Chapter 313: A Comprehensive Approach

Chapter 313: A Comprehensive Approach

December 22, 2024

The laboratory was brightly lit, with a massive golem occupying a large workbench. Xie Man, with utmost concentration, manipulated the Wizard's Hand, carefully inscribing runes onto the golem's body.

After more than half an hour, he finally completed the last rune.

As the rune took shape, a faint glow flashed across the golem's body, and a fresh, lifelike aura appeared out of thin air.

Xie Man breathed a sigh of relief, took out a soul crystal, and inserted it into the central recess in the golem's chest. With a click, the soul crystal sank into the golem's body, perfectly fitting into place.

Buzz!

The golem came to life, sat up, jumped off the workbench, and landed with a thud, emitting a dull mechanical sound from its mouth.

"Awaiting your command."

"Go stand over there and enter standby mode."

Xie Man pointed to a corner of the laboratory, where more than ten Shadow Steel Automatons were already lined up.

"Command received."

The Shadow Steel Automaton took heavy steps towards the corner and joined the others.

Looking at the row of automatons, a satisfied smile appeared on Xie Man's face.

The Star Alliance is currently exploring new planes, and as soon as the exploration team returns with information, they will select a new plane to develop. Therefore, the time is ripe for expanding military power with golems, and the acquisition price for automatons is also rising.

This batch of Shadow Steel Automatons is enough to exchange for a substantial amount of contribution points.

If used to exchange for Divine Energy Crystals, it would be enough for him to break through to Tier Two Crystalization.

Although he is already a Tier Two Liquidized Sorcerer, his strength ranks among the top twenty in the entire Star Alliance. Xie Man still diligently earns contribution points.

This is the daily routine of all Star Alliance sorcerers.

Even powerful sorcerers like Quanzhang, Qianwei, and Fajia Duo, who are Tier Two Crystalized Wizards, have to work hard for contribution points.

However, everyone is happy to do so.

Compared to sorcerers from other factions, the Star Alliance sorcerers are indeed very fortunate.

After all, other sorcerer factions do not have an abundance of Divine Energy Crystals and Elemental Crystal Cores for exchange.

As long as Star Alliance sorcerers work hard enough, they can exchange for a large number of cultivation resources, and their strength will increase at an astonishing rate.

This kind of treatment is not available even in large sorcerer factions like the Codex of Wisdom and the Deep Blue Alliance.

After leaving the laboratory, Xie Man rushed to the Logistics Department and turned in all the Shadow Steel Automatons he had recently crafted. He exchanged all the contribution points he received for Divine Energy Crystals and then left contentedly.

Next, he did not go to the cultivation room but headed towards the City of the Ethereal Lake.

After they each advanced to Tier Two Wizards, Xie Man, Attila, Kaili, Tagana, Isan, and Feiliming became even busier. Some secluded themselves for cultivation, some conducted experiments, and some went out to explore, each with their own tasks.

With the Star Alliance's territory rapidly expanding, the group was scattered across various planes, rarely able to gather together.

It wasn't until a few hundred years ago that they made a pact to meet once every twenty years, catching up and exchanging intelligence at the same time.

And today was the day of their gathering, held once every twenty years.

When Xie Man arrived at the gathering hall, the others were already there.

"Sorry, I went to the Logistics Department and was delayed for some time." Xie Man apologized.

"It's okay." Attila smiled gently, "We just arrived too."

After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone started chatting casually.

As expected, the first topic was the recent news that had been spreading like wildfire throughout the Star Alliance and the entire sorcerer world.

"I heard that Master Su Nan has advanced to a True Spirit Sorcerer. Is that true?"

"Yes, I just came back from Master Leze. My teacher has indeed advanced to a True Spirit Sorcerer."

The speaker was Attila.

Having served as Leze's assistant, her words carried a high degree of credibility.

In fact, everyone present understood that the news, having spread, should not be questioned for its authenticity.

But when they received confirmation from Attila, they couldn't help but feel astonished and reverent.

"Master Su Nan's rate of strength improvement is still as exaggerated as ever!"

"Indeed, as far as I know, those True Spirit descendants who took more than five thousand years to advance from Tier Three Crystalization to True Spirit Sorcerer, and they can't compare to Master Su Nan."

"This also pushes the Star Alliance into the ranks of second-rate sorcerer factions."

"Not just that, the Star Alliance is not far behind Thousandbird."

