Chapter 133 The Death Knell Beetle, the Manipulator of Kasham

Carolina is very efficient.

The next day, Kasham's insect corpse was delivered to Sunan's laboratory.

Under the bright light of the magic stone lamp, twelve hideous insect beasts lay on the wide workbench.

These beetle-like creatures have bright red hard shells, a total of ten legs, four black round eyes, two sharp claws and a pair of serrated mandibles.

But what is more eye-catching is the huge bell-shaped chitinous protrusion growing on the mouthparts, which looks like a huge horn.

According to Carolina's description, this creature is called the death knell beetle.

Their shells are as hard as steel, and their sharp claws can easily tear hard rocks. In addition, they can also emit harsh sound waves that are enough to make people bleed.

Adult death knell beetles are only at the level of apprentice knights, which is not strong.

But once this kind of monster appears in groups, the threat will rise sharply.

Especially when hundreds of death knell beetles burst out with harsh sound waves at the same time, even the great knights can hardly bear it.

Previously, the city-state coalition forces of Youhu, Matu and Orson suffered repeatedly under the clustered sonic attacks of the death knell beetles, and each time they had to pay a huge price to wipe out the insect swarm.

In the insect nest of Kasham, in that narrow semi-enclosed environment, the sonic attacks of the death knell beetles are more powerful.

The reason why Red Widow and Black Duke did not dare to counterattack Kasham was largely because of this.

"An insect beast that can release sonic waves? It's quite rare."

Kasham's insect swarm is not only the death knell beetle, but also jellyfish, giant sandworms, six-winged insects and other insect beasts.

But the death knell beetle is the main force of the insect swarm.

Sunan used the magician's hand to move a bug corpse in front of him and began to dissect it.

As the dissection progressed, more of the body structure of the death knell beetle gradually revealed.

The huge bell-shaped chitinous protrusion on its head is actually a horn-shaped tumor.

The harsh sonic waves of the death knell beetle are emitted from this tumor.

The tumor extended from its shoulder, suddenly opened outward above the sharp mouth, and four black insect-like eyes also grew on both sides of the tumor.

In essence, this creature did not have a real head, and the huge horn-shaped tumor replaced its head.

After Sunan cut open the tumor, he also found the insect brain inside.

"What a strange structure."

Sunan couldn't help but exclaimed.

He had seen many insect beasts with strange appearances, but it was the first time he had seen such a strange structure as the death knell beetle.

According to his experience, creatures with this structure are usually not grown naturally, but more likely to be artificially induced mutations, that is, the product of genetic modification.

"This is very likely the result of biological modification of a wizard apprentice."

Sunan's heart moved.

Could it be that there is a wizard apprentice hiding behind Kasham?

If this is true, attacking Kasham may not be as easy as originally thought.

"If there is really a wizard apprentice behind Kasham, then what is his purpose in sending insect swarms to hunt creatures every once in a while?"

Sunan was puzzled.

After a moment, he shook his head and stopped worrying.

No matter what the purpose of the wizard apprentice is, Kasham must be dealt with.

Otherwise, if there is an insect plague every once in a while, how can he develop the surrounding mineral veins and continue to explore more mineral veins?

The only good news is that the puppets are very restrained from the sonic attacks of the death knell beetles.

After all, puppets do not have the auditory organs and internal organs of ordinary creatures, and are basically immune to sonic attacks.

In dealing with the death knell beetles, the golem army is still very advantageous.

After dissecting more than a dozen insect corpses and writing down the information in the experimental notebook, Sunan then waved his hand to sprinkle flames, dealt with all the insect corpses, and turned to leave the laboratory.

Kasham's recent abnormal movements have become more and more frequent, and the insect plague is expected to break out in the near future.

He has to speed up the refining of the golem and increase the power in his hands as much as possible.

"This is the architectural design of the Knight Academy in the other six provinces. They are all based on the Dragon Heart Knight Academy. See if there is anything to modify."

In the study, Key pushed a thick stack of information on the table to Sunan.

Sunan took it and took a quick look, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's do it according to this. When can it be built?"

"It will be done next month." Key smiled, "The teachers responsible for teaching the students have been arranged. They will be in place as soon as the academy is completed."

