Chapter 139 Death Bell Mark, Promotion in Five Years

Astral calendar year 1255, the month of summer haze.

After more than half a year of recuperation, the Principality of Stars gradually recovered from the shadow of war, and Key's control over the principality became more and more stable. Now most of his energy is focused on rebuilding the Ranshuang Province, striving to restore the Ranshuang Province to its previous level as soon as possible.

In the same month, the Knight Academy of the six provinces officially opened, and the first batch of freshmen enrolled.

Time came to the month of Liuhuo, and the weather became hotter and hotter.

Base No. 2.

In the spacious and bright laboratory.

Sunan carefully printed the last trace of blood-colored lines on the back of his right hand. After a flash of blood, a horn-shaped blood-red mark appeared on the back of his hand.

"It's done!"

Sunan showed a happy smile from the heart.

After the battle of Kasham, he devoted most of his energy to the research on the death knell striker. It took more than two months to finally successfully make a blood mark with the blood of the death knell striker.

"The concentration of the ancient blood of the death knell striker is still a little low after all. It has to be synthesized to increase the concentration before it can be made into a blood mark."

"Let's call it the death knell mark."

Su Nan stared at the mark on the back of his hand, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

The effect of the death knell mark is to release powerful sound waves instantly, which is much more powerful than the sound wave attack released by the death knell striker.

Preliminary estimates show that it is no problem to kill a second-ring legend in one second.

Even a three-ring legend will be seriously injured if it is not killed by a blow!

If there is any shortcoming, it is that this thing is a disposable consumable, which is gone after one use, and it is not easy to make.

On the premise of not damaging the body of the death knell striker, a little blood is drawn every day, and it takes about fourteen days to accumulate to make a death knell mark.

"It's enough to make four or five for self-defense."

With another trump card in hand, Su Nan was extremely happy. He turned around and left the laboratory and came to the detention area.

This is the most heavily guarded place in the entire No. 2 base except for the warehouse and laboratory.

The defense of the first two is mainly aimed at the outside, while the defense of the prison area is aimed at the inside.

There are many arrays here, including but not limited to magic prohibition, weakness, heavy pressure and other effects, to ensure that the resistance of every creature imprisoned here is weakened to the lowest point.

There are also many golems and double-edged spider guards inside and outside, which can be said to be airtight.

When he came to the room where the death knell was imprisoned, Su Nan looked inside.

The death knell was lying on the ground listlessly. When he heard the footsteps, he looked up and saw that it was Su Nan. He immediately let out a cry of fear and subconsciously shrank inside, with human-like pleading in his eyes.

Looking at its aggrieved appearance, there is no majesty of the descendant of the ancient bloodline.

There is no way. Anyone who has been drawn blood every day for more than two months will become like this.

The sluggish appearance of the death knell at this time is not entirely due to the suppression of the array in the prison area, but more because a large amount of blood has been drawn continuously.

Su Nan said that he was also helpless.

Whether it is the blood mark or the divine energy, the research requires a lot of experimental materials. In order to speed up the research progress, he only slightly increased the frequency and amount of blood extraction by a few billion.

Anyway, he is a descendant of the ancient blood, and he will recover after a while.

Unfortunately, the concentration of the ancient blood of the death knell striker is still too low, which is not enough to awaken the divine energy.

The reason why Ugo wants the divine remains of the Starfire Cult is to extract the divine energy inside and merge it with the death knell striker, so that it can awaken the divine energy and break through to a higher level.

Fortunately, Sunan doesn't need to be so troublesome.

He has other means to increase the blood concentration of the death knell striker.

Yinlong is a good example.

"It's a pity that your power level is too high, otherwise if you are contracted as a magic pet, the blood concentration can be directly increased."

Sunan is a little regretful.

The higher the power level of the creature, the more difficult it is to contract it into a magic pet.

Unless the wizard (apprentice) himself is much more powerful than the contract object.

For an ancient beast like the Death Bell Strikeer, which is a three-ring legendary beast, at least a formal wizard can try to contract it as a magic pet, and it is not 100% successful.

Therefore, many wizards (apprentices) cultivate their magic pets from a young age.

It is not that they do not like to contract powerful beasts, but they cannot do it.

