After acquiring sufficient resources, Taylor became thoroughly lavish with his spending. Through Krite's connections, he amassed a large quantity of magical metals with various elemental conductivity properties and even specifically purchased a high-spec microscopic magnifier.
This microscopic magnifier not only possessed microscope-like magnification and observation capabilities, but more importantly, its tiny witchcraft runic formations could further amplify mental power, helping refine it and allowing wizards to observe their targets in greater detail.
For experimental auxiliary equipment, Taylor also bought experimental gloves made from the leather of a level-one lifeform; high-hardness, high-cutting experimental scalpels forged from Star Iron, Brilliant Stone, and other materials; and a mental-power-amplifying monocle that could also assist with recording, observing, and analyzing data.
Besides that, Taylor purchased an elemental life crystal. An elemental life crystal was a crystal condensed from an elemental body's remains after the mental will of an elemental lifeform had been erased. It was one of the best materials for creating elemental puppets.
Such elemental puppets possessed tremendous growth potential. After gaining intelligence, they had formidable combat power and could naturally elementalize. Put simply, they were elemental lifeforms controlled by wizards that could grow stronger by having materials added to them.
The Lava Golem that Taylor and Bobby had been jointly studying was also scrapped and redesigned into a more complex, advanced puppet design with higher requirements.
Together with all sorts of miscellaneous experimental materials, meditation-enhancing potions, mental-power-enhancing potions, and other potion-making knowledge, most of the resources harvested from the planar war had been spent.
A large portion of these resources, experimental equipment, potion materials, knowledge, and auxiliary instruments were not things a wizard apprentice like Taylor could access. They had basically all been obtained through his teacher Krite's connections.
Finally, Taylor exchanged his own savings for many potions used to restore the body