This ambush on the Eternal Life Association, despite several unexpected developnts, was thrilling but not dangerous, and the gains were extrely rich.
Not to ntion the multi-winged creatures, just these seven space rings alone have a total value surpassing five hundred thousand.
After all, their previous owners were among the elite Level 3 Wizard Apprentices, each with considerable wealth.
With this money, the funding gap to assemble a third small-scale golem legion is significantly reduced.
Leaving the control center, Sunan returned to the study and summoned Carolina and the Red Widow.
"The Demon Pattern Knight Order on standby in Giant Eye City can withdraw now."
Casually giving a command, Sunan imdiately followed with:
"In the future, report to imdiately upon discovering other tribes and city-states."
Carolina first acknowledged, then asked in confusion: "Do you have other plans, master?"
Sunan did not hide: "I need a large number of souls to create soul crystals."
Carolina and the Red Widow suddenly understood.
Both were ruthless individuals and did not feel there was anything wrong with using biological souls to create soul crystals.
If they knew the technique for extracting souls, they would have done it themselves long ago.
Soul crystals are indeed valuable items.
After inquiring about the progress of the exploration action and seeing no issues, Sunan waved them off, then left the Dragon Forest and returned to Base No. 1, heading straight for the palace.
When he saw Kei, the latter was practicing martial techniques.
Even after becoming the ruler of a nation, Kei did not neglect his training and continued to diligently practice breathing techniques and martial skills daily.
With sufficient support from the Dragon Blood Fruit, he had already broken through to beco a Tier Two Legendary Knight two months prior.
Being a thirty-one-year-old Tier Two Legendary Knight, he was unique across the entire Starlight Continent.
However, at this level, to quickly enhance using Dragon Blood Fruit, one would need to consu a Level 6 Dragon Blood Fruit.
The Dragon Blood Fruits harvested in one maturity cycle from the entire Magic Plant Garden aren’t enough to synthesize just one.
And one isn’t even enough; it requires long-term consumption.
In light of this, Kei reduced his consumption of Dragon Blood Fruit.
Even if Sunan could supply them, he didn’t have enough money to spend on this.
Anyway, being able to advance to a Tier Three Legendary Knight within six years in ti for the opening of the Starry Tower was sufficient; there was no rush.
"Here you go."
When Kei finished his training and ca over, Sunan directly tossed him a talisman stone and a bottle of potion.
Kei reached out to catch them steadily, glanced at them a few tis, and his face showed joy.
He had long heard Sunan ntion the ambush on the Eternal Life Association and imdiately understood that this stone was the key to the Starry Tower and the potion was the Dawn Potion.
After a while, Kei ca back to his senses from his delight and seed to rember sothing, asking:
"What about the Eternal Life Association?"
"Starting today, the Eternal Life Association no longer exists on the Starlight Continent," Sunan said with a slight smile.
"That’s wonderful!" Kei’s face lit up with joy.
The existence of the Eternal Life Association was a highly unstable threat to any nation’s ruler.
After all, no one knew when those lunatics would stir up disaster.
The demise of the Eternal Life Association was undoubtedly a good thing for the entire southeastern region of the continent.
"There’s one more thing to discuss with you."
Sunan relayed what Rose had told him earlier.
After listening, Kei pondered for a while, then said solemnly:
"This is indeed a good suggestion."
"The recent movents of the Cangjin Empire are getting more significant, clearly preparing to dispatch troops against the duchy. Although I’m not afraid, fighting the empire single-handedly is sowhat challenging. Even if the empire is ultimately defeated, other countries might reap the benefits. It’s better to find more allies and take this opportunity to extinguish the empire in one fell swoop!"
After all, the Cangjin Empire has been the southeastern hegemon for hundreds of years, with profound foundations. Even with the Starlight Duchy’s Black Rock Cavalry Legion and golem legion, they don’t dare claim complete victory over the empire.
Having other countries help share the pressure isn’t bad either.
