Chapter 239: Frost Stone, Shadow Realm

"Sir, this is the exploration result of the secondary magic stone vein in the past six months."

In the study, Atil used the magician's hand to put the document on the desk.

Lize hummed, first approved the document in her hand, and then picked up the exploration document and read it carefully.

Atil stood aside and waited quietly.

The magic stone lamp hanging on the wall cast a bright yellow light, reflecting her body with an illusory translucent texture.

Atil thought that her luck was still good.

Although she failed to successfully promote to a wizard, she survived the transformation of the ghost with a very low success rate and could continue to live in this world as a ghost.

And the teacher also promised to reshape her body in the future.

By then, she can still sprint to the wizard again, and there may be hope for promotion.

Atil knew very well that under normal circumstances, the Star Alliance would not spend such a huge price for a wizard apprentice.

She was able to have such treatment thanks to the teacher and Lord Xingyun.

For this, she was very grateful to the two of them, and worked even harder to repay their kindness.

Not long after, Liz finished reading the documents and nodded slightly.

"Yes, the cultivation progress is very smooth. It seems that it should be possible to mine in more than ten years."

Liz looked up at Atil and ordered: "Start preparing now. The mining equipment and clay golems must be prepared in advance. When the ore vein is formed, all will be put into mining immediately."

The preheating of the sub-magic energy technology has been completed, and the effect is extremely good.

Whether in the civilian field or the military field, the sub-magic energy technology represented by the magic machine has been extremely popular and the feedback is excellent.

Now the entire Starlight Continent is like a volcano about to erupt. As long as there are enough secondary magic stones invested in it, it can be detonated immediately, allowing the sub-magic energy technology to usher in a gushing development.

Within a hundred years, the sub-magic energy technology will inevitably sweep the entire Starlight Continent and completely realize the transformation of productivity.

After that, the development of the Starlight Continent will inevitably reach a higher level.

And the Star Alliance will also have a broader space for development.

Atil wrote down Liz's instructions one by one, and planned to arrange them immediately after leaving the study.

Mining more than 30 large mineral veins at the same time requires a lot of mining equipment and clay golems, which must be prepared in advance.

It is related to the development of sub-magic technology, and no details can be ignored.

"There is one more thing." Liz suddenly changed the subject, "The Star Alliance is preparing to form a new puppet army, which requires a huge amount of materials."

New puppet army?

Atil was puzzled.

The Star Alliance now has two puppet armies.

One is the Star Alliance's regular golem army, including three large golem armies and four medium golem armies.

And this number is still increasing year by year, and it is expected that the fourth large golem army will be formed within ten years.

The other is the built-in golem army of the Starlight Wizard Tower.

The scale is only equivalent to the small golem army, but the combat effectiveness is stronger than the large golem army.

This golem army is usually only stationed in the wizard tower and is not easily dispatched.

To be honest, the Star Alliance is unlikely to encounter a large-scale war now. Two puppet legions are enough. Atil doesn't quite understand why a new puppet legion needs to be formed.

And when she got the list of the puppet legion, she was even more shocked.

Three hundred touch puppets and fifty secret puppets!

This number is too exaggerated!

Atil knows that both the touch puppets and the secret puppets have the combat power to fight against a first-level gasification wizard!

Why did they create so many wizard-level puppets at once?

The key is that the cost of forming a puppet legion with this lineup is absolutely astronomical.

Seeing Atil's doubts, Liz didn't intend to explain more.

When Sunan proposed to form this puppet legion, she immediately understood his purpose.

This is to prepare for the dark throne!

Only to deal with the dark throne, so many wizard-level puppets are needed.

"My lord, so many materials may not be gathered in a short time." Atil frowned and said.

Apart from other things, the material cost of fifty puppets alone exceeds 20 million gold coins.

The cost of the Touch Master puppet is relatively low, but the cost of three hundred puppets is more than 100 million gold coins.

If it were just this, it would not be a big deal. With the current income of the Star Alliance, even if only a quarter of the income is taken out every year, it will take more than 20 years to raise enough funds to form a puppet army.

The key is that many of the materials for refining Touch Master puppets and secret puppets are rare materials with extremely low production and high demand.

