Start with Island Lord

Every mage who wants to advance must have his own magic laboratory.

Either verify the wisdom of the sages or explore new knowledge.

Rosen is both a lord and a mage, and he is still young and strong. Of course, he will not stand still.

In addition, he has a lord-specific need for his experimental center.

That is the refining production capacity, the largest possible production capacity.

The original site of the castle dungeon.

Selena covered her nose with a perfumed handkerchief and watched Rosen dragging wooden boxes containing supplies into the dungeon one by one, with a puzzled look on her face.

"My dear, you are the lord, why did you choose such a dirty place to build a magic laboratory?"

"Because it needs to be secretive."

"Huh?"

Selena was half-aware: "Are you planning to secretly study a new formula for transformation alchemy here?"

Rosen shook his head and brought the last wooden box into the dungeon corridor through the secret passage. There were already more than fifty boxes in the corridor.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Madam, this dungeon is still too small and not secret enough, so I have to borrow your magic power to transform it."

This is naturally a small problem.

Soon, the two were connected to each other through the bridge of souls.

Rosen used the master-level transformation energy condensed by Selena to carefully modify the existing dungeon.

About a quarter of an hour later, Selena had consumed 50% of her mana, and the dungeon had lost its dark, smelly and terrifying image, becoming smooth, bright, and beautiful.

Selena took off the handkerchief and smelled the air: "Hmm~ It doesn't seem to stink anymore, only a little earthy smell remains."

Rosen smiled slightly: "Because I dug up all the surface soil of the dungeon to the deepest level."

Now, this secret magic laboratory is about 400 square meters and more than 3 meters high.

The deep soil is a natural keeper of secrets, and various runes that shield various energy fluctuations will be drawn on the walls. Rosen can secretly perform various magical activities here without worrying about being discovered.

Armed with a hammer and a crowbar, he carefully began to dismantle the wooden crates containing supplies.

Selena also used Mage Hands to help Rosen.

"My dear, tell me about your next spell plan?"

"The laboratory will be divided into three parts."

While talking, Rosen opened a wooden box, which contained a high-precision scale.

He carefully brought the scale to the stone platform aside and placed it there.

"The first part is, of course, the traditional magic laboratory, which occupies 50 square meters."

"The second part will be a rapid refining center, which will take up half of the remaining space."

Selena didn't understand at first: "What's fast?"

Rosen explained in detail: "Quick Refining Center."

"I kind of don't understand."

Rosen explained in detail: "I will create a batch of craftsman puppets and let these puppets assist me in large-scale and high-quality weapon refining work."

"The first major task at the moment is to create a batch of humanoid combat puppets and disguise them as black-clad iron guards."

Selena felt dizzy after hearing this: "Using battle puppets to disguise the black-clad iron guards? I thought they were using sheep to disguise themselves."

The matter of the black-clad iron guards was something they had already discussed in Shire County. The purpose was to check and balance the elite warriors borrowed from the earl.

But Selena didn't expect Rosen to do this.

Suddenly, she thought of something and immediately asked: "My dear, are you still proficient in puppetry?"

Rosen paused his unpacking work, looked up and grinned at his wife.

"Ma'am, you guessed it right."

"I am proficient in the art of transformation first, and the art of puppetry second. By using the art of transformation and puppetry, you can create a battle puppet whose appearance is difficult to distinguish between real and fake."

Selena thought this was a great idea: "Oh~ What a genius idea, wait a minute!"

She recalled another incident, that is, during the night at the Blue Whale Mansion, she felt something was strange about Rosen twice.

For a long time after that, she didn't think much about it, but she never forgot it.

At this moment, after hearing Rosen's words, a light flashed in her mind, and she finally figured it out.

"That night at the Blue Whale Mansion, you asked me to leave first, but you rushed out of the mansion yourself. The one who rushed out was actually not you, but the battle puppet you made?"

Rosen grinned: "Madam, you finally figured it out."

Revealing the existence of Puppet No. 2 to Selena was the result of his careful consideration.

First of all, Selena is trustworthy enough, and the interests of the two have been completely tied up.

Secondly, Selena is his pillow, and it is difficult to hide it. It is better to reveal part of it to her, and get help from the other party when needed.

Selena was really surprised: "Can puppetry be so sophisticated?"

"Actually, it's still not precise enough. It's different from real people. Madam has already realized it."

Selena nodded repeatedly: "It does feel a little stiff, but you have to experience it carefully, and you have to be very familiar with me to feel that something is wrong."

"If you imitate the black-clad Iron Guard with this level of detail, you don't have to worry about being exposed!"

She was a little excited. After spinning around for a few times, she suddenly thought of a new question: "Can this black-clothed puppet fight?"

"sure."

"How strong can it be?"

"With my current level, and with the help of my wife's master magic, I can create a puppet with power comparable to that of a high-level profession."

Selena became more and more surprised: "This is already very powerful. How many can be made at most?"

If we could create a puppet army composed of high-level professionals, wouldn't it be possible to sweep the world? !

Rosen looked at his wife's shining eyes and knew that she was blindly optimistic.

