It only took a day for a huge metal fortress to be built at the bottom of the mine.
The rumbling mining machines shuttled back and forth, transporting tons upon tons of high-quality metal ores from the underground to the metal fortress. Inside the metal fortress, conveyor belts ran from beginning to end, first transporting the crude metal ores to the ore crushing field.
There, large and small metal ores were all thrown into the rumbling ore crusher. When they came out from the next track, they had already become uniform sized and granular metal ore powder.
Then, after many layers of screening and filtration, the soil and plant residues mixed inside were washed away, and what was left were ores with extremely high metal composition. Before these ores were sent to the smelting workshop, there were many mechanical arms at both ends of the conveyor belts, picking out the rare metal ores and magic gems, and placing them on other belts.
The entire process of crushing, filtering, sorting, and transporting the ores was completely automated by the mechanical arms.
At the entrance of the last process, a Battle Magic Machine would rumble down the assembly line every 15 minutes and join Gaz Ruvi's Magic Machine Army.
After a few battles, Grimm and the other wizards were no longer interested in these low-grade magic machines that relied on numbers to exhaust the enemy's strength. They had the strength of a Grade 1 Dragonoid, but in actual combat, they would need three to four times the number to defeat or kill a Grade 1 Dragonoid.
Under normal circumstances, it was impossible to threaten a Tier 1 Sorcerer without at least five to ten Dragonoids.
From this gradual decrease in strength, it could be seen that the creatures of the lower planes were greatly exaggerated!
That was why the wizards who had shut themselves in their rooms had nothing to do. Naturally, they gathered together and began to study the upgrade and modification of battle magic machines.
Desiera was a well-deserved proponent of violence.
He felt that the only reason why low-grade magic machines could not be used on the battlefield was because of the lack of heavy weapons that could threaten higher life forms. If magic cannons could be installed on the magic machines, it would undoubtedly increase their power.
However, with the size of the magic machine, the amount of mana it could carry was limited. If it was installed with a magic cannon that consumed a lot of mana, it would probably become a pile of scrap metal after two or three shots. No matter how many of these magic machines were made, they would never be able to travel too far away from the metal fortress. They would not be of much use.
These days, Poison Centipede Endor had been spending time with the voodoo doll Grimm had been cultivating. He hid in his secret chamber all day long, concocting all kinds of plagues and poisons for the voodoo doll to swallow. A while ago, the voodoo doll had inconceivably evolved a strange voodoo halo.
This time, the voodoo doll also became a voodoo doll!
Wherever it went, ordinary people who were not protected by witchcraft would be poisoned to death as soon as they stepped into the voodoo halo. Then, under the influence of the bizarre voodoo poison, they would evolve into terrifying servant corpses full of plague poison.
This kind of servant corpse had extraordinary strength, sharp claws, and was fearless of death. Their bodies were filled with all kinds of plagues and poisons, and they had the basic strength of a beginner apprentice. Although it wasn't very strong, it was more than enough to be used as cannon fodder.
Of course, there was also a success rate for this kind of servant corpse to evolve successfully.
Basically, the more intelligent and powerful a creature was, the higher the success rate of evolving a servant corpse. For example, the basic conversion rate for humans was about 30%, while for goblins, it was about 15%.
This also meant that if Grimm ventured into a foreign plane alone, just the voodoo doll alone would be able to create an army of fearless servant corpses for him in a short period of time.
After Endor's training, the voodoo doll basically had the strength of a quasi-Wizard. If it could successfully evolve into a wizard in the future, then the servant corpses it produced would also become stronger.
However, the voodoo doll's evolution was not stable, and it could only maintain a close soul connection with Grimm within a few dozen miles. Once the distance was more than a hundred miles, only a vague soul connection would be left. Therefore, Grimm could only keep it by his side at all times, and could not use it as a completely independent entity.
As for modifying low-level magic machinery, Poison Centipede Endor's opinion was even more radical.
She even suggested that she concoct a more contagious and lethal super plague and spread it through these low-level magic machinery to further weaken the strength of the natives of Lance.
Grimm could only listen to such a suggestion, and did not dare to take it seriously.
Right now, they were hiding in the metal mine, and the only enemy they had to face was a Grade 2 Wind Dragon. If they really did as Endor suggested, they would definitely attract the attention of all the Dragon Lords in the Lance Plane.
