Chapter 205: A Low-Cost thod for Rapid Advancent
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Half a month later.
At the top of the Dragon Bone Tower, beside the elental pool.
Su Nan glanced at the hundred engraved gems lying in his spatial ring, a satisfied smile on his face.
So many engraved gems should be enough to deal with the lightning elental giant.
Taking a deep breath, Su Nan opened a spatial passage and stepped into it.
After a montary blur, he found himself in the lightning elental space.
Dark, brooding clouds t his eyes, filling every corner of his vision.
Lightning bolts danced and crackled within the clouds, accompanied by thunderous booms. The dazzling brilliance of the lightning, tearing through the clouds, emanated a sense of prival wilderness.
“No land in this lightning elental space?”
The ground was also cloud. Luckily, Su Nan had cast a levitation spell before entering, so he wasn’t caught off guard and fell.
Without hesitation, he opened the spatial passage again and retreated.
Fighting in an elent space like this, where the clouds filled the entire view, presented too many uncertainties. It wasn’t the best option.
Since he could change the entry point endlessly, and the cost was only a few gems, Su Nan could afford it.
He continued entering several more tis. The elental spaces were either harsh environnts or had too high of an energy particle concentration, and he abandoned them without hesitation.
On his fifth attempt, he finally arrived at an elental space similar to the previous one.
He cast a “Elental Energy Shield” on himself and activated the “Forbidden Zone” before flying into the depths of the elental space.
His target was the elental giant, which usually lurked in the depths of the elental space.
Su Nan didn’t stop along the way. He ignored any elental spirits that tried to attack him, using his speed to quickly leave them behind.
As he ventured deeper, the concentration of energy particles in the air beca increasingly thick.
Suddenly, Su Nan’s expression shifted as he looked toward the right front, seeing a blurry humanoid creature, roughly ten ters tall and covered in dense electric arcs, charging towards him at incredible speed.
“Elental Giant!”
Su Nan was not afraid but excited.
Finally, he had found his target.
Without hesitation, he threw out an engraved gem.
Considering that lightning energy particles wouldn’t harm the lightning elental giant, and might even beco a source of nourishnt for it, the latest batch of engraved gems Su Nan made contained no “Lightning Burst” at all. They were all “Blazing Inferno,” “Freezing Chill,” “Abyssal Darkness,” and “Gale Force,” etc.
As the engraved gem emitted blinding brilliance, an extre chill exploded outwards, aiming at the lightning elental giant’s head.
In an instant, the lightning elental giant’s body was covered in a layer of white frost, extinguishing many of the electric arcs on its surface.
While the lightning elental giant was montarily slowed, Su Nan threw out two more engraved gems, “Blazing Inferno” and “Gale Force,” turning them into flas and gale winds to engulf the lightning elental giant. At the sa ti, liquid tal surged out, transforming into a powerful silver giant in the blink of an eye, charging towards the opponent with unstoppable might.
Taken off guard by the engraved gems, and before it had recovered, the silver giant smashed its fist into the lightning elental giant’s head.
The lightning elental giant’s incorporeal form could withstand any physical attack, but not the elental energy infused liquid tal. It was knocked off balance by the punch that ca crashing down on it.
The lightning elental giant was already extrely volatile, and now, having suffered a surprise attack, it roared in anger, swinging its fists at the silver giant.
Both the lightning elental giant and Su Nan were at the level of Wizards, yet their fighting styles were primitive and brutal.
They t force with force, hard attack with hard defense. Although both were fighting barehanded, the clash sounded like two heavy, armored copper n colliding, creating deafening roars.
Visible energy brilliance and violent shock waves surged out from the center of the clash, spreading out in all directions, distorting the void.
The ground beneath them was constantly cracking and disintegrating, turning into a massive crater in the blink of an eye.
After a brief exchange, Su Nan had a sense of the situation.
Perhaps it was because he hadn’t yet reached the core of the elental space, the lightning elental giant in front of him wasn’t exceptionally powerful compared to its peers. It was only equivalent to a First-Rank Vaporization Wizard who had just been promoted.
However, with the advantage of its ho ground, its combat power had been enhanced to almost the level of a First-Rank Liquefaction Wizard.
Fortunately, it was still within his capabilities.
After gauging his opponent’s strength, Su Nan held nothing back. He controlled the silver giant to launch a ferocious attack, while also throwing out engraved gems without reservation.
