Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 136 - 108: Bloodline Mark, Dual-bladed Spider (Part 2)
Chapter 136: Chapter 108: Bloodline Mark, Dual-bladed Spider (Part 2)
Surprisingly, Sunan shook his head and refused.
“No need.”
“The underground world’s environment is not suitable for human combat. I plan to use the golem puppets as the siege army entirely.”
The underground world is dimly lit, and it’s hard for humans without dark vision to adapt.
Even Knights can only utilize sixty to seventy percent of their full strength when fighting in the underground world.
If we deploy the army of the Flashing Territory, even if we eventually conquer the Human-faced Lion City State, the casualties would be severe.
It’s better to use golems to siege instead.
Golems, with their dark vision, can move freely in the underground world.
As for the potential losses of the war, Sunan is not worried at all.
On the map given by Rose, there are as many as seven mineral veins within a hundred kilometers of the Human-faced Lion City State, including a large iron mine, three medium-sized iron mines, a large copper mine, a small silver mine, and a small gold mine.
As long as the threat of the human-faced lions is eliminated, he can freely exploit these mineral veins.
Future profits will more than cover the war’s expenses.
After finalizing all matters, Kei immediately began to make arrangements.
Sunan returned to the base and got busy.
The six pieces of Divine Blood Amber he got from Rose were all fused into the higher Divine Blood Amber.
The change it brought was that the proficiency increase from training with the Star Ring Meditation Method soared to 3100 points daily.
On the other hand, the learning progress of Silent Spellcasting is steadily growing.
Sunan estimates that by the Morning Dawn Month next year (March), he can master Silent Spellcasting.
It is worth mentioning that the establishment of the Knight Academy is also on the agenda.
Considering the commuting situation of teachers and students and the logistical pressure, the construction site of the Knight Academy naturally cannot be selected outside the city.
After much selection, Sunan finally chose the suburbs of Flash City, near the north gate of the city.
Construction of the academy has now started, and all matters are handed over to others to manage while Sunan occasionally checks in.
Looking at the engineering progress, it is expected to be completed by the Flowfire Month.
Then enrollment can begin.
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Kei’s action efficiency is extremely high.
Before the Morning Dawn Month even passed, a brand new camp was completed on top of the original mining area.
Sunan directly named the camp Camp No. 1 and established a new Puppet Factory inside, then went full throttle in crafting Stone Golems.
The production of Steel Golems is limited by soul crystals and cannot be manufactured in large quantities.
But as long as there are enough gemstones and stones, Stone Golems can be crafted without limit.
The profits from the cave’s mining area were all invested by Sunan into the crafting of Stone Golems.
To swiftly resolve the threat of the Human-faced Lion City State, Kei even drew a substantial amount of funds from the territory’s income to support the construction of the Golem Legion.
With sufficient funds, the number of the Golem Legion grew rapidly.
Meanwhile, Sunan was also considering crafting a new type of puppet.
Steel Golems and Stone Golems are incredibly powerful and practically indestructible, but their drawback is somewhat slow movement.
This was vividly demonstrated in the battle against the Human-faced Lion City State.
Faced with the swift and agile Human-faced Lions, Elite Stone Golems and Stone Golems were naturally at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Sunan felt the need to proactively design a more agile puppet.
Traditional golems are mostly masculine and robust humanoid figures, with thick and short limbs, and except a few with flight capabilities, most golems cannot avoid somewhat sluggish movements.
Thus, the new puppet must make new changes, preferably designed as a more agile animal shape.
The first thing that came to Sunan’s mind was spiders.
If any creature in the underground world is notorious, it is undoubtedly the various Mutated Spiders and spider-like creatures.
Especially the Spider-Elves, mutated from Dark Elves, whose ferocious reputation has spread throughout the underground world.
They move with ghostly speed and unpredictability, often launching ambushes from unexpected places, and can navigate steep caves and tunnels skillfully, making them one of the best assassins in the underground world.
