Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 186 - 132: Funeral Beetle, Kasham’s Controller_2

Chapter 186: Chapter 132: Funeral Beetle, Kasham’s Controller_2

The most crucial issue is that the yield of the Dragon Blood Fruit is not sufficient.

It’s essential to cultivate qualified Knight Academy students within just four years, and the Dragon Blood Fruit is indispensable for that.

Otherwise, students from civilian and farmer backgrounds, with natural qualities and physical gifts not on par with those of noble children, will not likely advance to Knights within four years.

Even for the current seven Knight Academies, Sunan would have to establish a few more Magic Plant Gardens to cultivate Dragon Blood Fruits to meet the demand.

Any more than that would be beyond our capacity.

Perhaps in the future, when more Magic Plant Gardens are established, they can consider increasing the number of Knight Academies.

Seeing Sunan say this, Kei no longer tried to persuade him further.

In fact, he had considered whether to establish a Knight Academy exclusively for noble children, modeled after the Dragon Heart Knight Academy.

However, after much consideration, he abandoned this idea.

One reason is that he doesn’t have enough Dragon Blood Fruit, and even if he did, it would be used to supply the army.

Another reason is that noble families typically have their own traditional breathing techniques and martial skills, as well as unique training methods, which makes unification in this area impossible.

Even partial unification is difficult.

Unless he could offer breathing techniques and martial skills stronger than all the noble families’ and more efficient training methods.

Given this, the feasibility of a noble Knight Academy is too low and can only be abandoned.

“How’s the aptitude testing going?”

Sunan’s voice interrupted Kei’s thoughts.

Coming to his senses, Kei smiled and said, “Very smoothly, the testing has concluded, and there are 223 children with aptitude. I’ve arranged for personnel to escort them to Flash City, and they should arrive at the base in a few days.”

Sunan nodded slightly.

The number is quite substantial.

After all, it was an aptitude test covering six major provinces, so it’s normal for the number of qualified individuals to be substantial.

This way, there are nearly 270 students at the base now.

And over time, this number will gradually increase.

“How’s the recent training going?” Sunan shifted to another topic.

“It’s pretty much stabilized.” Kei replied with a cheerful expression.

After taking the High-Level Dragon Blood Fruit given by Sunan, he successfully broke through to become a Legendary Knight.

Now, after more than half a year of settling, his realm has basically stabilized, and he is currently seeking a breakthrough to a higher realm.

Kei’s talent and aptitude are already exceptionally outstanding; otherwise, he couldn’t have advanced to Senior Knight at nineteen. Now, as a Duke, the resources he can access far surpass those of before, and his rapid advancement is astonishing.

He is confident that he’ll break through to Tier Two Legendary Knight by thirty-five and to Tier Three Legendary Knight by fifty.

To be noted, Evans, once recognized as a peerless genius throughout the principality, was eighty when he became a Tier Three Legendary Knight.

This is just the most conservative estimate.

With Sunan’s help, Kei is even confident he can break through to Tier Three Legendary Knight sooner.

“That’s good then.”

Sunan nodded slightly.

His plan is to have his elder brother become a Tier Three Legendary Knight within twelve years, so he can also enter the Star Tower to challenge the Knight Trial then.

Twelve years from Tier One Legend to Tier Three Legend; as long as there’s a willingness to invest resources, it’s not too challenging.

With this in mind, establishing new Magic Plant Gardens must be prioritized.

Leaving the lord’s mansion, Sunan was still contemplating the matter of Magic Plant Gardens.

With the profits from underground world mineral veins supporting it, there is no concern over funding in establishing Magic Plant Gardens, the only consideration is manpower.

Flower fairies are easy to handle; having the Fairy Queen Tia summon another group of clansmen will do.

The key is having apprentices in charge of garrison duties.

“Release a batch of garrison tasks at the base, let apprentices take turns stationed regularly.”

Currently, there aren’t any Tier Two Wizard Apprentices at the base, so Sunan has to personally handle the establishment of Magic Plant Gardens.

However, the garrison work can be entrusted to the students, with high task contribution points set as an incentive.

Coincidentally, a new batch of students is about to arrive at the base; after some time in training, they can undertake various basic tasks.