Everyone's faces were filled with smiles, and even the usually cold and solemn Kaili had a faint smile on her lips.

The stronger the Star Alliance became, the harsh cold winters and hot summers, and they would benefit from it.

After expressing their amazement, Xie Man suddenly turned to Kaili and asked, "Kaili, you participated in the plane exploration, how did it go?"

Everyone looked at Kaili.

Most of those who participated in plane exploration were Tier One Wizards, with very few Tier Two Wizards, and Kaili was the only one present who had joined the expedition.

As it concerned the expansion of the Star Alliance's territory, they were both curious and eager to know.

"The exploration is almost complete."

Kaili didn't keep them waiting, giving a concise account of the exploration results.

"This time, we explored fourteen unknown planes, six of which had extremely harsh environments and extremely scarce resources, basically of no value. Master Leze has already decided to abandon these six planes."

"Among the remaining eight planes, five have relatively scarce resources but suitable environments, with numerous ley line nodes, which can be used to develop secondary magic stone veins."

In the multiverse, there are countless planes, but only a small fraction has real value.

Most planes not only have scarce resources but also extremely harsh environments, making it impossible for life to survive, and they are considered worthless abandoned planes with no development value.

Among the planes explored by the Star Alliance, only six were abandoned, which was already considered quite lucky.

Xie Man and the others understood this, and their eyes lit up at Kaili's words.

But Kaili's next words made them even happier.

"The other three planes have relatively abundant resources and suitable environments for life. Although they are not human planes, they have the potential to be transformed into human planes."

Valuable planes are few and far between, and human planes are even rarer.

Finding human planes in a single exploration is already a low probability.

Finding three planes with the potential to be transformed into human planes is already very lucky.

Xie Man smiled and said, "Not long ago, Master Leze ordered the transformation of the Jake Plane and the Bear Eye Plane. If we add these three planes, once they are all transformed, the Star Alliance will have a surge in human planes, making it unique among second-rate sorcerer factions."

"Indeed.

Attila nodded in agreement, "But I heard from Leze that the teacher is planning to build a Floating City, which will require a significant portion of the Star Alliance's manpower and resources. Before the modifications to the Jake and Bear Eye Planes are completed, it's unlikely that they'll have the capacity to simultaneously transform other planes."

Transforming planes into Human Planes is an exceptionally time-consuming and resource-intensive endeavor without exception.

Even the Thousandbird, with its immense power, can only manage to transform two planes simultaneously.

The Star Alliance, supported by its financial lifeline of Synthetic Mana Stones, is able to simultaneously modify two planes and still have the resources to initiate the construction of the Floating City.

"A Floating City?" Tagana's eyes lit up slightly.

The others also showed signs of pleasant surprise.

The Floating City is the pinnacle of strategic weaponry in the Sorcerer Realm, and once it's successfully built, the Star Alliance's combat strength will immediately rise to a new level.

Moreover, the Floating City itself is an ultra-large-scale interstellar fortress capable of sustaining a population of millions. It boasts numerous high-end laboratories, cultivation chambers, workshops, and more, essentially a super-sized version of a Sorcerer Tower.

This will greatly facilitate their experiments, manufacturing, and cultivation.

It's worth noting that even today, the cultivation chambers in the Starlight Wizard Tower remain one of the Star Alliance's popular exchange projects.

Needless to say, the cultivation chambers in the Floating City will undoubtedly surpass those in the Starlight Wizard Tower!

"Speaking of which, has your Sorcerer Tower been upgraded?" Attila asked, turning to Xie Man.

The latter smiled slightly and nodded, "It was completed not long ago."

Feiliming's face showed a trace of envy, and he sighed, "Those who are skilled in puppet crafting indeed earn contribution points at a rapid pace."

Xie Man chuckled and glanced at Kaili, "Kaili is far better than me in this regard."

He was skilled in both potion-making and puppet crafting, but due to his focus on both aspects, his energy was divided, and his expertise in either field couldn't be considered exceptionally high.

At the very least, in the area of puppet crafting, he was not as proficient as Kaili, who specialized in it.

The others looked at Xie Man and Kaili with a hint of envy in their eyes.

Among those present, only Xie Man and Kaili's Sorcerer Towers had reached the large-scale level, and many of their core facilities were of a higher standard.

They were like wealthy individuals compared to the others.

While Xie Man and the others were chatting, in another hall, Qianwei, Quanzhang, Fajia duo, and Tulio were also engaged in conversation.

