Chapter 435: Chapter 255: Military Expansion, Synthesizing Spirit Orbs_2
Moreover, Sunan plans to research a war fortress that falls between a flying demon ship and a wizard tower, as a regular large-scale war creation for the Star Alliance in future plane wars.
However, it’s still in the conceptual stage for now, and he doesn’t have the energy to focus on it in the short term. He can only wait until the current crisis is over before putting it into action.
"Currently, twelve flying fleets have been assembled, with fleet sizes similar to naval fleets. Each fleet includes five level 3 demon ships, twenty-five level 2 demon ships, and two hundred fifty level 1 demon ships."
"Additionally, the thirteenth and fourteenth fleets are also being assembled, and with accelerated progress, they should be completed by next year."
Sunan nodded silently to himself.
Fourteen flying fleets, just barely enough.
Unfortunately, time is too short, and there are resource constraints. Otherwise, he would have assembled hundreds of flying fleets. Even if the Dark Throne sent five or six small wizard towers, he would be confident they would never return.
With the Golem Legion, Demon Pattern Knight Order, Magic Ship Fleet, and the Starlight Wizard Tower, the military strength of the Starlight Continent, although weaker, can still be considered part of the force.
In summary, the power of the Starlight Continent now far exceeds many secondary planes and individual planes!
This is the difference between a plane with or without wizard influence.
If the opponent were not the Dark Throne but any other ordinary plane, the Star Alliance’s current strength could completely crush them.
"Not bad, let’s continue according to this trend." Sunan said with a smile, "The following matters are all up to you."
"You really are at ease, being hands-off like this." Lize rolled her eyes at him.
Despite her words, she actually knows that Sunan is not idle.
Whether it’s upgrading the wizard tower or filling the talent crystal model, they are all tasks that require a lot of time and energy.
Strictly speaking, what Sunan is doing is even more important than what she’s responsible for, so there’s not much to complain about.
Leaving the conference room, Sunan returned to the Elemental Pool to continue training.
To withstand the first wave of attacks from the Dark Throne after the plane blockade, besides looking at the expansion progress of the Star Alliance’s military forces, it’s more important to look at the upgrade of the Starlight Wizard Tower, and whether he can advance to become a Level 3 Wizard.
Especially the latter.
There’s no doubt that a year from now, the Dark Throne’s offensive will definitely involve Level 3 Wizards.
If they are Level 3 gaseous wizards, it’s fine, but if they are Level 3 liquid or crystallized, with his current strength, it would be quite challenging to deal with them. He must quickly advance to a Level 3 Wizard.
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Although the transaction was completed, because of the plane blockade, Maisy had to put in a lot of effort to enter the Starlight Continent.
It wasn’t until a month later that she brought the promised fifty psyche beads.
"Pleasure working with you."
Sunan took out the five hundred magic crystals synthesized over the past few days.
These five hundred magic crystals almost emptied the Star Alliance’s remaining stockpile of secondary magic stones.
"Pleasure working with you." Maisy put away the magic crystals and gave Sunan a deep look, "I wish you an early advancement to a Level 3 Wizard."
"Thank you for your kind words."
Both of them had straightforward personalities, so after the transaction was completed, they parted ways.
The Starlight Continent was soon to become a battlefield, so Maisy was not comfortable having Amy remain here, and planned to take it back to the Wisdom Code.
Although Amy was very reluctant, it could only follow its master and leave.
"Sunan, you have to defeat those bad guys and then come to the Wisdom Code to see me, meow!" Amy said reluctantly.
"I will," Sunan nodded with a smile.
Watching Maisy and Amy leave, Sunan then returned to the wizard tower and prepared to absorb the psyche beads.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Sunan held a psyche bead tightly in his palm and closed his eyes to begin cultivating.
He filled the talent crystal model with spiritual power while absorbing the psyche beads.
Time gradually passed.
Less than half a day later, Sunan opened his eyes, frowning slightly.
"A single psyche bead only increased by less than 0.4%."
Sunan sighed in disappointment.
