Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 290 - 184: Forbidden Zone and Black Thunder
The only advantage might be that it can be equipped in batches.
“It’s a pity there’s no Wizard Level combat power to assist with testing, so it’s impossible to obtain more specific data.”
Sunan feels slightly regretful.
That being said, the current test data has already made him very satisfied.
“Need a new name.”
Rubbing the ring’s surface covered with patterns, Sunan quickly came up with an idea.
“Let’s call it ’Forbidden Zone’.”
Synthesizing the Forbidden Zone almost used up all the rings, so Sunan had to halt the thought of synthesizing a second piece.
Like the Ring of Extreme Guard, he plans to synthesize at least five Forbidden Zones to carry with him.
No one would complain about too many life-saving measures.
However, synthesizing witchcraft artifacts requires a considerable amount of magical items, so it’ll probably take some time to accumulate.
Having solved the defensive witchcraft artifact, the next step is naturally the offensive witchcraft artifact.
In this aspect, Sunan has his eyes on a Micro-Light Level magical item named ’Black Thunder’ from the design diagrams in the Starry Tower.
The main material for creating Black Thunder is sourced from the Thunder Elemental Plane’s depths: Thunder Stones.
These stones have been subjected to thunder strikes for years, with all impurities and waste worn away by the thunder over hundreds of years. What’s left is the most refined part, containing exceptionally rich, violent thunder energy particles.
Black Thunder, made from Thunder Stones, can convert all thunder energy particles into violent black thunder when activated, delivering a thunderous strike to the target with remarkably formidable power.
What Sunan values is this straightforward yet strong form of attack.
After all, he already has ’Liquid Metal’ for flexible types of attacks.
Among the materials obtained from the Starry Tower, there are quite a few Thunder Stones, so Sunan spent a month concocting over ten pieces of Black Thunder, subsequently synthesizing the ultimate witchcraft artifact.
With the power of an offensive witchcraft artifact, even a Secret Puppet couldn’t possibly withstand it, so he could only find a deserted place to simply test Black Thunder’s strength, then put it aside.
To truly obtain detailed data, Sunan might have to wait until Hidden Dragon evolves into the Dragon Race to have suitable test subjects.
With the remaining Thunder Stones, Sunan plans to fashion more Black Thunders to synthesize a second witchcraft artifact.
If he wants to create more Black Thunder witchcraft artifacts later, it’ll require venturing into the Thunder Elemental Plane to collect more Thunder Stones.
Though a Level 1 Wizard doesn’t yet possess the capability for planar travel, they can manage a brief entry into an elemental plane.
However, the Thunder Elemental Plane is renowned for its peril among many elemental planes, so thoughtfully considering this, Sunan plans to accumulate more strength and backup plans before entering it.
It’s worth mentioning that during the testing of the Forbidden Zone and Black Thunder, Sunan noticed a significant issue — the charging of witchcraft artifacts.
Witchcraft artifacts are immensely powerful, and after consumption, their restoration requires absorbing energy particles far more than Micro-Light Level magical items.
This also results in, under the current environment of Starlight Continent, the charging of witchcraft artifacts becoming a very lengthy process.
Preliminary estimates suggest that charging the Forbidden Zone once takes about two months.
Black Thunder, due to its requirement to absorb thunder energy particles, charges even slower, taking approximately eight months for one charge.
The only benefit is that Black Thunder’s power is not affected by the scarcity of energy.
After all, its power comes from stored energy particles.
“In future battles, I should still use Liquid Metal whenever possible.”
Compared to magic and magical items, Liquid Metal consumes far less.
The inherent energy is already less affected by the shortage, and Liquid Metal doesn’t rely heavily on the concentration of energy particles, so the impact is naturally minimal.
If it weren’t for this, Sunan’s combat prowess as a Wizard would be weakened to a point barely stronger than a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice.
Storing the witchcraft artifact away, Sunan exhaled deeply.
The most important potions and witchcraft artifacts are resolved, so next, he can focus his energy on other aspects.
Such as puppets.
