When Abel walked through the door, the scene in front of him made him stunned.
This was a huge cave. The walls, floor, and ceiling of the cave were all very flat. It looked like a huge room.
The height of the cave was over forty meters and the width was over a thousand meters. In order to ensure that the cave would not collapse, the walls of the cave were densely covered with runes of formations.
Although the size of the cave was already very shocking, compared to the cave, what was even more shocking were the twenty huge steel puppets standing in the cave.
He had seen too many steel puppets in his life. Frankenstein's ancient steel puppet was the size of an ordinary human, the small war puppets he used to protect himself, and the giant 10 meters tall one he encountered.
However, the ones he saw before were nothing compared to the ones in front of him.
Each of the puppets was 20 meters tall, but the height was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the material they were made from.
If other people were here, they would only be shocked by the size of these puppets, but Abel was a grandmaster alchemist and a grandmaster blacksmith. No one in this world could surpass him in terms of material knowledge.
Also, he was very familiar with the material used to construct the 20 gigantic steel puppets. It was the material used to construct battle forts, the material used to construct ancient war machines.
In other words, these 20 gigantic steel puppets should be war puppets left behind from the ancient times. Judging from their height, they should be used for frontal battles.
Thinking about it, a war weapon that could fight head-on on the battlefield in ancient times, what kind of terrifying war machine would that be?
"Grandmaster Bennett, these 20 ancient war puppets are the most powerful war machines the dwarves have. It's a shame that they were damaged during the battle with the demon from beyond. Although most of them can be fixed with top-level gems, some of them can't be fixed!" King Gunther looked at the puppets passionately and said with a regretful tone.
"Majesty Gunther, I don't know much about these puppets!" Abel also looked at the puppets and shook his head.
"Grandmaster Bennett, our alchemists and blacksmiths have never stopped researching these puppets. Although we can't replicate them, we have found a way to fix them!" King Gunther smiled and explained.
Afterward, King Gunther made an inviting gesture and invited Abel to approach the puppets.
"Only 3 of these puppets can still fight, 2 of them can only move, and the other 15 have completely lost their ability to move. We found the reason!" King Gunther pointed at one of the puppets and said.
"Where is it broken?" Abel asked curiously.
"In fact, when we obtained this batch of ancient steel puppets, we discovered that the spirits within them were all damaged. However, it was also because of this that we were able to study them. We used trained manipulators to replace the spirits. Although their combat power can't be compared to the ancient era, they can still meet the requirements of battle.
In order to use these ancient iron puppets, we installed a manual operation system in their main control system. However, due to the changes we made in the battle, the main control system lost its protection. Therefore, we need a grandmaster alchemist to repair them! "King Gunther didn't hide anything and told Abel everything he knew.
Naturally, this was the top secret of the dwarves. It could be said that the existence of the 20 ancient steel puppets made everyone who had any thoughts about the dwarves consider this point.
Only three of the Ancient Steel Puppets had the ability to fight, which made the Ancient Steel Puppets less useful.
One had to know that the most terrifying aspect of the Ancient Steel Puppets was that when 20 of them charged at the same time, they would sweep away everything in their path.
Abel heard King Gunther's words and knew where the puppets were damaged.
If an ancient war weapon still had a spirit within it, it would be almost impossible to conduct research on it.
When the spirit controlled the weapon, the ancient weapon would be completely shut down. It would be impossible to research it.
Once the spirit provided energy, the ancient weapon would be controlled by the spirit. Without the spirit's permission, the ancient weapon would be useless.
On the other hand, the Dwarves were lucky enough to obtain 20 Ancient Steel Puppets, all of which had their spirits damaged. This gave the Dwarves the opportunity to study them and use their technology to control them.
Abel thought that these puppets must have been damaged by the same attack in the same battle. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence that all 20 ancient puppets had the same problem?
However, when the dwarves modified the ancient steel puppets, the gap between their technology and the ancient technology became apparent in the battle after the modification.
The modification of the main control system greatly reduced the defense of the main control system.
As far as Abel knew, the main control system was the weakness of his battle fort. It was made with special alchemy materials, and it was the only material that could not be recovered.
Once it was damaged, the entire battle fort would lose its power and ability to move.
The ancient puppets in front of him were in the same situation. However, Abel didn't have much research on ancient weapons because he didn't have the time to dismantle a battle fort.
Although his alchemy skills had skyrocketed to the highest grandmaster alchemist in the entire continent, his metallurgy skills could only be compared to the dwarves.
The last time he came to the dwarves to help them make the metallurgical materials for the main magic circle, he had mastered the metallurgical technology through the technology provided by the dwarves.
"Majesty Gunther, I can only try. I'm not confident!" Abel did not reject King Gunther. He was very interested in the dwarves' thousands of years of research, so he turned to King Gunther and said.
"Haha, Grandmaster Bennett, as long as you agree!" King Gunther laughed when he heard Abel agreed.
To be honest, he was more confident in Abel than Abel himself. Abel was the first grandmaster alchemist in thousands of years. If Abel couldn't fix it, no one could.
At that moment, an old dwarf covered in dust jumped down from one of the ancient puppets.