However, although it is impossible to contract it as a magic pet, it is not difficult to tame the Death Bell Strikeer.

As long as a little trick is set in its body, this beast, whose wisdom is not lower than that of humans, will naturally choose to bow its head and surrender in order to save its life.

In fact, the Death Bell Strikeer has already shown signs of surrender.

It won't take long for Sunan to tame it.

"It will probably take a lot of time to increase the blood concentration to the point of awakening divine energy."

"Take your time."

As usual, more than ten tubes of blood were drawn from the Death Bell Strikeer, and Sunan left the confinement area with satisfaction and went to the meditation room.

As early as three days ago, he had already built the fourteenth star ring.

The level 15 Star Ring Meditation Method, the proficiency required to upgrade again has soared to 2 million.

"My proficiency has increased by about 4600 every day. At this rate, it will take about 15 months to build the 15th Star Ring."

"The training progress of instant spells has almost reached 70%, and it should be mastered by the month of revival next year at the latest."

"There are still 28 types of alternative metals for the magic pattern core."

"I now have more than 8 kilograms of mithril, and I only need about half of it to refine the secret doll."

"There is still about two-thirds of the magic gold needed to refine the gold golem. Most of the apprentices are busy refining the golems during this period. When the golems are saturated, the task ratio will be adjusted to increase the task rewards for making magic gold. The speed should be able to be improved by then."

"Micro soul crystals must also be collected in advance and synthesized into small soul crystals to make the soul core of the gold golem."

Su Nan recalled in his mind what needs to be done in the near future.

"The rest is to open up the magic plantation."

The six new knight academies all need dragon blood fruit, and the quantity is large. New magic plantations must be opened to meet the demand.

However, Su Nan has been busy studying blood mark and divine energy during this period, and has not been able to spare time to deal with this matter.

Now that the research has come to an end for the time being, it will have to start next.

"There are still too few available manpower."

Su Nan couldn't help but sigh.

Even if there were one or two more available manpower, he would be much more relaxed and would not have to do everything himself.

When he was reading the wizard intelligence collected by the Starry Royal Family, he wanted to recruit a few second-level wizard apprentices.

I believe that those wizard apprentices who have experienced the pain of resource scarcity will not refuse a trading platform with sufficient resources.

As long as the base can ensure sufficient resource supply and fair trading rules, there is no need to worry about the loyalty of those wizard apprentices.

However, before Sunan took action, good news came from the base.

Starlight calendar 1255, harvest month (September).

Sheman and Corey successively built the third star ring and were promoted to second-level wizard apprentices.

Base No. 1.

Public rest area.

Sheman and Corey were surrounded by many apprentices like stars surrounding the moon, and various congratulatory words were heard.

"Congratulations to the two seniors."

"I knew that senior Xieman and senior Corey would definitely be promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice!"

"It took only more than five years to be promoted to the second level. Senior Xieman and senior Corey are indeed geniuses."

"I'm so envious. I have only built the second star ring now."

"Senior, can you tell us about your experience of promotion?"

Atir looked at Xieman and Corey who were surrounded in the middle with a smile. While she was happy for them, she also felt a little complicated.

She was not as talented as Xieman and Corey. She was still a long way from building the third star ring. It was estimated that it would take at least two or three years.

Even Ethan in the second batch built the star ring faster than her, and it was very likely that he would be promoted to the second-level wizard apprentice faster than her.

"Okay, thank you for your congratulations. We are in a hurry to see the teacher. We will talk to you about the experience of promotion another day."

Xieman said with a smile.

Hearing that it was the teacher who summoned them, everyone hurriedly made way.

Sheman and Corey walked out of the crowd, left the public rest area and headed towards the central area.

That was Sunan's exclusive area, where his laboratory, meditation room, spell practice area, etc. were all located. No one could enter or leave at will without his permission.

Two elite stone golems stood at the door.

Seeing someone coming, the two golems immediately turned their thick heads, their dark eyes paused on the two people, and they made a mechanical and monotonous sound.

"Target search in progress, with entry permission, you can pass!"

As the voice fell, the two heads moved back to their original positions with a click.

Corey looked at the elite stone golem with a burning gaze.

This is a legendary puppet.