He wasn’t too surprised by this result either.
When filling the first talent crystal model, a single psyche bead only filled less than 2% of spiritual power.
Now, with the third talent crystal model, it requires more spiritual power, and the filling progress has significantly decreased, which is quite normal.
Because what he constructed is a super talent crystal, which requires much more spiritual power than a normal talent crystal.
The psyche beads, which have a significant effect on ordinary wizards, do not have the same immediate effect on him.
No, that’s not entirely true. This progress is about equivalent to more than three years of cultivation results, which isn’t an insignificant amount.
"Fifty psyche beads can roughly shorten my cultivation time by about one hundred and seventy to eighty years."
"If it’s just like this, it definitely won’t be possible to advance to a Level 3 Wizard before the plane blockade is lifted."
"Is there any faster way to restore spiritual power?"
Sunan sat and pondered deeply.
Soon, an idea gradually formed in his mind.
Compared to others, his biggest advantage is owning the synthesis cube.
So, to improve cultivation efficiency, this is definitely the area to focus on.
Following this line of thought, the solution became clear—synthesize the psyche beads!
Although the synthesis cube bears the word ’synthesis,’ its most essential effect is to enhance objects.
By synthesizing similar objects, their effect and power are greatly enhanced.
This can also be applied to the psyche beads.
It’s worth a try!
Sunan’s eyes lit up, and he immediately opened the cube and placed in a psyche bead.
[Psyche Bead, a crystal formed from highly condensed spiritual power, useful for restoring spiritual power, containing 14,394 standard units of spiritual power.]
Sunan then placed the remaining forty-eight psyche beads into the cube one by one to check the information.
Although the amount of spiritual power contained in each psyche bead varied slightly, they were all between fourteen thousand and fifteen thousand, differing only by a few hundred.
Sunan casually picked two and placed them into the cube, and the synthesis interface flashed, then new information appeared.
[Psyche Bead, a crystal formed from highly condensed spiritual power, useful for restoring spiritual power, containing 38,285 standard units of spiritual power.]
"As expected, it works!"
Sunan was overjoyed.
Just as he thought, synthesizing the psyche beads could indeed significantly enhance their effect, and the increase wasn’t small, reaching almost thirty percent.
He continued by adding the third psyche bead, and the spiritual power amount of the synthesized product soared to over fifty-seven thousand standard units, with an increase of more than thirty percent.
Sunan was invigorated and continued synthesizing.
But he was careful; each time he synthesized an additional psyche bead, he would try to see if it could be absorbed.
Past experience told him that this kind of synthesis wasn’t limitless and had an upper limit.
Like synthesizing elemental crystal cores from elemental crystal dust, when the elemental crystal core reached a certain strength, he couldn’t absorb the divine energy from it.
If the divine energy in the elemental crystal core was like a stone that he could grind into powder with spiritual power and absorb, then the divine energy later became like hardened iron, hard to remove despite his efforts.
The psyche bead likely had a similar upper limit.
This hypothesis was soon confirmed.
When the number of synthesized beads reached twenty-three, Sunan felt considerable resistance when absorbing spiritual power from the psyche beads.
Seeing this, he wisely stopped the synthesis.
By then, the amount of spiritual power contained in the psyche beads was more than five times the total of those twenty-three psyche beads!
Looking at the psyche bead in his hand, now more brilliant and exquisite, Sunan’s face lit up with an extremely pleased smile.
Yet, there was also a hint of regret.
Had he not hastily absorbed psyche beads the first time, he might have thought of this method back then, saving at least two years.
Calming his thoughts, Sunan set aside distractions and began absorbing the psyche beads.
The two psyche beads, synthesized to their limit, along with the last three psyche beads, were combined and then absorbed.
By the time all psyche beads were absorbed, the filling progress of Sunan’s talent crystal model had soared to 99.88%, leaving him just a step away from advancing.
"What’s left is meticulous work!"
Sunan took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, and continued to immerse himself in cultivation.
The advancement to a Level 3 Wizard was nearly within reach.