As his spiritual condensation increased, the number of engraved gems he could synthesize had grown to twenty-two, their power roughly four tis that of ordinary rune engravings.
This power was not to be underestimated, even by a formal Wizard.
As ten engraved gems were thrown one after another, the lightning elental giant was completely bewildered.
Fierce flas, gales, and shadows rolled over it in succession. Within just four or five breaths, the dazzling electric light on the lightning elental giant’s body visibly dimd, and its robust form shrank by nearly half.
Su Nan took the opportunity to push forward, his attack becoming increasingly ferocious.
After ten minutes, with a reluctant roar, the lightning elental giant’s body shattered, turning into countless light particles that dissipated into the air, leaving behind an irregular, egg-sized blue crystal that fell to the ground.
Su Nan stepped out from within the silver giant and caught the crystal with lightning reflexes.
Looking at the beautiful blue crystal in his palm, his face was filled with a joyful smile.
Elental Core.
A crystalline body that concentrated abundant elental energy, considered a higher-grade material than elental crystal dust.
Only elental creatures at the Elental Giant level or higher possessed an elental core.
However, this wasn’t the reason for Su Nan’s joy. What made him even happier was the divine energy contained within the elental core.
After putting the elental core into the Magic Cube, Su Nan quickly received detailed information.
“Six standard units of divine energy, a little on the low side.”
The Arachne Elves had eight standard units of divine energy each, but the elental giant had less.
However, upon further reflection, Su Nan was relieved.
The Arachne Elves were created entirely from divine energy. The elental giant, on the other hand, was a fusion of elental energy and divine energy, with elental energy taking up the majority. It was normal for it to have less divine energy in its body.
“Should be enough to increase my spiritual condensation by about 0.4%.”
Before, this amount of divine energy would have increased his spiritual condensation by 0.5% to 0.6%, but as his spiritual condensation grew higher, the difficulty of improvent increased accordingly.
Su Nan estimated that by the First-Rank Liquefaction stage, the amount of divine energy needed to increase his spiritual condensation by 1% would likely skyrocket to 50 or 60 standard units.
But for now, at least, the benefit a single elental core brought him was still significant.
The entire battle cost eighteen engraved gems.
Su Nan calculated that the current cost of an engraved gem was around 5,800 gold coins, making eighteen gems just over 100,000 gold coins.
100,000 gold coins in exchange for a 0.4% increase in spiritual condensation, a pretty good deal overall.
The elental space was rich in energy, and Su Nan quickly restored his spiritual power to its peak state, continuing his hunt.
He had no intention of venturing into the core area. Instead, he circled around the edge, searching for traces of the lightning elental giant.
Before long, Su Nan found his target.
This ti, he didn’t wait for the lightning elental giant to attack, instead charging at it directly.
The battle erupted once again.
Two days later.
When Su Nan returned to the Dragon Bone Tower, his spatial ring contained three elental cores.
The cost was over fifty engraved gems.
By the elental pool, Su Nan sat down and began absorbing the divine energy contained in the elental cores.
Elental giants, as naturally occurring divine creatures, possessed inherently pure divine energy in their bodies. There was no contamination from faith, allowing for direct absorption and synthesis.
When all three elental cores had turned into dust, Su Nan’s spiritual condensation had reached 76.06%.
Looking at the data on the panel, Su Nan was filled with overwhelming joy.
At this rate, he would soon break through to the First-Rank Liquefaction stage.
The only problem was that this thod of advancent was extrely wasteful of engraved gems.
To break through to the First-Rank Liquefaction stage, he would need to invest at least six million gold coins in engraved gems.
Although the Star Alliance’s annual inco had exceeded ten million gold coins, it was actually used in many areas.
Refining secret puppets, making crystal spirit potions, crafting Wizard artifacts, and the biggest expense, building Wizard Towers.
Suddenly taking out six million gold coins would put a significant strain on the Star Alliance’s cash flow.
“If only there was another way to hunt lightning elental giants that was less costly.”
Su Nan pondered silently.
He knew he was being greedy, however.
Which First-Rank Vaporization Wizard could hunt lightning elental giants in the lightning elental space like he was doing?
Without so kind of background or ans, an ordinary First-Rank Vaporization Wizard would be incinerated and reduced to ashes when facing a lightning elental giant in the lightning elental space.
Unless they were descendants of true spirits, with higher-level Wizards specifically collecting elental cores for them to cultivate.
Shaking his head, Su Nan dismissed his unrealistic thoughts, his eyes falling on the dust that remained from the elental core.