Interrupting her wild thoughts mercilessly: "At least for now, the puppet army is unrealistic, and it is not a good thing."

Seeing Selena's confusion, he explained in detail.

"First, the reason why the puppet I used that night was so sophisticated was because I secretly used the 'Bridge of Souls' to remotely control it at all times."

"If it is a puppet that operates independently, not only the precision of the personification will be greatly reduced, but the combat adaptability will also be greatly reduced, and there will be many flaws."

"Once the flaws are discovered and targeted, the army of puppets that have been built with great effort will become useless."

Selena also had a rough understanding of puppetry and knew what Rosen said was correct.

"Are there any other drawbacks?"

Rosen nodded: "Second, the charging issue."

"You know, the essence of a puppet is just a moving magic weapon, and all its power comes from mages. If you want to build an army of puppets and keep them functioning, you must have enough charged mages."

"Obviously, we don't have that many charged mages."

The fire that had just risen in Selena's heart was completely extinguished by Rosen.

She pouted and complained: "Oh~ my dear husband, can't you make me happy for a little longer~"

Rosen took out a flame salt filter and smiled when he heard this: "Madam, now that I've finished the bad news, I'll tell you another piece of good news."

Selena blinked her big eyes, looking like a curious baby.

Rosen smiled and said: "I thought of a way to replace some of the functions of the Charge Mage."

Selena was shocked again: "Huh?"

Rosen explained in detail without waiting for her to ask.

"Kaa's Storm Sage Balop said that mana comes from the power of creation from the magic ring. Because of its creation properties, it can transform all types of magic energy in the world."

"The sage also said that different magical energies are divided into noble and inferior, just as people are divided into nobles and commoners."

"The sage also said that the arcane law system where transformation and food creation are located, the psychic law system where puppetry and spiritual whispers are located, and the mysterious law system are naturally better than the light system, electricity system, wind system, etc. It’s noble.”

"The reason is that arcane energy and spiritual energy can almost only be created by mages, and are very rare. And the magical energy condensed by several legal systems naturally exists in nature, and there are countless amounts of it."

Selena didn't understand: "Yeah, what next?"

Rosen smiled: "Then I discovered a way to convert a large amount of lightning power without using mana, and a way to store this lightning."

Serena was shocked: "You didn't lie to me?"

Free lightning power can often be seen in the clouds in nature, and there are also many crazy mages trying to capture the lightning in the clouds.

But this is extremely dangerous, and no one has ever really succeeded.

Now that her husband said this, she was shocked and scared.

Rosen shook his head: "Have I lied to you about magic, madam?"

"Hmm~~It seems not."

Selena felt her heartbeat speed up slightly.

"It's safe enough to not turn people into charcoal, right?"

"Yes, safe enough, even mild. Therefore, I call it 'tamed lightning'."

People on earth have mastered lightning skills to the extreme, and in this world, there is a magical power like mana that can assist in controlling lightning, making the difficulty an order of magnitude lower.

Therefore, it is true domestication.

Selena felt a little short of breath due to excitement.

It is true that the power of lightning is a cheap power in the magic system, but its destructive power is quite astonishing.

If you can really obtain a huge amount of lightning power, you can at least gain a huge advantage on the battlefield.

She clenched her white fists and spun around twice excitedly.

"So, the third part of the lab is a lightning container?"

"That's right."

"How big can the capacity be?"

"Based on the current materials, it can accommodate the lightning energy transformed by 50 peak master mages."

"It's so big!"

Serena was almost drunk after hearing this: "Then what power do you plan to convert into the power of lightning? How fast will the conversion speed be?"

"For the time being, I plan to use light power to transfer it. With our current amount of materials, on a clear day, we should be able to transfer the power of 20 magic masters a day."

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After Serena was silent for a while, she immediately said: "Dear, let's get started right away!"

Rosen was waiting for this sentence: "As you wish, madam."

He began to make concrete plans.

"Let's build the lightning container first, and then based on that, continue to build the craftsman puppet."

"You may not understand, but believe me, the power of wild lightning is very explosive, but once it is tamed, it is very, very useful and so on."

While he was talking, another message came from the "Detection Guard" located around Crescent City.

The forest elf night raiding army that had just been defeated at Sturgeon Wharf turned around and quietly came to Crescent City again.

After eavesdropping on a few words of the other party's conversation, Rosen grinned.

"You are not willing to accept the defeat, so you want to sneak into Crescent City and kill a wave of guards to vent your anger?"

"Just in time to establish your power!"

So, he frowned: "Madam, I feel something is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Selena was completely unaware.

Rosen didn't answer. He clasped his hands together and quickly performed the divination hand seal. After more than ten seconds, he said in a concentrated voice: "It seems to be dangerous. It is likely that the forest elves will attack at night."

Selena was surprised and a little panicked: "What should I do?"

She grew up in a comfortable environment from childhood to adulthood, but she has never experienced such danger. After all, the alien forest elves do not recognize her as a princess of the human race.

Rosen immediately comforted: "Don't worry, madam, we are very safe here, just continue."

"I will let my combat puppet go out to deal with the things outside."