He took the wooden box and gently pushed it open, revealing a secret compartment at the bottom.
Inside, there was a black stone lying there quietly.
Grimm picked it up with his fingers and held it in front of his eyes to observe it. With the powerful scanning ability of the A.I. Chip, the black stone that was originally the size of a finger was continuously magnified …
The first thing that entered his eyes was a series of strange grooves and patterns that were as fine as mosquitoes and flies. They lingered and nested with each other and were connected together with extremely complicated lines of runes. Together, they formed a small rune array. Once the magic elements in the air came into contact with the black stone, they would slowly fuse into it and occasionally light up one or two nearby runes.
Grimm had to rely on the A.I. Chip's powerful ability to magnify his vision by a hundred times to be able to see all this. Without the A.I. Chip's help, Grimm would only be able to see the black stone twinkling like stars. He would not be able to see its basic operating mechanism.
The Golem Stone was a material that the Silver Alliance prohibited from selling to outsiders. It could be used to temporarily activate a few puppet runes. It was also one of the most frequently used consumables by arcane Magi!
The Golem Stone in front of him was only the size of a finger, and could only be used to activate some small puppet runes. If he wanted to activate large or medium-sized puppet runes like the Metal War Avatar, he could only rely on the Golem Heart.
If he had not visited the Magus Tower of a councilor, Grimm would not have been able to obtain such a special restricted item.
"A.I. Chip, remember to make a record!" Grimm commanded calmly.
[Beep. Fifth experiment file of the Golem Stone has been established … Beginning dynamic data capture …]
Grimm crushed the Golem Stone without hesitation.
Almost instantly, a large amount of white smoke was emitted from the Golem Stone.
The white smoke seemed to have a mind of its own. It did not disperse in all directions, but instead gathered together and flew around in the air. Soon after, it discovered the existence of the Wooden Golem. It spun in the air and burrowed into the Wooden Golem's body.
In the next second, the Wooden Golem seemed to have come back to life. It suddenly sat up on the stone platform and began to cough violently.
At the same time, the various runes that Grimm had smeared on the Wooden Golem's body with invisibility materials began to light up, and the yellowish-brown surface of the Wooden Golem's body began to appear.
Most of them were lit up.
Of course, there were some exceptions!
The crack on the wooden puppet's right leg had clearly destroyed the integrity of the array glyphs there. With a burst of crackling sounds, black smoke rose from the crack.
The activated Wood Puppet climbed up from the stone platform with difficulty.
It could be seen that the severely injured right leg made its movements clumsy and slow.
It had to be said that Grim's Wooden Puppet craftsmanship was terrible!
Regardless of whether it was the wooden puppet's iron wire palms, the wooden frame and skin covered wings, or the body that was fixed with iron nails, they were simply like the handiwork of a young child. They were crude and crude to the point that one couldn't look at them directly.
However, under the activation of this strange white smoke, everything seemed to have been optimized!
The wooden puppet stood up with difficulty. While moving its wrists, neck, and shoulders, it pressed one hand on its chest and bowed respectfully. "It's a pleasure to meet you, my master! Wooden Puppet Billy reporting for duty! "
It was a young voice with a hint of a child's voice.
Although it was not the first time he had seen a pile of wood, iron nails, iron wires, coils, and cloth come to life in front of him with a basic level of intelligence that was not inferior to that of a normal human, Grim's heart was still filled with a strange and absurd feeling.
This was truly a strange world!
"Report your body's condition!" Grim gave the resurrected Wooden Puppet Billy his first order.
"Ugh …" Billy began to move his various body parts. He even flapped the 'wings' on his back a few times to verify that they were still intact.
"Reporting to master, this body is really rotten."
"There seems to be something wrong with my heart. I can't breathe." The wooden puppet lightly hammered its chest with its' iron hand 'and panted with difficulty.
Grim's eyes focused on the wooden puppet's chest. Through the thick wooden shell, he could clearly see a magic crystal embedded in a rune array. At this moment, the rune array had begun to operate crazily. It continuously extracted basic mana from the magic crystal and channeled it into the rune circuits.
However, the connections between the rune arrays were not smooth enough. Some of the runes were lit up, while others were still dim. This caused the wooden puppet's movements to be a little uncoordinated.
[Beep. Energy control center scan completed! A total of 37 faults have been found. 3 are technical faults, 33 are due to poor craftsmanship, and 1 is due to deteriorating materials … Final evaluation: Energy efficiency. If the craftsmanship is improved, how much will the energy efficiency increase?]