The war had just ended, and many things had to be handled by him, the new Grand Duke, but he still put the things Sunan asked him to do in the first place and often asked about it personally.

Seeing that the Grand Duke attached so much importance to it, the people below naturally did not dare to procrastinate and work very hard. In just two or three months, six Knight Academy were built from scratch with extremely high efficiency.

"The recruitment of new students is already underway, all in accordance with the template of Dragon Heart Knight Academy."

After a pause, Key hesitated, but couldn't help asking:

"Do you really only need seven Knight Academy? We are not short of people or money now, so we can definitely build more."

Now the entire Principality of Stars belongs to the Anest family. With the power of the entire country, let alone seven Knight Academy, one can be built in each town.

Sunan shook his head: "No, quality is more important than quantity."

It is easy to build more Knight Academy, but it is not so easy to train qualified Knight students.

The most critical problem is that the production of dragon blood fruit cannot keep up.

In order to train qualified knight students in just four years, dragon blood fruit is indispensable.

Otherwise, students from civilian and farmer families are not as qualified and physically gifted as noble children, and it is impossible for them to be promoted to knights in four years.

Even for the current seven knight academies, Sunan has to open up a few more magic plant gardens to grow dragon blood fruit in order to supply them.

If there are more, it will be beyond his ability.

Perhaps when more magic plant gardens are opened in the future, we can consider increasing the number of knight academies.

Seeing that Sunan said so, Ke Yi stopped persuading.

In fact, he also considered whether to imitate the Dragon Heart Knight Academy and open a knight academy that specifically recruits noble children.

However, after repeated consideration, he gave up this idea.

One reason is that he does not have enough dragon blood fruit, and the ones he has are used to supply the army.

The other reason is that most noble families have their own inherited breathing methods and martial arts, as well as special training methods, and they cannot be unified in this regard.

Even if it is a partial unification.

Unless he can come up with a stronger breathing method and martial arts than all the noble families, and a more efficient training method.

In view of this, the feasibility of the idea of ​​the Noble Knight Academy is too low, so it can only be abandoned.

"How is the qualification test going?"

Sunan's voice interrupted Key's meditation.

Coming back to his senses, Key smiled and said, "It went smoothly. The test has ended. There are a total of 223 qualified children. I have arranged for people to escort them to Flash City. They should be able to arrive at the base in a few days."

Sunan nodded slightly.

There are quite a lot of people.

After all, it is a qualification test covering six provinces, so it is normal to have more qualified people.

In this way, there are nearly 270 students in the base.

And as time goes by, this number will gradually increase.

"How is your training recently?" Sunan turned to another topic.

"It has almost stabilized." Key said with a smile.

After taking the high-level dragon blood fruit given to him by Sunan, he successfully broke through and became a legendary knight.

Now, after more than half a year of precipitation, the realm has basically stabilized, and now he is seeking to break through to a higher realm.

Keyi's own talent and qualifications are very outstanding, otherwise he would not have been promoted to a senior knight at the age of nineteen. Now that he is a grand duke, he can enjoy far more resources than before, and his cultivation is even more rapid and progressing.

He is confident that he can break through to become a second-ring legendary knight before the age of thirty-five, and a third-ring legendary knight before the age of fifty.

You should know that Evans, who was recognized as a peerless genius by the duchy, was already eighty years old when he became a third-ring legendary knight.

This is just the most conservative estimate.

If there is Sunan's help, Keyi is even confident that he can break through to become a third-ring legendary knight earlier.

"That's good."

Sunan nodded slightly.

His plan is to let his elder brother break through to become a third-ring legendary knight in twelve years, so that he can also enter the Star Tower to challenge the knight trial.

From a first-ring legend to a third-ring legend in twelve years, as long as you are willing to invest resources, it is not a difficult thing.

With this in mind, the development of a new magic plant garden must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

After leaving the Lord's Mansion, Sunan was still thinking about the magic plant garden.

With the profit support of the underground world's mineral veins, there is no need to worry about the financial problems in the development of the magic plant garden. The only thing to consider is manpower.

The flower fairy is easy to solve. Let the flower fairy queen Tiya summon another group of tribesmen.

The key is the apprentice responsible for garrisoning.

