Time passed unknowingly. It took a full three months to complete the first phase of the Mage Tower. The original two-story villa has become a 35-meter-high tower. The rune array has been built and the hardening enchantment has been completed. "System, scan the entire tower." "Scanning." "Scanning completed, current tower properties: Height: meters, diameter: 120 meters, structure: reinforced concrete, enchantment: hardening, elemental land, ancillary buildings: energy pool, ground energy network, botanical garden, laboratory, ecological cultivation room. Magic traps: 12, defensive array: earth element barrier, Muggle dispel, wind spirit illusion. Guard: elite skeleton * 35. Energy reserve: 20,000/100,000. Challenge level: 8. (The challenge level means that a team of adventurers with a professional level of 8 has a chance to win.)" Richard looked at the evaluation given by the system and couldn't help curling his lips. Without the protection of the tower spirit and the golem army, the defense ability of this tower is pitifully low. As long as there is a slightly more reliable adventure team, the strategy can be successful.
There is no way to do this, after all, the tower spirit is a legendary magic creation. Richard has no strength to make it now. Moreover, the manufacture of the tower spirit requires legendary soul crystals. This kind of thing is only more in hell and the abyss. High-quality soul crystals are very precious no matter where they are. Fortunately, there are not many extraordinary powers in this world, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the tower for the time being. Richard has resurrected hundreds of skeleton undeads during this period of time, and those with good soul qualifications have been promoted to elite skeletons. The rest are still ordinary skeletons. Richard plans to use these skeletons as factory workers. In the Arcane Parliament Alliance, many arcane masters use undead as labor in large quantities, but because the appearance of the undead is easy to cause panic, they have studied a kind of flesh and blood activation. Put a layer of flesh and blood on the skeletons, and then let them go to work. This layer of flesh and blood has no effect on the skeletons, just making them look more like humans. Richard selected some skeletons and cast the flesh and blood activation on them, and then let these skeletons go to the factory to work. In addition to these skeletons, Richard also began to prepare to make some puppet golems. Although skeletons are useful, they are still too low to be used as a warning force. At the same time, skeletons carry the breath of the dead, and some sensitive areas will be affected. In the Arcane Parliament Alliance, the construction golems are very prosperous, and the lowest cost is still the flesh and blood puppet golems created by the necromancers. This kind of golem uses a large number of corpses and is very cheap, but no one is willing to use it except the liches. The orthodox golems from low to high are clay golems, rock golems, steel golems, and legendary diamond golems, adamantium golems, and mithril golems. There are many other types of high-end golems, such as demon breakers, arcane guards, destroyers, magic constructs, neutron star golems, etc. The cost of these golems is very high. Generally speaking, having a steel golem army is already very powerful. The standard configuration of the floating city is the steel golem army and the rock golem army. Richard did not plan to make clay golems or rock golems, but directly made steel golems. Although the Arcane Parliament Alliance had good smelting technology and good steel production, it was far behind the steel production of this era. Especially the red dragon on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, whose steel production completely crushed the Supreme Arcane Council. A large amount of cheap steel reduced the cost of steel golems by half. Coupled with various convenient materials, Richard had sufficient funds to build a team of steel golems for himself. Even the material of the steel golem can be upgraded to titanium alloy. With titanium alloy as the main material, although the price will be raised many times, the strength of the steel golem can also be greatly improved. If he could get the vibranium unique to this world or the metal of the Asgard forging artifact, Richard even wanted to build a few high-level golems such as the Destroyer and Neutron Star Golem. Richard estimated that the challenge level of the constructed golems made in this way would most likely reach 30+ or above. Such a high challenge level is equivalent to the demigod level. While Richard was busy building the Mage Tower, New York was not calm either. The military restarted the super soldier project a long time ago, and worked with some large groups to study super soldiers, hoping to replicate Captain America. But this road has not been smooth from the beginning. The data of the super soldier serum left behind at that time lacked key parts, and it has never been successful, or it has strong side effects. After seeing a large amount of dollars invested, but no corresponding results were obtained. The military's patience has almost reached its limit, and it keeps urging the laboratory to produce results.
Osborn Industries has been under great pressure. Norman wanted to take out the human enhancement potion they invented, but several researchers disagreed. There are still many problems with the human enhancement potion that have not been solved. A few months ago, Norman got a bottle of life potion and a werewolf corpse specimen. After seeing this legendary creature, Norman was very surprised, and then extracted the werewolf's cell DNA from the specimen and added it to the human enhancement potion together with the life potion. The experiment can be said to be very successful. The enhancement ability of the human enhancement potion has been greatly improved, which surprised everyone, but then they found that the mice injected with the potion became bloodthirsty and could not be controlled at all. They had to continue to study how to keep the mice sane. On the other hand, Norman discovered that although the life potion could enhance vitality, it could not cure the genetic disease of their family. Norman had to pin his hopes on the human enhancement potion. In order to obtain more funds and appease the shareholders, some biological experiments began to be monetized, and some intern researchers were recruited from universities to reduce costs. However, these actions could not quickly solve the problems of Osborne Industries unless they could develop mature biological potions. As for the traditional arms trade, they had been squeezed by several other arms giants and were almost out of this field. In particular, the most profitable high-end weapons manufacturing was almost completely monopolized by Stark Industries. The products of these companies were far inferior to those of Stark Industries. The single-soldier weapon set combination built by Osborne Industries with a lot of money was considered by the military to be an expensive toy and flashy. If the human enhancement potion failed, Osborne Industries would most likely go bankrupt. In order to obtain funds as soon as possible, Norman even wanted to conceal the data and apply for human clinical trials.