Synthesis Wizard-Chapter 182

A Wizard, even a newly promoted one, would find killing a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice no harder than crushing an ant.

Slaughtering over a dozen Third-Rank Wizard Apprentices didn’t give Su Nan any sense of accomplishment.

After all, Wizards and Wizard Apprentices were fundamentally different life forms.

This outcome was only natural.

However, some discoveries made during the battle caused Su Nan to frown slightly.

Shaking his head, Su Nan suppressed his doubts temporarily. With a wave of his hand, he gathered the spatial rings of the deceased Truth Council members into his possession, then turned to Kei and the other three.

“Are you alright?” Su Nan asked.

Scepter, Traveler, and Rose instinctively shook their heads in unison, then abruptly recovered, their faces contorted with a mix of shock, confusion, and disbelief.

“Su Nan, you, you’ve become a Wizard?”

Although she already had a hunch, Rose couldn’t resist confirming it again.

The answer was, naturally, unsurprising.

“That’s right,” Su Nan admitted calmly.

Scepter glanced at the shattered top of Starlight Tower and hesitated. “Then, what about inside Starlight Tower?”

Su Nan said flatly, “Everything inside has been taken by me. Starlight Tower is now just an empty shell.”

The moment he became a Wizard, there was no longer anyone on the Starlight Continent that Su Nan feared.

A Wizard’s power was enough to sweep across the entire Starlight Continent. With such formidable strength, he naturally had no need to conceal himself.

As expected, upon hearing this, the trio of Scepter, Traveler, and Rose hesitated before ultimately saying nothing.

Facing Su Nan, who had already become a Wizard, they could no longer find the confidence to engage in equal dialogue.

“Let’s go.”

Su Nan waved his hand, and a legion of small magic puppets appeared out of thin air, surrounding Starlight Tower.

Although he had emptied Starlight Tower of its resources, the tower itself was made of valuable materials.

Su Nan intended to dismantle it later and use the materials to build a Wizard Tower. He naturally wouldn’t allow anyone else to touch them.

For the time being, he would leave a legion of magic puppets to guard Starlight Tower.

As a precaution, besides leaving a secret puppet behind, he also destroyed the element pool inside Starlight Tower.

In this way, deprived of its energy source, Starlight Tower would be unable to escape into dimensional space and would have to remain in the material world.

Only after Su Nan and the others had gone some distance did the onlookers gradually emerge from their hiding places. Seeing the legion of magic puppets surrounding Starlight Tower, they looked at each other helplessly.

“What do we do?”

“What else can we do? Let’s just leave. Do you think you can beat so many magic puppets? Don’t blame me for not reminding you, there are even Mithril Magic Puppets among them!”

“Even if we could beat them, what then? Do you want to be hunted down by that person? Didn’t you see those Third-Rank Wizard Apprentices getting crushed like ants?”

“I never thought someone would actually become a Wizard.”

“From now on, the Starlight Continent might be turned upside down.”

The onlookers’ expressions were complex. Recalling the scenes they had just witnessed, they couldn’t help but feel like they had witnessed history.

After flying not too far, Scepter, Rose, and Traveler took their leave one after another.

They felt immense pressure in the face of Su Nan and simply couldn’t stay any longer.

Su Nan didn’t mind. He controlled liquid metal to envelop himself and Kei, forming a shuttle-like shape, and shot towards Shining Light City.

It had taken four days to arrive, but now, with Su Nan’s full effort, it only took half a day to complete the journey.

Su Nan parted ways with Kei in Shining Light City and then returned to Base 1, passing through the spatial passageway back to Dragon Forest.

Back in the control center on the top floor of the Dragon Skull Tower, he immediately summoned Butler 1 to check Dragon Forest’s operational logs over the past two years.

Before leaving, Su Nan had considered the possibility that he might not be back for a long time and had made some arrangements in advance. Therefore, Dragon Forest had been operating normally without any major issues.

There was, however, a backlog of miscellaneous tasks that required his attention.

There was also the Star Alliance. The amount of things requiring his decision-making accumulated over the past two years must have been substantial.

But none of these were urgent.

Su Nan had other matters that needed to be verified as soon as possible.

Standing by the element pool, Su Nan cast a few spells and manipulated the energy particles for a while, finally confirming his suspicions.

“As expected, the concentration of energy particles is the biggest constraint for Wizards.”

Su Nan’s expression was somewhat complex.

When he had attacked and killed the Truth Council members earlier, he had noticed that the intensity of the energy particles he could manipulate was significantly lower than his control limit.

