Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 296 - 187: Then Skip the Charging Phase

Starlight Calendar Year 1270, Moon of Spring Dawn (March).

The first Wizard Academy on the Starlight Continent was officially established, named Starlight Academy.

Over five hundred apprentices from Dragon Forest became the first batch of students at Starlight Academy, beginning their student life.

After overcoming initial maladaptations, Starlight Academy quickly entered stable operation.

With a comprehensive set of regulations, Sunan hardly needed to invest much energy in the academy.

This allowed him to free up energy to focus on other matters.

Fifth floor of Dragon Remains Tower, Workshop No. 12.

The roar of the Magic Energy Crystal Forge echoed in the spacious workshop.

Sunan stood at the workbench, intently watching the puppet on it.

Once he freed himself from academy affairs, he immediately prioritized the task of forging a complete version of the Secret Puppet.

To conserve Mithril, he didn’t forge a new Secret Puppet but upgraded and modified the original one.

The complete version of the Secret Puppet didn’t include high-level rune gemstones and diamonds in its design. To enhance the puppet’s combat power, Sunan directly improved the original design blueprint.

Just this task alone took over four months of his time.

Compared to the lengthy modification of the blueprint, upgrading and modifying the Secret Puppet was relatively simpler.

After spending over half a month in the workshop, Sunan completed the task.

The upgraded Secret Puppet was still primarily constructed from Mithril and diamonds, but the quantity was more than double what it was before.

As a result, both the hardness of the body and its affinity and capacity for elemental energy had significantly improved.

Thanks to this, the new Secret Puppet’s control over energy particles also greatly enhanced, not inferior to an Official Wizard.

Besides the originally constant Tier One and Tier Two Magic, Sunan also added the recently mastered Tier Three Magic into the puppet.

About a tenth of the books obtained from the Tower of Starlight were various Magic Books.

These included a full range of magic from Zero Tier to Tier Five, with a wide variety.

Upon advancing to a Wizard, Sunan could already learn Tier Three Magic.

Just as there’s a chasm-like gap between a Wizard and a Wizard Apprentice, the power of Tier Three Magic far surpasses Tier Two Magic and offers richer functionality.

For instance, there’s the [Snow Rainstorm] which can drastically change the environment.

There’s the [Human Immobilization] that can immobilize humans, sub-humans, or bipedal targets.

There’s the [Invisibility Orb] that allows multiple targets to become invisible over a wide area.

There’s the [Advanced Illusion], similar to Silent Illusion but with a stronger effect.

There’s the advanced version of Weakening Beam, [Exhaustion Beam].

And the [Vaporous Form] that turns the subject into an ethereal state and allows slow flight.

And so forth, the list goes on.

In terms of both power and practicality, they cannot be compared with Tier Two Magic.

In fact, starting from Tier Three, the power of magic rises more than one level higher.

Until reaching the True Spirit Wizard level, magic remains one of the most important combat methods for Wizards.

Sunan tested it; he can now roughly master one Tier Three Magic each month.

So far, he has mastered eleven Tier Three Magic spells, all imbued into the Secret Puppet.

And this is just the beginning.

As he masters more spells, he will continue to engrave the spells onto the puppet.

Overall, the upgraded Secret Puppet, aside from not having a talent crystal, already boasts combat power not inferior to an Official Wizard.

Even in the special environment of the Starlight Continent, even without a talent crystal, the puppet’s combat power is hardly weaker than a Wizard, who is constrained everywhere.

After all, the puppet’s dependence on external energy is very low; it can entirely rely on the energy contained within its magic stones for combat output, with far superior combat endurance compared to a Wizard.

This somewhat compensates for the lack of a talent crystal.

If not for Sunan’s talent crystal, ’Liquid Metal’, which is stronger than even upper-levels, he wouldn’t be confident in defeating a Secret Puppet loaded with sufficient magic stones.

“By solidifying more Tier Three Magic, combat power can be further enhanced.”

Sunan showed a satisfied smile.

Even considering the special environmental factors, having combat power comparable to an Official Wizard left him quite satisfied.

If there’s any problem, it’s the high cost.

Just the materials of Mithril and gemstones exceeded twenty thousand Gold Coins in cost.

The miscellaneous other materials added up close to another five thousand Gold Coins.

Combined with the cost of stabilizing various spells, especially Tier Three Magic, the total cost reached thirty-three thousand Gold Coins.

Additionally, every battle consumes a large number of magic stones—a lower-level stone can’t satisfy the puppet’s consumption; at the very least, you need a middle-level stone—which means every battle is essentially throwing money in.

The high manufacturing cost and substantial consumption make it a veritable money pit!

However, given the puppet’s powerful combat capabilities, this drawback is relatively acceptable.

Only because Sunan has the synthesis cube; for other Wizards, even thirty to eighty thousand Gold Coins might not be enough to create a puppet at the Wizard Level.

Sunan plans to create two Secret Puppets and deploy them in the Star Alliance’s expansion operations.

With the assistance of two Secret Puppets, he presumably won’t have to intervene himself.

After settling the matter of the puppets, Sunan then began researching rune engraving.

The knowledge on rune engraving was also found in the books brought out from the Tower of Starlight.

There’s no denying it, for Sunan at this stage, these books are like a treasure trove, continually offering pleasant surprises.