Synthesis Wizard

Hulan City, Starfire Sect Church.

Even in the provincial capital city where land was worth its weight in gold, the Starfire Sect’s church occupied a large area in the city center. The church building was luxuriously constructed, even the outer wall was built with expensive marble, exuding luxury everywhere.

At this moment, a distinguished guest had arrived at the church’s reception hall.

Black and Yolis hurried in, just as they stepped into the hall, they saw the Hulan Marquis sitting on the sofa with a dark face, the red tea in front of him untouched.

The two exchanged glances, and their eyes flashed.

“Long time no see, Marquis, it’s rare to see a distinguished guest like you come, truly an honor for our church,” Yolis squeezed out a smile, his first words were a compliment.

However, the Hulan Marquis didn’t buy into it, he said coldly, “I’m afraid if I don’t come now, there will be no chance in the future.”

Black laughed, “Marquis, you’re joking.”

The Hulan Marquis interrupted him rudely, “I’m not joking with you!”

“In just two months, I have lost one Earl, three Viscounts, and thirteen Barons, all killed by Su Nan who openly barged into their manor, killed them, and left. Now all the nobles in my territory are in fear, worried that the killer god, Su Nan, will come knocking on their doors. Even I, the Marquis, don’t feel safe anymore.”

“Before, how did you, the Starfire Sect, promise me?”

“You said you’d handle Su Nan, but what’s the outcome?”

“You’re all in a mess because of Su Nan, aren’t you?!”

Black and Yolis both had ugly expressions on their faces, but couldn’t utter a word of rebuttal.

In fact, the Starfire Sect had also suffered heavy losses in this period.

Every town where a lord was assassinated, the local branch of the Starfire Sect was also destroyed, and almost all the followers were killed.

The continuous bad news made both the head priests feel apprehensive.

The strength displayed by Su Nan had far exceeded the intelligence they had gathered earlier.

Even Jensen, who carried a holy artifact, died at Su Nan’s hands.

These days, they were racking their brains on how to deal with Su Nan, and how to explain to Oweiju, the Grand Priest.

“Marquis, we admit that this time, we were negligent in our thinking and underestimated Su Nan’s strength. But please rest assured, Oweiju, the Grand Priest, will soon emerge from seclusion, and when he takes action, he will surely kill Su Nan!”

Black assured him with a solemn expression.

“.Hope you live up to your words, and don’t just spout empty promises.”

The Hulan Marquis still had a dark face, but his tone softened a little.

“One more thing, you said before, the cost of creating Stone Golems is very high, Su Nan couldn’t possibly mass-produce them, but what’s going on now?”

“The news from the Somman Province says that the Shining Light Territory had at least three armies of Golems on the battlefield at the same time, each with 200 to 300 Stone Golems, a total of probably 800 to 900, completely different from what you said, how do you explain this?”

Black and Yolis looked at each other, both with a look of astonishment.

This they didn’t know, after all, the Starfire Sect’s influence hasn’t spread to the military yet, and the speed of obtaining battle reports was definitely not as fast as the Hulan Marquis.

But 800 to 900 Stone Golems, this number was simply shocking.

Clearly, when fighting against the Jinyan Marquis, the Shining Light Territory only had less than 200 Stone Golems.

Where did Su Nan get the resources to produce so many Golem puppets?

Yolis suddenly had a flash of insight, blurting out, “Mysterious Wooden Hut!”

Black quickly realized as well, nodding in agreement, “Yes, it must be the Mysterious Wooden Hut supporting Su Nan behind the scenes. Otherwise, just relying on the Shining Light Territory’s income, it’s impossible to support Su Nan’s production of so many Golems.”

“Mysterious Wooden Hut?” The Hulan Marquis’s face showed some uncertainty, “I have heard about this wizard organization, but hasn’t the Mysterious Wooden Hut always been low-key and rarely intervened in the affairs of various countries?”

Yolis sneered, “Maybe before, but now Su Nan may have joined the Mysterious Wooden Hut, I don’t know what he used to convince the other wizards. Previously, it was them who destroyed many of our church branches.”

“So that’s who did it.” The Hulan Marquis’s face flashed with understanding.

He had heard before that the Starfire Sect had been attacked in many cities, and at the time he was wondering which force was behind it, but now he knew it was the Mysterious Wooden Hut.

But then, the Hulan Marquis’s face became a little ugly again.

