Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 142 A Thirty-Meter-Tall Knight Statue, Soldier No. 2 Golem! Fortress Knight!

Although he directly helped Borgia in the name of Baron Peter, he was essentially regarded by the Storm Kingdom as Borgia's secular protector.

But southern Jiangsu doesn't care about this.

In this era, it was perfectly normal for secular and religious nobles to unite, as they could complement each other.

The behavior of Elder John also reveals that religious nobles are half-baked. In essence, religion and nobility are in conflict, since it is impossible for a person to maintain both devout asceticism and worldly affairs.

However, the religious nobles of the Storm Church still wanted to make themselves appear truly devout, so they ended up in a rather awkward situation.

In the history of his previous life on Earth, a large number of bishops and lords did nothing but enjoy themselves until they were wiped out.

The Church of Storms is somewhat better off; they have the privilege of chivalry, and the most powerful Storm Knights are almost all within the church.

Furthermore, Su Nan also noticed that the Benedictine monks and elders were actually all senior, formal knights with excellent physical qualities.

They may not be skilled in martial arts or have combat experience.

But through their long and arduous training under the God of Storms, they gained superhuman physical abilities.

This is understandable, as the Benedictines hold a very high position within the Church of Storms. In essence, the Benedictines are an elite order of ascetic knights within the Church of Storms.

Meanwhile, Sunan temporarily ordered Warwick to imprison the monster army of the underworld in the castle dungeon.

Next, he went to Maple Leaf Town.

Today is the day he is preparing to inspect the Maple Leaf Town defense plan.

Despite encountering Benedictines and underground armies one after another, Su Nan still did not intend to change his itinerary.

At that time, there were already a hundred plaster gargoyles on the rooftops of Maple Leaf Town. Merchants and customers passing by on the bustling streets assumed that the plaster gargoyles were just ordinary rooftop decorations.

It is used for drainage during rainy days.

But they never imagined that this was the security force of Maple Leaf Town.

After gaining a bishop, Su Nan can act more boldly. In any case, once Borgia becomes a bishop, as one of the seven bishops of the Storm Church, he will have very high moral and religious authority. With just one word from him, he can make the Storm believers reflect on their actions.

This is the greatest benefit of secretly controlling a bishop.

Su Nan decided to continue increasing the number of plaster gargoyles on the rooftops of Maple Leaf Town over the next two months, bringing the total to three hundred.

The latest Wolf Pack Effect, after becoming a first-class wizard apprentice and ascending to the 3rd level as a werewolf leader, is dozens of times more powerful than before, enough to access so many statues.

Anyway, right now, Wizard Hand is brewing a potion of the next level on Sunday.

In order to guard these gargoyles and to deploy the Brown Shield in Maple Town to prevent sudden attacks, Su Nan decided to set up a new ground golem that had undergone three ascensions in Maple Town.

Therefore, Sunan decided to create Statue Soldier No. 2, while upgrading and modifying Mario, the Angel Statue Soldier No. 1.

Mario's body already needed modification and strengthening to maximize his combat power, equivalent to a first-class wizard apprentice, after three ascensions.

It's just that I didn't have time before at the Four Seasons Garden.

Next to a newly opened commercial street in Maple Leaf Town, right at the town gate, stands a massive statue. Craftsmen and workers used pulleys, ropes, and trailers to erect a 30-meter-tall marble statue of a knight at the town entrance.

Sunan has also commissioned Solon to modify Mario to a height of about 30 meters and add magic runes to enhance his control over Mario's body.

Because the sacrificial stone statue is linked to his Peterhof Castle, it has gained the ability to be reassembled, and thus can be modified by ordinary craftsmen.

It's not much different from building blocks.

As long as the core of these golem soldiers is not lost, it's fine.

The knight statue created by Solon is incredibly lifelike. Its righteous and dignified square face naturally makes people feel close to it. The design of the knight looking down at the trade route outside Maple Leaf Town gives the merchants the feeling that they are being watched and protected by a 30-meter-tall super knight at all times.

Solon's most unique design is that he sculpted the appearance of the knight wearing full plate armor, with a marble knight helmet in his left hand. Solon had even used a wooden mold to simulate whether the helmet could fit the head of the marble knight statue.

It wasn't that he knew the marble knight statue was alive; it was just that, as a great artist, he had very high standards for his work, striving for realism and perfection in every detail.

At the same time, he would often fantasize in his mind that his sculptures could come to life and wave to him.

Although he believed that he could only think about such things in his head.

