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Chapter 67: Another Avenue to Prosperity
The Thunder Moon vanished like drifting wood chips in a river, swirling through fingertips and disappearing from sight.
The weather began to grow hotter day by day.
Not long after entering the Blossom Moon, Su Nan successfully constructed his sixth Star Ring.
As he had expected, his Spiritual Power attribute broke through the 20 threshold.
【Su Nan · Arnest, Human Male】
【Spiritual 20.36/ Physique 15.45】
Star Ring Meditation Method Lv7 (21/80,000)
Potion Brewing Lv4 (256/10,000)
Creature Modification Lv2 (903/3,000)
Puppetry Refining Lv2 (2,822/3,000)
Magical Item Crafting Lv1 (502/1,000)
“Eighty thousand proficiency, it will take about three months to level up.”
Su Nan nodded silently.
One of the conditions for advancing to a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice was to construct nine Star Rings.
He still needed three more.
At his current pace, it should take two or three years to complete if everything went smoothly.
Then, all that would be left would be Spiritual Power.
“For Spiritual Power, I can use the Nightmare Potion to increase it.”
“The key material, Bloodthirsty Mandrake, is already in hand. The rest of the materials are being collected by the Fire Fox Trading Company, so it’s just a matter of time.”
During this period, Su Nan had been diligently brewing potions, and his [Potion Brewing] skill had already reached level 4.
With this level of [Potion Brewing], he could attempt to brew second-order potions.
It was worth mentioning that as the skill leveled up, the success rates for brewing Lower-Grade Revitalization Potions and Lower-Grade Dragon Blood Potions had also increased, exceeding 40%.
The increased success rate further reduced the cost of potions, boosting profits significantly and providing much-needed relief for Su Nan, who was desperately short of money.
“The Clay Golems and Stone Golems have all been built. I won’t need to spend much time refining golems anymore.”
Su Nan had been working overtime to complete the base’s requirements for 10 Clay Golems and 50 Stone Golems.
In addition, he had created an extra 30 Clay Golems and given them to Kei to help build the supply unit.
“I have already placed orders with the Fire Fox Trading Company for Silver Moon Flower seeds and Red Vein Fruits. They will take some time to arrive.”
Su Nan began to ponder his next arrangements.
Aside from training and spell learning, he only had two things to do next.
The first was to refine Steel Golems.
One Steel Golem weighed over 10 tons and had to be made with at least the same amount of pure steel.
The higher the quality of steel used, the stronger the resulting Steel Golem would be.
Su Nan planned to use Black Stone Iron.
Since Black Stone Iron was lighter than the same volume of refined iron, the Steel Golems made from it would be relatively more agile.
However, the warehouse had recently run out of Black Stone Iron. He would have to wait until the new batch arrived from Black Stone City before he could start refining the Steel Golems.
The second thing was to craft magical items.
Su Nan flipped his wrist, and a book appeared in his palm.
“The Complete Guide to Low-Level Magical Items”!
This book, left by Master Amy, included over 100 types of Alchemical-Grade and Gleaming-Grade magical items, a very comprehensive collection.
Su Nan had quite a few magical items on hand, but they were all Alchemical-Grade.
He wanted to craft a few Gleaming-Grade magical items for himself, including a spatial, an offensive, and a protective one, at least one of each.
However, crafting Gleaming-Grade magical items was much more difficult than Alchemical-Grade. With his current [Magical Item Crafting] skill at only level 1, the success rate was likely abysmal.
“[Magical Item Crafting] is less than 500 proficiency away from leveling up. Let’s practice by crafting some Alchemical-Grade magical items first. I should update my brother’s equipment.”
Su Nan went to the workshop and took a long sword from a weapon rack.
The weapon rack held over a hundred weapons, densely packed with swords, spears, halberds, and more. They were all obtained by Su Nan from Kei.
He planned to use these weapons to try crafting enchanted weapons.
Enchanted weapons could be considered a major category of Alchemical-Grade magical items.
Their primary users were knights.
Many wizards would create enchanted weapons for their knights to enhance their combat ability.
Some wizards adept at crafting magical items could also use silver, gold, and other metals to temporarily imbue their knights’ weapons with magical properties during battle.
