Chapter 156: Longling Ranch, Bloodline and True Spirit
Astral calendar year 1258, Spring Dawn Moon (March).
The Dragon Skeleton Tower was finally repaired.
Sunan immediately started the base relocation work.
Mainly Base No. 1.
The facilities that Base No. 1 has are basically all in the Dragon Skeleton Tower, and they are more comprehensive and complete.
For facilities that are not available, such as the insect nest, they can be solved by selecting a room and renovating it.
The overall relocation work went very smoothly.
From now on, the apprentices' daily living, training and learning will all be carried out in the Dragon Forest.
The top floor of the Dragon Skeleton Tower.
Sunan stood in front of the control center, staring at the three-dimensional model intently.
[Ecological Park: Dragon Forest]
[Level: Large (Degree of Damage 48.23%)]
[Current Remaining Energy: 95.23%]
[Intelligent Auxiliary Life: Butler No. 1]
[Area: Area 1, Area 2, Area 3]
[Facilities (Dragon Skeleton Tower): Residential Area, Warehouse Area, Experimental Area, Training Area, Workshop Area, Transformation Area Control Center, Element Pool (Micro), Insect Nest]
[Servants: Clay Golem × 423, Flower Spirit × 52, Children of the Forest × 3, Red-Eyed Crow × 67, Gli Elf × 1]
[Protective Device: Large Space Boundary]
[Combat Device: Golem Legion (Stone Golem × 426, Double-Edged Spider × 85, Elite Stone Golem × 20, Steel Golem × 5)]
Looking at the data marked next to the three-dimensional model, Sunan nodded with satisfaction.
After more than half a month of charging, the energy of the element pool is almost full.
The restoration of Area 2 has also begun.
Although it is just the beginning, with the help of the clay golem and flower essence he brought from Base No. 1, the recovery speed should be much faster in the future.
"If Area 1 maintains the best operating state, it will take up 35.12% of the energy cycle."
"After Area 2 is restored, before the new dragon clan is put into use, it only needs to maintain the minimum operating state, which will take up 53.66% of the energy cycle."
"Add up to 88.78%."
Nearly 90% of the energy ratio!
If you add the 3.06% of the minimum energy required to maintain the operation of Area 3, it will exceed 90%.
The 3.06% here refers to the minimum energy cycle occupied by maintaining the operation of Area 3, mainly the daily operation of various facilities in the Dragon Skeleton Tower, including the routine applications of providing lighting, experiments, transformation, etc.
The energy cycle occupation in addition depends on the energy consumption of the wizard (apprentice) experiment and the energy consumed by making potions, magic items and puppets, etc.
There is no upper limit in this regard.
Sunan checked the past energy consumption records through Butler No. 1.
Thousands of years ago, during the peak period of energy consumption in Longlin, the Dragon Skeleton Tower once occupied up to 47.23% of the energy cycle!
At one point, the energy cycle of Area 1 and Area 2 almost collapsed.
"Fortunately, we don't have to worry about this for the time being."
Sunan muttered to himself.
There is only one Level 3 wizard apprentice in the base now, and there are not many Level 2 wizard apprentices.
The energy consumed by experiments and production can occupy 10% of the energy cycle.
In addition, Area 2 has not been really put into use yet, so there is no need to worry about insufficient energy cycle.
"The military force has also increased a lot."
The original Longlin had only more than 100 stone golems, but with the garrison forces of the base, the total number of golems has now exceeded 500.
However, the increase in military force is not very useful.
Longlin is a semi-dimensional space, which is semi-isolated from the material world. Except for the transmission channel controlled by Sunan, no one else can enter.
Unless it is a wizard who is powerful enough to tear the space barrier and master the spatial coordinates of Longlin.
However, such people are impossible to exist in the current Starlight Continent.
So there is basically no need to worry about foreign enemies attacking Longlin.
Perhaps because of this, the original builders did not build combat equipment to prevent foreign enemies at all, and only stationed a small number of golems.
These golems are probably used to capture the sub-dragon species in Longlin.
Therefore, the high-level stone golems and elite double-bladed spiders in Base No. 1 were transferred to the Star Alliance by Sunan.
Today, Base No. 1 is basically just an empty shell, with nothing else except the Magic Plant Garden.
Of course, Sunan does not intend to abandon Base No. 1.
It will serve as a transit station for the transfer of materials between Longlin and the surface world.
The same is true for Base No. 2.
With the teleportation array of Longlin, Sunan can now travel quickly between the surface and the underground world without the need to build an additional Base No. 2.