Although the divine energy had been absorbed, the elental energy in the dust still remained, essentially becoming elental crystal dust.
Wait!
A thought flashed through Su Nan’s mind like lightning.
Elental giants were ford from elental spirits advancing. During this process, the elental crystal dust that ford within the elental spirits gradually coalesced, eventually forming the elental core.
It could be said that the process of elental spirits evolving into elental giants was essentially the process of elental crystal dust turning into an elental core.
Did this an that he could synthesize elental cores with elental crystal dust, which contained divine energy?
Su Nan’s spirits imdiately soared.
The possibility was quite high.
Like the blood of the Doom Bell Striker, its blood inherently contained special factors inherited from the divine creature, the Squealing Strange Insect. As long as these factors were activated, divine energy could be born.
It was the sa with elental spirits.
They likely also possessed a certain special factor. When the concentration of elental energy reached a certain limit, causing a qualitative change from quantitative change, this factor could be activated, transforming them into elental giants, while also giving birth to divine energy.
If his guess was right, he could use elental crystal dust to synthesize elental cores in the future!
Hunting elental spirits was much easier than hunting elental giants!
Snapping out of his thoughts, Su Nan imdiately prepared to try it.
The elental crystal dust he had obtained from the lightning elental space so ti ago was still neatly stored in his spatial ring. He imdiately took it out and put it into the Magic Cube.
[Elental Crystal Dust, Purity 28.35%, Contains Rich Lightning Elental Energy, Can Be Used for Crafting Potions, Magic Items and Puppets, Also Can Be Used to Lay Down Formations.]
Su Nan continued his actions, putting more elental crystal dust into the Magic Cube, while focusing on the synthesis interface.
The purity of the elental crystal dust increased rapidly.
When it surpassed the 100% limit, the information on the synthesis interface finally changed.
[Elental Core, Contains Enormous Lightning Elental Energy, Also Contains a Trace of Pure Divine Energy (0.1 Standard Units), Can Be Used to Craft Potions, Magic Items and Puppets, Also Can Be Used to Lay Down Formations, Divine Energy Can Be Absorbed Directly, Increasing Spiritual Power.]
“It worked!”
Su Nan was overjoyed.
He could actually synthesize elental cores with elental crystal dust!
Although it only contained a ager 0.1 standard unit of divine energy, it was a success nonetheless.
He wasn’t worried about the quantity, as long as it wasn’t zero.
Even if it was just a tiny amount, he could synthesize it to increase it using the Magic Cube.
Taking a deep breath, Su Nan cald his excitent, throwing the rest of the elental crystal dust into the Magic Cube, ultimately synthesizing an elental core containing 2 standard units of divine energy.
He then absorbed the divine energy within the core, his spiritual condensation increasing to 0.13% as expected.
The increase was small, but it filled Su Nan with excitent.
From now on, he wouldn’t have to risk his life and spend exorbitant amounts of gold to hunt elental giants anymore. He could just hunt elental spirits.
He had initially wanted to develop another channel for obtaining divine energy, but he had unexpectedly found a low-cost thod for rapidly improving his spiritual condensation. Su Nan was in a fantastic mood at this mont.
His gaze fell upon the dust that remained from the elental core, and he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Could these elental crystal dust be reused?
If so,
Su Nan’s eyes lit up, and he imdiately put all the dust into the Magic Cube.
However, to his disappointnt, the elental core synthesized this ti did not contain divine energy.
“Is it because the special factor was absorbed along with the divine energy?”
After being disappointed, Su Nan quickly understood after a mont of thought.
Without the special factor, this elental crystal dust naturally couldn’t activate divine energy anymore, leaving it to be used as ordinary materials.
He shook his head and quickly regained his composure.
Even though it was a pity, being able to find a way to synthesize elental cores was already very good.
With this thod, he could break through to the First-Rank Liquefaction stage in just two or three years.
This was significantly faster than his previous estimations.
“At this rate, I might be able to advance to a Second-Rank Wizard before the Plane Barrier is restored.”
Su Nan smiled.
Even in the vast and boundless multiverse, a Second-Rank Wizard could be considered a strong individual.
They could confront the “Dark Throne” or join other Wizard forces.
No Wizard faction would refuse the addition of a Second-Rank Wizard with a clean background.
Advancing to the Second-Rank Wizard stage and building a Wizard Tower.
Su Nan set his goals for the next seven hundred years.
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