For example, mithril, it would take at least 40 to 50 years to raise enough mithril to refine fifty puppets.

Liz naturally understood this and waved her hand and said, "It doesn't matter. This is a long-term plan. As long as it is completed within 300 years, it will be fine."

Atil was relieved when he heard this.

That's fine. There is a lot more time.

"Anything else?" Liz asked.

Atil came back to his senses, nodded quickly, and said, "A Devil Tyrannosaurus Rex with signs of evolution was recently found among the high-level sub-dragon species in Dragon Forest Area 2. How should we deal with it?"

Lize raised her eyebrows, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.

She also knew about the Star Alliance's plan to increase the concentration of sub-dragon blood.

To be honest, she was not optimistic about this plan at first.

The power of the dragon race is well-known throughout the multiverse.

Raising dragons on a large scale is something that even a third-level wizard dare not think of.

The wizard who founded Longlin was a descendant of the True Spirit, and he had connections and resources to build Longlin.

It was a bit presumptuous for Sunan to want to reproduce the glory of Longlin as a second-level wizard.

In addition to this, another reason why Li Ze was not optimistic was the difficulty of increasing the blood concentration of sub-dragon species.

It might be possible to increase the blood concentration of a single sub-dragon species and make it evolve into a dragon with hard work.

But increasing the blood concentration of an entire sub-dragon species would be more than ten times more difficult.

Otherwise, if it could be done easily, those large wizard forces would have cultivated a group of dragons long ago.

The dragon race in Longlin was also captured from outside to breed and thrive, not cultivated by itself.

However, Li Ze's idea was soon broken.

She was then shocked to find that the blood concentration of the sub-dragon race in Area 2 was increasing at an incredibly fast speed. After careful investigation, she realized that the Star Alliance actually used dragon blood to increase the blood concentration of the sub-dragon race!

This can't even be described as luxury!

The key is that there is not a single giant dragon on the Starlight Continent. The remaining dragon blood basically comes from the inheritance of various wizards. It is a legacy of wizards thousands of years ago. The number is very small. How did Sunan find so much dragon blood?

Liz was puzzled.

However, after learning about this, her view on the plan to increase the blood concentration of the sub-dragon species has also changed.

Perhaps this plan really has hope of success.

And what Atil said at this time undoubtedly verified this point.

In just less than four hundred years, individuals on the verge of evolution appeared in the sub-dragon race. In another two or three hundred years, maybe a group of giant dragons can really be cultivated.

After thinking for a moment, Liz said, "Temporarily isolate the Devil Tyrannosaurus from the tribe, choose a secluded place to place it, and allocate 100 standard units of dragon blood from the warehouse to transform and strengthen it to speed up the evolution process."

After a pause, she added, "The transformation experiment is in the charge of the wizard and is issued in the form of a task."

"Yes." Atil immediately wrote it down.

Then, as if she thought of something, she frowned and asked, "My lord, if the Devil Tyrannosaurus evolves into a giant dragon, will it become difficult to control?"

Lize also looked thoughtful when she heard this.

Unlike the sub-dragon race, the pride of the giant dragon is innate and has penetrated into the bone marrow. They are difficult to be tamed, and they are unwilling to be tamed.

Once evolved into a giant dragon, the Devil Tyrannosaurus is indeed very likely to become resistant to the domestication of the Dragon Forest and thus rebel.

Although the Star Alliance has enough power to suppress this resistance, doing so is only a temporary solution and does not address the root cause, which is inconsistent with the original purpose of the plan.

What the Star Alliance hopes to do is to cultivate a group of giant dragons that can obey orders.

Liz had several methods to control the beasts, but they were unlikely to work on the dragons.

I wonder how the founder of Longlin solved this problem?

"Let's put this problem aside for now." Liz thought for a while and said, "I'll discuss it with him when Sunan comes out of retreat."

"Is the teacher going to break through again?" Atil looked surprised.

In her impression, the teacher would only go into retreat when he was about to break through or when he was going to do a long-term experiment.

"Yes." Liz also sighed.

Even though she had seen it many times, Sunan's terrifying speed of strength improvement was still difficult for her to understand.

