Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Another Broad Avenue Ahead The Thunder Moon drifted through like wood chips floating in a river, spinning through the fingertips and vanishing from people’s sight. The weather was becoming hotter by the day. Not long after the beginning of the Blooming Month, Sunan successfully built the sixth star ring. As he expected, his spirit attribute also broke through the significant barrier of 20. [Sunan Yanest, Human Male] [Spirit 20.36 / Constitution 15.45] [Skills] Star Ring Meditation Method Lv7 (21/80000) Potion Making Lv4 (256/10000) Biological Transformation Lv2 (903/3000) Puppet Refining Lv2 (2822/3000) Magic Item Creation Lv1 (502/1000) "Eighty thousand proficiency, it will probably take more than three months to upgrade." Sunan nodded secretly. One of the conditions to advance to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice is to build nine star rings. He still needs three more star rings now. At the current pace, if all goes well, it should be done in two to three years. By then, only spiritual power will be left. "When the time comes, taking the Evil Illusion Potion will increase my spiritual power." "The most crucial main ingredient, the Bloody Mandala, is already in hand. The remaining materials have been entrusted to the Foxfire Chamber of Commerce for collection; gathering them is just a matter of time." During this period, Sunan has been making potions extensively, and his [Potion Making] skill has already broken through to level 4. With this level of [Potion Making], he can attempt to make tier-two potions. It is worth mentioning that as the skill level increases, the success rate of making Lesser Active Potions and Lesser Dragon Blood Potions has further improved, already exceeding 40%. The increased success rate also further reduces potion costs and increases sales profits significantly, allowing the cash-strapped Sunan some much-needed relief. "The Clay Golems and Stone Golems are already made, so I don’t need to spend much time refining golems next." Sunan has completed the production of 10 Clay Golems and 50 Stone Golems needed for the base, working overtime during this period. In addition, he made 30 extra Clay Golems for Kei to form a logistics unit. "The seeds of Silver Moon Flower and Red Vein Fruit have already been ordered from the Foxfire Chamber of Commerce, but it will take some time for them to be delivered." Sunan began to think about the next plans. Besides training and spell learning, there are only two things left for him to do. One is to refine a Steel Golem. A Steel Golem weighs over 10 tons and must be made with at least an equivalent weight of pure steel. The better the quality of the steel chosen, the stronger the combat power of the Steel Golem produced. Sunan planned to use Black Stone Iron. Since Black Stone Iron is lighter than Refined Iron of the same volume, the Steel Golem made this way will move more flexibly. However, the Black Stone Iron in the warehouse recently ran out, so he must wait for new Black Stone Iron from Black Stone City before starting to refine the Steel Golem. The second task is to create magic items. Sunan flipped his wrist, and a book appeared out of thin air in his palm. "The Complete Collection of Low-level Magic Items"! This book left by Amy contains more than a hundred alchemy-level and micro-light level magic items, with a comprehensive range of categories. Sunan currently has quite a few magic items on hand, but they are all at the alchemy level. He plans to craft some micro-light level magic items for himself, including at least one of each type: space, attack, and defense. However, the difficulty of making micro-light level magic items is much higher than that of alchemy-level ones. With his current level 1 [Magic Item Creation] skill, the success rate is probably discouragingly low. "[Magic Item Creation] needs less than 500 proficiency points to level up; let’s first make some alchemy-level magic items to practice, which is also a good opportunity to update the equipment for my big brother and others." Sunan went to the workshop and took a longsword from the weapon rack beside him. The weapon rack was densely packed with over a hundred weapons, including sabers, spears, swords, and halberds, all of which Sunan had obtained from Kei. He intends to use these weapons to experiment with demonized weapons. Demonized weapons can be considered a significant category of alchemy-level magic items. The primary users are knights. Many wizards will make demonized weapons for knights who follow them to enhance their combat power. Some wizards proficient in magic items can also temporarily add magic properties to the weapons of their knights on-site using silver, gold, and other metals during battles. This is also