Chapter 188 Then skip the charging process

In the 1270th year of the Starlight Calendar, the Moon of Spring Dawn (March).

The first wizard academy in the Starlight Continent was officially established and named Starlight Academy.

More than 500 apprentices from Longlin became the first batch of students at the Starlight Academy and began their student career.

After the initial discomfort, the Starlight Academy quickly entered a stable operation.

With a complete system and regulations, Sunan hardly needed to invest too much energy in the academy.

He was also able to free up his energy and transfer it to other things.

Workshop No. 12 on the fifth floor of the Dragon Skeleton Tower.

The roar of the magic crystal forging furnace echoed in the spacious workshop.

Sunan stood in front of the workbench, staring at the puppet on it.

After freeing up his hands from the academy, he immediately put the matter of refining the complete version of the secret doll on the agenda.

In order to save mithril, he did not re-refine a new secret doll, but upgraded the original secret doll.

The complete version of the puppet did not add the design of high-level rune gems and diamonds. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the puppet, Sunan directly improved the original design.

This alone took him more than four months.

Compared with the time-consuming design improvement, the process of upgrading and transforming the puppet is relatively simple.

After more than half a month in the workshop, Sunan completed the task.

The body of the upgraded puppet is still made of mithril and diamonds as the main materials, but the number is more than twice as much as before.

Therefore, both the hardness of the body and the affinity and tolerance for elemental energy have been extremely improved.

Thanks to this, the new puppet's control of energy particles has also been greatly enhanced, which is not inferior to that of a formal wizard.

In addition to the original constant zero-ring, one-ring and two-ring spells, Sunan also added the three-ring spells he had just mastered to the puppet.

Among the books obtained from the Star Tower, about one-tenth of them are various spell books.

It covers a wide range of spells from zero ring to five rings.

After being promoted to a wizard, Sunan can already learn three-ring spells.

Just as there is a huge gap between wizards and wizard apprentices, the power of three-ring spells is far greater than that of two-ring spells, and they are more functional.

For example, [Snowstorm] can greatly change the environment.

[Human Immobilization] can make human, subhuman or bipedal targets immobile.

[Invisible Sphere] can make multiple targets invisible in a large area.

[Advanced Phantom] is similar to Silent Phantom, but with a stronger effect.

[Exhaustion Ray] is an advanced version of the Weakness Ray.

[Gaseous Form] makes the recipient become illusory and can fly slowly.

There are many more like this.

Whether it is power or practicality, it is not comparable to two-ring spells.

In fact, starting from the third ring, the power of spells has risen by more than one level.

Until the promotion to the True Spirit Wizard, spells are one of the most important means of combat for wizards.

Sunan has tested that he can now master a third-ring spell in about a month.

So far, he has mastered eleven third-ring spells, all of which are fixed in the body of the secret puppet.

And this is just the beginning.

After he masters more spells, he will gradually record spells into the secret puppet.

In general, the combat effectiveness of the upgraded secret puppet, except for the lack of talent crystals, is no less than that of a formal wizard in other aspects.

Even in the special environment of the Starlight Continent, even without talent crystals, the combat effectiveness of the secret puppet is not much weaker than that of the wizard who is restricted everywhere.

After all, the secret puppet has a low dependence on external energy, and can completely rely on the energy contained in the magic stone in the body for combat output, and the combat sustainability is far better than that of the wizard.

This is enough to make up for the defect of not having talent crystals to a certain extent.

If Sunan’s talent crystal was not the "liquid metal" that is more powerful than the superior, he himself would not be sure that he could defeat a secret puppet with sufficient magic stones 100%.

"When more three-ring spells are constant, the combat power can be further improved."

Su Nan showed a satisfied smile on his face.

Although there are special factors in the environment, he is very satisfied with the combat power comparable to that of a formal wizard.

If there is any problem, it is the high cost.

The cost of the two materials, mithril and gems alone, exceeds 200,000 gold coins.

The other materials add up to nearly 50,000 gold coins.

