In Su Nan's memory, after the year 2000 of the Starlight Calendar, during the Dark Throne's massive invasion of the Starlight Continent, no True Spirit Wizards or large wizard towers appeared.
Now that I think about it, perhaps it was just as Maisha said, the Dark Throne put most of its energy into conquering the second plane community and did not have much energy to focus on a single plane.
However, Sunan vaguely remembered that the Dark Throne seemed to have mobilized the war forces of an entire plane at that time, which eventually evolved into a large-scale plane war.
But even so, this is already considered good.
At least the Star Alliance also controls an entire plane and has the power to fight back.
"How is the military expansion going?" Su Nan asked.
Liz was familiar with it, and said without thinking: "The eighth large golem army is already being formed, and it should be completed before the plane blockade is lifted."
"The current number of official members of the Magic Rune Knights has increased to 58,000, and the number of candidate members who are not equipped with magic rune constructs has exceeded 500,000."
"The core dragon knight force has expanded to 8,500 people. A new batch of dragons have just come out of the ranch and have been distributed. They are now in the adaptation period. It is expected that the entire force will be expanded to 9,000 next year."
As early as after the construction of the Starlight Wizard Tower was completed, the Star Alliance focused its resources on the expansion of its military power in preparation for the battle against the Dark Throne.
As the core armed forces of the Star Alliance, the Golem Legion and the Magic Pattern Knights are naturally the top priorities for expansion.
The total number of a large golem army is 125,000.
Eight branches mean one million statues.
In other words, by next year the Star Alliance will have a million golems.
If we also take into account the local garrisons guarding the various city-states and resource points in the underground world, the number of golems can increase by another 300,000 or 400,000.
There are 1.3 or 400,000 golems. Although most of them are stone golems and double-blade spiders, this number is still exaggerated.
That is to say, Starlight Academy has trained a large number of wizard apprentices over the past few hundred years, and there are enough tools to refine puppets. Otherwise, Sunan alone would be unable to refine so many golems even if he died of exhaustion.
As for the Magic Pattern Knights, the number of official members is relatively small.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that there are less than 60,000 people, they are all elites.
You should know that the minimum standard for formal membership in the Magic Rune Knights is a high-level grand knight. When equipped with magic rune constructs, their combat power will without exception break through to the level of legendary knights.
In other words, this is the combat power of 58,000 legendary knights! As the core of the ace, the Asian Dragon Knight is the best among the legendary knights. When put on the battlefield, it is an indestructible blade.
In terms of combat power alone, the three large golem legions combined are no match for the Magic Pattern Knights!
What's more, the Magic Pattern Knights still have more than 500,000 candidate members.
Although the substitute members do not have magic rune constructs, each of them is a knight or a great knight, which is more than enough to serve as a regular legion and is not much inferior to the golem legion.
"Increase the rewards for the task of manufacturing magic rune constructs. Next, manufacture as many magic rune constructs as possible, and strive to have the number of official members of the Magic Rune Knights exceed 60,000 next year."
Sunan gave an order, and after Liz agreed, he changed the subject.
"What about the fleet?"
Liz said: "Considering that the chances of a naval battle are low, we have only established five naval fleets. As long as we don't encounter a large-scale naval battle, it should be enough."
Sunan nodded slightly. It is rare to encounter naval battles in plane wars, unless the attacking plane happens to be an ocean-dominated plane.
However, the probability of this happening is very low.
Even if they really encounter one, with the logistical strength of the Star Alliance, they can produce several naval fleets in a short period of time.
However, the naval fleet did not expand, but another type of magic ship was at the focus of the Covenant's expansion.
That is the flying magic ship! This kind of magic ship has a wide range of uses. It can be used in naval battles, land battles, and air battles, and can also be used to quickly transport troops.
In the Starlight Continent, the Star Alliance can transport troops efficiently and quickly through the transmission network, but once they attack other planes, this advantage will disappear.
Taking this into consideration, Sunan ordered the formation of a flying fleet.
There is another more important reason, which is that the flying fleet can deal with the wizard tower.
Before the Starlight Wizard Tower is upgraded to a Large Wizard Tower, Sunan does not plan to build a second Wizard Tower.
He planned to invest any extra resources into the Starlight Wizard Tower.
But in this case, the Covenant's strength in large-scale war creations would be somewhat weak.
