Chapter 224: An Endless Treasure Trove

Chapter 224: An Endless Treasure Trove

Year 1297 of the Starlight Era.

The Deep Sea Naga surrendered to the Star Alliance.

With this, the two most powerful sea races of the Rainbow Sea had now joined the Star Alliance.

From this point on, the development of the Rainbow Sea entered a period of rapid growth.

With Liz assisting in the management of the Star Alliance, Su Nan could finally focus on his cultivation and the construction of his Wizard Tower.

Thanks to the method of absorbing divine energy through the synthesis of elemental cores, Su Nan's mental condensation steadily increased.

The construction of his Wizard Tower also progressed slowly but steadily.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Year 1304 of the Starlight Era.

Koy finally reached the pinnacle of a Fourth Circle Legendary Knight, with no further room for advancement.

To reach the next level, he had two options: become a Bloodline Knight or an Elemental Knight.

Ultimately, Koy chose the Bloodline Knight path, as he had originally decided.

After careful consideration, he selected the Terrorsaurus bloodline for his fusion.

The Terrorsaurus is a sub-dragon species and ranks among the highest in the high-tier sub-dragons, with a bloodline concentration exceeding 85%.

Even in the Dragon Forest, the Terrorsaurus is one of the most powerful sub-dragon species.

Especially after the implementation of the High-Tier Sub-Dragon Bloodline Enhancement Program, the bloodline concentration of the high-tier sub-dragons in the Dragon Forest had increased to varying degrees.

While the Terrorsaurus, due to its already high bloodline concentration, did not see as significant an increase as other high-tier sub-dragons, it still saw a general improvement of 3% to 5%.

The most powerful Terrorsaurus in the Dragon Forest has a bloodline concentration of 91.27%.

The bloodline Koy was about to fuse came from this very Terrorsaurus.

For Su Nan, the transformation surgery for a Bloodline Knight was not particularly challenging.

After three days in the laboratory, Koy emerged as a Bloodline Knight.

On the training ground, the whistling sound of his blade slicing through the air was constant.

Visible shockwaves rippled out, stirring up dust and debris from the surrounding ground.

After a while, Koy finally stopped his sword practice, still feeling unsatisfied as he stepped down from the training ground.

"How does it feel?" Su Nan asked.

"Great, absolutely great!" Koy's face was filled with excitement. "I feel an overwhelming surge of power, and my physical constitution has significantly improved!"

Su Nan smiled and said, "The Terrorsaurus is renowned for its physical strength among the high-tier sub-dragons. Fusing its bloodline has clearly enhanced your constitution."

"Additionally, your resistance to energy and your control over fire elemental particles should have improved significantly. However, the latter will still fall far short of a Fire Elemental Knight's capabilities."

Koy chuckled, "That's more than enough. I was primarily aiming to extend my lifespan, and the increase in strength is just a bonus."

"By the way, can this bloodline ability be passed on to my descendants?"

Su Nan shook his head. "No, at best, it can slightly optimize their genes, making their innate constitution a bit stronger."

Whether it's a Bloodline Knight or a Wizard Apprentice fusing a bloodline, it's not a perfect fusion and cannot be inherited by descendants.

A truly perfect bloodline fusion requires a wizard to continuously develop and activate bloodline abilities after the fusion, enhancing them to match or even surpass the original bloodline source.

Only when the bloodline reaches this level does it become an inseparable part of the genes, allowing it to be passed down through reproduction.

Thus, the founder of every powerful bloodline wizard family was inevitably an outstanding individual!

Hearing this, Koy felt somewhat disappointed.

However, any optimization of genes was still a positive outcome.

The genes of a family improve gradually over generations. Expecting a sudden leap in one generation was nothing but a delusion.

Thinking about this, Koy couldn't help but sigh.

Just two days ago, one of his twelve-year-old sons underwent a talent assessment, but he failed once again.

So far, over a dozen of his children had been tested, and not one had shown the necessary qualifications to become a wizard, causing him great distress.

Could the wizard genes of the Yanesst family be so poor?

But that didn't make sense, considering that Su Nan, the only wizard on the continent, was also a member of the Yanesst family.

Could it be that his own wizard genes were just too weak?

"Thinking about the talent assessments again?" Su Nan patted Koy's shoulder. "You can't force these things."

Su Nan had a good idea of what Koy was thinking.

