Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 348 - 213: Building the Foundation
“Meow, Sunan!”
Amy’s perception was as sharp as ever, detecting Sunan’s arrival immediately.
The little creature vanished in an instant and reappeared on Sunan’s shoulder.
“Meow, did you go to the Wizard Tower again?” Amy asked, licking its paw.
Sunan laughed, “I just activated the Elemental Pool today. The energy there is even more abundant than in the Dragon Remains Tower. You and the Hidden Dragon can rest there in the future.”
The Hidden Dragon, walking over, let out an excited cry upon hearing this.
After evolving into a Giant Dragon, it became incredibly sensitive to the concentration of Energy Particles, especially unable to tolerate staying outside, so it basically never leaves the Dragon Forest now.
When Sunan isn’t using the Control Center, it would even hang around near the Elemental Pool, just to enjoy a little longer in the high-concentration Energy Particle environment.
Now, hearing about a place with even higher energy particle concentration, it naturally felt very happy.
Conversely, Amy didn’t have high demands for energy particle concentration, after all, its power level was still far from reaching the upper limit of the Starlight Continent’s energy particle concentration.
Even so, Amy was quite pleased.
“Yay, finally we can move into the Wizard Tower, meow!”
Before its long slumber, it used to live inside the Wizard Tower and had fond memories of that living environment.
Although the Dragon Forest environment was good too, it couldn’t compare to the Wizard Tower.
Sunan grew interested and asked about Amy’s master’s Wizard Tower.
“Your master’s Wizard Tower?”
“I remember it was a large Wizard Tower, meow, very big and spacious inside!”
No wonder, as a True Spirit Descendant, even the Wizard Tower was large.
Suddenly, Sunan recalled something and asked, “What level of wizard was your master?”
“Meow, my master was a Level 3 Wizard.”
“But before I went to sleep, my master was rushing to advance to True Spirit Wizard, meow.”
A True Spirit Wizard!
Sunan remarked in silent admiration.
The True Spirit Descendants, due to their genetic heritage, had a significantly higher chance than normal wizards to advance to True Spirit Wizard. With a deep background, no shortage of resources, and guidance from family elders, usually two or three out of ten could advance to True Spirit Wizard.
Though this number might not seem high, it was actually quite impressive.
For a regular wizard, there might not even be one in a thousand who could advance to True Spirit Wizard.
After a thousand years, Amy’s master might have already become a True Spirit Wizard.
“I want to go see the Wizard Tower!”
With a childlike sense of wonder, Amy eagerly pulled the Hidden Dragon towards the Wizard Tower after just a few words.
Sunan shook his head with a smile, contemplating a teleportation to the laboratory.
With the help of Tower Spirit No. 1, the research on the Talent Crystal Model should proceed smoothly, allowing him to reference more literature for inspiration.
As for the type of the second Talent Crystal Model, Sunan had already decided.
The first talent model, ’Liquid Metal,’ was both offensive and defensive.
So for the second and third talent models, it would be best to have one of extreme defense and one of extreme attack.
Since Sunan already had quite a few offensive means, the second Talent Crystal Model would prioritize defense.
As for the original model, after much consideration, he finally chose the Witchcraft Artifact [Restricted Zone].
The invisible force field of [Restricted Zone] not only could defend against attacks from all directions but also impose a gravity suppression on nearby enemies—weakening the enemy is another form of defense, isn’t it?
Constrained by materials, the power of [Restricted Zone] could only achieve this level.
However, if improved and transformed into a Talent Crystal Model, its power could be further expanded and enhanced.
Sunan eagerly anticipated the final product.
…
Time passed quietly, like sands slipping through fingers.
In the year 1291 of the Starlight Calendar, the month of Bloom (May).
Ten years had passed since the Starlight Empire unified the continent.
The scars of war had long healed, and people returned to their former peaceful and tranquil lives.
Under the Emperor’s vigorous reforms, the entire empire prospered and flourished.
The common people, especially, felt the difference most vividly, living more fulfilling lives than before, genuinely supporting the empire’s rule from their hearts.
But in the eyes of some observant individuals, the most noticeable change was the increased number of Knights they saw in daily life.
In the past, even if not nobility, Knights were followers of nobility and held much higher status than commoners.
But now, there were many more Knights of common birth.
In the army, this change was even more pronounced.
Previously, a skilled Apprentice Knight could serve as an officer, but now, even the lowest-ranking junior officers must be Knights.
Knights were becoming increasingly common.
If the observations of the observant were just vague guesses, the report in front of Sunan provided detailed data.
In the past four years, Knight Academies across the empire had graduated over twenty thousand Knight cadets.
The number of Apprentice Knight-level cadets numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
If counting the seven Knight Academies under the Star Alliance and the more than ten Royal Knight Academies, the number of Knight cadets had already approached forty thousand.
— In just the seven Knight Academies under the Star Alliance, they had graduated more than ten thousand Knight cadets over four years.
This would have been unimaginable in the past.
But in the present, it was a very typical occurrence.
In fact, if most of the Dragon Blood Fruit and Dragon Blood Potion from the Star Alliance weren’t used to supply the Demon Pattern Knight Order, the seven Knight Academies, and those Royal Knight Academies, and only a small amount was supplied to ordinary Knight Academies, the number of Knights trained each year could easily double.