Unlike Xie Man, Attila, and the others who had graduated from the academy, this group had joined the Star Alliance later in their careers, making them relative newcomers.

Despite this, their sense of belonging to the Star Alliance was no less strong.

After all, it was highly unlikely to find another wizard faction in the entire multiverse that could provide its wizards with such abundant cultivation resources as the Star Alliance did.

Admittedly, major wizard factions like the Codex of Wisdom and the Deep Sea Alliance possessed even more resources, but they also had more wizards, resulting in a significantly smaller allocation per person, and the competition was fierce.

Unlike the Star Alliance, where many cultivation resources could be exchanged almost limitlessly with sufficient contribution points.

They didn't have to worry about resource shortages.

The only constraints on their strength improvement were their innate talents and time.

On the other hand, precisely because they had joined later, their abilities were already significantly stronger than those of the academy graduates, with nearly everyone having reached the Second Stage.

Among them, the outstanding ones like Fajia duo, Quanzhang, and Tulio had even attained the Second Stage Crystalized level.

With the construction of just one more Talent Crystal, they could advance to the Third Stage.

"Over the years, the Star Alliance has acquired over two hundred types of Talent Crystal models from various sources, including seven Higher Tier models. But the ones I'm most interested in are still those three Top Tier models."

Quanzhang's voice echoed through the hall, garnering numerous nods of agreement.

The Top Tier Talent Crystal models refer to the models created based on the Talent Crystals constructed by Su Nan, namely 【Liquid Metal】, 【Absolute Forbidden Zone】, and 【Falling Star Shower】, but with reduced power.

Although these are weaker versions, they are still a level above the regular Higher Tier Talent Crystal models and are thus named Top Tier by the Star Alliance.

All three Top Tier Talent Crystal models are available for exchange by all wizards in the Star Alliance, requiring a relatively small amount of contribution points. However, in reality, very few wizards have actually exchanged them.

This is because the construction of Higher Tier Talent Crystals is exceptionally challenging, and the final step of filling them with spiritual power is extremely time-consuming.

A slight mistake could easily lead to a missed opportunity for advancement due to the end of one's lifespan.

Therefore, very few wizards dare to choose the Top Tier Talent Crystal models.

Even exceptional wizards like Quanzhang and Fajia duo only dare to choose the Top Tier models when rushing for the Third Stage.

This is because the Star Alliance has been providing Divine Energy Crystals and Elemental Crystal Cores in recent years, significantly shortening the time required for Second Stage wizards to liquidize and crystallize their spiritual power, ensuring they have sufficient lifespan to construct the Top Tier models.

"The Top Tier Talent Crystal models are too challenging. I'll stick with the Higher Tier ones."

"I agree. I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I don't have that kind of talent."

"If even the Top Tier models are this difficult, the real 【Liquid Metal】, 【Absolute Forbidden Zone】, and 【Falling Star Shower】 must be even more astonishing. I wonder how Su Nan managed to achieve that?"

"Su Nan is a genius who became a True Spirit Sorcerer in just three thousand years. How can we compare to him?"

"Indeed, a wizard genius like Su Nan is one of a kind in the entire multiverse."

As the others chatted, a hint of distraction flashed in Qianwei's eyes.

She recalled when Su Nan had first joined the Forest Cottage, and they were all wizard apprentices.

Now, years later, she had become a Second Stage wizard, striving for the Third Stage, while Su Nan had already advanced to the True Spirit Sorcerer, entering a realm that countless wizards yearned for.

Su Nan's innate talent and qualities had far surpassed her understanding.

It was like this in the past, and it remained so in the present.

Qianwei was lost in thought when Quanzhang suddenly interrupted her.

"Speaking of which, which Talent Crystal model did you choose?"

Qianwei pursed her lips and said, "My talent isn't as good as yours or Fajia duo's. I didn't have the confidence to choose the Top Tier model, so I picked the Higher Tier 【Absolute Forbidden Zone】."

The three Talent Crystal models, from Lower Tier to Higher Tier, are known for their versatility.

"Speaking of Su Nan, wasn't he out of the Starlight Wizard Tower recently? Why didn't I see him there?" Fajia duo suddenly asked.

Qianwei replied, "I heard from Leze that Su Nan went to visit Mai Ya at the Codex of Wisdom regarding the Realm of Truth."

(End of Chapter)

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