Chapter 201 The future will be the era of the Star Alliance

"If it doesn't work, we can only use the restricted area."

Su Nan collected his mind and continued to move forward.

Thunderstones mostly appear in places with dense lightning bombardment. It is unlikely that there are thunderstones at the outermost edge of the thunder element space, so we have to explore further inside.

But not long after walking, Su Nan encountered the thunder element spirit.

The low-level thunder element spirit looks like a ball of lightning flashing with fine arcs.

Only with the increase of strength, the appearance of the thunder element spirit will gradually tend to human form.

When it reaches the level of elemental giant spirit, it will become a human form in the upper body, and the lower body will be surrounded by arcs of air and electricity, like a mist-like appearance, or the whole body will become a human outline.

The one in front of him is just a low-level thunder element spirit, without even a vague human outline, and was blown to ashes by Su Nan's spell missile.

There is no problem of energy shortage in the thunder element plane.

Here, the mental power consumed by casting spells can be quickly restored.

But there is also another more serious problem.

That is, there are almost no energy particles other than lightning energy particles in the Thunder Element Plane.

This also means that it is almost impossible to cast any spells that require other types of energy particles here.

Considering that lightning spells are almost ineffective against the Thunder Element Spirit, the only means of combat that Sunan can use here are non-elemental spells such as spell missiles, disaster rings, engraved gems and liquid metals.

As for Heiting, he can hardly play much role in the Thunder Element Plane.

After the death of the Thunder Element Spirit, a small amount of crystal powder was left behind.

This is elemental crystal dust, a material rich in elemental energy, which can be used to enchant or create magic items.

Sunan stretched out his hand and put it into the space ring.

In the half plane filled with thunder elements, Sunan's completely different aura stands out from the crowd.

From a distance, the Thunder Element Spirit can sense his presence.

Along the way, most of the Thunder Element Spirits rushed towards him with a crackling sound, and wanted to turn him into charcoal in a rage.

Only a few thunder elemental spirits didn't even look at him, lazily floating in the air, floating slowly like clouds.

Sunan didn't provoke these thunder elemental spirits, only those short-sighted and irritable fellows.

As he went deeper, the thunder element in the air became visibly denser, and even formed a materialized arc, flickering in the void.

The thunder elemental spirits encountered along the way became stronger and stronger.

Sunan simply released two secret puppets.

Ordinary puppets could not cause damage to the thunder elemental spirits in the virtual state. Only high-level puppets with constant spells and demonization could deal with thunder elemental spirits.

With the secret puppet responsible for cleaning up the thunder elemental spirits, Sunan was finally able to free up his energy and concentrate on finding the thunder stone.

Not long after, he made a discovery.

With a wave of his hand, a dark stone on the side of the road suddenly rose from the ground and fell into Sunan's palm.

Feeling the violent thunder energy contained in the stone, a smile appeared on his face.

Finally, there is a harvest!

Sunan then searched the surrounding area carefully, and indeed found a lot of thunder stones.

With the harvest, Sunan became more motivated.

There is no distinction between day and night in the thunder element plane. Because there are so many spaces, it is difficult to encounter other creatures, and it is easy to lose track of time.

I don’t know how long it has been. When Sunan stopped, there were more than 200 thunder stones in the space ring.

“So many thunder stones are enough to make three black thunders.”

Sunan smiled slightly and looked at the two secret puppets guarding him.

Although they had experienced a series of battles, the two secret puppets were basically not injured.

After all, the opponent was just a group of elemental spirits.

Because a large number of elemental spirits were killed, a lot of elemental crystal dust was accumulated in the space ring.

“Compared to elemental crystal cores, the value of elemental crystal dust is still a little worse.”

Not long ago, Sunan saw a thunder element giant from a distance.

However, he did not intend to fight the thunder element giant in its home field, so he avoided it early and did not let the other party find out.

"Speaking of which, the elemental giants are also a kind of divine creatures."

In the elemental plane with pure and abundant energy, it is easy to produce natural divinity, so the elemental spirits are the race that is most likely to give birth to divine creatures.

For example, the elemental giants, the elemental giant elders and the elemental lords are all divine creatures.

The rule power they master is often linked to their own elemental attributes.

In other words, divine energy should also be extracted from the elemental giants.

However, considering the difficulty of killing a thunder elemental giant in the thunder elemental plane, Sunan gave up this idea.

In his home field, the combat power of the thunder elemental giant is considered to be less than half, and his power is limited by the influence of the environment. The risk is too high.