known as a temporary demonized weapon. Sunan estimates that he needs to upgrade [Magic Item Creation] to level 4 to master this technique. Placing the longsword on the workbench, Sunan began preparing materials. Common materials for making magic items include various precious metals, gemstones, and magic stones. Depending on the properties of the magic item, some special materials may also be needed. For example, making space-type magic items generally requires using Star Sand. Making a magic staff typically requires Mithril. Demonized weapons are the simplest, requiring only basic materials and no additional materials. As alchemy-level magic items, demonized weapons are relatively easier to make than ’authentic’ magic items. Under bright lights, silver ingots, gemstones, and magic stones melted into Sunan’s palms, transforming into thin threads between his fingers. As his fingertips touched the sword, they slowly merged into the sword, leaving behind strange patterns on its surface. The visible silver-white sheen gradually emerged from the blade’s surface. The entire process lasted more than ten minutes. With the last pattern engraved, the silver thread broke from Sunan’s fingertips, and the sword flashed, gaining an indescribable and mysterious aura. "Not bad; my skills haven’t gone rusty!" Sunan smiled slightly at the corners of his lips as he placed the longsword into the magic cube. [Demonized Weapon (Alchemy Level / Secondary Magic Item), possessing the [Black Steel] attribute, significantly enhancing hardness, making it difficult to damage, and reducing Qi attachment loss.] The attributes of alchemy-level demonized weapons are generally [Black Steel], [Sharp], and [Blood Light]. The better ones have [Weak Elemental Damage] and [Concentrate Qi]. The former can add weak elemental damage to the weapon. The latter can strengthen the power of fighting Qi. Generally, a demonized weapon can only add one magic attribute. Only wizards with exceptionally skilled manufacturing techniques can add multiple attributes to a demonized weapon at the same time. Of course, wizards at that level generally wouldn’t bother with such thankless tasks. With that effort, wouldn’t it be better to make a micro-light level magic item? Besides these attributes, demonized weapons also have a feature that isn’t considered an attribute. Due to being infused with magic power, demonized weapons significantly improve their compatibility with fighting Qi compared to ordinary weapons. The manifestation of this is that when attaching fighting Qi, it greatly reduces the additional loss of fighting Qi. Because of this, even some demonized weapons that failed to attach attributes are popular among knights. "Speaking of which, can different attribute demonized weapons be synthesized?" An idea flashed through Sunan’s mind. If possible, wouldn’t it be possible to synthesize a demonized weapon with more than a dozen attributes? Determined to put his thought into action, Sunan immediately began testing. In the time that followed, he successively made more than twenty more demonized weapons. The success rate was not bad; on average, he succeeded three times out of five attempts. Each success increased his proficiency by around 20 points, while a failure still gave 7 to 8 points. After creating more than twenty demonized weapons, his [Magic Item Creation] skill successfully broke through to level 2. However, to Sunan’s disappointment, different attribute demonized weapons could not be synthesized. "Indeed, demonized weapons with different attributes are essentially different items, so it’s not surprising they can’t be combined." However, demonized weapons with the same attribute can be synthesized. After synthesis, the attribute effect of the demonized weapon is further enhanced. For example, Sunan used three longswords with the [Sharp] attribute to synthesize a longsword with the [Armor Piercing] attribute, easily piercing through the defense of excellent armor with a single strike. Even though the level didn’t break through and it remained at the alchemy level, this longsword’s power was already a match for ’authentic’ magic items like the Blood Vine Ring and Magic Coin. "Since magic items with the same attributes can be synthesized, I can completely use alchemy-level magic items to synthesize micro-light level magic items, or even Witchcraft Artifacts!" The materials for micro-light level magic items are mostly rare and hard to find. Witchcraft Artifacts’ materials go without saying. In comparison, the materials for alchemy-level magic items are much more common. If alchemy-level items can be used to synthesize micro-light level ones or even Witchcraft Artifacts, it would undoubtedly save a lot of trouble. Sunan’s spirit was lifted, feeling that he had found a broad road ahead.