What caught Abel's attention was the alchemy rune inside his body. This dwarf was a half-step master metallurgy. He was only one step away from becoming one.
This was the highest level metallurgy master Abel had ever seen in the dwarves. Although the legends said the dwarves had a master metallurgy master, he still couldn't believe that someone could reach the level of a master through metallurgy alone.
It should be known that advanced metallurgy materials were already very rare. Advanced potion materials could be continuously produced through planting, and even master potion materials could be planted in small quantities. Every time a portion of metallurgy materials was used, there would be a portion less in this world.
Ever since metallurgists appeared, the dwarves had been constantly mining for metallurgy materials. Most of them were intermediate to low-level metallurgy materials. There were very few elite metallurgy materials.
The more they mined, the fewer elite metallurgy materials there would be in the future.
It could be said that there were still Master Metallurgists a thousand years ago, but now, it was almost impossible for Master Metallurgists to be promoted.
"Hobson, come and meet Grandmaster Bennett!" King Gunther called to the old dwarf.
"Grandmaster Bennett, the grandmaster of metallurgy and potion making!" Metallurgist Hobson looked at Abel with sparkling eyes and said in excitement.
"Grandmaster Bennett, please don't be offended. He's a bit too excited!" King Gunther stared at Metallurgist Hobson and apologized to Abel.
"It's okay, Metallurgist Hobson!" Of course, Abel wouldn't blame a metallurgist who forgot to bow when he saw him, so he smiled and bowed slightly.
Metallurgist Hobson calmed himself down and said emotionally, "I'm sorry, Grandmaster Bennett. I was in retreat the last time you came to the Iron Furnace Fort. Too bad I missed the chance to meet you. I didn't expect you to be a grandmaster alchemist the last time you came, and now you're a grandmaster alchemist!"
"Hobson's research on ancient puppets is the most advanced among us dwarves. He has spent almost all his time on it!" King Gunther explained.
"Metallurgist Hobson, can you tell me more about ancient puppets?" Abel heard King Gunther's introduction and turned to Metallurgist Hobson.
"Grandmaster Bennett, we dwarves have been researching ancient puppets for many generations. We've already made a lot of progress. The puppets you see today are all made using ancient techniques!" Metallurgist Hobson patted the ancient puppet beside him and explained.
Abel couldn't help but pay more attention to it. It seemed like the dwarves' puppet technology was derived from these ancient iron puppets.
"As a matter of fact, we only know the surface of the Ancient Iron Puppets. We can't replicate the basic technology at our current level. Take the material, for example. According to our research, it is very likely that the material was made from the bones of a powerful creature and some other unknown materials. Even if we did, we still couldn't replicate it!" Metallurgist Hobson continued.
"Why not?" Abel couldn't help but ask.
He was very curious about these materials. He wanted to do some research for a long time, but training was the most important thing for him right now. He didn't want to spend too much time on it.
"According to the analysis of the material of the Ancient Steel Marionette, we found some bones in the Ancient Ruins. Those bones should be the raw material of the Ancient Steel Marionette, but do you know what kind of creature it was?"
Metallurgist Hobson didn't wait for Abel to answer. He continued, "those bones are at least from legendary creatures. Where are we going to find them? Even if we find them, we'll be dead!"
Hearing this, Abel couldn't help but think of his ancient submarine. It was used to scout the ocean in ancient times.
He had always wondered why the ancient times would build such a submarine. One had to know that wars were usually fought on land.
Now that he heard Metallurgist Hobson's words, he thought of a possibility. Maybe the ocean was the source of the ancient civilization's materials. Maybe only the ocean could have giant legendary sea creatures.
Thinking about the size of the ancient war machines and the number of Legendary-level skeletons required, it would be difficult to create the 20 ancient steel puppets even if all the Legendary-level humans on the continent were killed.
Not to mention, there were even more war machines, such as his battle forts. He had dozens of battle forts.
"Then what is the main control material made from?" Abel asked again.
"I'm sorry, Grandmaster Bennett. We don't know what the main control material is, but we can fix it with the power of a grandmaster alchemist. We don't need to make new materials!" Metallurgist Hobson replied.
"Take me to see it!" Abel said with some confidence after hearing that it only needed to be repaired.
At that moment, King Gunther was standing on the side with a smile. He did not interrupt their conversation. Metallurgist Hobson seemed to have forgotten about him. He directly led Abel to a ladder behind an ancient puppet.
Behind the Ancient Steel Golem, there was a huge steel frame supporting the Ancient Steel Golem. It was through this frame that they approached the Ancient Steel Golem.
"The weakness of the ancient puppet is not its head, but its back!" Metallurgist Hobson said as he brought Abel to the back of the puppet.
He reached out his hand and pressed on the back of the puppet, revealing its internal structure.
The first thing Abel saw was a flat board with 2 cracks. There were many fine lines carved on it.
On the surface of the tablet, there was a magic circle control panel made of ordinary metallurgical materials. This kind of modern technique on an ancient alchemy product was like placing a rock in a pile of rocks.
Abel knew this was probably a modification to control the ancient puppet, but he didn't know how long it took the dwarves to do this.
However, this modification did affect the main control board. Once it was attacked, the magic circle control board would press down on the main control board, making it easier to damage.
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