Adding the consumption of constant spells, especially three-ring spells, the total cost is as high as 330,000 gold coins.

In addition, the secret puppet consumes a large amount of magic stones every time it fights-low-level magic stones can no longer meet the consumption of the secret puppet, and at least it must be intermediate magic stones-it can be said that every battle is throwing money into it.

The high manufacturing cost plus the huge consumption is like a gold-eating black hole!

However, in the face of powerful combat power, this defect is acceptable.

That is, Su Nan has a synthetic magic cube. If it were other wizards, let alone more than 300,000, even 700,000 or 800,000 gold coins might not be able to refine a puppet of the formal wizard level.

Sunan was going to refine two secret dolls and put them into the expansion of the Star Alliance.

With the assistance of two secret dolls, he should not have to do anything.

After solving the problem of the secret dolls, Sunan then began to study rune engraving.

The knowledge of rune engraving was also found in the books brought out from the Star Tower.

It must be said that for Sunan at this stage, these books are like a treasure trove, and surprises can be found every time.

Rune engraving, like magic tattoos, is an enchantment process.

It's just that the former is more advanced, and it is an improved process invented by wizards based on magic tattoos.

Magic tattoos are tattoos on the surface of human skin in the form of tattoos. When activated during combat, spells are released, which is equivalent to storing several spells that can be released instantly.

Rune engraving is different.

It is to engrave specific enchantment characteristics on the surface of human skin in the form of engravings. Although the form is similar to magic tattoos, the enchantment characteristics that can be added, both in type and effect, far exceed magic tattoos, and the richness is not comparable to spells.

And there is another advantage, that is, it will not show up on the skin, and there is no need to worry about being recognized by the enemy in advance during combat.

In addition, the skin area occupied by rune engraving is smaller.

Normal people can have six or seven magic tattoos on their bodies at most, but if they are replaced with rune engravings, there is no problem engraving more than ten.

No matter from which aspect, rune engraving completely crushes magic tattoos.

But relatively speaking, the requirements for engraving rune engraving are also more stringent.

Only formal wizards with a certain level of mental and physical strength can withstand the violent energy fluctuations generated when activating rune engraving without causing any backlash.

"Rune engraving?"

Su Nan's face showed a thoughtful look.

After being promoted to a wizard, his strength has indeed changed dramatically.

But due to the environment, many combat methods are somewhat restricted in use.

For example, the power of spells is weakened, and the consumed mental power is difficult to recover quickly outside the element pool.

Magic items charge slowly, and it takes a long time to recharge after using them once.

The blood mark can no longer keep up with his strength growth.

Unless he is willing to consume more blood from the death knell beater and the multi-winged monster to create a more powerful blood mark.

However, this is impossible.

Instead of using blood to make blood marks, Su Nan prefers to use it to extract divine energy to speed up the growth and condensation of mental power.

The same is true for high-level rune gems.

The principle of high-level rune gems is to use the energy runes they carry to attract the surrounding energy particles, and burst out huge elemental energy damage.

Therefore, when the concentration of energy particles is low, the damage will naturally decrease.

No matter how Sunan increases the number of synthesis, the power of high-level rune gems has an upper limit.

Although it is much stronger than when it was still a wizard apprentice, it is very limited.

At least it is far from keeping up with the growth of wizard power.

After thinking about it, the only talent that Sunan can use without restriction is liquid metal.

Other combat methods either have reduced power or consume too much.

In view of this, Sunan has been considering researching a new combat method recently.

Rune engraving is one of his choices.

Of course, pure rune engraving is definitely not enough.

In essence, rune engraving is actually a magic item.

It absorbs energy particles during non-combat time and stores them, and then activates them in combat, converting them into enchantment effects and releasing them.

Like the restricted area and black thunder, rune engraving is actually a charging type.

This means that it will also be affected by the current environment of the Starlight Continent.

To turn the rune imprint into a viable means of combat, this problem must be solved first.

So after thinking again and again, Sunan finally came up with a solution.