During this period, Sunan took time to replenish the high-end strength of two small Golem Legions. Now the entire Star Alliance possesses six small Golem Legions.
More precisely, it’s one medium Golem Legion and one small Golem Legion.
The seventh small Golem Legion is also being formed.
However, the main force for refining golems is the base’s apprentices. Sunan only handles a few high-level puppets, consuming little energy.
His focus is on the Secret Puppet.
In the past two years since departure, the Star Alliance has successively developed three silver ore veins, including a medium silver ore vein, accumulating nearly thirty kilograms of Mithril.
Almost enough to refine two Secret Puppets.
However, Sunan doesn’t plan to do this.
Previously, due to limitations in skills, materials, and strength, he had to refine a rudimentary version of the Secret Puppet.
Now with materials, strength, and skill levels sufficient, he can naturally try to refine the initial version of the Secret Puppet.
A complete version of the Secret Puppet has combat power comparable to an Official Wizard!
“A complete version of the Secret Puppet requires about thirty-six kilograms of Mithril.”
Having just made a big earning from the Starry Tower and Truth Council members’ space rings, among the materials obtained, there are more than ten kilograms of Mithril, combined with what’s in the Dragon Forest warehouse, more than enough for refining a complete version of the Secret Puppet.
“With Wizard level Spiritual Power and level 5 [Puppet Refining], it’s sufficient for refining.”
Aside from Mithril, a complete version of the Secret Puppet requires a large amount of gemstones, rare metals, and most importantly, a medium soul crystal stone.
Sunan now possesses all these materials, with a heap lying in his space ring, contributed by the Starry Tower and Truth Council.
However, right after crafting witchcraft artifacts, Sunan plans to rest for a few days to restore his spirit before refining the Secret Puppet.
Returning to his study, Sunan sat behind his desk, casually picking up a book.
These days, he has gradually finished reading the books brought from the Starry Tower.
Besides knowledge, he’s also learned some secrets about events from a thousand years ago.
Across the multiverse, the appearance of Elemental Desert planes isn’t limited only to the Starlight Continent.
Over the ages, similar planes are innumerable.
Wizards have drawn some patterns from them.
The causes of Elemental Deserts vary, but the most common are only two.
The first is the weakening of the plane’s origin.
To put it simply, it’s when the plane’s lifespan is nearing its end, leading to a sharp decline in elemental energy.
This cause of an Elemental Desert is irreversible and will continue to worsen until the plane’s origin completely dissipates, causing the entire plane to vanish.
The second is related to the plane’s barrier.
In the multiverse, planes are as numerous as stars, with types varying widely.
Not all planes possess gravity, earth, magma, sunlight, air, and water; some are complete voids, without even a piece of land to step on.
But any complete plane born with life inevitably has earth, water, wind, fire, thunder, and other elemental energies, with differences only in their quantity.
These planes and elemental planes are separated by a special plane barrier, which could be described colloquially as a layer of gauze with many tiny holes.
Through this ’gauze,’ elemental energy can slowly flow into the plane.
Meanwhile, a Wizard (or Apprentice) establishing an Elemental Pool is like enlarging one of the holes in the ’gauze’ to increase the influx of elemental energy.
However, a thousand years ago, the barrier between the Starlight Continent and elemental planes changed.
The holes in this ’gauze’ became smaller, greatly reducing the influx of elemental energy, turning the entire Starlight Continent into an Elemental Desert.
To resolve this issue, Wizards joined forces to perform a sealing restoration of the plane barrier before leaving the Starlight Continent.
According to their estimations, approximately two thousand years will be necessary for the Starlight Continent’s plane barrier to fully recover.
During this period, the entire Starlight Continent will be isolated; any lifeform exceeding a certain limit of existence cannot enter or exit the Starlight Continent without paying a heavy price for forced entry or exit.
In fact, many planes have similar rules, which is why beings like Divine Spirits of high life levels cannot easily descend upon material planes.
Moreover, Wizards reinforced this restriction based on the Starlight Continent’s original rules to prevent high life level creatures from entering or exiting, disrupting the gradually recovering elemental balance.
