[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-synthetic-wizard":3,"chapter-synthetic-wizard-synthetic-wizard-chapter-178":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Synthetic Wizard",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1462398,1912,"Chapter 178 - 128: Power Built on Money (Part 2)","synthetic-wizard-chapter-178",178,"\u003Cp>As his strength improved, Sunan gradually came into contact with more and more secrets, along with encountering increasingly powerful opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Items like Stone Golems and Dual-bladed Spiders are adequate for dealing with ordinary knights, but they do not even qualify as cannon fodder against slightly stronger enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Elite Stone Golems and Steel Golems, Tier One Legendary Puppets, are becoming somewhat strained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So considering the future, Sunan thought it necessary to craft more advanced golem puppets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had three options in this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first option was naturally Elite Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elite Dual-bladed Spiders have already proven their combat effectiveness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These extremely swift puppets are very useful against some agile enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the instructions he left before departing, Base No. 1 and Base No. 2’s warehouses had accumulated a large amount of tungsten steel, just right for refining Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan estimated he could synthesize three to four Elite Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second option was to synthesize a higher-grade Stone Golem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the consumption of miniature soul crystals required for crafting Steel Golems, until a stable source is secured, mass production of Steel Golems is impossible, making the synthesis method using Steel Golems unfeasible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he could only settle for second-best using Stone Golems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least Sunan now had a stable source of gemstones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before arriving at Ghost Lake City, he visited Base No. 1 to check on the insect nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his absence, Carolina consistently delivered collected split catalyst nutrients to Base No. 1, where the apprentices fed the gemstone worms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of gemstone worms had now grown to eighteen, increasing the annual gemstone production to over six hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, there were regularly purchased gemstones from the Fire Fox Trade Association.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This aspect did not present a concern regarding material shortages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, the cost of synthesizing a Tier Two Legendary Stone Golem was not high, reaching nearly twenty thousand gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the addition of demonized weapon technology similar to advanced Dual-bladed Spiders, the cost slightly exceeded twenty thousand gold coins, which was less than advanced Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, its combat effectiveness was slightly inferior to advanced Dual-bladed Spiders, except in situations requiring frontal assaults where it could play a more significant role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third option, naturally, was to craft even higher-grade golems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Avegni’s experimental notes contained a design blueprint for Refined Gold Golems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Refined Gold Golems are Tier Three Legendary Golems, with combat power surpassing many Level 3 Wizard Apprentices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Rose was at a loss against the Refined Gold Golem and had to seek Sunan’s cooperation to successfully resolve it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Sunan, at the time, had to unleash full power from the Demon Pattern Core to barely inflict severe damage to the Refined Gold Golem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nowadays, his strength had significantly increased, but it would still require considerable effort to take down a Refined Gold Golem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he possessed fifty or sixty Refined Gold Golems, Sunan believed he could roam the Starlight Continent unchecked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But crafting this thing is exceedingly arduous.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even among the various types of golems, the Refined Gold Golem stands in the mid-tier, with considerable crafting difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 4 [Puppet Refining] was only barely sufficient; Level 5 was considered the normal standard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan glanced at the panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the extensive and frequent crafting of golems, his [Puppet Refining] progress bar was now nearing two-thirds completion, lacking just over three thousand proficiency points to reach Level 5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill requirement was not an issue and could soon meet the standard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key was still the materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The primary material for the Refined Gold Golem was Magic Refined Gold, the product of enchanting refined gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creating a single Refined Gold Golem approximately required fourteen to fifteen tons of Magic Refined Gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding other various gemstones, rare materials, silver, and gold, the total cost was estimated at around fifty thousand gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fortunately, I recently received a substantial sum from the Starfire Sect, enough for me to craft a Refined Gold Golem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan estimated that crafting fourteen to fifteen tons of Magic Refined Gold would not be completed in a year or two if left to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if it was made into a task assigned to the apprentices at Base No. 1, it should be finished in two to three months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crafting difficulty of Magic Refined Gold was not high, comparable to demonized weaponry, and there were already many apprentices at the base capable of independently completing such tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noting this down silently, with plans to implement it as soon as he returned to Base No. 1, Sunan then began crafting Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After spending more than half a month, he refined all the tungsten steel in the two bases into Dual-bladed Spiders, ultimately synthesizing four Elite Dual-bladed Spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to the one previous, Sunan now had five Tier Two Legendary Puppets in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he did not stop there and began further experimentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although Dual-bladed Spiders are agile, they also have a notable weakness, such as the inability to fly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re fine against Legendary Knights, but when facing Wizard Apprentices who master the Floating Skill or possess flying magic items, they turn into passive targets.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To eliminate this weakness, Sunan eventually devised a solution: permanently affixing [Floating Skill] to the Dual-bladed Spider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This idea was inspired by the Secret Puppet’s design blueprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following this concept, any puppet could permanently fix a magic, thus acquiring the ability to cast it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Secret Puppet managed this because its main materials contained abundant gemstones and mithril.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understandably, Sunan was unwilling to expend mithril at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he settled for an alternative solution, adding spell-casting capabilities to the Dual-bladed Spider through the creation of a magically imbued item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Essentially equivalent to embedding a spell-storing magic item within the Dual-bladed Spider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since the Dual-bladed Spiders lacked Spiritual Power, another form of energy was needed to activate the magic item to achieve the spell-casting effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan ultimately chose magic stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resulting Elite Dual-bladed Spider gained flying capabilities after casting the Floating Skill, at the cost of consuming approximately one low-grade magic stone per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For other Wizard Apprentices, this was undoubtedly a shocking expenditure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just to grant a puppet flight capabilities, consuming a massive volume of precious magic stones was clearly an extravagant and irrational approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Sunan had an abundance of magic stones, allowing him to manufacture such items at low cost and high volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, magic stones, invaluable to others, existed merely as a cheap energy resource.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, the cost of affixing a Tier Two Magic was somewhat higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Affixing just the [Floating Skill] added around three hundred gold coins to the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the likelihood of facing Kasham’s swarm, Sunan also equipped the Elite Dual-bladed Spiders with a wide-area damage-type [Shattering Sound Wave], a mobility enhancing [Light Spirit Skill], a body-strengthening [Toughness Skill], and a power-enhancing [Barbaric Strength Skill].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, the cost for each Elite Dual-bladed Spider exceeded twenty-three thousand gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total cost for five reached over a hundred and ten thousand gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was excluding the cost of magic stones during combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The strength range of Level 3 Wizard Apprentices spans from Tier One to Tier Four.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The combat power of an Elite Dual-bladed Spider is roughly equivalent to a mid-range Level 3 Wizard Apprentice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Spending one hundred and ten thousand gold coins for five Level 3 Wizard Apprentice-level combatants is also quite worthwhile.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan nodded silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to synthesize several more Tier Two Legendary-level advanced Stone Golems for good measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, a batch of Rings of Great Protection and Rings of Calamity were to be crafted for personal protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, crafting golem puppets with a cost of over twenty thousand gold coins was done, and a batch of Micro-Light Level magic items wasn’t going to break the bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, considering this, the mining revenue from Ghost Lake City for the next few months would need to be funneled into this bottomless pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s fortunate that three new mineral veins were recently developed; otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to sustain such extravagant spending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Power is built with money,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunan couldn’t help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>",1355,"2026-06-06T02:33:43.453Z",1,"novelbin.me","b173060c452c798de5ccc0d7eae44785143936db77ae1656d9d7a45fc9c990d7","synthetic-wizard-chapter-298","synthetic-wizard-chapter-297",369,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsynthetic-wizard-cover.jpg"]