Assuming he could manipulate energy particles with an intensity of 100, he could only actually mobilize around 20.

This meant that the power of the spells he cast and the energy particles he manipulated was only about 20% of their normal level!

The reduction in power was one thing, but the key issue was that the energy particles’ gradual infiltration and strengthening of his body, as well as the speed of his spiritual power growth and recovery, were all significantly affected.

Su Nan was now truly experiencing the adverse effects of energy scarcity.

Back when he was a Wizard Apprentice, because his power had not yet reached the upper limit of the Starlight Continent’s energy particle concentration, the effects weren’t very noticeable.

But after becoming a Wizard, his power level had abruptly broken through the upper limit of energy particle concentration, allowing him to truly understand what it meant to be energy-deprived.

In this environment, Wizards, besides experiencing a noticeable reduction in strength, would also face significant setbacks in cultivation.

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Furthermore, there was also a feeling of discomfort on a sensory level.

When he had just become a Wizard, because he was right next to the element pool, Su Nan hadn’t felt it much, but after leaving Starlight Tower, he had a feeling similar to what a normal person might experience when suddenly entering an oxygen-thin environment.

“No wonder the Wizards from a thousand years ago left the Starlight Continent. This place really isn’t suitable for Wizards to stay.”

Su Nan sighed.

He currently didn’t have the ability to perform interplanar travel, so he could only make do on the Starlight Continent.

“There was also the mention of the restoration of the planar barrier by the auxiliary AI of Starlight Tower. There might be some secrets I don’t know about regarding the events a thousand years ago.”

In his previous life, Su Nan had entered the game when it was already in its 2.0 version, “The Return of the Wizards.” He had not learned much about the earlier 1.0 version and the transitional period in between. He only vaguely remembered some information and rumors he had read.

He had thought the Starlight Continent was just a simple elemental desert, but now it seemed there was more to it.

“There seemed to be some books in that batch from Starlight Tower that mentioned this matter. I’ll have to find time to read them.”

Su Nan took a deep breath and began pondering his next steps.

First was cultivation.

The growth and condensation of gaseous spiritual power were already very slow. A one percent increase often took years.

Furthermore, with the energy scarcity in the current Starlight Continent, without external assistance, maintaining his current level, let alone improving, would be a challenge.

“Divine Blood Crystal is almost useless to me now.”

“Supernatural Potion as well. I need to synthesize a higher-grade one.”

The element pool, potions, and divine energy combined should be enough to offset the impact of energy scarcity.

After that, he needed to find other ways to accelerate the growth of his spiritual power.

Secondly, there were Wizard artifacts.

This wouldn’t be difficult for Su Nan.

If it weren’t for the limitations of his spiritual power, he would have already synthesized Wizard artifacts back when he was a Wizard Apprentice.

However, Su Nan didn’t plan on just casually synthesizing a few Wizard artifacts.

Other Wizards didn’t have much choice, but he had the ability to synthesize Magic Cubes, giving him plenty of options.

Ideally, he would synthesize a Wizard artifact that best suited his own combat style and system.

This would produce a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts.

This also needed to be considered carefully.

Then there were experiments.

Now that he had become a Wizard, many experiments that had previously been impossible due to limitations in his spiritual power could be put on the agenda.

For example, refining Secret Puppets and bloodline imprints, creating more advanced runes compared to magic tattoos, and so on.

Finally, there was the Wizard Tower.

As one of the greatest alchemical creations in the history of Wizard civilization, the Wizard Tower was renowned throughout the entire multiverse.

To this day, countless planar civilizations had succumbed to the bombardment of Wizard Towers.

Its reputation had long spread throughout countless planes.

There was a saying in the multiverse – A Wizard is fearsome, but a Wizard with a Wizard Tower is even more formidable!

Every Wizard aspired to possess their own Wizard Tower.

However, building a Wizard Tower wasn’t so simple.

A qualified Wizard Tower must have a stable mana supply, a dimensional barrier energy field with protective enchantments, ultra-long-range strike capabilities, an internal Magic Puppet Legion, and a Tower Spirit Construct Commander, among other things.

The resources required to build even the most basic Wizard Tower were worth millions of gold coins.

Even official Wizards rarely possessed this kind of wealth.

Therefore, many First-Rank Wizards didn’t have their own Wizard Towers.

Even among Second-Rank Wizards, few could afford to build a Wizard Tower.

Generally speaking, Wizard Towers could be divided into two types.

Flying and non-flying.