It was fine before, because due to the plane blockade, the Dark Throne could not send out multiple wizard towers to invade the Starlight Continent at the same time.
But once the plane blockade is lifted and the Dark Throne invades massively, Sunan can guarantee that there will definitely be more than one wizard tower coming!
It would be difficult to cope with the situation relying solely on the Starlight Wizard Tower, so we must find a way to get more help.
The flying fleet was the result of his repeated consideration.
The magic ship with flying ability and long-range firepower is undoubtedly the best armed force to deal with the wizard tower at this stage.
Although its overall strength is far inferior to that of the Wizard Tower, it is superior in number and can implement ship and sea tactics.
Moreover, the research and development of the flying magic ship is not difficult. It is just to add a copycat ultra-small floating ring to the original magic ship, and then strengthen the long-range firepower.
Today, the Star Alliance's flying fleet has begun to take shape.
In addition, Sunan also plans to research a war fortress that is between a flying magic ship and a wizard tower, as a conventional large-scale war creation for the Star Alliance to conduct future plane wars.
However, it is still at the conceptual stage and he does not have the energy to focus on it in the short term. He can only take action after overcoming the current crisis.
"Currently, twelve flying fleets have been formed. The fleet size is the same as that of the navy fleet. Each fleet includes five third-level magic ships, twenty-five second-level magic ships, and two hundred and fifty first-level magic ships."
"In addition, the 13th and 14th fleets are also being formed. If we speed up the work, it should be completed next year."
Sunan nodded secretly.
Fourteen flying fleets are barely enough.
Unfortunately, the time is too short and the resources are limited. Otherwise, if he could form hundreds of flying fleets, even if the Dark Throne sent out five or six small wizard towers, he would be confident that he could make sure the other party would not return.
The Golem Legion, the Magic Pattern Knights, the Magic Ship Fleet, and the Starlight Wizard Tower. In addition, although the military strength of the Starry Empire is weaker, it is also considered a force.
In general, the power of the Starlight Continent now far exceeds that of many sub-planes and individual planes!
This is the difference between a plane with or without wizard forces in charge.
If the opponent was not the Dark Throne, but any other ordinary plane, the current strength of the Star Alliance could completely crush it.
"That's right, let's continue with this trend." Sunan said with a smile, "The rest is up to you."
"You're such a hands-off boss, you're really enjoying yourself." Liz rolled her eyes at him.
Having said that, she actually knew that Su Nan was not leisurely.
Whether it is upgrading the wizard tower or filling the talent crystal model, it is a task that requires a lot of energy and time.
Strictly speaking, what Sunan does is more important than what she is responsible for, so there is nothing to complain about.
After leaving the reception room, Sunan returned to the element pool to continue practicing.
Whether he can withstand the first wave of attacks from the Dark Throne after the plane blockade depends not only on the progress of the Star Alliance's military expansion, but more importantly on the upgrade of the Starlight Wizard Tower and whether he can be promoted to a third-level wizard.
Especially the latter.
It goes without saying that the attack on the Dark Throne a year from now will definitely involve third-level wizards.
If it was a level three gasification wizard, it would be fine, but if it was a level three liquefaction or level three crystallization, it would be a bit difficult to deal with it with his current strength, and he must be promoted to a level three wizard as soon as possible.
Although the deal was reached, due to the plane blockade, it took a lot of effort for Maisha to enter the Starlight Continent.
It was not until a month later that she brought the promised fifty spirit beads.
“It’s been a pleasure working with you.”
Sunan took out the five hundred magic crystals that he had synthesized in the past few days.
Just these five hundred magic crystals almost emptied most of the Star Alliance's secondary magic stone inventory.
"It's a pleasure to work with you." Mai Yisha put away the magic crystal and looked at Sunan deeply. "I wish you can be promoted to a third-level wizard as soon as possible."
"Thank you for your good words."
Both of them are decisive and they went their separate ways after the transaction was completed.
The Starlight Continent will soon become a battlefield. Maisha is worried about Amy staying here and plans to take her back to the Code of Wisdom.
Although Amy was very reluctant, she had no choice but to follow her master away.
"Sunan, you must defeat those bad guys, and then come to the Code of Wisdom to see me!" Amy said reluctantly.
"I will." Sunan nodded with a smile.
After watching Maisha and Amy leave, Sunan returned to the wizard tower and prepared to absorb the spirit bead.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Su Nan clenched a spiritual bead in his palm, closed his eyes and began to practice.
