In the eyes of many wizards, witchcraft artifacts are considered true magical items.

Underneath them, Alchemy Level and Micro-Light Level are merely inferior and low-quality products.

Even the lowest-tier Tier One witchcraft artifact is much more powerful than Micro-Light Level magic items.

Higher-tier witchcraft artifacts are even comparable to the legendary divine artifacts.

In the brightly lit workshop.

The wide workbench is filled with densely packed Micro-Light Level magic items.

These are what Sunan has manufactured over this period.

Regarding the type of witchcraft artifact, Sunan has long made up his mind.

First and foremost is a protective witchcraft artifact, which is indispensable.

In view of the stellar performance of the previous protection ring, Sunan decided that the new protective witchcraft artifact would continue this type.

In fact, a force field protection is also the choice of most wizards.

Besides physical attacks, the protective force field also excels at defending against intangible attacks like soul impacts.

However, Sunan’s intentions were not limited to this.

Simply having defense was no longer enough to satisfy his thoughts.

It would be best if an additional function could be added during protection.

Adding attack capabilities was clearly impossible.

Even with dual-purpose Demon Pattern Cores, attack and defense are separate and cannot occur simultaneously.

The same goes for magic items.

But while attack capabilities won’t work, some auxiliary capabilities, like control or debuffs, are feasible.

Fortunately, Sunan found many blueprints of magic items in that batch of books from the Star Tower, so he simply sought inspiration from them and borrowed from many magic items to study and create a new Alchemy Level magic item.

It is Alchemy Level because creating a new Micro-Light Level magic item is too difficult. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Since it can be strengthened through synthesis anyway, Sunan naturally chose to do the simple one, as long as the desired function is designed.

The magic ring ultimately created still retains the forcefield protection of a protective ring, except the force field no longer adheres closely to the body, but its size has greatly expanded, forming a spherical force field with a one-meter radius centered on the user.

All enemies entering this force field would be suppressed by the force field, as if being inflicted with a heavy pressure buff, with their movements greatly restricted.

In this way, the new magic item achieves the dual effects of defense and control.

Of course, the increase in functions comes with the decrease in individual function effects.

The most apparent point is the notable reduction in the defensive function of the protective force field.

However, Sunan was not bothered at all, as the cube synthesis could resolve this issue.

He began synthesizing by placing each ring on the workbench in the cube.

With twenty-six rings synthesized, the interface instantly displayed the words ’witchcraft artifact.’

But this is just the lowest-level witchcraft artifact, and Sunan did not stop, continuing to put more rings in.

Each time he synthesized more rings, Sunan had to take out the witchcraft artifact to try sensing it.

The use of witchcraft artifacts is similarly limited by spiritual power.

Without sufficient spiritual power, forcibly using high-tier witchcraft artifacts would only result in backlash, outweighing the gains.

He cannot let the power of the witchcraft artifact exceed his limit of endurance.

Up until synthesizing seventy-eight rings, Sunan finally felt the burden nearing the limit.

"Is this the limit?"

Sunan glanced at the synthesis interface, where the level still showed ’Tier One.’

He vaguely felt that the witchcraft artifact had quite some distance to break through to Tier Two.

However, his current strength could only bear it to this extent.

"Wait until the refining progress improves, and then continue synthesizing."

Sunan took out the ring and put it on, then activated it.

In an instant, the surrounding air seemed to twist, and an invisible wave centered on Sunan rapidly spread outward.

Crunch!

The metal workbench in front of him suddenly flattened as if an invisible giant hand pressed it down fiercely.

With an unbearable screech, this workbench made of Demonized Refined Iron, much harder than a Steel Golem, turned into a flattened heap of scrap iron in no time.

Sunan muttered a word of negligence, quickly moving his mind to disperse the heavy pressure enveloping the scrap iron.

As the user of the witchcraft artifact, he could decide the target of the force field’s effect.

"The force field radius is about five meters."

Sunan nodded secretly.

This was virtually equivalent to a small domain.

Judging by the workbench turned into scrap iron, this force field, with its mere heavy pressure, could easily instantly kill a Tier One Legend.

Though he had to perform specific tests to be sure.

Sunan teleported to the training area and released several Refined Gold Golems and Secret Puppets to start testing.

The results left him very satisfied.

As strong as a Refined Gold Golem, within the force field range it also couldn’t move an inch.

The Tier Four Legend Secret Puppets could barely move under the heavy pressure, but their speed was no better than an elderly person of seventy or eighty.

One could say that creatures below wizards, once they enter the force field range, have to exert all their effort just to resist the heavy pressure and can’t do anything else.

If used against Tier One or Tier Two Legend creatures, what was initially just an auxiliary heavy pressure effect could have a terrifying lethal effect.

And in terms of defense, converted to defense points, it was approximately between fifty-three thousand to fifty-five thousand.

That’s more than fifty times the Extreme Protection Ring!

Such astounding defensive power is not much inferior to his innate ability ’liquid metal.’

Of course, ’Liquid Metal’ offers instant damage defense, while the force field defense is sustained damage defense — once the energy is exhausted, it needs to recharge to be used again, which is not as effective as the former.