Maybe he can try it after his strength is improved, but doing this at this stage is no different from seeking death.

Shaking his head, Sunan opened the space channel and returned to the Dragon Skeleton Tower.

In the following time, Sunan devoted his energy to making black thunder and improving the magic pattern core.

The former took less than two months to complete, and Sunan had three more Black Thunders in his hands.

The latter took nearly two years of research and development before it was successful.

The improved magic pattern core can be activated through the magic array set in the secret puppet body, and only energy particles need to be injected.

Although the cost of the change is a decrease in power, this problem was easily solved after the magic cube synthesis.

The modified magic pattern core that the secret puppet finally merged with is roughly equivalent to the original level 6 magic pattern core.

It's not that Sunan doesn't want to merge a higher level magic pattern core, but this is already the limit of the secret puppet's load.

After all, the level 6 magic pattern core originally requires the mental power of a formal wizard and a physique beyond the four-ring legendary level to merge. Even now, Sunan can only merge a level 6 magic pattern core at most.

Having said that, the combat power of the secret puppet after the fusion of the magic pattern core has also improved by leaps and bounds.

Even Sunan, without using magic tools and engraved gems, can only barely tie with it.

This is when his mental concentration has increased a lot.

If it was just when he was promoted, he would definitely not be an opponent.

The current secret puppet girl is at least a 50-50 situation against the half-spider god.

However, the price of the sudden increase in combat power is the sudden increase in cost.

In addition to integrating the level 6 magic pattern core, the secret puppet also upgraded its body structure in order to carry the level 6 magic pattern core, and the final cost was as high as 480,000 gold coins.

You should know that the cost of forming a small golem army is only more than 400,000 gold coins.

In other words, the cost of a secret puppet is equivalent to a small golem army.

"The cost of refining high-level puppets will only get higher and higher in the future. After all, many materials can only be obtained through synthesis, and the cost is much higher than manufacturing."

Sunan sighed secretly.

Taking the level 6 magic pattern core as an example, if it is artificially manufactured, the cost can be at least half cheaper than the synthesis.

Just like the same legendary puppet, the manufacturing cost of the steel golem is more than half lower than that of the elite stone golem.

This is the cost of using the synthetic magic cube.

Of course, compared with the magical power of the magic cube, this cost is not worth mentioning.

After all, there is no upper limit to the synthesis of the magic cube in theory. Many things cannot be manufactured even if you spend more gold coins, but the magic cube can easily synthesize them.

In fact, for Sunan now, gold coins are no longer a problem. Instead, it is resources that really limit development.

With the control of the southeast region of the underground world and the Star Empire as a dumping ground for goods, the Star Alliance can bring in tens of millions of gold coins every year.

But for the mithril needed to refine the secret dolls, the Star Alliance controls only so many silver veins, and the amount of mithril mined each year fluctuates within a fixed range. Even if there are more gold coins, it is impossible to increase it out of thin air.

The same is true for other rare resources.

When the entire Starlight Continent is controlled in the future, this problem will become more and more prominent.

In the absence of a third-party trading partner, Sunan can only control the resources of the Starlight Continent, and it is useless to have more gold coins.

"Fortunately, the resources of the Starlight Continent are enough for me to build a wizard tower."

"When the plane barrier is restored in the future, the Starlight Continent can trade with other planes, and the problem of resources can be solved."

Shaking his head, Sunan gathered his thoughts and devoted himself to the refining of the secret doll.

He now has enough mithril to refine two more secret dolls.

Underground world, northwest region.

Green smoke rose above the Mushroom Forest City, where the war had just ended, and the fluorite light cast from the top of the cave illuminated the ruins below.

Clay golems walked back and forth among the ruins, carrying bloody corpses and transporting them outside the city for centralized incineration and destruction.

Corey walked through the ruins in a dusty manner, with some blood stains on his gray robe, and looked a little tired, obviously having just experienced a fierce battle.

Mushroom Forest City gathered the last batch of elite forces in the Northwest Territory, and the resistance was so fierce that he, the commander, had to go out in person and fought for most of the day before finally conquering this tough bone.

And he had reasons to do so.

After conquering Mushroom Forest City, there was no large-scale resistance in the Northwest Territory, and the remaining kittens could be easily dealt with.

It can be said that the Northwest Territory has already fallen into the control of the Star Alliance.

In two months at most, the war here will be settled.