While filling the talent crystal model with mental power, it also absorbs the mental beads.
Time passes by.
In less than half a day, Sunan opened his eyes and frowned slightly.
"A spiritual bead only increases by less than 0.4%?"
Sunan sighed in disappointment.
He was not too surprised by this result.
When the first talent crystal model was filled, a spirit bead only filled less than 2% of the spiritual power.
Now that we have switched to the third talent crystal model, more mental power is required, so it is normal that the filling progress has dropped significantly.
Who told him that he was constructing a super talent crystal, which required far more mental power than ordinary talent crystals.
The spirit bead, which has a very significant effect on ordinary wizards, is not so effective on him.
No, that can’t be said. This progress is roughly equivalent to the results of more than three years of practice, which is actually not a small amount.
"Fifty Spiritual Pearls can shorten my training time by about 170 to 180 years."
"If that's all, I will definitely not be able to be promoted to a third-level wizard before the plane blockade is lifted."
"Is there any other way to recover your mental strength faster?"
Su Nan sat there and pondered.
Soon, an idea gradually took shape in his mind.
Compared to others, his biggest advantage is that he possesses a synthetic Rubik's Cube.
So if we want to improve the efficiency of cultivation, we must start from this aspect.
According to this idea, the solution is very clear - synthesize the spirit beads! Although the synthesis cube has the word "synthesis", its most essential effect is to strengthen objects.
By combining similar objects, the power of their effects is greatly increased.
The same can be applied to the Spirit Pearl.
It's worth a try! Sunan's eyes lit up, and he immediately opened the Rubik's Cube and put the Spirit Pearl in.
[Spirit Pearl, a crystal formed by highly condensed spiritual power, can be used to restore spiritual power, containing 14394 standard units of spiritual power. ]
Sunan then placed the remaining forty-eight spirit beads into the Rubik's Cube one by one and checked the information.
Although the amount of spiritual power contained in each spirit bead varies, they are all between 14,000 and 15,000, with a difference of only a few hundred.
Sunan picked two pieces at random and put them into the Rubik's Cube. The synthesis interface flashed, and then new information appeared.
[Spirit Pearl, a crystal formed by highly condensed spiritual power, can be used to restore spiritual power, containing 38285 standard units of spiritual power. ]
“It really works!”
Su Nan looked overjoyed.
Just as he thought, the synthetic spirit bead could indeed greatly enhance the effect, and the increase was not low, more than 20% and close to 30%.
He continued to put in the third spirit bead, and this time the amount of spiritual power in the synthesized product soared to more than 57,000 standard units, an increase of more than 30%.
Sunan cheered up and continued the synthesis.
However, he was careful. Every time he synthesized a spirit bead, he would take it out and try to see if he could absorb it.
Past experience told him that this kind of synthesis was not unlimited, but had an upper limit.
Just like using elemental crystal dust to synthesize elemental crystal core, when the elemental crystal core reaches a certain strength, he will no longer be able to absorb divine energy from it.
If the divine energy in the elemental crystal core before was just a piece of stone, he could control his mental power to slowly grind the stone into powder and absorb it, but the divine energy after that was like solid iron, which could not be shaken no matter how hard he tried.
It is very likely that the Spirit Pearl also has the same upper limit.
This speculation was soon confirmed.
When the number of synthesized beads increased to twenty-three, Sunan already felt obvious resistance when absorbing spiritual power from the spirit bead.
Seeing this, he wisely stopped the synthesis.
At this time, the amount of spiritual power contained in the spirit bead is more than five times the total of the twenty-three spirit beads! Looking at the spirit bead in his hand that has become more crystal clear and brilliant, Su Nan showed an extremely happy smile on his face.
At the same time, there is also a hint of regret.
If I had not been so hasty when I absorbed the Spirit Pearl for the first time and had thought of this method, I could have wasted at least two years less.
After calming himself down, Su Nan put away all distracting thoughts and began to absorb the spiritual pearl.
Two spirit beads are synthesized to the limit, and the last three spirit beads are synthesized and then absorbed.
By the time all the spirit beads were absorbed, Sunan's talent crystal model filling progress had soared to 99.88%, and he was only one step away from promotion.
"The rest is just a matter of time and effort!"
Su Nan took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and continued to immerse himself in cultivation.
The promotion to the third-level wizard is just around the corner. (End of this chapter)
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