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Chapter 71: A Level One Summoning to Aid in Surgery
Chapter 71: A Level One Summoning to Aid in Surgery
The Puppet Factory was filled with a low, continuous rumble.
The massive mana crystal forge hummed and shook violently, the tightly sealed lid leaking intense orange light from its seams.
The entire factory was suffused with a scorching heat, an environment even a novice knight couldn't endure for long.
Yet, Su Nan stood calmly at his workbench, completely unfazed.
On the large workbench lay the completed steel golem's body, its black metal surface etched with intricate enchantment patterns.
As Su Nan inserted the soul crystal into the recess in the golem's chest, a silvery glow rapidly spread along the enchantment lines, flowing like a river of light over the entire body.
In the next moment, the steel golem abruptly sat up, leapt off the workbench, and landed with a thud, standing tall and straight before Su Nan.
Surveying the powerful form of the steel golem, Su Nan nodded in satisfaction.
"A steel golem crafted from blackstone iron is indeed a cut above ordinary steel."
"Even against Hodgson, this steel golem is more than capable of winning."
A well-crafted steel golem, in addition to being virtually indestructible and possessing immense strength, also boasts dark vision, immunity to all mind-affecting effects, and resistance to toxins, sleep, paralysis, confusion, and suffocation. It fears no pain and knows no death.
It also has high resistance to most elemental damage effects, such as the burns from fire, the paralysis from lightning, the curses of darkness, and the corruption of shadows.
Truly a formidable combat behemoth!
Even in the wizard towers of fully-fledged wizards, a steel golem would rank among the mid-to-high-tier guardians.
For Su Nan's base, which was just beginning to take shape, it would more than suffice as the ultimate guardian.
As for higher-tier golems, he lacked the appropriate soul crystals, and his current Puppet Crafting level was insufficient.
"Steel golems are indeed excellent guardians, but the key materials are hard to come by."
In addition to the metal used for the body, the steel golem required silver, gold, and crystal for the enchantment runes.
All in all, the total cost approached eight hundred gold coins, not including the value of the soul crystal.
If the soul crystal were factored in, the cost of a steel golem would easily exceed a thousand gold coins.
"I don't have a second soul crystal at the moment, so I can't craft another steel golem in the short term."
"Perhaps I could try using gems as the soul core to create a lower-performance, stripped-down version of the steel golem, and then synthesize them?"
A spark of inspiration flashed in Su Nan's mind.
If this worked, he could craft steel golems even without soul crystals.
However, this method would require a significant amount of blackstone iron.
"Or I could try synthesizing the soul core made from gems to see if it can replace the soul crystal."
"Regardless, it's worth a try. I'll add it to my to-do list."
Su Nan added this plan to his schedule, a detailed list of his daily tasks.
Meditation, potion-making, crafting black rock leopards and golems, cultivating magical plants, blood transfusions for the Hidden Dragon, and manufacturing enchanted weapons—his days were packed to the brim.
Fortunately, wizards could meditate instead of sleeping, so he managed to keep up with his workload.
"Thankfully, the three young apprentices are almost ready. In a few days, I'll have them move into the base. They can handle simpler tasks like cultivating magical plants and extracting Moonlight Flowers, which will free up my time to craft magical items."
Due to his busy schedule, the plan to create Glittering-tier magical items had yet to be implemented.
"Speaking of which, the materials I commissioned the Fire Fox Guild to procure should be arriving soon."
Notably, the reason his schedule didn't include spell learning was that over the past six months, Su Nan had already mastered all the first-level spells he could learn.
Including Disguise Magic, Prismatic Aura, Feather Fall, First-Level Monster Summoning, Silent Phantom, and Comprehend Languages.
So far, he had mastered a total of twelve first-level spells.
For a second-level wizard apprentice who had only advanced to this rank less than two years ago, this number of spells was truly astounding.
However, after that, Su Nan no longer had any more first-level spells at his disposal.
Although the Fire Fox Guild had been collecting various books for him as per his request, the number of spellbooks among them was minimal, and most of the spells they contained were cantrips.
Over half of the first-level spells Su Nan now knew came from the spellbooks left behind by his master, Amy.
"Indeed, getting rich and powerful still relies on a wizard's lineage."
Su Nan thought of the Tower of Abundant Stars, one of the three major wizard lineages on the Starlight Continent.
He wondered where the Tower of Abundant Stars might be located.
"Come to think of it, both the Tower of Abundant Stars and the Principality of Abundant Stars have 'abundant stars' in their names. Could there be a connection between them?"
After a moment of thought, he shook his head and stopped dwelling on it, instead focusing on another issue.
"The base is too large. Even with three apprentices joining, many areas still lack manpower. I need to find more helpers."
Su Nan had already thought about a solution to this problem.
It was closely related to the two new first-level spells he had recently mastered: First-Level Monster Summoning and Comprehend Languages.
First-Level Monster Summoning is also known among wizards as First-Level Summoning Aid.
Many wizards use this spell to summon creatures from other planes to assist them with experiments or to help manage their bases.
After all, summoning creatures from other planes is far more efficient than spending a lot of time and energy training apprentices.
However, this method is not without its challenges.
Firstly, the target of First-Level Monster Summoning is uncertain.
There are countless types of extraplanar creatures, and the vast majority do not meet a wizard's requirements.
To summon a suitable creature, one would need to try hundreds or even thousands of times.
Secondly, there is the issue of communication.
During the spell's duration, the caster can communicate with the summoned creature through telepathic contact, so communication is not a problem.
However, if the creature is to stay, communication becomes a necessary issue to resolve.
Fortunately, this can be easily addressed with Comprehend Languages.
With this spell, communicating with extraplanar creatures is no longer an issue.
In the future, he could even create a magical item that provides a constant Comprehend Languages effect, which could be given to the summoned creatures, eliminating any communication barriers.
Finally, there is the issue of contracts.
The prerequisite for turning an extraplanar creature into a helper is ensuring it will not betray the wizard.
In other words, ensuring its loyalty.
Therefore, signing a contract becomes the only option.
Even if it is not a blood contract that enforces slavery, at the very least, it should be a sworn contract of cooperation.
Persuading (or coercing) extraplanar creatures to sign such contracts is a crucial consideration for wizards.
Of course, if one is ruthless enough, they can use violence to force extraplanar creatures to sign blood contracts.
Some wizards have even used this spell to summon extraplanar creatures as experimental subjects, earning First-Level Monster Summoning the additional nickname of First-Level Resource Summoning.
However, the drawbacks of such actions are clear. Under the influence of the extraplanar summoning laws, these wizards will rarely have extraplanar creatures respond to their summoning in the future.
"I still have the magic coins, which can also summon extraplanar creatures. I can use them alongside First-Level Monster Summoning."
"I hope I can summon some useful helpers."
Su Nan added another task to his daily schedule.
(End of Chapter)
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