Moreover, even if the Cangjin Empire is conquered, the Starlight Duchy might find it hard to swallow in one bite with its current size. It would be wiser to share so benefits, reducing war damage; it’s a good deal.
Sunan nodded without saying anything.
He was only passing on the ssage; what to do next was up to Kei to decide.
As for surface wars, other than dealings with the Starlight Duchy, Sunan didn’t plan to intervene.
Currently, he was more focused on strengthening his power and expanding the Star Alliance, with no extra energy to manage surface wars.
With him and the Star Alliance as a backing, the Starlight Duchy need not worry about defeat.
"If we go to war with the Cangjin Empire, I hope to hire a golem legion from you," Kei said.
Sunan thought for a mont and agreed.
Since he was planning to assemble a third small-scale golem legion, dispatching one for surface support wasn’t a big deal, and he could earn so money to ease financial pressure.
...
In the ti that followed, Sunan beca increasingly busy.
After personally annihilating several indigenous tribes and a city-state, he harvested a large number of soul crystals and then began mass-manufacturing steel golems and synthesizing them.
Synthesizing a Tier Two Legendary Elite Steel Golem requires six steel golems, with a cost of about nine thousand gold coins.
Adding the constant spell effects and demonization processing, the total cost is only about twelve thousand gold coins, saving a whole ten thousand gold coins compared to the sa-level high-grade stone golems!
In other words, if all Steel Golems and Elite Steel Golems replace the elite and high-grade stone golems in a small golem legion, it can save about three hundred thousand gold coins.
The cost of assembling a small golem legion is about seventy thousand gold coins.
This ans saving over 40% of the cost!
Just the wealth Sunan acquired from the ambush on the Eternal Life Association is enough to form a small golem legion.
This is the greatest advantage of mastering the technique to manufacture soul crystals!
Sunan imdiately decided to no longer synthesize elite or high-grade stone golems, replacing them entirely with steel golems.
After this, Sunan also tried using steel golems to synthesize a Tier Three Legendary Puppet, and the final cost was as high as seventy-eight thousand gold coins, over twenty thousand more than refined gold golems.
"As expected, synthesis is much more expensive than manufacturing."
Shaking his head, Sunan decisively decided that refining refined gold golems was more cost-efficient.
Anyway, he could already manufacture soul crystals; all he needed was magic refined gold.
In the modification zone, inside the laboratory.
Sunan, using the Mage’s Hand, carefully controlled the blood, ticulously drawing the final blood pattern on the back of his hand.
As the blood light flashed, a new bloodline mark took shape.
Looking at the crimson mark on his hand, Sunan’s face showed a satisfied smile.
This was a bloodline mark made from the blood of the multi-winged creature, with the effect of controlling airflow and instantly unleashing a dense flurry of Qi Blades.
He rembered that the multi-winged creature used this move to kill Red Heart in a flash, showing its formidable power.
"Now I have one more trump card."
Under the light, both back hands of Sunan were adorned with bloodline marks.
One side had the Funeral Bell Mark, and the other the Qi Blade Mark.
In previous actions, all five of the Funeral Bell Marks had been depleted, and Sunan recently redrew two new Funeral Bell Marks during this period.
Since the Qi Blade Mark was newly researched, there was only one.
To fill both backs of the hands with bloodline marks requires gathering a long first-ti supply of blood.
"Although it will slow the absorption of divinity, I now have two divine organisms, absorbing double, and will soon make up for it."
During this period, Sunan hadn’t neglected studying the divinity of the multi-winged creature and had already extracted divine power from it.
The only issue was due to once receiving the worship of eye demons, the divine power in the multi-winged creature contained a slight trace of faith power.
Although very weak, it was indeed polluted.
It had to go through the cube synthesis process to eliminate contamination before it could be absorbed.
Adding this procedure, it would take a long ti to absorb.
However, regardless, with the divine power provided by the multi-winged creature, spiritual power should reach 60 points faster than he expected.
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