At that time, the sky would be filled with Grade 3 and Grade 4 dragons, and the mountains would be filled with terrifying Draconians. Even if Gaz 'ruvi had an endless supply of metal resources and inexhaustible magical energy, he would not be able to resist the terrifying army formed by the power of the plane.
Therefore, Endor's suggestion was immediately rejected.
In comparison, the Flesh Puppet proposed by Bug Lich Bliss was more reliable.
The Flesh Puppet was a special kind of magical alloy forged from the flesh of powerful magical creatures (Draconians) and the finest alloy that had been selected. This magical alloy had the physical properties of indestructibility of special metals and the elemental properties of the flesh of magical creatures.
For example, the flesh left behind by the Draconians and eternium ore could be used to forge a completely different kind of magical alloy — Fine Wind Iron.
It was a type of magical alloy imbued with strong wind elemental aura. When armor made of fine wind iron was attacked, it would automatically form a wind barrier, deflecting and blocking 37% of melee attacks and 65% of ranged attacks.
A magic sword forged from the Fine Wind Iron would be accompanied by a whirlwind tornado every time it was swung. Heavier enemies would be trapped in place for 3 seconds, while lighter ones would be blown away and lose control of their bodies.
A magic staff forged from the Fine Wind Iron could speed up the gathering of wind elemental energy, increasing the might of a wind elemental Magus' spells. The only wind elemental Magus in the family, Desara, was full of praise for this, using his own experiences to proclaim the benefits of the Fine Wind Iron.
Using the Fine Wind Iron to forge magic equipment was undoubtedly too wasteful, and it was far more worthwhile to sell it in the Magus World.
The A.I. Chip estimated that the flesh of the Draconians in the first battle in Lance would bring the Crimson family about 200,000 to 300,000 magic crystals.
In the past, Magi had always treated planar wars as a source of huge profits, and this was evident.
However, this sort of profit wasn't something that anyone could obtain just because they wanted to.
If not for the endless magic energy provided by the Magic Furnace and the impenetrable defense provided by the metal fortress, a single rank 2 Wind Dragon and a hundred rank 1 Draconians would be enough to flatten any small Magus family.
The Crimson Family that Grimm had established would not even have the strength to resist, and would soon be drowned in the Draconians' violent assault.
Grimm's idea was to fuse battle equipment with his own elemental magic puppets to create an elemental metal magic puppet. The metal magic puppet's energy source came from the Magic Furnace, and it could also be supplied by elemental crystal cores. This would solve the problem of having a single source of energy.
Elemental attacks were undoubtedly much faster and more powerful than those flashy goblin muskets and arcanite rifles. With the protection of a sturdy metal shell, the elemental magic puppet's weakness as a meat shield would disappear.
However, the elemental magic puppet would be most compatible with the type of metal. This would require a lot of experiments to verify and filter. In the following days, Grimm also hid in the metal fortress and did not take a step out. He spent almost all of his time in the temporary witchcraft laboratory.
Bliss was busy refining wind iron, and Grimm was busy combining the metal magic puppet with the elemental magic puppet. The two idling Draconians, Endor and Desara, quietly snuck out of the metal fortress and ran back to the Swamp of Sorrows to hunt for rare otherworld creatures.
For Magi, hunting creatures from other worlds, analyzing their physiological structure, and analyzing the source of their bloodline was also a necessary research job.
Only by thoroughly studying the natives of a plane could one understand the formation mechanism of the plane and the operation of the plane's laws.
The latter would often play a decisive role in planar wars!
… …
This was a scorched land filled with heat waves.
The land was split into countless crisscrossing, meandering canyons and deep trenches. Looking down from the sky, one could clearly see the rolling lava flowing slowly under the ground through these cracks.
Thick yellow smoke filled the air, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur.
Volcanoes of various sizes were scattered all over the place, and from time to time, a thick pillar of lava would shoot out from within, adding volcanic ash and lava rocks that dragged long trails of black smoke into the air.
And in the center of this scorched land that floated above the sea of lava, an exceptionally tall volcano stood tall and erect. At the top of the volcano was a ring-shaped sea of lava, and there was a huge castle carved out of obsidian floating in the air.
This … was a great castle floating on the sea of lava!
It was originally peaceful here. Apart from the rumbling sound of the flowing lava, there was almost no other sound.
Suddenly, a clear and loud strange dragon roar came from the distant sky.
Immediately, the strong body of the Wind Dragon Chax appeared in the sky above the lava castle.
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