully.
Sunan waved his hand casually and asked, "What's going on with those slaves outside?"
Carolina said quickly, "I was just about to report to the master."
"Kasham's bugs have been out frequently recently, hunting small tribes around. Those small tribes couldn't survive, so they migrated to our side. I thought there were still three mines to be developed, so I caught those guys and stuffed them into the mining area to mine."
Carolina said as a matter of course.
In the underground world, it is normal for the strong to capture the weak as slaves.
In the past, we had to consider the issue of food, but now there is the Flash City on the surface to deliver food, and there is no worry. Carolina is even more ruthless in capturing slaves.
Sunan nodded. It seems that he needs to ask Base No. 1 to refine more clay golems and get the remaining three mines on track as soon as possible.
"So, the insect plague is coming soon?"
"It should be almost." Carolina looked solemn. "Based on the past situation, it is estimated that it will not exceed half a year at the latest."
After a pause, she hesitated, but couldn't help saying: "Master, do you want to contact Matu and Orson? Will it be too difficult for us to deal with the insect plague by ourselves?"
"No hurry, let's see how Matu and Orson react."
Sunan waved his hand nonchalantly and asked about other things.
"How much mithril is there in the warehouse now?"
"A little more than three kilograms." Carolina answered without hesitation.
As a deputy, she is very qualified. She knows what Sunan cares about most and has memorized all the relevant information.
"Three kilograms?"
Sunan frowned slightly.
It takes at least sixteen kilograms of mithril to refine a secret doll.
Even if we add the accumulated amount from the acquisitions in Base No. 1 during this period, it is only one-third at most, which is still a long way off.
"Are there any other silver veins nearby?"
Carolina thought for a while and said, "There are only two silver veins that have been explored within a hundred kilometers of Youhu City. We are developing one now, and the other is in the hands of Matu."
Matu?
Sunan's eyes flashed slightly.
"Continue to collect mithril."
"By the way, where is Amy?"
Carolina was stunned and looked around with a strange look.
I don't know if it's her illusion, but Carolina always feels that Amy seems to be secretly paying attention to her during this period.
Although Amy's space shuttle ability is elusive, as a human-faced lion noble who is good at illusion, Carolina can still detect Amy's existence.
If it were someone else, she might think that the other party was here to spy on her.
But Amy, a silly and naive pet, shouldn't have such thoughts.
Who instigated Amy to do this?
It couldn't be the master, the master didn't have to do this.
Was it the apprentices in the base?
It seemed that only they could persuade Amy.
Carolina's thoughts drifted away, but she didn't show it on her face. She whispered, "Ms. Amy was here just now."
As soon as she finished speaking, Amy suddenly appeared and landed on Sunan's shoulder.
"Meow, Sunan, you're back. Why did you take so long? I missed you so much!"
"There were a lot of things to do, so I was delayed for a while." Sunan smiled and touched Amy's head, making the latter squint her eyes in enjoyment, "But there's nothing to do on the surface next, I'll stay here for a while."
"That's great, meow!"
Amy cheered, and then seemed to remember something, and disappeared with a whoosh, and reappeared after a few seconds, holding a cloth bag in her mouth.
"Meow, this is a gift, a treasure I collected recently." Amy said vaguely.
"Thank you."
Sunan took the cloth bag with a smile and opened it on the spot to check.
There were more than ten scattered items inside.
Magic flower, extreme cold wood, eagle eye agate. They are all "specialties" unique to the underground world, and without exception, they are all very rare and precious materials.
Sunan secretly sighed that Amy's energy particle perception ability is really unique in the underground world, and she can easily find rare materials that are rarely seen outside.
"How is it, meow?" Amy widened her eyes expectantly, with an expression on her face that was about to praise me.
Sunan 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 ice mints it has tasted in its life, the one given by Sunan is the most delicious.
It is simply the supreme delicacy, as if many ice mints are condensed together to form the ultimate taste.
It can enjoy it all day by sucking one!
"Then hurry up, I'll wait for you here!" Amy urged excitedly.
Sunan responded with a smile and gave Carolina a look, indicating that she should prepare some ice mint.
Carolina glanced at Amy with resentment, feeling that she was not as good as a cat.
After synthesizing some ice mint and comforting Amy, Sunan came to the puppet factory and released the elite double-edged spider.
In the several battles with the Spark Cult, this elite double-edged spider played a significant role. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is not much inferior to the hidden dragon whose sub-dragon blood concentration has reached 28%.
With the improvement of strength, Sunan is now gradually exposed to more and more secrets, and the opponents he encounters are becoming more and more powerful.
Ordinary puppets such as stone golems and double-edged spiders are okay against ordinary knights, but they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder against stronger enemies.
Even the first-ring legendary puppets such as elite stone golems and steel golems are gradually struggling.
So considering the future, Sunan feels that he needs to make more higher-level golem puppets.
He has three choices in this regard.
The first is naturally the elite double-edged spider.
The elite double-edged spider has proven its combat effectiveness.
This kind of extremely fast puppet is very useful when dealing with some flexible enemies.
According to his instructions before he left, a large amount of tungsten steel was accumulated in the warehouses of Base No. 1 and Base No. 2, which was just right for refining double-edged spiders.
Sunan estimated that it was enough to synthesize three to four elite double-edged spiders.
The second method was to synthesize higher-level stone golems.
Since refining steel golems requires the consumption of micro soul crystals, steel golems cannot be refined in large quantities before there is a stable source of micro soul crystals, so the method of using steel golems to synthesize high-level golems is not advisable.
The only option is to use stone golems as a second choice.
At least Sunan now has a stable source of gems.