Non-flying Wizard Towers primarily referred to those built on ley lines.

These Wizard Towers were often bound to ley lines and were fixed in place, unable to move, let alone fly.

In the eyes of many Wizards, these were hardly considered Wizard Towers.

Unless one was strapped for cash or forced to build a Wizard Tower for some reason, very few Wizards would choose to build them on ley lines.

The vast majority of Wizards chose to build “flying” Wizard Towers.

In the classification of Wizard civilization, Wizard Towers were divided into small, medium, and large based on their size.

The larger the Wizard Tower, the more expensive it was to build.

Medium and large Wizard Towers were beyond Su Nan’s reach for now.

Even if he dismantled the entire Starlight Continent, he wouldn’t be able to gather enough resources to build even a medium-sized Wizard Tower.

His goal was only a small Wizard Tower.

Even though it was small, it was still far larger than Starlight Tower.

“Building a Wizard Tower requires vast resources. With the current state of the Starlight Continent, building a Wizard Tower will be very difficult.”

“Disassembling Starlight Tower will provide some resources, but there will still be a large gap.”

“To gather the remaining resources, the current Star Alliance alone wouldn’t be enough.”

Su Nan’s eyes flickered, and he already had a plan in mind.

Before building a Wizard Tower, the first thing he needed to do was to unify the Starlight Continent!

Only then could he consolidate all the manpower and resources of the entire Starlight Continent, focusing all his resources on building a Wizard Tower.

Unifying the surface world wouldn’t be difficult. Most of the work could be delegated to the Star Kingdom, while he would only be responsible for dealing with Wizard Apprentices.

As for the underworld, the Star Alliance would be in charge.

Besides that, he also needed to find the Black Forest and Falling Star City.

These two Wizard legacies likely contained a significant amount of resources. If he could get his hands on them, it would alleviate a lot of the resource pressure.

Just so happened, the clues to the Black Forest were in the hands of the Spider City. He might as well start by taking down Spider City, taking the first step towards the Star Alliance’s unification of the underworld.

After pondering for a while, Su Nan had a general idea of his future plans.

Then, he started to think about the Dark Throne.

After taking down Starlight Tower, he had undoubtedly made an enemy of the Dark Throne.

The Dark Throne was not known for its generosity or compassion. Once it returned to the Starlight Continent, it would inevitably seek revenge.

He needed to prepare for this in advance.

“The official start of the 2.0 version, if I recall correctly, was around Starlight Calendar 2000.”

“However, in the decade leading up to it, various Wizard factions had already begun sending people to explore the Starlight Continent, establish outposts, and prepare for the arrival of their main forces.”

Su Nan vaguely remembered that among the first Wizard factions to send outposts to the Starlight Continent, the Dark Throne was one of them.

The reason he remembered this was because the Wizards from the Dark Throne had committed a lot of atrocities in the Starlight Continent, subjecting the players of that time to a dark period for over a decade.

It wasn’t until the major Wizard factions set up shop in the Starlight Continent that the Dark Throne’s influence was checked, and the players’ situation improved.

Eventually, after the players grew strong enough, they banded together and retaliated against the Dark Throne.

“It is now Starlight Calendar 1269. It is still seven hundred years before the first group of Wizards arrives in the Starlight Continent.”

Su Nan pondered to himself.

This amount of time was enough for him to turn the Starlight Continent into his own territory and build a Wizard Tower.

By the time the Dark Throne’s people arrived, he could perhaps give them a “surprise.”

Although he had already offended a multiversal Wizard faction with a fearsome reputation before elemental resurgence had even occurred, Su Nan wasn’t very worried.

The multiverse had more than just the Dark Throne.

If worse came to worst, he could always seek refuge with a Wizard faction that was an enemy of the Dark Throne.

Within moments, numerous options had sprung to mind for Su Nan.

The Deep Blue Alliance, the Star Spirit Bell Tower, the Wisdom Codex…

There weren’t many factions that could go toe-to-toe with the Dark Throne, let alone surpass it, but there were still a handful.

He was sure no Wizard faction would refuse a genius who, despite being in an energy-deprived environment in a resource-scarce elemental desert, could still ascend to Wizardhood in just thirty years.

As for lifespan, that was even less of a concern.

The lifespans of Wizards who had undergone a transformation in their life level far surpassed those of ordinary humans.

First-Rank Vaporized Wizards had lifespans of seven to eight hundred years. By incorporating some long-life bloodlines or undergoing bodily transformations, living for a thousand years wouldn’t be a problem.