Ferde South City, Magus Tower.
Inside Grim's residence, a spacious Puppet Hall had been specially built for him.
At this moment, the hall was in a mess.
Wooden boxes of various sizes were piled up in the corners of the hall. Some of the boxes on the outside had already been opened, revealing neatly stacked metal ingots. The metal ingots had been cast into rectangles, and under the soft and bright light of the hall, they flashed with a cold luster.
These were all magic iron alloys, each mixed with an appropriate amount of special ores. Thus, they had strange effects that ordinary metals did not have.
In the corner of the hall, a simplified version of a magic furnace stood there. Three stone pillar-like legs of the furnace were located in three different mysterious spell formations. The violent and ferocious elemental currents in the Magus Tower were constantly flowing into the furnace through these legs, turning into scorching elemental flames that wreaked havoc in the furnace.
Two dwarf blacksmiths with bulging muscles and glossy skin were standing on wooden stools next to the furnace. They were wielding iron hammers the size of human heads, using all their strength to hammer a piece of magic iron alloy that had already been heated to a crimson red.
The huge metal roar was deafening!
Three acolytes were gathered around the magic furnace, constantly adjusting the spell formation under the legs of the furnace to control the elemental flames within the furnace to maintain a constant temperature of 5,380 degrees. This temperature was enough to melt magic iron ingots.
Apart from the three acolytes controlling the magic furnace, there were more than ten other acolytes who were also busy.
Some of the acolytes were directing three strong giants that were as tall as three meters to continuously feed magic iron ingots into the furnace. Every time one of the walls of the magic furnace was opened, a terrifyingly high temperature flame would gush out under the immense pressure.
The acolytes were fine, as they all had a layer of bright red light on their bodies that could effectively insulate them from the high-temperature flames. However, the giants did not have this ability. They could only endure the sizzling sounds of their skin and flesh being burned as they did their best to stuff the magic iron ingots into the furnace.
After the magic iron ingots were softened by the elemental flames, they still had to take them out and hand them to two dwarf blacksmiths, who would then use all their strength to hammer the iron ingots into the desired shape.
At the other end of the hall, Grimm was lying on a sturdy stone table, carefully drawing out the design of a Puppet Construct. At the corner of the stone platform, countless engineering blueprints were either rolled up or unrolled. Each of them was filled with strange puppet beasts of different shapes and functions.
Beside Grimm was a 1.8-meter-tall humanoid magic marionette that was entirely silver in color. She was quietly doing some supporting work.
"Magic pen … triangular board … Help me find the head of the spider golem … Hmm, not bad … Go, give me the sample of No.7 Magic Iron Alloy … Leave it there for now and bring me the basic data of the sword spider golem …"
Following Grimm's orders, the Engineering Assistance Marionette, which had a humanoid appearance but a body made of soft Burmese alloy, was able to complete its tasks quickly and accurately. With its help, Grim was able to concentrate on his design work.
In his mind, the A.I. Chip's database contained the basic data and blueprints of hundreds and thousands of puppets. However, after flipping through these puppets, Grimm found it difficult to find one that he was completely satisfied with.
With his memories from his previous life, Grimm was very clear that the Robocops that had appeared on Earth were fundamentally different from the metal marionettes of this world. The mechanical constructs on Earth tended to be more refined and nimble, with powerful artificial intelligence and valiant long-range firepower to determine their combat strength.
However, the metal marionettes of this world had extraordinary strength, so they did not deliberately imitate human forms. After all, human-shaped marionettes had too many fatal flaws, and were not suitable to be used as puppets for battle.
The metal marionette that had been defeated by the Inferno Tyrant in Sky City was a human-shaped marionette. Once its legs were damaged, its mobility would plummet, and it would become a metal target that the enemy could squash at will.
Hence, in order to avoid such an embarrassing situation, Grimm had used the A.I. Chip's help to filter through many different designs of the puppet creatures. In the end, he had chosen the more mature spider form.
Although the A.I. Chip's analysis and data processing abilities were powerful, it still needed to remodel and plan a complete system when faced with a puppet beast that it had never experienced before.
Hence, Grimm had opened up this puppet hall in his residence to slowly accumulate experience in the creation of puppet beasts in preparation for the later stages of the project.
The spider golem that Grimm had envisioned was a fearsome beast with a disc-shaped metal body and four pairs of high-strength metal arthropods protruding from its sides. It did not need a humanoid body, nor did it need a head that would easily attract attention.
In order to better protect Alice, it would be best to leave an entrance and exit in the spider puppet's body.