The facilities in Base No. 2 have been moved into Longlin, leaving only the Magic Plant Garden and a space channel leading to Longlin as a transit station for the transfer of materials between Longlin and the underground world in the future.
"If there is only one base, we won't have to travel back and forth anymore, and many things will be much more convenient."
Su Nan smiled with a relaxed look.
"There is no need to open up a magic plant garden anymore. Separating an area from Area 2 will be enough to grow magic plants."
Longlin is different from the outside world. As long as the energy supply is continuous, the concentration of energy particles can always be maintained at a high level, which is enough for the growth of magic plants.
Any piece of land in Area 2 is equivalent to more than ten magic plant gardens outside.
"It's time to put the matter of taming sub-dragon species on the agenda."
Su Nan stretched out his hand and touched the void, and a picture suddenly appeared in front of him.
The picture shows a steep mountain wall full of caves, and creatures covered with golden scales, like a combination of dragons and antelopes, fly in and out of the caves.
Dragon antelopes are a powerful and elegant sub-dragon species.
They were domesticated as mounts by many legendary knights thousands of years ago.
They are quite simple sub-dragon species, loyal to their masters, and have strong combat power.
Adult dragon antelopes have the power of a legendary ring, and they will gradually become stronger as they age, up to a legendary ring of three rings.
As early as when he discovered many sub-dragon species in the Dragon Forest, Sunan had the idea of forming a dragon cavalry.
After these days of selection, he finally chose the dragon antelope.
In addition to the loyalty and strong combat power of the dragon antelope, the dragon antelope likes to live in deep caves far away from civilization, and is naturally highly adaptable to dark environments.
This also means that even if they are in the dark and humid environment of the underground world, their combat power will not be weakened.
The dragon antelope cavalry army, just thinking about it is very powerful!
However, taming sub-dragon species is a very time-consuming and laborious task.
Adult dragon antelopes are basically impossible to tame, and tame them only from juveniles.
Sub-dragon species inherit some characteristics of the dragon race, including extremely slow growth.
Even if some means of catalyzing growth are used in the middle, it will take at least ten years to cultivate a juvenile dragon antelope to adulthood.
"The Knight Guard is still too weak now, and there is not even a great knight. It still needs time to grow."
"Start taming the dragon antelope from now on, and wait for more than ten years, when the Knight Guard's strength catches up, it will be just right to match the dragon antelope."
After thinking for a while, Sunan already had a complete plan in his mind. He stretched out his hand and drew a line on the three-dimensional model, dividing an area as the site for taming dragon antelopes in the future.
"Let's call it Dragon Antelope Ranch."
After dividing the site, Butler No. 1 will naturally arrange clay golems to take charge of specific matters.
Sunan then came to the main laboratory in the transformation area, which was a large laboratory that belonged to him alone.
Yinlong was already waiting in the laboratory. When he saw Su Nan coming, he crawled over and rubbed his chest affectionately.
"Sorry for the long wait." Su Nan smiled and patted Yinlong's head.
With sufficient high-level sub-dragon blood, Yinlong's blood has improved by leaps and bounds during this period.
Now the blood concentration has exceeded 50%, and the combat power has also broken through to the three-ring legend.
The improvement of blood and strength also made Yinlong bigger.
The length of the head and tail is more than 30 meters, and even if it is lying on the ground, the height is close to 4 meters.
If it weren't for the ability to become virtual, Yinlong's movements in the Dragon Skeleton Tower would definitely be very limited.
"The dragon with the highest concentration of dragon blood in Longlinlia is the Devil Tyrannosaurus, 85.37%."
"Once it exceeds this limit, the speed of Yinlong's blood concentration will slow down a lot."
"After it is increased to 90%, it should be able to break through to the four-ring legend."
Su Nan thought, but his movements were not slow. He completed the blood fusion operation for Yinlong with ease.
Now Yinlong has to perform three operations on average every month, and the time in between is used to digest the blood power.
The high frequency of blood fusion operations also brought a lot of proficiency to Sunan's [Biological Transformation] skill.
Sunan estimated that in two or three months, the [Biological Transformation] skill should be able to be upgraded to level 4.
Time flies, and it is the month of Liuhuo (July) in a blink of an eye.
Just after the first half of the month, Sunan successfully built the 16th star ring.
[Sunan Yanest, human male]
[Spirit 50.93/Constance 45.88]
[Skills]
Star Ring Meditation Lv17 (130/5000000)
Potion Making Lv4 (8635/10000)
Biological Transformation Lv4 (529/10000)
Puppet Refining Lv5 (1023/20000)
Magic Item Manufacturing Lv4 (5477/10000)
"Two more star rings are missing."