By then, as more people take on basic tasks, and resources are scarce, competition intensifies, naturally directing the older students towards garrison tasks.

…

Time flies like a white steed.

The month of Thundering Moon (April) swiftly passed by.

During this time, Sunan attended another gathering at the Woodlands Cabin, acquiring more than ten rare metals and four small soul crystals.

After this gathering, Sunan finally gathered materials for the third Demon Pattern Core.

He wasted no time in crafting the third Demon Pattern Core and promptly proceeded to synthesize it.

With the synthesized Level 3 Demon Pattern Core, the physical and soul prerequisites are further elevated.

Aside from Spiritual Power needing to reach 45 points, the constitution must also exceed 40 points.

“Currently, my Spiritual Power is 45.04, just meeting the requirement, but my constitution is only 36.37, which is considerably lacking.”

Sunan weighed the Demon Pattern Core in his hand and headed towards the warehouse.

His current constitution is roughly equivalent to a Junior Grand Knight. The High-Level Dragon Blood Fruit still has a significant effect on him; synthesizing a few more and consuming them will quickly raise his constitution to over 40 points.

It took him two days to fully absorb the effects of the High-Level Dragon Blood Fruit, successfully elevating his constitution to 40.35.

Without hesitation, he immediately fused with the Level 3 Demon Pattern Core, then headed to the Magic Training Area for testing.

Considering the power of the Level 3 Demon Pattern Core, Sunan chose not to use a Steel Golem as a test subject this time, instead opting for a more formidable Senior Stone Golem.

First was the attack power test.

Under full exertion, the metallic spike storm formed by the Demon Pattern Core bombarded the Senior Stone Golem, leaving it battered and nearly destroyed in just a little over ten seconds.

“Not bad, the attack power increased by about 80-90%.”

“Against a Tier One Legendary Puppet, it could probably be a one-hit kill.”

Next was the defense power test.

After some testing, Sunan had a general understanding.

“Converted into defensive value, it’s approximately between 4800 to 5000, roughly equivalent to the defense stacking of five Rings of Extreme Protection.”

Sunan nodded silently.

With such a high defensive value, it’s impossible for an Official Wizard to break through with just a single attack.

More delightfully, the area Sunan was most concerned with, the Spiritual Power consumption, hardly increased.

With his current Spiritual Power, he could utilize the Demon Pattern Core for up to three minutes.

Even during high-intensity attacks, it would easily sustain two minutes.

“If we can keep progressing with upgrades increasing power but not consumption, especially as my Spiritual Power further develops, the Demon Pattern Core could essentially become a conventional weapon.

Think about it, a Demon Pattern Core that can be used conventionally is terrifying!

Truly reaching that level, Sunan would be virtually invincible below Official Wizard.

“The Golem Legion has also successfully completed its expansion.”

With Sunan’s full investment, Ghost Lake City’s Golem Legion has significantly expanded in scale recently.

Considering the short-term unlikelihood of crafting Refined Gold Golems or Secret Puppets, Sunan utilized all four small soul crystals acquired from trades to craft Steel Golems.

Now, the Ghost Lake City’s Golem Legion includes nine Steel Golems, twenty Elite Stone Golems, three hundred Dual-bladed Spiders, and one thousand Stone Golems.

The combat capability of this roster has far surpassed last period’s Ghost Lake City.

At least Carolina was completely astonished when she saw these golems at the makeshift military camp.

The last trace of inner worry about the impending insect disaster also vanished into thin air.

Joking, with such a powerful Golem Legion, what is a mere insect disaster?

Next, the consideration should be whether to counterattack Kasham instead.

Frankly, if it wasn’t to let Matu and Auson share some pressure, reduce casualties, destroy more bugs outside as much as possible, thereby easing future raids on Kasham, Sunan would have ignored the insect disaster and attacked Kasham directly by now.

However, Sunan didn’t wait long.

On the first day of the Blossom Moon, reports came from Human-faced Lion Scouts stationed near Kasham, indicating a mass deployment of Kasham’s insect swarm.

Countless insects are surging towards Ghost Lake City in overwhelming numbers!