Strictly speaking, 'Su Nan Yanesst' himself had no wizard qualifications. Otherwise, his predecessor wouldn't have died from forcing himself to read enlightenment books, allowing Su Nan to take over.

Thanks to the synthesis cube, Su Nan was able to ascend to the rank of a wizard. The Yanest family's magical genes were neither particularly strong nor weak, just average like most families. In fact, up until now, no family other than the Russell family has had two wizard apprentices simultaneously.

Perhaps a thousand years ago, there were many wizard families, but after a millennium of erosion, their magical genes had diminished, turning them into ordinary people. Even the Russell family, which managed to endure to this day, did so not only by actively marrying wizard apprentices from outside but also through some unknown means.

According to Su Nan's knowledge, the Russell family began practicing consanguineous marriages around seven hundred years ago. However, with the current surge in the number of wizard apprentices, it's possible that in a few hundred years, the Starlight Continent might see the emergence of a second or third wizard family like the Russell family.

Time flew by, and two months passed in the blink of an eye.

In the potion laboratory, the bubbling of the liquid was a constant sound. Su Nan used the Mage's Hand to add the final ingredient to the liquid, which turned a deep, starry blue like ink, gradually stopping its boil. He removed the glass vial from the flame and released a burst of ice energy particles, rapidly cooling the liquid to room temperature before pouring it into a potion bottle.

With that, the potion was complete. Su Nan placed it into the synthesis cube, and a message immediately appeared on the synthesis interface.

[Secondary Construct Potion (2nd Tier/High Quality)] - Consuming this potion increases mental activity and accelerates the formation of talent crystals. The duration depends on the potency of the potion. Effects do not stack. The user's mental energy must be at least 60 points.

"Success!"

A joyful smile spread across Su Nan's face. After all the time and effort, he had finally managed to create a weakened version of the construct potion. With this, he could synthesize a potion with effects comparable to the original.

Regaining his composure, Su Nan quickly produced several dozen more Secondary Construct Potions and placed them one by one into the synthesis cube, soon obtaining a High-Quality 3rd Tier Construct Potion.

"The best Construct Potions in the Starlight Tower are only of medium quality, and most are low quality. In terms of effectiveness, the potion I have here is at least thirty percent better."

Su Nan estimated that the cost of producing this potion was around 122,000 gold coins. To be honest, this cost was already far higher than the cost of manually producing a Construct Potion. However, in the current environment, having it at all was a significant advantage. At least, considering the importance of Construct Potions, this cost was still within an acceptable range.

"For an ordinary Intermediate Talent Crystal Model, three High-Quality 3rd Tier Construct Potions are sufficient, which comes to just under 370,000 gold coins."

Any 3rd Tier Wizard Apprentice who meets the standard for constructing a talent crystal can easily earn 370,000 gold coins, but most of the time, they can't even buy Construct Potions no matter how much money they have.

"Having a method to synthesize Construct Potions means the Star Alliance can start training wizards."

Looking at the deep blue potion in the vial, Su Nan's face broke into a satisfied smile. A competent wizard faction must have the ability to produce Construct Potions. Otherwise, they can't even train wizards, let alone grow and expand.

Without Construct Potions, the difficulty for a 3rd Tier Wizard Apprentice to advance to a wizard would at least double, if not triple.

Those who can advance to a wizard without using Construct Potions are either true geniuses or incredibly lucky individuals who have obtained rare resources that accelerate the formation of talent crystals.

Putting away the Construct Potion, Su Nan summoned his personal interface.

[Su Nan Yanest, Male/1st Tier Wizard]



[Liquefaction: 50.93%]



[Skills]



Celestial Ring Meditation Lv19 (MAX)



Potion Making Lv5 (6231/20000)



Biological Modification Lv5 (2933/20000)



Puppet Crafting Lv5 (13173/20000)



Magic Item Crafting Lv4 (9509/10000)



"Based on my current progress, I should be able to break through to 1st Tier Crystalization in about twenty-five to twenty-six years."

"I have the Construct Potion, but I still need the talent crystal model."

The research for the second talent crystal model was ongoing and progressing smoothly. After returning from Falling Star City, Su Nan had obtained all the talent crystal models from the Starfall Society from Liz. Besides the Superior Talent Crystal Model for Falling Star, there were four Intermediate and sixteen Low-Quality models, which provided him with a lot of inspiration.