He dared not tell anyone, fearing that someone would report him to the Storm Church.

He is suspected of witchcraft.

At the same time, Solon also provided the knight statue with a 20-meter-long marble one-handed knight's sword, and the knight also carried a 15-meter-diameter marble iris shield on his back.

It's not that Su Nan doesn't want to manufacture steel, but that large quantities of steel are too expensive. Although marble isn't very reliable as a weapon, Su Nan has enhanced it with magic rune technology, making it better than ordinary marble swords.

The Oak Wizard's library contained only some basic magic rune techniques.

After all, he wasn't a wizard who specialized in this area.

This magic rune technique involves disassembling runes using meditation and then enchanting them onto objects through specific incantation combinations.

This allows you to create magical items and enhance the puppet's body.

Su Nan has only deduced and obtained three types of magic runes so far: the rune word "Solid", the rune word "Rigid", and the rune word "Tenacious", and all of them have been used on the sacrificial stone golems to strengthen their golem bodies.

In any case, these sacrificial stone golems are basically magical versions of robot life forms. You can modify as many as you can with the technology you acquire.

The three magic rune techniques will further enhance all of your golems, including Mario.

And now, the knight statue soldier standing at the town gate had been given a sacrifice stone, intermediate golem potion, in his chest last night.

The knight statue will develop a sacrificial stone on its chest within this week, and then become a living entity.

Because it was a ground golem, I also added the Brown Shield to its body, as well as gravity magic and the Energy Overload potion.

However, the main offensive magic attribute added to the intermediate golem potion he gave him was not hurricane magic, because the knight statue soldier would use a weapon. Instead, Su Nan continued to enhance the gravity magic, making the knight statue's sword a gravity sword.

Solon noticed Sunan's arrival and excitedly said to him, "My lord, look, this is the town statue you commissioned me to design for you."

"I think this is absolutely a great work of art."

"Thank you for your support, which has allowed me to complete this masterpiece. Therefore, please give this statue a beautiful name. This name will be remembered by the world in the future."

Su Nan was quite curious as to why Solon could complete the task he had given him so quickly. He had originally thought that the knight statue would take at least another three or four months to complete.

Su Nan told Soren the name he had already decided on. "Let's call him Fortress Knight: Alexander the Stone."

Solon was taken aback. He couldn't understand why he would add a surname related to the Stone Sacrifice to his name, but he couldn't concern himself with such matters.

Moreover, Solon was very pleased with the name. "As expected of my lord. My respected master, the name you gave me makes the statues I sculpt even more radiant."

Su Nan asked with slight curiosity, "Why did you complete my task so quickly?"

Solon scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed, and said, "My respected master, it is thanks to your generous funding that I was able to devise a modular production method after considering many options."

"I gave the blueprints for the components to the old stonemasons in your territory, and had them and their apprentices make many plaster gargoyle parts for me in advance. I also recruited some employees from within the territory and assigned them some unimportant tasks as well as assembly and transportation work."

"As for this knight statue, most of the main body was carved by myself and my five recently taken-over apprentices day and night."

"The simpler parts of his body, such as the arms, were carved by the old stonemasons I hired."

"Breaking down the work into modules and producing them in a modular fashion can greatly improve efficiency. If I were to complete this task by myself, it would take far too long."

Su Nan understood; Solon was quite adaptable and incredibly energetic.

The knight statue wasn't carved from a single piece of marble, which is understandable, as a 30-meter-tall statue is simply too large.

However, because of the [recombination] ability, these traces of modification will eventually disappear, and all the limbs of the sacrificial stone statues will merge into one, like a natural whole.

Therefore, Solon's modular production method does not affect the strength of the gargoyles and knight statues.

Sunan patted Solon on the shoulder. "Work hard, Solon. As long as you continue to work for me, you will become a great artist sooner or later."

When Solon eventually leads his flying gargoyle army and ground golem army, roaming freely without restraint, and people then inquire who carved these gargoyles and golems, he'll become infamous beyond belief.

Solon nodded solemnly and said, "Thank you. I will prove to Ambrose and his gang of slanderers and misunderstandings that I did not plagiarize at all. With my artistic talent, I have no need to plagiarize."

"I want to make them feel ashamed of themselves."

"Thank you for choosing to believe in me during my most painful time."

Su Nan blinked. "Mainly because that was the only time I could afford to ask you for help."

In the Boot Peninsula, the fees for even slightly famous artists are astronomical.

(End of this chapter)