Before coming to Youhu City, he went to Base No. 1 to take a look at the insect nest.
During the time he was away, Carolina regularly sent the collected fission catalytic nutrients to Base No. 1 and handed them over to the apprentices to feed the gem bugs.
Now the number of gem bugs has grown to 18, and the annual output of gems has also increased to more than 600.
In addition, there are gems purchased regularly from the Firefox Chamber of Commerce.
There is no need to worry about the shortage of materials in this regard.
Moreover, the cost of synthesizing a two-ring legendary stone golem is not high, nearly 20,000 gold coins.
Even if it adds the magic weapon technology like the high-level double-blade spider, the cost is just over 20,000 gold coins, which is less than the high-level double-blade spider.
Relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to that of the high-level double-blade spider, which means that it can play a more significant role in battles that require frontal attacks.
The third way is naturally to refine a higher-level golem.
There is a design drawing of the adamantine golem in Avigni's experimental notes.
The adamantine golem is a three-ring legendary golem, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than many third-level wizard apprentices.
At the beginning, Qiangwei was helpless against the adamantine golem and had to find Sunan to cooperate, which successfully solved it.
Even Sunan, at that time, it was the full burst of the magic pattern core that barely damaged the adamantine golem.
Today, his strength has increased a lot, but it still takes a lot of effort to kill a adamantine golem.
If he had fifty or sixty adamantium golems in his hands, Sunan felt that he could walk sideways on the Starlight Continent.
"But this thing is very difficult to refine."
Even among the many types of golems, the adamantium golem is enough to be ranked in the middle, and the difficulty of refining is quite high.
Level 4 [Puppet Refining] can only be said to be barely passable, and level 5 is considered normal.
Sunan opened the panel and took a look.
Because of the long-term and large-scale refining of golems, his [Puppet Refining] progress bar is now close to two-thirds, and he only needs more than 3,000 proficiency points to upgrade to level 5.
The skill requirements are not a problem, and they will be met soon.
The key is still the materials.
The main material of the adamantium golem is magic adamantium, a product of adamantium enchantment.
One adamantium golem requires about 14 or 15 tons of magic adamantium.
Adding other various gems, rare materials, silver and gold, etc., the total cost is estimated to be around 50,000 gold coins.
"It just so happens that I have recently made a lot of money from the Spark Cult, which is enough for me to refine a fine gold golem."
Sunan estimated that if he refined 14 or 15 tons of magic fine gold by himself, it would take at least one or two years to complete it.
However, if it is issued as a task and handed over to the apprentices in Base No. 1, it should be completed in two or three months.
The difficulty of refining magic fine gold is not high, which is similar to that of magic weapons. There are already many apprentices in the base who can complete this work independently.
Secretly note this point, ready to implement it when returning 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-ring legendary puppets.
But he did not stop there, but began to try further.
"Although the double-bladed spider is agile, it also has obvious weaknesses, such as the inability to fly."
"It's okay against legendary knights, but once it faces a wizard apprentice who has mastered the art of levitation or possesses flying magic items, it will become a passive target."
In order to eliminate this weakness, the solution that Sunan finally came up with was to give the double-bladed spider a permanent [levitation].
This idea was inspired by the design of the secret puppet.
According to this idea, any puppet can permanently fix the spell, thereby gaining the ability to cast spells.
However, the secret puppet can do this because its main constituent materials contain a large amount of gemstones and mithril.
Sunan was naturally reluctant to consume mithril at this time.
So he had to settle for the second best and came up with another solution, which was to use the method of making magic items to add spellcasting ability to the double-edged spider.
It is equivalent to adding a magic item of storage type to the double-edged spider.
However, since the double-edged spider has no mental power, another energy must be used to replace mental power to activate the magic item to achieve the spellcasting effect.
Sunan finally chose the magic stone.
The elite double-edged spider finally made gained the ability to fly after performing the levitation technique, but the cost was about one lower-level magic stone per hour.
For other wizard apprentices, this is undoubtedly a very astonishing consumption.
Just to make the puppet gain the ability to fly, it is necessary to consume a large amount of precious magic stones, which is obviously a very extravagant and irrational approach.
However, Sunan did not have much else, but a lot of magic stones, which could be manufactured in large quantities at any time at low cost.
For other wizard apprentices, magic stones are very valuable resources, but for him, they are just a cheap energy source.
On the contrary, the cost of constant second-level spells is higher.
The constant [Levitation] alone has increased the cost by nearly 300 gold coins.
Considering that he may have to deal with the swarm of insects in Kasham next, Sunan added a large-scale damage [Smash Sound Wave], a [Light Spirit] to improve flexibility, a [Toughness] to strengthen body strength, and a [Brute Force] to enhance strength to the elite double-edged spider.
In the end, the cost of an elite double-edged spider has exceeded more than 23,000 gold coins.
The total cost of five is as high as more than 110,000 gold coins.
This does not include the consumption of magic stones during battle.
"The strength of a third-level wizard apprentice ranges from the first ring to the fourth ring."
"The combat power of an elite double-bladed spider is roughly equivalent to that of a mid-level third-level wizard apprentice."
"One hundred and ten thousand gold coins in exchange for the combat power of five third-level wizard apprentices is also a good deal."
Su Nan nodded secretly.
He plans to synthesize a few more second-ring legendary high-level stone golems next, just in case.
In addition, he also needs to make a batch of extreme protection rings and disaster rings 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 glimmer-level magic items.
But if you calculate it this way, all the mining income of Youhu City in the next few months will be invested in this bottomless pit.
It's also a good thing that three new mines have been developed recently, otherwise he really can't afford to spend so much money.
"Strength is built up with money."
Su Nan couldn't help but sigh.