Since charging is troublesome, just skip this step!

As long as the rune imprint is made into a disposable consumable like a high-level rune gem, then there is no need to worry about charging?

And to do this, the first thing to do is to change the carrier of the rune imprint.

For example, change the carrier from the human body to a gem.

Of course, it is said to be simple, but it is not easy to do this.

Pure gems cannot withstand the violent energy fluctuations when the rune imprint is activated.

Even high-end gems.

If the carrier's tolerance is too poor, it cannot replace the human body at all.

In this regard, Sunan plans to improve from two aspects.

One is to strengthen the quality of the gem.

Referring to the manufacturing principle of rune gems, high-end gems are selected for enchantment to improve their adaptability and tolerance to energy particles.

One is to reduce the power of rune imprints.

As the power of the rune imprint decreases, the load requirements for the carrier will naturally decrease accordingly.

After spending more than two months, Sunan finally succeeded in making an imprint gem.

The gem carries a rune imprint called "Ice Explosion". After being activated, it will instantly burst out strong icy energy, causing serious ice erosion to all creatures within a certain range, and adding a freezing delay effect.

Since it is a weakened version of the rune imprint, its power is naturally far less than that of the full version of the rune imprint.

Not even one-tenth of it.

However, it doesn't matter, there is still a synthetic cube.

As long as the imprint gem is successfully made, the problem of reduced power can be completely solved by synthetic enhancement.

In the end, Sunan synthesized 18 imprint gems and got a brand new imprint gem.

The reason why he didn't continue to synthesize was that, like the previous high-level rune gems, the energy intensity exceeded the limit he could currently bear.

But even so, the power of this engraved gem is much stronger than the original rune engraving, almost three times more than the latter.

And as his mental power concentration increases, he can gradually increase the number of synthesis, further strengthen the power, and there is huge room for improvement.

"Not bad!"

In the spell training area, Su Nan, who had just finished the test, looked at the frost all over the ground with a satisfied smile on his face.

In this way, in addition to his innate ability, he finally has another combat method that can be used without limit.

Although the cost of engraving gems is a bit expensive, one is about 4,700 gold coins, but compared with its power, it is undoubtedly worth the money.

"It's a pity that there is no knowledge of alchemical engraving in the books of the Starry Tower, otherwise I can study it."

Alchemical engraving is an advanced process of rune engraving, and its power is far greater than the latter.

However, if you want to engrave alchemical engravings, you must first transform yourself into an alchemical body.

Sunan is short of materials and his power level is not enough. Even if he gets the corresponding knowledge, he can't make alchemy marks. But he can learn from it and maybe improve the effect of the engraved gems.

Shaking his head, Sunan left the magic training area and teleported back to the top control center.

The materials of the Starry Tower have been recovered and the matter has come to an end.

The research on the secret dolls and engraved gems has also been completed.

He doesn't have much left to do now.

One is to enter the thunder element plane to collect thunder stones and make more black thunder magic tools.

But this matter is not urgent, and it will be put on the agenda after the strength is improved.

One is to synthesize and refine legendary puppets and form more golem legions.

The vast area of ​​the underground world must have enough troops to garrison.

Although some indigenous troops can be formed to alleviate the problem of lack of troops, the golem legion is still indispensable.

Sunan estimates that to unify the underground world, at least two or three large golem legions are needed.

Fortunately, low-level golems can be made by apprentices, and with the establishment of the academy and the arrival of a new batch of students, there will be more and more laborers who can make golems in the future. Otherwise, he would be exhausted to death and could not form so many golem armies.

"Calculating the time, the new round of qualification tests should be over soon."

Sunan looked in the direction of the academy with a deep gaze.

Starlight Academy is his first step in building a wizard force, and in the near future, it will also be his reliance on controlling the entire Starlight Continent.

After a while, Sunan retracted his gaze, gathered his thoughts and began to practice.

The growth and condensation of mental power is always the most important.

Next, unless it is related to this aspect, he does not intend to waste too much energy on other things.