"Issue a batch of garrisoning tasks in the base and let the apprentices take turns to garrison regularly."

At present, there are no second-level wizard apprentices in the base, and Sunan can only do it himself to open the magic plant garden.

However, the garrison work can be handed over to students, and the task contribution value can be set higher.

It just so happens that a new batch of students will soon arrive at the base. After a period of training, they can accept various basic tasks.

By then, there will be more people taking basic tasks, and there will be more monks and less meat. The competition will become fierce, and the old students will naturally focus on the garrison tasks.

Time flies.

The Thundering Month (April) passed quickly.

During this period, Sunan attended another gathering in the jungle cabin and obtained more than ten kinds of rare metals and four micro soul crystals.

After this gathering, Sunan finally gathered the materials for the third magic pattern core.

After refining the third magic pattern core, he synthesized it as soon as possible.

The requirements for the body and soul of the synthesized level 3 magic pattern core are further improved.

In addition to the mental power must reach 45 points, the physical fitness must also reach more than 40 points.

"My current mental power is 45.04, which just meets the requirements, but the physical fitness is only 36.37, which is still a long way off."

Sunan weighed the magic pattern core in his hand and turned to walk towards the warehouse.

His current physical fitness is roughly equivalent to that of a junior knight. The effect of high-level dragon blood fruit on him is still quite obvious. After synthesizing a few high-level dragon blood fruits and taking them, his physical fitness can quickly increase to more than 40 points.

It took two days to digest the effects of the high-level dragon blood fruit, and Sunan's physical fitness was successfully improved to 40.35.

Without hesitation, he immediately fused the Level 3 magic pattern core and then came to the spell training area for testing.

Considering the power of the Level 3 Magic Pattern Core, Sunan did not choose the Iron Golem as the test object this time, but chose the more powerful High-level Stone Golem.

First of all, the attack power.

Under the full-strength situation, the metal spike storm formed by the Magic Pattern Core bombarded the High-level Stone Golem with holes in just over ten seconds, almost scrapping it.

"Not bad, the attack power has increased by about 80% to 90%."

"If it is a legendary puppet with one ring, it is estimated that it can be killed in one encounter."

Next is the defense power.

After a test, Sunan had a rough idea.

"If converted into defense, it is about 4800 to 5000, which is almost equivalent to the defense superposition of five Extreme Protection Rings."

Sunan nodded secretly.

With such a high defense, even a formal wizard cannot break it with one blow.

What surprised Sunan even more was that the mental power consumption, which he was most concerned about, hardly increased.

With his current mental power, it is enough to use the Magic Pattern Core for up to three minutes.

Even under high-intensity attacks, it is no problem to hold on for two minutes.

"If I can keep the trend of upgrading to increase power without increasing consumption, when my mental power is improved a little more, the magic pattern core can almost become a conventional weapon."

The magic pattern core that can be used conventionally is terrifying to think about!

If it really reaches that point, Sunan will basically be invincible below the official wizard.

"The Golem Corps has also been successfully expanded."

With Sunan's full investment, the scale of the Golem Corps in Youhu City has expanded a lot in recent days.

Considering that it will not be possible to refine adamantine golems or secret puppets in a short time, Sunan used all the four micro soul crystals obtained from the transaction to refine steel golems.

Today's Youhu City Golem Corps includes nine steel golems, twenty elite stone golems, three hundred double-bladed spiders and one thousand stone golems.

The strength of this lineup is far beyond the previous Youhu City.

At least when Carolina saw these golems in the temporary military camp, she was stunned.

The last bit of worry about the upcoming insect plague in his heart also disappeared.

Are you kidding? With such a powerful golem army here, what does a mere insect plague mean?

The next thing to consider is whether to counterattack Kasham.

To be honest, if he didn't want Matu and Orson to help share more pressure, reduce casualties, and by the way, kill as many insects as possible outside to reduce the pressure for the future attack on Kasham, Sunan would have ignored the insect plague and attacked Kasham directly.

However, Sunan didn't wait long.

On the first day of the New Moon, the human-faced lion scouts who were arranged to monitor near Kasham sent news that the insect swarm of Kasham had been dispatched on a large scale.

Countless insects are pouring towards Youhu City!