In the meditation room, Lance sits alone with a quaint bottle in his arms.

A rich aura of shadow emanated from the Eternal Bottle, and since the last time they absorbed the power of Zingler, the Spirit in the Eternal Bottle seemed to have become active. At least when it came to providing shadow particles, he had become much more generous.

Lance urged the Velen Meditation Technique, frantically absorbing the shadow particles with maximum efficiency.

The shadow particles are compressed into pure mana, and then in groups of five mana, they are compressed into new mana.

And so on and so forth.

Aside from eating, sleeping, or reading the information about the structure in the Greystone Tower during his leisure time, Lance spends most of his time meditating.

Meditation is the fundamental path to ascension for shamans, but it is definitely not the fastest way.

Lance was promoted all the way, which can be described as smooth sailing, and the speed was incomparably fast, but at this time, it began to slow down.

But he is not in a hurry, knowing that everything will encounter bottlenecks, just calm down and do it step by step.

In this quiet gray stone tower, no one can disturb Lance, and he also took advantage of this rare opportunity to strengthen his foundation.

Day after day, time passes like water.

In the blink of an eye, Lance had been in the Greystone Tower for more than a year.

......

"The food in the Amber Ring has been eaten. ”

On this day, Lance walked out of the meditation room, and was about to take some food to replenish his body, but was stunned to find it. The food stored in his storage gear had been consumed by himself.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that he had been in the gray stone tower for more than a year.

For more than a year, he stayed at home, devoting all his time to meditation, except for the occasional study of construction. Because of this, his magic still maintains a slow but steady increase in frequency.

Originally, according to Lance's estimate, it would still take a long time for his magic power to reach the dividing line between the middle and high second levels. But over the course of the year, his meditation efficiency has improved. It's about to rush back to 500 points!

Now his magic. It's already 480 points. These compressed magic powers are still stored in the Pool of Dawn, which Zài has carefully designed. Although it is 480 points, its actual power is about equivalent to 2400 points of magic power of a wizard in the early stage of the second level!

Because his magic power is compressed according to the secret method provided by Bileg. A drop of magic. At least five drops on top of others!

Magic is the root of witchcraft. This is also the reason why Lance has never dared to relax this piece. Although his offensive sorcery is powerful, but without the support of his magic power, then all the qiē will be empty words.

Originally, he was going to increase his mana to 500 points. Then start the next action. It was just an unexpected shortage of food that forced him to change his plans.

It's time to get out of the Greystone Tower for a while.

......

Outside the gray stone tower, more than a dozen structures patrolled back and forth from one pit after another. Wielding shovels and other tools in their hands, they dug out the irregular pieces of magic stones from the pit and transported them back to the interior of the Greystone Tower.

These constructs are all loyal subordinates of Reims. Lance was meditating, and they were not idle, and they had been used by Lance to develop this magic stone mine.

Fortunately, this magic stone mine is of high purity, and even the top bare pit can be found everywhere with high purity Mana stone. Structuring warriors only need to edit simple quest instructions to learn to find high-purity magic stones and transport them back to Lance's bag.

Otherwise, with the wisdom of the construct, it is really not suitable for the work of mining.

Rao is so, over the course of the year, Lance's wealth has also skyrocketed by I don't know how many times - he has not bothered to look at the mountains of magic stones piled up in the Amber Ring, and this is only a small part, and there are still a lot of them in the dimensional warehouse of the Gray Stone Tower. These magic stones can make him the richest wizard in Ferrendor, and any wizarding chamber of commerce or organization may not add up to a fraction of Lance's.

By this time, he had finally come to understand how valuable a natural, unmined magic stone mine was.

As a second-level wizard, Lance was already wealthy, at least in terms of wealth, he could throw wizards of the same level several notches away. This is actually very advantageous at the combat level.

Resources mean wealth, and wealth means more resources – and if done well, this virtuous cycle will continue.

With these magic stones, Lance can assemble an army of constructors, armed to the teeth with several constructing weapons each.

At that time, in the eastern defense line, I am afraid that no one will be his opponent. Demons and humans, it's the same.

......

"The Greystone Tower is productive enough. Lance looked at the busy constructors outside the pit, and sighed with some emotion in his heart: "Mark Forty-Seven said that as long as I obtain the permission of the third layer, I can basically control the entire operation of the Greystone Tower. At that time, the production base on the third basement floor will be at full power, and as long as the materials are sufficient, it will be able to produce fifteen qualified constructed samurai per day. ”

"Fifteen a day, four hundred and fifty a month, five thousand four a year!"

