The Profitable Magic Stone

Under the dual benefits of the Super Energy Potion and Divine Blood Amber, Su Nan’s meditation progress advanced rapidly, and he successfully constructed the fifth star ring by mid-month.

His spiritual power also smoothly broke through the 18-point threshold.

As two months passed, the duration of the Super Energy Potion was nearing its end.

Thus, Su Nan synthesized another bottle of high-grade second-tier Super Energy Potion and consumed it, further boosting his meditation efficiency.

In one day, the proficiency of the Star Ring Meditation Technique increased by nearly 700 points.

“Level 6 Star Ring Meditation Technique requires 50,000 proficiency points for an upgrade. At this rate, it will take at least over two months.”

“However, once I construct the sixth star ring, my spiritual power should break through 20.”

Su Nan focused his mind and summoned the panel.

[Su Nan Anes-t, Human Male, 17 years old]

[Spirit 18.92 / Constitution 14.21]

[Skills]

Star Ring Meditation Technique Lv6 (21/50000)

Potion Making Lv3 (1804/6000)

Biological Modification Lv2 (526/3000)

Puppet Crafting Lv2 (2371/3000)

Magical Item Crafting Lv1 (251/1000)

Besides the Star Ring Meditation Technique, Potion Making is currently growing the fastest among the remaining four skills and is also far ahead in level.

After all, Su Nan has to make potions daily, which he sells through the Fire Fox Commerce Association after accumulating a certain amount. This is his primary source of income.

The second fastest-growing skill is Puppet Crafting.

Every month, he crafts dozens of Blackrock Panthers, and recently, he made ten clay golems, significantly increasing his proficiency.

Following closely is Biological Modification.

The blood replacement plan for Hidden Dragon continues, providing substantial proficiency for the biological modification skill each time.

As of today, Hidden Dragon’s dragon lizard blood concentration is nearing 40%.

Su Nan estimates that in no more than two years, Hidden Dragon’s bloodline could advance to a sub-dragon bloodline.

It’s worth mentioning that Su Nan considered extracting Amy’s spatial traversal ability to replicate it within Hidden Dragon.

After all, spatial traversal, combined with reality conversion and invisibility, is quite complementary.

The combination of the three could undoubtedly transform Hidden Dragon’s combat power, elevating it by several tiers.

Even a legendary knight wouldn’t be able to withstand a strike from Hidden Dragon equipped with spatial traversal ability!

For this, Su Nan even tempted Amy with synthesized Ice Mint, successfully persuading the little cat to cooperate in his experiment.

Unfortunately, the results were disappointing; multiple experiments failed.

Amy’s spatial traversal ability is ultimately not bloodline-derived but a spell-like ability awakened through the magic pet contract.

Such an ability cannot be inherited or copied even if Amy’s bloodline is extracted and integrated into Hidden Dragon.

Su Nan had to temporarily shelve this enticing plan.

“Although spatial traversal ability is rare, there are races with similar bloodline abilities within the multiverse. Once I’m a wizard, perhaps I can find a way to capture one and extract the bloodline ability to replicate it into Hidden Dragon.”

Su Nan pondered quietly.

Among the four skills, Magical Item Crafting is progressing the slowest.

After all, aside from rune stones, he hasn’t crafted any legitimate magical items.

“Speaking of which, crafting sub-level magic stones should also increase this skill’s proficiency, right?”

Su Nan thought to himself.

The magical item workshop and puppet factory both need a magic energy crystal forging furnace, and these run on magic stones.

Before casting the magic energy crystal forging furnace, the magic stones have to be synthesized first.

Su Nan turned and walked into the laboratory.

Under the tireless work of the clay golems, the base’s foundation is now laid, and various construction facilities begin to take shape.

It’s estimated that in two more months, the base’s construction will be complete.

Afterward, once various arrays and mana transfer pipelines are laid, the base will be fully constructed.

Standing at the workbench, Su Nan drew the array, then placed an egg-sized crystal at the center.

Though ‘stone’ is in the name, magic stones are actually a kind of gray crystal.

Thus, they are also called magic crystals.

Crafting sub-level magic stones naturally requires a similar crystal as a medium.

As Su Nan chanted, the array glowed, elemental magic surged from the earth node, flowing through the mana transfer pipelines into the array and finally into the crystal.

Approximately four to five minutes later, the crystal transformed completely from transparent to gray, acquiring an unusual luster.

Su Nan picked up the crystal and placed it into the magic cube.

[Sub-level Magic Stone, Purity 99.36%, Crystal containing a slight amount of magic energy.]

“Not bad, the purity is quite high.”

Su Nan nodded in satisfaction, then crafted over twenty more sub-level magic stones until the drawn energy-gathering array completely lost its function, then he started synthesizing magic stones.

Upon inserting the fifteenth sub-level magic stone, the synthesis interface finally showed information on the magic stone.

[Magic Stone (Lower-grade), Crystal containing abundant magic energy.]

The cost to make a sub-level magic stone is only the crystal and the materials for drawing the array.

One array can produce roughly twenty-seven sub-level magic stones.

When calculated, a sub-level magic stone costs about twelve silver coins.

A lower-grade magic stone costs 180 silver coins, less than two gold coins.

“It seems in the 2.0 version of [Age of Wizards], a lower-grade magic stone can be exchanged for fifty to sixty gold coins in any country. If that’s true, my cost is exorbitantly profitable.”

Su Nan weighed the magic stone.

Magic stones are products of elemental tides, a rare mineral containing magic.

They are valuable spell components, tools for array setup, and can extract energy to replenish spiritual power, with extensive uses.

Hence, wizards habitually treat magic stones as hard currency.

With a method for low-cost synthesis of magic stones, when the age of wizards arrives, he could transform into a tycoon, heavily acquiring various resources and magical items, just thinking about it is exciting.

“Provided I can live until a millennium later.”

Calming his excitement, Su Nan put away the magic stones and resumed crafting sub-level magic stones.

A lower-grade magic stone can roughly support the magic energy crystal forging furnace for an hour.

Considering that the base will need at least two magic energy crystal forging furnaces in the future, he plans to accumulate around two to three hundred magic stones before proceeding.

“It’s a pity my spiritual power can’t open the elemental channel right now, otherwise, by building an element pool, I wouldn’t need to consume so many magic stones.”

The element pool is a higher-grade energy supply device.

It can draw elemental energy from elemental planes, providing infinite and stable energy continuously, far more efficient than setting up mana transfer pipelines on earth nodes.

A small element pool could meet the basic needs of a wizard tower.

However, opening the elemental channel is something only official wizards can achieve, leaving Su Nan currently lamenting.

“For now, I’ll honestly grind magic stones.”

Gathering his thoughts, Su Nan delved into crafting sub-level magic stones.

While Su Nan was immersed in crafting magic stones, a peculiar recruitment activity sweeping the entire Shining Lands was grandly underway.