Su Nan alone was already a tough nut to crack, if the Mysterious Wooden Hut was added to the mix, could they still handle it?

For a moment, the Hulan Marquis suddenly regretted his actions.

Maybe he shouldn’t have taken a stance so early and stood with the royal family?

Perhaps he should delay it, wait and see the situation before making a decision!

Seeing the Hulan Marquis’s change in expression, Yolis and Black immediately guessed what he was worried about.

Black was about to speak and offer some consolation, but a somewhat aged voice suddenly came from beside him.

“The Mysterious Wooden Hut wasn’t involved in this matter.”

Yolis and Black turned their heads in surprise, both showing surprise on their faces.

“Grand Priest!”

“You’re out of seclusion!”

The one who suddenly appeared in the living room was an old man with white hair.

Although his hair was completely silver, his face was firm and ruddy, and judging by his face alone, one wouldn’t imagine that he was a hundred-year-old man, only his light blue eyes revealed a kind of aged wisdom.

A Star Chart blue robe with exquisite craftsmanship but no extravagance, highlighting his calm demeanor and vigorous spirit.

The Hulan Marquis immediately guessed the identity of the newcomer, it was Oweiju, the Grand Priest, the person with the highest status and power in the Starfire Sect, besides the invisible Pope.

It is said that the wizard the royal family enshrined was killed by this Grand Priest!

This was a person stronger than a wizard!

The Hulan Marquis stood up.

Faced with such a strong figure, even he didn’t dare to be arrogant with his Marquis status and treat him disrespectfully.

“Nice to meet you, Marquis Hulan.”

“I apologize that I was in seclusion and couldn’t personally come out to greet you.”

Oweiju’s expression and tone were unexpectedly gentle, showing no sign of a strong person at all.

The Hulan Marquis squeezed out a smile, “Grand Priest, you’re too polite.”

After a pause, he couldn’t help but ask, “What do you mean by what you just said, Grand Priest?”

Oweiju smiled slightly, “I once fought with a wizard from the Mysterious Wooden Hut, he was only after a certain holy artifact of our church, not deliberately going against us. In this war, the other wizards of the Mysterious Wooden Hut will not intervene.”

“I see.” The Hulan Marquis breathed a sigh of relief, “Then Su Nan”

“Marquis Hulan, please rest assured, I will personally handle Su Nan. Su Nan is the backbone of the Shining Light Territory, as long as he is dead, the Shining Light Territory will pose no threat.”

Hearing Oweiju’s personal guarantee, the Hulan Marquis’s expression relaxed, and the smile on his face finally became genuine.

“Then I’ll leave it to Grand Priest Oweiju!”

“I’ll wait for your good news!”

In the quiet room.

Su Nan focused on the book in his hand.

This was the holy artifact he had obtained from Jensen, and later he learned from other Starfire Sect followers that the book was called the Star Book.

The other golden beetle was called the Golden Beetle, also a holy artifact of the Starfire Sect.

These days, while constantly attacking the nobles of the Hulan Province and destroying the branches of the Starfire Sect, Su Nan also spared some time to study these two holy artifacts.

His efforts were not in vain, he had some interesting findings.

Generally speaking, holy artifacts contain Divine Grace.

The Star Book and the Golden Beetle were no exception.

Su Nan extracted two strands of Divine Grace from them.

He spread out his palm, two strands of golden light as thin as hair were suspended above his palm, dancing around each other like butterflies, with fine light spots scattering around, it was beautiful.

One strand was clearly thicker, extracted from the Star Book.

【Divine Grace, 1(2) Standard Unit, Pure Energy containing a mark of faith, has a spiritual contamination effect, absorption will lead to changes in thinking and cognition, gradually developing a strong fanatical belief in the source of divine energy】

Divine Grace is essentially a kind of divine energy, pure energy purified by the divine.

Its purity is on par with soul energy.

Of course, this kind of divine energy also has similar drawbacks to soul energy, that is, it contains the divine’s mark of faith.

Once you absorb it recklessly, your soul will be eroded by faith, and over time, you will become a believer, even a fanatic of the divine.

Moreover, this kind of pollution is more serious than the pollution caused by absorbing souls.

Absorbing different souls will only lead to conflicts between consciousness, thinking, memory, and emotions, resulting in mental confusion, loss of reason, and other sequelae, but in essence, it is still dominated by your own will, retaining most of your self-will.