Five thousand four hundred samurai, what an exaggerated number!

Of course, this was just Lance's idea. First, the blind pursuit of quantity is not necessarily useful, and second, he does not have so much steel.

A beginner constructed warrior needs at least half a ton of refined steel, a small basket of other rare metals, a small pot of gems, and auxiliary materials such as sorcery scrolls and enchanted weapons. In short, the cost of a constructed warrior is more than 2,000 magic stones.

At present, there are only about 100,000 magic stones in Lance's hands, and these magic stones may not be able to be completely transformed into steel and other rare materials.

That's why he had to leave the Greystone Tower in a hurry.

There are a lot of problems that he needs to figure out, the food problem and the material problem, and this is just one of them.

The most important thing is his strength.

Originally, Lance planned to increase all the way to 500 mana, and then cultivate another secret method: the Spirit Snake Secret Method. This secret method is different from the thunder secret method, and the spirit snake secret method can greatly increase the two attributes of agility and strength.

Today's Lance, the physique has broken through the 6.5 mark, the strength is also hovering around 6.2, and the agility is the lowest, but there is also 5.9.

According to the calculation of the main chip, if he wants to start the next stage of the elite-level sub-chip, Lance has to continue to improve his physical quality.

"As long as the agility breaks through to 6.2 and the strength reaches about 6.5, a new opportunity to unlock sub-chips can be opened. And it's an elite-level sub-chip like the Black Iron Giant. ”

As soon as he thought of this, Lance's blood boiled a little. There is no doubt about the power of elite-level sub-chips, and an elite-level sub-chip can completely reinvent a person and gain great improvement. Especially at a time when Lance's magic is at a bottleneck, unlocking elite-level sub-chips is another way to increase strength.

It's just that the cultivation requirements of the Spirit Snake Secret Method are very demanding, and only when the magic power is increased to 500 points can you start cultivating. If you forcibly cultivate without meeting this condition, you may lead to a lot of sequelae.

At the moment, Lance had no choice but to postpone this plan for the time being.

In any case, he had to make a trip to the human cities east of the Marseille Line. It is already urgent to buy some food or resources.

......

It's just that what Lance didn't expect was that when he said goodbye to Mark Forty-Seven, he got an unexpected good news from the butler.

"I have a piece of information that you need to improve your body. Mark XLVII said very neatly: "To the east of the Marseille line, there is a mining area, called the southern mining area. In the southern mining area, there is a hot spring valley, which is rich in a kind of fruit, which can greatly improve a person's physical quality if taken into it. ”

"Hot Spring Valley?" Lance was slightly stunned, and then reacted: "These fruits should have been controlled by humans, right?"

After all, it is in the southern mining area controlled by humans, and it would be strange if it was not divided by humans.

Who knew that Mark Forty-Seven shook his head: "Actually, I don't know the specifics, this information was only detected by me accidentally releasing the reconnaissance structure." What I know for sure, though, is that the owners of these fruits are not humans. They seem to be a group of strange people who resemble tree worshippers, and they have had a lot of conflicts with humans over these fruits, and in the end the two sides seem to have reconciled, but if humans want to get these fruits, they must also go through the approval of this group of strange people. ”

"Are you encouraging me to steal?"

Lance smiled.

The constructor nodded seriously: "I have estimated your strength, if you are lucky, you should be able to do it lightly." And according to my calculations, the day when that fruit will ripen is not far off. If you're going to the Marseille Line, in addition to buying steel resources, you can also visit the Thermal Valley. ”

Lance nodded slightly.

After getting the improvised map from Mark Forty-Seven, he casually explained a few words and left the Greystone Tower.

During his absence, Mark XLVII continued to preside over the normal operation of the Greystone Tower and the reconnaissance mission in the eastern mountains. If you find a creature intruding, you will be killed.

As for those constructed samurai, they naturally continued to mine in the dark.

......

Under the clear sky, a wall embedded deep in the mountains on both sides loomed on the horizon.

The scorched plains were frenzied with weeds, nourished by countless bones and blood, and some of them even grew as tall as Lance.

Lance gathered his magic power, disguised himself as a first-class wizard, and walked towards the city wall step by step.

This is the eastern stronghold of the Marseille Line - the hill city of Gordon. (To be continued......)