[Beep. After eliminating all the material and craftsmanship faults, the estimated energy efficiency will reach. Why is it still so low? The energy efficiency is only slightly over 50%!] Grim asked doubtfully.
[The quality of the materials is low, and there is a lot of energy leakage. If you want to continue increasing the energy efficiency, the recommended materials are: Treant Core, Magic Iron Alloy, Magic Mithril …]
Damn, you get what you pay for!
Everyone knew this logic.
But to waste these precious resources on a wooden puppet for practice was too much of a waste!
Grim immediately rejected the A.I. Chip's suggestion.
"Fly up and let me see!" Grim ordered.
The wooden puppet Billy immediately stood up, and the pair of ugly 'wings' on its back began to flap rapidly. A cool breeze blew, and the wooden puppet slowly floated up.
With Grim's elemental vision, the light emitted by the wooden puppet's energy core immediately increased by three levels. Some of the rune arrays that had conflicting energy circuits immediately exploded with a blinding light.
"Billy, stop flying immediately!" Grim saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly ordered.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Following a light explosion, thick black smoke immediately emitted from the wooden puppet Billy's body. Fine cracks also appeared on its chest.
"Ah … I … can't … do … it … I'm … going to die!"
After a series of ear-piercing screams, the wooden puppet that had just floated to the top of Grim's head suddenly became stiff and twisted, and then fell to the ground.
Grim stretched out his hand to catch it.
The wooden puppet, whose body had already been twisted beyond recognition, violently coughed a few times, and then no longer moved. Following that, the strange white smoke once again flowed out of the wooden puppet's body, slowly dissipating into the air.
The wooden puppet Billy had really died!
A puppet with elementary intelligence had only been born for 126 seconds, yet it had already reached the end of its life!
The main reason for its death was the shoddy construction of the wooden puppet's body. If, and I'm saying if, Grim had put in a little more effort when creating this wooden puppet, perhaps he would have been able to obtain a wooden puppet Billy forever.
However, this wooden puppet with such a simple body had no combat power, and it did not have any special abilities. It also needed to be replaced from time to time. To be honest, such a low-level puppet had no use at all!
Grim was not a child hugging a doll and needing someone to accompany him. Even if this fake puppet died, it would not cause any ripples in his heart!
Before the white smoke dissipated, Grim took the opportunity to collect another portion.
Up until now, he had completely grasped the basic knowledge of how to create puppets. The only thing he had yet to understand was the operating principle of these puppets and the composition of the white smoke.
How did they invade the puppet's interior? How did they control the rune formation system? More importantly, where did their elementary intelligence come from?
This … This was the core question that Grim had been trying to figure out time and time again!
Grim, who had come into contact with the Planar Wars, was very clear that the essence of a Planar War was invasion and plunder!
Magi racked their brains to find the coordinates of one plane after another in the vast sea of stars. What was it for? To go there and greet the natives, sit down and have a cup of coffee with them, and then talk about their dreams in life?
Only the weak would have such childish and idealistic thoughts!
The reason why Magi were attracted to travel millions of miles across the vast sea of stars, braving the danger of being suppressed by the plane's consciousness, and enduring the desperate siege of the natives, was because of the rich resources and a large number of slaves in every material plane!
Once a plane was conquered, the resources and population in the plane would be at their disposal.
If such wealth and resources were concentrated in the hands of a Magus, he would be able to develop and grow rapidly. He would no longer have to painstakingly travel tens of thousands of miles in search of resources, nor would he have to explore terrifying ancient ruins to earn magic crystals to buy materials.
To be honest, half of a Magus's life was spent running all over the place to gather knowledge and resources.
In order to avoid this, one had to have the basic strength to conquer a plane.
Personal strength was one!
But the strength of a group was another kind!
With Grim's current strength, if he wanted to invade another material plane, he would only be sending himself to his death!
Even a material plane with the weakest overall strength would have powerful individuals with strength as high as Level Three or Four. Although their strength could not be compared to the Magus World's experts, they were more than enough to crush a mere rank 1 Magus like Grim.
Hence, Grim set a goal for himself to reach rank 2.
Only by reaching rank 2 would he be able to reach the minimum strength required to invade a secondary plane!
In order to assist in the invasion, the thing that could provide him with the greatest help was undoubtedly the Puppet Army, the Demon Puppet Army. Only these loyal elemental creatures and puppet creatures would not have any problems with their loyalty, and Grim could use them without worry.
Hence, for a long time to come, apart from increasing his own strength, Grim also had to find ways to increase the strength and quantity of the Demon Raja Army.
As for Mary, Alice, and Kaby, they were the 'heroes' that Grim wanted to rope into his camp.
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