But faith erosion is different, the mark of faith contained in Divine Grace will forcibly twist the absorber’s will and cognition.

Even if your memory is still your original memory, you look like a normal person, but your consciousness, thinking, and emotions have actually undergone tremendous changes, becoming a puppet with no self-will, taking the divine as the supreme.

For wizards (apprentices) who seek self and truth, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Between becoming a madman and becoming a puppet, wizards (apprentices) prefer the former.

But to Su Nan’s surprise, the two strands of Divine Grace he extracted from the Star Book and the Golden Beetle, although they also contained the mark of faith, had a very rigid feeling to them.

It was as if they had lost their controller and were only following a set procedure.

It was a bit similar to the Golems in the wizard’s inheritance.

“If the divine being behind this Divine Grace has perished, then the Divine Grace along with the mark of faith inside should have completely dissipated.”

“Since the Divine Grace and the mark of faith still exist, it means that the divine being behind it still exists, or rather, has not completely perished.”

“Sealed? Dormant?”

Su Nan shook his head.

As far as he knew, the Starfire Sect appeared less than fifty years ago.

Before that, the so-called Star God had no significant influence.

Such a weak, almost nonexistent faith could not support a god for thousands of years, except for a very small number of extremely powerful gods.

Even if they were sealed or dormant, it wouldn’t work.

For a moment, Su Nan was at a loss.

What exactly was the so-called Star God behind the Starfire Sect?

After thinking for a while, Su Nan shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem, instead focusing on another matter.

Divine Grace, although it has many drawbacks, is ultimately caused by the mark of faith.

In other words, as long as the mark of faith inside is removed, Divine Grace will become truly unpolluted pure energy.

It can be absorbed to increase spiritual power.

This is different from soul pollution, the consciousness, memory, thinking, and emotions of the soul are inseparable parts of the soul, unless the entire soul is destroyed, it is impossible to remove them.

But the mark of faith can be removed.

It is precisely because of this characteristic of Divine Grace that there are so many wizards who desperately seek to capture gods, just to extract their divine energy, purify it, and use it to increase spiritual power.

Ordinary wizard apprentices naturally can’t remove the mark of faith, including Su Nan himself.

But he had the Magic Cube!

The Magic Cube, while synthesizing and strengthening similar items, would also weaken and even eliminate their side effects.

The Dragon Blood and Divine Blood Crystal were like this.

From this point of view, the Magic Cube should also be able to eliminate the side effects of Divine Grace?

“The faith erosion of Divine Blood Crystal can be eliminated, there’s no reason why Divine Grace can’t be.”

Su Nan opened the Magic Cube and put the two strands of Divine Grace in.

In an instant, the synthesis interface had new items and information.

【Divine Energy, 3 Standard Unit, Pure Energy containing a weak mark of faith, has a slight spiritual contamination effect, absorption will lead to changes in thinking and cognition, gradually developing a strong fanatical belief in the source of divine energy】

“It really works!”

Su Nan’s eyes lit up.

Compared to the Divine Grace before synthesis, the description of the Divine Energy after synthesis had a “weak” prefix before the mark of faith, and a “slight” prefix before the spiritual contamination effect.

It proved that the side effects of Divine Grace could indeed be weakened through synthesis!

In this case, as long as he got more holy artifacts, extracted more Divine Grace from them, he could synthesize completely unpolluted divine energy and absorb it to increase spiritual power!

Su Nan smiled happily.

Now he had another way to increase his spiritual power!

It seemed he was really going to go head-to-head with the Starfire Sect!

Without choosing to synthesize, Su Nan closed the Magic Cube, put the Divine Grace back into the space ring, then took out the Divine Blood Crystal.

He had destroyed many Starfire Sect church branches in recent times, obtaining more than ten Divine Blood Crystals, which he immediately synthesized into the higher-level Divine Blood Crystal, further improving his meditation efficiency.

Just two days ago, he had successfully constructed the thirteenth Star Ring.

His spiritual power also increased to 38.13.

“Five more Star Rings to go!”

The 14th level of the Star Ring Meditation Method required a whopping 1.5 million proficiency points to upgrade.

“Right now, I gain about 4,300 proficiency points per day from meditation, it will take about twelve months to build the fourteenth Star Ring. But if I can use divine energy to increase my spiritual power, I should be able to shorten the time considerably.”