Thinking that he had not been back to Longlin for many years, even Corey, who rarely felt nostalgic, could not help but sigh.

I heard that Longlin had just established the Starlight Academy, but I didn't know what kind of academy it was?

While thinking, Corey had already arrived at the stone pillar in the center of Mushroom Forest City and strode inside.

The wizard apprentices following him also filed in.

The space inside the stone pillar was unusually spacious, and the clay golems were moving supplies.

Corey quickly found the warehouse, and before he entered, he saw Ethan walking out with a happy smile on his face.

Seeing this, Corey knew that this trip had a lot of gains, but he still asked a question.

"How is it?"

"The harvest is very rich." Ethan was delighted, "The resources in the warehouses of those city-states before should have been concentrated here."

Corey's face also had a faint smile.

The richer the spoils, the more contribution points he can get.

Arranging people to collect the counted resources, Ethan and Corey walked out side by side.

"Do you want to rest here for two days?"

"No, there are not many resistance forces left. Let's take advantage of this moment to solve the problem in one go, so as to avoid more trouble later."

"That's true." Ethan nodded in agreement.

He has been leading the army outside for nearly seven years, and he is a little tired. He also wants to end this war quickly and return to Longlin to concentrate on training.

The contribution points he has earned over the years are enough for him to use for a long time.

After being away for so long, he also missed Long Lin a little.

The two came to the intact city wall on the other side of the Mushroom Forest City and looked at the darkness in the distance.

That was the only area left in the Northwest Territory that had not been incorporated into the Star Alliance's territory. On the military map, the area occupied was less than one-fiftieth of the Northwest Territory.

Looking at the entire underground world, it was just a corner.

"When I first took office as the commander-in-chief, I really didn't expect that the Star Alliance would be able to unify the underground world so quickly."

Ethan's expression showed a sigh.

In just seven or eight years, the Star Alliance first razed the Southeast Territory, and even captured the Demon Spider City protected by the gods, and then swept across the Northwest Territory, invincible.

Seeing that the Star Alliance was about to unify the underground world, and he was one of the participants, personally experiencing and witnessing all this happening, it was impossible not to feel emotional.

Cole looked calm, but in fact, he also agreed with it in his heart.

When I first became the teacher's student, the base was just a small place next to the Flash City. Who would have thought that in less than 30 years, the base would become a giant that would unify the underground world?

In the eyes of many people, this is simply a miracle!

"That's because of the teacher." Corey said.

In the years of partnering with Corey, Ethan has long been accustomed to his fanatical worship of the teacher, and smiled when he heard it.

"I heard that the Empire is preparing to attack the Northwest Region. Once the Northwest Region is successfully unified, the entire Starlight Continent will be in the hands of the Star Alliance."

"This day will come soon." Corey nodded.

In the eyes of the two, although it is the Star Empire that will unify the surface world in the future, it is no different from the Star Alliance taking action personally.

The Star Empire is an attachment to the Star Alliance, and it has relied on the Star Alliance to achieve its current development. In essence, it can actually be regarded as a subsidiary organization of the Star Alliance.

This is not the arrogance and arrogance of Corey and Ethan.

This has become a consensus among the wizard apprentices of the Starlight Academy and the aristocratic circles of the Empire.

Although on the surface, the Star Empire and the Star Alliance are independent and coexisting forces, anyone with a little knowledge knows that equality is only based on the premise that both sides are equal in strength.

The Star Empire intimidates the continent on the surface, but its real strength is far inferior to the Star Alliance.

In terms of resources, the Star Empire is also very dependent on the Star Alliance, but not vice versa.

In this case, the Star Empire naturally has little say.

After long-term trading and cooperation, the Star Empire will naturally become a subsidiary of the Star Alliance.

And from the emperor to the nobles, they are not resistant to this.

It is better to say that they are happy to be more closely bound to the Star Alliance.

"The future will be the era of the Star Alliance." Ethan smiled, and suddenly had a sudden thought, "What do you think will be the next goal of the Star Alliance after conquering the Starlight Continent?"

Corey was stunned, and thought for a long time before saying: "I heard that ancient wizards like to conquer other civilization planes. Maybe the teacher has similar ideas."

Ethan's eyes lit up.

This is a good goal.

He also wants to see the scenery of other planes.

If the Star Alliance wants to go on an expedition to other planes one day, he must participate and go to other planes to have a look!

But before that, he still has to be promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice.

For the current Star Alliance, the second-level wizard apprentice is still a bit weak.