Synthetic Wizard-Chapter 197 - 138: Funeral Bell Mark, Five-Year Advancement
Starlight Calendar 1255, Month of Summer Dream.
After more than half a year of rest and recovery, the Starry Duchy gradually emerged from the shadow of war, and Kei’s control over the duchy became increasingly stable. Now, he focused most of his energy on rebuilding Ranshuang Province, striving to restore it to its former standards as quickly as possible.
In the same month, the Knight Academy of the six provinces officially opened, admitting its first batch of new students.
Time moved to the Month of Flowing Fire, and the weather grew increasingly hot.
Base No. 2.
Inside a spacious and bright laboratory.
With great care, Sunan imprinted the last trace of blood-red pattern on the back of his right hand. After a flash of blood light, a horn-shaped crimson mark appeared on the back of his hand.
"Success!"
A sincere smile of joy appeared on Sunan’s face.
After the battle with Kasham, he devoted most of his energy to the research on Funeral Bell Strikers, spending over two months, and finally successfully created a bloodline mark using the bloodlines of the Funeral Bell Strikers.
"The concentration of the ancient bloodline of the Funeral Bell Strikers is ultimately a bit too low; it must be synthesized and increased in concentration before it can be made into a bloodline mark."
"Let’s call it the Funeral Bell Mark."
Sunan stared at the mark on the back of his hand, and his smile grew even more intense.
The effect of the Funeral Bell Mark is to instantly release a powerful sonic attack, far stronger than the sonic attacks released by the Funeral Bell Strikers.
Preliminary estimates suggest that it’s no problem to instantly kill a Tier Two Legend.
Even for a Tier Three Legend, taking a hit would result in serious injury if not death!
The main drawback is that this item is a one-time consumable, used once and gone, and not easy to make.
Without harming the bodies of the Funeral Bell Strikers, extracting a bit of blood every day would take about fourteen days to make one Funeral Bell Mark.
"Making four or five for self-defense should be enough."
With another ace up his sleeve, Sunan felt exceedingly cheerful, turned and left the laboratory, heading to the imprisonment area.
This is the most heavily guarded place in Base No. 2 outside the storeroom and laboratory.
The protection on the former two mainly targets the exterior, while the defense of the imprisonment area targets the interior.
Multiple arrays are set up here, including but not limited to effects like anti-magic, weakening, and heavy pressure, ensuring that every creature detained here has its resistance reduced to a minimum.
Both inside and outside are heavily guarded by magical statues and Dual-bladed Spiders, making it impenetrable.
Arriving at the room where the Funeral Bell Striker is held, Sunan looked inside.
The Funeral Bell Striker lay listlessly on the ground; upon hearing footsteps and seeing it was Sunan, it immediately let out a fearful cry and instinctively shrank inwards, revealing a human-like plea in its beastly eyes.
Looking at its pitiful appearance, it had none of the majesty of an ancient bloodline descendant.
No choice—anyone would look like this after being drawn blood daily for over two months.
The Funeral Bell Striker’s listlessness wasn’t entirely due to the suppression of the imprisonment area’s arrays, but more because of having large amounts of blood drawn.
Sunan expressed his helplessness too.
Whether it’s bloodline marks or divinity energy, research requires a lot of experimental materials, so to speed up the research progress, he increased the frequency and amount of blood extraction by quite a bit.
Anyway, it’s an ancient bloodline descendant, and it will recover in a while.
Unfortunately, the concentration of the ancient bloodline in the Funeral Bell Striker is still too low, far from awakening divinity energy.
Ugo wanted the Divine Remains of the Starfire Sect to extract the divinity energy inside for the Funeral Bell Striker to fuse, helping it awaken divinity energy and break through to a higher realm.
Fortunately, Sunan didn’t need such a troublesome process.
He had other means to enhance the Funeral Bell Striker’s bloodline concentration.
The Hidden Dragon was a great example.
"It’s a pity your power level is too high; otherwise, contracting you as a Magical Pet would immediately enhance the bloodline concentration."
Sunan regretted a bit.
The higher the power level of a creature, the harder it is to contract as a Magical Pet.
Unless the wizard (apprentice) himself has much greater power than the contract target.
Creatures like the Funeral Bell Striker, which are Tier Three Legendary Ancient Exotic Beasts, at least require an Official Wizard to try contracting as a Magical Pet, and even then, it isn’t a guaranteed success.
That’s why many wizard (apprentices)’ Magical Pets are cultivated from a young age.
It’s not that they don’t like contracting powerful Exotic Beasts, but just unable to do so.
However, although unable to contract as a Magical Pet, taming the Funeral Bell Striker isn’t difficult.
Set a little trick within it, and this Exotic Beast with intelligence not inferior to humans will naturally choose to bow its head and submit for survival.
In fact, the Funeral Bell Striker is already showing signs of submission.
It won’t be long before Sunan can tame it.
"To enhance the bloodline concentration to the point of awakening divinity energy may take quite some time."
"Let’s take it slow."
After extracting more than ten tubes of blood from the Funeral Bell Striker as usual, Sunan left the imprisonment area contentedly and headed to the Meditation Room.
Three days ago, he had already constructed the fourteenth star ring.
Level 15 Star Ring Meditation Method requires a proficiency that has soared to two million for the next upgrade.
"My daily proficiency increase has reached about 4600; at this rate, it will take approximately fifteen months to construct the fifteenth star ring."
"The training progress of instant spellcasting has nearly reached 70%, and by the latest, in the Month of Revival next year, I should master it."
"There are still twenty-eight types of replacement metals needed for the Demon Pattern Core."
"Mithril is now over eight kilograms; just about half left to refine the Secret Puppet."