By the time Su Nan reaches the first level of Crystallization, he will have more than enough time to complete his research.

Admitting it, bringing Lize back as an assistant was a remarkably wise decision.

After quickly getting up to speed with the Star Alliance’s affairs, Lize soon settled into her role, managing the organization with precision and efficiency.

More importantly, her knowledge has helped Su Nan solve numerous problems.

For instance, the design for the Tentacle Lord Puppet resolved the issue of creating high-tier puppets for the Wizard Tower’s internal golem army.

After studying the Tentacle Lord Puppet design, Su Nan decided to use Adamantine Golems as the main force, supplemented by a small number of Tentacle Lord Puppets and secret puppets to form the Wizard Tower’s internal golem army.

The only problem is that some of the materials required for the Tentacle Lord Puppets are unavailable on the current Starlight Continent, necessitating the development of suitable alternatives.

However, this is still easier than starting from scratch to create a new wizard-level puppet.

Another issue is the production of Soul Crystals.

During the development of the Rainbow Sea—primarily through battles with Siren Mermaids and Deepwater Nagas—the Star Alliance acquired a significant number of Soul Crystals, greatly alleviating the shortage of Soul Crystals.

However, with the subsequent surrender of the Siren Mermaids and Deepwater Nagas, the question of how to produce more Soul Crystals became a pressing concern.

Fortunately, Lize had a solution for this.

Wizards discovered that during the process of necromantic transformation, the strange energy formed by the fusion of death and life energies triggers a chain reaction that connects to the spirits of this world.

These spirits emerge from spatial rifts, vying to possess bodies and revive.

Inspired by this, some wizards began using necromantic transformation to lure large numbers of spirits, then used gemstones to absorb these spirits and create numerous Soul Crystals.

This method of producing Soul Crystals is relatively inexpensive, requiring only a small amount of gemstones, gold, and silver to set up the necromantic transformation array, and even a third-level Wizard Apprentice can perform it, making it quite convenient.

The only drawback is that the quality of the spirits attracted by this method is not high, allowing the creation of only micro and small Soul Crystals.

However, this is not a problem for Su Nan.

He only needs micro Soul Crystals, and the other grades can be synthesized.

In a practical test, Su Nan successfully used the lured spirits to create over a dozen micro Soul Crystals. He immediately promoted this method within the Starlight Academy, offering micro Soul Crystals as rewards for tasks, thus completely resolving the Star Alliance’s Soul Crystal shortage.

Additionally, Lize has mastered the construction of teleportation arrays.

Although these arrays can only teleport distances of up to a thousand kilometers, they are incredibly valuable, significantly improving the Star Alliance’s transportation capabilities.

Previously, the Star Alliance relied on Dragon Grove’s spatial tunnels for long-distance transportation.

However, as the Star Alliance’s territory expanded and the number of spatial tunnels increased, the burden on Dragon Grove, which served as a transit hub, became increasingly heavy.

Especially after unifying the Starlight Continent, at its peak, over five hundred city-states used Dragon Grove as a transit hub for transporting goods in a single day, severely affecting Dragon Grove’s normal operations.

Carolina had raised this issue with Su Nan long ago.

At the time, Su Nan had no good solution, but Lize’s arrival changed everything.

The appearance of teleportation arrays was like a timely rain.

In the second year of Lize managing the Star Alliance in Su Nan’s place, the plan to build a teleportation network began to be implemented across the Starlight Continent.

Although the progress of this plan was slow due to a lack of manpower, Su Nan was very optimistic about its future.

Once the teleportation network is fully established, the Star Alliance’s transportation capabilities will undoubtedly see a qualitative leap.

If they can continue to increase the number and density of teleportation arrays and find ways to reduce their usage costs, making them accessible to ordinary people, it will undoubtedly greatly promote economic development.

Transportation is the lifeblood of the economy and the link of civilization.

Well-developed and convenient transportation conditions can significantly boost commercial and trade prosperity, increasing the frequency and scale of economic activities, thereby driving rapid economic growth.

The importance of the teleportation network to the development of the Starlight Continent is on par with sub-magical technology.

In Su Nan’s eyes, Lize is like an inexhaustible treasure trove, each time uncovering knowledge of immense value.

He eagerly anticipates the further transformations Lize will bring to the Star Alliance, making it even more powerful.

(End of Chapter)

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