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Chapter 74: Synthesizing the Glowing Level
Chapter 74: Synthesizing the Glowing Level
The magic stone lamp emitted a warm glow, illuminating the entire workshop as if it were broad daylight.
After successfully synthesizing the magic stone, Su Nan immediately replaced all the lighting fixtures in the base with magic stone lamps.
Compared to torches and oil lamps, the light from magic stone lamps was much more stable and brighter.
They also had low energy consumption, with a single magic stone able to power a lamp for over half a year.
Similarly, the alcohol lamps used for potion-making were replaced with more precise, magic stone-powered burning lamps.
Thanks to this, Su Nan's success rate in potion-making increased by several percentage points.
Under the bright light, Su Nan examined the ring in his palm with focused attention, a delighted smile on his face.
As soon as the materials he had commissioned the Firefox Guild to procure arrived, he began manufacturing magic items.
The first item he chose was a spatial magic item.
Following his plan, Su Nan created seven alchemical-level spatial rings and then placed them all into the cube, successfully synthesizing a Glowing-level spatial ring.
[Spatial Ring (Glowing Level/Low Magic Item), contains 5 cubic meters of storage space. Objects placed inside are unaffected by the passage of time and cannot be living organisms.]
Alchemical-level spatial rings only had a 0.5 cubic meter capacity and lacked the effect of pausing time. However, after synthesizing the Glowing-level spatial ring, the storage space increased tenfold, and it gained the ability to pause time, making it significantly more powerful than the alchemical-level version.
"From now on, I won't have to constantly take things in and out of the cube."
Su Nan put the spatial ring on his finger and nodded in satisfaction.
"Next, I need to create Glowing-level offensive and defensive magic items."
Defensive magic items were easy to choose; the Comprehensive Guide to Low Magic Items provided the method for making defensive rings. Su Nan could follow the instructions, create several, and then synthesize them.
For offensive magic items, after much consideration, Su Nan chose an alchemical-level magic item called the Ice Burst Necklace.
Its effect was to unleash a freezing shockwave centered on the user, dealing ice damage to a ten-meter radius and applying a frost slow effect.
It was both damaging and useful for crowd control!
A two-for-one deal!
However, unlike spatial rings, where functionality was enough, offensive and defensive magic items were better the more powerful they were.
So Su Nan planned to create more and synthesize them to achieve higher-powered Glowing-level magic items.
He intended to stop just short of the threshold where they would become Wizard Tools, as those required the mental energy of a formal Wizard to operate.
"This will require a significant number of items to synthesize."
Su Nan took a deep breath, focused his mind, and resumed manufacturing magic items.
Year 1251 of the Starlight Calendar.
The New Year's celebration had only just ended a few days ago when the first batch of Dragon Blood Fruits ripened.
Su Nan immediately gathered a group of guards and had them consume the fruits to test their effects.
The results were quite satisfactory.
The Dragon Blood Fruits' effect on enhancing physical attributes was roughly one-third that of a Low-grade Dragon Blood Potion.
This was already a significant improvement.
After all, Flash City currently produced fewer than twenty Low-grade Dragon Blood Potions per month, while Dragon Blood Fruits could yield over a thousand in just three months, equivalent to over a hundred bottles of Low-grade Dragon Blood Potion per month.
The production had increased by more than five times!
This output was sufficient to supply the current army of Flash City.
Even if Flash City expanded its army in the future, it wouldn't be a problem, as the production of Dragon Blood Fruits could continue to grow with increased cultivation.
However, the key was having enough apprentices to tend to the cultivation.
This would take time to resolve.
While the Level 1 Summon Monster Spell could increase the number of helpers, it was too unreliable.
Su Nan had tried it seven or eight hundred times before finally summoning someone suitable like Geri.
Relying on this method to find enough helpers would also take a considerable amount of time.
"The crucial part is to get them to stay."
Geri was an immortal race, and her long life had given her ample time and interest to experience everything that piqued her curiosity.
When Su Nan summoned her and offered her the position of warehouse manager at the base, she showed great interest and readily agreed without much hesitation.
Her requested pay was also modest—three magic stones per month.
According to Geri, witnessing the growth of a group of young wizard apprentices was quite an intriguing experience.
Su Nan guessed that the term "young wizard apprentices" not only included Xeman and the other two but likely included him as well.
Apart from the Dragon Blood Fruits, the cultivation of the Silver Moon Flowers was also going well.
Because they were planted early, the Silver Moon Flowers had already been harvested twice.
The improved Silver Moon Flowers yielded a much higher quality essence, significantly reducing the cost of synthesizing super energy potions.
This was why Su Nan had extra secondary active potions to provide to the three students.
After the three young apprentices took on the tasks of tending to the magical plants and extracting the essence from the Silver Moon Flowers, Su Nan found himself with much more free time to focus on other tasks.
Notably, all three apprentices had recently successfully constructed their first Star Ring.
The fastest was Xeman, who only took seven months.
A large part of this success was due to the secondary active potions.
When Su Nan first started practicing the Star Ring Meditation Technique, he only had the essence of Silver Moon Flowers, which was far less effective than the secondary active potions.
In comparison, the three apprentices were undoubtedly more fortunate, as they had potion assistance from the very beginning of their cultivation.
However, even in those conditions, Su Nan had only taken six months to construct his first Star Ring.
From this, it was clear that the three apprentices' aptitude was inferior to his.
The second to construct a Star Ring was Cole, who took nearly eight months, about a week slower than Xeman.
The last was Arthor, who took around nine months.
After successfully constructing their first Star Ring, the three apprentices were now learning Zero-Ring Spells.
However, Su Nan estimated that it might take them a good six to nine months to master their first spell, even with the help of the secondary active potions.
After all, they didn't have any shortcuts like a player interface to speed up their spell mastery.
Thinking of the interface, Su Nan opened it for a quick look.
The Star Ring Meditation Technique was now at Level 9, with eight Star Rings constructed, one short of completion.
As he had guessed, the experience required to level up the Star Ring Meditation Technique from Level 9 had skyrocketed to 200,000.
By his estimation, it would take at least six months to reach the next level.
His current mental energy was 23.88.
Once he constructed the ninth Star Ring, it would likely increase to around 25.
"The harder it gets to increase mental energy as I progress."
"To advance to the Third-Class Wizard Apprentice as quickly as possible, I still need to rely on the Nightmare Potion."
(End of Chapter)
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