Designing a puppet in the shape of a spider, with eight limbs, would undoubtedly better adapt to the complex terrain of the underground world.
Thinking and doing, Sunan immediately started designing a spider puppet.
The proficiency gained from mass-crafting Stone Golems had already pushed his [Puppet Refining] to level 4.
Coupled with the experience from crafting the Black Rock Leopard, Sunan easily completed the structural design of the spider puppet.
The main issue remained the materials.
To maximize highlighting the speed advantage of the spider puppet, the material must be a lightweight metal.
Of course, hardness cannot be overlooked.
Otherwise, it would result in crafting a bunch of easily shattered fragile puppets.
In this respect, Black Stone Iron is undoubtedly a very suitable choice.
However, the current production of Black Stone Iron is low, and even if all were supplied to Camp No. 1, it wouldn’t be enough for Sunan to mass-produce, not to mention the need to supply crafting the Black Rock Leopard.
After much selection, Sunan finally decided to use a metal called tungsten steel as the material for crafting the new puppet.
Tungsten steel has high hardness, wear resistance, and toughness, as well as a series of excellent properties like heat and corrosion resistance.
Although its hardness does not match Black Stone Iron, it doesn’t matter, it can be synthetically strengthened.
In the final calculation, tungsten steel synthesized to have similar hardness and lightweight properties to Black Stone Iron comes out to have a similar cost, making it a completely viable substitute.
With the material and design finalized, the crafting process became relatively smooth.
The spider puppet’s final version boasted dark vision, immunity to all mental effects, immunity to poison, sleep, paralysis, confusion, suffocation, and high elemental resistance—just like the golems.
At this point, the spider puppet was not inferior to the Stone Golem.
However, Sunan still felt it wasn’t enough.
He proceeded to demonize the front two limbs used for attacking on the spider puppet, adding the [Black Steel] and [Sharpness] traits, greatly enhancing hardness and sharpness.
In other words, the spider puppet essentially came equipped with two demonized weapons that could be used simultaneously for attacks.
Calculating everything, the crafting cost of a spider puppet reached as high as 180 Gold Coins.
More than nine times that of a regular Stone Golem!
However, the saying goes, “You get what you pay for,” and the spider puppet’s combat effectiveness far exceeded that of an ordinary Stone Golem.
Sunan specifically conducted a test, and in a one-on-one scenario, the spider puppet could dismember a Stone Golem into several dozen pieces in less than half a minute. The Stone Golem’s famed defense could not withstand the two demonized foot blades.
Overall, the spider puppet’s combat effectiveness was almost at the level of a Peak Knight.
Which fits its high cost properly.
“Let’s name the puppet Dual-bladed Spider.”
Looking at the jet-black spider as large as a carriage in front of him, Sunan showed a satisfied smile.
With the Dual-bladed Spider, the combat system of the Golem Legion was now more complete.
“It’s a pity that flying type puppets are quite rare; without the corresponding design, it’s laborious to research by oneself. Moreover, the manufacturing difficulty and material requirements are high, otherwise, having an aerial unit would be perfect.”
Most of the puppet schematics Sunan currently owns are for various low-level golems and do not include flying type puppets.
Even if there were, given his current skills and materials, it would be difficult to craft one.
After all, flying type puppets can’t just fly—they also need sufficiently strong ranged attack capabilities.
A flying puppet without long-range attacks is nothing but a moving target.
For instance, Metal Golems with flight and ranged attack capabilities are at least at the level of Shadow Steel Golems and Secret Silver Golems.
The combat effectiveness of these two kinds of golems is already very close to that of an Official Wizard.
A Level 3 Wizard Apprentice can hardly craft them.
“It would be nice to have a flying puppet with weaker ranged attack capabilities. Anyway, synthesis is possible.”
“Let’s ask others at the next Woodland Cabin gathering.”
