Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 145 - 113: New Territory, Base No. 2 Completed

Chapter 145: Chapter 113: New Territory, Base No. 2 Completed

After the battle, Sunan took stock of the golems.

Due to the surprisingly smooth raid, the losses of the Golem Legion weren’t significant.

Completely destroyed and irreparable were one Steel Golem, three Elite Stone Golems, three hundred and twenty-five Stone Golems, and four Dual-bladed Spiders.

The remaining golems and Dual-bladed Spiders were more or less damaged, but the lightly injured ones could self-repair, and the severely injured ones could be repaired back at the base, so it wasn’t a big deal.

In fact, if not for the human-faced lions coming out of the city to assemble proactively, in a normal raid scenario, the losses of the Golem Puppets would have been at least doubled.

It was already quite fortunate now.

He packed the golems needing repair into the magic cube, leaving the rest on the island for defense. Sunan then led Carolina toward the city.

The war was over, and naturally, the next step was to inspect his territory.

This was indeed Sunan’s first territory truly owned by himself.

Compared to last time when he had to sneak in secretly, this time he entered through the city gate openly, taking his time to admire the city’s buildings.

However, most of the buildings in the Lower City District were low and simple, not much to look at.

Only upon entering the Upper City District did the buildings on both sides of the street start to become orderly, with a touch of artistic style—the typical underground world’s style where utility is valued over aesthetics.

The city residents along the way, upon seeing Carolina following respectfully behind a human, widened their eyes in shock.

Yet no one dared to step forward to raise any questions.

Sunan glanced at Carolina, it seemed the human-faced lion nobility had high prestige here.

He ignored these people and walked straight towards the central stone pillar.

Once inside the stone pillar, Sunan found that the environment here was far more luxurious than outside, with an astonishing number of rooms.

Living room, dining room, drawing room, bathroom, kitchen, common lounge, council hall—all fully equipped.

Such a huge place, yet only three nobles lived here with their serving slaves.

It must be said, the life of the human-faced lion nobility was much more luxurious than most human nobles.

“These rooms can be transformed into a laboratory and potion room.”

Sunan mused to himself.

The internal space of the stone pillar was very spacious, completely transformable into another base.

In the future, he was sure to spend a lot of time in the underground world, having a place for learning and training would undoubtedly be more convenient.

It would be best to establish another Magic Plant Garden, workshop, and Puppet Factory here.

After a round of exploration, Sunan already had a rough plan in mind, then without turning his head he asked, “Where is the warehouse?”

“In the basement,” Carolina replied.

“Lead the way.”

Under Carolina’s guidance, Sunan quickly arrived at a warehouse.

Before his eyes were mountains of Gold Coins, boxes of Gemstones, and various metals.

“Master, here is the inventory list of the warehouse.”

Carolina handed over a list.

In the brief moments after entering the city, this human-faced lion noble had quickly adjusted her mindset, facing up to her slave status and started proactively currying favor with Sunan.

Sunan cast a deep look at Carolina, then took the list and began browsing through it.

From Carolina, he already knew that this city-state was called Ghost Lake.

Due to a significant population of dwarves, Ghost Lake’s mining and smelting skills were not low.

They mined from nearby veins all year round and traded with other city-states for food and various essentials.

They could even smelt their own metals and mint Gold Coins.

The Gold Coins in the warehouse were minted by Ghost Lake itself, with the obverse featuring the image of a half-human, half-serpent human-faced lion noble, and the reverse showing two crossed scimitars, a style very typical of the human-faced lions.

Due to the sufficient gold content, Ghost Lake’s Gold Coins were quite popular among nearby city-states.

However, if they were to be used on the surface, these Gold Coins would still need to be completely remelted.

Sunan picked up a Gold Coin and weighed it in his hand, and instantly had a sense of assurance.

Converted to surface Gold Coins, these here were worth about fifty thousand or more.

This was undoubtedly a considerable amount.

There were also two hundred and thirty-six medium to low-grade Gemstones, five high-grade Gemstones, and over a hundred kinds of rare metals.

What delighted Sunan was that among them were rare metals like Abyssal Black Copper, Rainbow Iron, and Sun Flame Gold Sand.

Sunan estimated the quantity, and along with what he had, it was enough to produce the special nutrient needed for all eight Gemstone Bugs to split once.

“Indeed, the underground world is easier for collecting various rare metals.”

Sunan sighed inwardly.

Apart from this, the list also showed twelve mini soul crystals.

This was quite unexpected to him.

From memory, it didn’t seem like human-faced lions were a race adept at extracting souls to create crystals.

“Where did these soul crystals come from?” Sunan asked.

Carolina said, “They were acquired through trade with Auson, Duke Black and his subordinates are very skilled at creating soul crystals.”

“Duke Black?” Sunan raised an eyebrow, “Explain in detail.”

Carolina hurriedly explained.

Through her narration, Sunan finally had a general understanding of the neighboring areas surrounding Ghost Lake.

There were three city-states around Ghost Lake, namely Auson, Matu, and Kasham.

Among them, the ruler of Auson was a group of Corpse Ghosts, and the City Lord was called Duke Black, a Frost Corpse Ghost.

The ruler of Matu was a group of vampires, and the City Lord was known as the Red Widow.

As for Kasham, instead of a city-state, it was more like a hive.

Except for bugs, there was nothing else there, and any existing other races were merely stockpiled food supplies.