This was also called temporary enchantment.
Su Nan estimated that he would need to reach at least level 4 in [Magical Item Crafting] before he could master this technique.
Placing the long sword on the workbench, Su Nan began preparing the materials.
Common materials used in crafting magical items included various precious metals, gems, and magic stones.
Depending on the magical properties of the item, sometimes specific materials were also needed.
For example, crafting spatial magical items usually required Star Sand.
Crafting staffs usually required mithril.
Enchanted weapons were the simplest, only requiring base materials and no additional materials.
As Alchemical-Grade magical items, the crafting difficulty of enchanted weapons was relatively lower than “orthodox” magical items.
Under the bright lights, silver ingots, gems, and magic stones melted in Su Nan’s palm, turning into fine threads under his fingers. With a gentle touch of his fingertips on the sword’s body, they slowly seeped into the sword, leaving behind strange patterns on the surface.
A visible silver sheen gradually emerged from the blade.
The entire process lasted over ten minutes.
As the last pattern was engraved, the silver threads snapped from Su Nan’s fingertips, the sword flashed, and it was imbued with an indescribable and strange aura.
“Not bad, my skills haven’t gotten rusty!”
Su Nan grinned, placing the sword in the Magic Cube.
【Enchanted Weapon (Alchemical-Grade/Sub-Magical Item), possesses [Black Steel] property, significantly increased hardness, not easily damaged, reduced martial energy attachment loss.】
Alchemical-Grade enchanted weapons typically had properties such as [Black Steel], [Sharpness], and [Bloodlust].
Better ones had [Weak Elemental Damage] and [Martial Energy Gathering].
The former added weak elemental damage to the weapon.
The latter strengthened the power of martial energy.
Generally, an enchanted weapon could only be imbued with one magical property.
Only wizards with exceptionally refined crafting skills could imbue an enchanted weapon with multiple properties simultaneously.
Of course, wizards at that level wouldn’t waste their time on such a mundane task.
Wouldn’t it be better to craft a Gleaming-Grade magical item instead?
Besides these properties, enchanted weapons had a characteristic that wasn’t exactly a property.
Due to being infused with magic, enchanted weapons had a significantly improved compatibility with martial energy compared to ordinary weapons.
This manifested as a significant reduction in the extra consumption of martial energy when attaching it.
For this reason, even enchanted weapons that failed to imbue properties were still popular among knights.
“Come to think of it, can enchanted weapons with different properties be combined?”
A flash of insight struck Su Nan.
If it were possible, wouldn’t it be possible to create an enchanted weapon with over a dozen properties?
Thinking was doing. Su Nan immediately tried it.
Over the next period, he crafted over twenty more enchanted weapons.
The success rate was decent, averaging three successes out of five attempts.
Each success yielded about twenty proficiency points, and failures still gained around seven or eight points.
After crafting more than twenty enchanted weapons, his [Magical Item Crafting] skill successfully reached level 2.
However, Su Nan was disappointed to find that enchanted weapons with different properties could not be combined.
“It’s true, enchanted weapons with different properties are essentially different items, so it’s not strange that they can’t be combined.”
Enchanted weapons with the same property could be combined.
The combined enchanted weapon’s property effect would be further enhanced.
For example, Su Nan used three long swords with the [Sharpness] property to combine into a long sword with the [Armor-Piercing] property, easily breaking through the defenses of fine armor with a single strike.
Even though it didn’t break through in rank and remained Alchemical-Grade, this long sword’s power was already comparable to “orthodox” magical items like the Bloodvine Ring and the Magic Coin.
“Since magical items with the same property can be combined, I could completely use Alchemical-Grade magical items to combine into Gleaming-Grade magical items, or even Wizard Tools!”
The materials for Gleaming-Grade magical items were mostly rare and hard to find.
Wizard Tool materials were even more difficult to obtain.
In comparison, the materials for Alchemical-Grade magical items were much more common.
If he could use Alchemical-Grade to combine into Gleaming-Grade, or even Wizard Tools, it would undoubtedly save him a lot of effort.
Su Nan’s spirits rose, feeling like he had found another avenue to prosperity.
(End of Chapter)