It has only been more than two hundred years since he was promoted to a second-level wizard, and he is about to break through again.

You know, it took her more than 1,500 years to break through from the second-level gasification to the second-level liquefaction, which was already quite outstanding.

And Sunan estimated that he could break through to the second-level liquefaction in at most three hundred years.

In such a harsh environment in the Starlight Continent, it can only be described as a miracle that he can break through so quickly.

Coming out of the study, Atil reunited with the secret puppet holding the codex and teleported directly to the warehouse area.

The container she used to merge souls was a codex, just like Lord Xingyun.

It was made by her teacher himself, and all the spells from zero ring to two rings were recorded on it, which was convenient for her to use.

Arriving at the warehouse area, Atil began to count the materials used to refine high-level puppets, preparing to sort out a plan and hand it over to Lord Xingyun after returning.

She couldn't practice in the ghost form, so she had plenty of time to do these tasks.

When he came out of the warehouse area after finishing his work, Atil ran into Tajiana.

"Jana, what a coincidence."

"It's not a coincidence, I came here specially to find you."

The dark elf girl smiled faintly, and her silver eyes were as bright as gems.

Today, Tajiana has long been promoted to a wizard, and is the only alien wizard of a non-human race in the Star Alliance.

Thanks to this, her reputation in the Star Alliance is louder than many wizards.

"This is the Froststone I found by chance. I remember you said it would be very useful to you, so I thought of giving it to you."

Tajana handed over a light grey stone the size of an egg.

"Froststone!" Atil was surprised.

She had seen this kind of thing in books. It was a stone from the Frost River in the Shadow Realm, and it was a very precious negative energy material.

More importantly, this was one of the key materials for reshaping the body!

"Jana, where did you find the Frost Ghost Stone?" Atil asked with shining eyes.

Seeing Atil's importance, Tatjana didn't keep her in suspense and said truthfully:

"I found it in a cave near Bank City in the underground world. Later, I asked Teacher Qiangwei for advice and found out that it was Frost Ghost Stone."

Atil thought back and vaguely remembered that Bank City seemed to be on the edge of the southeast region, not far from the Spider City.

"Thank you for your information, Jana, you helped me a lot."

After coming back to his senses, Atil smiled and gently hugged Tatjana.

"I'm glad I can help you." Tatjana smiled and hugged her friend back.

After the sacrifice incident, the dark elves were basically useless, and she also cut off contact with her own people.

Although she enrolled in Starlight Academy later, because of her identity as a foreign race, it was difficult for her to truly integrate into the circle of people around her.

In the entire Star Alliance, the only person she could really talk to and call a friend was Atil.

Therefore, she cherished her friend Atil especially.

After parting with Tatiana, Atil immediately returned to the study and found Liz to report the matter.

"Frost Ghost Stone?"

After hearing Atil's report, Liz immediately looked serious.

As it was about reshaping her body, she also attached great importance to it.

After thinking for a moment, Liz quickly made up her mind.

"Send people to search around Bank City, focusing on investigating the cave where the Frost Ghost Stone was found, and report any findings to me immediately."

After Atil left, Liz stared at the Frost Ghost Stone on the table, with a thoughtful look on her face.

Was it revealed from a wizard's inheritance, or from the Shadow Realm?

If it was the former, then Tatiana's discovery of the Frost Ghost Stone was just an accident.

But if it was the latter, the meaning was different.

Although the Starlight Continent is still under blockade, the Shadow Realm is not a world with special properties like the Elemental Plane, so it is impossible to connect to the Starlight Continent.

But it is better to be safe than sorry. If this bottle of Frost Ghost Stone really comes from the Shadow World, it means that some existence brought it out of the Shadow World.

If this is true, it means that other creatures have invaded the Starlight Continent in advance.

This is undoubtedly something that needs to be taken seriously.

"If we really connect to the Shadow World, maybe we can take this opportunity to collect materials in advance."

Liz's eyes flickered slightly.

More than one-third of the materials for reshaping the body are negative energy materials.

And everyone knows that the Shadow World has the most negative energy resources, and many negative energy materials can be found in the Shadow World.

But whether this is true or not, we have to wait for investigation to know. (End of this chapter)