Sunan exhaled happily.
The proficiency he gained from practicing the Star Ring Meditation every day has increased to about 4800 points as his mental strength grows.
According to this progress, it will take more than two years to build the seventeenth star ring.
"The remaining two star rings should be built within eight years."
"By then, even if my mental power has not reached 60, it should be almost there."
With the pure divine energy provided by the death knell beetle, Sunan's mental power is now growing much faster than before.
"I have to find a way to improve my physique."
Just last month, Sunan gathered a set of materials for refining the magic pattern core and successfully refined the fourth magic pattern core.
But the problem now is that his mental and physical fitness are not enough to bear the 4th level magic pattern core, so it has not been fused.
The fusion requirements of the 4th level magic pattern core are 51.22 mental and 54.39 physical.
In terms of mental strength, Sunan estimates that he can reach the standard by absorbing divine energy twice at most.
Although his physical fitness is much worse, it is still easy to improve with the dragon blood fruit.
After all, his current physical fitness of 45.88 is about the level of a mid-level knight, and he is still far from a legendary knight.
"Without blood fusion, the improvement of physical fitness is still slow."
Having said that, if Su Nan had to choose, he would rather chew dragon blood fruit to slowly strengthen his body than fuse blood casually.
Although blood fusion can enhance strength immediately, the price paid is that the future growth space will be greatly narrowed.
Take the Death Knell Beater as an example. Once the blood of the Death Knell Beater is fused, no matter how much strength is improved in the future, it will be difficult to surpass the source of the blood of the Death Knell Beater, that is, the power level of the ancient beast Hissing Insect.
It is precisely because of this defect of blood fusion that the promotion path of wizards will be divided into two major routes: blood and true spirit.
Sunan's goal has always been the true spirit route.
Only true spirit wizards can be promoted to the highest level.
"The research on the alternative metals of the magic pattern core is almost completed."
There are a total of eighty-nine alternative metals in the materials of the magic pattern core. In addition to the twenty that can be purchased with gold coins, Sunan has already researched sixty-seven of the remaining sixty-nine alternative metals, leaving only the last two.
It will take at most one or two months to complete.
After that, as long as his spirit and physique can keep up, he can infinitely strengthen the magic pattern core.
Late at night, in the dense forest cabin.
Moonlight shines through the window, illuminating the situation inside the house.
Eight people sat around the wide long table.
Except for the hunter, all other members of the jungle cabin were present.
Surprisingly, the traveler was also present.
"It's really strange. I didn't expect you to come." The scepter looked at the traveler in surprise.
"I thought you had died in some corner." The dead body said with a hint of malice.
Ignoring the dead body's words, the traveler shrugged at the scepter and said, "I encountered some problems before, but thanks to the players, it has been solved. I will actively participate in the party in the future."
Everyone looked at Su Nan in surprise. They didn't expect that the two would meet outside the jungle cabin.
"By the way, where is the other new member?" The traveler looked around curiously, and finally frowned with some disappointment, "Didn't come?"
"It's obvious." Heilin said indifferently, "I guess he was delayed by something."
In the jungle cabin, this is a very normal thing. Everyone didn't care and entered the transaction process as usual.
When it was the Traveler's turn, he looked at the Scepter and said sincerely: "Scepter, I want the key of the Starry Tower. It is very important to me. If you can, please make an offer and trade it to me!"
The Scepter was stunned, then shook his head: "Sorry, the key of the Starry Tower is also very important to me. I don't plan to trade it."
"Don't waste your energy, Traveler." Heilin said carelessly, "If the Scepter is willing to trade, I would have done it long ago, so how could it be your turn?"
When the hunter first attended the party, only Heilin and the Traveler were not present.
Later, he learned that the hunter took out the key of the Starry Tower at that party. Heilin couldn't help but regret it. At the subsequent party, he proposed to trade with the Scepter, but was rejected by the Scepter without hesitation.
Hearing this, the Traveler sighed in disappointment, but stopped pestering, and took out a few bottles of sub-dragon blood and put them on the table.
"If anyone wants it, make an offer."
Everyone looked at Su Nan at the same time.
In the past, when sub-dragon blood appeared in gatherings, it would definitely be won by Su Nan in the end.
Over time, they all knew that Su Nan was determined to get the sub-dragon blood, so they stopped competing with him.
But to everyone's surprise, this time Su Nan shook his head.
"I don't need it."
Everyone looked at each other.
Only the traveler knew that Su Nan, who owned an entire ecological park, was not short of sub-dragon blood at all.