Much more powerful than clay golems and stone golems.

If he could refine a puppet of this level one day, that would be amazing.

The two had been to the central area many times before, and they were already familiar with the layout here. After passing through the gate, they went straight to the study.

Just as Sheman arrived at the door and was about to knock on it, a voice came from inside.

"Come in."

Sheman and Corey straightened their faces, pushed open the door and walked in. When they looked up, they saw the teacher sitting behind the desk, holding a book in his hand, looking at them with a smile.

To their surprise, Amy, who often stayed in the underground world recently, was also here.

She was lying in the corner of the desk, sniffing and sniffing a piece of catnip with a look of enjoyment on her face.

"Teacher, Amy."

Sheman and Corey bowed together.

"Meow, it's Sheman and Corey." Amy came back to her senses and waved her paw at the two of them. "I heard that you two have been promoted to second-level wizard apprentices. Congratulations, meow."

Sheman and Corey smiled at the same time. Just as they were about to say something modest, they heard Amy change the subject.

"But the promotion speed is a bit slow, meow. If it were in the past, if you haven't been promoted to second-level wizard apprentice for more than five years, you would have been kicked out of the academy long ago."

The smiles of the two froze on their faces.

Amy added, "It took Sunan less than a year to be promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice."

Xieman and Corey were shocked, and their eyes looking at Sunan were full of admiration.

As expected of a teacher, he actually passed the level of a second-level wizard apprentice in such a short time.

"Okay." Sunan interrupted Amy and smiled at the two of them, "Don't listen to Amy's nonsense, you two are already very good to have achieved this step."

Now is the era of the elemental desert, how can it be compared with a thousand years ago?

It's even more impossible to compare with him who has cheated!

Xieman and Corey only took more than five years to be promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice, this talent is already very good.

Of course, this is also because the base provides sufficient resources. If it were a wizard apprentice outside, it would take 20 to 30 years to barely advance to the second level.

It is not uncommon for people with slightly worse talents to take 50 to 60 years to cross this level.

After receiving Su Nan's praise, Sheman and Cole both showed joy on their faces.

"It's all thanks to the teacher's teaching!" The two said in unison.

Su Nan smiled slightly and said, "I just provided you with a platform. To get to this point today, it mainly depends on your own efforts."

Then he faded his smile and said solemnly:

"But you can't relax. The second-level wizard apprentice is just the starting point of the wizard's road. It only means that you have become a qualified apprentice. On this continent, at least a third-level wizard apprentice is qualified to be called a strong man."

"It is much more difficult to be promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice than you think, not to mention being promoted to a formal wizard. You must be mentally prepared. There is still a long way to go in the future."

"Yes, teacher!"

Xie Man and Cole looked solemn and bowed in response.

After giving them a few words, Su Nan slowed down his tone and smiled and threw a bottle of potion to each of them.

"This is a super potion, a second-level potion that can improve the efficiency of meditation. Just consider it as my gift to you two for promotion."

"However, this potion has a limit on its use. It requires a certain level of mental power. You should practice for a while and stabilize your realm before taking it."

The second-level inferior super potion requires a mental power of 13 before it can be taken.

For a newly promoted second-level wizard apprentice, even if the mental power has not reached 13, it is not much different. It can be satisfied after practicing for a few months.

"Thank you, teacher!"

Xie Man and Corey were overjoyed.

The potion that improves the efficiency of meditation always requires a higher contribution value than other things.

Not to mention that it is a bottle of second-level potion.

If they use contribution points to exchange, they may have to do the task for more than half a month.

"Go back, come to me after you stabilize your realm, I have something for you two to do." Sunan waved his hand and said.

The two responded solemnly, bowed respectfully, and then left.

Walking out of the study, Xie Man and Corey looked at each other, and smiled at the same time.

"You were promoted 13 days faster than me this time, so you win, but I will definitely surpass you next time!" Corey said with a firm look.

In the past, Sherman would have laughed off Corey's behavior.

However, after the death of old Roger, his attitude towards improving his strength has changed dramatically. When he heard Corey's challenging words, he also showed a confident smile on his face.

"Then I'll wait and see, but you have to be prepared, I won't lose to you!"