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Chapter 71: Level 1 Summoning Help Technique
The Puppet Factory echoed with a low rumble.
The massive mana crystal forging furnace vibrated violently, with an intense orange-red glow radiating from the gaps in its tightly closed lid.
The entire factory was filled with an anxious atmosphere, the scorching heat making even Probationary Knights unable to withstand it for long.
Su Nan, however, was oblivious, his face calm as he stood before the workbench.
A completed steel golem body lay on the wide workbench.
The black metal surface was covered with countless magic inscription patterns.
As Su Nan placed the soul crystal in the golem’s chest cavity, a silver glow quickly spread along the inscription patterns, flowing throughout the entire body like a stream of light.
Observing the majestic body of the steel golem, Su Nan nodded in satisfaction.
“A steel golem made with Blackstone Iron is indeed stronger than ordinary steel.”
“Even against Ho Chi, this steel golem is enough to win.”
A qualified steel golem, in addition to being indestructible and possessing immense strength, also possessed dark vision, immunity to all mental influence effects, immunity to poison, sleep, paralysis, confusion, suffocation, and so on, fearless of pain and death.
It also had extremely high resistance to most elemental damage effects.
For example, burns from fire, paralysis from lightning, curses from darkness, and corrosion from shadows.
It was undoubtedly a combat behemoth!
Even within the wizard towers of official wizards, steel golems could be ranked among the high-level guard ranks.
For Su Nan’s current base, which was only just starting to take shape, it was more than enough to serve as the ultimate guard rank.
As for higher-level golems, aside from the lack of suitable soul crystals, his current Puppetry Refining level was insufficient.
“Steel golems are indeed good guards, but the key materials are hard to find.”
In addition to the metal materials that make up the body, steel golems also require silver, gold, and crystal for inscribing magic patterns.
The overall cost was close to eight hundred gold coins.
This was without factoring in the value of the soul crystal.
If the soul crystal were included, the cost of the steel golem would definitely exceed a thousand gold coins.
“I don’t have a second soul crystal on hand now, so I can’t forge a second steel golem in the short term.”
“Or maybe I could try using gemstones as the soul core, forging a lower-performance, castrated version of the steel golem, and then synthesizing it?”
Su Nan’s eyes lit up.
If this worked, he could forge steel golems even without soul crystals.
However, doing so would consume a considerable amount of Blackstone Iron.
“Or could I use a gemstone-made soul core to synthesize and see if it can replace the soul crystal?”
“Whatever the case, it’s worth a try. I’ll add it to the schedule list for now.”
Su Nan casually added this plan to his schedule list.
The list contained his daily schedule.
Meditation, potion crafting, forging Blackrock Beasts and golems, cultivating magic plants, blood exchange for the Stealthy Dragon, crafting enchanted weapons. Almost every day was packed. 𝙧
Thankfully, wizards could use meditation as a substitute for rest and didn’t need to sleep, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to handle it all.
“Thankfully, the three little guys have learned enough. I’ll arrange for them to move into the base in a few days. Then, I can leave the simple tasks like cultivating magic plants and extracting Silver Moon Flowers to them, and I can free up time to create magical items.”
Due to his busy schedule, the plan to create Starlight-level magic items hadn’t even been put on the agenda yet.
“Speaking of which, the materials I commissioned the Fire Fox Trading Company to procure should be arriving soon.”
It’s worth mentioning that the schedule list didn’t include spell learning because, in the past six months, Su Nan had already mastered all the First-Ring spells he could learn.
These included Magic Disguise, Seven-Colored Aura, Feather Fall, Level 1 Summoning Technique, Silent Shadow, and Understanding Language.
So far, he had mastered twelve First-Ring spells in total.
For a Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice who had only advanced for less than two years, this number of spells was astounding.
However, after that, Su Nan didn’t have any more First-Ring spells on hand.
The Fire Fox Trading Company, although it had been collecting various books for him according to his commission, had very few spell books, and the occasional ones were mostly Zero-Ring spells.
Over half of the First-Ring spells that Su Nan currently mastered came from the spell books left by his master Amy.
“It seems that making a fortune still depends on wizard legacies.”
Su Nan thought of the Starsea Tower, one of the three great wizard legacies on the Starlight Continent.
He wondered where the Starsea Tower actually was.
“Speaking of which, both the Starsea Tower and the Star Kingdom have the word ‘Star’ in their names. Could there be a connection between the two?”
After pondering for a while without any result, Su Nan shook his head, no longer dwelling on it. Instead, he started thinking about another matter.
“The base is too big. Even with three apprentices joining, there’s still a shortage of manpower in many places. I need to find more help.”
Su Nan already had a solution to this problem.
It was related to two First-Ring spells he had recently mastered.
Those were the Level 1 Summoning Technique and Understanding Language.
The Level 1 Summoning Technique was also known as the Level 1 Summoning Help Technique among wizards.
Many wizards would use this spell to summon interdimensional creatures to assist them with experiments, base management, and so on.
After all, summoning interdimensional creatures was undoubtedly quicker and more convenient than spending a lot of time and effort training apprentices.
However, this method wasn’t without its difficulties.
Firstly, the target of the Level 1 Summoning Technique was uncertain.
Interdimensional creatures were as numerous as stars, and nine out of ten could not meet the requirements of wizards.
To summon a suitable interdimensional creature, it was almost impossible without trying hundreds or even thousands of times.
Secondly, there was the issue of language communication.
During the spell’s activation, the caster could communicate with the summoned creature through the spell using mental communication, so there was no communication problem.
However, if the interdimensional creature was to be kept, communication became an issue that had to be addressed.
But this was easy to solve. Understanding Language was designed for this very purpose.
With this spell, communication with interdimensional creatures wouldn’t be a problem.
Moreover, he could later create a magic item with a permanent Understanding Language spell and put it on the summoned creature, eliminating any communication barriers.
Finally, there was the matter of contracts.
The prerequisite for turning an interdimensional creature into a helper was to ensure that it wouldn’t betray.
Furthermore, there was loyalty.
Therefore, signing a contract was the only option.
Even if it wasn’t a slave-type blood contract, it had to be at least a cooperative oath contract.
How to convince the interdimensional creature to sign a contract was something wizards had to consider.
Of course, if you were ruthless enough, you could force the interdimensional creature to sign a blood contract using violence.
There were even wizards who used this spell to summon interdimensional creatures as experimental material, leading to the Level 1 Summoning Technique gaining another name: the Level 1 Summoning Resource Technique.
However, the downside of doing so was obvious. Under the influence of the interdimensional summoning laws, these wizards would likely not receive a response from interdimensional creatures in the future.
“I also have Magic Coins, which can also summon interdimensional creatures. I can use them together with the Level 1 Summoning Technique.”
“Hopefully, I can summon some useful helpers.”
Su Nan added another item to his schedule list.
(End of Chapter)