The main attack method of the spider puppet was currently decided to be the magic cannons that the goblin Kabi had obtained. However, with the A.I. Chip's optimisations and adjustments, the energy of the magic cannons had become more concentrated. This way, it would be easier to break through an enemy's defensive barrier.
As for its own defence, it would rely on the toughness of various magic iron alloys and special metals. On the other hand, Grimm planned to install stress-type energy barriers on various parts of the spider puppet. This way, with both physical and magical protection, Alice's safety would be even more guaranteed!
After all, according to the attack and defence system that Grimm had created for Alice, the spider puppet was mainly used for defence. The real attacker should be the Inferno Tyrant.
In the past, Alice's spiritual force was not up to standard, and it was impossible for her to control a magic puppet of the Inferno Tyrant's level. However, now that she had advanced to become a Witch, as long as she could raise her spiritual force to 3 points before the 'Battle of Destiny' began, she would have the possibility of summoning the Inferno Tyrant.
This way, when she encountered an enemy, she would only need to hide in the spider puppet and summon the Inferno Tyrant. Even if Grimm encountered such an enemy, he would probably have to take a detour!
As for the strange spatial ability that Alice retained after fusing with the Void Stone, it would be her personal trump card, and Grimm did not consider it.
With Grimm's current knowledge, he did not have the ability to analyse the detailed data of the various parts of the puppet beast with just the A.I. Chip's data analysis. Hence, what he was creating now were some miniaturized spider puppet beasts, using them to verify some of the ideas and conjectures in his mind.
The disc-shaped body of the spider puppet beast needed to be redesigned, and he needed to find the ratio of a new type of magic iron alloy … Once the spider puppet beast's four pairs of limbs were damaged, he needed to find a way to balance it so that it would not lose too much speed … How to set up the spider puppet beast's energy hub to maximize the output of energy …
Every mission required the A.I. Chip to go through a lot of calculations in order to obtain the best data, and he needed to verify the accuracy of the best data before he could be assured.
Hence, during this period of time, Grimm spent almost every day in this puppet hall, working hard day and night to create spider puppet beasts for Alice.
… …
In another residence adjacent to Grimm's residence.
In a similarly spacious and huge secret hall, Alice was sitting with her legs crossed leisurely. She was holding a small platinum hammer in her hand, striking the tortoise shell in front of her from time to time.
The large secret spell hall was empty. Apart from Alice and the two large baskets, there was almost no furniture, objects, or decorations.
With a single strike of the hammer, the palm-sized tortoise shell immediately broke into four or five uneven pieces.
Every time this happened, Alice would excitedly lie down in front of the broken tortoise shell, carefully analysing the extent of the shell's damage while muttering some strange syllables that were difficult for outsiders to understand.
Of course, most of the time, she found nothing, and even the most basic good or bad luck was hard to come by.
However, there were times when some mysterious patterns appeared on the shell fragments, and fragmented scenes would suddenly appear in Alice's mind.
Unfortunately, these scenes were either turbulent, blurry, or without a head. Most of the time, even Alice could not understand what the law of fate was trying to tell her through these things.
Without exception, all of Alice's divination prayers to pry into Witch Nina ended in failure. It was as if there was a powerful force field around Witch Nina that divination spells could not penetrate. There was no feedback at all.
With the strength of a Grade 1 Witch, Alice had to admit that she was really a little mischievous and extraordinarily courageous person, trying to pry into a Grade 2 Witch.
With her mental strength, she could only force herself to complete divination five times a day. Once the quota was exhausted, if she wanted to perform divination again, it would no longer be her mental strength and physical strength that would be consumed, but her vitality.
She had already failed four times in a row today, and this series of failures made Alice even more upset.
After throwing the tortoise shell fragments into the trash basket on the left, Alice took out a palm-sized green tortoise shell from the basket on the right.
This was a piece of the Dragon Turtle's shell.
Since the Dragon Turtle also had the bloodline of a giant dragon, it was also a type of subdragon. Hence, its tortoise scales were the most suitable material for divination spells.
It seemed that with her own strength, prying into a high-grade Wizard was simply a daydream. Just as Alice was frowning, not knowing how to use this last divination spell, she suddenly thought of something and could not help but become excited again.
It was indeed not easy to pry into a high-grade Wizard, but it should be much easier to pry into an opponent of similar strength, right?
Alice's eyes lit up. She softly chanted, and the platinum hammer in her hand struck the tortoise shell fiercely.
"The power of fate, please let me see the strongest enemy in the 'Battle of Fate'!"
The hammer fell.
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